Manchester’s finest: Man United v Man City in ultimate starting XI battle following Louis van Gaal’s epic summer transfer window

Battle! United v City, but who comes out on top on paper? 

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Manchester United XI with Radamel Falcao.

While Manchester City are the Premier League champions, and rivals United have failed to qualify for European competition, the enormous summer in the transfer market by the latter brings them (on paper) pretty level in terms of their strongest possible starting XIs.

Here’s the players we’d choose in each position if we had the luxury of choosing from both squads!

Goalkeeper: David de Gea vs Joe Hart

Vote: de Gea

Slightly less error prone than his English opposite number.

SEE ALSO: Angel di Maria in Manchester United’s most expensive ever XI.