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Somebody on youtube has put this together as to what our best XI would look like if we had kept all of our players.
Not sure I agree with most of them.
Funny things these because they can tend to be based on opinions and they vary so much.
There are two other factors to consider ie era and levels.
Fitness and speed are probably at their highest levels they ever have been too.
Team formations too can play a part.
Personal favourites can also play a part.
Bobby Todd, John King, Carl Bradshaw, Darren Sheridan, Michael Brown, Lee Cattermole for eg all awesome players in their day but compare to now and we don’t find many midfielders who play their kind of game.
Same can be said for defenders and strikers.
Interesting subject though.
Mario Melchiot would be one for me who shines above many a player. He oozed class.Funny things these because they can tend to be based on opinions and they vary so much.
There are two other factors to consider ie era and levels.
Fitness and speed are probably at their highest levels they ever have been too.
Team formations too can play a part.
Personal favourites can also play a part.
Bobby Todd, John King, Carl Bradshaw, Darren Sheridan, Michael Brown, Lee Cattermole for eg all awesome players in their day but compare to now and we don’t find many midfielders who play their kind of game.
Same can be said for defenders and strikers.
Interesting subject though.
Mario Melchiot would be one for me who shines above many a player. He oozed class.Agree on Mario Melchiot. That squad that we had in that era was superb and really should have kicked on but we (rightly) opted to put the club on a strong financial footing as opposed to doing a Bolton.
Now would Emile Heskey be our best ever striker? We revitalised his international career and he was chosen to play for England whilst a Latics Mon.
Have we had another striker who has been good enough to do this?Now would Emile Heskey be our best ever striker? We revitalised his international career and he was chosen to play for England whilst a Latics Mon.
Have we had another striker who has been good enough to do this?If you are going off the career they had after Latics then our greatest ever striker has to be Mickey Quinn. The amount of goals he scored and in the top division is awesome. He scored in each of his first 5 games for us scored a hat trick at Highbury for Cov and shed loads for whoever he turned out for. Better still when a typically horrible West Ham fan threw a pie at him he had the class to pick it up and eat it.
Pretty good at Latics too.
Like I said these sort of things are complicated.
If it’s on favourite strikers there’s Harry Lyon, Geoff Davies, John Rodgers, Graham Jones, Stuart Barlow, Nathan Ellington, Jason Roberts and Will Grigg.Isnt Jason Roberts most prolific? Nzogbia might be decent shout on his day. Personally would prefer Bobby Campbell up there.
Leighton Baines probably our best ever left back and such a shame he didn’t go on to play for England.
Antonio Valencia did move on to greater things and probably should be in the best eleven.
Both of those should make the best Eleven and possibly should be in our best eleven if we had kept them or not.
Chimbonda right back?? For that season he was class the Judas git.My best XI would be (442 formation coz I’m proper old skool):
GK – Roy Carroll
RB – Pascal Chimbonda
LB – Leighton Baines
CH – Peter Atherton
CH – Arjan De Zeeuw
RW – David Lowe
CM – Joe Parkinson
CM – Jimmy Bullard
LW – Shaun Maloney
CF – Jason Roberts
CF – Emile HeskeyActually not sure 442 would work that well as Maloney never played well as an out & out left winger & neither did the other front runner for that spot – N’Zogbia. Discounted McCulloch coz I wanted a bit more from that spot than someone who could just win headers at the back post!! ;) ;)
My best XI would be (442 formation coz I’m proper old skool):GK – Roy Carroll
RB – Pascal Chimbonda
LB – Leighton Baines
CH – Peter Atherton
CH – Arjan De Zeeuw
RW – David Lowe
CM – Joe Parkinson
CM – Jimmy Bullard
LW – Shaun Maloney
CF – Jason Roberts
CF – Emile HeskeyActually not sure 442 would work that well as Maloney never played well as an out & out left winger & neither did the other front runner for that spot – N’Zogbia. Discounted McCulloch coz I wanted a bit more from that spot than someone who could just win headers at the back post!! ;) ;)
Surely surely tilders wee Archie Gemmill must be in there somewhere. Scored one of the best world cup goals and countless honours in his career.
Chosen purely from players I have seen:
Roy Carroll
Mario Melchiot
Arjan De Zeeuw
Antolin Alcaraz
Leighton BainesRoberto Martinez
Jimmy Bullard
James McArthurAndy Liddell
Jason Roberts
Nathan EllingtonSubs:
John Filan
Jason De Vos
Emmerson Boyce
James McCarthy
Simon Haworth
Charles N’Zogbia
Stuart Barlow
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