4 Top Footballing Midfield Maestros

     After a long session of watching Paul Pogba's pass to Rooney against Hull City on repeat and lacking the ability to control the stirring it brings to my loins, my mind got caught up in attempting to lay out football's 5 best midfielders right now. In no particular order, they are:

• Paul Pogba: After a rocky start to life on the red side of Manchester, Pogba has truly come into his own. Statistics never lie and they support Pogba all the way but sometimes just looking up statistics is reductionistic and takes away the beauty of the game. Just watching Pogba tear down other midfielders throughout a game will suffice, after satisfying yourself on the Pogba-snack, then you can go look up the stats if you feel your eyes just lied to you.                        

 

     Meanwhile for all you number crunchers, Paul Pogba has 4 goals and 3 assists from central midfield making 2.8 dribbles per game and is second on average number of passes made per game with 73.6 passes.

    

• Toni Kroos: Fresh from being named on FIFPro World 11 alongside his teammate, Luka Modric, who is also on this list, Toni Kroos is the tied leader of the La Liga assist chart with 7 assists. But it's the intangibles that matter now, Kroos has evolved from the fragile, timid, tired-looking midfielder of his early Real Madrid days to become a mastermind who evades crunching tackles with his ability to read 5 steps into the game, 2 steps creates acres in what seemed like stifling situations, an unrivalled passing range and preterhuman passing accuracy, topping the La Liga with 92.8% passing accuracy. Toni Kroos reminds one of a certain La Liga ex-player who played for Real Madrid's archrivals.

Thiago Alcantara: Currently the most important player in Carlo Ancelotti's Bayern Munich, Thiago always had the talent and charisma even while at Barcelona. Go figure now that Thiago Alcantara features as the Bundesliga best player so far, running the game as part of a midfield 3. Thiago's guile, style, dribbling ability and eye for space puts him on a higher plane than all others. A 90% passing accuracy just takes him away from the plane farther from us on earth.

Luka Modric: This man continues to confound, you think it's finally safe to say he is past his prime and Modric takes the next match to make you tear up the worksheet and chase other conclusions. Modric defines the modern Regista, a deep lying playmaker who does more than creat chances. His only seeming weakness is a lack of defensive application but football is anachronistic. And taking a cue from Brazil's famed "Joga Bonito", attack is the new defense.