For one reason or another we have never been prolific with producing keepers.Imagine a coked up obese Bosnich lining up with some of those greats that have been listed with him, representing the true fan! Brilliant
Done! ;-)I'd have Rashford over Ritchie
Could probably add Derek Whyte, Jim Brogan, Peter Grant, Bobby Evans might even get a start.
I only went for players I was totally sure about so probably missed a few older ones. Peter Grant is a good shout though.
How good was John Blanchflower compared to his Tottenham brother both were before my time but have read up on Danny more than his brother.
Hard to say without seeing a lot of him. He was good enough to play in two different positions for the Busby Babes...a ball playing centre-half (which was very, very rare) and an inside forward. He scored lots of goals in our youth team as a forward. He obviously played for Northern Ireland as well.
Thanks
.Futre has to make it there somewhere imo. Completely unbalanced team but noone cares, we'd arguably have the best attack out of any team in the worldLet me try this, it will be hard. I could almost do a starting eleven just with wingers, so many choices
Sporting all time homegrown
Rui Patrício
Cédric---Beto---Eric Dier---Inácio
Figo---William Carvalho---João Moutinho---Nani
Peyroteo----Ronaldo
Subs: Damas, Carriço, Quaresma, Simão Sabrosa, Futre, Hilário, João Mário
Give it a try @Peyroteo and @SCP
Neil Young was a fine forward.
.Yeah he's from our academy. But since in contrast with our academy, we have some of the worst chairmen/directors in football history, we traded him to Porto at young age for a pack of peanuts and some pretzels.
Yep all in with a shout...don't know enough about City to say Doyle was better than Pardoe...or Owen was better than Barnes. Was never a Paul Power fan at all...thought he was terribly overrated. But City fans will know more than me.Corrigan
Neil Young was a fine forward.
Just because Mike Doyle hated United with a passion no need to exclude him
Gary Owen, Paul Power and Andy Hinchcliffe also belong in the squad.
Just saw this. It's hard to figure out. He came from Sporting de Luanda and that club was affiliated with Sporting. He was 19 when he came to Lisbon. I can't think of any other Sporting homegrown striker. Perhaps we can put Ronaldo up front and stick Quaresma behind the striker too or something. We clearly need more wingers
That's really a pity.He was one of my favorite players.
Paul was a good, workmanlike, late developer.
How and why? Playing style? He really hates Real Madrid and isn't affraid to show it. He became a bit soft when Mourinho was there and now with Ronaldo but still mentions it from time to time. He's always saying that he's a colchonero for life.
I know when you played United in 1964 you had Gomes, Mendez and Babtiste all come through your youth system. Not sure about the wingers Osvaldo da Silva and Geo Carvalho?Just saw this. It's hard to figure out. He came from Sporting de Luanda and that club was affiliated with Sporting. He was 19 when he came to Lisbon. I can't think of any other Sporting homegrown striker. Perhaps we can put Ronaldo up front and stick Quaresma behind the striker too or something. We clearly need more wingers
That game
That Sporting comeback against United (5-0) in the year we won our only european silverware is in our museum. You can watch the whole match in a telly at our museum. Gomes, Mendes, Batista all came from our academy it's true. Osvaldo, Hilário and Carvalho, i don't think so. I picked more contemporary and international career players since i'm younger, most people in this board can identify them and didn't see those players you mentioned play. But they are without any doubt an integral part of our clubs history since they won us a Cup winners Cup.I don't mind if hates Madrid.
Futre was an incredible player. Too bad he had so many injuries in the end. He also had invitations from plenty of european top clubs (could have won more) at his very best but he was too loyal to Jesus Gil y Gil. How can you betray a guy who gave you that iconic yellow porsche?
That was peak Sporting. Refused to pay him a higher salary, he goes to Porto and wins 2 leagues and 1 CL in 3 years lol
He was too loyal to Atlético. He said in plenty of interview that in his prime, he had invites from the best clubs in europe.
I completely forgot Oceano existed, he's definitely above William for now and if the latter continues playing like he's been playing he'll never surpass him.
For me Oceano represents all that a non talented player should be, training and working hard and each year improve even knowing you are not the best, playing as defensive midfielder, offensive, fullback or centerback.
I like that team and it's probably the best homegrown eleven in terms of history and impact but i went with my more contemporary eleven so more people would know and identify players.
Yup, Hilario and Oceano deserve because they played a lot of games, Damas and Batista because 1 was respected even by Benfica or Porto fans, and the other won the CWC, regarding Fernando Mendes we even had 2, opted for the 1 who played with Futre in Sporting youth teams, no space for William, Cedric, Cadete or others.
Jimmy Case
I think Case came from non-league first...Billy Liddel is a great shout.
South Liverpool I think . Not sure at what age he came to Liverpool though.
Darren Fletcher should be starting in that line up (instead of Butt).
