BBC Sport’s Ask Me Anything about Leeds form – found at the top of this page or here – threw up the following question from reader David Little.
“If your pundits had to pick Leeds best eleven in the Premier League era, who would make the team?”
So, while we’ve got the teams above and below David, BBC Radio Leeds also went one further and made a podcast for you on it.
And take in the teams selected by BBC Radio Leeds’ Jonny Buchan and Simon Rix of the Kaiser Chiefs.
Here is a taste of the some of the discussion about who made the cut…
Jonny Buchan: “I’m going to have to play Raphinha off the left. You could give him a bit of a free roll, couldn’t you? And then everyone can shift a little bit. It’s on trend, isn’t it? A bit of a free roll? We’ve got to go to the front too.
“I think it is not said enough how important he was for avoiding relegation under Jesse Marsch. It was in spite of whatever else was going on around him, he dragged the side up. You wanted the ball, just give him the ball, just give him the ball – he was one of those players.
“Give him the ball to do something, and he did eight times out of 10. Then to go on and do what he did at Barcelona afterwards – and I know we’re not meant to include that – but to go get into that top five in the Ballon d’Or? Wow. That is an unbelievable achievement.”
Simon Rix: “If you look at Barcelona this season when he’s injured, they are not as good. He credits [Marcelo] Bielsa as well with a lot of that. A lot of it is he can get up and down, so he can be defending and he can get right back up there and score a goal.
“As an argument, if you were doing that World Cup thing where it’s like ‘this person or this person’, it is arguable that Raphinha is the best player ever to play for Leeds. So, he has to be in my XI.”
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