I was going to just say Zidane but I don't think it's a fair comparison.
As City fans watching Silva being ignored until recent years, we should know there are certain players with a subtle brilliance to their game that can only be fully appreciated by extensive viewing and even then it's sometimes hard to pick out moments and put them into words, to do them justice. With Zidane all of that is easy, there was nothing subtle about his game, he left players on the deck completely bamboozled and scored some belters, that are easy to pick out and describe.