Comments on: Build Your Own Team: Part III

By: sam

sam — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:39:23 +0000

Lloris
Reveillere – Cris – Mensah – Grosso
Toulalan – Makoun
Govou – Pjanic – Ederson
Benzema

By: Norwegian lyon supporter

Norwegian lyon supporter — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:57:15 +0000

I think lyon can make it really far in CL this season, we’ve done some exellent signings in ederson, lloris, pjanic, makoun and mensah, and i think all of those players will be hunter by all the richest clubs at the end of the seasong. MY optimal starting eleven would be:
Lloris
Clerc/Revelliere Cris Mensah
Grosso/Kolodziecziak

Makoun Toulalan

Govou/keita Pjanic/Juninho(he’s assists will be desicive for lyon this year) Ederson/delgado

Benzema

With fred as an second option striker, and baros as an free transfer.

This team will bring the trophe back home to france and make the football in france as popular as premier league!!

By: pin

pin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:40:01 +0000

————–Lloris——————
Clerc—–Cris——Boumsong—-Grosso
———Toulalan—Makoun————
————–Pjanic——————
—-Govou——————Keita——
————-Benzema——————

By: Ush

Ush — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:24:41 +0000

Wage structure aside, Lyon are great but still located in France and have to play in Ligue 1 which isn’t an attractive prospect for most players as the league lacks competition.

About the CL, as Ghislain and Wenger have pointed out its a cup competition so only 1 team wins it each year, and one bad day at the office and you’re out. Madrid beat by Roma at the Bernabeu last season? You need a certain amount of luck which Lyon just hasn’t had so far.

By: Inara

Inara — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:22:35 +0000

Welcome, Caleb and Clara! Always good to see more OL fans.

I’m with Jo, there are so many options that it’s hard to figure out which one would be the most effective. I hope Puel doesn’t play favorites though, like using Bodmer in defense instead of a real defender (Boumsong). I also hope Kallstrom isn’t completely forgotten. He was immense in the Sweden-France game, and it was a nice reminder of what he can do when he’s on song.

By: Ghislain

Ghislain — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:26:30 +0000

Here’s the thing with me about the Champions League. Yes, I would LOVE to win the damn thing, or hell even make it to the semis. But only ONE team in all of Europe wins it every year and it is very difficult for a French team (yes, even Lyon) to compete with the likes of Madrid, ManU, Barcelona, Milan, etc. These are historical clubs with deep links to soccer’s past and have much more money to throw around. Wow, imagine if Lyon were able to attract a Carlos Tevez for $60 million? Not gonna happen…when the Eto’o rumours came out and JMA said he didn’t really want to disturb the salary structure. I never once, Samuel confirmed this, believe a striker of his caliber would ever join Lyon – for now, it is still a one way street the other way. So while winning it would be a similar feeling for me as when France won in ‘98, it is not the be all end all of my goals for Lyon as a club. When OL starts to buy these kinds of players or have them stay at Lyon for the bulk of their careers, then I will be happy that Lyon have truly arrived as a BIG club. Everyone that blogs here knows that Karim is as good as gone next summer. We need to be able to convince Karim to stay, period.I am sick of being a feeder club to the clubs we are expecting to beat in the Champions League – it’s ridiculous! Even Arsenal has never won the Champions League for crying out loud. Anyway, end of mini-rant. I just love this club and want to see it progressing and not stagnating or regressing.

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:09:27 +0000

I dont even know where to begin, so many possibilities! Ill post later when I can really think long and hard about it.

By: blyrr3

blyrr3 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:31:26 +0000

NEWS! Thimothée Kolodziecziak has arrived to lyon!

By: Clara

Clara — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:54:07 +0000

Hi, Inara.
Laurie told me about your blog, and I just looked through some of the entries, and wow, this is a really great blog! I can’t believe I didn’t know about it earlier. Good job so far!
This is my first season following soccer, so I still have so much to learn about individual players it seems (I have to learn “wingers” and all the different positions too, hah). Anyways, it’s very interesting to read about you guys’ ideal lineups.

By: Pride of Lyon

Pride of Lyon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:53:39 +0000

I have always loved Kallstrom on the left. I think he is better there than in the center.
I’d go for :
Lloris
Reveillere – Cris – Boumsong – Grosso
Toulalan/Makoun
Govou – Ederson/Pjanic – Kallstrom
Benzema – Fred

I would prefer a partnership Cris Boumsong. I think Cris and Mensah are too similar defensilvely and don’t complement each other. Boumsong is not as physical as the two others but is very good in game reading… He would give also a better cover for Grosso.

I also have 2 strikers, because the main atmosphere problem for our team is up front… only 1 seat for 4 players, that just cannot work! If we have 4 strikers, we have to play at least 2 per game. And I don’t think we need to have 2 DM’s for Ligue 1 games… CL maybe, but not L1.