**OFFICIALLY** The Best Team in the Land & ALL the World

[Dribble]

Premier League champions Manchester City have been named as the best football team in the world, following the emergence of new rankings of global football squads.

That is according to the Opta Power Rankings – a new global team ranking system that is said to “assign an ability score over 13,000 domestic football teams on a scale between zero and 100”, with zero being the worst-ranked in the world and 100 being the best.

As such, the system finally puts to bed ongoing debates between global football supporters as to who is the best team in the world, irrespective of who wins the continent and country’s major honours in recent seasons.

Opta’s Power Rankings: Top-10

Manchester City - 100.0
Real Madrid - 99.3
Arsenal - 96.3
Internazionale - 96.2
Bayer Leverkusen - 96.1
Barcelona - 95.8
Bayern Munich - 95.2
Liverpool - 95.1
Paris Saint-Germain - 95.1
Sporting CP - 93.8​

https://cityxtra.co.uk/18536/manche...all-team-in-the-world-as-new-rankings-emerge/

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

We’ve been telling em for years.

UTFB

 

[burning blue soul]

Who's on zero?

 

[jimharri]

Not bad, considering we were only founded in 2008.

 

[N1985]

Who's on zero?

These poor fuckers it seems. The City fan in me wants to adopt them as my 2nd team. Although it seems they went bump 5 years ago

 

[PragueBlue]

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These poor fuckers it seems. The City fan in me wants to adopt them as my 2nd team.

From that it looks like they were dissolved 5 years ago so not a great surprise that they don't currently rank well.

 

[N1985]

From that it looks like they were dissolved 5 years ago so not a great surprise that they don't currently rank well.

Yeah I edited my post after having a proper read. Reckon they'd still get a draw at the Swamp

 

[Craig]

Been the best by a distance for about 6 years but don’t have the European cups to back it up. We’ve all known we’ve had the best team though since Gurdiola’s 2nd season.

 

[burning blue soul]

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These poor fuckers it seems. The City fan in me wants to adopt them as my 2nd team. Although it seems they went bump 5 years ago

My tattoo is booked for tomorrow morning. I love rooting for the underdog... or underrhino in this instance :)

 

[Who let the Goat out?]

How did the arse get to 3rd based on not winning their own league for 20 years ??

 

[Elbow beards]

Not to put a downer on it but Arsenal 3rd and Liverpool 8th, I mean come on?!?

 

[ysmsa]

Rags 35 :-)

 

[I'm Blue]

Arsenal 3rd cos of all the trophies they’ve won

 

[TinFoilHat]

Awaits the letter writing from (insert club here)

 

[gray740]

Always sang it with conviction, but never thought we would be where we are, still would sing it if we were in division 3 - 4 or whatever it is, love my team no matter what.

 

[Cobwebcat]

Opta’s rankings, in their current form, have been going for around 21 months now and City have been top for all of that time.

Their inspiration comes from Clubelo who they consulted before devising their system.

 

[Stuuuuuu]

Who's on zero?

Failsworth Tigers when I played for them.

 

[TonyM]

It feels to un-City now that it is literally true.

Can we change the song to "disputedly the best team in the land and all the world" instead?

 

[yeah whatever !!]

"where the fuck are man united !!"

 

[I'm With Stupid]

If only there was some way of working out who the best team was without needing to rely on a bunch of nerds with a database.