In FM09 I signed Hamsik and they became a very good midfielder duo, but the slovakian resulted to be a better player than Fabregas, because I used to switch their roles.
If you're going to use only 2 midfielders you'll need a more defensive one, so I could suggest you Angelo Palombo, Miguel...
did you use filters to do the list? Once i did that way and even add a mathematical formula to create 'role ratings' but i've lost all the work... Are they ordered from best to worse or is it randomly posted?