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Heres some thoughts to start off

                                 Casillas

Sergio Ramos   Ferdinand      Garay      Evra

                Essien         Kaka        Gerrard

                Messi        Berbatov    Ronaldo (MUFC)

Buffon; Zambrotta, Nesta, Cannavaro, A.Cole; Ronaldo, Makelele, Pirlo, Messi; Kaka; van Nistelrooy

That would be my choice. If Ronaldinho regained form, then I would put him in place of Pirlo.

                                    Casillas

         Sergio Ramos     Ferdinand     Puyol     Evra

                Essien            Gerrard           Kaka

                Ronaldo                                Messi

                                     Torres

Casillas, Sergio Ramos, J Terry, R Ferdinand, R Carlos

Kaka, Ronaldinho, C Ronaldo

Messi, V Nistelrooy, Torres

Buffon, Sagna, Evra, Nesta, Rio, Fabregas, Ronaldo, Mascherano, Messi, RVN, Torres

Thats if 4-4-2 is used, I wanted to have Kaka, Toni, and Ribery but its difficult to find them space in this team.

Not being funny guys and no offence meant, but this thread was about the current best eleven in the world, and that would mean on form - some of these seem to be from 5 years ago! Roberto Carlos now he's at Fenerbache? Makelele who has looked a shadow of his former self? Garay is promising but I can think of a number of better centre backs while Cannavaro's form has been patchy. I'm not having a go, and I understand its all relative (Englishmen tend towards Premier League players, Italians towards Serie A etc.) but judging on form, these people don't deserve to be there. Not that im bold enough to give my own opinion - much easier to shoot others down! Sorry.

P.S. Except Casillas. It's always Casillas. Real would be SO screwed without him.

Surely Cech over Casillas? Even with the silly headgear!

louis:

Not being funny guys and no offence meant, but this thread was about the current best eleven in the world, and that would mean on form - some of these seem to be from 5 years ago! Roberto Carlos now he's at Fenerbache? Makelele who has looked a shadow of his former self? Garay is promising but I can think of a number of better centre backs while Cannavaro's form has been patchy. I'm not having a go, and I understand its all relative (Englishmen tend towards Premier League players, Italians towards Serie A etc.) but judging on form, these people don't deserve to be there. Not that im bold enough to give my own opinion - much easier to shoot others down! Sorry.

 

P.S. Except Casillas. It's always Casillas. Real would be SO screwed without him.

Form is temporary, class is permanent. Cannavaro will show you in the summer why he's still one of the top centre-backs. And there still isn't anyone better at the holding role than Makelele in my opinion.

                                           Casillas

  Ramos          Ferdinand         Richards            Evra     

                                  hargreaves

C Ronaldo                      Kaka                   Messi

                   huntelar            Torres

so what if huntelar is playing in holland he is scoring for fun 

Richards?!? bit premature don't you think, plus don't you think that Vidic has been more impressive than Ferdinand this season?

Can nobody find room for Essien?

I like Vinny's selection - Alves is a given for any best team. And as for Astafjevs, I agree that form is temporary and class is permanent but you've really missed the point. CURRENT best eleven. That means based on form. If you say Cannavaro needs until the summer to show me why he's still good, then its an admission he's not on top form and QED he's not CURRENTLY one of the best. The problem is also that you suggest you would only put Ronaldinho in if he 'regained form'. So surely this applies to Cannavaro as well? Thats not meant in a narky way, just a point, interested to hear the justification. And Essien is better than Makelele in the 'Makelele' role, if a little more dynamic.

I don't think Cannavaro's playing too badly. If he wasn't playing well, Madrid would drop him. Alves can't defend, hence why I didn't pick him. And Makelele is a master at the holding role - bags of experience and still getting in Chelsea's team for the big occasions.

              Cassilas

G.Neville Canovaro Ferdinand Abidal

    Gerrard   Makelele   Toure

Ronaldo         Eto            Messi