A Class Above The Rest!

Most teams outside of the top four have their stars, the ones that the top four tend to cherry-pick and then bench in some sort of feudal lord in-joke about the fact their team and squad is so good they have to make surplus great players give the coach foot-massages and do the gardening...

So, departing from lowly surf status and in a hypothetical two-fingers up gesture at the incestual elitist upper-class of the premier league (who we desperately want to be like ), using players from clubs currently outside the top 7, is it possible to make a team(complete with subs and formations for the die-hards(/Tash)) who could realistically challenge the top 4 next year(if they could theoretically be formed)? Also, which manager outside the top 7 would you want in charge of the 11?

To make things easier, I shall put together a pool of players from the usable clubs so you don't have to, with players you could conceivably pick from. There is no limit with regards picking players from one team, but loans from top seven teams (tossers!) don't count, though loaned players from elsewhere currently at clubs outside the top 7 do. So no Lukaku or Carroll. You know our players already (or should do!), so I haven't listed them.

WBA: GK Ben Foster, DF Steven Reid, DF Jonas Olsson, DF Goran Popov, MF Claudio Yacob, DF Liam Ridgewell, MF James Morrison, FW Shane Long, MF Chris Brunt, MF Jerome Thomas, MF Graham Dorrans, MF Youssouf Mulumbu, MF Zoltán Gera, DF Gareth McAuley, FW Peter Odemwingie, DF Gabriel Tamaș, FW Marc-Antoine Fortuné.

Swansea: GK Vorm, GK Tremmel, DF Chico Flores, DF Ashley Williams, MF Leon Britton, FW Michu, MF Pablo Hernández, MF Nathan Dyer, MF Roland Lamah, MF Wayne Routledge, MF Jonathan de Guzmán, DF Àngel Rangel, MF Ki Sung-Yueng.

Fulham: GK Schwarzer, DF John Arne Riise, DF Brede Hangeland, MF Bryan Ruiz, MF Steve Sidwell, FW Dimitar Berbatov.

Stoke: GK Assface Begovic, DF Robert Huth, DF Ryan Shawcross, DF Ryan Shotton, MF Wilson Palacios, MF Jermaine Pennant, FW K.Jones, FW Jon Walters, FW Peter Crouch.

West Ham: MF Mark Noble, MF Joe Cole, DF Winston Reid, MF Kevy No-No-Nolan, MF Mohammed Diame, DF Guy Demel.

Norwich: GK John Ruddy, MF Wes Hoolahan, FW Grant Holt, MF Jonny Howson, MF Kei Kamara, MF Anthony Pilkington, DF Seb Bassong.

Sunderland: GK Mignolet, MF Sausageboy, FW Fletcher. That is all.

Southampton: DF Nathaniel Clyne, FW Gaston Ramirez, FW Rickie Lambert, MF Morgan Schneiderlin, DF Jose Fonte, MF Adam Lallana, MF James Ward Prowse.

Aston Villa: GK Brad Guzan, DF Ron Vlaar, DF Richard Dunne, FW Darren Bent, FW Benteke, FW Agbonlahor, MF Charles N'Zogbia, MF Andreas Wiemann.

Wigan: FW Kone, DF Antolin Alcaraz, DF Ivan Ramis, DF Maynor Figueroa.

Reading: FW Pavel Pogrebnyak, FW Adam Le Fondre, MF Jobi McAnuff, MF Mal Robson-Kanu.

QPR: GK Julio Cesar, MF Samba Diakite, DF Samba, MF Adel Taarabt, MF Park Ji-Sung, MF Junior Hoilett, FW Loic Remy, MF Esteban Granero.

 

GK Mignolet
DF Rangel
DF Ashley Williams
DF Samba
DF Figueroa
MF Charles N'Zogbia
MF Cabaye
MF Sissoko
MF Chris Brunt
FW Michu
FW Benteke

SUBS
1. Sausage-boy
2. Stevie Taylor
3. Begovic
4. De Guzman
5. Noble
6. Remy
7. Debuchy

---------------Mignolet-------------

--Rangel-----Williams--Samba-----Figueroa

--N'Zogbia---Cabaye--Sissoko----Brunt

------------------Michu------------

-----------------Benteke-----------


The more and more I look at this, the more I think this is ridiculous. The problem with uniting stars is that they are given freer roles in their teams and simply putting them in one side would force some of them to compromise... Can anybody actually make a team look good?

 

GK Krul
CB Ashley Williams
CB Samba
CB Ryan Shawcross
MF Mohammed Diame
CM Cabaye
RM Sissoko
LM Ben Arfa
FW Lambert
FW Benteke
FW Michu

GK Assface Begovic
DF Brede Hangeland
FW Loic Remy
MF Morgan Schneiderlin
LB Debuchy
DF Maynor Figueroa


---------------Krul-------------

---Williams--Samba---Shawcross--

----------------Diame----------------

--Ben Arfa-----Cabaye------Sissoko

------------------Michu------------

----------Lambert-----Benteke-----------

Might not be much of a defence but how the attacking football would flow!

 

I cant see why this thread hasent seen much action, i thought it was a good idea. I thought a good alternative would be build a side that would definately get relegated and then struggle in the championship from established premiership players on decent salaries say over £30,000 a week. Without naming the entire QPR team.

 

I'd go for. Krul/Mignolet or Begovic in goal (you would be confident with any of those 3). Debuchy, Williams, Shawcross (I struggle at LB so will pick Santon as default), Ben Arfa, Sissoko, Cabaye, Zog, michu and Benteke