Your Clubs International XI

[Maskya Yoshida]

I saw the Gazette posting about this on Twitter and a few other people mention their teams so I thought I may as well post it here as well since we all have nothing better to do.

The aim is to give your club's best XI (I'd imagine only of players in your lifetime), the only caveat is that you can only have one nation per position.

GK - Schwarzer 🇦🇺
RB - Geremi 🇨🇲
CB - Festa 🇮🇹
CB - Southgate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
LB - Quedrue 🇫🇷
CM - Boateng 🇳🇱
CM - Mendieta 🇪🇸
RW - Tuncay 🇹🇷
AM - Juninho 🇧🇷
LW - Ramirez🇺🇾
ST - Boksic 🇭🇷

Subs: Randolph 🇮🇪, Pogatetz 🇦🇹, Huth 🇩🇪, Morrison 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Beck 🇩🇰, Yakubu 🇳🇬, Ricard 🇨🇴

I definitely struggled on the right back and two wingers but there was a lack of nations left.

[allah]

GK - Jaaskelainen Finland
RB - Sam Ricketts Wales
CB - Tal Ben Haim Israel
CB - Gudni Bergsson Iceland
LB - Ricky Gardner Jamaica
DM - Ivan Campo Spain
CM - Jay Jay Okocha Nigeria
CM - Stuart Holden USA
RW - SKD (c) England
LW - El-Hadji Diouf Senegal
CF - Nicolas Anelka France

Subs - Ali Al-Habsi (Oman), Radhi Jaidi (Tunisia), Abdoulaye Meite (Ivory Coast), Per Frandsen (Denmark), Chung Yong Lee (South Korea), Stelios Giannakopoulos (Greece), John McGinlay (Scotland)

Leaving out Djorkaeff and N'Gotty hurts. Also fairly ridiculous that Gudjohnsen didn't make it cause we had two top class Icelandic players.

[Simon]

GK - Alisson - Brazil
RB - Finnan - Republic of Ireland
CB - Van Dijk - Holland
CB - Hyypia - Finland
LB - Robertson - Scotland
DM - Mascherano - Argentina
CM - Alonso - Spain
CM - Gerrard - England
LW - Mane - Senegal
RW - Salah - Egypt
CF - Suarez - Uruguay


Subs: Dudek (Poland), Matip (Cameroon), Riise (Norway), Sissoko (Mali), Hamann (Germany), Shaqiri (Swiss), Anelka (France)

Toughest choice was whether to have Diouf or Mane from Senegal. Went through the subs quick so likely some better choices there.

[daveyposhboy]

GK Lloris (FRA)

RB Stephen Carr (ROI)
CB Toby Alderweireld (BEL)
CB Ledley King (ENG)
LB Benoit Assou Ekotto (CAM)

DM Victor Wanyama (KEN)
DM Steffan Freund (GER)
RW Hueng Min Son (KOR)
LW Gareth Bale (WAL)
AM Rafa Van der Vaart (NED)

CF Dimitar Berbatov (BUL)

Subs

Carlo Cudicini (ITA)
Vlad Ciriches (ROM)
Serge Aurier (IVO)
Luka Modric (CRO)
Sandro (BRA)
Gio Lo Celso (ARG)
Freddie Kanoute (MAL)

Tough to leave Kane out but struggled for right centre-halves otherwise.

[Heung-Min Pleat]

Friedel

Vertonghen

Modric
Van der Vaart

Ginola
Son
Klinsmann
Keane
Kane
Berbatov
Bale

[Deleted]

GK - Alisson (Brazil)
RB - Finnan (Ireland)
CB - Hyypia (Finland)
CB - Van Dijk (Netherlands)
LB - Robertson (Scotland)
DM - Mascherano (Argentina)
CM - Alonso (Spain)
CM - Gerrard (England)
RW - Salah (Egypt)
LW - Mane (Senegal)
CF - Suarez (Uruguay)

Just realised that's the exact same as Simon's.

[Stu]

GK - Boruc (Poland)

RB - Cedric (Portugal)
CB - Toby Alderweireld (Belgium)
CB - Virgil van Dijk (Holland)
LB - Gareth Bale (Wales)

CM - Steven Davis (Northern Ireland)
CM - Morgan Schneiderlin (France)

RW - Sadio Mane (Senegal)
LW - Dusan Tadic (Serbia)

ST - Graziano Pelle (Italy)
ST - Rickie Lambert (England)

Subs; Paulo Gazzaniga (Argentina), Maya Yoshida (Japan), Radhi Jaidi (Tunisia), Victor Wanyama (Kenya), Moussa Djenepo (Mali), Guly do Prado (Brazil), Shane Long (Ireland)

quite a few had to miss out since Lambert took the England slot. Wanted Fonte as well but our RBs are a bit shit, that had to be Cedric.

[constant]

GK: Chris Woods (England)

RB: Roland Nilsson (Sweden)
CB: Emerson Thome (Brazil)
CB: Glenn Loovens (Netherlands)
LB: Nigel Worthington (Northern Ireland)

CM: John Sheridan (Republic of Ireland)
CM: John Harkes (United States)

RW: Dan Petrescu (Romania)
LW: Benito Carbone (Italy)

AM: Fernando Forestieri (Argentina)

CF: Deon Burton (Jamaica)

Subs

Player That You Throw On In The 85th And Hump Balls At His Head: Adthe Nuhiu (Bosnia)
CF: Efan Ekoku (Nigeria)
CM: Barry Bannan (Scotland)
AM/RW: Petter Rudi (Norway)
LW: Mark Pembridge (Wales)
CB: Reda Johnson (Benin)
GK: Pavel Srnicek (Czech Republic)

Thoughts And Stuff

Goalkeeper was a real issue because my only choices were to go English with Woods or Pressman and sacrifice Chris Waddle, David Hirst and Trevor Francis or to go Irish with Westwood and sacrifice John Sheridan. I probably made the wrong call. Also, I'm really surprised at how few Scottish and Welsh players that I had to choose from (especially compared to how many good players that we've had from Northern Ireland), outside of Pembridge there really weren't any until the past five seasons. Also, Paolo Di Canio may have been our most talented player in my lifetime but he gets the bump for Carbone because only one of them wasn't a fascist.

[Today I feel Uruguay]

Gk Boruc (Poland)
RB Lustig (Sweden)
LB Tierney (Scotland)
CB Van Djik (Netherlands)
CB Boyata (Belgium)
CM Wanyama (Kenya)
CM Ki (South Korea)
LW Nakamura (Japan)
RW McGeady (Ireland)
CF McDonald (Australia)
CF Edouard (France)

Subs
Gk Forster (England)
Fb Izaguirre (Honduras)
CB Ajer (Norway)
CM Kayal (Isreal)
CM Ledley (Wales)
Wf McCourt (NI)
CF Samaras (Greece)

Only going for players I was old enough to appreciate. I only had a passing interest in football when we had Larsson etc.

Obviously only having one Scottish player is tough because anyone could have been in the midfield with Wanyama but I'd prefer McGregor. The bench is tricky because of goalies and wingers. The only good goalies we've had have been Scottish, English or called Boruc so Forster means no Sinclair but as much as I love Forster there is actually no one that replaces him if I take Sinclair. So McCourt it is.

[Hogan]

GK - Alisson (Brazil)
RB - Finnan (Ireland)
CB - Agger (Denmark)
CB - Van Dijk (Netherlands)
LB - Robertson (Scotland)
DM - Mascherano (Argentina)
CM - Berger (C Republic)
CM - Gerrard (England)
RW - Salah (Egypt)
LW - Mane (Senegal)
CF - Torres (Spain)

Was tough leaving alonso out but Torres had the greater pull, was unstoppable in his day, and Berger was one of the players who I took a liking to when I first started watching football properly.

[ChappyHova]

Just to mix it up a bit I'm going to do a team made of players that weren't necessarily great for us but had great careers.

GK - Given - Ireland
RB - Reiziger - Holland
CB - Festa - Italy
CB - Whyte - Scotland
LB - Ziege - Germany
DM - Mikel - Nigeria
CM - Gascoigne - England
CM - Mendieta - Spain
AM - Juninho - Brazil
ST - Boksic - Croatia
ST - Viduka - Australia

Ours is horrible because we haven't had many good centre halves that weren't English. In my lifetime it has been Southgate, Woodgate, Pearson, Ehiogu, Pallister etc.

[ic]

I reckon if I think hard enough I could come up with one

[notpropaganda]

Cech 🇨🇿

Ivanovic 🇷🇸
Carvahlo 🇵🇹
Gallas 🇫🇷

Essien 🇬🇭
Cesc 🇪🇸
Lampard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Robben 🇳🇱
Zola 🇮🇹
Hazard 🇧🇪

Drogba 🇨🇮

Narrow as fuck but I don’t care really

[The Quito Diet]

Pat Jennings NI

Lauren CM
O'Leary ROI
Toure IC

Ljungberg SW
Fabregas SP
Ozil GE
Alexis CH

Wright ENG
Bergkamp NED
Henry FR



I think that's about the best I can do.