Ranking the Best Midfielders This Season

B/R Football Ranks

Bleacher Report

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Forwards get a lot of the praise, but it's the midfield maestros who make the beautiful game what it is. Sam Tighe (@brsamtighe) and Dean Jones (@deanjonesbr) join host Jack Collins (@jjwc) to take a look at the players who have been running things in the middle so far this season, including Real Sociedad's Martin Odegaard (22:12), PSG's Idrissa Gana Gueye (25:12), Liverpool's Fabinho (28:10); Inter Milan's Stefano Sensi (32:02) and Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne (34:44). Hot Takes this week involve a discussion of whether Leicester are actually the third best team in the Premier League this season (01:30); some insight from Dean on Jadon Sancho's transfer situation and where we think he should end up (08:59); and a look at just why everything is going wrong at AC Milan (12:58). This week's Melon of the Week is given for a ridiculous Cruyff turn on someone's own goal line... (18:35) Roulette asks who would be in our FIFA 20 Volta three-a-side team (40:35); whose playing career we'd rather have had out of Lampard, Solskjaer and Zidane (41:45) and if we'd rather win a Puskas Award or a Super Cup (43:29); before Sam rounds things off by ranking the things he hates most about autumn in this week's nonsense rankings (45:58). To get involved, follow @brfootball on Twitter and Instagram, and use the hashtag #BRFootballRanks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's Good Ranks Squad? This is BR Football Ranks, your favourite football podcast. Here, mixing things up from Milan to Melons, Newcastle to Nonsense and Ricardo to Roulette. Life is full of classic three. Serial has snap, crackle and pop. Literature has Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Cartoons have blossom, bubbles and buttercup.
0:38.7	But football has its own answers.
0:40.3	Barcelona had Chavi, Iniestan, Bousquet.
0:43.0	Real Madrid have Modrich, Cros and Casamiro.
0:45.5	And podcasting has Ty, Jones and Collins.
0:48.4	Your rank squad.
0:49.3	How we doing, boys?
0:50.2	There we are.
0:51.6	They are.
0:52.2	Love it.
0:52.8	But fun start.
0:57.3	Talking of some of the greatest midfielders in the history of the game, today we're going to be dedicating the podcast to those maestroes of the middle, the Calcho
1:00.4	conductors presiding over pace, varying volume and twisting the tempo like the man in the
1:05.2	middle of an orchestra with just a ball, a look up and a perfectly timed pass.
1:09.5	We're here to direct dues to the dynamic destroyers, bestow brilliance on the box-to-box
1:13.9	bulldogs, and push a plethora of praise on the perfect playmakers who make the game what we
1:17.9	know and love.
1:19.2	Yes, my friends, this is a midfield special.
1:22.5	Before we get on to that, though, it's time to talk on the hottest topics in the game.
1:28.5	Sam, what have you brought to the table this week? Lester are the third best team in England right now.
1:33.5	Says the league table. They will sustain the challenge for the top four. The table is not lying.
1:38.3	This is no fluke. And Arsenal, Spurs, United, Chelsea should be bricking it. They should be bricking it. Now, after watching Spurs,
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