Havin done it again with the artists formerly known as IRL friends, the following seems to be the correct answer and I'll see any one that thinks otherwise outside (unless you can improve on RB and Cazorla ofc).
Oblak
Ricardo Pereira
VVD
Koulibaly
Maldini
KDB
Casemiro
Cazorla
Mbappe
Messi
Lewa
There are no good right backs. This exercise has convinced me that every non-Brazilian right back in history are just shit midfielders who some manager has converted at some point because they're a 'great professional' and 'fantastic around the dressing room'.
I’ve spent too long trying to get the perfect one so The best thing about this is shooting everyone else’s team down.
Ricardo and Casimero both at Porto
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Well fuck you very much.
I’m glad I didn’t attempt this at all after seeing how much of a balls you are all making of it.
Gary Neville.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Trent.
These are United biased just because they are the first players to come to my mind and you've not got one, but Scholes for Cazorla? Or Ferdinand for Koulibaly? Or you could have Neville RB even.
If you've turned this into some sort of actual challenge then you are a nonce.
Reece James.
Still think my XI is the best posted so far
Gary Neville is the best possible example of what I said. Paulo Ferreira too.
How the fuck did he overlook Trent/Neville for that Portugeezer. And Scholes and Cazorla is much of the same but we'll go for Scholes for the name. And that's the end of the thread. Stop noncing about.
Edit: Wait, obvs have to stick to Cazorla.
Gary Neville is underrated, he was a great full back.
Scholes and Cazorla "much of the same"that's retarded even for you, Taz.
You could put in Alexander-Arnold and have Keane for Cazorla.
Did Iwobi play with Scholes? That would save me a lot of time and name-calling.
Nah, VVD-Keane clash means I'm more likely to get into this than Keane.
Ah shit yeah.
Full backs like Alexander-Arnold and the Brazilians are the exception. Most of a full back's job (especially a right back, who doesn't possess the distinctive left foot factor of most left backs) is just running in straight lines. Gary Neville was perhaps the best runner in straight lines in the history of the game, and had a brilliant understanding of his place in a series of fantastic teams. Not a good 'footballer' though. If he was, he wouldn't have played right back.
I remember his crossing to be excellent.
It was, but anyone in front of him in that side could have done it just as well, or learned to if that was the only thing they ever had to do on the attacking side.
The position's basically about mental discipline.
In an average football team, how many players are left footed? 1-2? One of them is almost always the left back. Makes a big difference to the range of things a team can do with the ball.
That’s ridiculous. You’re just being deliberately awkward rather than admit Gary Neville was a good player.
I assume he means that your average left back is offering something different just by virtue of being a lefty whereas a right back is often just a run of the mill average player of the ball.
EDIT: He got it.
There's enough left-footed players that I don't really think that's worth much in and of itself. It's not often you find teams forced to play right footed left backs.
Mine came up with:
Oblak
Ivanovic
Van dijk
Kompany
Maldini
Ndidi
Gascoigne
Matthaus
Messi
Ronaldo
Mbappé
I'm a twit
Ronaldo and Matthaus at Inter...
Unless you mean Cristiano Ronaldo. In which case, you're a wrong un', 'cos Ronaldo in isolation is always Nazario de Lima unless in an unmistakeable context.
Cristiano has more than done enough to warrant being 'the' Ronaldo by now.
The other one is fat Ronaldo.
Ronaldo Classic.
Ronaldo and Diet Ronaldo.
Ronaldo Max.I legitimately love his renaissance in 2010. One of the quickest players of his generation turned into a devastating tank.
If course it’s Cristiano. GOAT.
I just copied and pasted my mates list tho
I'm a twit
OK Boomer
How good was Ashley Cole? I always had him as the best left back in the world when I was growing up but obviously everyone goes for Maldini but he was before my time, really.
Don Cole when playing against Messi/Ronaldo only conceded once in sixteen games. Ronaldo clearly had nightmares and went on the left after coming up against him in his early days.
Ronaldo never got any change out of Ashley Cole, who was very good and probably a bit.... not underrated but less celebrated because he was a gobshite. I mean even on the day he was getting his 100th cap for England the match day programme was all about Leighton Baines.
On the flipside, stopping Ronaldo is all well and good but Valencia's one move seemed to get him every single time.
I initially tried to put Maldini and Cole in my team with the former at centre-half where was also excellent but Cole's multiple teams interfered with other players I wanted in there.
Zambrotta.
He was predominantly a left-back, and an overrated one at that. He fell to pieces out of that Italy/Juventus two tackles a game comfort zone.
Played a blinder in the 2006 final.
I could have full-backed that tournament tucked in behind Camoranesi/Cannavaro/Gattuso. Lilian Thuram and Willy Sagnol were good (better) right-backs.
Timothy Fosu-Mensah.
Genuinely one of the worst players at Fulham last season, and that's saying something, because we were fucking terrible. The only thing he had going for him was pace.
If you think I'm about to be swayed by the informed opinion of somebody who's seen a lot more of him than I have then you are sadly mistaken, my friend.
It's a case of Andre-Wisdomitis with him, has the physical characteristics that any top scout worth his salt will absolutely lap up with their racial profiling.
Their problem is they're placed in a position where it's all wasted. Josh Maja, there's a lad who's similarly extraordinary and limited in equal measure but he's been directed smartly.
He did look genuinely good under 'LvG', but then so did Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, whose slide down the loan move toilet is astonishing, so maybe that man was just a genius who deserved better.
van Gaal has a stupendous track record pretty much everywhere he's been. If he wasn't a surly Dutch bastard who looks like Hitler's grandchild, he would get more respect.
I still say he did a better job than Jose Mourinho. He spent a load of money on rubbish, but it was a bit 'Rafa' at Liverpool insofar as he had to put a squad together rather than just supplement it like Mourinho did. If you gave him the current squad they would be flying, and you wouldn't ever see Luke Shaw in a United shirt again.
He sold Welbeck so fuck him.
He should be the Director of Football.
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