I feel ashamed... I only play ML at 2*...
You see, my friends and I play an Exhib's match competition with our ML-Teams, and a unique player-pool. We want to make our teams as fast as possible... We played a tournament to determine draft-sequence: the winner got the first chance to pick a player for his team, then the second finisher got a chance, etc... We stopped at 22 players, and eventhough I finished last I got me a nice team.
I started off with an original team, Racing Reetkickers FC (had hours of fun with designing the shirts and the sponsors - Argenta Bank and National Geographic), exchanged three original players for Koltarii (Vincent Kompany) and Adriano. (BTW Koltarii developed GREAT in season 1, but ever since he has stagnated... why is that?). Now, in season 3, I'm at 14 of my 22 players, and my Best11 (heh) looks like this. It's a standard 4-4-2 with a central vertical axis.
Ibrahimovic (or 'Zlatan') Adriano
Rosicky
Van Der Vaart Joaquin
Viera
Riise Mellberg
Samuel Kompany
Casillas
On the bench: Totti (yeah, I know... but he really sucked at ball-handling and control, Rosicky was much better), Reyes (polyvalent winger, real asset), Mexes (kinda low stats, but good at interception), some of the original wussies and Nakata and Ono (cheap season 1 QuickSearch products, and good stats as well)
Still on my list: Cannavaro, Pires (along with Rosicky my favourite players from PES3), R. Ayala, Ballack, Morientes, D. James, Materazzi and Larsson (with Ibrahimovic and Mellberg the Swede connection - I really think Sweden had to win the European Championship, damn the Dutch lucky bastards!, or at least play the finals, they were the most attractive team together with the Danes)
Review of the current players (versus human opponents):
Adriano rules - he's utterly unstoppable with his high balance and power, and dribbling works like a charm
Ibrahimovic - great positioning, only his response could be better. He'll probably be exchanged for Larsson once I get him. Totti is also a good sub for him...
Rosicky - I love him. Great dribbling, fast enough, and even good at recuperation! And he has the Playmaker special ability. Trust me, you need that.
Viera - what can I say? Best DMF in the game I think.
Van Der Vaart - fast and accurate, very good penetration. But slow at reception and first control. A good opponent can nullify his powers because of this. Reyes is a good sub, and a lot more difficult to handle by those opponents - but then again, his general stats are lower than Van Der Vaart's.
Joaquin - fast, good reception, good acceleration... but a lousy shot! Will miss anything when farther than 10 feet from the goal, hehehe... He'll probably be subbed out for Pires when I get him...
Riise - very good leftback, I think second only to Roberto Carlos on that position... But he's impossible to keep in the back once you get ballcontrol... That's his only downside. He even scores on a regular basis.
Mellberg - fast enough and good at interception and constructive passing. A very decent sideback, and I'm not sure he'll have to take the fall once I get Ayala.
Samuel - well, he plays for Real Madrid. Nuff said. His positioning could be better sometimes, though.
Kompany - nice, even when on his basic stats (in Exhib's). Good intercept, and nice attacking mentality. Only, his shot technique is incapable of supporting that attitude. He'll probably be switched for Cannavaro.
You'll notice my forwards having a 'counter-foot' for their position - that works great when playing a supportive/dribbling game. The respective wingers do have their 'good' foot on their position, and you create a nice complementarity this way.
The bench also supports a two-OMF 4-5-1 for playing against those pesky 4-3-3 human opponents (you know, the ones that play with Recoba and C. Ronaldo and such)
Well, there u have it.