Who would be the first name down on your EPL dream team ?

Leiva

Ok just a bit of fun .

You have to name one player that would be the first one on your team sheet.

You can choose any player from the EPL and explain why ?

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Vincent Kompany.

Why:
The guy is a consistent high performer week-in-week out and imo is never found wanting even when City are having a bad game.

AgileMyth

Balloteli. Hes cool and has nice hair.

retalivity

Aguero - Best forward in the league

Insect Overlord

Fellaini. The guy is class.

And for the 'fro, obviously.

ohyesthefinest

Luis Suarez- If I was a defender I'd hate playing against him

DazMarz

Joe Hart. Best goalkeeper in the league at the minute and can put in some truly heroic performances and is rarely at fault if City concede a goal. Witness the heroics of last night's performance against Dortmund; without him, City could have fallen by 2 or 3 goals. A class act, and he probably has another 10-15 years left in him as a top goalkeeper.

Whatsisname

Robin Van fúckin' Persie.

VW 1

^ what he said.

Just 'cos..

MyBrokenKnees

Carlos Tevez

On a football pitch he just has it. He is a match winner.

kevohmsford

Gareth Bale.
The guy has so much pace and ability on the ball. A nightmare for any right back.

madma

jason lee

cause he's got a pineapple head

Prick!

Leiva wrote: »

Ok just a bit of fun .

You have to name one player that would be the first one on your team sheet.

You can choose any player from the EPL and explain why ?

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Vincent Kompany.

Why:
The guy is a consistent high performer week-in-week out and imo is never found wanting even when City are having a bad game.

Not been great so far.

DazMarz wrote: »

Joe Hart. Best goalkeeper in the league at the minute and can put in some truly heroic performances and is rarely at fault if City concede a goal. Witness the heroics of last night's performance against Dortmund; without him, City could have fallen by 2 or 3 goals. A class act, and he probably has another 10-15 years left in him as a top goalkeeper.

If this thread was started this time yesterday would you say this? Doubt it. Been average this season.

CSF

Has to be Van Persie

Prick!

Yaya Toure

efb

Robin Van Persie

Dragged Arsenal to 3rd last season

miralize

Silva/ Kagawa / Mata type player. They make things happen

The_Kew_Tour

Van Persie. I would say same if he was at Arsenal still and doing what he is doing.

Kompany not far behind.

You could pick 20 players here

Phoenix Park

While i can see why Yaya Toure and Bale would jump out at people it has to be Van Persie. So many goals.

Fromvert

Myself

YouTookMyName

Stewart Dowing.

Because Anagram is: Twat on Reds Wing

gustavo

Sergio Aguero

Oranage2

Yaya - absolute beast

CantGetNoSleep

Andy Carroll

Just to piss off pool fans

The Little Fella

Djimi Traore

GavRedKing

Ashley Cole. Simple really. One of Englands only truly world class players.

Ares

Yaya. Stick him behind a striker with explicit instructions to run at defenses.

Carnage ensues.

Sgt Pepper 64

Peter Crouch

cos he just shouldnt work, but somehow does

Rekop dog

Underwhelming choices compared to la liga but Yaya for me!

JPA

Has to be Yaya, a class above everyone in the league as a dominating midfielder.

kayevajo

ohyesthefinest wrote: »

Luis Suarez- If I was a defender I'd hate playing against him

so would i, between the diving and the racial abuse . it would be a nightmare.

PhlegmyMoses

Wayne Rooney. A team built around him would be immense.

keano_afc

efb wrote: »

Robin Van Persie

Dragged Arsenal to 3rd last season

Currently dragging United around also.

Prick!

keano_afc wrote: »

Currently dragging United around also.

He drags who he wants

Lawrence1895

Nuri Sahin :cool:

citytillidie

simples Henry

Mr. Guappa

Leiva wrote: »

Ok just a bit of fun .

You have to name one player that would be the first one on your team sheet.

You can choose any player from the EPL and explain why ?

---

Vincent Kompany.

Why:
The guy is a consistent high performer week-in-week out and imo is never found wanting even when City are having a bad game.

First name on the teamsheet? Has to be Joe Hart really.. I don't think Kompany, Yaya, van Persie or any of the others mentioned would be much use in goals.

IncognitoMan

Robin van Persie currently the best striker in the league

tvercetti

Yaya would be mine (Man Utd fan)

Fight_Night

Tevez. Then Aguero. On form both these players are better than RVP imo.

keith16

Clint Dempsey.

Because fcuk you.

massdebater

Thread lacks Demba Ba

token101

Joe Hart. Best keeper in the league, top 3 in the world probably.

dahat

Rio Ferdinand cos Woy wont!

Genuine answer though is Vidic,what a rock when fit,Perfect model of a centre half

Xavi6

Yaya Toure if he's interested. The guy is untouchable when he's in the mood.

Leiva wrote: »

Vincent Kompany.

Why:
The guy is a consistent high performer week-in-week out and imo is never found wanting even when City are having a bad game.

Have you watched City this season? We've been crap and he's been crap!

Giggsy11

Wayne Rooney.

cournioni

Wayne Rooney, the affect that he has on the team was plain to see against Spurs. There's very few like him that can make such an impact in the Premiership.

Kirby

Prick! wrote: »

Yaya Toure

Oranage2 wrote: »

Yaya - absolute beast

Ares wrote: »

Yaya. Stick him behind a striker with explicit instructions to run at defenses.

Carnage ensues.

JPA wrote: »

Has to be Yaya, a class above everyone in the league as a dominating midfielder.

tvercetti wrote: »

Yaya would be mine (Man Utd fan)

Xavi6 wrote: »

Yaya Toure if he's interested. The guy is untouchable when he's in the mood.

The unequivocal love in with Yaya Toure baffles me. He is an excellent player and I would have him in my team no question....but he has a fairly severe flaw as a midfielder. Why isn't everybody talking about the fact that after 60 minutes in every single game he strolls around the place and barely runs at all? In every close up shot he looks like he is about to collapse with exhaustion.

Watch for it. It's like clockwork. He stops tackling and stops tracking runs and just strolls about until he gets the ball. That's fine when he is playing off the striker.....but he usually isn't and is part of a midfield shield that is supposed to be defending his back four. And he doesn't do it. There is a reason City are shipping goals and he is part of it.

He looks a few stone overweight. It isn't all muscle before anybody wheels that old chestnut riposte out. People used to say that about Old Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez, etc. It's fat.

Those barnstorming runs are amazing to watch and he scores his share of important goals but, just like Joe Hart, I feel the media just gloss over his flaws. I find it hard to fathom that anybody would pick Toure as the best player in the league. The same Toure that Barca discarded as he was surplus. That tells you something. Barca requires a certain work ethic when you don't have the ball that Toure sorely lacks.

Xavi6 talks about him "being in the mood" and "being interested". This alludes to it a little bit. He is either unfit or simply lazy. That's allowed...... no footballer is perfect. But it is a bit of a pet peeve of mine that I don't hear it said more often.

JPA mentioned him being a dominating midfielder. I would counter that a guy like Dembele fits that bill perfectly with the difference being that he does it for 90 minutes where as Toure does not.

Anyway, my pick would be RVP. Terrific goal scorer. If I couldn't have him I would take Aguero. World class strikers are a rarity and it's the most difficult position to get right.

jive

Kirby wrote: »

He looks a few stone overweight. It isn't all muscle before anybody wheels that old chestnut riposte out. People used to say that about Old Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez, etc. It's fat.

I always have a good lol at this in the media. Rooney comes back after pre-season and it was kind of glossed over, the odd pundit said he didn't look "fit". It basically took Fergie to call him a fat mess before everyone else joined in on the bandwagon even though it was clearly he was at least a stone overweight. When Tevez came back last season and was overweight, to a lesser extent than Rooney, they couldn't wait to have a go at him. Same as Andre Santos for Arsenal last year. Although I disagree with you on Toure, whilst I think he's vastly overhyped (just recently, same thing happens every year when someone gets a few very good games under their belt, and it'll die down again in a few weeks; he was shít against Dortmund), I don't think he's overweight.

I'd take Tevez over anyone. He's a mad little bastard and has motivational problems (which never seem to translate to the pitch when he's actually on it) but he's unreal. Top work rate and world class player, it's not often you get the 2 of those in one man.

Xavi6

Kirby wrote: »

Why isn't everybody talking about the fact that after 60 minutes in every single game he strolls around the place and barely runs at all? In every close up shot he looks like he is about to collapse with exhaustion.

See this is as bad as the pro-Yaya comments you're complaining about.

Watch the last half an hour of United at home and Newcastle away from the end of last season and come back to me.

Watch for it. It's like clockwork. He stops tackling and stops tracking runs and just strolls about until he gets the ball.

True, it does happen but you're being disingenuous by not painting the whole picture.

When that is the case it's usually once he's been pushed further forward and is basically carrying the attack, more often than not when City need a goal. He has a much bigger workload than anyone else on the park so if he doesn't track back with two other central midfielders on the park then that's fair enough. No doubt he'll be needed to run 50 or 60 yards shortly to start another attack.

What I do have a problem with is the laziness shown when he's one of the central midfielders, like against Dortmund, and that's when I said "when he's in the mood" in my post.

He looks a few stone overweight. It isn't all muscle before anybody wheels that old chestnut riposte out. People used to say that about Old Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez, etc. It's fat.

Don't see that at all.

Kirby

Xavi6 wrote: »

He has a much bigger workload than anyone else on the park so if he doesn't track back with two other central midfielders on the park then that's fair enough. .

I don't have a problem with the odd rest when you are a forward or playing off the front "in the hole" as they say. But as I said, he usually isn't. Especially this season as Barry hasn't featured as much as usual and De Jong is gone. He is usually part of the two holding players like he was against Dortmund. That wasn't a one off. Watch for it this weekend. It will be the same story.

I'm not bashing the guy. I still think he's terrific and a rare enough player. It just always struck me as bizarre that so few people ever mention the fact that he looks like he is going to collapse every time the camera pans to him.

mirwillbeback

4 pages and no mention of Santi Cazorla ? I think he is an absolute gem of a player, movement, energy, creativity.

For me he will be as good as Fabregas.