- Oct 19, 2004
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The only thing Jenas doesn't have is a winning mentality. If he did he'd be Viera Mk2. For a handful of games after Ramos arrived I thought he'd started to squeeze it out of Jenas but it seems to have disapeared again. Maybe because he's read the stories that he's to be offloaded. Who knows.
The only players I think we have at the moment with that true winning mentality (what I define as winning mentality is, ironically, players that hate to loose) and decent ability are possibly Hutton, Malbranque, Berbatov and King. But King does have a tendancy to be a bit too nice sometimes. I think Woodgate may be worthy of inclusion. But we don't have any natural leaders (Hutton ?) or any real nasty bastards. Keane could have made the list but (as he again displayed yesterday) he is ultimately a bottler who has no intention of getting anywhere near the pain barrier for the teams cause.
Zokora is probably next closest to having both attributes. Lennon also. Jenas has ability and effort but just falls short on that nasty hate to loose thing. I canot fault Dawsons courage or effort but he falls way short on ability obviously.
I think if we could find a leader it would probably benefit those around him and bring out the best in them, just as Davids did.
The only players I think we have at the moment with that true winning mentality (what I define as winning mentality is, ironically, players that hate to loose) and decent ability are possibly Hutton, Malbranque, Berbatov and King. But King does have a tendancy to be a bit too nice sometimes. I think Woodgate may be worthy of inclusion. But we don't have any natural leaders (Hutton ?) or any real nasty bastards. Keane could have made the list but (as he again displayed yesterday) he is ultimately a bottler who has no intention of getting anywhere near the pain barrier for the teams cause.
Zokora is probably next closest to having both attributes. Lennon also. Jenas has ability and effort but just falls short on that nasty hate to loose thing. I canot fault Dawsons courage or effort but he falls way short on ability obviously.
I think if we could find a leader it would probably benefit those around him and bring out the best in them, just as Davids did.