Manchester United All Time Greatest XI (4-1-3-2) - ShareMyTactics.com
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Manchester United All Time Greatest XI! GK: The legendary and imposing Peter Schmeichel takes his position in the goalmouth with no opposition. RB: Having served the club for over a decade during arguably its greatest era, Gary Neville slots in at his dependable right back position. CB: In a painfully tight decision, the quiet yet ever so classy Rio Ferdinand pips his partner in crime, Nemanja Vidic, for the privilege of lining up next to Man U's best ever defender in terms of peak talent: Jaap Stam. LB: Patrice Evra? Roger Byrne? Left back seemed to be a tough call to make, but then again, if Sir Alex Ferguson himself said he would choose Steve Irwin at left back in his ideal XI, the point is rather moot. DM: With all due respect to iconic and gritty captain Roy Keane, Manchester United has never had a central midfielder with more power and guile, more brains and brawn, than Duncan Edwards. The dearly departed Busby Babe almost literally muscled his way into the first team before turning 20 years old, and by the time of his tragic death in Munich in 1958, had won Bronze in the Ballon d'Or vote for Europe's best players. Bobby Charlton summed up this complete midfielder by saying Edwards was the only player that ever made him feel inferior. AM: Nothing to elaborate here, really. England's greatest player ever, the fulcrum of United's first golden years, and one of the greatest attacking midfielders of all time. The one and only Bobby Charlton. RW: Cristiano Ronaldo arrived at Man U as a raw, lanky teenager. He departed as the world's greatest player and already etching his name in the footballing pantheon. A quick, powerful, and technically monstrous winger that scored as many goals as he did flummox defenders, Ronaldo turned in one of the greatest individual season performances in English football history in 2007-08 (I'll leave the research and video watching up to you lot for your enjoyment). LW: No contest here. Just behind Garrincha as the greatest winger of all time, Britain's greatest player of all time, it's Manchester United's golden boy. It's George Best. FW: The icon of a generation of English boys, "King" Eric Cantona led United into their golden generation from the 1990s with bewildering goals and skills, as well as an equally bewildering temper. ST: The final piece of Man U's Holy Trinity of the 1960s, Denis Law is the greatest striker the club has ever seen, having scored 237 goals in 404 caps for the club, as well as winning the Ballon d'Or in 1964. His record of 46 competitive goals in one season with the club still stands.
