2022 Football Draft Tournament This is a current draft of the best players in today's game. Imagine this summer that an elite football tournament was being held. You're the manager, aiming to build the best squad and win the knock-out tournament... which current players would you choose? Rules: - you must build a squad of 14 players (starting XI + 1 defender + 1 midfielder + 1 attacker for your bench). - snake draft format - 4 hour pick deadline. If you are going to be offline please leave a shortlist with another manager. - 14 players, 14 different football clubs (whatever wikipedia says his club was for the 2021-22 season). - Player evaluation: form, ability, awards and performances for the 2021-22 season + potential with new teammates. - no best team/ranking votes this time. We will be creating match-threads for each fixture against eachother (group games, then knockout games to decide the eventual champion). - transfers/reinforcement rules will be announced later. Who is interested? Managers Muller Sme kaboose Enn Sjor Joga bonito RedDevil19 Hashtag55 David Garrincha The Red Viper Jyotirmoy13 UltraSurs007 Arsenal Tone Spoiler: Group Stage Squads Muller - Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Rodri (Manchester City), Patrik Schick (Bayer Leverkusen), Lucas Paqueta (Lyon), Cody Gakpo (PSV Eindhoven), Pau Torres (Villarreal), Martin Odegaard (Arsenal), David Raum (TSG Hoffenheim), Benjamin Pavard (Bayern Munich), Walter Benitez (Nice), Ronald Araujo (Barcelona), Jorginho (Chelsea), Rodrygo (Real Madrid), Renan Lodi (Atletico Madrid) Sme - Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City), Antonio Rudiger (Chelsea), Darwin Nunez (Benfica), Marquinhos (PSG), Alisson (Liverpool), Jarrod Bowen (West Ham), Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid), Denzel Dumfries (Internazionale), Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen), Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Memphis Depay (Barcelona), Emile Smith-Rowe (Arsenal) kaboose - Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Fabinho (Liverpool), Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli), Benjamin Bourigeaud (Rennes), Nico Schlotterbeck (SC Freiburg), Hakan Calhanoglu (Internazionale) Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund), Juan Cuadrado (Juventus), Javi Galan (Celta Vigo), Odysseas Vlachodimos (Benfica), Juanmi (Real Betis), Teji Savanier (Montpellier), Yannick Carrasco (Atletico Madrid), Melvin Bard (Nice) Enn - Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), Ruben Dias (Manchester City), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Rafael Leao (Milan), Jules Kounde (Sevilla), Mason Mount (Chelsea), Christian Gunter (SC Freiburg), Danilo (Juventus), Raphinha (Leeds), Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid), Gerson (Marseille), Fabian Ruiz (Napoli), Willi Orban (RB Leipzig) +1 Sjor - Kylian Mbappe (PSG), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Thiago Alcantara (Liverpool), Pedri (Barcelona), Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid), Marc Cucurella (Brighton), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Lisandro Martinez (Ajax), Marc Guehi (Crystal Palace), Konrad Laimer (RB Leipzig), Tino Livramento (Southampton), Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Ravel Morrison (Derby County), Richarlison (Everton) Joga bonito - Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund), Sadio Mane (Liverpool), Casemiro (Real Madrid), Noussair Mazraoui (Ajax), Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City), Dejan Kulusevski (Tottenham), Frenkie De Jong (Barcelona), Marcos Acuna (Sevilla), Mateo Kovacic (Chelsea), Mike Maignan (Milan), Lucas Hernandez (Bayern Munich), Marco Verratti (PSG), Jose Gimenez (Atletico Madrid), Nicolo Zaniolo (Roma) RedDevil19 - Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Eder Militao (Real Madrid), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Fikayo Tomori (Milan), Ederson (Manchester City), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton), Neymar (PSG), Antony (Ajax), Kai Havertz (Chelsea), Rodrigo Bentancur (Tottenham), Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich), Wilfred Zaha (Crystal Palace), Gabriel Magalhaes (Arsenal) Hashtag55 - Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund), Dusan Vlahovic (Juventus), N'Golo Kante (Chelsea), Dani Olmo (RB Leipzig), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG), Ricardo Perreira (Leicester City), Rafael Santos Borre (Eintracht Frankfurt), Stefan de Vrij (Internazionale), Calvin Bassey (Rangers), Elif Elmas (Napoli), Joey Veerman (PSV Eindhoven), Moussa Dembele (Lyon) +1 David - Son Heung-min (Tottenham), Gleison Bremer (Torino), Theo Hernandez (Milan), Lautaro Martinez (Internazionale), Lionel Messi (PSG), Diego Carlos (Sevilla), Tomas Soucek (West Ham), Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid), Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City), Josko Gvardiol (RB Leipzig), Daniel Parejo (Villarreal), Ruben Neves (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Allan Saint-Maximin (Newcastle) Garrincha - Christopher Nkunku (RB Leipzig), Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United), Luis Diaz (Liverpool), Jose Sa (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Christian Eriksen (Brentford), Bruno Guimares (Newcastle United), Willian Saliba (Marseille), Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Charlie Taylor (Burnley), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Leandro Cabrera (Espanyol), Nathan Ake (Manchester City), Maxence Lacroix (Wolfsburg), Jonathan Clauss (Lyon) The Red Viper - Harry Kane (Tottenham), Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Joel Matip (Liverpool), Reece James (Chelsea), Aurelien Tchouameni (Monaco), Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich), Matthijs de Ligt (Juventus), Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City), James Maddison (Leicester City), Alessandro Bastoni (Internazionale), Gavi (Barcelona), Nuno Mendes (PSG), Kevin Trapp (Eintracht Frankfurt), Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid) Jyotirmoy13 - Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid), Joao Cancelo (Manchester City), Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Marcelo Brozovic (Internazionale), Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Cristian Romero (Tottenham), Matty Cash (Aston Villa), Presnel Kimpembe (PSG), Diego Jota (Liverpool), Conor Gallagher (Crystal Palace), David De Gea (Manchester United), James Tarkowski (Burnley), Sebastien Haller (Ajax) UltraSurs007 - Andy Robertson (Liverpool), Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), Wissam Ben Yedder (Monaco),Thiago Silva (Chelsea), Declan Rice (West Ham), Moussa Diaby (Bayer Leverkusen), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Nabil Fekir (Real Betis), Davide Calabria (AC Milan), Milan Skriniar (Internazionale), Ousmane Dembele (Barcelona), Yassine Bounou (Sevilla), Marcos Llorente (Atletico Madrid), Federico Valverde (Real Madrid) Arsenal Tone - David Alaba (Real Madrid), Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool), Achraf Hakimi (PSG), Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich), Sandro Tonali (Milan), Nicolo Barella (Internazionale), Gianluca Scamacca (Sassuolo), Tammy Abraham (Roma), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Manuel Locatelli (Juventus), Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United), Julian Brandt (Borussia Dortmund), Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona), Jonathan Tah (Bayer Leverkusen) GROUP STAGE 3 groups were randomly sorted: Group A (5 teams), Group B (5 teams) and Group C (4 teams). You will play everyone in your group once. We will vote for a winner/draw for each group fixture. You will need to use a different substitute in each group game (substituting out a different player too). I.e you must start with squad player 12, 13 or 14 in your starting lineup. In Groups A and B there will be one fixture where you don't need to use any of your substitutes (squad players 12, 13 and 14). The top 3 placed teams will progress from Group A and qualify for the quarter finals. The top 3 placed teams progress from Group B and qualify for the quarter finals. The top 2 placed teams will progress from Group C and qualify for the quarter finals. Group A RedDevil19 Jyotirmoy13 UltraSurs007 David Hashtag55 Group B Joga bonito The Red Viper kaboose Enn Muller Group C Garrincha Sjor Sme Arsenal Tone
Will have to think about it considering how much I messed up the World Cup draft Edit: This is different... so count me in
9 managers in so far... ideally looking for 16, at least 12. 1. Joga bonito 2. Garrincha 3. kaboose 4. Sjor 5. Hashtag55 6. UltraSurs007 7. RedDevil19 8. The Red Viper 9. Jyotirmoy13 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
13 signed up so far... let's get 3 more! Joga bonito Garrincha kaboose Sjor Hashtag55 UltraSurs007 RedDevil19 The Red Viper Jyotirmoy13 Enn Sme Arsenal Tone David
