Premier League legends Michael Owen and Ian Wright debate on the greatest PL XI of all time, including Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo, John Terry, Steven Gerrard & more.
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For me Vidic at CB is non negotiable. He's the only defender to win PL player of the season TWICE. And he has the highest win % of any player in the PL era. Maybe he isn't as good on the ball and playing out from the back like a Rio or a Van Diijk….But in terms of sheer defensive ability and influence I haven't seen anyone else like him in the EPL. He was super aggressive and physical, read the game extremely well, incredible in the air, incredible at tackling and was also a very good clean up defender mopping up mistakes by his teammates. Also add in the fact he was a big scoring threat on set pieces as the cherry on the top. For me Vidic is non negotiable. I like Rio and think he's top 10 all-time PL CB. But I find Rio gets overrated by the English media. He's constantly in these all-time XIs and he wasn't even the best CB at his own club. There's a reason Vidic won 2 PL player of the year awards and Rio didn't. Vidic was better, which honestly is no slight on Rio. Vidic was better than everyone in his prime. And for me Terry has to be the other CB. For me as pure defenders those 2 are on another level. They were 1 man brick walls who did it for an extended period of time and won plenty of PL trophies.
Day of the 24 Carabao Cup… Van Dyk is in for sure.
Why does cr7 deserve a spot but debruyne doesn't his been in the prem way longer than cr7, salah has way better stats than than cr7 in the prem.
Cech
Walker Van Dijk Terry Cole
Salah De Bruyne Lampard Hazard
Shearer Henry
Would be my team.
The revisionism with Yaya Toure is crazy. He was pretty great for a couple of seasons and then became a defensive liability for many years. People remember the insane goal against Villa and have convinced themselves that he did that every game. Miles behind Silva, KDB, Rodri and maybe even Fernandinho in terms of City midfielders, let alone all time prem.
Mo Salah should be there
Watched about 20 seconds and they've got Schmeichel and even Seaman as the ones to consider and not even thinking about Cech (who has all the stats to back him up as well as the greatest season from a GK in Prem history, just 15 goals conceded including only 9 from open play) as well as Van Der Sar who was absolutely world class too. Insane. No point bothering with the rest of the team
Best PL team ever
Smaichel
Walker Van Dajk Vidić A.Cole
Gerard Scholes
Ronaldo Rooney Bale
Henry
Sub
Cech
Ivanović Tery Ferdinand Evra
Yaya Toure Viera D.Silva
Suarez Drogba Torres
Ronaldo is not striker…More winger but then Beckam needs to be chosen above Ronaldo…
Titi Henry the greatest premier league player of all time
Gerrard never won the league so how can he be a GOAT 😂
Jaap Stam was way better than Ferdinand
Em, let me look at my list. Yeah, Keane, Cantona and then any other 9 will do.
SUAREZ!
Roy Keane over Vieira all day long, he won more Premier Leagues and won a Champions League. Vieira never won a Champions League. Keane was man of the match, when he was up against Vieira. For me Roy Keane was the best midfielder and most important Premier League player ever. Yes I think Gerrard was unbelievable but Keane has 8 Premier Leagues and Gerrard 0. Roy Keane was so important for Man United, thats why they dominated for so long. When you watch Keane against Juventus, he was up against the best Midfielders that night and came out on top. Go watch Roy Keanes last game for Ireland, it was against France. Who had Vieira, Henry, Zidane etc, that was 2005 and it finished 1-0 to France. Roy Keane even then, was all over the pitch and was the best player. That just showed how good he was.
Schmeichal
Irwin Ferdinand Terry Cole
Keane Modric
De Bruyne
Ronaldo Suarez Henry
Shearer, Gerrard, Scholes, Silva and Vieira close but had to pick Suarez and Modric (yes the spurs one)
Only one player In The EPL since 2008 has won the Ballon D’OR = CR7
Van der Sar – Ferdinand, van dijk, vidic – yaya toure, viera , de bruyne , gerrard – ronaldo, shearer, Henry (343) Manager Alex furgeson
not even mentioning vidic is criminal
my premier lg 11 4/2/3/1
kepeper. schmeichel 5 titlestotal 1 eurpean cup
4
(rb)walker 3 conseutive titles a european cup a treble (5 tilestotal)
(lb) irwin 3 consecuitve title s a eurpean cup a treble (7 tites total)
(ch) ferdinand 3 consecutive titles a european cup(6 titles total)
(ch) vidic 3 consecutive titles a european cup.( 5 titles total)
defence has 28 tiles between them
midfield/upfromt
40 tiles between them
2
keane 3 consecutive titles a treble a european cup (HOLDING) (7 titles total)
scholes 3 consecutive titles (twice) a treble 2 european cups,(11 titles total)
3
(LW) giggs.3 consecutive tites twice a treble 2 european cups(13 titles total)
(10) roooney 3 consevutive titles 1 european cup.( 5 titles total)
(rw) ronaldo 3 consecutive titles 1 european cup( 3 titles total)
(cf) alan shearer 1 title( 1 title total)
the eleven have 68 prem titles betwenn them
and 11 european cups.
lets have a look at owens.
schmeical 5 titles 1 european cup
nevill 8 titles 2 european cups
terry 5 t5itles 1 european cup
rio 6 titles 1 european cup
cole 1 title 1 european cup
defence has 24 tiles and
midfield/upfront
gerrard no titles 1 european cup
viera 3 tiles no european cup
scholes 13 titles 2 european cups.
henry 2 tiles no european cups
shearer 1 titles no european cups
ronaldo 3 titles 1 european cup
23 titles between them
total 48 prem titles 10 european cup
veira v keane keane wins 7 titles to 3
european cups keane wins 1-0
scholes v gerrard scholes wins 13-0
european cups scholes 2-1
irwin v cole
titles irwin 7-1 cole
Neville over Kyle Walker? No chance. I’d have Ivanovic over him as well.
de bruyne over scholes any day
Nah no Dennis Irwin? How can i @ Roy Keane here?
As good as Ronaldo is, His peak was at real madrid. I would personally put rooney on there instead. The only other change i would make is lampard instead of gerrard but either are good. Great line up nonetheless.
Don't forget Shearer missed 3 seasons through injury
Can’t be the best player in a league without winning at least 1 trophy with all my respect to you know who 🙃🙃
Can't believe Vidic didn't even get a mention and Van Dajik is in a big talk
they miss look on ngolo kante😢
Van dijk the best there ever been for one year michael owens a clown
Michael owen a joke no keane dont make me laugh
Rio Ferdinand is probably not even in the top 10 of cbs who in the pl he was so overrated
Irwin was better than Cole, by miles, and no way Vieira should get in ahead of Keane
Bergkamp and Zola unlucky not to get a mention
My PL all time 11 4-3-3:
GK P. Cech,
RB:G. Neville
CB: J. Stam
CB: N.Vidic
LB: A. Cole
CM: Vieira
CM: P. Scholes
CM: Gilberto Silva (surprise surprise)
LW: Cristiano Ronaldo
ST: Henry
RW: Bergkamp
Subs: Rio Ferdinand, Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney and Drogba
Hazard for ronaldo; denis irwin or kyle walker for neville; Tonny adam, jap stamp or van dyjk for ferdinand.
No chances for van nistelroy, cantona, if there are players like rooney, drogba, bergkamp, aguero, suarez, torres, and tevez.
Hazard should have been mentioned….wt a player, easily the best player in the epl from 2015 to 2019 bt sadly people like to judge purely based on stats
Mo salah