I think it's one (or a few) of a number of things:
1. Anyone but Hyypia;
2. Similarities to Poyet (personality-wise);
3. Big on passion and desire;
4. A "free" agent;
5. Not Hyypia;
6. He's a "name";
7. Absence from the game generally increases the legend around a person (before it plummets if...