If Vietnam are 143rd ....

[Sam Armstrong]

Whilst watching today's friendly against Vietnam I picked up on the fact that they are apparently '143rd in the world rankings' and was wondering .... if our 1st choice team (not today's friendly mix) was a 'country' where would we rank?

Being able to cherry pick our team from any nationality how would we compare against the Brazilians, Argentines, Spanish & Germans? For the sake of argument and so as to not 'lessen' the national sides let's assume that our stars such as Silva & Aguero are still in our AND their respective national sides too!!

Discuss!!

 

[Lankers]

I would say

Germany- 1st

Argentina & City 2nd

Germany are at the level of barca or even higher, they were so good during the world cup

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

Vietnam 8-1 who are 143rd
We beat united 6-1 where does that rank them?
About 132nd??

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Any top club team would beat the best international team. They play every week together and tend to have fewer weaknesses.

 

[Why Always Ste]

Still not used to dishing out an high opinion of City so I'll say this:

by every goal we scored go one place up, so 8 places, deduct 1 for conceeding a goal leaves us in 136

So in between Bermuda and New Zealand :D

 

[Sam Armstrong]

Any top club team would beat the best international team. They play every week together and tend to have fewer weaknesses.

Good point BUT sometimes they can have several players who you'd like but who are relatively unobtainable to you in one team as a club but as a nation they are (Messi & Aguero?) .... does that not balance the argument a little?

 

[Kippax.]

Lets swap it, In the premier league where would England finish?

Bottom 3?

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I thought Vietnam was nineteen......

 

[AkanjisAfro]

England team would finish 7th in our league

 

[aguero93:20]

England team would finish 7th in our league

Yep. That's where Liverpool finish on average.