I agree with the point you were trying to make, i.e., good players don't necessarily have to be in the top teams.
Honestly, you can name 10 central defenders who are better than Pepe? You're either kidding or smoking some of tha good shit.
Pepe isn't that good. He's too clumsy to be a great centre-defender. He can get red card in any minute.
Pique, Ferdinand, Puyol, Vidic, Lucio, Chiellini, Alex, Samuel, Nesta, Criscito, Chivu, Terry, Kompany, Kjaer, Toure, David Luiz, Subotic.
You can disagree with 2, 3 or more. It doesn't change the fact that big teams don't always have best players.
I just don't accept the fact when someone says "Player A plays for Madrid, therefore he's better than Player B in Valencia" or so on.
If anybody came here last year and say, "Is Owen better than Hernandez?" Everybody would say, "Of course, Owen played at Liverpool and Real Madrid and now plays for Manchester United, hell yeah he's better than Hernandez who plays for Guadalajara from Mexico."
But we all saw what happened last year. Owen was Hernandez's sub.