I know, I know, you have seen this exact question thousands of times, but I’m curious, and I want to see how you rate mine:
Ronaldo Maradona Messi
Zidane Pele
Matthaus
Maldini Beckenbauer Baresi Cafu
Casillas
Notes:
Goalkeeper: Never liked Yashin, and I slightly like Casillas over Neuer. Buffon comes in behind both at third.
Fullbacks: Cafu was a no-brainer for me, and I shifted Maldini here to include Baresi at CB because I find Roberto Carlos to be one of the most overrated players in history.
Centrebacks: Beckenbauer was a no-brainer, and Baresi was very underrated and more deserving than Roberto Carlos. Shoutout to Sergio Ramos though.
Defensive Midfielder: The hardest working position in my eyes, so I had to include one. If I wanted two CAMs, I needed a CDM, so I went for the best option in Matthaus.
Attacking Midfielders: The formation is wonky, but I went for two CAMs. This formation would let in 5 goals a game if it didn’t have the greatest defense of all time. I chose Zizou because of how impactful he was when he played, and Pele as a Cam, because Pele was actually a CAM, not a striker, so he was the best option for me.
Wingers: The goats. What can I say?
Striker: Pele is better than Maradona, and so I would rather Pele play in his correct role and shift Maradona up top, as Pele will impact my team more.
If I had a coach it would be Alex Ferguson
4-4-2 GK: Karius RB: Chris Smalling CB: Phil Jones CB: Skhrodran Mustafi LB: Harry Maguire LM: Jesse Lingard RM: Bendter CM: Fred CM: Mctominay ST: Lukaku ST: Darwin Nunez
My dream 11. C
Hey Mustafi is actually good bro
Honestly, you could have just put the current Man U roster and they would have been worse
Timo werner or pre2023 morata instead of nunez for me
Rb leipzig timo is actually good though
I get your sarcasm, but Darwin Nunez does not belong on that list!
Braithwaite then?
Not mctominay either. Number 1 goal scorer mctominay. Mctominay number 1. Better then Narwin Dunez
Kahn (if you want a „classic“ goalie, Neuer (if you opt for a sweeper keeper)
Lahm - Karlheinz Förster - Baresi - Lizarazu
Matthäus
Maradona Cruyff Zico
Best - Gerd Müller
Based on players that I have watched ( started watching in 2014) :
Cristiano Suarez Messi
Kroos Müller Casemiro
Marcelo Ramos T. Silva P. Lahm
Neuer
Second best choices after this :
- Lw : neymar , cf : Aguero , rw : robben
- Midfield: modric, xabi alonso , Busquets, kevin de bryune
- Lb : jordi alba , cbs : pique , kompany , rb : dani alves
- Gk : cassilas
In terms of accommodating the best players its a great line up with only marginal/arguable swaps.
In reality on the pitch i think you would probably have to concede at least one of the front five for another deep player to strike the best balance.
from whom I have seen playing :
__________________R9
_________Ronaldinhno Messi
_________________Kaka
____________Casemiro Seedorf
_______R. Carlos Maldini Nesta Cafu
__________________Casillas
I could even agree with your lineup if I had watched all these guys play but I’m in my 30s so I missed some. On paper it looks great. Disagree completely with your comment on Roberto Carlos. He was rated exactly as highly as he deserved to be.
Roberto Carlos is like a better TAA. Great attacker, but mediocre at best in defense
_______Ronaldo(cr7) Van Basten Messi
_______________Zidane Pele
_________________Gullit
____Maldini Nesta Baresi Cafu
_________Peter SchmeichelForwards: CR7, Raul, Messi
Midfield: Zidane, Modric, Yaya Toure
Defends: Roberto Carlos, Sergio Ramos, Rio Ferdinand, Zanetti
GK: Van der Sar
Why do you keep adding Maradona?
4-3-3
GK: Manuel Neuer
Def: Roberto Carlos, Van Dijk, Puyol, Lahm
Centre: Modric, Kroos, Messi
Att: Lewandowski (central), CR7, Ronaldinho
Reserves: Ronaldo, Juninho, Ibrahimovic, Neymar, Ozil, Pirlo, Julio Cesar
5 Joel Drommels, 5 Joey Veermans and 1 guy behind a bar serving beer
I’m going to make a team I feel will win any game of football
GK: Neuer / LB: Maldini / CBs: Baresi & Nesta / RB: Lahm / CDM: Matthäus / CM: Zidane / CM: Pirlo/ LW: C Ronaldo / RW: Messi / ST: R9
Well i will be doing a 4-3-3
Cristiano——pele——messi
Makelele——Zidane——maradona
Maldini——Sergio ramos——Beckenbauer——Cafu
Neur
Goalie: I am a Madrid fan so Casillas is always in my heart but when it comes to the GREATEST goalkeepers it is between Neur and Buffon but Buffon is missing an important trophy that i do not need to mention and that is pretty much it.
Left back: Roberto Carlos is amazing do not get me wrong but Maldini brought a balanced game he was obviously the best defensively and from what I saw from him which is not alot he was decent attacking wise not as good as Roberto Carlos in terms of attack but we need the extra defense.
The defenders: as Maldini is playing in another position and he played left back mostly i personally consider Sergio Ramos as the best defender ever whether silver ware or prime or longevity or leadership or turning up in the knick of the game he was there that is why he is here as for the other defender well i wanted to put Cannavaro since he along with Ramos was the best I have seen but I keep hearing about Baresi and Franz Beckenbauer so I watched some games which isnt enough as it is a small sample size so after that I went by accolades and Franz seems to lead in that which is why he is here
Right back: Cafu not much to say he was great in club and in national football he was great with both feet had excellent finishing ability I view him as the best right back
Midfielders: i went for having a defensive midfielder not necessarily defensive on paper but his job will be to cover ground so the other two can attack without worrying about defense and Makelele is the defensively oriented midfielder which will help achieve this i view him as the best at doing that too and the other two are Zidane and Maradona i considered other options other than Maradona but decided with him because of his prime and success in general with his magic and Zidane would be the main playmaker the attack goes through him he initiates the play and he controls the pace of the game as needed
Wingers: I hope I do not need to comment on these two
Striker: pele he played as a striker for a while and he was good at it better than most so no reason to bring him back to the midfield he had longevity prime and he was very good at scoring (only two men surpassed him in this and they are on the wings) which is what we need
This team will play in a standard 4-3-3 way with the difference being Makelele supporting the defense from the midfield to help ease the pressure of helping in defense from the attacking oriented midfielders (Zidane and Maradona) Maldini in left back to help the defense and join the attack when necessary basically normal left back job and Cafu same thing while the defenders function as normal unless we bring in a specific game plan(offside trap or marking a specific player) and the wingers Ronaldo and Messi do what they are best at scoring and creating for pele to score and that is that
Ronaldo Nazario over Ronaldo maybe . In his prime he was better .
I love Ronaldo Nazario and if it was greatest prime he would have made it alongside van basten, but I went for longevity of greatness as well
________Ronaldo Maradona Messi
___________________ Pele
_________________Xavi Matthaus
____Maldini Beckenbauer Baresi Cafu
__________________Neuer