Soccer draft legends discussion thread

SlickRic

NiallSparky wrote: »

Would this Slav's reputation have be tarred somewhat by a move he made late in his career, despite coming back with a heroic swan song at the end?

nope.

Amirani

SlickRic wrote: »

nope.

Different slav so.

redzerdrog

lads i am in work and cant pm for some reason will someone pm whoever is next for me please

Bounty Hunter

redzerdrog wrote: »

lads i am in work and cant pm for some reason will someone pm whoever is next for me please

tis moneymaker to start off the next round and tis sent

Winston Payne

Depending on the third midfielder Moneymaker picks up, it could be very, very hard going for other teams in there. A playmaking midfielder would see him have an ominous amount of ball. A shuttling midfielder would see him very hard to break down, he might end up hustling other teams out of it.

Bounty Hunter

took Gento, too old for me to have seen at the time obviously and yet even still im surprised he lasted this long and dont think he woulda been available too much longer, reads like he would fit in perfectly on my side imo

IncognitoMan

It was between Edgar and someone else. Hopefully I made the right choice

Copper_pipe

Dammit, my pick gone

Trippie

Pretty happy with most of my list staying intact this time, albeit only about 12 picks between my last. another 16 to go until next time. Hoping to have as many options open as I did this round. Delighted to get breitner who I had earmarked just after Scirea as knew I wouldnt get one of the top 2 defenders.

He brings great versatility to the team and will help with picking later on. Good with the ball at his feet, can launch attacks for me and will hack the crap out of anyone who come nears him.

G.K.

Considered Breitner myself back in the last round.

Rekop dog

Swore I wouldn't read these threads for all the cringe generation comparisons and bull****ting about players people never saw. Lasted two minutes.

bucketybuck

Is it wrong that I sometimes read the picks thread and feel happy when I see somebody pick a player I don't rate at all?

Bounty Hunter

bucketybuck wrote: »

Is it wrong that I sometimes read the picks thread and feel happy when I see somebody pick a player I don't rate at all?

Not at all I'm sure many do, no slight against those picked it just means that your more likely to get the guy you want

Rekop dog wrote: »

Swore I wouldn't read these threads for all the cringe generation comparisons and bull****ting about players people never saw. Lasted two minutes.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't on this ssue tbh not many would have seen puskas, di Stefano or even Pele play but I wouldn't begrudge anyone telling me how good they were

Moneymaker

I'd have thought the mountain of trophies and personal accolades would be proof enough.

Red Crow

Can someone please PM the next guy. It won't work for me.

Bounty Hunter

he's not online now but gave me a list incase that was the case so 1min and ill post his next pic up

Morzadec

Sorry for the delay lads, was out all day and didn't think it would move so quick on a Sunday.

Disappointed to see Souness going as he was one I had in mind and thought he might drop a bit further.

There's not all that many good attacking left-backs left so decided to nab Lizarazu now.

Bounty Hunter

Lahm is a great pick, would have been my planned next pick except I knew he would never last that long, argueably the best or at least in the top 3 of both RBs and LBs in the world atm

Morzadec

Yeah Lahm a very logical pick being able to play both full-back roles, and obviously one of the best in his position the last 10 years or so.

whatawaster

Lahm is a great pick

redzerdrog

Lahm gives me great options for picks further down the line, was suprised he made it to me

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Surprised Lahm lasted until now. A good few other current players that I'm surprised are still left out, whether they're better or not people will this game picking players that people know and know of. Picking players that were, according to all sources great, legends even, is probably the right pick for your team, but may not necessarily be the best pick.

Morzadec

Sammer a great pick buckety - 1996 was my first Euros and he was the best player in that winning German team. I considered him in previous rounds.

One thing - you refer to him as a defender. I think he was more of a midfielder/sweeper so I'm not sure if he ever played a traditional CB role. From what I remember of him and glancing at his videos he looks more of a midfielder to me.

Actually, while we're on the topic, how would people describe the extinct sweeper role in modern terms? Is the current defensive midfielder a mutation of the old sweeper? A kind of 3rd 'defender' who allows attacking full-backs to bomb forward while also possessing some technical attributes (wider range of passing for example) than the traditional CB?

Busquets is often referred to as a 'tercero central' (a third centre back), with Alves and Alba playing as very attacking wing-backs, like in the old 5-3-2. Would Busquets have been classes as a sweeper if he played 20 years ago?

bucketybuck

He did start as a midfielder, but he played as a sweeper throughout his successful years up until the injury ended his career. I'm more than happy to play him as a defender alongside Desailly, both because he would be excellent at it, and because in this fictional game I doubt he would be up against the likes of Niall Quinn or Andy Carroll, he will be facing skillful tricky players where his reading of the game will be far more important than anything else.

He's definitely a defender for me, though his versatility is a plus also.

Trippie

Sammer was going to be considered for my next pick

IncognitoMan

I have to say midfield is proving to be the trickiest. I have a few strikers that I will be glad to take from here but my centre midfield list isn't as long.

G.K.

Still haven't got a player from the 90's, somehow.

IncognitoMan

And in one post blatter takes two off my full back list

Bounty Hunter

Cole & Irwin. I know he's versatile but surely Irwin is considerd to be primarily a LB like Cole

Morzadec

Yeah good solid picks by Baltter as imo the full-back position looks complicated at the moment.

I considered Cole but in the end went for Lizarazu. Much of a muchness probably, both excellent attacking fullbacks who can also defend really well.

bucketybuck

Don't understand taking both Cole and Irwin. Irwin played right back a few times, but he was very much a left back.

Amirani

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

Cole & Irwin. I know he's versatile but surely Irwin is considerd to be primarily a LB like Cole

Yeah, I was surprised with that.

Blatter

Irwin played right back a lot for Oldham, Ireland and United initially. He played left back for United most of the time because they had other excellent right backs who were not as comfortable at left back.

Irwin was two footed and equally as good/comfortable in both positions.

Edit: I was fairly sure that it was common knowledge that he could play both positions equally well. Forgetting the fact that he actually proved it on the pitch, why wouldn't he have been able to given he was two footed?

Trippie

Somewhat similar to Desailly. he was an incredible defensive midfielder in his Milan days, only moved to centre back towards the end of his career iirc.

Trippie

anyone done the draw for the next round yet?

Bounty Hunter

Trippie wrote: »

anyone done the draw for the next round yet?

nope but feel free to, random.org has been used so far, ill copy and paste it into the other thread when its done too

Trippie

I have already done one before so didnt want to push it too much.

There were 16 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Redzerdrog
Copper_pipe
Bounty Hunter
eugeneious
ITT-Pat
Trippie
Eli Manning
Bucketybuck
whatawaster
Morzadec
Jax Teller
Blatter
Moneymaker
G.K.
IncognitoMan
Knex
Timestamp: 2013-06-03 13:35:28 UTC

G.K.

Gaak.

Pro. F

G.K. wrote: »

Gaak.

Never heard of him.

ITT-Pat

Damn you bucketybuck! Really thought Zanetti would fall to me!

Moneymaker

Would be cool if someone did one of those grid thingies and showed all the picks so far.

bucketybuck

ITT-Pat wrote: »

Damn you bucketybuck! Really thought Zanetti would fall to me!

Sorry. I wasn't actually going to take him in this round, I was going to go for Gerrard instead, but as I said in my write up I think when people are analysing the final teams they could see some legendary wingers up against relatively poor fullbacks, and make their votes with that in mind. I decided I wanted a quality fullback now, and Zanetti was a no-brainer.

I see Gerrard has now gone, I am curious where he will be played. I was going to take him, to play on the right side where Rafa always played him. He was never a central midfielder, I wonder if he will be deployed there?

G.K.

Moneymaker wrote: »

Would be cool if someone did one of those grid thingies and showed all the picks so far.

Like so?



No colour coding I'm afraid.

IncognitoMan

bucketybuck wrote: »

I see Gerrard has now gone, I am curious where he will be played. I was going to take him, to play on the right side where Rafa always played him. He was never a central midfielder, I wonder if he will be deployed there?

He is best as an attacking midfielder Imo. He will need cover behind him

Moneymaker

Who's holding this up this time?

Jax Teller

Eli Manning has the next pick so he's holding it up .

He was online about an hour ago and didn't pick so maybe Knex never pm'ed him ?

Red Crow

No never got a PM and am on my phone so I've no notifications for the draft thread. Ill pick now

Iused2likebusts

G.K. wrote: »

Like so?



No colour coding I'm afraid.

Interesting thread some great picks all round. I like the look of morzadecs side two great full backs, alonso to dictate the play and to top it all off Maradona.

IncognitoMan

Thought Shevchenko would be gone by now

SlickRic

finally, Weah is gone.

are there no other Football Italia nuts from the 90s on here?

being able to get him in Round 6 is shameful IMO.