Quote (fender @ Jun 12 2020 06:59pm)

i have to admit, mignolet is literally the only one of them i know. back in my school days, i guarantee you, i would have known at least half of the belgian league's top players through eurosport and manager games, lol.

for my premier league team i'd definitely pick alisson. don't know too much about ndidi (would probably have picked gündogan there, but that might be even more controversial tbf). for striker i think i would pick kane, but i don't think that auba or agüero are 'wrong' or necessarily biased choices by any stretch, you can make solid arguments for both. the rest looks pretty much exactly like i would have chosen:

kane
mané - de bruyne - salah
kanté - gündogan
robertson - van dijk - laporte - taa
alisson




could you do one for mls, or don't you follow that league? would be interesting to see if any familiar names of old battle horses from european leagues pop up.

Quote (WNxIrvine @ Jun 12 2020 07:18pm)

Vardy
Mane - De Bruyne - Salah
Kanté - Ndidi
Robertson - Van dijk - Soyuncu - Ricardo
Alisson



Ndidi is top 10 defensive mids in the world right now and has every chance at being top 3. Most tackles and most interceptions of any midfielder in the prem this season, getting better every game with the ball at his feet and he's nowhere near peaked yet. I know I usually big up leicester players fairly big, but in ndidi and ricardo we've potentially got 2 genuine world class players on our hands.

Quote (Mr_Mill @ Jun 13 2020 04:40pm)

Don't blame you for not knowing any Pro league players :lol:
Either Kane, Auba or Aguero is indeed the hard decision to make, all 3 of them could get the spot.


Interested to read


Agreed, Ndidi was amazing at Genk and I had little doubt he would succeed in the prem. Same goes for Trossard who's now at Brighton. Interesting to see you speak about Ricardo. He's been great but is he really seen as the player with the most potential in the squad next to Ndidi? I know Maddison gets most the headlines but I'm genuinly curious.

Quote (WNxIrvine @ Jun 13 2020 05:51pm)

Maddison gets the headlines because he's young, not too bad on the eyes and English. Don't get me wrong, when the kid is on his game he's great and I've no doubt he's got a big career ahead of him, both at club level and for England. Also he seems to have his head about him, after a couple of dodgy "eeeeeyyyyyy I'm a footballer let's make some trouble" situations in his early days. He still has a ways to go though, gets frustrated too easily and sometimes tries to be a bit too fancy for his own good. I'm sure he'll grow out of it in time, but right now he's not even in the same bracket as some of the other attacking mid options in the prem.

Ricardo is EVERYTHING we were asking for for years when Simpson was our rb. His all round game is fantastic, I genuinely don't have a single area where I could say oh he needs to do that better. Hopefully no one else notices and he stays with us until he retires, we just have to keep putting young English people on the left so they ignore him I guess. :D For me, he gets our POTS quite comfortably. And it shouldn't be comfortable when we've had many players hitting highs we've not seen since 2016.

Quote (Mr_Mill @ Jun 13 2020 05:01pm)

I see! Tielemans is struggling a bit more this season isn't he? Curious to see how he comes back and I really hope Praet can make an impact. Guy went to the same school as me and we used to go watch OHL a few times, such a nice and not to mention talented guy.

Quote (WNxIrvine @ Jun 13 2020 04:51pm)

Maddison gets the headlines because he's young, not too bad on the eyes and English. Don't get me wrong, when the kid is on his game he's great and I've no doubt he's got a big career ahead of him, both at club level and for England. Also he seems to have his head about him, after a couple of dodgy "eeeeeyyyyyy I'm a footballer let's make some trouble" situations in his early days. He still has a ways to go though, gets frustrated too easily and sometimes tries to be a bit too fancy for his own good. I'm sure he'll grow out of it in time, but right now he's not even in the same bracket as some of the other attacking mid options in the prem.

Ricardo is EVERYTHING we were asking for for years when Simpson was our rb. His all round game is fantastic, I genuinely don't have a single area where I could say oh he needs to do that better. Hopefully no one else notices and he stays with us until he retires, we just have to keep putting young English people on the left so they ignore him I guess. :D For me, he gets our POTS quite comfortably. And it shouldn't be comfortable when we've had many players hitting highs we've not seen since 2016.

Quote (Th3_eX @ Jun 13 2020 06:36pm)

Messi Suarez Ocampos
Kroos Busquets Saúl
Alba Piqué Varane Carvajal

This > all lpl teams ez

Quote (grahambo @ Jun 14 2020 09:36am)

Piss poor defense would get smoked by Salah mane etc