What would 'X' Team have looked like if .... had stayed?

[Deleted member 101472]

Already posted a Barcelona one but imagine going to watch this team play



Left winger is Neymar but could stick David Villa there too

 

[MrMarcello]

Ronaldo at 18 was just a winger but I am sure we have played Giggs behind a striker, he wasn't too bad. Scholes would ideally play there but I wouldn't know how to make that all work.

Ronaldo's inexperience and lack of defensive ability would have seen him either in the supporting role to Ruud, or on the bench with a healthy Ole up front (he got crocked early on that season, thus allowing Ronaldo to start more often), and Giggs on the left.

 

[MrMarcello]

I'd do City XI before the Arabs arrived but they'd be shit and in the second division with a revolving door of lesser players.

 

[Raees]

Juventus 2001

Buffon
Thuram Ferrera Montero Zambrotta
Deschamps
Nedved Davids
Zidane
Del Piero Trezeguet​

Atletico 2015

DDG
Juanfran Godin Miranda Luis
Greizmann Gabi Niguez Koke
Aguero Costa
​

Barcelona 2000

Valdes
L.Enrique Puyol F. De Boer Cocu
Overmars Guardiola Xavi Figo
Ronaldo Rivaldo​

 

[JPRouve]

———————Barthez——————

Panucci Thuram R.Marquez Evra

———————--Petit——————

————Yaya Toure———————

Giuly—---—Djorkaeff———Henry

——————Trezeguet—————


Subs/rotation:

Riise
Maicon
Givet
Squillaci

Rothen
Gallardo

Nonda
Adebayor
Sonny Anderson

Not 100% sure if all the above could’ve realistically played together, but feck me Monaco has had some brilliant players throughout the years...

And you are not even close to the best players, Amoros, Onnis, Weah, Bellone, Hoddle are better than the players you choose. Monaco had great players.

 

[Jaybomb]

Courtois
Azpilicueta - Zouma - David Luiz - Felipe Luis
Matic - Fabregas
De Bruyne - Mata - Hazard
Lukaku

Looks sick imo.

But Real is probably the best one

Navas
Carvajal - Ramos - Varane - Marcelo
Modric - Di Maria
Ozil
Robben - Higuaín - Ronaldo

Very attack minded.

 

[top1whoisman]

Monaco:

------------Ruffier
Amoros-Thuram-Marquez-Evra


And you are not even close to the best players, Amoros, Onnis, Weah, Bellone, Hoddle are better than the players you choose. Monaco had great players.

Probably right, went with players I properly remember playing.

 

[JPRouve]

Probably right, went with players I properly remember playing.

Monaco: I don't like the balance.

------------Ruffier
Amoros-Thuram-Marquez-Evra
-----------Petit---Touré
Bellone----------------- Henry
----------Onnis--Weah

 

[top1whoisman]

Monaco: I don't like the balance.

------------Ruffier
Amoros-Thuram-Marquez-Evra
-----------Petit---Touré
Bellone----------------- Henry
----------Onnis--Weah

Ignore the confusing thread title, not sure how to word it but basically the topic is this.. which potentially majestic teams can you come up with from the past based on the fact if they had kept certain players and recruited as they went on to do (please do not mention failed signings which didn't actually happen i.e. Ronaldinho to United and don't take it too far i.e. imagine if Cantona had played with C. Ronaldo (ages too far apart - different eras as Cantona was already hitting 30 odd during 1997/98))..

I also tried to take this into account

 

[JPRouve]

I also tried to take this into account

That's fair.

 

[MrMarcello]

What if Blackburn had built on after Walker pumped all the money instead of being satisfied with one title?

 

[Gio]

Parma are one of the obvious ones surely had they retained the likes of Buffon, Thuram, Cannavaro, Veron, Crespo, Ortega, Chiesa, etc.

 

[BigDunc9]

What if Blackburn had built on after Walker pumped all the money instead of being satisfied with one title?

Dogleash would of spunked 35 million on Duncan Ferguson and 25 million on the 1995 Stuart Downing equivalent.

 

[DenisIrwin]

I know we wouldn't have seen the Co92 but I would have liked Kanchelskis, Ince and Hughes to have been able to continue. fecking LOVED that team!

 

[Ban]

Dinamo Zagreb

---------------------Butina

Vrsaljko----Ćorluka----Lovren------Pivarić

Pjaca--------Modrić---Kovačić-----Halilović

-------------Eduardo-----Mandžukić

 

[MrMarcello]

I got a poison for y'all. Liverpool had they (been able to) retained Suarez.

 

[Kentonio]

I do wonder if we'd have won more silverware if that whining little fecker Robben hadn't ponced off to Real.

 

[Donaldo]

Juventus team prior to Calciopoli was fantastic, they could have gone on to win the CL in the next couple of years, no doubt.

Vieira was declining badly, as was Thuram. Del Piero was more hit and miss than before, and their bench strength was weak. We beat them quite comfortably with an 18 year old in center midfield and a defence comprising of Eboue, Senderos, Toure and Flamini.

They wouldn't have done squat.

 

[Dreadnought]

Vieira was declining badly, as was Thuram. Del Piero was more hit and miss than before, and their bench strength was weak. We beat them quite comfortably with an 18 year old in center midfield and a defence comprising of Eboue, Senderos, Toure and Flamini.

They wouldn't have done squat.

Still celebrating the mid-noughties?

 

[B20]

Imagine this West ham side

James
Johnson Ferdinand Terry Upson
Berkovic Carrick Lampard Cole
Benayoun
Khanoute

When they signed Tevez and Mascherano

 

[Donaldo]

Still celebrating the mid-noughties?

Those were the best days of my life.

 

[2ndTouch]

I do wonder if we'd have won more silverware if that whining little fecker Robben hadn't ponced off to Real.

Without the pen he missed in 2012's CL final against you guys, your obscene fluke triumph would have never happened in the first place
So I guess it turned out to be a lucky circumstance

 

[Dov]

Porto


Casillas


Danilo Alves Carvalho Alex Sandro/Ferreira


Hulk Deco Mendes James


Martinez/McCarthy Falcao


From the top of my head.

 

[WackyWengerWorld]

Obviously it's goto be:

..............Seaman
Lauren...Adams...Sol...Cashley
........Vieira......Petit
Pires....Bergkamp.....Henry
...........Anelka

Probably not near enough tracking back in that front line tbf

 

[Tiber]

OK, so the muppet team of my lifetime would be:


Schmeichel

Evra - Stam - Ferdinand - Neville

Giggs - Keane - Scholes- Ronaldo

Van Nistlerooy - Cantona



I have always been obsessed with the idea of Ruud playing in the treble winning side. Likewise I have long held a theory that Stam and Rio would have been amazing. I can already hear my dad shouting at me for not including Dennis Irwin. Totally breaks the rules of thread but I just wanted to type that out.

A more realistic side:

De Gea

Evra - Rio - Vidic - Neville

Giggs - Pogba - Carrick - Ronaldo

Di Maria

Falcao (before he got shit)

That team would be pretty good!

Age wise the back 4 would be tough to work and Giggs would be past his best to play with even early Juve Pogba . I suppose even that team is probably cheating as well Im a muppet, but I enjoyed this!


My original idea was just putting Rudd and Rio into the 99 side... but that breaks the rules as well