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.
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Will Hughes. Not devoid of talent but loved mostly because he puts himself about
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
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.
Luke O’Nien
Feels like Dries Mertens
Connor Gallagher. I absolutely love the guy. He’s been at Chelsea since he was a little child. He plays whatever midfield role we need him to, I swear this guy also never runs out of stamina. I haven’t seen someone that presses so relentlessly for the full 90 in some time. Turned down a guaranteed starting spot at other premier league clubs to fight for his place in the Chelsea team, and due to his performances this season, he’s probably earned himself a new contract.
Gavi 100%. Araujo is also a fair shout
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.
araujo is a very gifted defender. Its gavi 100% and I love him for that
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
It has to be gavi for barca
Goretzka
LORD VAZQUEZ
Newcastle - the entire team
Joelinton is the passion merchant of the passion merchants though
up until this year it was Aaron Ramsdale. But poor boy got the wind taken out of his sails.