Zinedine Zidane $4
1998 World Cup winner, 2000 Euros winner. Three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. The volley in the 2002 Champions League final is the mos…
Midfielders
Every midfielder indexed. Zidane, Cruyff, Modric, KDB, Bellingham · 80 indexed
Midfielders fill 3-5 slots. The deepest position on TenDollarPick — 60+ midfielders indexed. Zidane, Cruyff, Platini, Ronaldinho occupy the $4 Legend tier alongside Maradona-MF.
All midfielders ranked by price
Michel Platini $4
Three consecutive Ballon d'Ors (1983-85). 1984 Euros winner and top scorer with 9 goals in 5 games. Free kick maestro and elegant playmaker.…
Johan Cruyff $4
Inventor of Total Football. Three Ballon d'Ors. 1974 World Cup finalist. As a coach, built the Barcelona Dream Team. The most influential fo…
Ronaldinho (MF) $4
2002 World Cup winner. Two FIFA World Players of the Year. Barcelona's joy in human form. Brought samba to Camp Nou and made even Real Madri…
Maradona (MF) $4
1986 World Cup winner. The Hand of God and the Goal of the Century in the same match. Carried Napoli to two Serie A titles single-handedly.…
Gheorghe Hagi $4
The Maradona of the Carpathians. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Galatasaray. Led Romania to the 1994 World Cup quarterfinals. Wand of a left foot, …
Rivaldo $3
2002 World Cup winner. 1999 Ballon d'Or. Bicycle kicks, free kicks, left-footed magic. Part of the unbeatable Brazil 2002 attacking trio.…
Xavi Hernandez $3
Architect of tiki-taka. World Cup 2010, two Euros, four Champions Leagues. Made the impossible pass look casual. The brain of the greatest S…
Andres Iniesta $3
Scored the 2010 World Cup winning goal. Four Champions Leagues with Barcelona. Slipped past defenders like water. Quiet, devastating, peerle…
Andrea Pirlo $3
2006 World Cup winner. Deep-lying playmaker template. Free kicks and Panenka penalties. AC Milan and Juventus icon. Reborn at Juve after Mil…
Patrick Vieira $3
Arsenal's Invincible captain. 1998 World Cup winner. Box-to-box giant who never lost a midfield battle that mattered. The original modern co…
Steven Gerrard $3
Liverpool's captain heart. 2005 Champions League comeback hero from 3-0 down at half-time. Long-range thunderbolts and lung-bursting runs.…
Frank Lampard $3
Chelsea's all-time top scorer (211 goals — as a midfielder). Three Premier Leagues, Champions League 2012. The most clinical late-arriving m…
Paul Scholes $3
Manchester United midfield magician. 11 Premier Leagues. Long-range strikes and pinpoint passing. Zidane called him the best midfielder of h…
Xabi Alonso $3
Liverpool, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich — won league titles at three of Europe's biggest clubs. World Cup 2010, two Euros. Long-range scoring …
Michael Ballack $3
Germany's captain and goal-scoring number 13. Eternal runner-up — multiple Champions League finals, 2002 World Cup final. Towering box-to-bo…
Yaya Toure $3
Three Premier Leagues with Manchester City. Four-time African Footballer of the Year. Powerful, technical, scored from everywhere. Carried I…
Luka Modric $3
2018 Ballon d'Or winner. Ended the Messi-Ronaldo monopoly. World Cup finalist with Croatia (2018). Five Champions Leagues with Real Madrid.…
Kevin De Bruyne $3
Manchester City's playmaker general. Multiple Premier League titles, 2023 Champions League. Assists from impossible angles. Best passer of h…
Toni Kroos $3
World Cup 2014 winner. Six Champions Leagues (Bayern + Real Madrid). Never wastes a pass — 90%+ completion year after year. Composure incarn…
N'Golo Kante $3
Won the Premier League with Leicester (2016), then Chelsea (2017). World Cup winner 2018. Two-man midfield in one body. Universally beloved.…
Jude Bellingham $3
Real Madrid's English star at 20. La Liga winner debut season. Captained England in his early 20s. Box-to-box scorer with main-character ene…
Pedri $3
Barcelona's Spanish heir to Xavi-Iniesta. Two Kopa Trophies (best U21). Plays like a 30-year-old veteran in a teenager's body.…
Rodri $3
Manchester City's defensive midfielder. 2024 Ballon d'Or winner. 2023 Champions League final scorer. Spain's anchor. Calmest player on every…
Joshua Kimmich $3
Bayern Munich's spine. Right back or central midfielder — world class at both. Pep's model student. Multiple Bundesliga titles, Champions Le…
Cha Bum-kun $3
Tcha Bum. Bundesliga icon — 308 games, 98 goals. UEFA Cup winner with Eintracht Frankfurt (1980) and Bayer Leverkusen (1988). Korea's first …
Carlos Valderrama $3
El Pibe. Three-time Colombian player of the year. South America's iconic blonde-afro number 10. 111 caps, the most casual playmaker ever.…
Ivan Zamorano $3
Bam Bam. Real Madrid's Chilean striker (also a midfielder at times). La Liga's top scorer 1995. Famously wore '1+8' when Ronaldo R9 took his…
Landon Donovan $3
USA's all-time top scorer. LA Galaxy legend. Scored the iconic 91st-minute winner vs Algeria at the 2010 World Cup. America's greatest ever.…
Claude Makelele $2
Gave his name to the position — the Makelele role. Two La Liga titles with Real Madrid, two Premier Leagues with Chelsea. Pure positional di…
Roy Keane $2
Manchester United captain. Seven Premier League titles. Fierce, demanding, unbeatable in midfield duels. The conscience of the dressing room…
Edgar Davids $2
The Pitbull. Juventus and Ajax dynamo. Dreadlocks and goggles, both legendary. Won every tackle, never tired, drove teams forward by example…
Clarence Seedorf $2
Only player to win the Champions League with three different clubs (Ajax, Real Madrid, AC Milan). Smart, technical, leader. 25-year career a…
Gennaro Gattuso $2
Pirlo's bodyguard. 2006 World Cup winner. Two Champions Leagues with AC Milan. Pure aggression and discipline, never glamorous, always decis…
Sergio Busquets $2
Barcelona's pivot. World Cup 2010, two Euros, three Champions Leagues. Never seen out of position. Made tiki-taka possible from the base of …
Thiago Alcantara $2
Barcelona, Bayern, Liverpool. Treble winner with Bayern. Inherited his father Mazinho's silk on the ball. Touch tighter than tiki-taka.…
Arturo Vidal $2
King Arturo. Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga all won. Two Copa Americas with Chile. Energy, goals, leadership and a fauxhawk.…
Ivan Rakitic $2
Barcelona's late-arriving goalscorer. Scored in the 2015 Champions League final. Croatia's World Cup 2018 finalist. Steady, smart, underrate…
Gavi $2
Barcelona's Spanish midfielder with Roy Keane's bite at 18. Kopa Trophy winner. Tackles bigger players for fun. Career derailed by injuries …
Declan Rice $2
West Ham → Arsenal record signing. England's central midfielder. Tackler, dribbler, scorer (vs Real Madrid in CL). Multidimensional pivot.…
Bruno Fernandes $2
Manchester United captain. Goals, assists, penalties, set pieces — directly involved in 100+ goals since arriving. Portugal's creative engin…
Florian Wirtz $2
Bayer Leverkusen's title-winning genius (2024). Germany's no.10 of the future. Comeback from ACL faster than thought possible.…
Jamal Musiala $2
Bayern Munich's bambi-on-the-ball. Tight space dribbling that defies physics. Born in Germany, raised in England, chose Die Mannschaft.…
Federico Valverde $2
Real Madrid's box-to-box rocket. Champions League winner 2022, 2024. Right foot like a sledgehammer. Uruguay's modern engine.…
Aurelien Tchouameni $2
Real Madrid's defensive midfielder. World Cup finalist 2022. Tall, calm, recovery tackler. Kante's successor for France.…
Eduardo Camavinga $2
Real Madrid's youngest French international in over a century. Champions League winner 2022, 2024. Can play DM, CM, LB. Pure athleticism.…
Frenkie de Jong $2
Barcelona's Cruyffian midfielder. Ajax Champions League semifinalist (2019). Press resistance taught in coaching schools using his clips.…
Christian Eriksen $2
Suffered cardiac arrest at Euro 2020 — returned to play at Manchester United. Tottenham, Inter, United stalwart. Pinpoint left-footed set pi…
Phil Foden $2
Manchester City's homegrown genius. Multiple Premier League titles, 2023 Champions League. England's twinkle-toed left footer.…
Martin Odegaard $2
Arsenal's captain. Norway's number 10. Composed under pressure, threaded through balls and weighted set pieces. The Emirates favorite.…
Lee Kang-in $2
PSG's Korean playmaker. Asian Cup top assister. Valencia academy product. Korea's creative future after Son. Wand of a left foot.…
Park Ji-sung $2
Manchester United's first Asian star. Four Premier Leagues, 2008 Champions League winner. Three-lung Park. Captained Korea at the 2010 World…
Hidetoshi Nakata $2
Japan's Serie A pioneer. Won the 2001 Scudetto with Roma. Two-time AFC Player of the Year. Retired at his peak (29) — still iconic.…
Andrey Arshavin $2
Zenit's Russian magician. Arsenal Premier League legend — scored 4 goals at Liverpool's Anfield (2009). Carried Russia to the 2008 Euro semi…
Andres Guardado $2
Mexico's second-most-capped player (181). Real Betis veteran. Five World Cups. Calm, technical, unfussy — the team-first midfielder.…
Gylfi Sigurdsson $2
Iceland's all-time top scorer. Tottenham, Swansea, Everton attacking midfielder. Took tiny Iceland to the Euro 2016 quarterfinals.…
Dominik Szoboszlai $2
Hungary's captain. Liverpool midfielder. Salzburg and RB Leipzig graduate. Hungary's brightest star since Puskas — and the captain at 22.…
Miralem Pjanic $2
Bosnia's playmaker. Roma, Juventus, Barcelona. Four Serie A titles. Free kick and long-range passing specialist. Reads the game three moves …
Tomas Rosicky $2
Little Mozart. Arsenal and Dortmund midfielder. Carried Czech Republic at multiple Euros. Injury-plagued but unplayable when fit.…
Victor Wanyama $2
Kenya's Premier League pioneer. Southampton and Tottenham defensive midfielder. First Kenyan to score in the Champions League.…
Wilfred Ndidi $2
Leicester City's tackle machine. Premier League's leader in interceptions and tackles for multiple seasons. Nigeria's defensive shield.…
Mehdi Taremi $2
Iran's striker / playmaker. Porto's clinical forward. Iran's national team talisman. Inter Milan from 2024.…
Hakan Calhanoglu $2
Turkey's free-kick specialist. AC Milan, then Inter Milan — Serie A winner and Champions League finalist. Captain of Turkey at Euro 2024.…
Granit Xhaka $1
Arsenal captain turned Bayer Leverkusen champion. Switzerland's metronome. Long-range strikes, set pieces, midfield steel.…
Matteo Guendouzi $1
Marseille midfielder. France international. Energetic, technical, occasionally hot-headed. Comeback story from Arsenal exit to Les Bleus.…
Shinji Kagawa $1
Bundesliga champion with Dortmund, Premier League champion with Manchester United (2013). Smart, technical, pure attacking midfielder.…
Chanathip Songkrasin $1
Thai Messi. Thailand's all-time best player. J1 League MVP candidate with Consadole Sapporo. The face of Southeast Asian football.…
Nguyen Quang Hai $1
Vietnam's captain and golden ball winner. Took Vietnam to the AFC U23 Championship final 2018. Pau FC in France's Ligue 2.…
Wu Lei $1
China's most successful European export. Espanyol's La Liga and Europa League scorer. China's hero in a sparse footballing era.…
Sunil Chhetri $1
India's captain and all-time top scorer (95+ goals). Bengaluru FC legend. Among the top international goalscorers of all time, behind only R…
Akram Afif $1
Qatar's superstar. 2024 Asian Cup top scorer (8 goals, all penalties in knockouts). Took Qatar to back-to-back Asian Cup titles. Al Sadd ico…
Salem Al-Dawsari $1
Saudi Arabia's hero. Scored the iconic winner vs Argentina at the 2022 World Cup. Al-Hilal's lifelong winger. The face of modern Saudi footb…
Omar Abdulrahman $1
Amoory. UAE's playmaking genius. Three-time Asian Footballer of the Year. Al-Ain icon. The most technically gifted Gulf player of his genera…
Younis Mahmoud $1
Iraq's captain. Scored the only goal in the 2007 Asian Cup final to give war-torn Iraq an against-all-odds title. National hero.…
Egy Maulana Vikri $1
Indonesia's young star. Played in Poland's Ekstraklasa. Indonesia's most promising European export of the modern era.…
Safawi Rasid $1
Malaysia's star winger. Johor Darul Ta'zim — multiple Malaysia Super League titles. Asia's fastest free-kick taker (in Malaysian media).…
Fandi Ahmad $1
Singapore's greatest footballer. First Asian to score in the European Cup (Ajax, 1983). FAS Hall of Fame. Now coaching the next generation.…
Chan Siu Ki $1
Hong Kong's all-time top scorer. South China FC icon. Hong Kong's most beloved footballer of the post-handover era.…
Aung Thu $1
Myanmar's leading scorer. Yangon United and Police FC. The face of Myanmar's growing football scene.…
Chan Vathanaka $1
Cambodian Messi. Played in J3 League (Fujieda MYFC). Cambodia's all-time top scorer. Carries an entire football nation.…
❓ FAQ — Midfielders
Who is the most expensive midfielder?
Zinedine Zidane at $4.
Cheapest midfielder?
Granit Xhaka at $1.
What is tiki-taka?
Possession-based football using short passes — perfected by Pep's Barcelona. Full tiki-taka concept.