The Making of a Winning Premiership Squad

Except for Manchester City, each team has won sporadic silverware with their respective squad building strategies. But if you’re looking for sustained success over a number of years then clearly you should mimic Manchester United‘s ethos: develop young talent in your academies, purchase promising starlets from overseas and nurture future leaders who will take the next generation under their wing.

The Making of a Winning Premiership Squad

MAN UTD (24)

1991 – Ryan Giggs   (1)

1992 – Gary Neville  (2)

1994 - Paul Scholes  (3)

1996 – Wes Brown  (4)

1999 – John O’Shea  (5)

2002 - Rio Ferdinand (6)

2003 – Darren Fletcher  (7)

2004 – Wayne Rooney (8)

2005 - Ben Foster, Ji-Sung Park, Edwin van der Sar (11)

2006 – Michael Carrick, Patrice Evra, Nemanja Vidic (14)

2007 – Anderson, Jonathan Evans, Owen Hargreaves, Nani (18)

2008 – Dimitar Berbatov. Fabio da Silva, Federico Macheda (21)

2009 - Gabriel Obertan, Michael Owen, Antonio Valencia (24)

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CHELSEA (24)

1998 - John Terry (1)

2001 – Frank Lampard (2)

2003 – Joe Cole (3)

2004 – Alex, Ricardo Carvalho, Petr Cech, Didier Drogba, Paulo Ferreira (8)

2005 – Michael Essien (9)

2006 – Michael Ballack, Ashley Cole, Henrique Hilario, Salomon Kalou, John Obi Mikel (14)

2007 – Juliano Belletti, Fabio Borini, Florent Malouda (17)

2008 - Nicolas Anelka Jose Bosingwa, Deco, Branislav Ivanovic (21)

2009 - Nemanja Matic, Daniel Sturridge, Yuri Zhirkov (24)

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LIVERPOOL (24)

1996 - Jamie Carragher (1)

1998 – Steven Gerrard (2)

2005 – Pepe Reina (3)

2006 - Daniel Agger, Fabio Aurelio, Nabil El Zhar, Dirk Kuyt (7)

2007 – Dan Ayala, Ryan Babel, Yossi Benayoun, Lucas, Emiliano Insua, Javi Mascherano, Nando Torres, Andriy Voronin (15)

2008 – Philipp Degen, Andrea Dossena, Martin Škrtel, David N’Gog, Damien Plessis, Albert Riera, Martin Kelly (22)

2009 – Glen Johnson, Sotirios Kyrgiakos (24)

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ARSENAL (24)

2003 – Gael Clichy, Cesc Fabregas, Philippe Senderos (3)

2004 – Manuel Almunia, Johan Djourou, Robin van Persie (6)

2005 – Nicklas Bendtner, Emmanuel Eboue (8)

2006 – Abou Diaby, Denilson, Willie Gallas, Tomas Rosicky, Alex Song,  Armand Traore, Theo Walcott (15)

2007 – Eduardo da Silva, Lukasz Fabianski, Bacary Sagna (18)

2008 – Samir Nasri, Aaron Ramsey, Mikael Silvestre, Jack Wilshere (22)

2009 – Andrei Arshavin, Thomas Vermaelen (24)

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MAN CITY (24)

2004 – Nedum Onuoha (1)

2005 - Stephen Ireland (2)

2006 – Michael Johnson, Micah Richard (4)

2007 – Javier Garrido, Martin Petrov (6)

2008 – Benjani, Vincent Kompany, Robinho, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Pablo Zabaleta (11)

2009 – Emmanuel Adebayor, Gareth Barry, Craig Bellamy, Wayne Bridge, Nigel de Jong, Shay Given, Joleon Lescott, Roque Santa Cruz, Sylvinho, Stuart Taylor, Carlos Tevez, Kolo Toure, Vladimir Weiss (24)

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