I think you're correct. I think we need to sign 1 or 2 players who have won tings and thus improve mentality.
Doesn't guarantee anything. Milner and Studge have won the league. Emre won the Champions league and Bundesliga. Gini won the Dutch League. Sadio the Austrian league. Yet here we are. David May, Ray Parlour and Danny Drinkwater etc won stuff. No thanks.
So, it's a bit more than that. We've tried filling the team with 'leaders', 'captains' and 'winners' before and it didn't really work. Agger, Skrtel, Gerrard, Mash, Yossi and Dirk all captained club/country yet that classic Rafa 2009 team won fuck all. Buying the best players from outside the top four, the Charlie Adams, Andy Carolls and Stewart Downings didn't work either.
What we really need is a deeper squad of Kloppish players for when certain key players are playing shit or unavailable. It happens, there's no blame attached, but when Firmino is struggling we don't want to be changing everything to fit Sturridge/Origi in or shifting Lallana about for a Coutinho or Mane absence. If that's the lesson we learn from this season, I'll be happy.