Best and worst SR 11

[sockeye]

For a bit of Friday fun let's think of the best and worst starting eleven we can make with SR signings only. That means all players signed from summer 2022 whether they were permanents or loans. Academy players are banned unless they were brought in during SR's tenure. You can define 'best' and 'worst' in whatever terms you like.

For ease of posting that means the following players:

Amo-Ameyaw, Bazunu, Lis, Bella-Kotchap, Lavia, Aribo, Mara, Caleta-Car, Edozie, Larios, Orsic, Alcaraz, Bree, Onuachu, Sulemana, Maitland-Niles, Abu, McNamara, Manning, Charles, Lumley, Awe, Stewart, O'Brien-Whitmarsh, Downes, Fraser, Holgate, Harwood-Bellis, Rothwell, Brooks, Lallana, Taylor, Edwards, Wood, Sugawara, Brereton Diaz, Matsuki, Akachukwu, Archer, Juan, Fernandes, Dipepa, Ramsdale, Traore, Welington, Kayi Sanda, Udoh, Takaoka, Ugochukwu, Cornet, Gronbaek, Quarshie, Downs, Roerslev, Azaz, Fellows, Jander, Scienza, Romeu, Long, Jelert

 

Here's mine. 

 

Best:

Ramsdale

Jelert - Wood - Bella-Kotchap - Taylor

Lavia - Romeu (C)

Brooks - Fernandes - Scienza

Stewart

Worst:

Bazunu

Sugawara - Holgate - Larios

Cornet - Maitland-Niles

Gronbaek - Orsic

Mara - Brereton Diaz - Downs (C)

[Monk]

Fuck me that is tragic on the face of it..... 

 

How have they fucked it up so badly. 

[Lighthouse]

Best:

Ramsdale

Jelert    THB    Wood   Welly

Lavia   Downes

Brooks Fernandes Scienza

Archer

Worst:

Lumley

Sugawara    ABK    Holgate   Larios

AMN Lallana

Orsic   Cornet  Groenbaek

Mara

I feel it’s too early to be too harsh on some of this season’s signings and putting Archer in a ‘best’ XI is taking the p*ss a bit, but that’s where we are.

[Saint NL]

1 hour ago, sockeye said:

Worst:

Bazunu

Sugawara - Holgate - Larios

Cornet - Maitland-Niles

Gronbaek - Orsic

Mara - Brereton Diaz - Downs (C)

How many divisions would you have to drop before that team was competitive? 😂

[Toussaint]

36 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

How many divisions would you have to drop before that team was competitive? 😂

it would be one that didn't pay wages.

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Worst

Long

Holgate-ABK-Larios

Udoh-Traore-Groebaek-Orsic

BBD-JuanLove-Cornet

Still praying Downs comes good!! ABK could've been one of the best, but ended up being a complete waster. 

[Mboto Gorge]

I like the added touch of having Downs as captain. 

[coalman]

I'm struggling to pick a best and worst team for entirely opposite and very predictable reasons. Bravo Sport Republic.

[RedArmy]

Even the “best” is depressing. 
 

It’s more like a worst and least worst 11. 

[Colinjb]

All that money, all that effort.

And we still roll out Stephens and McCarthy.

Just bloody damning.

[chiknsmack]

A first XI midfield/wide attack of Lavia, Fernandes, Alcaraz, Scienza, and Fellows is decent for the PL. A second XI of Downes, Charles, Brooks, Edozie, and SAA is top of the Championship. Add in Jander, Aribo, and Azaz, and you have good depth in midfield.

Ramsdale is a PL keeper.

The problems, as we all know, come in defence and in the centre forwards. ABK and THB are supposed to be £15m players with the potential to become £50m ones. Edwards and Quarshie are supposed to be £5m players with the potential to rise to £15m then £50m. Unfortunately, none of them look like being targets for the big six anytime soon.

None of our FBs are worth writing home about. I haven’t seen enough of Jelert to be for or against him. The others are “too good for the Championship” at best.

Stewart was an Ings-like gamble on a talented but injury-prone player at a discounted price. He looks to have the Ings-like ability when fit, but “when fit” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

 

TL;DR SR can find good, young, relatively cheap midfielders and wingers but can’t do the same at GK/FB/CB/CF and are – Ramsdale aside – unwilling to drop big money on the finished article with less room for development/price appreciation.