Saw this debate on Twitter and thought I'd bring it here. Not best, but favorite players.

 

Are you wanting like a squad or just who are fave players are?

Can it be from any era? I became a fan around 96, so I'll go from there, and sorry for getting carried away.

Since 96:

Cudicini

Le Saux Terry Desailly Ferreira

Makélélé Wise

Zola Lampard Kalou

Drogba

Subs:

Hilário

Ivanović

Carvalho

Mikel

J. Cole

Guðjohnsen

Hasselbaink

Reserves:

ÄŒech

Schwarzer

Ed de Goey

A. Cole

Melchiot

Babayaro

Lebœuf

Huth

Essien

Ballack

Di Matteo

Ruud Gullit

Zenden

Malouda

Duff

Schürrle

Stein

Spencer

Vialli

Tore André Flo

Forssell

Carlton Cole

Anelka

Edited November 12, 201411 yr by JoeyBlue25

.........................Cech

Petrescu.......Desailly...Terry....Clarke

........................Maka

.............Lampard....Robbie D

..Gudjohnsen................Zola

.....................Drogba

 

 

Not best, but my favourite.  Could all change tomorrow as I'd not included Robben, Duff, Crespo, Cole, Essien, Cudicini, Wise, Vialli, etc.

-----------------------------Cech-------------------------

 

--Petrescu--------Gallas--------Terry----------Cole

 

 

-------------------Lampard-------Makelele

 

 

 

-----Mata----------------Zola------------------J. Cole

 

 

-----------------------Gudjohnsen

 

 

 

Bench: Cudicini, Carvalho, Lebouef, Duff, Di Matteo, Drogba, Vialli

Edited November 12, 201411 yr by Zeta Orionis

if i'm giving my favourite Chelsea XI it has to be the 1970 FA Cup winning team - that's the team I started to follow when I was just 7 years old

Cech

Ivanovic -- Carvalho -- Terry -- Cole

Essien -- Ballack

Lampard

Robben J.Cole

Drogba

Subs - Cudicini, Duff, Gallas, Mata, Anelka,

I'm sure you can tell by my team that I am pretty young lol.. Seems a pretty solid team nonetheless imo.

Also quite young...

 

Cech

Azpilicueta, Desailly, Terry, Cole

Makelele, Lampard,

Robben, Hazard, Zola

Drogba

Since around 2003.

 

                Cudicini

Ferreira Terry Desailly Dave

           Essien Lampard              

Joe Cole    Mata      Zola

                Drogba

if i'm giving my favourite Chelsea XI it has to be the 1970 FA Cup winning team - that's the team I started to follow when I was just 7 years old

 

I'd add Alan Hudson to that team,not sure who I'd leave out though.

-------- Cech --------

Ivanovic ----- Terry ---- Desaily ---- Cole

Essien ------ Makelele ------Lampard

Joe Cole ------------------------------------ Malouda

Drogba

 

But best XI was under Anchelotti in my opinion. We had a machine attack, Anelka's best days of his career.

Something like this:

 

-------------------------Cech

Petrescu------Desailly-----Terry--------Cole

-----------------------Makelele

-----------------Mikel---------Lampard

---------Zola------------------------------Duff

------------------------Drogba

Something like this:

 

-------------------------Cech

Petrescu------Desailly-----Terry--------Cole

-----------------------Makelele

-----------------Mikel---------Lampard

---------Zola------------------------------Duff

------------------------Drogba

 

Switch Mikel for Di Matteo and that's pretty much mine.

Mikel almost made mine surprisingly. Seems like a really nice guy, always smiling!

I'm going to cheat bottle it slightly  by giving an unspecified combination of the 1970 and 1971 trophy winning XI's:

1970 FA Cup Winners XI
Peter Bonetti, David Webb, Eddie McCreadie, John Hollins, John Dempsey, Ron Harris ©, Tommy Baldwin, Peter Houseman, Peter Osgood, Ian Hutchinson, Charlie Cooke

1971 European Cup Winners XI
Peter Bonetti, John Boyle, Ron Harris ©, Charlie Cooke, John Dempsey, David Webb, Keith Weller, Alan Hudson, Peter Osgood, Tommy Baldwin, Peter Houseman

I'm going to cheat bottle it slightly  by giving an unspecified combination of the 1970 and 1971 trophy winning XI's:

1970 FA Cup Winners XI

Peter Bonetti, David Webb, Eddie McCreadie, John Hollins, John Dempsey, Ron Harris ©, Tommy Baldwin, Peter Houseman, Peter Osgood, Ian Hutchinson, Charlie Cooke

1971 European Cup Winners XI

Peter Bonetti, John Boyle, Ron Harris ©, Charlie Cooke, John Dempsey, David Webb, Keith Weller, Alan Hudson, Peter Osgood, Tommy Baldwin, Peter Houseman

 

you must be about my vintage LOL

Right, I`m going for favourite players, not necessarily the best in their position.

 

Keeper - Dmitri Kharine, utterly bonkers.

LB - Dave, just brilliant and smiley.

CB1 - Ken Monkou, Big bar steward

CB2 - JT, pretty obvious.

RB  - Super Dan Petrescu, one of my all time favourite Chelsea players.

LW - Ambrosini, just because he tried so damn hard. Shame he was sh*t.

CM1 - Dennis Wise, scored a f**king brilliant goal, in the san siro, with ten minutes to go....

CM2 - Ruud, oh the wonderful Ruud.

RW - Wee Pat, brilliant.

ST1 - Franco, pretty obvious

ST2 - Tore Andre Flo. Start or sub, never complained, always gave his all, Real Betis.

Switch Mikel for Di Matteo and that's pretty much mine.

 

 

Mikel almost made mine surprisingly. Seems like a really nice guy, always smiling!

 

Essien and Robbie D ran him close but I couldn't deny the Metronome a place in my pantheon of legends!

 

ST1 - Franco, pretty obvious

 

Never really rated Di Santo to be honest.

I might have to leave out some great players but I'll do a team with a balance

GK: Cech

RB: Petrescu

CB: Terry ©

CB: Carvalho

LB: A Cole

MF: Wise

MF: Essien

MF: Lampard

LW: Zola

RW: Joe Cole

ST: Drogba

Subs: Cudicini, Alex, Feirrera, Poyet, Di Matteo, Duff, Gudjohnsen

Edited November 12, 201411 yr by Bobbywoodhogan

It would be a 442 diamond formation. 

 

- Cech

- Petrescu/Azpi

- Gallas

- Terry

- Cole

- Makele

- Zola

- Robben/Duff

- Lampard

- Greaves

- Drogba

 

Btw, this is irritatingly hard as many players could alternate in the best XI ever. 

Edited November 12, 201411 yr by enigma

I was just thinking about Alex’s free kicks, I'd have to include him in my squad, not the first 11 though.

I might have to leave out some great players but I'll do a team with a balance

GK: Cech

RB: Petrescu

CB: Terry ©

CB: Carvalho

LB: A Cole

MF: Wise

MF: Essien

MF: Lampard

LW: Zola

RW: Joe Cole

ST: Drogba

Subs: Cudicini, Alex, Feirrera, Poyet, Di Matteo, Duff, Gudjohnsen

Favourite XI. Not necessarily the best players but just people I liked (since 98).

3-5-2 to make sure we get the players I like in

GK: Cudicini

CB: Gallas

CB: Terry

CB: Luiz

CDM: Wise

CDM: Essien

RM: Ramires

CAM: Zola

LM: Kalou

ST: Drogba

ST: Crespo

Subs:

Cech

Ashley Cole

Desially

Poyet

Ballack

Joe Cole

Hasselbaink

Oooooh Eidur over Ballack perhaps

Edited November 12, 201411 yr by mactheknife

Completely forgot about Luiz. He'd be up there for sure.

Completely forgot about Luiz. He'd be up there for sure.

The first time I saw Luiz start for us (Fulham away?), I thought we had signed the future best player in the world.

Ridiculously talented, extremely loveable, annoyingly naive.

He could have been so much more, but he had fun and that's all he really wanted to achieve.