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I was looking at Udinese's side over the last few years, they've had players like Quagliarella, Inler, Zapata, Isla, Asamoah, Iaquinta, Simone Pepe, Gyan, Muntari, Benatia and Handanovic, as well as current players like di Natale, and was thinking how incredible their team would have been if they kept all their talent as well as buying these new players. It's a big hypothetical question and Udinese probably couldn't financially do that, but if they could it would have been unreal.

Liverpool's best side of the last 5 years (4-2-3-1)
Reina
Arbeloa-Agger-Hyypia-Aurelio
Alonso-Lucas
Kuyt-Gerrard-Suarez
Torres

Mostly players from Rafa's reign, we had such a good team back then.
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Pretty hard picking one for United over that time frame.
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....................................Szczesny


Sagna ----- Mertesacker ----- Vermaelen ----- Gibbs


......................................Arteta


..........................Diaby ---------- Cazorla


.......Chamberlain ----- Gervinho ----- Podolski





JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE
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Szczesny
Sagna - Toure - Vermaelen - Clichy
Fabregas - Song - Rosicky
Nasri
Adebayor - van Persie

Celtic
Boruc
Hinkel - Caldwell - Mulgrew - Izaguirre
McGeady - Brown - Nakamura - Samaras
Hooper - McDonald
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The team now plus Bennett.
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Krul

Santon Taylor Coloccini Enrique

Tiote Cabaye

Milner HBA Gutierrez

Ba
Franck
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We've been fucking shite the last 5 years, so I don't see the point.

Now, if it was the last 10 years it'd be more interesting as I could have picked from the good teams we had at the start of the last decade.
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                Reina

          Agger  Hyypia Carragher

                Alonso Lucas
Riise                                       Kuyt
                          Gerrard
                Torres
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Reina
Johnson - Carragher - Hyypia - Aurelio
Mascherano - Alonso - Lucas
Gerrard - Torres - Suarez


Suarez with an unbroken Torres would have been lethal.
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By Franck | Permalink | On 24 September 2012 - 19:14 PM
We've been fucking shite the last 5 years, so I don't see the point.

Now, if it was the last 10 years it'd be more interesting as I could have picked from the good teams we had at the start of the last decade.

Do 10 years if you want, I just thought 5 years would be quite recent and more specific. 10 years is fine- I would just put the 2005 CL winning side for us, even though it was quite sub-standard by 2009 standards... how we won with that I don't know
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van der Sar

O'Shea - Ferdinand - Vidic - Evra

Ronaldo - Fletcher(Scholes) - Carrick - Giggs(Park)

Rooney - Berbatov


Only question would be at RB but I thought O'Shea's been an extremely valuable supporting member for the recent years he played for United, very versatile and steady in multiple positions. Saw lots of games for that reason as well.
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By Eurostar | Permalink | On 24 September 2012 - 19:37 PM
Do 10 years if you want, I just thought 5 years would be quite recent and more specific. 10 years is fine- I would just put the 2005 CL winning side for us, even though it was quite sub-standard by 2009 standards... how we won with that I don't know

Awright, a flat 4-3-3, FM-style:

Ailton Almeida - Marcus Allbäck - Afonso Alves
Ola Toivonen - Markus Johanesson - Magnus Källander
Anders Prytz - Valter Tomaz Jr. -David Leinar - Björn Anklev
Dick Last


Leinar is there mostly because I felt I had to have someone from the current team there and because I struggled to remember any noteworthy centre backs beyond Valter.

Anyway, it's safe to say that team could have walked home the Allsvenskan title at any point between 2004 and 2008. The defence is weak, but no one would have been able to deal with that midfield and those forwards.
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Blimey! It's fair to say I never knew Orgyte had that talent. Afonso Alves, Marcus Allback and Ola Toivonen \o/
What went wrong?
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We bit off quite a bit more than we could chew, financially speaking.

It should be pointed out that hardly any of those players careers at this club overlap. A fair few talented players passed through for a season or two from the late 90's until 2006 when all hell broke loose, Johan Elmander and Brynjar Gunnarsson being the first to come to my mind.

I guess the hope is that both Elmander and Ailton will come back at some point, Elmander has given some pretty strong hints at a comeback over the past few years, saying we're the only Swedish club he'd play for and Ailton has said that he's open to a comeback at some point in the future, provided we make it back to Allsvenskan. If we can get our finances in order I wouldn't rule out seeing them both back once their current deals in Turkey and Russia run out.
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Well it's fair to say you're effectively killing D1 so far this season and touch wood you'll be back in the Superettan next season. I think yous will have the quality to progress quite a bit in the next few years.

First of all finish these off, which you have to do
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Had to stop halfway through doing Hibs, it was just depressing how many positions have been filled with garbage for the last 5 years.

Lazio's isn't that different to our current side, though some of these guys like Kolorov and Zarate were one season wonders:

Marchetti; Lichsteiner, Radu, Dias, Kolorov, Ledesma, Brocchi; Zarate, Hernanes, Mauri; Klose
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I'm going to ignore the bit that says 5 years and pretend it says 15...

Hart

Richards - Kompany - Lescott - Clichy

Yaya Touré - Barry

Silva - Ali Benarbia - Balotelli

Aguero


Ali Benarbia was fucking brilliant.
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What about Kinkladze?
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On the off chance anyone actually knows most of our players...

Jimmy Walker

Aaron Lescott - Anthony Gerrard - Andy Butler - Matt Saddler

Alex Nicholls - Darren Wrack - Richard Taundry - Emmanuel Ledesma

Matt Fryatt - Will Grigg
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Shut up peasant. Only a Wanchope/Goater combination would suffice.
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By jumberto | Permalink | On 24 September 2012 - 21:33 PM
What about Kinkladze?

Bit before my time, to be honest. Not sure he'd get in this team anyway, he was never the most consistent of players.

By Fantastic | Permalink | On 24 September 2012 - 21:48 PM
Shut up peasant. Only a Wanchope/Goater combination would suffice.

I was actually going to go with Goater - imagine how many he'd score with David Silva supplying him - but figured that'd be too much of a sentimental choice.
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Our team is fucking awesome:

McCarthy
Conolly - Pearce - Lees - White
Snodgrass - Austin - Delph - Gradel
Beckford - Becchio

League champions, end of story.
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Needs more Kewell.
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VDS

O'Shea/Brown, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra

Scholes, Giggs

Valencia, Rooney, C. Ronaldo

Van Persie

If we're talking last 5 years
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Friedel; Emerton, Samba, Nelsen, Warnock; Bentley, Tugay, Phil Jones, Pedersen (been on and off but nobody else really); Santa Cruz, Yakubu.

Doni (nobody else, Stek has been average); Panucci, Juan, Mexes, Riise; Pizarro, De Rossi, Perrotta (excellent under Spalletti); Vucinic, Totti, Menez.
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Fox

O'Donnell - Archibald - Maxwell - Sinclair

Cairney - Rowson - Lawless - Erskine

Doolan - Buchanan


Off the top of my head.
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By Carroll. | Permalink | On 24 September 2012 - 22:38 PM
Van Persie?


in terms of actual quality of player it would be stupid not to include him
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Buffon

Lichtsteiner----Chiellini-----Cannavaro-----De Ceglie

Camoranesi-----Pirlo-----Marchisio-----Nedved

Trezeguet----Ibra

Could've gone with a different formation, but I'm too lazy. We also had no decent left backs so I just picked De Ceglie.
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Was Nedved still playing 5 years ago?

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