Agreed. He is obviously very talented but has shown himself to be a passenger more times than he has an effective player for this team.Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
I'm not sure he's even reached Hleb's level for us yet, he had a similar role and style of play but he managed to manifest that more in the team he played in.
Last edited by Marc Overmars; 14-09-2014 at 08:28 AM.
Well i think because he's our maquis signing in terms of transfer expenditure it's hard to accept that so many of his performances are so poor. The brass tax is that for a player of his reputation he hasn't come close to stamping his authority on the big games the way he should. I don't actually blame Wenger for this either, the guy is just lazy....you can tell he has it in his locker to eviscerate teams with the range and quality of his passing but he shirks away from the responsibility.
I don't believe it's because our style of play doesn't suit him either, i don't think Real Madrid under Mourinho were set up that differently from how we are.
On the flip side there is a tendency for the media to be overly critical of him, his performances were constantly panned in the World Cup when actually aside from Algeria (and no German player particurlarly performed well in that game) i thought he had a good tournament. I think the expectation though is that he should be the star performer in that side, but considering Germany have so many star performers he is not going to stand out like he might have done four years ago.
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