I watched a hour highlights on him He was good.. Real Madrid choose money over talent One of the pair centerbacks could have went to the shop and had a smoke and come back and still not leak a goal on average day Makelele role hehe
@brandon weekes In my opinion playing as DM (or even better, Makelele role) Claude was better, in overall is Kante cause he can easily play box to box too.
He is the literal best player in history. If you wanna win, not one player, in all of history is better. He has hand exchange as good as fenomeno. Best accelerations of any player ever. Best ever defender. Best ever defensive midfielder. Best ever.....hands down. Messi and Christiano are garbage compared to this man.
@@ruchirmundhra6716 are you blind? He missed 21 days to injury his whole career. 14 days one year. 7 another. And was always winning. Madrid sold him, and won zero trophies four years....... while makelele won six trophies with Chelsea. Best , healthiest skeleton, and movement patterns ever. You're a casual.
I remember Lampard referring to Makalele as the ' insurance policy'. You know you're secure when he's in the lineup on your side. Had an entire role coined after him. Kante is actually a more dynamic version. But Makalele is the Genesis.
I am a Barcelona fan .. I cannot tell you how amazing it was to watch this man play football. A player any manager would die for. Mucho Respecto Leyenda !
I can say right now, Makelele was the reason Chelsea won back to back titles. He made Terry and Carvalho look good and always gave them time to react and organise themselves. The original DM so good, they named the role after him.
Perez had no clue how important Makelele was. Possibly the worst sale in football considering how good that team was. He was the glue that made them go and do whatever they wanted to.
Perez - 5 champions league titles won as Real Madrid president. 4 of them after Makelele was long gone. Makelele after leaving real Madrid - ZERO champions league titles. 'Perez has no clue' 😂😂😂😂
@@Baresi-Unico-Capitano yeah and it is because of Zidane...He learn from the mistake made by the president by sold his friend Makelele and it causes the lack of balance in midfield..thats why Zidane call back Casemiro which is loaned to porto to strengthen the midfiled and boom....Real win 4 champions league in 5 years and the 3 midfield generals(kroos,modric and casemiro) are the reason behind real madrid's success.
@@Baresi-Unico-Capitano How many years after Makelele left did Real win those UCLs? It wasn't until 10 years later that they won the UCL, the last time they won it before that was with Makelele. Not to mention they won La Liga 2/3 years with Makelele, after losing him it took 4 years for them to win it again. Makelele was the most important part of that Real squad during those success years between 2000-2003, the fact real didn't win anything new until 2007 after losing Makelele speaks volumes. So if you don't have any idea what you're talking about, don't say anything.
Not enough people understand how little the Club management know about football. Some players try to emulate Makelele and are not the real thing, but Claude was essential. Amazing to think Makelele wasn't even in the 98 winning team
Practically all the players on that squad understood it was mistake letting him go. I always wondered if the players went protest to the Perez or to Valdano.
Every Madridista would tell you that Florentino made a huge mistake by letting Makelele go and hearing this story, I'm sure that Valdano was right in the middle of influencing Florentino to make that decision.
I am a Madridista and think it was the right decision. The wrong decision was to not replace him. This is coming from Makelele himself who is of course going to paint himself in a good light. However he signed a new 5 year contract only one year before demanding a new one, and nothing had really changed in the one year since he signed. Now I do agree that Makelele deserved to earn more than he did, however he was the one who signed the 5 year contract only one year before demanding a new one. And when Real Madrid didn't want to cave in? Makelele did what he did at Celta Vigo, he refused to train until he got his will. And when that happened, Real Madrid was never going to do anything but sell him. The same thing as any club with some self respect should do.
He and conceicao of brazil was the backbone of madrid at that time, perez should have paid them handsomely for their works and treated well like others galacticos
Makelele was and still is the best defensive midfielder I have ever seen, better than Casemiro. “Why put a second paint on the Bentley when you have sold the engine?”
So place any African player in that position he'll perform. What attitude! I also perked up at his Claude commented on African players and the disrespect they get from these clubs. He's lucky he is French and had exposure.
It's sad how many african talent got misstreated by football, even someone as big as Eto'o had to deal with that and it's only by luck that someone like Kante managed to showcase to the world his incredible talent when you know how poorly some people handled his career. I hope african players can be respected more and not be misstreated because a lot of the most wonderful footballers come from this continent
Madrid had a bad structure. You had a coach (Del Bosque) pleading to the Club President to keep a player while Valdano was listening and could actively advise against keeping the player! How a headcoach can be reduced to such a role, tells me that Madrid Headcoaches are not as respected as the ones in England who have more say on who should be signed
Y Valdano presumiendo en el mundo hispánico su "sabiduría futbolística", cuando no es más que un despota engreído y arrogante. No debió dirigirse nunca así ante un Grande como Makelele, el motor de ese tiempo del equipo.
Its not surprising perez didnt know Makelele importance in a team and realized it when its too late, but Valdano ? He was a football player, he should know that but he was too arrogant.
Kante is the closest this modern generation has to Makélélé. Both very similar, Kante is a little bit better with the ball at his feet, but Makélélé reads the game slightly better.
If we are talking about player’s Madrid treated horribly this Guy and Demaria are on the top list. So when I see people complaining about how Cr7 was treated I laugh.
becks actually didnt suck. the fans never whistled him. they whistled other players. the first season, the team played very well until the mishap against monaco. after that, ronaldo got injured and they lost the last couple of games to end the season. then florentino started trying to sign defenders and defensive midfielders who just sucked so bad like graveson. not to mention center back had a hole in there cos they let hierro go and replaced him with freaking pavon, who was a traffic cone
Yep and it was to Real Madrid's own detriment. True football fans understand that football is colourblind, it matters what you can do on a football pitch, not what your ethnicity or nationality may be.
What do you mean? Valdano just simply said you should play for Madrid, implies Makelele should be luck to play for Madrid. But to me, Madrid was lucky to have Makelele.
As a Madridista I’m really sorry u got treated that way, and we will never forget how great you are and how much u have given to the club.
Best DM I’ve seen in my lifetime. Had an entire role named after him. Crazy to let him go.
I watched a hour highlights on him
He was good..
Real Madrid choose money over talent
One of the pair centerbacks could have went to the shop and had a smoke and come back and still not leak a goal on average day
Makelele role hehe
Better than Kante or not
@@brandonweekes2013 better but not by alot but kante is great too
@brandon weekes In my opinion playing as DM (or even better, Makelele role) Claude was better, in overall is Kante cause he can easily play box to box too.
@@brandonweekes2013 u r pes mobile player . m I right
From a Chelsea fan, i say this sincerely. Thank you Perez!
Real Madrid: if you find someone willing to pay 15 million, we'll let you go.
Makelele: Chelsea's offering 35 million.
LEGEND
Sometimes you don't know what you have until you lose it.
He is the literal best player in history. If you wanna win, not one player, in all of history is better. He has hand exchange as good as fenomeno. Best accelerations of any player ever. Best ever defender. Best ever defensive midfielder. Best ever.....hands down. Messi and Christiano are garbage compared to this man.
@@sasquatchrosefarts he is a legend no doubt but u r getting too hyper 😂
@@ruchirmundhra6716 are you blind? He missed 21 days to injury his whole career. 14 days one year. 7 another. And was always winning. Madrid sold him, and won zero trophies four years....... while makelele won six trophies with Chelsea. Best , healthiest skeleton, and movement patterns ever. You're a casual.
I remember Lampard referring to Makalele as the ' insurance policy'. You know you're secure when he's in the lineup on your side. Had an entire role coined after him.
Kante is actually a more dynamic version. But Makalele is the Genesis.
I am a Barcelona fan .. I cannot tell you how amazing it was to watch this man play football. A player any manager would die for. Mucho Respecto Leyenda !
I can say right now, Makelele was the reason Chelsea won back to back titles. He made Terry and Carvalho look good and always gave them time to react and organise themselves. The original DM so good, they named the role after him.
“We took the engine out of the Rolls Royce so we could add another layer of gold paint”- Zidane on getting rid of Makelele to make way for Beckham
Perez had no clue how important Makelele was.
Possibly the worst sale in football considering how good that team was. He was the glue that made them go and do whatever they wanted to.
Liryc Perez is fool
@@alianzafc14 Diarra wasn't so bad
Perez - 5 champions league titles won as Real Madrid president. 4 of them after Makelele was long gone. Makelele after leaving real Madrid - ZERO champions league titles. 'Perez has no clue' 😂😂😂😂
@@Baresi-Unico-Capitano yeah and it is because of Zidane...He learn from the mistake made by the president by sold his friend Makelele and it causes the lack of balance in midfield..thats why Zidane call back Casemiro which is loaned to porto to strengthen the midfiled and boom....Real win 4 champions league in 5 years and the 3 midfield generals(kroos,modric and casemiro) are the reason behind real madrid's success.
@@Baresi-Unico-Capitano How many years after Makelele left did Real win those UCLs? It wasn't until 10 years later that they won the UCL, the last time they won it before that was with Makelele. Not to mention they won La Liga 2/3 years with Makelele, after losing him it took 4 years for them to win it again. Makelele was the most important part of that Real squad during those success years between 2000-2003, the fact real didn't win anything new until 2007 after losing Makelele speaks volumes. So if you don't have any idea what you're talking about, don't say anything.
Props to whoever wrote those subtitles. Very interesting insight from Makelele nonetheless.
Yes. Very sharp and concise
Claude Makelele and Ngolo Kante the best defensive mids Chelsea had ever had.
Essien
Makelele
Kante
Essien
Matic
Makelele >>>>>
Not enough people understand how little the Club management know about football. Some players try to emulate Makelele and are not the real thing, but Claude was essential. Amazing to think Makelele wasn't even in the 98 winning team
What a costly underestimation.. They simply thought he wasnt as important because they couldnt see what Del Bosque could.
He has a unique way in speak English, i like it.
French accent, I guess ?
😂😂. That’s not his language
Jamaican
Congolese French makes for a nice accent in English. And his vocabulary is unorthodox but interesting.
It sound like creole
Practically all the players on that squad understood it was mistake letting him go. I always wondered if the players went protest to the Perez or to Valdano.
The day Makelele left the Galactico project fell apart
Every Madridista would tell you that Florentino made a huge mistake by letting Makelele go and hearing this story, I'm sure that Valdano was right in the middle of influencing Florentino to make that decision.
I am a Madridista and think it was the right decision. The wrong decision was to not replace him. This is coming from Makelele himself who is of course going to paint himself in a good light. However he signed a new 5 year contract only one year before demanding a new one, and nothing had really changed in the one year since he signed. Now I do agree that Makelele deserved to earn more than he did, however he was the one who signed the 5 year contract only one year before demanding a new one. And when Real Madrid didn't want to cave in? Makelele did what he did at Celta Vigo, he refused to train until he got his will. And when that happened, Real Madrid was never going to do anything but sell him. The same thing as any club with some self respect should do.
@@Fung15 there is always 2 sides to a story. I never really knew the exact details. We were always told that Real Madrid messed things up with Claude
I love how Mourinho didn't want Valdano to be near his team.
Mourinho can see a virus from far....
The best to ever do it! Transformed the role of the DM.
When your position is syonymous with you... that means you were the man
He and conceicao of brazil was the backbone of madrid at that time, perez should have paid them handsomely for their works and treated well like others galacticos
LEGEND!!! Respect🫡🫡🫡 Kitoko frere💪🏿
one of the best players in his possition, he is a legend!
Best ever at his position
Makelele was and still is the best defensive midfielder I have ever seen, better than Casemiro.
“Why put a second paint on the Bentley when you have sold the engine?”
Thank you Real Madrid
Greetings from a Chelsea fan
So place any African player in that position he'll perform. What attitude! I also perked up at his Claude commented on African players and the disrespect they get from these clubs. He's lucky he is French and had exposure.
It's sad how many african talent got misstreated by football, even someone as big as Eto'o had to deal with that and it's only by luck that someone like Kante managed to showcase to the world his incredible talent when you know how poorly some people handled his career. I hope african players can be respected more and not be misstreated because a lot of the most wonderful footballers come from this continent
6:18 Kante is not an African player even though he is black. He's French.
That's very important what he say at the beginn. A real Man has to keep his word. I hope the younger generation take it seriously.
I believe Claude Makelele. He was our pivotal CDM, our pillars at that time. Florentino really fcuked up him and the team.
Zidane’s comments on Makele say everything
I think Perez realised he had made a mistake when top clubs came knocking. They saw his true worth. 35million at that time is crazy.
The underrated defensive midfielder..
It was no coincidence that Real stopped winning trophies for several years while Chelsea became a dominant force in England
Few years later Valdano is kicked out in the same way 😂
Big up to whoever put together the subtitles, that’s next level translation right there
I remembered when he's still there pre-Beckham, he's the heart of Real's midfield
This guy changed football, There was no DM before him, it's a Fact.
How about guardiola when he was a player? Didn't he play as DM?
real madrid took more than a decade to find his replacement.. and now we have casemiro
That's why I don't like Fiorentino Perez.
one of the smartest bussiness man but this was a huge misstake
Madrid had a bad structure. You had a coach (Del Bosque) pleading to the Club President to keep a player while Valdano was listening and could actively advise against keeping the player! How a headcoach can be reduced to such a role, tells me that Madrid Headcoaches are not as respected as the ones in England who have more say on who should be signed
Makelele te queremos!!!
Y Valdano presumiendo en el mundo hispánico su "sabiduría futbolística", cuando no es más que un despota engreído y arrogante. No debió dirigirse nunca así ante un Grande como Makelele, el motor de ese tiempo del equipo.
This man leaving was the reason the galaticos project failed
perez has actually learnt from his mistakes big time ... now Casemiro is always the first to renew his contract
Bro ????🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
And now he’s gone
Greatest nr 6 that EVER was ❤️
Club president's word is stronger than oak!
The best DM in the world...
Perez just don’t have a clue about how important CDM’s are...he did the same with Casemiro until he understood how stupid he was
Its not surprising perez didnt know Makelele importance in a team and realized it when its too late, but Valdano ? He was a football player, he should know that but he was too arrogant.
valdano was disrespectful talking to makelele like that
He was the man, the fact that they treat black players different is a fact....bull****** they didn't hit expectations after they did him dirty
After Makelele left , Madrid really struggled and the galacticos team lost the backbone.
My🐐 Los Blancos legend
Well at least Florentino Perez and Madrid learnt their lesson. Their transfer business so far has been second to none.
Yeah because they realised football is colourblind. It only matters what your capabilities are on a football pitch and not your race/ethnicity.
That was the biggest mistake ever made by Real Madrid even more then selling Ronaldo....
The reason why the "galacticos" didnt win champions league
Do you not post the full interviews then ?
Kante is the closest this modern generation has to Makélélé. Both very similar, Kante is a little bit better with the ball at his feet, but Makélélé reads the game slightly better.
Kante better than makelele on ball😂😂 makelele was winger before guy
@Jonathan Boura great ? Kante is a generational player to both are legends in respective departments
If we are talking about player’s Madrid treated horribly this Guy and Demaria are on the top list. So when I see people complaining about how Cr7 was treated I laugh.
Thought it was all Florentino......Now I know it was even more Valdano..... As a Real Madrid fan it is so annoying.
Darkside of RM.. so it's true...
Mucho recuperador
What a mistake to let this player go , best dm in the 00s
Chelsea paid 16 million makalele and his agent pocketed 20 million
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Valdano se mostro Racista con el Galáctico Makelele
I know why Claude
He actually realised the mistake when Beckham sucked during his first 3 seasons.
doenst matter if beckham did well or not, beckham isnt a defensive midfielder though
becks actually didnt suck. the fans never whistled him. they whistled other players. the first season, the team played very well until the mishap against monaco. after that, ronaldo got injured and they lost the last couple of games to end the season. then florentino started trying to sign defenders and defensive midfielders who just sucked so bad like graveson. not to mention center back had a hole in there cos they let hierro go and replaced him with freaking pavon, who was a traffic cone
If i could turn back time
Arsene wenger one of your top 5 mistakes sitting there smiling
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During the time makelel left Madrid they didn't win any trophies
Real Madrid don't have respect
racism is rife in spain
Yep and it was to Real Madrid's own detriment. True football fans understand that football is colourblind, it matters what you can do on a football pitch, not what your ethnicity or nationality may be.
@sadiomaneofficiel no respect of real Madrid
No perez doesent understand soccer just like psg president doesent
Black man downpressed
Who was this Valdano clown 😅
Like Makalele ever played for free!! Hypocrite!!!!
What do you mean? Valdano just simply said you should play for Madrid, implies Makelele should be luck to play for Madrid. But to me, Madrid was lucky to have Makelele.
Rewatch and read the subtitles. Valdano was telling him that he was lucky to be playing for Madrid and that he needed Madrid more Madrid needed him.