not sure where you iz coming from there Biggsy... Jenas has mostly played with another CM within a 4-4-2 for Spurs for about 6yrs now..
1st partnership with Carrick til 2006... a very good partnership indeed
2nd with Zokora.... we finished 5th 1st season, in Europe most yrs..
3rd with Palacios....did fantastically well after Arry joined, and coincided withour great 3month spell when we went from relegation to nearly Euro-qualification..
Jenas is the 1 CM that seems to form good partnerships with any of the other CMs.... as he can compliment the other CM in so many ways.
Sorry Gareth but I disagree, out of all of them Carrick is the only one he had a good partnership with. The others i don't think he did personally.
When ever Jenas plays with Palacios or Hudds, i always get the feeling that they don't know weather to sit back or go forward... there never seems to be a good understanding which leads to holes in the middle.
I think Hudds and Palacios have a far better understanding of each others roles when they play together.
IMO Jenas should attack more, become more a of Attacking midfielder. But he prefers to sit deep and pick passes. Then you get Hudd or Palacios going forward and Jenas isn't the greatest of Tacklers to sit deep and break up play.
Don't get me wrong i don't think Jenas is s**t, but i just think the way he plays he gets in his partners way.
I will never forget the time when Hudds started to break into the team and it was like Jenas had a Vendetta against him and just wouldn't pass the ball to him even if hudds was the better option.
If Jenas could adopt a more attacking role, more VDV esque. I think he could play a much bigger role in our team because i think he far more effective attacking than he is a holding the midfield.