the aggressive box to box players.
some more defensive than others.
keane and viera were awesome and very feared would rule the midfield with tenacity,energy,tackling, dirty play
toure is better technically and a better dribbler more attackive,extremely powerful but doesnt tackle as much and doesnt hold the same aura as the other 2. but can do it all, including scoring lots of goals.

I have a weak spot for Yaya since he used to play in Belgium

keane > viera > toure

sorry but toure doesn't compare to either of keane/viera, they were something special and had that aura about them as you say. no one fears toure really, too lethargic and too many off days.

This post was edited by LittleLegsNenov on Sep 17 2014 01:53pm

Never liked keane tbh. Imo pretty limited with crap attitude.

Definately vieira. In his arsenal time you could not get past that man.

Yaya is better than keane in attacking terms, in defensive he`s total trash.

Kolo

Keano, that man was a ticking bomb.

This post was edited by LittleLegsNenov on Sep 17 2014 01:56pm

viera

hard to say, yaya is so good right now you could ALMOST vote for him and forget what a beast vieira (VIEIRA!) was and for how long.

but to be fair, vieira > yaya > keane

and no, it's not because i hate united or anything along those lines, keane was a great player but imo not as gifted as the other ones (especially when this is about "box to box" midfielders) and he was at a proper dirtbag to be honest.
if you don't know what i'm talking about just google alf-inge haland...

Yaya > Vieira > Keane.... although I'm tempted to put Keane over Vieira whenever I remember how he slammed him in the tunnel before the game