Thread of random football team formations you just invented

         lloris
        lucio          pique
rafinha                           zhirkov
               banega
       essien             anderson
               iniesta
      
          messi     villa

               Robinson
Stalteri    Gardner    Rocha     Lee
Ghaly    Zokora     Jenas      
      Keane        Doherty    
Manager: M Jol
Defensive Coach: C Armstrong
Transfers: D Commolli

Hilariously, I cannot think of a left midfielder that I wouldn't want back at the club- or maybe it's just that we haven't actually had one since Andy Sinton (who, frankly, I didn't mind)

                   Zaluska
Wilson  Thompson   O'Dea   McGeady
              N'Guemo
Keane Fortune Rasmussen McGowan Samaras

Oh wait, no, that's a Tony Mowbray invention, my bad.

^ actual finishing lineup against St Mirren, with Aiden McGeady at left back and FIVE centre forwards on the pitch.

                   Bonner
                   McGrath
                   Keane
                   Quinn

Play for a draw, maybe scrape a long ball in off quinny's head imo

    Boruc
nine other people
     Keane

^ Celtic from now until end of season

Seriously, the 9-1 formation might just work against SPL midfields.

Non-Arsenal Arsenal XI:

         David James
Bentley   Rio   thudd   Taylor
       Rafael da Silva
   Yossi    Gamst    Joe Cole
       Berbatov
                 Ngog

Not getting the resonance tbh

Bonner

McGrath

Keane

Quinn

Christ, that's beautiful.

i debated putting in the filler, but i mean rly it would have diluted the greatness

needs 1 more for the greatest 5-a-side team ever ( ignoring the head height rule of course)

Bonner, McGrath, Keane, Quinn, Cruyff

yes.

Team talk from Big Jack- "Johann, we all know you're only here to make up the numbers, so none of your fancy shit"

                    jasskelainen
           bramble     zayatte       cahill
n'zogbia          diame          bullard            belhadj
                        j mccarthy
                 utaka
                                elmander

 
                   James
G Johnson   R Ferdinand  A Ferdinand  P Konchesky
       N Reo-Coker      M Carrick
                F Lampard
                 J Cole
       J Defoe           C Cole

(If anyone could recommend viable alternatives for James (but not S Bywater, be serious) Konchesky and C Cole, then feel free.

what funny games you people play

ey submit a formation or gtfo imo

^^^^

btw came close to SBannin u 4 submission of a midfield of iniesta, essien and fuckin anderson, regardless of context.

don't be a twat

anderson is a great fkn player and you are all idiots (as alex ferguson said about veron)

if utd or brazil played that formation, he wd start for both

eh,

you're forgetting two things-

d gibson

l leiva

trying to do an alcoholic XI, thinking of mcgrath, adams, adriano, ortega.....

man u team sheet, october 86

disciplinary nightmare XI would sweep all before them, that's why it's the best sport in the world.

You'd have to have Merse just in case it goes to penalties.

shit yeah, robson and whiteside midfield, ortega amid and adriano waddling dolefully about upfront

need flanks and gk tho

unsubstantiated rumours one would be good. although probs just be the current england XI

paul robinson undoubtedly drinks to excess, surely you can't be such a pie-deomlisher and suddenly get all disciplined on a friday night.

need garrinca rw obv

pobinson possibly not in that class

*garrincha

nev southall always looked like he'd had a few

robinson was in a special class at school because all the other children starved or were eaten

and duh, bestie obviously.

best was a drinker?

that was quite an oversight xp

suppose he could cut in from lw as is the current fad....

afaik miguel might qualify for rb

Gazza?

displaces ortega at amid

need lb

alan ball?

Kenny Sansom for lb

emlyn hughes?

Paddy Kenny

poor paddy kenny has been humiliated enough imo

 L Messi 

^ shitty goalie tbh

gtf mcgeady hutton, trapchivan imo

                 Charles-Cook
   Smith-Brown   Meppen-Walter  ????-?????  Ormonde-Ottewill 
Cumming-Bart Ward-Prowse Loftus-Cheek Forster-Caskey Deen-Conteh
		   Oxlade-Chamberlain 

harsh on ekotto

anglo or gtfo

no wrights-phillipses?

4 the sake of sanity have cast that name as far from memory as possible tbh

doesnt fit anywhere anyway, use yr loaf son

ah, my bad

                   cech
sagna      vermaelen    ivanovic     cole
               song         modric
lennon         van der vaart          bale
                  van persie

damn me but i might go for chesney, cm is lightweight, scope for clint?

               Howard
   Neville    Agger   Skrtel   Baines
           Gerard   Fellaini
     Osman		 Downing
               Suarez  
               Jelavic

Good enough for 7th/8th in the league.

dempsey deserves consideration, i know he tends to cut in from the flanks more, but as a goalscoring free spirit hes still competing w/ vdv, & thus also mata

midfield isnt lightweight imo, song is more powerful than parker and hes added a bit of toughness lately too viz the citeh game, sandro should be one of the best destroyer cms in the world in a couple of seasons, more talent than de jong and mascherano is more of a defender now

cb is interesting, those two above are the wrong way round i guess.....but koscielny and luiz would be interesting, lk is the best recovery cb this side of thiago silva

onimo might pay a visit to the tranmere squad page maybe?

No-one from Tranmere Rovers started the All Scouse Semi Final - that XI came from the XXII.

                            ?
hibbert         carragher      rodwell         kelly
                  barton          nolan
osman                  gerrard                 barkley
                           rooney

             Friedel
Zanetti   Nesta   Puyol  
        Ambrosini Scholes
   Del Piero  Raul     Giggs
             Drogba

Is there a good 34+ left back?

zambrotta, taiwo

is taiwo that old? blimey.

Taye Ismaila Taïwo (born 16 April 1985 in Lagos, Nigeria)

heinze

lol taiwo

lol taiwo

― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 April 2012 16:33 (7 minutes ago)

You could have Seedorf in there ahead of Ambrosini you know.

was the taiwo gag just general naija lolz or cos of this weeks bizarro age kerfuffle in the news?

http://themetronewsng.com/false-age-scandali-dont-have-a-twin-brother-taiye-taiwo/

haha i didnt see that, just cheap lolz im afraid

Taye Ismaila Taiwo is a defender with Height: 1.78m and Weight: 75 kg and is a homely and responsible father cum husband.

tbrr he does look older than 27, but i doubt it's as far from his real age as 75kg is from his real weight

After 2 games at Queens Park Rangers F.C., Taiwo made allegations that he would stay in QPR.

Charles-Cook
Smith-Brown Meppen-Walter ????-????? Ormonde-Ottewill
Cumming-Bart Ward-Prowse Loftus-Cheek Forster-Caskey Deen-Conteh
Oxlade-Chamberlain

― r|t|c, Friday, April 6, 2012 12:45 PM (4 months ago)

how does ward-prowse feet into this

his dad is a barrister so naybe it's an old school double barreled ting

feet, fit

dm's premier league belgian xi.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/21/article-2191648-14A42833000005DC-886_468x726.jpg

what's a better side of national teammates playing in the same foreign league? brazilians in italy or spain?

           Gomes
Rafael  Luiz   ???  Fabio
  Ramires Lucas Anderson
Oscar              Santos
           ???

         Reina
???   ???   ???   Enrique
  Romeu Arteta Cazorla
   Silva Torres Mata

is there an argentine keeper in the league? i think they'd do alright if there was.

spanish defence can be filled up by rangel and that other spanish guy swansea just signed and um... cuellar?

oh yeah, it can!

demichelis diaz

banega gago

di maria

piatti messi higuain

rush goalie

i dont understand that. also why the new name nakh?

just time for a change

oh there is an argentine gk, álvarez at espanyol

i meant in the prem but ok. would be a trrfc game, aguero tevez etc. against the spanish version. i guess the spain one would win just for messi.

yes but for primera division...

i think gazzaniga the new southampton reserve gk is argentine

Arsenal's 4th choice too now I think of it.

            Martinez
Jonas  Coloccini  ??? Zabeleta
   ???       ???    ???
 Aguero     Tevez   Di Santo

im tapping out quick, i have a headache.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_Premier_League_players

the france xi of the mid 00s with vieira, henry, makalélé, pires, saha, big pascal chimbonda etc would probably be the best from the epl, with the spanish xi of a few years ago competing

julio cesar
maicon lucio juan marquiho
?? hernanes ?? coutinho
pato robinho

                         de gea
azpilicueta   flores    garcia    monreal
             
      arteta                  romeu     
                   cazorla
navas            silva             mata

canas is meant to be v good

                           robles
   
luna                amat          amorebieta                 garrido
                
                            campana
navas                        aspas                      luis alberto
                   negredo             soldado

handanovič

ivanović vidić
srna pranjić

stanković

krasić modrić rakitić

vučinić jovetić

― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 13:57 (3 years ago)

that would be quite different now and probably better

not sure if there is a really good defensive midfielder even now

matic is rated highly but so was javi garcia

current Inter side have two good candidates for that spot: Kuzmanovic (destroyer) or Kovacic (regista)