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Current manager and half decent player in their time XI Preud'homme (Brugge) Karanka (Boro) - de Boer (Ajax) - Mihajlović (Samp) Enrique (Barça) - Deschamps (France) - Simeone (Atleti) - Cocu (PSV) Mancini (Inter) Palermo (Arsenal de Sarandi) - Klinsmann (USA) In mildly related news Doriva, the old Boro gadgy is Vasco da Gama manager these days. Missing a certain Crystal Palace legend in the center of your midfield. That's right. Eat it.

Deschamps and Simeone over Pardew ? What?

fuck it.

Think the quality of defenders is so s*** this year that they gave it to someone who can score a decent free-kick I mean even Thiago Silva has been quite bad for the last 6 months or so and still I can't think of two CB's more deserving than him and Ramos. Seriously, the crop of CBs in the world is absolutely f***ing s*** right now. Kompany, Thiago had below their standards season. Vidic, Terry, Pique are dead. Hummels isn't all that great (as I've said before). Only Ramos is really good but even he has moments of absolute madness. Am I missing someone here? I mean seriously? Is there really no world class CBs left in the world? Miranda and Godin were fantastic but I think it's more down to their team rather than their individual quality. Literally every defender that you've mentioned there is better than David Luiz. I dont' disagree. Well Vidic isn't and I'd say Pique hasn't shown anything resembling a CB for over a year now as well. But yeah the others are, so is Cahill in my opinion as well, but they're not excellent and if I was FIFA I'd have made this a 3-4-3 or something. Like Mole said, it's more a popularity contest. Because for as weird as it is that he won it, Iniesta who has been quite average all season won it as well at least David had 4-5 excellent games at the World Cup and a decent start to his PSG career until the last weeks or so.

Think the quality of defenders is so shit this year that they gave it to someone who can score a decent free-kick I mean even Thiago Silva has been quite bad for the last 6 months or so and still I can't think of two CB's more deserving than him and Ramos. Seriously, the crop of CBs in the world is absolutely fucking shit right now. Kompany, Thiago had below their standards season. Vidic, Terry, Pique are dead. Hummels isn't all that great (as I've said before). Only Ramos is really good but even he has moments of absolute madness. Am I missing someone here? I mean seriously? Is there really no world class CBs left in the world? Miranda and Godin were fantastic but I think it's more down to their team rather than their individual quality.

David Luiz Deserved. Wrote in the other games thread why. Please read. Very valuable information.

FIFPro GKManuel NEUER DFSergio RAMOS DFTHIAGO SILVA DFDAVID LUIZ DFPhilipp LAHM MFAndres INIESTA MFToni KROOS MFAngel DI MARIA FWLionel MESSI FWCRISTIANO RONALDO FWArjen ROBBEN Team of the year. Who is saying s*** about David Luiz now? Huh. £50m worth of defender. Only 7 against Germany and 4 against Bastia.

Sven Göran Eriksson lost you that game. His face when we went 2-1 up and he had no idea what to do. Even when Ronaldinho was sent off we kept dominating possession while he sat there clueless wondering why his Plan A didn't work. Despised him still do.

I think they're involved in some shit because the money they've gotten for Luiz, Mata, De Bruyne and Lukaku is quite insane tbf. All of them are excellent on their day but none of them is really that consistent (well apart from Mata, who has somehow become worse since leaving Chelsea though).

As a striking force yes because they played far more together than the other three. But I mean not on international level not even Messi, Aguero and Di Maria can do what the three R's. Only Muller - Klose - Özil can.

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Every time. Imagine if Ronaldinho had maintain focus and been close to his prime with Messi at his prime. Would've been some shit.

‘At the end of the game he said, “You deserve the job, you’re ready for it now. I hope you get it.” We just laughed and he gave me another hug — he must have hugged me 10 times.’ - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2905666/Remi-Garde-doesn-t-want-Newcastle-United-summer.html#ixzz3OYVQlgL7 Pathetic

Carver is here forever.

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Neymar seemed to be interviewed by the FBI there. Only asked questions about Messi and Luis Enrique. Had a cheeky answered when the interviewer pushed him and asked him who is the boss Messi or Luis Enrique and he said Bartomeu.

Suarez pass was excellent, could've easily put a cross in and lost the ball.

Love watching Atletico fight, but they should get on with playing sometimes because they're far better at playing games when they're playing with passion rather than raging.

GTFI!

Every Atletico defenders should've been sent off if the ref had been consistent.

Godin has to be sent off ffs. This ref has lost it.

High foot towards the goalie? Think it's a fair card tbf, he saw the goalie coming out and still put his foot up.

Neesy man, always stating the obvious. Suarez was probably telling Jimenez he won't play for the national team again because he owns it.

Footballers overall man. Not many of them have a normal haircut. This ref is absolutely horrible. and Suarez and Neymar have been invisible for most part of this half.