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Ask a thousand of the club’s supporters to identify what makes the perfect Sheffield United player and, even though football is a game of opinions, they would find plenty of common ground.

Talent is obviously important. In fact, it’s probably the most important quality of all. But ability on its own isn’t enough. Those who make it to the top, as Chris Wilder’s squad did last season, must also possess other qualities such as heart, stamina and desire.

Given that Wilder ‘gets’ what makes United tick better than any of his recent predecessors, The Star’s James Shield thought it might be an interesting experiment to take things one step further. So he asked fans to help him piece together ‘Bionic Blade’ by voting for the best performer in eight key categories from those currently at the manager’s disposal. These are the results.

Fans were asked to piece together the perfect Sheffield United player...and this is the result