I appreciate that you started this thread, I really do. But I got a lot of shit going on right now so I have been a grumpy bitch lately and I can't help myself here.
this is exactly the type of shit I can't stand about brits when they talk about football/soccer/whatever the fuck you want to call it. There is a reason that France won the world cup, that Real Madrid was the best team in the world for the early 00s, that Chelski had immediate success, that Lampard and Terry can dominate for club but suck ass for country, and that reason is Claude Makelele. Although the English "invented" the game, as a nation they display a shocking, yet predictable, ignorance of how it is best played. I think it is without question that in the early 00s if you were going to build a team from scratch, the player that would be picked first (ie the most important player on the team, ie the best player) would be Claude Makelele.
Zidane said it best when Madrid sold Makelele for Beckham: "Why put another layer of gold paint on the Bentley when you are losing the entire engine?"
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