Best Spurs 11 of the Premiership Era?

Glebee

What about Nayim in midfield or was he before Premier League time????

Dublin Spur

Glebee wrote: »

What about Nayim in midfield or was he before Premier League time????

he played up to 1993 I think so he does qualify

scored a famous hatrick at man city in the 1/4 finals of the cup in 93

lovely footballer

Dublin Spur

Hatch99 wrote: »

Parker, you'd need a bit more bite with all those fancy dans

I loved Parker, but Carrick was probabaly the better player
Close call

2nd Row Donkey

Left Back on the Bench wrote: »

Lloris

Subs: vdv, Sandro, samways, woodgate, Friedal, berbatov, thudd

I'm sorry, what now?

KingdomYid

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

I'm sorry, what now?

Surely a typo on his part, he meant Vinny Sideways

DubPerryman

golfball37 wrote: »

Says a lot that our undisputed best full backs of the whole era are Ziege and Carr, neither of which were really that good. Ziege was a class player before he came to England and Carr was solid but odinary really in world terms.

Woah.... you can say what you want about Zeige, but keep Steve Carr out of it.

He was a very good right back. Defensively very strong, as strong as G.Neville and better going forward. An absolute terrier. We were blessed to have him pull on our jersey and to be Irish.

Ormus

Samways was a class act, fine passer and tackler, was gutted when he went to Everton

DubPerryman

Lloris

Carr King Sol Ziegler

Ginola Modric Sandro Bale

Berbatov Klinsmann



I would love to see Berba and Klinsmann together.

My Ziegler shout will shock a few, but he was a kid of 18 when he came to us. He needed a little bit of work on the defensive side, but he could seriously pick a pass. He might struggle if there was a bit more competition.

Dublin Spur

DubPerryman wrote: »

Woah.... you can say what you want about Zeige, but keep Steve Carr out of it.

He was a very good right back. Defensively very strong, as strong as G.Neville and better going forward. An absolute terrier. We were blessed to have him pull on our jersey and to be Irish.

I think Carr was at Spurs from 93 to 04

Broke into the 1st team in 98/99, was a class act for a coup,e of seasons, think he got in the PFA team in 99/00.

Went downhill sadly after 2000, lost form and picked up a lot of injuries.

DubPerryman

Dublin Spur wrote: »

I think Carr was at Spurs from 93 to 04

Broke into the 1st team in 98/99, was a class act for a coup,e of seasons, think he got in the PFA team in 99/00.

Went downhill sadly after 2000, lost form and picked up a lot of injuries.

I'll have to disagree there. He had a serious knee injury in 01/02, I remember Stevie Finnan had to come in and play in the Ireland team. Sending that ball over for McAteer in Lansdowne Road vs Holland.

But.... He came back from injury the next season and played two full seasons. United (then undoubtledly the best team in the world) were constantly linked with him, because Carr was consistently better than Neville.

I remember being gutted when he left and perplexed because he chose Newcastle of all places.

I had his name and number on the back of one of my Spurs jerseys. :cool:

Ormus

DubPerryman wrote: »

I'll have to disagree there. He had a serious knee injury in 01/02, I remember Stevie Finnan had to come in and play in the Ireland team. Sending that ball over for McAteer in Lansdowne Road vs Holland.

But.... He came back from injury the next season and played two full seasons. United (then undoubtledly the best team in the world) were constantly linked with him, because Carr was consistently better than Neville.

I remember being gutted when he left and perplexed because he chose Newcastle of all places.

I had his name and number on the back of one of my Spurs jerseys. :cool:

Yeah he was always good going forward but it was only in his last two seasons with Spurs that he started to become a good defender. Spurs were a frustrating club to play for but what in the world possessed him to move to Newcastle. Ok, it was obviously money. He went way down in my estimation then. Didn't really stick with Ireland through thick n thin either. Injuries may have been a factor but that's the way it looked from the outside.

Dublin Spur

DubPerryman wrote: »

I'll have to disagree there. He had a serious knee injury in 01/02, I remember Stevie Finnan had to come in and play in the Ireland team. Sending that ball over for McAteer in Lansdowne Road vs Holland.

But.... He came back from injury the next season and played two full seasons. United (then undoubtledly the best team in the world) were constantly linked with him, because Carr was consistently better than Neville.

I remember being gutted when he left and perplexed because he chose Newcastle of all places.

I had his name and number on the back of one of my Spurs jerseys. :cool:

I agree that injuries were has main downfall, the drop in form can probably be put down to those. He missed a lot of 01/02 and I was at the 1st game of the season at Everton in 02/03 and it happened again right in front of me - you could hear the snap of his knee, it was horrible, I don't think he played again that season.

He was sensational for around 2 seasons, shame it didn't last longer

Dublin Spur

Samways was very underrated player.
Very tidy footballer and a great servant to Spurs.

His run that took Steve Bould out of the picture and give Lineker a run on goal for our 3rd goal in THAT semi in 1991 was absolute class.

Scored a massive goal v the scum in Oct 89 which was our first win over them in a few years. Happy memories

He went onto Spain after Everton and became known as a bit of a hatchet-man. I hear he owns a pub out there somewhere (Majorca/Ibiza)

Ormus

Dublin Spur wrote: »

Samways was very underrated player.
Very tidy footballer and a great servant to Spurs.

His run that took Steve Bould out of the picture and give Lineker a run on goal for our 3rd goal in THAT semi in 1991 was absolute class.

Scored a massive goal v the scum in Oct 89 which was our first win over them in a few years. Happy memories

He went onto Spain after Everton and became known as a bit of a hatchet-man. I hear he owns a pub out there somewhere (Majorca/Ibiza)

Yeah a friend of mine drank with him in his pub and got a signed picture for me, but then lost it

2nd Row Donkey

Agree with the comment about Carr been an okay defender who then came good and had 2 excellent seasons. PFA team of the year and heavily linked with United a lot. At the time Newcastle where a top team but it was a bit of a sad day when he chose to leave us for them.

Then he went to Newcastle and became a bit of a bruiser. He was a real niggling defender on Tyne-side, maybe he got a few tips from Justin Edinburgh before he left WHL

Mr. Guappa

Lloris

Carr
Campbell
King
Vertonghen

Bale
Modric
Carrick
Ginola

Berbatov
Klinsmann

Went for Vertz at LB because Ziege was always a liability as a proper LB. Hard to leave out VDV but couldn't shoehorn him in. Only other decision was the strikers, with Sheringham the unluckiest to miss out.

ziedth

I have said it before but my first game at the lane was Carrs cracker against united. Loved him from that moment.

I also like old Tarricco when he was with us. I must see can I make a team of players who I would pick solely on sentiment and how much I loved them.I'd say it'd be shocking.

Ormus

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

Lloris

Carr
Campbell
King
Vertonghen

Bale
Modric
Carrick
Ginola

Berbatov
Klinsmann

Went for Vertz at LB because Ziege was always a liability as a proper LB. Hard to leave out VDV but couldn't shoehorn him in. Only other decision was the strikers, with Sheringham the unluckiest to miss out.

Vertonghen is actually a good call

Mr. Guappa

Ormus wrote: »

Vertonghen is actually a good call

If this thread was done a year ago he would be CB in plenty of teams.

Woodgate

Lloris

Carr
King
Sol
BAE

Anderton
Rafa
Modric
Bale

Teddy
Klinsmann

2nd Row Donkey

Woodgate wrote: »

Lloris

Carr
King
Sol
BAE

Anderton
Rafa
Modric
Bale

Teddy
Klinsmann

No Woodgate, Woodgate?

2nd Row Donkey

Lloris

Carr
King
Campbell
Wilson

Bale
David's
Popescu
Ginola

Sheringham
Klinsmann


Robinson
Howells
Anderton
Modric
Berba
Ziege

Ormus

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Lloris

Carr
King
Campbell
Wilson

Bale
David's
Popescu
Ginola

Sheringham
Klinsmann


Robinson
Howells
Anderton
Modric
Berba
Ziege

Crackin team. No Modric is a shock but ok if you're picking Davids and Popescu for their careers over their Spurs performance.

But then how do you pick Wilson over Ziege?!!

Glebee

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Lloris

Carr
King
Campbell
Wilson

Bale
David's
Popescu
Ginola

Sheringham
Klinsmann


Robinson
Howells
Anderton
Modric
Berba
Ziege

No Robbie :eek:

LOL

2nd Row Donkey

Ormus wrote: »

Crackin team. No Modric is a shock but ok if you're picking Davids and Popescu for their careers over their Spurs performance.

But then how do you pick Wilson over Ziege?!!

Just threw Wilson in there as an alternative... hard to think of anyone else after Ziege which is a pretty poor showing for 20 odds years. Same could be said of the right FB position.

Thought about Bale at LB. But after Anderton couldn't think of a decent right winger ... Lennon, Davies, Fox, Dominquez (Jayzus)

Ormus

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Just threw Wilson in there as an alternative... hard to think of anyone else after Ziege which is a pretty poor showing for 20 odds years. Same could be said of the right FB position.

Thought about Bale at LB. But after Anderton couldn't think of a decent right winger ... Lennon, Davies, Fox, Dominquez (Jayzus)

Anderton was a jewel. I think he coulda been world class with less injuries.