Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Scriptures Prophesied the Messiah Plays 3-4-3
African_brehda
Superstar
Preferences breh. I just hate it when people act like Busquets go lucky. If he had started somewhere else, he’d have been picked by Barca after a year or two
Watch how Rodri panics when being pressed and tries to pass immediately, and tell me Pep won’t prefer a player like Busquets for his brand of football
He was a fraud, breh.
If he had hair and normal eyes nobody would have cared.
I'm gonna make a YouTube series exposing all these Serie Ass legends one by one.
EA
A Pound & A Prayer
Best DM ever has to be Makelele. He literally redefined the position in the 2000s and unlike Kante, his effectiveness didn’t decline as he lost his athleticism because of his elite positioning and reading of the game. Busquets is up there but he benefitted from playing in a team that literally dominated possession and collectively pressed so he didn’t have to be an amazing ball winner.
Calling players like Viera and Rijkaard DMs sells them short because of their prowess going forward. They were the blueprint for players like Yaya and Pogba.
When we say defensive midfielder do we automatically disqualify complete midfielders like Vieira and Rijkaard and just talk about Edgar Davids/Gattuso types?
Calling players like Viera and Rijkaard DMs sells them short because of their prowess going forward. They were the blueprint for players like Yaya and Pogba.
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
idk about GOAT. But he’s the best I’ve watched
Biscuits and Suarez fanboy and you call yourself a Milan fan.
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? I said Makelele 
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He was a fraud, breh.
If he had hair and normal eyes nobody would have cared.
I'm gonna make a YouTube series exposing all these Serie Ass legends one by one.
He doesn't look "normal"?
Anyway he was the best. Never made a mistake, always had the players under control.
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When we say defensive midfielder do we automatically disqualify complete midfielders like Vieira and Rijkaard and just talk about Edgar Davids/Gattuso types?
Vieira was B2B rather than being a DM. Rijkaard was a DM.
Kunty McPhuck
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When we say defensive midfielder do we automatically disqualify complete midfielders like Vieira and Rijkaard and just talk about Edgar Davids/Gattuso types?
Was Davids really the DM? Maybe his 1 year at Barca. But with Juve Deschamps was the clear DM in the midfield 3.
Kunty McPhuck
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Tbh y'all and the rest of the footballing world doing Kante a disservice calling him a DM he is more than that.
When I think of DM I think of players like Xabi Mascherano Deschamps Mauro Silva Marcos Senna Gilberto Silva Makelele etc etc
Kante game is that of a b2b player. Just like it was for Davids, Gattuso Inces of the world before him.
When I think of DM I think of players like Xabi Mascherano Deschamps Mauro Silva Marcos Senna Gilberto Silva Makelele etc etc
Kante game is that of a b2b player. Just like it was for Davids, Gattuso Inces of the world before him.
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Ex-England defender Terry Fenwick is accused of 'headbutting a press officer after the Trinidad and Tobago manager was involved in a furious row in front of journalists' before country's FA insist incident was 'blown out of proportion'
Fenwick, who represented the Three Lions at the 1986 World Cup and won 20 caps for his country, has been in charge of the Caribbean nation since January 1, 2020.
But his relationship with those working alongside him already appears to be strained after local reports emerged of an incident that ended with him allegedly lashing out at an employee in Couva.
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Fenwick
- Ex-England defender Terry Fenwick reportedly headbutted a press officer
- Fenwick and the press officer were said to be involved in a bust up at the time
- It's claimed three people witnessed the former QPR man headbutt the employee
- The Trinidad and Tobago manager has two World Cup qualifiers this month
- The Trinidad FA released a statement, insisted 'apologies were exchanged' after
Fenwick, who represented the Three Lions at the 1986 World Cup and won 20 caps for his country, has been in charge of the Caribbean nation since January 1, 2020.
But his relationship with those working alongside him already appears to be strained after local reports emerged of an incident that ended with him allegedly lashing out at an employee in Couva.
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Yippee Ki Yay
All Star
I would say yes as Vieria was a box to box midfielder as Tenet has already said who had Gilberto Silva alot of his time as the DMWhen we say defensive midfielder do we automatically disqualify complete midfielders like Vieira and Rijkaard and just talk about Edgar Davids/Gattuso types?
Rijkaard spent alot of his time as a CB, didnt really get put DM until he was at AC Milan i think, and played CB Internationally
While other era
Kunty McPhuck
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Yup. Euro 88 he was at CB. As he was when he and Voller got into their spitting contest in Italia 90.
Iirc in his first season at Milan he played like a third of the season as Baresi's CB partner.
LVG had him playing as the hybrid CB/DM in that Ajax team. Kinda like how Cruyff had Pep doing in the Dream Team era.
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
I'm going old man syndrome and DM is a holding midfielder in old money. The Italians and South Americans got better terms to distinguish between the various roles tbh. The numerical terms like 6 8 10 has made people lazy when it comes to defining players. A #10 in today's football is associated with only being an AM but totally negating the SS who were the #10's in most teams especially in the 2 forward era. And many AM's aren't really #10's.
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