Name 2 players from your club that never played together but would make a great partnership.

acnumber9 said:
You were right. Scholes didn’t debut until 94/95 and Robson left at the end of 93/94.
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Yeah, I thought that I was probably wrong. Technically they were at the club at the same time but never played together so I was indeed wrong. I thought that Scholes didn’t debut until 1994-95 anyway.
 
Beckham on the Right Crossing to Ronaldo running inside from the other wing would have been devastating.

Would have also liked to have seen Stam with Rio, but the Vidic partnership was already pretty perfect.
 
It hurts my head that Rio and Stam never played together. I love Vidic to bits, but those two could be an all time pairing.

Beckham and Ronaldo is another great shout.

There are a lot of our more recent talents who I feel would have twice the careers they've had, if they'd been born at the right time to have Roy Keane holding them accountable on and off the field. Pogba and Rashford chief among them.
 
Beckham - Law — if there ever was an upgrade on Ruud in terms of finishing…

Cantona - van Persie would be such an aesthetically pleasing pair of strikers.

And McGrath - Martinez as a centre-back pairing; Paul was probably our most athletically gifted CB ever and he’d be a great upgrade on the post-peak Varane (they’re even both injury-prone!).

I’d also be interested in a hypothetical duo of Keane and Pogba… most likely it would’ve ended up in a complete disaster (like 90% chance) but on the off chance of Keane actually being able to discipline him… and Pogba worked very well with Kanté for France, even though they’ve had Matuidi on the left helping them out.
 
Keane and Pogba is a good shout actually. I think I recall Vieira saying that Pogba would have been a better player next to someone like Keane.

As others have said Bruno and Ruud would have been a great partnership.
 
Sir Bobby and Scholes. They'd dance around the opposition together.
 
harms said:
I’d also be interested in a hypothetical duo of Keane and Pogba… most likely it would’ve ended up in a complete disaster (like 90% chance) but on the off chance of Keane actually being able to discipline him… and Pogba worked very well with Kanté for France, even though they’ve had Matuidi on the left helping them out.
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I know it's just two players, but if we're hypothetically talking about these two as a duo, let's just say it's Pogba being thrown into the late 90s/early 2000s midfield in which case he'd probably be fine as Beckham worked as hard as Matuidi did, and Giggs was no slouch either.
 
Not sure if it would work or not, but a forward like Hughes holding up the ball for Bruno to run onto would be great.
 
Del Piero and CR7
Zlatan and Neymar
Thiago Silva and Maldini
Sneijder and Ronaldo Luis
RVP and Özil
Makélélé and Palmer
 
Was about to say Hazard and Drogba then I remembered the latter returned for a farewell tour in 14/15. Still going to cheat a bit and say Hazard and 'prime' Drogba.
 
harms said:
And McGrath - Martinez as a centre-back pairing; Paul was probably our most athletically gifted CB ever and he’d be a great upgrade on the post-peak Varane (they’re even both injury-prone!).
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It's strange, because they'd have to stand on each others shoulders in a trenchcoat to be allowed on a rollercoaster, but I'd still back the pair of them to dominate any side in the air.
 
Fred and McTominay and we could call them McFred.

I like to think this never happened.
 
This thread has given me mad flashbacks to the mid-90s Reebok advert:


Plus in a similar way the 2006 Carlsberg advert - quite poignant given those now gone...
 
Pascal Quiff said:
Salah and Suarez

Robertson and Barnes

VVD and Hyppia would have been cigar central
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Salah and Suarez? Really? I'd say Suarez would have to concede scoring as much as he did. Salah isn't much of a team mate when it comes to shooting opportunities.
Suarez I'd feel would have to sacrifice like Rooney did for Ronaldo. Or Benzema did for Ronaldo.

I'd agree though with VVD and Hyppia.
 
Do wonder how Larsson and Ibrahimovic in their primes would have been like with a proper team around them.

Not entirely sure which one of 98/99 or 06/07 team would have suited best. Probably 98/99.
 
diarm said:
It's strange, because they'd have to stand on each others shoulders in a trenchcoat to be allowed on a rollercoaster, but I'd still back the pair of them to dominate any side in the air.
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What? McGrath was 185 cm tall (I'm not doing these pesky inches). Not quite Mertesacker but certainly tall enough?
 
Maradona and Batistuta
Riquelme and Batistuta
Maradona and Tevez
 
Prime Carrick-Pogba
Fernandes-Van Persie
Ferdinand-Martinez
 
Pogba + (prime version) Casemiro

In my opinion Pogba never had a world class defensive midfielder behind or next to him during his whole Manchester United period. He needed one because the defensive part of his game wasnt exactly amazing.
 
Beckham crossing it to Cristiano’s headers.
Bruno passing to RVP.
 
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