SNC Team of the Decade

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Not sure whether to make this a thing where, if you can be arsed even, you can name your best 11 from this decade or if we try to reach some sort of consensus and decide on an 11 as a whole. So what I’ll do is I’ll give my best 11 and if anyone wants to do theirs, I’ll sort of tally up who is naming who and come to a consensus by the end of it.

For myself, I’m going to do two; one for the Premier League and one without any Premier League players. I was going to do a combined XI featuring Premier League and others but decided against it for whatever reason. So with that being said, here is my Team of the Decade 2010.

Premier League

David De Gea (Spain/Man Utd)

Pablo Zabaleta (Argentina/Man City/West Ham)
Vincent Kompany (Belgium/Man City)
Virgil Van Dijk (Netherlands/Southampton/Liverpool)
Cesar Azpilicueta (Spain/Chelsea)

Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast/Man City)
David Silva (Spain/Man City)
Kevin de Bruyne (Belgium/Chelsea/Man City)

Mohamed Salah (Egypt/Chelsea/Liverpool)
Sergio Aguero (Argentina/Man City)
Eden Hazard (Belgium/Chelsea)


Europe

Manuel Neuer (Germany/Schalke/Bayern Munich)

Dani Alves (Brazil/Barcelona/Juventus/PSG)
Sergio Ramos (Spain/Real Madrid)
Gerard Pique (Spain/Barcelona)
Jordi Alba (Spain/Valencia/Barcelona)

Sergio Busquets (Spain/Barcelona)
Toni Kroos (Germany/Bayern Munich/Real Madrid)
Luka Modric (Croatia/Real Madrid)

Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Real Madrid/Juventus)
Robert Lewandowski (Poland/Borussia Dortmund/Bayern Munich)

Obviously a bit of overlap where Modric is concerned and with Premier League players who’ve moved abroad since and I feel like there’s a few glaring omissions there but that’s about the best I can think of after having thought about it for a bit.

[The Quito Diet]

Dec 16, 2019 19:55:33 GMT Paul said:

Not sure whether to make this a thing where, if you can be arsed even, you can name your best 11 from this decade or if we try to reach some sort of consensus and decide on an 11 as a whole. So what I’ll do is I’ll give my best 11 and if anyone wants to do theirs, I’ll sort of tally up who is naming who and come to a consensus by the end of it.

For myself, I’m going to do two; one for the Premier League and one without any Premier League players. I was going to do a combined XI featuring Premier League and others but decided against it for whatever reason. So with that being said, here is my Team of the Decade 2010.

Premier League

David De Gea (Spain/Man Utd)

Pablo Zabaleta (Argentina/Man City/West Ham)
Vincent Kompany (Belgium/Man City)
Virgil Van Dijk (Netherlands/Southampton/Liverpool)
Cesar Azpilicueta (Spain/Chelsea)

Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast/Man City)
David Silva (Spain/Man City)
Kevin de Bruyne (Belgium/Chelsea/Man City)

Mohamed Salah (Egypt/Chelsea/Liverpool)
Sergio Aguero (Argentina/Man City)
Eden Hazard (Belgium/Chelsea)


Europe

Manuel Neuer (Germany/Schalke/Bayern Munich)

Dani Alves (Brazil/Barcelona/Juventus/PSG)
Sergio Ramos (Spain/Real Madrid)
Gerard Pique (Spain/Barcelona)
Jordi Alba (Spain/Valencia/Barcelona)

Sergio Busquets (Spain/Barcelona)
Toni Kroos (Germany/Bayern Munich/Real Madrid)
Luka Modric (Croatia/Real Madrid)

Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Real Madrid/Juventus)
Robert Lewandowski (Poland/Borussia Dortmund/Bayern Munich)

Obviously a bit of overlap where Modric is concerned and with Premier League players who’ve moved abroad since and I feel like there’s a few glaring omissions there but that’s about the best I can think of after having thought about it for a bit.

Petr Cech - Think he achieved more over the decade than De Gea - actually toyed with Joe Hart for a bit given the stats but that was largely down to those in front of him.

Pablo Zabaletta - Agree with the above, Mr.Consistent.
Vincent Kompany - Easy.
John Terry - Loathe to do it but as with Cech, achievements.
Kyle Walker - Think he's been the stand out full back.

Yaya Toure - Was running that City team for the early parts of the decade.
David Silva - The man doesn't age and has been criminally underrated.
N'Golo Kante - What a guy.

Eden Hazard - Not always consistent but definitely Chelsea's most important player for several years.
Harry Kane - Best striker in the league for several seasons. 
Sergio Aguero - Second best striker in the league.

Vardy, De Bruyne, Fernandinho unlucky to miss out.

I can't think clearly enough right now to do a European one but I'd have Suarez over Lewandowski, and I'd drop Busquets for someone - possibly Bale for a stupid formation but maybe even an outside shout like Thiago 

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Thiago was in my thoughts and leaving Suarez out of both my Prem and European Team was difficult but I think Busquets is the benchmark for holding midfielders in the 21st century, he makes the game look so easy. As for Lewandowski, I put him in there because I think he’s the best pure striker in the world but I will concede that Suarez has proven himself in a few different top leagues so might be the better choice.

I left Terry out mostly because he didn’t have the influence on this decade that he did on those 2000s Chelsea teams. I know Van Dijk hasn’t even done 5 years in England yet but I think he’s the best centre back I’ve ever seen so had to include him.

Torn between Kante and De Bruyne. Leaving either out does them a huge disservice. If I was doing a half=decade team they’d both be in there with Toure coming out.