posted Jun 10, 2009

Only two:
Xabi Alonso
Ledesma

Another player who could play that role (in the sense, not the most attacking in vision or passes) is Toulalan.

I wish De La Red had a good heart.

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posted Jun 10, 2009

When you have some time, tell me about Ledesma, I don't know him...

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posted Jun 10, 2009

De La Red is quality, hopefully he'll be able to play again. What's the crack with him? Is he seeing specialists or something? He was supposed to be taking a year out, but I have heard nothing of what happens next for him?

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posted Jun 10, 2009

Pirlo?

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posted Jun 10, 2009

Cristian Ledesma (born 24 September 1982 in Puerto Madryn) is an Argentine football midfielder currently playing for S.S. Lazio in Rome, Italy. He transferred from U.S. Lecce to Lazio in 2006.

Ledesma is a deep lying central midfielder with a powerful shot with either foot, and occasionally scores goals from long range. His most famous goal from distance, coming in the Derby della Capitale of December 2006, which gave Lazio the lead over Roma.

His jersey number at Lazio is 24, his date of birth.
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* 1 Career
* 2 Honours
o 2.1 Lazio
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He spent his childhood in Puerto Madryn, in the province of Chubut, Argentina. He joined the youth system of top Argentine club Boca Juniors.

In 2001 he was noticed by Lecce, whose sports director Pantaleo Corvino decided to bring Ledesma to Salento, where he immediately became a regular in the team. At Lecce, despite being young, he was captain until November 2005.

In July 2006, Roman club Lazio signed Ledesma, after Lecce were relegated to Serie B. With Lazio, Ledesma signed a contract that worth 450,000 euro per season until 2011.

Ledesma's first year in the capital, the 2006-07 season, saw him establish himself as a key player despite a difficult start. His first moment of magic, came in the Derby, when he scored a rocket of a strike from 25 metres out. He continued this good form until the end of the season, by which time Lazio had qualified for the UEFA Champions League. He is currently a mainstay for the Lazio, and one of the club's vice-captains.

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[edit] Lazio

* Coppa Italia: 1 (2008-09)

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posted Jun 10, 2009

pogmonthion..

"I disagree. Kaka and Torres cannot be compared because they play in different positions.

Your hatred for LFC is clearly evident."

Jees i did'nt know hitler was still alive!!! i don't rate torres better than kaka so i hate pool'

i rate kaka best in world so that means i hate my team chelsea aswell,thanks for clearing that up for me. There's me wasting thousands of euro's following chelsea all these years and subconciously i hated them....

thanks pogmonthian for your diagnosis.. MUPPET!

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posted Jun 10, 2009

Cheers Zizoued. I had tried looking up some info but couldn't make my mind up on which of the several Ledesmas to choose!

Seriously, as far as I can remember I haven't seen him play, I'll have to keep an eye out.

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posted Jun 10, 2009

why should the spanish tax payer have to pay money towards helping madrid keep its best players i hope madrid's plan blows up in f perez face then he will have to sell kaka if it turns out kaka is a flop

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posted Jun 10, 2009

Gonna guess that last comment is from a bitter Man Utd fan? The Spanish taxpayer pays for Real's players now do they? There's a lot of big 4 fans seem to getting right pent up about this, try not to worry fellas, competition is healthy.

Ledesma is a quality player, I like Gargano at Napoli as well, though he is generally a more defensively minded player, great shot in him though. What about Maniche, released on a free, was at one time a quality midfielder? Or how about Arteta? Frings?

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posted Jun 11, 2009

Kaka is NOT the most expensive player in the world!! Real paid 75 million euro for Zidane in 2001 and the paid "only" 65 million euro's for Kaka!!

off course the totally insane transferfee for C. Ronaldo off 94 million euro, makes him the most expensive player ever!!

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