Draft The AM PL Draft 2.0 Selection Thread (No Discussion)

The A-M PL Draft 2.0 Sign-Up and Discussion Thread

The Picks: https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/the-am-pl-draft-2-0-selection-thread-no-discussion.37217/ Football was invented in 1̶9̶9̶2̶ 1996 when Arsène Wenger arrived in these shores, so in his honour we will be drafting the best players in the PL from 1996 to present day. Usual rules...

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The pick order is as follows:

1. @Makingtrax
2. @Rex Caudillo + @jones
3. @OnlyOne
4. @GDeep™
5. @UpTheGunnerz
6. @JMB
7. @Oxeki
8. @Sapient Hawk
9. @The Ducking Duck
10. @albakos
11. @2Smokeyy + @Clrnc
12. @A_G
13. @RunTheTrap
14. @Tir Na Nog
15. @Sulosky
16. @Taylor Gang Gunners

It’s going to be a snake draft so the order will reverse at the end of the round. You will have a 60 minute window to make your pick, but if you’re online when your time comes it’s 10 minutes before you get a randomised player. The game will be paused overnight.

Please make sure to tag the next player to keep the game moving quickly.

Discussion:

 

[A_G]

Carlos Tevez, West Ham



7 goals and 3 assists in the last 9 games to keep them in the league

@2Smokeyy + @Clrnc over to you

 

[2Smokeyy]

İlkay GOATdoğan (Manchester City)

Would have left him another round or two but had to snap him up before anyone else did. One of the key cogs to the City side during their successful period and would always come up with some key goals.

@albakos

 

[albakos]

Next up, let's continue with a typical English central defender who was one of the key players in that exciting Leeds team of the noughties.

It is Jonathan Woodgate of Leeds United.

@The Ducking Duck you're up next

 

[The Ducking Duck]

Fernandinho

@Sapient Hawk

 

[A_G]

The randomiser has given @Sapient Hawk…

Trevor Benjamin, Leicester City



They say he’s played for more clubs than @Rex Caudillo supports:



@Oxeki is next, we usually pause the game at 9pm UK time until tomorrow morning but feel free to make your hopefully non-Liverpool pick whenever is convenient

 

[Oxeki]

Things Silva

@JMB

 

[JMB]

Shay Given (Newcastle)

@UpTheGunnerz

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

Won’t get his accolades here on AM me thinks but for me a baller, a chef, a splendid footballer and will be a cog in the machine im building here

Just hoping Matt Le tiss doesn’t try and dismantle my machine with conspiracy theories una!

It’s Mo Dembele



@GDeep™

 

[A_G]

On behalf of @GDeep™, this man won’t be winning any “Father Of The Year” awards but was a G/A machine:

Dwight Yorke, Aston Villa



@OnlyOne

 

[OnlyOne]

Bruno Fernandes

Absolute G&A monster, compliments my midfield perfectly. I love it. So lucky he’s still around.

@jones @Rex Caudillo

 

[Rex Caudillo]

Thanks for the tag @OnlyOne ffs

We’re taking Bruno Guimaraes (Newcastle)

@Makingtrax you’re up

 

[Makingtrax]

He’s now single handedly keeping Everton out of the drop zone - Jack Grealish (Aston Villa)

Man City multiple medal winner and England stalwart - John Stones (Everton)


@Rex Caudillo
@jones

 

[Rex Caudillo]

We’re taking Wilf Zaha from Palace. Kind of forgotten considering their recent success but still comfortably their best player in club history.

@OnlyOne you’re up.

 

[OnlyOne]

Raphinha Leeds!

@GDeep™

 

[GDeep™]

James Milner. Can play anywhere and a G/A machine from defence.

@UpTheGunnerz

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

Seamus “the coleslaw” Coleman
Underrated, bought for 70k (price of tinder platinum subscription una) from Sligo Rovers

@JMB

 

[JMB]

Joao Cancelo (Man City)

@Oxeki

 

[Oxeki]

Sterling for City

@Fewtch @Sapient Hawk

 

[A_G]

The randomiser for @Sapient Hawk says…

Javier Margas, West Ham


Fitting that Hawk is given a player who went AWOL like his manager:

His escape act gained notoriety as it was several weeks later before he was discovered back in his homeland, with his manager at the time admitting that desperate measures were taken in his efforts to leave England.

Ex-Hammers boss Redknapp told Betsafe: “His wife hated it, she had a big family back home, she was crying.

“Suddenly he didn't show up to training one day and someone said his wife had gone home and he was staying at the Swallow Hotel.

“So we went round to see him and someone said he might be going home, and we said 'he can't, he's got a contract here, we bought him!'"

Redknapp added upon gaining access to Margas’ hotel room: “He'd left half his gear there, the window was open, he was on the first floor, he obviously took what he needed, jumped out the window and legged it.

"We never saw him again, he went back to Chile and that was the end of his career at West Ham."

 

[The Ducking Duck]

Marc Guehi



@albakos