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Southampton's team of the decade

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  1. Rich

    Rich Well-Known Member

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    Article in The Athletic yesterday outlining Carl Anka's team of the decade. Might have been mentioned elsewhere but reckon its worth its own thread. The 00's might not be over yet but don't think anyone will be sneaking in over the next month ;)

    Anyway, his team -

    GK - Artur Boruc
    RB - Nathaniel Clyne
    CB - Virgil van Dijk
    CB - Jose Fonte
    LB - Luke Shaw

    CM - Victor Wanyama
    CM - Morgan Schneiderlin

    LF - Sadio Mane
    AM - Dusan Tadic
    RF - Adam Lallana

    FW - Rickie Lambert

    Champions League team there with all those players at their pomp I reckon!

    Whats yours? Any space for SKD? Bertrand? Davis?
     
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  2. Saintmagic

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    Saints team of the decade? Liverpool
     
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  3. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    In terms of appearances and clean sheets no one comes close to SKD.

    Absolute clear no. 1 in the last 10 years.

    Hard to argue with any of the other choices though.
     
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  4. Saints Fan4Life

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    Depends if you are looking at ability, contributions to the club, or just plain favourites. Tough one.
     
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  5. Saintmagic

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    Tbf Forster is only a handful of appearances behind Davis
     
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  6. ChilcoSaint

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    Fraser arguably had the best season of any Saints keeper of all time in 2016-17, 38 PL appearances, 19 clean sheets. I still think over the whole of their Saints careers, Kelv just edges it.
     
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    jonny 'hasen' shuttle Well-Known Member

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    Danny Ings is on a great run but in a **** team!
     
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    To be fair, most of those appearances and clean sheets came in the first 3 seasons of this last decade, and none of those were in the Prem. Since then he has only played 20 times whereas Boruc played 49 times over 2 seasons and Forster 106 times over 4 so think you'd have to go with one of those two (probably Forster).
     
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    jonny 'hasen' shuttle Well-Known Member

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    some good players in that team
    Mane must be worth 3 or 4 times what we sold him for now
     
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