Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson is currently tearing his hair out at his frugal attempts to persuade the former Galactico and treble-winning Inter Milan midfielder to join his Premier League mission, but there was a time when Argentine Esteban Cambiasso had clubs of a higher profile vying for his signature. At 34 years of age, he is certainly a veteran now, but just a decade ago, he was ousted from the Santiago Bernabeu, as part of a common theme of disposing of unspectacular, vanilla-flavoured anchors of the team in favour of more attacking units who could command an array of superlatives. Having taken in two years of youth team experience at Los Blancos between 1996 and 1998, he was shipped back to Argentina before returning to Madrid in 2002, where he helped the club to four trophies in a successful two year spell. As always, however, the club failed to appreciate dogged hard work and allowed his contract to expire, leaving Cambiasso with no choice but to sign with Italian giants Inter Milan in the summer of 2004. Over the years, he has established himself as one of the finest architects of that deep-lying defensive role, breaking up attacks with aplomb. Making over 300 appearances for the Italian outfit over the last decade, he has amassed a healthy trophy cabinet, including scooping a Champions League on that Bernabeu turf in 2010 where he was unceremoniously banished from six years earlier.
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Have made a significantly insignificant playing career out of receiving several slaps around the head for not passing the ball.
