Soccer draft legends discussion thread

Blatter

Did Trippie realise it was his pick? He was posting in this thread a couple of hours ago.

PhlegmyMoses

Agreed with Slick. You just need a balance. If all your players are from the 50s, 60s and 70s you're going to struggle to capture people's imaginations. Mix them in with the likes of Zidane, Nesta, Keane etc and people may understand the shape of your team more.

Knex*

Blatter wrote: »

Did Trippie realise it was his pick? He was posting in this thread a couple of hours ago.

Hadn't even spotted that. Should we PM just incase?

Blatter

Knex. wrote: »

Hadn't even spotted that. Should we PM just incase?

Yeah I'll send him one there!

Moneymaker

Eto'o is a great choice at this stage. Class act.

Felexicon

Moneymaker wrote: »

Eto'o is a great choice at this stage. Class act.

Yeah but saying he's better than Shevchenko is a bold statement. Great player at this stage though

Knex*

Toughest choice for me so far. Had three players in mind for my last three spots and went with the one I felt was most likely to go first.

Will be gutted if one of my next two are gone before my next pick tbh.

Edit: Team so far:

SlickRic

Eto'o is a brilliant pick at this stage.

LuckyLloyd

Eto'o should have gone ahead of Weah imo.

Jax Teller

Don't think I'd have Busquets & Makélélé in the same side bit too defensive imo .

Knex*

Jax Teller wrote: »

Don't think I'd have Busquets & Makélélé in the same side bit too defensive imo .

Would be fine if he had a more rampaging third midfielder. Instead he has Xavi. Think maybe Xavi plus 1 from Busquets/Makelele and a more recognised AM would be more ideal, but then again, a lot of those players have been picked already.

IncognitoMan

I'd love to have got kahn. Class keeper

Jax Teller

Knex. wrote: »

Would be fine if he had a more rampaging third midfielder. Instead he has Xavi. Think maybe Xavi plus 1 from Busquets/Makelele and a more recognised AM would be more ideal, but then again, a lot of those players have been picked already.

I can think of a certain little Croat who would have fitted in perfectly .

eagle eye

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Eto'o should have gone ahead of Weah imo.

Why? I don't agree btw.

PhlegmyMoses

Hard to make a call either way between Eto'o and Weah. Eto'o was more clinical and probably shone brighter for longer but Weah was class and did his best stuff in a league that was littered with some of the best defenders ever at the time.

Felexicon

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Hard to make a call either way between Eto'o and Weah. Eto'o was more clinical and probably shone brighter for longer but Weah was class and did his best stuff in a league that was littered with some of the best defenders ever at the time.

Don't forget George Weah is also the only player to be 29 three seasons in a row

PhlegmyMoses

Felexicon wrote: »

Don't forget George Weah is also the only player to be 29 three seasons in a row

And I also used to pretend to be him when out in the school yard. Either him or Giuseppe Signori, purely because he was a lefty.

LuckyLloyd

eagle eye wrote: »

Why? I don't agree btw.

Eto'o 284 goals in 535 club games
Weah 193 goals in 478 club games

Eto'o 5 20+ goal seasons and 3 30+ goal seasons
Weah 2 20+ goal seasons and 0 30+ goal seasons

I just think Eto'o was more productive and his best seasons were untouchable

SirDelboy18

I think this was a bad enough idea for a draft, which is why I didn't participate - I participated in the last two but I saw lots of problems with this one. That being said it always provides great entertainment when somebody organises one of these. Hopefully there'll be another around October/November for the PL.

As somebody not participating, I haven't kept up that much with this. But I strongly believe that people are using the word "prime" in a context which is greatly different to mine.

I think this will be very divisive. A lot of it is on reputation and I personally would give a lot of weight to things like reputation, the beliefs of people who are in my view reputable - in regard to players who I haven't seen. People who have picked their sides with consideration to more recent players might feel like they were principled enough or something not to pick players they haven't seen, which i completely disagree with. Others will agree, that's fine.

Some of the picks have shocked me for sure - fully with LuckyLloyd in his views on the Hummels pick too, if you are going to count 40 or 50 games as being in somebodies prime then this is a farce.

Not sure if I ever would have gone for the likes of Dani Alves for example, or I think someone picking Gareth Bale would have to do a bit to justify that to me ahead of someone like Socrates who lasted much longer.

Anyways I'll keep up with this until the end. Good luck.

SlickRic

tbh, Alves is a fine pick.

he's done enough in that Barca team for the last few years to warrant consideration for this.

i can see a few gems slipping through the net completely tbh. i might see what sort of team I can put together with all those who haven't been picked once everyone has finished drafting...just for my own shíts and giggles.

it could be interesting.

the draft, while always having some flaws, is always entertaining.

eagle eye

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Eto'o 284 goals in 535 club games
Weah 193 goals in 478 club games

Eto'o 5 20+ goal seasons and 3 30+ goal seasons
Weah 2 20+ goal seasons and 0 30+ goal seasons

I just think Eto'o was more productive and his best seasons were untouchable

They were totally different types of player though. Weah was a really hard worker and got back and dug in, he also could beat players almost at will in his prime.

Those stats mean nothing because of how different they were.

eagle eye

SlickRic wrote: »

tbh, Alves is a fine pick.

he's done enough in that Barca team for the last few years to warrant consideration for this.

i can see a few gems slipping through the net completely tbh. i might see what sort of team I can put together with all those who haven't been picked once everyone has finished drafting...just for my own shíts and giggles.

it could be interesting.

the draft, while always having some flaws, is always entertaining.

I was thinking the same thing myself. There are so many great ones that have not been picked.

Knex*

There's an absolute gold mine of strikers left. I cannot for the life of me make up my mind as to which one I want. Heck, I can't even narrow it to three.

Glico Man

Blatter wrote: »

Yeah, I think Neeskens is the only one in my team so far that a few wouldn't have heard about. By all accounts he was a great all round midfielder overshadowed by Cruyff. Miguel Delaney ranked him as the 19th best footballer ever and he made it into his greatest team of all time.


This is the piece on him:

Would be interesting to gauge if many on here know about him or have seen him play before.

My childhood, from the ages of 5-10, was full of my grandad (who had lived in Barça from 1963 until 2006) telling me about one of the best midfields he had witnessed in Barcelona's history, Neeskens being one of those players, despite him being there for only 5 years.

They weren't very successful during his time there, a Copa Del Rey and a Cup Winners Cup are all he had to show, but he's still very highly regarded by the older generation of fans.

Mesmeric runs from the centre, pinpoint passing and an eye for goal are the traits I still remember being told.

Red Crow

Can someone PM the next guy please?

Knex*

Eli Manning wrote: »

Can someone PM the next guy please?

Will do.

IncognitoMan

Am I good with Maicon? Can I pm the next guy?

Jax Teller

IncognitoMan wrote: »

Am I good with Maicon? Can I pm the next guy?

Nobodies picked him yet .

Copper_pipe

Would appreciate any feedback on this team lads.

. Julio Cesar
Phil Neal,-Cannavaro-Cheillini-Júnior
. Xxxxxx Charlton-Hagi- Xxxxx
. Pele-Hector Sanchez

IncognitoMan

Delighted to get Maicon. At he's peak he kept dani Alves out of the Brazil side.

G.K.

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Would appreciate any feedback on this team lads.

. Julio Cesar
Phil Neal,-Cannavaro-Cheillini-Júnior
. Xxxxxx Charlton-Hagi- Xxxxx
. Pele-Hector Sanchez

Your CM isn't giving your defense enough cover atm, in my opinion.

Donnielighto

Knex. wrote: »

There's an absolute gold mine of strikers left. I cannot for the life of me make up my mind as to which one I want. Heck, I can't even narrow it to three.

I'm gonna throw a team together from the leftovers and i have 4 strikers i have in mind

Donnielighto

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Would appreciate any feedback on this team lads.

. Julio Cesar
Phil Neal,-Cannavaro-Cheillini-Júnior
. Xxxxxx Charlton-Hagi- Xxxxx
. Pele-Hector Sanchez

could hagi play wide and get a dm in there to shore things up

Jax Teller

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Would appreciate any feedback on this team lads.

. Julio Cesar
Phil Neal,-Cannavaro-Cheillini-Júnior
. Xxxxxx Charlton-Hagi- Xxxxx
. Pele-Hector Sanchez

I always though Hagi was an attacking midfielder not a traditional Cm ? Same with Charlton . Considering you have Pele who liked to drop in behind the striker i don't think they're great picks .

They're great player obviously just don't see how that team would work the way you have it now .

LuckyLloyd

How many picks do ye have left? I just put together a pretty tasty 11 of undrafteds there in about 10 minutes.

Jax Teller

Most people have 2 left . Some have 3 .

Moneymaker

SirDelboy18 wrote: »

I think this was a bad enough idea for a draft, which is why I didn't participate - I participated in the last two but I saw lots of problems with this one. That being said it always provides great entertainment when somebody organises one of these. Hopefully there'll be another around October/November for the PL.

As somebody not participating, I haven't kept up that much with this. But I strongly believe that people are using the word "prime" in a context which is greatly different to mine.

I think this will be very divisive. A lot of it is on reputation and I personally would give a lot of weight to things like reputation, the beliefs of people who are in my view reputable - in regard to players who I haven't seen. People who have picked their sides with consideration to more recent players might feel like they were principled enough or something not to pick players they haven't seen, which i completely disagree with. Others will agree, that's fine.

Some of the picks have shocked me for sure - fully with LuckyLloyd in his views on the Hummels pick too, if you are going to count 40 or 50 games as being in somebodies prime then this is a farce.

Not sure if I ever would have gone for the likes of Dani Alves for example, or I think someone picking Gareth Bale would have to do a bit to justify that to me ahead of someone like Socrates who lasted much longer.

Anyways I'll keep up with this until the end. Good luck.

Did you see Alves play for Sevilla?

G.K.

Was going to take Gerson before deciding on Pep instead.

ITT-Pat

Can someone send the next guy a PM please?

Knex*

ITT-Pat wrote: »

Can someone send the next guy a PM please?

Done.

G.K.

Operation disregard advice for 50's legend, in progress.

Knex*

Had finally decided upon going with Rush and then whatawaster plucked him. Back to the drawing board

He's great value this late IMO.

bucketybuck

G.K. wrote: »

Operation disregard advice for 50's legend, in progress.

50's legends are the best legends.

G.K.

Could have gone for a plethora of strikers but going for Cruyff up top in the False 9-esque role he played instead, supported by Hidegkuti.

PerrinV2

Van Nistelrooy is great pick up for that team

IncognitoMan

Ah Van Nistelrooy probably my favourite player of all time

G.K.

I trust you know it's your pick again, Morzadec?

whatawaster

Costacurta should have went much earlier.

G.K.

Heh, that makes my pick ironic.

carlop

G.K. wrote: »

Heh, that makes my pick ironic.

No offence GK but you seem to be seriously over-compensating for your age with your selections, though obviously Tassoti not so much.