A deceptively simple concept, which can prove surprisingly tricky in execution. It’s a straightforward Premier League team of the season with one major caveat: you can only pick one player per club instead of just all Liverpool and City players and perhaps a Heung-min Son. Trickier, but more fun.
Have a go at your own XIs in the comments if you like. You don’t even have to stick to the ‘No United Player’ rule we added in because we are children and it made us laugh. We did try to avoid Garthing it too egregiously, and reckon we’ve at least pulled that off.
GOALKEEPER: Jose Sa (Wolves)
One of the best bits of business anyone did last season was Wolves managing to seamlessly move on from Rui Patricio’s departure and doing so for just £7m. Wolves’ season may have rather petered out towards the end, but it has done so from a peak of genuine Champions League contention which few would have expected given last season’s struggles and having to replace their manager as well as their goalkeeper, who has the Premier League’s highest save percentage this campaign (74.5%)
RIGHT-BACK: Reece James (Chelsea)
A better right-back for England than Trent Alexander-Arnold and pretty close to being a better right-back full stop. We need our Liverpool spot elsewhere (this also rules out Mo Salah – don’t get cross, it is literally the premise of the format. He is real good at the football, we’re not saying he isn’t) so we don’t even need to make comparisons. We just did anyway for shits and giggles. The second half of the season has been disrupted by injury for James, but when he’s been on the park this season he’s been first rate.
CENTRE-BACK: Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
“Not as good as before his injury,” observe the chin-strokers. “Still really f***ing good, though, and better than pretty much anyone else in the world,” says everybody else. Historically, you don’t want to use up too many of the top clubs on the defensive positions…
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