Rab B Nesbit Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 UEFA have announced their team of the century today. Hard to disagree with any of these choices what a side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Seems a bit early, got another 80 odd years to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Casillas will be better than any GK that Europe will produce for 83 years? Get to f**k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerSaint Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Do they have a bench? Would have liked to have seen Ronaldinho mentioned. He had a 3-4 year run unlike anything I've ever seen outside of Messi/Ronaldo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Gerrard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 The lack of Buffon, Ronaldinho or Proper Ronaldo makes this team invalid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Unsurprising that a Liverpool fan started this.Gerrard FFS [emoji28] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 I think it’s an XI of the players who’ve appeared in the UEFA team of the season the most. It seems like a random thing they decided to do to keep their work experience boy happy. ETA: No Busquets, no party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 15 minutes ago, accies1874 said: I think it’s an XI of the players who’ve appeared in the UEFA team of the season the most. Its not even that, its just the most nominated. Gerrard was nominated seven times so gets in, despite only actually making the squad three times. While Kaka, Ronaldinho, Nedved and Zidane miss out because they werent nominated as many times, despite the fact Kaka made the squad five times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coooombe Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 No Pirlo no party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Typical anti-Clyde bias from UEFA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Ross Tokely must be gutted that his career straddled 2 centuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Oh come on. 17 years 11 months is a well known time period. I'll never forget my 17 year 11 month party or my parents 17 year 11 month wedding anniversary. By coincidence we've a do on Friday for a workmate that's getting a carriage clock for reaching his 17 year 11 month milestone with the company. Well done UEFA on rightly marking this esteemed occasion with their marvelous team I say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gannonball Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 13 hours ago, Cerberus said: Casillas will be better than any GK that Europe will produce for 83 years? Get to f**k. Agreed, a very good goalkeeper but behind Buffon and Neuer for me. Tin hat on here but always thought him and Raul were a tad overrated in that Madrid team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Gerrard regressed horribly as a player, and not even when he was in his 30's. Lampard was better, and Scholes was better than both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Gerrard. Jesus f**k. The guy was a hugely influential player for Liverpool to be sure, but he was nowhere near one of the best midfielders of the 21st century so far in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Gerrard regressed horribly as a player, and not even when he was in his 30's. Lampard was better, and Scholes was better than both. But... but... some English manager didn’t play Scholes, so Gerrard must be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 I'm guessing Gerrard captain, Ramos vice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 12 minutes ago, Rab B Nesbit said: I'm guessing Gerrard captain, Ramos vice? I think, at the end of the day, a lot of what colour's positive opinion of Gerrard is that he was quite good at pulling off Roy of the Rovers moments (FA cup final against West Ham, AC Milan in Istanbul, the late goal against Olympiakos or Panathanikos in the group stages, forget which) but for every one of those there's the slips against Demba Ba, passbacks to Suarez/Henry for England and against Arsenal (in fact did he not do it twice to gift Henry dangerous possession, once for Arsenal and once for England when Zidane scored that pen?)and Drogba (X2?) to help out Chelsea, plus the dozens of times for club and country in losing situations where he just started smashing lots of shots well over the bar/playing 50-yard raking passes straight out of play. Like I say, my opinion of him was that he peaked early and started to regress in his late 20's. I'm happy to be corrected with stats etc. but it's a gut feeling I have. Lampard, however, stayed very effective for Chelsea for a long, long time. Not even that, but Dudek was more of a hero for Liverpool in the final than Gerrard imo, although he did get the recovery started with the header - unbelievable save from Shevchenko in extra time then the hero in the shootout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Any time Liverpool have come close to success in the last dozen years it has been because a world class player has dragged them into such a position - either Xabi Alonso or Luis Suarez. When these players left Liverpool were scrambling for relevance between top four and mid-table, all the while with Gerrard as an ever-present. Sure he was a good player but he wasn't able to pick Liverpool up to the heights these players did, and if anything held them back in the end (see 2012's bottle job). Not even close to being world class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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