Team of the Millenium

With close to 15 years since the turn of the Millenium, what is the best team your club could put out from the players to play for you during that time?





What this has shown me is that Liverpool have had pretty shocking strength in depth over the years.

Steve Finnan   

NEWCASTLE WORST XI SINCE MILLENNIUM

---------------------HARPER---------------------------

SIMPSON------BRAMBLE------BOUMSONG------BABAYARO
  (THE WORST CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP IN EPL HISTORY)
OBERTAN-----AMDY FAYE----DAN GOSLING------GEREMI (60k a week)   
(SHAMBOLIC)   (WOEFUL)         (DIRE)                 (OAP)                     

------------CARL CORT-------ALBERT LUQUE-----------
              (INJURY PRONE)    (WHAT A LETDOWN FOR £9M)

Always liked Finnan, a very good full back who while not fantastic attacking was very good defensively.

Van Der Sar

Neville-Ferdinand-Stam-Irwin

Ronaldo-Keane-Scholes-Giggs

Rooney

Yorke

De Gea
Vidic
Evra
Carrick
Beckham
Van Nistelrooy
Van Persie

Some strange choices there hammersmith.

Irwin over evra? Dennis was 35 at the turn of the millennium (season wise) and had only 2 seasons with us then.

Yorke over rvn? Dwight had 2 season post millennium scoring 13 times - doesn't really compare to ruuds 150 goals.

Stam over vidic when he missed half of his only millennium season with us injured?

I was just picking players who have played for us this millenium.

Well if we are ignoring what players actually did for us this millennium and just going by name we could include blanc and veron, after all they were great players at one point.

Forlan a double golden boot and golden ball winner. Pique got a full set of trophies for club and country etc etc.

Anyway my line up would be;

Vds
Neville rio vidic evra
Ronaldo keane scholes giggs
Rooney rvn

Special mention to Hargreaves and tevez (the swine) for contribution to 08 cl campaign.

Struggled between keane and carrick as Roy was superb from 98-01 and adapted his game to injury after that performing well until 04, hit his best form was around the millennium was definitely before it.

Harsh on carrick to be left out.

Best

Cech
Ivanovic - Desailly - Terry - Cole
Lampard - Makelele - Di Matteo
Robben - Hazard
Drogba

Worst

Macho
Ferrer - Ben Haim - Boulahrouz - Del Horno
Veron - Jokanovic - De Lucas - Stanic
Kezman - Carlton Cole

Surprised that Hazard is getting in these Chelsea teams ahead of Mata. I know it didn't end great for Mata at Chelsea but I think he played better for Chelsea than Hazard has done as well as being more successful considering the Champions League success.

Worst Liverpool one:

Arsenal

------------------Lehmann

Sagna------Toure----------Campbell-----Cole

Ljungberg---Vieira----------Fabregas-----Pires

------------Henry---------Bergkamp

Subs
Seaman
Gilberto
Van Persie
Walcott
Koscielny
Lauren
Cazorla

Crimey wrote:Surprised that Hazard is getting in these Chelsea teams ahead of Mata. I know it didn't end great for Mata at Chelsea but I think he played better for Chelsea than Hazard has done as well as being more successful considering the Champions League success.

Worst Liverpool one:

Itandje

Josemi - Kyriagkos - Traore - Konchesky

Poulsen

Nunez - Adam

Diouf ------Voronin-----N'Gog

I think I'd put Joe Cole ahead of Mata. Juan only had one good season. As good as he was in 11/12 a lot of it had to do with the older players and the defence. Was Ashley's last good season. Ramires and Ivanovic were non stop.

Casillas
LB - Carlos
CB - Hierro
CB - Ramos
RB- Salgado

Cdm - Makalele
CM - Zidane
CM- Alonso

RW- Figo
LW- Ronaldo (7)
St- Ronaldo (9)

substitutes-
Lopez
Pepe
Cannavaro
Pavon
Modric
Steve Mac
Owen

I'd take Helguera over Ramos.

Yeah, probably. But I think pretty close though.

I really rated Helguera, injuries curtailed his career a fair bit but as a defender he was far superior to Ramos who wouldn't be regarded if a) he wasn't spanish and b) he didn't play for Real Madrid.

THE NODGE

GK - Robert Green
RB - Russell Martin
CB - Malky Mackay
CB - Dion Dublin
LB - Adam Drury
CDM - Youssef Safri
CAM - WESSI
LM - DARREN HUCKERBY LEGEND IDOL
RM - Robert Snodgrass
ST - Dean Ashton
ST - Grant Holt

Sub's;
John Ruddy
Michael Turner
David Fox
Damien Francis
Jonny Howson
Iwan Roberts

Maybe you're right mate, I was a little young at his romp, and I do like Ramos, who for me is a Tim Tebow-type player, not always the best technically, and sometimes comically inept, but he does have a habit of popping up on both ends of the field at precariously desperate moments. Sense of the occasion is very important.

Give it a couple of years KR and Varane will be in that team.

My Utd team


The back 5 picks itself - they went so many games without conceding a goal one season it was unreal. I'm not really one for sentiment but Giggs gets in because of who he is. Scholes and Keane are the best players in their positions in the PL era. Ronaldo & Rooney had a great partnership and I'd be tempted to put them up front together but RVN is my favourite player of all time so he has to get in. I was debating whether or not to put RVP in ahead of Rooney though.

kingraf wrote:Maybe you're right mate, I was a little young at his romp, and I do like Ramos, who for me is a Tim Tebow-type player, not always the best technically, and sometimes comically inept, but he does have a habit of popping up on both ends of the field at precariously desperate moments. Sense of the occasion is very important.

I'm siding with kingraf for throwing in a Tim Tebow reference.

My team of the millenium for AFC Wimbledon:

Seb Brown

Chris Hussey - Matt Everard - Fraser Franks - Gareth Gwillam

Harry Pell - Sammy Moore - George Francomb

Jon Main - Joe Sheerin - Kevin Cooper

Subs:
Ross Worner
Christian Jolley
Jack Midson
Shane Smeltz
Ricky Wellard
Barry Fuller
Luke Moore

The Special Juan wrote:Give it a couple of years KR and Varane will be in that team.

My Utd team

van der Sar
Neville - Ferdinand - Vidic - Evra
Ronaldo - Scholes - Keane - Giggs
Rooney
van Nistelrooy

The back 5 picks itself - they went so many games without conceding a goal one season it was unreal.  I'm not really one for sentiment but Giggs gets in because of who he is.  Scholes and Keane are the best players in their positions in the PL era.  Ronaldo & Rooney had a great partnership and I'd be tempted to put them up front together but RVN is my favourite player of all time so he has to get in.  I was debating whether or not to put RVP in ahead of Rooney though.

Giggs was only 27 at the turn of the millennium - are you really saying he did nothing in the 13 seasons he played post 2000 to merit being in a best Manchester United side?

Ent wrote:

The Special Juan wrote:Give it a couple of years KR and Varane will be in that team.

My Utd team

van der Sar
Neville - Ferdinand - Vidic - Evra
Ronaldo - Scholes - Keane - Giggs
Rooney
van Nistelrooy

The back 5 picks itself - they went so many games without conceding a goal one season it was unreal.  I'm not really one for sentiment but Giggs gets in because of who he is.  Scholes and Keane are the best players in their positions in the PL era.  Ronaldo & Rooney had a great partnership and I'd be tempted to put them up front together but RVN is my favourite player of all time so he has to get in.  I was debating whether or not to put RVP in ahead of Rooney though.

Giggs was only 27 at the turn of the millennium - are you really saying he did nothing in the 13 seasons he played post 2000 to merit being in a best Manchester United side?

I can't think of anything except solid performances.

have to have giggs in there, nonsense to say otherwise. apparently being top quality week in week out isnt standing out these days, while it was a bit of a sentimental pick and he probably wasn't THE player of the year in 08/09 he was certainly up there after being great throughout the whole season. its only after the likes of giggs and scholes have retired have we've seen how much we are missing them already, even when they werent "standing" out they were still miles better than anything we have in this current team.

anyway, i agree with most teams but perhaps one probably controversial difference. id have tevez over RVN. hear me out! ruud was a poacher, a brilliant one but a poacher none the less who needed it to be put on a plate for him. all the time ruud was there we were a pretty poor and predictable team. wasnt till ruud went that we improved. ruud could never have played with the likes of a ronaldo.

tevez meanwhile was a ultimate work horse who while not always shining his hard work created opportunities for other team mates as well as chipping in with some big goals. tevez was a main player in the 08 champions league winning teams as well as us winning titles, luckier than ruud in that he had a better team to play in but still gets in because he contributed to us winning trophies while ruud did not. think the 08 team is worse off with ruud in than tevez. the front 3 in 08 worked perfectly

I'd rather pick Park for those reasons than Tevez who wasn't a key player for us, it was all about Rooney, Ronaldo and the defence during that period, he had his moments but we would have won those titles without him.

you do realise that rooney only scored four more goals than tevez over those two years. people big up rooney because he's english. people undermine tevez as a player because he's a horrible little traitorous rat but rooney wasnt much better than tevez while he was there. remember saying the same thing at the time (until he moved to city that was!)

certainly wasn't all about rooney

Rooney's overall performances were far more important to our success than Tevez, he was the main creator of our play and did just as much donkey work as well, the main workhorse was of course Park anyway.

will have to agree to disagree, i feel rooneys remembered more fondly simply because what tevez did afterwards

wasnt just park who was the work horse, team was full of them which contributed us to us being a great side, hargreaves, park, rooney, tevez and even brown all worked there arses off which left ronnie to do what he does best

In fairness even Ronny worked his balls off during that two year period, often left up top on his own in the big games and did admirably.

We will have to agree to disagree, was never impressed by Tevez but with the side we had at the time it's easy to overlook certain players.

ah them were the days     

Schmeichel
melberg, Vlaar,  Laursen,  Wright,
Young, Milner, Petrov, Barry.
Benteke, Dublin.

Subs,
Friedel, Carew, Merson, Delaney, Angel, Delph, Ginola.

Rvn was a brilliant player. Forget his last season with his ankle problems.

Brilliant finisher, harsh to call him just a poacher.

I'd have to agree with C & R, for all his ability as a goalscorer he added very little to the team beyond that and we were a far better team without him than we were with him.

He carried us to the pl title in 02/03.

Team was rank bad for a few years after that and post ankle injury he became a bit of a parody of himself.

One of the best strikers we ever had.

Here is mine.

GK: Friedel
RB: Neil
CB: Nelsen
CB: Samba
LB: Warnock
RM: Bentley
CM: Tugay
CM: Dunn
LM: Pedersen
CF: McCarthy
CF: Jansen

Subs
GK: Robinson
LB: Gray
CB: Short
LM: Duff
CM: Savage
CF: Santa Cruz

Amazing to think we actually had some decent players back in the day

GK: Foster

RB: Balis(Just for one goal)
CB: Davies
CB: Olsson
LB: Clement

RM: Gera
CM: Koumas
CM: Mulumbu
LM: Brunt

CF: Lukaku
CF: Odemwingie

Ent wrote:Rvn was a brilliant player. Forget his last season with his ankle problems.

Brilliant finisher, harsh to call him just a poacher.

I think RvN is underrated by the majority. Cant remember who is was against were he ran with it from the halfway line, took it past a couple of players and cooly slotted it home. Not the goal of a poacher! Seems to be referred to as a poacher just because of his great finishing.

Soldier_Of_Fortune wrote:

Ent wrote:Rvn was a brilliant player. Forget his last season with his ankle problems.

Brilliant finisher, harsh to call him just a poacher.

I think RvN is underrated by the majority. Cant remember who is was against were he ran with it from the halfway line, took it past a couple of players and cooly slotted it home. Not the goal of a poacher! Seems to be referred to as a poacher just because of his great finishing.

game was against fulham, wrecking my brains but cant think of too many more like it

read a stat somewhere that he only scored one outside the box for us, that fulham one was still inside the box when he finished

"It was in his last season at Old Trafford where he achieved the unthinkable. On the 19th November 2005, van Nistelrooy scored his one and only goal from outside the box. His only previous goal from past the 18 yard line was for PSV Eindhoven when he lobbed the ‘keeper from just-before the halfway line."

http://www.owngoalpodcast.com/2012/06/end-of-the-ruud-striker-van-nistelrooy-calls-time-on-wonderful-career/

dont know how legitimate the website is, but will back them myselve because i cant remember many. doesn't sound like a all round striker instead of a fox in the box that to me