Musketeer Gripweed Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 Goalkeepers: Fabien Barthez (Marseille) Gregory Coupet (Lyon) Mickael Landreau (Nantes). Defenders: Jean-Alain Boumsong (Auxerre) Marcel Desailly (Chelsea/ENG) William Gallas (Chelsea/ENG) Bixente Lizarazu (Bayern Munich/GER) Mikael Silvestre (Manchester United/ENG) Lilian Thuram (Juventus Turin/ITA) Willy Sagnol (Bayern Munich/GER) Midfielders: Ludovic Giuly (Monaco) Claude Makelele (Chelsea/ENG) Olivier Dacourt (AS Roma/ITA) Patrick Vieira (Arsenal/ENG) Robert Pires (Arsenal/ENG) Jerome Rothen (Monaco) Sylvain Wiltord (Arsenal/ENG) Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid/SPA) Benoit Pedretti (Sochaux) Strikers: Thierry Henry (Arsenal/ENG) David Trezeguet (Juventus/ITA) Louis Saha (Manchester United/ENG) Steve Marlet (Marseille) Ladies and gentlemen may I introduce you to the winning squad One interesting stat - Henry 40 goals this season - Owen, Heskey, Vasell & Rooney 41 goals between them all season. Anyone have any info on this Pedretti chap though. Never heard of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k38jfb Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 Benoit Pedretti is a 23-year-old defensive midfielder. He has signed a pre-contract agreement with Marseille for next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arab_joe Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 desailly should not be anywhere near the starting line up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 boumsong apart, an aging defence methinks. clutching at straws?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 I'm not so sure about France...Barthez is hardly reliable and Zidane hasn't been the same as he once was. Trezeguet has had a relatively poor season for Juve, and Henry and Pires are overrated by the English media. I'll be surprised if they can perform as well as they do against crappy defences in the Premiership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 I saw Pedretti in that Confederations Cup thingy last year, he looked not bad!! Desailly is rubbish, is Mexes injured? Gallas should play beside Boumsong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arab_joe Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 Henry and Pires are overrated by the English media. nah, henry is the best player in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arab_joe Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 think wiltord has had a pretty poor season in comparison to a lot of the players in the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 nah, henry is the best player in the world. I don't think we can conclude that until he's proved himself at the highest level week in week out (ie Serie A or La Liga). The Premiership makes him look good and he's never exactly set the CL alight has he? He was pish at Juve and I don't believe that tosh about him being played out of position. Juve are legendary at getting the best out of players - no-one rated Vieri or Zidane until Juve snapped them up, now look at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilly Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 I think France will be along the lines of Barthez Thuram Desailly Boumsong Lizarazu Makelele Viera Wiltord Zidane Pires Henry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arab_joe Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 I don't think we can conclude that until he's proved himself at the highest level week in week out (ie Serie A or La Liga). The Premiership makes him look good i reckon the premiership is just as good as la liga and serie a. unless henry does what he did in 2002 (sent off after 20 mins agianst uruguay sumsit up really) then he will be the player of the tournament- he will be well suited to top european competition after a few seasons going relatyively well in the cl and his pace is getting better and better. if he was so bad at juve, why did arsene wenger, one of the smartest buyers in the game (anelka for £2million and sold for £23million) pay £11million for him? thats the same amount liverpool payed for heskey and leeds payed for robbie fowler!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 £11 million's not that much nowadays. Juventus are also extremely good at selling players for as much as they can get. The top teams in Spain, Italy and England are roughly on the same level, but the lower Premiership teams are not on the same level as the lower La Liga and Serie A teams. Those who think Henry is the best in the world have been duped by the English media, the same way Shellic fans are duped into thinking Larsson is world class. He's good, sure, but he's made to look better than he is. It's no coincidence Juve dumped him and brought in Trezeguet. The Premiership is chock-a-block of players who failed to make it in Serie A: Di Canio, Bergkamp, Vieira, Henry, Veron, that's just off the top of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kullibino Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Veron was the other way round! He was pish over here but amazing in italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 He was good at Sampdoria but never really made it at Lazio IIRC. Hence why he came to England. Festa, Zola, Van Der Sar, Ziege... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kullibino Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Zola was the muts nuts a napoli and parma, they still love him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arab_joe Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Ziege... what? he has been mince in england, was amazing at ac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Zola was the muts nuts a napoli and parma, they still love him. Aye Napoli and Parma, not exactly bigshots are they? If Henry goes to Italy or Spain and proves himself as a top goalscorer there, then I will admit I have been unfairly criticising him. I don't think it would happen though. IMO the best player in the world is Shevchenko. Finished top scorer in his first season at AC (virtually unheard of for a foreign import) and has so much goalscoring talent it's unbelievable. It's a real shame he plays for a crappy country like Ukraine and can never show his talents on the big international stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kullibino Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Aye Napoli and Parma, not exactly bigshots are they? And Chelsea were before last summer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 And Chelsea were before last summer? What's your point exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kullibino Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 That Zola was awsome in Seria A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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