Your Greatest XI

There have been some amazing, real life, elite teams of the past: Barcelona's masterful display of Tiqui-Taca football presently, Real Madrid's team of Galácticos at the start of this decade, Manchester United's treble-winning team of 1999, AC Milan of the early 90's, and so on.

I wondered, what's the greatest team that you've ever built? A team, an era even, which made its mark to be able to stand alone as an elite team/period in football history.

Club:

Style:

Achivement(s): [inc. year(s)]

Team: [11 players (and their positions) + subs if you want]

I'm interested because i'm trying to achieve something similar with Liverpool (we have money ).

Club: AC Milan

Style: Very attacking

Achievements 3 consecutive serie A titles, 2 Itialian supercups, 2 Italian cups back to back CL trophies and 1 club world championship win

Years 2011-14 iirc (was on FM 09)

First team squad:

First 11.

Valdes/LLoris

Chiellini, Fazio, Sakho, Husyef,

Kaka, Montolivo, Messi, C. Ronaldo,

Bemzema

Other notable squad members.

Ribery, Kalou, Dzagoev, Flamini, Pato, Fiorillo, Sobis, Balotelli, Love, Aquino, Bale, Camacho, Laurito.

Club: AC Milan

Style: Very attacking

Achievements 3 consecutive serie A titles, 2 Itialian supercups, 2 Italian cups back to back CL trophies and 1 club world championship win

Years 2011-14 iirc (was on FM 09)

First team squad:

First 11.

Valdes/LLoris

Chiellini, Fazio, Sakho, Husyef,

Kaka, Montolivo, Messi, C. Ronaldo,

Bemzema

Other notable squad members.

Ribery, Kalou, Dzagoev, Flamini, Pato, Fiorillo, Sobis, Balotelli, Love, Aquino, Bale, Camacho, Laurito.

Call me crazy, but that starting 11 has 2 keepers and 9 outfield players. Bet your defence was watertight. No wonder you could play so many attacking midfielders.

Valdes and LLoris were rotated every other game, sorry could have made that clearer....as for there only being ten outfield players, dont know how I managed that except have been up all night playing FM10 and am knackered. Will clarify my squad with a screeny once I dig it out, 2 secs.:o

Found these in the AC Milan 09 thread....I did a few upates around page 5 and 6 in there if you fancy having a look at my Milan adventure.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Wish i was on FM and not secretly on the forums in work.

Roll on 4 O'clock

At the moment i'm playing a liverpool save and i'm in my fourth season. Last season i won the Champions League, League Cup and FA Cup and finished second in the epl.

GK: Reina

RB: Johnson

LB: Clichy

CB: Zapata

CB: Sakho

CM: Mascherano

CM: Gourcuff

AMR: Afellay

AML: Ribery

AMC: Gerrard

ST: Torres

My current Real Madrid side, won La Liga 1st season then over the last 2 yrs i've won the treble twice.

GK.Casillas

RB.Sergio Ramos CB.Pepe CB.Raul Albiol LB.Davide Santon

CM.Cesc Fabregas DM.Lass Diarra

RW.Christiano Ronaldo AM.Kaka LW.Esteban Granero

ST.Karim Benzema

SUBS

1.Antonio Adan

2.Ezequiel Garay

3.Xabi Alonso

4.Douglas Costa

5.Gonzalo Higuiain

So far on FM10 there has been nothing great about my XI. Lost top spot in the BSP, beaten in first round of FA Trophy, starting to struggle for form... (sigh)

"Greatest" is not a word that springs to mind.

chelsea 2010

currently playing yr 1, top of EPL 12points clear

villa drogba

silva ribery

lampard essien

cole chiellini terry srna

casillas

Subs: cech, de rossi, carvalho, dezko, balotelli, santon, hamsik

chelsea 2010

currently playing yr 1, top of EPL 12points clear

villa drogba

silva ribery

lampard essien

cole chiellini terry srna

casillas

Subs: cech, de rossi, carvalho, dezko, balotelli, santon, hamsik

How much cash you start off with £2 billion??????????

Club - Spurs

Style - Attacking

Achievements - 5 Consecutive Premier League Titles, 4 Consecutive FA cups, 2 League Cups, 1 Champions League, 1 Club World Cup, 1 Euro. Super Cup

GK - Akineev

LB - Mattock

CB - Sakho

CB - Bassong

RB - Jorgensen

CM - Palacios

CM - Fellani / Guarente

AM - Shelvey

AM - Perotti

ST - Paloschi - 195 League Appearances, 156 Goals

ST - Aguero

What a team

Club : Juventus

Style : Attacking

GK : Buffon

DR : M.Richards

DC : Chiellini

DC : T.Silva

DL : De Ceglie

MR : D.Silva

MC : Diego

MC : Vidal

ML : Dzagoev

ST : Aguero

ST : Dzeko

Subs : J Hart, Pepe, Melo, Giovinco, Nani, Lukaku (I recommend, starts up as 3m, got him for 5m and 25m by age of 20.

Club- Man city

Style- attacking, very fluid play

Achievements- 3 consecutive champions league titles, 4 premier league, 4 fa cups, 4 league cups and 3 club world championship titles, 3 european super cups.

GK- ADLER

RB- RICHARDS

CB- PIQUE

CB- SAKHO

LB- VARGAS

MC- FABREGAS

MC- DIEGO

RW- MESSI

LW- RONALDO

ST- NEYMAR

ST- DZEKO ( 120 GOALS IN 131 APPS)

Subs-

Hart

Toure

Walcott

Van der vaart

Tevez

Robinho

Wilshere

Dominated every competetion.

Perhaps not the greatest team yet, but I like to think on the way to it..

Year/season: 2014/15

Club: Atletico Madrid

Style: Control

Achievements:

2012/2013 La Liga, 2013/14 Champion's League, 2014 European Super Cup.

GK: Adler

RB: De Silvestri

LB: Fatic

DC: Crnac (regen)

DC: Loncaric (regen)

CM: Boukhari (regen)

CM: Veloso

AMR: Balotelli

AMC: Aguero

AML: Zezinho

FC: Muniain

Subs/reserves *including*: Asenjo, Alfaro, Maxi, Sanogo, Shelvey, Esnaola (regen), Forren, Pacheco, lots more regens..

FM 09.

Wigan Athletic.

FA Cup winners.

-------------Hart-----------------

Onouha Ramón Reginiussen Goossens

-----Cattermole Javi García--------

---Saivet Marquinhos Buonanotte---

-------------Balotelli---------------

Also passed through this team were Silviu Lung Jr., Mateo Musacchio, Victor Moses, Victor Moses, Ben Foster, Nilmar, Dean Ashton.

Club: Man city

Style: Control

Achivement(s):

2010 - 3rd in prem

2011 - Won Premier League, League cup, Community shield

2012 - Won Premier League, FA cup, League cup

2013 - Won Premier League, Champions league, Super Cup, World club championship, Community shield

2014 - Won Premier League, Champions league, Super Cup, World club championship, League Cup, Community shield

2015 - Won Premier League, Champions league, FA cup, Super Cup, World club championship, Community shield

Team:

Akinfeev

Rafinha - Sakho - Mertaksaker© - Vargas

Perroti/Pagani - Dejong/Rodwell - Gourcuff/Pjanic - Di Maria

Dzeko Aguero

Subs - Ramsey, Zarate, Willshire , Krvstov, Xavi , Marko Marin , Coutinho + (A lot of good young regens)

Club: Man City

Style: Control

Achievements:

2011/12 Premier League, Champions League

2012/13 FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup

After that I resigned since I had won everything.

My Portsmouth team of FM 07:

GK: Vincent Enyeama

RB: Ratinho

LB: Sebastian Pocognoli

DC: Sol Campbell

DC: Ezequiel Garay

MR: Gary O'Neil

MC: Al Bangura

MC: Sherman Cardenas

ML: Marcelo

ST: Okaka

ST: Eddie Johnson

Those were the days...

This is not as much fun without the screens, but I did so well and I had so much fun with it that I'll post it anyways.

Club: Juventus

Style: Attacking

Achievements: 6(!) consecutive(!!) Serie A titles, 3 Champions League-titles, 4 Italian Cup titles. (Don't remember the World Club Champ and the SuperCoppa, but everyone knows those are just Mickey-Mouse-trophies anyways ;D)

Years 2018-24 iirc (FM 08. My savegame exploded as I was midway through the 24/25-season.)

First team squad:

Best 11:

GK: Antonio Ferrari (Italian regen. The definite best goalie in the world in this period.)

RB: Vittorio Visentin (Italian regen. Young. Decent.)

CB: Arjan Kwakman (Dutch regen. Bought him from Napoli in the 19/20-season. World-class.)

CB: Domenico Criscito (Captain. Performed fantastically until way into his 30s.)

LB: Gareth Bale (Decent. Was pretty much first-choice until he passed 32.)

DMC: Marco Tarquini (Italian-regen. Vice-captain. The best player in the world. No weaknesses, ace stats for defense, attack, creativity and physique.)

MR: Maicol Ancione (Italian regen. Two-footed. Decent looking, great performer.)

ML: Nicolás Adam (French regen. Got a bunch of "World's Best Player"-awards.)

AMC: Mohamed Duriosier (French regen. Maxed creativity and technique.)

ST: Eguene Sobko (Ukranian regen. Tall, fast, technical. The perfect striker.)

ST: Fausto Bortolas (Italian regen. Pretty similar to Sobko, only more creative and less tall.)

MY Greatest XI was way back on CM03/04.

Club: Tottenham

Style: Attacking

Achievements: 4 consecutive Prem titles (2016-2020), 3 Fa Cups and League Cups (I think) in the same period, 7 consecutive Champions League titles (2014-2020)

Team (2019-2020) season:

GK: Tomasso Cossu (Italian regen, best goalkeeper in the world, played even better for his country than club)

DR: Craig Morris (English fullback who came through the youth ranks at Spurs, best right back I've ever had)

DC: Alan Murray (Moved across North London in a £6M move, Arsenal were robbed)

DC: Rui Neves (Portuguese centre back, not quite as good as Murray, but was still world class)

DL: Gary Hackett (Another youth product, great left back, wanted out though during the summer of 2020 after I rejected a bid from Juvetus)

MR: Dean Marney (Was 35 years old!!!, but he was still brilliant)

MC: Danny Guthrie (Regular starter for England and hundred times better than his is in real life)

MC: Matjaz Novak (Slovenian, Best free transfer and player ever, 15 years at the club somehow never won World Player of the Year IIRC)

ML: Johan Elmander (Amazing seeming that later I found out I have played him out of positon for 15 years, retired at the end of the season, Bought in a 20 year old wonderkid from Portsmouth, Kevin Hill for £4M to replace him in the following season.)

ST: Danny Ford (Record Signing £16.5M and record goalscorer in 2018-19)

ST: Alan Ward (Robbie Keane Re-incarnated (because he was Irish), Record goalscorer on his debut season)

Unfortunately, my old computer blew up at the beggining of the 2020-2021 season.

This team won me the league/Champions League double with Hull in my 5th season on FM10.

Ochoa

Azpilicueta

Sakho

Evans

Insua

Afellay

Hamsik

Sandro

Wilshere

Cavani

Milyevski

The core of it went on to win another 3 leagues in a row, another 2 Champions Leagues 2 F.A Cups and 1 League Cup in the seasons after that. I then got bored after like 8 seasons. The game seems to get too easy after that 'breakthrough year', it's been like that for a few FM's though.

Cool thing about it was I had a strict £40,000 a week wage limit on the whole team, and never once went over that.

CM01/02

Club: PSV

Style: Attacking

GK Van Der Saar

DL John Heitinga

DC Kevin Hofland

DC Taribo West

DR Michael Lamey

MC Mark van Bommel

MC Kim Källström

MC Mark Kerr

SC Andri Sigthorsson

SC Ruud van Nistelrooy

SC Javier Saviola

Won everything with ease with that team, every year as long as i had those players.

i have had better teams like in the premier league with Nottingham Forest, but im quite proud of this team...

Club: Notts County

Style: Standard

Achivements: League 2 title, Paint trophy runner up on two occasions, League 1 title

Team:

Schmeichel

Bardsley St.Ledger Sonko Naylor

Jarvis Savage Majewski Lallana

Voronin

Tudgay

Subs: Szcezesny, Shackell, Wotton, J.Jackson, Nouble, Earnshaw, S.Jackson

CM 01/02, Chelsea team that on 4 league titles in a row and the Champions League

Bosnich

Terry Thuram Nesta A.Cole

Figo O'Brien (regen) Stanic Ronaldinho

Palermo Sam Parkin

got Figo cheap from Real's reserves and snatched Ronaldinho for £4m

subs included Richard Lee (gk) Clint Hill, Bowyer, Dunn, Luque, Leon Knight

Arsenal, FM 08 I believe - this was probably 3 or 4 years into the game

GK: Craig Gordon

RB: Eduardo Ratinho

CB: Giuseppe Rossato (regen)

CB: Philippe Senderos

LB: Leighton Baines

RM: Jesus Navas

CM: Fernando Gago

CM: Cesc Fabregas

LM: Matias Fernandez

ST: Fernando Torres

ST: Thierry Henry

won the quadruple, went unbeaten in the league.

GK: Meertens, G

LB: Bale, G

CD: Papastopolous

CD: Kjaer

RB: Evans, J

CM: Suarez,D

CM: Fabregas

AML: Ronaldo, C

AMR: Sanchez, A

AMC: Pjanic

AC: Dzeko

Sevilla, 2011, FM08

GK: Akinfeev

DR: Carlos Diogo (beast on 08)

DC: Miguel Veloso

DC: Pepe

DL: Marcelo

MR: Jesus Navas

MC: Van der Vaart

MC: Julio Baptista/Diego

ML: Robin van Persie

ST: Emmanuel Adebayor

ST: Arouna Kone (not amazing attributes, but banged in 30 goals one league season, so meh?)