Your Matchday squad from the Big four

[Reaper]

Was discussing this at the weekend with my mates after a few dizzyades..

Who would your 16 be? (Cheers Caco.. Typo)

Once we all arrived at our own, we then went onto attempt to make a team from the Italian and Spanish Leagues..



Would love to see a cup tournament once every four years (to fit in between the Euro and World cup) in which one team from each of say 8 Euro nations top leagues is made up and plays..

Surely there would be some money to be had and therefore to act as an incentive to all the greedy club owners , sky etc.. I know Id pay to see it

[dww]

Reina
Sagna Vidic Agger Evra
Ronaldo Fabregas Flamini Hleb
Rooney Torres

Cech
Terry
Mascher
Gerrard
Drogba

Not necessarily the best players (especially Flamini) but I think the best balanced team you could make from the top fours squads.

[Rich]

Surely 16?

GK: Reina

RB: Sagna
CB: Vidic
CB: Terry
LB: Evra

RM: Gerrard
CM: Essian
CM: Fabregas
LM: Ronaldo

ST: Torres
ST: Rooney

Subs:
Mascherano
Cech
Adebayor
Ferdinand
J. Cole

off the top of my head

[Rich]

Reina
Sagna Vidic Agger Evra
Ronaldo Fabregas Flamini Hleb
Rooney Torres

Cech
Terry
Mascher
Gerrard
Drogba

Not necessarily the best players (especially Flamini) but I think the best balanced team you could make from the top fours squads.

Surprisingly close to mine, although I forgot about Drogba, and would have him over Adebayor!

[Imy]

Reina

Gallas
Ferdinand
Toure
Evra

Gerrard
Fabregas
Ronaldo

Drogba
Torres
Rooney

Subs:
Cech
Vidic
Essien
Lampard
Tevez

Manager:
Arsene Wenger

[Reaper]

Surprisingly close to mine, although I forgot about Drogba, and would have him over Adebayor!

I also picked almost the same players except I left the granny shagger on the bench on had Drogba up front with Torres

[Shaggy]

Reina

Sagna
Vidic
Agger
Clichy

Gerrard
Fabregas
Mascherano
Ronaldo

Torres
Drogba

Subs: Cech, Terry, Essien, Hleb, Rooney.

Unlucky Adebayor!!

[Imy]

Spanish La liga (Real Madrid, Athletico Madrid, Barca, Valencia)

Cassilas

Zambrotta
Ramos
Puyol
Raúl Albiol

Messi
Xavi
Silva

Aguero
Ronaldinho

Van Nistlerooy

Subs:
Valdes
Yaya Toure
Iniesta
Raul
Villa

[Imy]

Italian Serie A (Juve, Milan, Inter, Roma)

Buffon

Chiellini
Chivu
Nesta
Javier Zanetti

Gattuso
Pirlo
Mancini

Totti
Kaka
Ibrahimović

Subs:
Dida
Maldini
Ambrosini
Cambiasso
Trezeguet

[redmacca]

Cech

Sagna
Carra
Vidic
A. Cole

Gerrard
Mascherano
Fabregas
Ronaldo

Torres
Adebayor

Reina
Toure
Drogba
J. Cole
Rooney

[The_weatherman]

Reina

Sagna
Vidic
Ferdinand
Clichy

Hleb
Fabregas
Mascherano
Ronaldo

Torres
Drogba

Subs: Cech, Agger, Essien, Gerrard, Rooney.

Almost the same as Shaggy's, I think Gerrard would unbalance that team so I'd put Hleb instead and Ferdinand instead of Agger.

[Craig_H]

Cech
Gallas
Terry
Ferdinand
Evra
Ronaldo
Essien
Gerrard
J Cole
Torres
Drogba

Subs:
Reina
Carragher
Mascherano
Fabregas
Rooney

[-V-]

......................Reina

.........Carra.....Vidic......Agger

.................Mascherano

Ronaldo.....Gerrard....Fabregas.....Babel

............Drogba......Torres


Bench

Toure
RVP
Rooney
J.Cole
Adebayor

[dww]

Surprisingly close to mine, although I forgot about Drogba, and would have him over Adebayor!

The only place I really considered someone else for was Essian for Flamini. But I really like the way Flamini has released Fabregas and the other Arsenal attacking players this year so he got the nod as part of a combined Arsenal CM partnership more than off his own bat.

[Shaggy]

......................Reina

.........Carra.....Vidic......Agger

.................Mascherano

Ronaldo.....Gerrard....Fabregas.....Babel

............Drogba......Torres


Bench

Toure
RVP
Rooney
J.Cole
Adebayor

Babel?!?!

Maybe in a few years, but at this moment in time he’d be nowhere near a top four 16.