Care to elaborate? What bad management?Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Care to elaborate? What bad management?
Erm - how about buying one of the worlds best attacking play makers & then asking him to become Lee Cattermole. Watch the away game against Napoli, he was obviously under strict instructions not to venture over the halfway line due to his defensive duties - This is Ozil we are talking about. If you want defensive play Jenks, Vermaelen or Gibbs in midfield but don't ask someone like Ozil to do it - he's never done it, so it would suggest he won't be very good at it.
Then add to that the after Rambo's injury we had nobody running past a very static Giroud at any point during a game - with a player like Ozil you have to give him targets getting into goal scoring opportunities. We have given him nothing to aim at, no ways of getting beyond defenses to do what he does best, we have failed him - not the other way round.
Strict instructions
It's interesting how when it suits you you take his words and actions as proof positive how much he cares, but when things aren't going so well you ignore his clear frustration and say he isn't bothered about us winning.
4th place and winning aren`t really the same thing
Any other response to what I posted apart from the usual pathetic sarcasm - How about how you disagree that he has been managed badly.Strict instructions
No mention of Rosicky last night, I appreciate Santi was good but it was Rosicky (IMHO) that bought the energy and movement to unstick him from a potential plodding performance. Kim looked solid & nice to see him, Rosicky and even Pod with some "robust" challenges. As I said earlier not loving the general lack of directness pre-Spam goal.
I think Pod has been put on the wing to get him fit...
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"After all, it was the Gunners’ goalkeeper who started the move that culminated in Thomas’ crowning glory. It was Lukic who, in injury time, decided to throw the ball out to Lee Dixon rather than lump it long..."
To be fair to Zim, when we were being handed our arse in the thrashings this year Wenger sat there, lifeless and shell-shocked ..no reaction, no getting on the touchline to cajole, organise and instruct ...absolutely nothing, giving the impression he was clueless as to any sort of answer or response to the pummeling we were taking. To me he came across as a man resigned to our fate and accepting that we had no response, until of course for the lame stato substitutions at 68 minutes, long after we'd been raped.
...on the other hand, now that we are desperately fighting for 4th spot and facing the lesser lights in the league, he's all up on his feet early in games cajoling, organising and instructing ...get the picture
Last edited by Maestro; 16-04-2014 at 03:24 PM.
It's just funny because Wenger is constantly criticised on here (with some justification) for not giving the players enough instruction, now he's being accused of giving players strict instructions.
And yes, obviously Ozil needs players running on to his balls but if the players we've got who can do that are injured then that's not poor management of Ozil.
But Wenger's been roundly criticised (with some justification) for saying 4th place is like a trophy. The "4th Place Trophy" is widely mentioned on here as a joke at Wenger's expense. So to him it is...
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