Arsenal Team of the Century

[SA Gunner]

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Question of the day. Team of the 21st century.

Thoughts folks?

And who would be your manager?

 

[boonthegoon]

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Question of the day. Team of the 21st century.

Thoughts folks?

And who would be your manager?

Wenger without a doubt.

Would have Pires there as well. I love Özil but anyway he isn't a winger. So Pires in there.

Saliba no doubt will eventually make it but just including him on 1.5 great seasons, I'm not so sure.

 

[AberGooner]

Can't be leaving Pires out of that. The guy won footballer of the year in a title winning side, enough said. Would leave Saka out for him. Toure over Saliba as well.

 

[Deleted member 98559]

Yeah Pires in for Özil and I'm good.

Not sure if I would replace Bergkamp with Sanchez, Denis has a bigger reputation but Sanchez was a better player in this century

 

[AberGooner]

Yeah Pires in for Özil and I'm good.

Not sure if I would replace Bergkamp with Sanchez, Denis has a bigger reputation but Sanchez was a better player in this century

Yeah Sanchez definitely deserves a nod as well.

 

[Deleted member x1214]

Pires for Özil
Toure for Saliba

Midfield is unrealistic but would let it rock.

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

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Question of the day. Team of the 21st century.

Thoughts folks?

And who would be your manager?

What is Özil doing there, who invited blud?

Otherwise a solid team

 

[Dokaka]

Pires for Özil like others have said and it's pretty spot on I think. Not even sure Özil would be 2nd choice in that position either tbh.

If we're leaning more towards peak seasons vs. body of work, you might be able to make arguments for RVP over Bergkamp, but Bergkamp obviously crushes him outside that one insane season.

Reckon there isn't much between White and Sagna either tbh, Sagna just has more minutes in the shirt. I rate both but they have very similar strength and weaknesses as RBs I think. A couple of seasons more with White starting at RB and a trophy in the bag and he probably gets in that team.

 

[Entropics]

It's still the invincibles and Sagna tbh

 

[Riou]

Leaving Ljungberg and Lauren out is pretty crazy, those guys were top players in our best ever team (2001-2005) both super underrated and more than deserve their spots over Saka and Sagna (Bukayo has a way to go to be as good/decisive for us as Freddie was, Bac is very unlucky but do prefer Ralph all round)

Pires not being in is a complete piss take though, what the **** is that about

Toure for Saliba

Toure over Saliba as well.

 

[AberGooner]

Leaving Ljungberg and Lauren out is pretty crazy, those guys were top players in our best ever team (2001-2005) both super underrated and more than deserve their spots over Saka and Sagna (Bukayo has a way to go to be as good/decisive for us as Freddie was, Bac is very unlucky but do prefer Ralph all round)

Pires not being in is a complete piss take though, what the **** is that about

Actually your right, I didn't notice Sagna there tbh. Always preferred Lauren myself. As good as Bac defensively whilst much better going forward. Ljungberg a tad underrated on the whole, fantastic in the 2002 season.

I feel like he's the easiest upgrade though when you've got the likes of Özil and Sanchez available.

 

[Deleted member x1214]

Leaving Ljungberg and Lauren out is pretty crazy, those guys were top players in our best ever team (2001-2005) both super underrated and more than deserve their spots over Saka and Sagna (Bukayo has a way to go to be as good/decisive for us as Freddie was, Bac is very unlucky but do prefer Ralph all round)

Pires not being in is a complete piss take though, what the **** is that about

Yeah Toure was dope I still remember. Could play anywhere on the pitch really and won't complain, Arteta would have loved him.

Slotting in Özil at left wing and no Pires is laughable, tell me you've never seen our Highbury era without telling me

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

@Riou when these types of thread pops up

 

[GoonerJeeves]

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Question of the day. Team of the 21st century.

Thoughts folks?

And who would be your manager?

No Bastin, No Ted Drake? Childhood heroes of many on AM.

 

[A_G]

No Bastin, No Ted Drake? Childhood heroes of many on AM.

When Giroud asks why he didn’t get a mention:

 

[Henry boi]

The invincibles

 

[GoonerJeeves]

When Giroud asks why he didn’t get a mention:

Not surprised the anti-Giroud brigade invokes people like Farage. It is indicative of the kind of people we are dealing with here. If General Franco was alive, he'd be anti-Giroud. Giroud is the type of player Nelson Mandela would cheer.

 

[KarenSprayGooners]

Pires
Bergkamp
Henry
Vieira
Fabregas
Saka
Campbell
Lehmann
Cole
Sagna

Probably put Saliba in there for recency bias, maybe White if we win the league this season.

 

[Bucephalus]

Not surprised the anti-Giroud brigade invokes people like Farage. It is indicative of the kind of people we are dealing with here. If General Franco was alive, he'd be anti-Giroud. Giroud is the type of player Nelson Mandela would cheer.

Obviously Giroud doesn't sniff the starting XI. But if we're building squad of the century, not team of the century, he wouldn't be a bad shout for the "come on in the 75+ minute when we've struggled all day to break down a low block and started resorting to lumping in crosses" role.

 

[Sanchez11]

Is this a real question?