[Football] Top Premier League players

[vagabond]

I have never heard of 5 of those players. Are you imagining them?

I know all but one.

They’re pretty famous Premier League Swedes in fairness...

 

[Seagull58]

Which five?

Magnus Hedman

Roland Nilsson, Olof Mellberg, Erik Edman

Anders Svensson

 

[beorhthelm]

this is pretty difficult, some cracking players. very surprised Gerrard not mentioned yet, best English and arguably any nationality midfielder. except maybe Veira... and so on.

 

[Gabbafella]

Peter Schmeichel
Stam, Ferdinand, Van Dijk, Terry.
De Bruyne, Ronaldo, Lampard, Hazard.
Henry, Shearer.

 

[Bakero]

Magnus Hedman

Roland Nilsson, Olof Mellberg, Erik Edman

Anders Svensson

Mellberg was at Villa for about 10 years

 

[Farehamseagull]

————————Schmeichal
-Neville - Ferdinand - Vidic - Ashley Cole;
—Ronaldo - Gerrard - Roy Keane - Giggs;
——————-Shearer - Henry.

 

[Machiavelli]

Schmiechel P
Ferdinand Vidic VVD
Gerrard Keane Viera Giggs
De Bruyne Cantona
Henry

Wear wynne

 

[vegster]

No shouts for Arguera yet

How do you shout " Arguera " ? I would def suggest Terry Enry, Dennis Bergmien kamph as possibles.

 

[Doonhamer7]

Schmeichel (the elder) maybe Edison and Allison in the future
VVD, Ferdinand, Vidic - no world class full backs (Alexander Arnold maybe after a few more years ago but I think he is actually too good to be a full back)
Gerrard, Ronaldo, DeBruyne, David Silva, Xabi Alonso, Vierra, Makelelle (they even named the position after him)
Bergkamp, Henry, Suarez, Shearer

Never sure about Giggs, Keane and Scholes - close but not there

 

[dazzer6666]

this is pretty difficult, some cracking players. very surprised Gerrard not mentioned yet, best English and arguably any nationality midfielder. except maybe Veira... and so on.

Gerrard was in #5

 

[Swansman]

My less Swedish eleven:

I'm just going to go for players who played in the PL for an extended time, leaving out some possible names (Jaap Stam, Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic) who were possibly better than some of these players but had the best parts of their careers elsewhere. Some of the new kids on the block, like VVD, will also have to wait.

Van der Sar - not going to harass you with Nigel Martyn and also not picking a Dane, vdS it is.

Nemanja Vidic - cant think of a right back who deserves it so Vidic get the nod.
Tony Adams - rarely mentioned when talking dream teams these days for whatever reason but he was a dirty good defender for a long time.
Ricardo Carvalho - Terry wa good obviously but Carvalho was better.
Ashley Cole - consistently the best or one of the best left backs in PL for what, 15 years?

Eric Cantona - gets to play right wing here, just a very good and dominant player.
Patrick Vieira - no dream team without Vieira.
Claude Makelele - godlike in Chelsea. Just like Real Madrid they are till looking for his replacement.
Ryan Giggs - there was always someone better but he was very good for a very long time.

Thierry Henry - the GOAT in PL history.
Dennis Bergkamp - Shearer, Van Nistelrooy, van Persie, Hasselbaink and a few others were probably "better" in some sense and more useful, but no one was as entertaining to watch as Bergkamp. Unique player.

Bench:
Nigel Martyn, Sol Campbell, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Gilberto Silva, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Alan Shearer and of course my favorite player Pierre van Hooijdonk

 

[blue-shifted]

I'd have Ian Rush up front

What, what do you mean football hadn't been invented then?

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Peter Schmeichel
Tony Adams
Roy Keane
Eric Cantona

Would all be in my list - you wouldn’t lose many fights!

Gary Neville and Ashley Cole probably the full backs
Thierry Henry

And then any from Van Dyke, Viera, Scholes, Gerrard, Ronaldo, Bergkamp, Giggs, Suarez, Shearer, Drogba etc etc

 

[Swansman]

Anyone picking Keane over Vieira - blink two times if you are being held hostage by Jolly Red Giant.

 

[vagabond]

this is pretty difficult, some cracking players. very surprised Gerrard not mentioned yet, best English and arguably any nationality midfielder. except maybe Veira... and so on.

My good self mentioned Stevie G at the start of the thread. I agree with you, unreal player.. although always felt he never quite delivered for us on the international stage.

 

[Frankworthington]

Magnus Hedman

Roland Nilsson, Olof Mellberg, Victor Lindelöf-Nilsson, Erik Edman

Anders Limpar, Anders Svensson, Stefan Schwarz, Fredrik Ljungberg

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrik Larsson

Easy.

You missed out the greatest swedish premier league player

Thomas Brolin

 

[Farehamseagull]

Anyone picking Keane over Vieira - blink two times if you are being held hostage by Jolly Red Giant.

How old are you out of interest Swanny?

I watched these two go up against each other many times and would always pick Keane ahead of Viera. Keane was an absolute force of nature. Not seen a player like him since.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Schmeichel (the elder) maybe Edison and Allison in the future
VVD, Ferdinand, Vidic - no world class full backs (Alexander Arnold maybe after a few more years ago but I think he is actually too good to be a full back)
Gerrard, Ronaldo, DeBruyne, David Silva, Xabi Alonso, Vierra, Makelelle (they even named the position after him)
Bergkamp, Henry, Suarez, Shearer

Never sure about Giggs, Keane and Scholes - close but not there

Ashley Cole was without doubt a world class full back. The best in the world for a time.

 

[vagabond]

How old are you out of interest Swanny?

I watched these two go up against each other many times and would always pick Keane ahead of Viera. Keane was an absolute force of nature. Not seen a player like him since.

Yeah same here. Viera was great too, but Keane was a warrior of a player.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Anyone picking Keane over Vieira - blink two times if you are being held hostage by Jolly Red Giant.

Talking nonsense. Keane got inside Viera’s head and ruined him before he even stepped foot on the pitch. Viera crapped his pants in this incident.

https://youtu.be/NlO9dsTpDJ8