Posted by BlueChampion in Cristiano Ronaldo has deservedly won the PFA award for the player of the year this season. We already knew that there were no nominations from Chelsea in the shortlist. But I never thought that there won’t be even one Chelsea player in the PFA team of the year!
Last season, we had at least Didier Drogba from Chelsea but this time there is no one. Even Aston Villa and Portsmouth have got an entry each.
PFA Premier League Team of the Year:
David James (Portsmouth), Bacary Sagna (Arsenal), Rio Ferdinand (Man Utd), Nemanja Vidic (Man Utd), Gael Clichy (Arsenal), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal), Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd), Ashley Young (Aston Villa), Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal), Fernando Torres (Liverpool).
Let me see where we could have seen some Chelsea names. The goalkeeper is James, it could easily have been van der Sar. Centre backs from Man Utd. I can’t complain. Right back is Bacary Sagna? You can think of better options. Belletti anyone? Left back is Gael Clichy. I guess Ashley Cole this season has been very good and not many would have made faces if Ashley had got that place.
Midfield has Gerrard and Fabregas. They will be in the PFA team of the year every season. They are life time entries. No matter how they play, they are auto-selected. I don’t think I can make any entries from Chelsea in the midfield. Then comes Ronaldo. The best, this season. Ashley Young is also there as a wide midfielder. He has been making news this season but to find himself in the PFA team of the year, has he done better than Joe Cole? Well, I don’t watch him week in week out. Anyone who has been following his football can comment.
In attack, it is Torres and Adebayor. While Torres’ entry is indisputable, I’m not confident about Adebayor. I know he scored lots of goals. Having seen how those goals were scored and against whom, I don’t think he should be there. I’d have Tevez there instead of Adebayor.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter much to find a place there as long as we win our matches on hand and Man Utd drops a couple of points. What do you think about the PFA awards this season?
If i had to choose i would have chosen more or less the same team. Just may be i would have picked joe cole for young but thats marginal because young is young, pacy and has been the backbone of villa attack this season. creative player.
Clichy has played good but his 2 errors in last few minutes in 2 matches have cost gunners 4 points this season. I think ashley hasnt been selected considering that refree dispute. Anyways clichy has been wonderful more or less.
Sagna has been the backbone of gunners and can be seen after his injury gunners struggled. Actually arsenal had the best LB RB whole season and they were the integral parts of their attack whole season.
ferdinand justifies his place but i would have ricardo for vidic. vidic had a great start to season but in 2nd half of season he has been anonymous.
now this team has been choosen as a 4-4-2 so i have no problems with fabregas, gerrard , ronaldo and young there. i might have put j cole/ bentley for young may be.
torres for sure will be there and adebayor too has played good or should i say scored lot of goals. i i would have put santa cruz / tevez if aerial threat of adebayor is not considered .
more or less good selection. no chelsea player but i am sure they all have narrowly missed or may be subs!!
and who is the manager Grant?
I truly agree with ur words…atleast Lampard could have been there
the PFA awards this season is fair, to be candid no chelsea players deserve a nomination. Adebayor deserve a place ahead of Tevez because he scored more goals than tevez.
I too think it was fair not to have any chelsea player there. No one really shone this season. I’m surprised aut Clichy’s selection. Wasn’t Evra heads and shoulders above all the left backs in the premier league this season?
I haven’t seen the team nominations but if Essien is not there then its meaningless…
Essien does not deserve a place in the PFA team. How many matches did he turn himself or perform well? I can count with my fingers in one arm. Carvalho is a better nomination but not above Rio and Vidic.
If you see the list, most of them are match winners and have actually won the matches for their respective teams
Except for Gerrard and Fabregas, i’m totally ok with the PFA team
If at all we have to choose one player from Chelsea i would prefer Lampard.(Cech?)
Ok, i’m going to try the FOY(Flops of the year)
Some names coming into my mind straight away not in any particular order
Gordon
Darren Bent
Ok ok wait… Shaun Wright Philips
Voronin
Arsen Wenger(I said in no particular order… right?)
Derby Team
Henry
Riise
Anybody want to add on to this list?
i think the reason for that is that we had many injury player during all season almost every player was injury for some time but i do agree that at least Joey Cole should be there instead of A.Young ok he had a great season but also Joey was our best player this season in my opinion ..
Joe cole is our best bet. But if you ask me, nobody in our team converted a draw/lose to win.
I cannot remember even one.
But in spite of all that we are still #2. Is Manu then bad?
I agree with the PFA Team. It kind of sums up the season. I guess you might tempted to go for Tevez because of his recent performances but it was Adebayor’s goals which initially sent Arsenal to the top. So I agree with it. Reaistically we shouldn’t have expected to have anyone in the that team given that all our best players have been absent for large periods this season. Joe Cole has been our player of the season but I’l go for Young on that one purely for the impact he has had in his games for Villa. He has put in some really match winning performances. I’m a bit worried about Cole. He has been this good for a long time now(about 3 seasons?) But he hasn’t really kicked onto the next level. Like scoring goals and turning up big performances on a consistent basis. Would like to see him much more consistent next season.
Ow can you say sagna shouldn’t be in there?
Who scored against ya?
just to put the figures up in some more even notes:
NAME—–MINS—GOALS—ASSISTS
Lampard 1839 10 8(designated penalty taker)
Drogba 1350 8 5
J.Cole 2393 7 6
Kalou 2133 7 11
Fabregas 2767 7 19(designated i think…)
Adebayor 2707 21 4
Ronaldo 2593 28 6(designated penalty taker)
Tevez 2497 13 6
Rooney 2091 12 11
Gerrard 2673 11 11(designated penalty taker)
Torres 2353 22 3
I cant tell how many goals from penalties though.
J.cole has made the most appearances in a chelsea shirt followed by a.cole then kalou and cech on equal time. Most chelsea players have made less then 2000 mins of playing time. On average thats a measly 23 games rounded up. From a possible 36 already. BTW this is prem league only.
The most interesting stat is that torres is a amazing, 6 goals off the pace in PL and not even a penalty taker and played around 2-3 less the ronaldo. Next is the chelsea players, look at drogba and lampard both have played very little games. Lampard about 21 games worth and drogba 15 games. Compared to lets say tevez who has played 27 games for 13 and 6 drogba is about equal. Rooney is the amazing stat though 24 games for 12 and 11.
Obviously lampard-gerrard is a straight match up and surprise surprise lampard shits on gerrards with playing around 8-9 games less yet only 1 goal and 3 assists away from equaling the much over-rated player.
its pretty obvious that ronaldo has had a great season 28/6 nothing to laugh about but i wonder how good a chelsea side not marred by injuries(enough to screw over any other side) as well as africans nations would have done.
Long post but i think its quite interesting. obviously comparing minutes played to actual games isnt fully right and a comparison of how many goals were scored as penalties and how many against lets say a certain level of competition(ie CL 4, UEFA 4, derby and so forth), would give a better idea of how a player is in big matches(hint, ronaldo would do very badly having only scored twice both times at home against Big 4 competition. never against chelsea, although so would lampard with 4 goals coming from a game against derby…)
It would be awesome if they could get a cool aggregation program happening for this shit.
Only carvalho has been consistent enough in blue to deserve a special mention
@ish
great post i should say..
I think Young is an AMAZING player and it is tough to see J.cole out of the team but young deseves a lot!!!!!
The PFA have been fair – Chelsea don’t deserve a player in the team of the season this year. Joe Cole has had some incredible games but not on a regular basis. Ballack and Lampard missed half the season through injury.
The only thing I would argue is that Evra should be at left back over Clichy. Ash has been good all season but not as much as Evra.
Hopefully, next year, we can force our way back in.
good hopeful thinking chrid
I think that players that realy deserved to be in this team are:
Nemanja Vidic
Cristiano Ronaldo
Steven Gerrard
That is my opinion
I never understood this type of finding the best palyer of the EPL.
Carvalho should be mentioned as the best CD in the world, what a player.
we don’t deserve to have any of our players in the list
Gerrard being in there is absolutely ludicrous. But hey, I’m not the least bit surprised by his inclusion. I’m struggling to think of something he could do that would make the media print a single bad word about him.
And people, there’s only one Chelsea player that’s been well and truly snubbed here, and that’s Ashley Cole, without question. He’s been the best left back in the world all season, and while he missed a couple matches around the holidays he’s come back in roaring form, and I can’t think of a single bad performance he’s put in since then.
Joe Cole also has a case, but a less compelling one in my opinion. Yes, he’s been a spark plug, but his stats really aren’t that impressive and it’s very hard to quantify being a spark plug.
I think adebayor should not have been in this team.Wayne Rooney deserves to be there.Torres-Ronaldo-Rooney its unstoppable.
My team of the year:
David James (Portsmouth),Rio Ferdinand (Man Utd), Nemanja Vidic (Man Utd),Bacary Sagna (Arsenal),Gael Clichy (Arsenal),Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal),Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd), Ashley Young (Aston Villa), Wayne Rooney (Man Utd), Fernando Torres (Liverpool).
RESERVES:Van der sar(man utd),Patrice Evra(man utd),Matthieu Flamini(arsenal),Essein(chelsea),Lampard(chelsea),joe cole(chelsea),Agbonlahor(aston villa)
Manager:Sir Alex Ferguson
Team of the year:
DAVID JAMES (Portsmouth)
GLEN JOHNSON (Portsmouth)
RIO FERDINAND (Manchester United)
RICARDO CARVALHO (Chelsea)
ASHLEY COLE (Chelsea)
CRISTIANO RONALDO (Manchester United)
ELANO (Manchester City)
TIM CAHILL (Everton)
JOE COLE (Chelsea)
DIMITAR BERBATOV (Tottenham)
FERNANDO TORRES (Liverpool)
Manager: HARRY REDKNAPP (Portsmouth)
it’s ok that we don’t have players in that list
But if Cech, Carvalho, Essien, Lampard, Ballack, Drogba hadn’t missed all that games
they should have definitely been in the list
PFA? They are the same people who run football in England and this is the reason England are not playing Euro-2008.
Chelsea reached into CC final. (Not ManU/Arsenal/Liverpool)
Chelsea reached into FA cup QF (Not Arsenal/Liverpool)
Chelsea are going to play in Moscow ( Not Arsenal/Liverpool)
Chesea are joint leader with ManU ( Not Aresenal/Liverpool).
P Cech/ Carvalho/ Essien should have been included in PFA.
a cole has not been the same player as he was at arsenal,the best left back in the world they used to say .not any more.
My team of the year will have to be… gk- d.james, sagna, ferdinand,carvalho, a.cole, ronaldo, fabregas,ballack/barry, joe cole, torres, santa cruz… i chose ashley cole because he’s been in sizzling form look at his performances in all the big games he also scored a brilliant goal and made crucial blocks and clearances, even roberto carlos asked for his shirt this season after fenerbace lost to chelsea. Ashley Cole has silenced his critics and has usurped clichy to the best LB title. Evra is an overated twat.
“Let me see where we could have seen some Chelsea names. The goalkeeper is James, it could easily have been van der Sar.”
Such ignorance. Van der Sar is with Man. U. Don’t you mean Petr Cech?????????????????hnonse
lol Ken! I’m sure you didn’t mean it. Did you? I was just going through the team list while checking if the deserved one got it and if a Chelsea player could feature there. Cech did not deserve to be in the PFA team, van der Sar did.
Wow…respect to the Chelsea fans for such fair comment. I’m a Man U fan but would have Essien and Joe Cole in my team instead of Gerrard and Young. I’d have Drogba and Carvalho on the bench.
essien b4 gerrard. if you’re talking a true 4-4-2 diamond formation then essien as holding mf or even garreth barry. gerrard was helped immensely by torres. they should have an honorable mention of 3 (subs): essien/barry,tevez/santacruz & evra.
Im yash.. Chelsea fan’s,….! im lost y chelsea player are not in the pdf list!…..it should be terry ashley cole carvalho, and ferreira if they would have played all there match…but there are so many jealous team to crashed off chelsea players because we are too good for them …lol
in midfield it should be ballack & lamps..
forward ..sheva & malouda!!…not the big value 15m bid ANELKA who missed a penalty agnst man u in the CC final…not terry it was the man u fans bad pray for him as he slipped and put the pen wide and van der sar who was supposed to b best gk was even wrong sided
i think the M*t**rf*c*e*s who choosed this player should have been sick!!!! carvalho,cech,A.cole,J cole should have got place on tthat team