Best club side ever - get your votes in

[MancFanFromManc]

BBC poll. Our team needs you...

Vote: Who are the best club side of all time? Barcelona? Man Utd? Liverpool? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61311898

 

[Bestie07]

Liverpool 2022 for me.

 

[kthanksbye]

Barca 10-11 leading with 34% votes, and rightly so.

 

[arthurka]

Liverpool 2022 for me.

I can't pick them?

 

[ShinjiNinja26]

Our Treble winning side all day long!

In reality it is probably the the 10-11 Barca side but I’m a petty bastard and they did cost us another 2 CL’s.

 

[Nero]

I was scrolling down actually waiting for Liverpool 2022 to appear in the list.

 

[Skills]

Barcelona

Though if you stick prime Lionel Messi into any of the others then it flips it for quite a few of them

 

[IrishRedDevil]

Currently:

Torino 1947-48 1%

Real Madrid 1959-60 5%

Santos 1962 1%

Celtic 1966-67 10%

Ajax 1971-72 4%

Liverpool 1983-84 13%

AC Milan 1988-89 5%

Manchester United 1998-99 19%

Barcelona 2010-11 34%

Bayern Munich 2012-13 1%

Other 7%

 

[SalfordRed18]

Barca 10-11 leading with 34% votes, and rightly so.

It's the right answer. Theyd win the current premier League too.

 

[17Larsson]

I voted United but really it's Barcelona.
But only out of those listed in that fake poll, in reality it's Liverpool 2022

 

[IrishRedDevil]

The best club team ever stopped us winning those 2 CL's

 

[Robbie Boy]

I voted United but really it's Barcelona.
But only out of those listed in that fake poll, in reality it's Liverpool 2022

This.

 

[Withnail]

I can't pick them?

No and you shouldn't.

 

[Oranges038]

Real with the 3 CL titles in a row has to be up there.

 

[Elcabron]

Don't understand how the AC Milan team from the late 80's early 90's doesn't feature higher. For me they were greater than Barcelona 08 to 09. Best back five ever and then you have Gullit, Ricjkaard and Van Basten.....all of those 8 players would make it onto the Barcelona team but only Messi, Xavi and Iniesta would get on that AC Milan team surely?

 

[harms]

Surprisingly great list. Top-3 should probably be Barca 10/11, Milan 88/89 & Ajax 71/72 and it's always a coin-toss between the former two for the first place for me (I tend to be quite conservative and pick Milan due to the how wonderfully balanced that side was with at least one positional GOAT in every line — Baresi, Maldini, Rijkaard, van Basten, Gullit... not that Barca was much worse, especially since having Xavi, Iniesta & Busquets in midfield meant that the pressure on their defense was significantly lessened).

 

[Fanta Stick]

Man Utd 1990/91 which culminated in an unforgettable night in Rotterdam.

 

[harms]

Don't understand how the AC Milan team from the late 80's early 90's doesn't feature higher. For me they were greater than Barcelona 08 to 09. Best back five ever and then you have Gullit, Ricjkaard and Van Basten.....all of those 8 players would make it onto the Barcelona team but only Messi, Xavi and Iniesta would get on that AC Milan team surely?

You can say that it's a crime to mess with that proven backline but Alves certainly has a more impressive resume than Tassotti (and they can certainly afford to have a more offensive fullback considering how great the rest of that backline is)

Gullit - van Basten - Messi
Iniesta - Xavi
Rijkaard
Maldini - Baresi - Costacurta - Alves
meh​

 

[harms]

Real with the 3 CL titles in a row has to be up there.

It looks like they've limited themselves to one nomination per club and went with the 5-in-a-row side instead of a 3-in-a-row (although the former was certainly more balanced in midfield & defense).

 

[iHicksy]

Wait what? there are people that seriously think the pool team is better than United's Team of Rooney, Ronaldo, Tevez, Scholes, Nani, Carrick, Vidic, Rio, Evra, VDS etc all at their peak?

There's only Salah for Tevez and perhaps Trent that get in that United team imo.

 

[Bondi77]

Barça and AC Milan (late eighties)

 

[laughtersassassin]

Sadly for us it's Barcelona. Couldn't have faced a better team in those two CLs

 

[Who's Kissing Cameras?]

Liverpool 21/22 quadruple winners.

 

[Bestie07]

I can't pick them?

Yeah, we're living in an alternate reality unfortunately.

 

[Lynty]

10-11 Barca would have smashed every other team on that list.

 

[siw2007]

Too young to watch the teams of the 70s and 80s so definitely the Barca team for me, on a completely different planet at the time.

 

[Jim Beam]

Surprisingly great list. Top-3 should probably be Barca 10/11, Milan 88/89 & Ajax 71/72 and it's always a coin-toss between the former two for the first place for me (I tend to be quite conservative and pick Milan due to the how wonderfully balanced that side was with at least one positional GOAT in every line — Baresi, Maldini, Rijkaard, van Basten, Gullit... not that Barca was much worse, especially since having Xavi, Iniesta & Busquets in midfield meant that the pressure on their defense was significantly lessened).

Yeah, as we talked already in that thread. Real Madrid side with Di Stefano, Puskas, Gento should probably be up there, although it's a case of less footage and a bit easier competition. I mean, once you got Di Stefano and Puskas to play for you it's only natural that you dominate the game.

 

[harms]

Wait what? there are people that seriously think the pool team is better than United's Team of Rooney, Ronaldo, Tevez, Scholes, Nani, Carrick, Vidic, Rio, Evra, VDS etc all at their peak?

There's only Salah for Tevez and perhaps Trent that get in that United team imo.

If you’re talking about all of the Liverpool ‘22 shouts in this thread, they’re taking the piss.

 

[Tony247]

United 99. That side was a world wide phenomenon. Never say die attitude.

 

[dove]

Honestly speaking it's probably Barca. Voted United of course.

 

[Elcabron]

You can say that it's a crime to mess with that proven backline but Alves certainly has a more impressive resume than Tassotti (and they can certainly afford to have a more offensive fullback considering how great the rest of that backline is)

Gullit - van Basten - Messi
Iniesta - Xavi
Rijkaard
Maldini - Baresi - Costacurta - Alves
meh​

That's fair enough. Pretty good combined side that.

 

[devilish]

AC Milan 1989 followed by Pep's Barcelona

 

[Oranges038]

It looks like they've limited themselves to one nomination per club and went with the 5-in-a-row side instead of a 3-in-a-row (although the former was certainly more balanced in midfield & defense).

Never thought of that.

I'd have them both on it as would I have Utd 99 & 08. But then again I'd also have mid 90s Juve in there, 3 finals in a row. They were a brilliant side.

 

[FrankDrebin]

That Barca team changed modern football.

 

[Drizzle]

Honestly speaking it's probably Barca. Voted United of course.

This is the answer of course.

For the record I think the Liverpool side of 87-88 was their best. On a par with the United 2007-9 team probably. The treble winners stand alone in England despite the concerted efforts of pundits to underplay their achievements.

 

[Andycoleno9]

Ajax side 1995? Milan side 2003-2007? Our side 2008? This is like someone just randomly picked teams

Anyway,Liverpool 2022 is best team ever without question

 

[Adebisi's Hat]

what is this nonsense and conspiracy, surely Liverpool 22 has to be in there ......... for the 2 wheeled quad (and they are the 2 wheels with the bald tyres).

 

[adexkola]

Real with the 3 CL titles in a row has to be up there.

What is it about single seasons do some of you not get?

All the teams listed are listed based on the accomplishments of 1 season

 

[arthurka]

Yeah, we're living in an alternate reality unfortunately.

 

[Adebisi's Hat]

Ajax side 1995? Milan side 2003-2007? Our side 2008? This is like someone just randomly picked teams

Anyway,Liverpool 2022 is best team ever without question

in fairness i see their logic, they have to pick one side from each club, and Ajax early 1970s trumps the 95 side, late 80s/early 90s Milan and 1999 Utd are the just about the right picks. I voted Utd of course but they were in reality 2nd to Barcelona 2010/11 who were the greates i have seem. The Torino late 40s team is an interesting shout though, they had their tragedy too.