A nasty streak required?

[johnmc]

A lot of sucessful teams recently have had that one player who was a nasty bastard when they needed to be - Keane, Viera, Essien, Gerrard, Rooney are the type i'm thinking of. All top players in their own right but also got up the noses of the opposition due to "dirty" tactics.

Now I don't know if this is necessary to be sucessfulm but when it comes down to it I don't think it is a bad thing to have. I think these players are feared and have somwtimes won the battle before it has started.

I don't see anyone in the squad who has a nasty streak, and it is probably is a bit of a dying breed. So do you think we need such a player and who is there in world football, apart from those mentioned, with this in their game. Only one i can think of is De Rossi and that is going off memory of 2 or 3 years ago

 

[Gareth Barry Manilow]

Bellamy and Zabaleta?

De Jong could easily be nurtured into becoming one, imo.

 

[In The Know]

We don't need a nasty streak, we will set our own precidences and do it our way, not the way those twats did it.

 

[johnmc]

Bellamy and Zabaleta?

De Jong could easily be nurtured into becoming one, imo.

I considered Bellamy but whilst he gets on peoples nerves it is usually only the referees. Zab I haven't really seen him do too many malicious tackles. De Jong is a battler but an honest one. Like I said its not a requirement but not necessarily a bad thing sometimes.

 

[leewill31]

A lot of sucessful teams recently have had that one player who was a nasty bastard when they needed to be - Keane, Viera, Essien, Gerrard, Rooney are the type i'm thinking of. All top players in their own right but also got up the noses of the opposition due to "dirty" tactics.

Now I don't know if this is necessary to be sucessfulm but when it comes down to it I don't think it is a bad thing to have. I think these players are feared and have somwtimes won the battle before it has started.

I don't see anyone in the squad who has a nasty streak, and it is probably is a bit of a dying breed. So do you think we need such a player and who is there in world football, apart from those mentioned, with this in their game. Only one i can think of is De Rossi and that is going off memory of 2 or 3 years ago

they are a dieing breed that are just not needed in the game anymore.

 

[Citizen Green]

It will be de Jong all day for us. His first move in a City shirt was to injure Michael Owen.

 

[Neil McNab]

Like this?

 

[Fuzzmaster101]

The "nasty streak" players you speak of are dying out because the game has tightened up heavily on bad challenges. Roy Keane would barely get on the pitch these days due to suspensions were he still a player. We need to play through teams not tackle through them. As long as we hold a solid defensive line and have Given free from injury our attacking force should do the rest ;)

 

[johnmc]

Like this?

I'd call that a skid mark to be honest

 

[stavros]

i think rather than a nasty streak we lack leadership and somebody to organise the defence