Scharner

Its my recollection that Scharner was signed as a centre half who could, if needed play the odd game elsewhere too – certainly Steve Bruce said (when he switched him back to centre half 2 games after he took over) said that when he was poised to sign him for Birmingham (before Jewell stepped in) he was playing as a centre half & that’s where Bruce would have played him at Birmingham.

Regardless of that, my own opinion is that Paul Scharner is not, never has been & never will be good enough to play anywhere in the midfield of any premier league team. Yes he can in an emergency step in & may even have a good game but long term he just hasn’t got what it takes. i think he’s an excellent centre half but midfielder??? To quote some bloke I once hear in the bogs at the JJB – “never in t’memory o’mon is that bloke a premier league midfielder”

IMO its to Bobby’s discredit that he ever listened to Scharner in the first place by playing him there & he’s made that mistake worse by actually continuing to do so. He either can’t see that he isn’t good enough (& in which case you have to question his judgement) or he’s too afraid to go against where Scharner wants to play him (& in which case you have to question his managerial abilities)

On top of that Scharner’s behaviour & public outbursts have been nowt short of disgraceful – he’s come out once saying where the manager should play him, he’s publicly criticised his colleagues on several occasions & now he’s (allegedly) come to blows with one team mate at half time on Wednesday & then (again allegedly) stormed off home before the final whistle.
After each of these occasions all Martinez appears to have done is say he has no problem with it coz it shows he has passion. I even read a quote today from him regarding Wednesday saying that he (Scharner) had been upset & that he (Bobby) hoped it could be sorted out ahead of Sunday’s game – Sorry but if the mon can’t handle being subbed when he’s having a stinker & then a younger team mate standing up to him without stomping off in a sulk then he should be fined, dropped & made to publicly apologise, just like the bloke who did somet similar for Burnley the other week btu what it appears is happening is that Martinez is tryna placate him.

You only have to look at his website to see how self-absorbed Paul Scharner is (anyone for the Paul Scharner Football Party this summer wheer we can all show our commitment to his vision of himself??) but I’ve never really cared as long as his contribution to the team has been good enough but when he’s played as poorly as he has this season, yet he still feels fit to criticise others when his own performances lack any sort of desire or commitment then he can go swing for all I care.

Like SwindonLatic says we have other players who can play in that role (Moses for one, McCarthy could, Watson etc..) & if he doesn’t wanna play for Latics or under Bobby any more than he can feck off

In fairness to Scharner, I’ll say it again, I saw him leave the ground before 10 pm, but this was after the end of the game…..whatever he did or didn’t do, he did not leave the ground before the match finished (unless he left and then thought better of it)

Who?

natdan
ticslad
loudmouthblue
take your pick[/quote]

might be the same person :o

Thats me told