Rangers Banter 126139

13 Oct 2026 09:38:51
Only one of them has the position they play named after them, Makelele every time.

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13 Oct 2026 10:14:42
Remember back in the day reading a story about Makelele paying £80,000 to change the leather in his Mercedes put me right off him.

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13 Oct 2026 10:06:56
Makelele reinvented the holding midfield role.

I would say only Busquets and Pirlo have come close in my opinion.

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13 Oct 2026 12:15:05
Kante not in same league as makelele or busquets.

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13 Oct 2026 13:12:07
Stevie that's a hard one mate as Kante was also superb in the holding role. Who won the most trophies that's the only way I can decide. Think it might be makelele that just edges it.

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13 Oct 2026 13:22:47
Kante not being in the same league, ATTI? Kante was a top player.

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13 Oct 2026 13:28:18
I like busquets

Toffipops are my favourite.

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13 Oct 2026 13:58:56
I personally rate makelele better than kante but kante was also a quality holding midfielder 👌.

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13 Oct 2026 13:59:42
So I've just googled it makalele won 15 and kante won 11 but kante has the World Cup and makalele doesn't. That's a hard one to decide who's best. My pick would be kante as he has World Cup also I really liked him.

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13 Oct 2026 14:02:25
Cheers lads, I would also say makalele but listen kante absolutely without a shadow of doubt is in that class of players.

I'd say busquests may be the best of them but he is different Infact all 3 are slightly different aren't they.

Then we've got Rodri now, is he better than busquets?

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13 Oct 2026 14:42:18
Wallace and more caps for France, not much in it with both players.

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13 Oct 2026 14:51:31
Not much in it at all mate think it just comes down to preference. Both outstanding footballers. Kantes story is unbelievable from nowhere to world champion pretty amazing.

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13 Oct 2026 19:23:53
I've never played the makalele i always played guitar😌.

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13 Oct 2026 19:30:03
I would say it is difficult to be better than Busquets although I would have preferred Pirlo in my team. The way he anchored that Milan team was amazing.

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13 Oct 2026 20:11:13
Laudrup that's both of our good jokes died on their ars*s on this thread 🤣🤣.

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13 Oct 2026 20:35:43
Nato I feel they're both different players to the point u could play them both in a 2 with a 10 ahead and that would be some mf.

Pirlo was special too.

The best teams all have a mf eith great balance.

That Milan had pirlo technical ability and vision and passion etc , ball retention and telling everyone what to do and where to be.

Gattusso was the legs and the aggression and seedorf was a bit of both.

All great winning teams need balance.

{Ed001's Note - Pirlo met me this week, I could tell he was very excited....}

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13 Oct 2026 21:02:55
I'm meaning u could play pirlo and busquets as a 2 btw *.

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13 Oct 2026 22:05:26
Did u frighten him with the scouse accent Ed 😂.

{Ed001's Note - no mate, he was obviously a bit star struck though as he didn't seem to understand me. He did seem to be very nice though, especially considering his team had just been beaten.}

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