Best World XI right now?

[newbie]

I'd say after last season few would argue that these guys should be there or thereabouts. Who would you have in yours?

I suppose this is like a select team of 2007/2008 maybe?

G - Frey (Fiorentina
D - Daniel Alves (Barca), Barzagli (Wolfsburg), Vidic (Man Utd), Phillip Lahm (Bayern)
M - Leo Messi (Barca), Kaka (AC Milan), Wesley Sneijder (Real Madrid), Franck Ribery (Bayern)
F - Trezeguet (Juventus), C.Ronaldo (Man Utd) [supporting striker)

Bench: Casillas (Real Madrid), Maxwell (Inter), Cambiasso (Inter), Iniesta (Barca), Xavi (Barca), Toni (Bayern), Del Piero (Juventus)

haha your posts are always a good laugh. Id expect to see this one in "rubbish" soon enough....

[sligofan4ever]

I'd say after last season few would argue that these guys should be there or thereabouts. Who would you have in yours?

I suppose this is like a select team of 2007/2008 maybe?

G - Frey (Fiorentina
D - Daniel Alves (Barca), Barzagli (Wolfsburg), Vidic (Man Utd), Phillip Lahm (Bayern)
M - Leo Messi (Barca), Kaka (AC Milan), Wesley Sneijder (Real Madrid), Franck Ribery (Bayern)
F - Trezeguet (Juventus), C.Ronaldo (Man Utd) [supporting striker)

Bench: Casillas (Real Madrid), Maxwell (Inter), Cambiasso (Inter), Iniesta (Barca), Xavi (Barca), Toni (Bayern), Del Piero (Juventus)

You are kidding, right ?

[gustavo]

To defend Ciaran slightly He did say select team of 07/08 , I'd have no problem seeing Lahm and Del Piero amongst that

[newbie]

For me,
1:Buffon
2:Alves
3:Evra
4:Ferdinand
5:Carvalho
6:Essien
7:Arshavin
8:Xavi
9:Torres
10:Fabregas
11:Rooney

hahaha are you Ciaran in disguise?

[newbie]

And who would you play instead of him then? If it's Cristiano Ronaldo then I guess your another of these Premiership lovin Andy Gray is God people. Get a grip. Ronaldo is over paid, over rated and a symbol for everything that's wrong with modern football. I'd have Arshavin over him every time.

where did i once mention him???? he wasnt even in my mind but seens as you mentioned him. what has Arshavin done that Ronaldo hasnt??? i hate CR (Pool fan) by the way but he should be in a team of 07-08 definitely.

id have plenty of players ahead of him. he played good in the scaldy UEFA Cup where Rangers (who are now out of Europe altogether this season) made the final and he had 2 good games in the Euros. Ronaldo gets 600 goals or something in the best league in the world and in the CL.

you also have Essien in there who played more at right back than midfield last season. do you know much about football? you say i love the Prem yet you have 7 of your team from that league????

[ken foree]

ah but these lists are often about personal taste/style rather than a player's statistics and effectiveness, no? i'd rather see a list with a midfield combining essien and arshavin than yet another CR7 (tm) nomination even if ronaldo is currently twice the player of either (massive if, given all their roles). regardless of the thread title, it's more fun to create a team of your own interpretively rather than simply arguing who's the "best" in each position. evra on the other hand gets in every time, surely that is beyond contention

[stojkovic]

Buffon
Alves-Carvalho-Chiellini-Zhirkov
Senna
Messi-Xavi-Kaka
Torres-Villa

Fair play to ya Ciaran, ya crack me up. You wont give up on Trezequet and Toni, where's Ibrahimalazybitch ?

[newbie]

Ya, good points as usual Ken, I was going to respond to Newbie, but I just thought, why bother. He's not going to get it. Thanks for saving me the job amigo.

sorry i just assumed that by the title : "best world XI RIGHT NOW" would mean the best players RIGHT NOW.... . il go back to lovin my Premiership...how many did you have in your team again Ruben?

Cassilas
Alves
Chiellini
Vidic
Evra
Ronaldo
Fabregas
Kaka
Messi
Torres
Villa

[Razors left peg]

Buffon
Alves-Carvalho-Chiellini-Zhirkov
Senna
Messi-Xavi-Kaka
Torres-Villa

Fair play to ya Ciaran, ya crack me up. You wont give up on Trezequet and Toni, where's Ibrahimalazybitch ?

That cracked me up

[newbie]

are you going on stats like that? ok then how many did Torres,Adaboyour,Van Nistelrooy get?
in much tougher leagues against much better defences.

Toni is brutal. if you put Crouch in that league he would get all them goals too...would you have him in your world XI?

[Closed Account 2]

------------------Casillas
Ujfalushi*---Thiago Silva---Vidic---Zhyrkov
------------------Senna
-----------------------------------------
---------------Riquelme
-Chucho Bolaños------------------Arshavin
----------------------------------------
------Salvador Cabañas -----Torres


*He's played at RB for most of last season at Fiorentina

[old git]

where did i once mention him???? he wasnt even in my mind but seens as you mentioned him. what has Arshavin done that Ronaldo hasnt??? i hate CR (Pool fan) by the way but he should be in a team of 07-08 definitely.

id have plenty of players ahead of him. he played good in the scaldy UEFA Cup where Rangers (who are now out of Europe altogether this season) made the final and he had 2 good games in the Euros. Ronaldo gets 600 goals or something in the best league in the world and in the CL.

you also have Essien in there who played more at right back than midfield last season. do you know much about football? you say i love the Prem yet you have 7 of your team from that league????

would have to agree with you on ronaldo / arshavin
as much of a tosser ronaldo is at times he was brilliant last season in preimership ... arshavin had 1 good game against a poor rangers & 2 good game in euro 2008 .. and suddenly all the experts / pundits are drooling over him .. he is 26 /27 years old what has he been doing untill now he is totally overatted ,, as for essien a class player would walk onto any team in england & europe

[old git]

Trezeguet scored 20 last season, Toni 24, Del Piero 21. Frey was regarded keeper of the season and along with Mutu the key reason why Fiorentina will be in the champions league this year.

It's all well and good if you don't agree with it but if you criticise some of the finest performers last season without reason it just makes you look like an idiot.

torres / ronaldo ( winger ) / adabenyour / van nistlerooy scored plenty last year do they not justify places also fine performers .
fiorentina did they not also crash out of uefa cup tamely this year ..
man utd won a league & european cup double ( kills me to say that) this puts fiorentinas achievement way down the list

[gustavo]

fiorentina did they not also crash out of uefa cup tamely this year ..

Lost on penalties in the semi finals - hardly tamely

[newbie]

Zenit were a class act in the UEFA all last season. I wouldn't single out Arshavin as being especially outstanding. Tymoschuk for me was a much greater driving force. Arshavins been around for a while, he nearly has 40 caps for god sake. It's only the renowned ignorant british media and their followers that are claiming "he's come out of nowhere". Just like they said about Modric when he tore his team apart in the qualifiers. Arshavin's been well known in the game to actual fans for a long time.

are Barca british?? they had 2 bids for him turned down this Summer. why didnt they bid for him before? maybe they only watch Sky Sports...

OG, i know Essien is a quality player,i rate him VERY highly but he wouldnt be in a specific team of 07-08 for me. hes been played out of position alot last season.

[newbie]

1st rights means they can have him 1st if they bid the required amount. they did bid but not the crazy amount Zenit want. €17mil if memory serves correct is what they bid (open to correction on the amount).

[Closed Account 2]

would have to agree with you on ronaldo / arshavin
as much of a tosser ronaldo is at times he was brilliant last season in preimership ... arshavin had 1 good game against a poor rangers & 2 good game in euro 2008 .. and suddenly all the experts / pundits are drooling over him .. he is 26 /27 years old what has he been doing untill now he is totally overatted ,, as for essien a class player would walk onto any team in england & europe

That's just plainly wrong... He was a massive player for them in all of their UEFA matches, esp vs Leverkusen and Marseilles. As a point of fact the final was one of his more absent games...

[stojkovic]

This is just a Euro 2008 Select XI with added Messi, Alves and Kaka.

The title of the thread says Best World XI right now. Are you saying I should have picked a Euro 1988 select ? Thats my best XI based on the last few months (ie RIGHT NOW)

Before you criticise Trez, Toni or Zlat can I ask if you've seen them play at any point in the last year except for Euro 2008 (for the last two) or against Premiership teams (for Zlat)

I have seen enough of those three players over the last four years to know that they are stockings and nowhere near the great Serie A players of the past. They wouldnt lace van Bastens boots.

We have had this debate before. My opinions are not pro-Premiership and anti Serie A. I can tell you anything you want to know about Italian football and Serie A from 1980 onwards.

I do respect your opinion, I just don't agree with it.

[old git]

Lost on penalties in the semi finals - hardly tamely

for such a great team our friend was talking about it was very tamely... in a substandard uefa cup . ball:

[Morbo]

I thought it was a pretty tame effort by Fiorentina, Rangers were there for the taking but as JG would say, they lacked the moral courage to do it