Capello definitely likes players who graft and can be seen to be working for the collective good (it was after all the nature of his own game), but that doesn't mean that he will only employ destroyers or is ideologically opposed to fancy Dans. He often found room for Totti, Montella and Batistuta to play together in his Roma scudetto team, for instance, and neither Nedved nor Del Piero are particularly known for getting stuck in. Although Nedved is known for nasty late challenges. That is a rather different thing.
I think it would be very interesting to see what he does with England, and which player (if any) would become his Emerson/Cannavaro-equivalent talisman. He might not feel as much of a need for one in a national team job. I can see him being rather partial to Hargreaves, like he was with Mahamadou Diarra, actually.
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