City Greatest XI

[Iamthemusicman]

Reading the Bell vs Silva thread got me thinking and reminded me of a display I have at home from Danbury Mint. It is basically a nice box that holds City's Greatest XI and lights up.

The team goes like this: Trautman, Book, Power, Booth, Pardoe, Summerbee, Bell, Oakes, Young, Lee, Goater.

I think now you could make a good argument that that team is 'out of date' due to our recent success and some of the players we've had/still have.

Being 19, the only player on the list above I really saw was Goater although I have seen videos, stats and stories about the rest. I know there are many on here far more qualified than me to decide who actually deserves to be in our Greatest XI of all time.

Your opinions please?

 

[bluemoon98]

Trautmann
Zaba Kompany Booth Pardoe
Summerbee Toure
Bell Brook
Silva
Aguero

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Trautmann in goal, yes, Bell certainly, no question, but Aguero, Silva and Yaya are as good as any I've seen! Very difficult to do over five or six decades 'cos Joe Hart is probably far more 'athletic' than Bert was, and I grew up with Bert in goal, and how can you come to a reasonable and logical comparison between Tony Book and Pablo Zabaleta?

I never saw Peter Doherty but by all accounts he would make any City team.

 

[jamesha]

This is an almost impossible task due to different eras. A greatest Premiership XI would be interesting but I think only Tevez of those who have left would have a realistic chance of getting in.

 

[kippaxblue76]

Trautmann

Zab
Kompany
Watson
Donachie

Summerbee
Bell
Yaya

Silva
Aguero
Lee

That would be my pick but so difficult, you could name another eleven equally as good.

 

[MaineStandMoaner]

These are always so hard to do.... All I know is that Dave Watson, Colin Bell, Franny Lee, Silva and Aguero would be on the sheet.

 

[MarsLlama]

I'm only using players I'm old enough to remember actually watching, so:

Hart
Zabaleta Kompany Dunne
Touré Dinho
Silva SWP
Aguero Tevez Goater

 

[Ric]

Always very difficult and subjective these things.

If I was trying to be balanced based on players' achievements with the club, and also standing within the game, I'd go for something like this:

Trautmann
Book
Doyle
Kompany
Pardoe
Summerbee
Bell
Toure
Silva
Lee
Aguero

That's largely just picking players from our two most successful sides though. There are pretty compelling arguments for including the likes of Meredith, Doherty, Brook etc.

Difficult to say though when you haven't seen them in action! Based on those I've actually seen myself, I'd go for:

Hart
Zabaleta
Kompany
Distin
Hinchcliffe
Silva
Toure
Kinkladze
De Bruyne
Aguero
Tevez

Pretty unbalanced midfield, and a heavy emphasis on recent players, but I started going to City in the late 80s so it was slim pickings for quite some time!

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Hart
Zabba
Bobby mc
Vince
Lakey
Dav
Ali B
KDB
Sergio
Carlitos
Tueart
Subs Corrigan Ferna McCarthy Bellamy Barry francis rosler

 

[yeseye]

Players i've seen.
Hart
C Wilson
A Morrison
Kompany
B Mcdonald

Lake
Dinho
Banarbia
Silva

Tevez
Aguero

Subs: Weaver, Caton, Kinkladze, Tueart, Paul Stewart, Paul Simpson.