Excluding players born in the UK, Ireland, grew up in the UK (Euell/Lisbie/Grant) & to British parents abroad (Mr J Robinson for example)
I venture forward with:
(Best)
Ilic
Moutakil (Can't think of any other RBs)
Costa
Fish
Hreidarsson
ZZ
Jensen
Samedo
JJ
Di Canio
Bartlett
(Worst - I know there were some obscure horrors from the early 90s)
Andersen
Kishishev (as a RB)
El Khalej
El Karkouri
Traore
Bagheri
Pouso
Faye
Blomqvist
Svensson
Hasselbaink
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El K did do SOME good things for us back in 2004/5 especially.
Yes he was a class above. Trouble is, looking at your team, I'm not sure who to drop!
JJ I think.
I'd drop Svensson for Ostergaard and perhaps Faye for Jacobsen (that's how bad he was!)
Worst Diawara ahead of TEK and would have put Petterson in instead of Andersen though neither were bad keepers IMHO
Spector in for Kish who should be a least on the bench for the best team
Good thread idea Oakster
Simmo would walk into an all-time inter-galactic XI! Di Canio's performances for us weren't a patch on Simmo's.
Not at all - my XI's were just to get the thread started!
Maybe we can come up with a definitive version at the end of the thread!
Paul Rabatcha (spelling) worse 'keeper than Andersen.
I suspect that means he should be in neither?
Saved a pen from jason Euell on Saturday did Paul R.
Lets try and get the best team out the way first.
Has anyone got an argument against a front pairing of:
Eddie Firmani - 89 goals in 177 games
Stuart Leary - 163 goals in 403 games
????
Simonsen is a definate, his quality wins over the lack of games he played for us, but he can be played out wide, or 'in the hole'
Only played 11 games but scored 9 goals and all in a struggling side in the top flight including a hat trick in a 5-2 win at Highbury.
He went on to score 81 goals in 158 goals in the ultra defensive Italian Serie A for Atalanta, Napoli and Torino.
Played for Sweden as well and I think may have played in the 58 world cup final.
Leary I never saw play but Jepson and Firmani both scored in the top flight and in Italy.
Firmani would also be the overseas Manager
Just a point of order.
Are we basing this on whether the player was a great one or the amount of service given to the Addicks?
We would all have Simonsen and Jeppson in as great players but what about them v Firmani and Leary given the latters length of service/goals?
I hope this makes sense.
Like if you was doing an overall great team, you wouldn't include John Barnes.
Would also be interesting to select a greatest ever Charlton "English team" to play against our foreigners.
A list of Charlton players over the years including nationalities (not definitive)
Sid O'Linn was on the clubs shortlist at centenary for greatest overseas player. He too was a very good cricketer.
My Grandad bangs on about a South African goalie just after Bartram - I can't remember his name though.
It's hard to do this when you haven't seen all the players but great idea Oakster as we get to learn even more about the clubs history.
As for worst you're spot on with "we all dream of a team of El Kahalej, a team of El Khalej...."
'Surely Kish in midfield is better than Semedo'
...and I thought it was a joke thread !
Its all about opinions. Semedo has played a handful of games in midfield in the 2nd Tier. Kish played for several seasons in the Top Tier. Our best football for years came when we had a midfield which included Kish, Smertin and Murphy. Kish's workrate was amazing. I hope that Semedo will become a better player than Kish for us but he ain't there yet.
My old Dad says they used to call him 'Umpty Go-kart'.