I know i'll defintely be in minority here but i'm yet to be wholly convinced. I personally think VDV has been far and away the biggest influence on the backline and our defending in general.
I'd like to see how Allison would look playing behind Lovren and Moreno every week. Likewise, it would interesting to see what the Mig would be like behind the current backline.
Schmiechel has been the best keeper of the last 40 years (at least of those Ive seen play). Without doubt he was the biggest influence in that United team of the 90s and probabaly won them 2 or 3 titles than they deserved.
I'm convinced if we'd had Schmiechel in goal instead of the likes of James, Hooper, Friedle, Westerveld we'd have won the league at least once in the 90s. Though like Allison would he'd have looked as good playing behind Phill Babb, Razor Ruddock and Julian Dicks?
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