Lets admit we all love passion merchants and every team has one, the glue guys who arent very gifted but through their grit,work rate and passion manage to win the hearts of fans (and the manager) so who is your team’s passion merchant this can also apply to your national team.
Mohamed Elneny for Arsenal is a strong contender. Always smiling, gets 10 mins a game nowadays and gets in there and runs
Elneny is such a handy player for those 10mins as he knows his role:
Defence is looking leggy Forwards are pretty much out of ideas And the Midfield is a bit sus
He comes on plugs the gap in the middle to try and help the defence, and just spray the ball forward to secure that 1-0 lead at Luton.
Genius
Has to be Sonny, even rival fans love him. The difference is he’s world class at the same time
For Tottenham it’s probably Pedro porro
Porro is a good shout. Romero also has a lot of passion…just a bit too much sometimes
You’re supposed to name someone who isn’t good technically and try hard hence why their probably in the squad. Dier rings a bell for me. I think other managers have said Dier is a worker. It’d also be someone like Maguire for United imo.
Feels like Dries Mertens
Lucas Vazquez is the definition of that. He is just decent/okay at many things on the pitch, but he isn’t really good at anything, except passion and workrate. When Real Madrid signed him in 2015 for 1M, he was supposed to be a 3rd-4th choice winger, I’m pretty sure he never expected to play over 300 games for them, winning 4 UCL titles and also getting some caps for Spain.
*Lord Vazquez
Best part is that he covers any position the coach asks him to play in, plus he’s ice cold when it comes to kicking the first penalty kick in a UCL final vs fiery rivals.
Will Hughes. Not devoid of talent but loved mostly because he puts himself about
Luke O’Nien
Guus til
Used to be Craig Dawson (West Ham) :(
Coufal is up and down that wing all day long. Doesn’t stop running.
Son… Right amount of passion. Would say Romero is up there…but sometimes a bit too much passionate…
Gavi 100%. Araujo is also a fair shout
araujo is a very gifted defender. Its gavi 100% and I love him for that
Gavi is gifted as hell wtf. The talent that he has is crazy. There’s a reason he’s a guaranteed starter for both Barcelona and the Spanish NT at 19.
LORD VAZQUEZ
It has to be gavi for barca
Goretzka
Socceroos kept Martin Boyle in the World Cup squad despite being injured to simply be the “vibes manager”. Seemed to work well, best result at a cup since 06
Pierre Emile Hojbjerg