Winter's vision and accurate passess and his ability to control the midfield make up serious lack of pace.
But even that was much benefited this season from Ajax, Winter used the ball effectively, but he just doesn't have it in him anymore to excel down the flank or run direct at the goal like Gronkjaer and Laudrup did, that's what made them stand-out.
Winter suffered heavily from Ajax's poor season, and was even dropped from the national side. He expressed his deep deep disappointed to Rijkaad, and possibly out of sympathy Rijkaard re-called the veteran, and because he a "useful" player to have in the team, Winter was still included for Euro 2000.