THIS was the side that was meant to break the top 4 hegemony in the 00's

>THIS was the side that was meant to break the top 4 hegemony in the 00's
Holy fucking kek
>you now remember Carew scored a lot in Valencia's champions league campaigns
>Ashley 'bird shit' Young
>Gabby 'Original Pacebabby' Agbonglahor
>James Milner
>Gareth Barry
>Friedel

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Handsome, intelligent, muscular Gareth Barry is elite

Curtis Davies the GOAT

But this is a good team. Young and Agbonlahor were exciting young players. Barry and Petrov were two very solid midfielders. Milner was constantly linked to the big four teams.

>Curtis Davies
Ah yes, the second best cb at derby county

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Lol I first looked for Young at left back. I've gotten so used to him being a defender since Van Gaal I almost forgot he used to be a winger

WISH WE COULD TURN BACK TIME

American GOAT Friedel

This guy gets it

>Greentexting Milner, Barry and Young
all three were starters for top 4 teams for years

What's your point? That's decent team. And I don't remember anyone saying they would be top 4
The Leeds team that actually finished in the top 4 (Ipswich 5th) was better

>THIS was the side that was meant to break the top 4 hegemony in the 00's
it was?
i don't remember aston villa being hyped this much at any point in the 00s

Villa under O'Neill were close to being the first team to get into top 4 around 06/07 I believe

you've greentexted multiple PL winners, retard.

>the first team to get into top 4
What are you on about? Leeds, Newcastle and Everton all finished in top 4 between 2000 and 2006. Villa had a few decent seasons and finished 6th a few times

Everton finished 4th in 04/05

>petrov
based
didn't he BTFO cancer?

>zoomer never saw the size of Martin Laursens thighs
i pity you

most of these players were pretty good in their primes

they weren't far off tbf
came 6th three times in a row and in 08-09 they were cruising in 3rd until february and then totally shit the bed

this was the table in feb 2009. they totally fucked it though and ended up in 6th

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Pretty amazing that in 25 years of the PL, Utd and Liverpool have only truly gone head-to-head for the title once. In fact, throughout their histories, they’ve rarely competed for the top honours at the same time. Strange rivalry.

Wut

This team was about 10 years after that

Utd have only won 1 league that basnt won by Busby or Fergie and that was over 100 years ago

think they were trading titles in the 60s, but since it's been either a Liverpool era or a United era. i guess it's more a combination of being from rival cities fairly close to each other, and both trying to claim that historically they're the biggest team in England (Liverpool with more European Cups, United with more league titles)

Future England manager.

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Yep, based Stenli dabbing on leukemia

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They were a non "big 4" team who finished in the top 4 in the 00s.