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Well, this decade saw a lot of great strikers so it's disrespectful not to include any of them. I guess you don't think Messi or Cristiano is worse than Robben. I'm huge fan of him but he is unlucky concerning this topic. Period.
This isn't about being respectful (whatever that's even supposed to mean), this is about choosing the best players for the team. Robben was probably more influential than Suarez or Lewandowski in the 2010s, even despite his injuries.
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However I find controversial your choice to include a pure defensive midfielder but exclude a pure striker.
The best team of the decade, Barca 2011, did exactly that. I doubt anyone found that controversial at the time.
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Also Kroos and Schweinsteiger were more significant than Sergio, so you should consider sacrifice a pure DMF.
Were they? I mean, Busquets won a World Cup, a Euros, 2 CL titles and 7 league titles while being one of the team's best players. I'm not "ignoring" the other players, I just think those three in the team were the best midfielders of the 2010s. That they all played together is purely a coincidence. I mean, I doubt anyone would complain that other players were being ignored if someone put Rijkaard, Gullit and Van Basten in an 80s team or Di Stefano, Puskas and Gento in a 50s team.
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Afterwards, placing Messi to the centre for the sake of leaving a striker out is kinda illegal. False 9 Messi always had a striker on his side. The position Messi is to be handed through this decade is RWF or right side SS.
He has Ronaldo next to him, I don't see how that's any different to when he had Villa next to him. It's not like Ronaldo is averse to running in behind defences or anything.
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All in all your team praises the individual performance no matter how it lasted (which is obviously not bad), but it lacks of paying mutual respect to teams/players that had the same success.
The objective of this team is not to be diverse. The fact so many players here all played for the same teams is a symptom of the centralisation of football, where only 3 or 4 teams can expect to compete for the top trophies, and very few world class players play outside of those teams. The starting XI has 4 Barcelona players, 3 Real Madrid players, 3 Bayern players and a Juventus player. To me, that seems completely representative of the 2010s. Great players are always going to miss out.