You charm them . <| sep |> I think it ' s meant more so in terms of his general combination of football and physical abilities , a bit like what people say about Pogba now though Pogba is a different player and has more physically , I ' m really not trying to compare them as players . The street skills I suppose you call them , as in what makes you a good player in the street , before all of the tactical mastery of the professional game comes into play . Just in the way that there were no really obvious weak parts to his game . He could shoot , he could pass , he could attack , he could put in a challenge , he was good or at least decent defensively , he was strong and he was quick quick for a central midfielder anyway . When you look at other players , a lot of them have obvious weak areas . David Silva is small , when you play against him you think try to bully him , he ' ll win nearly nothing in the air , etc . Carrick is amazing but if you can isolate him in space you might be able to take advantage of his lack of pace even younger Carrick . Kante is a brilliant player but he ' s pretty limited on the ball and isn ' t great around the attacking third . Stuff like that , it didn ' t really exist for Gerrard , there wasn ' t one part of his game that was an obvious weakness , hence he could do it all . Obviously when you get down to the nitty gritty at a tactical level he couldn ' t do it all , like dictate the play in a way that you mentioned . But there are probably no players ever that could literally do everything , perform every role within every tactical system . Maybe Iniesta is the closest I could think of off the top of my head , but even he would probably have his limitations if you used him a certain way . Having said that , fuck Gerrard .