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ok i dont have a good way with words ,8 million for him from brum ,if he wants to go fook him let the fooker go i say .
He is worth much more than 8 million and we cant afford to be selling our best players to teams who we will be fighting against next season. Only way i would sell himwould be to a top 7 team for around 15 mil
Hang on, this is Charles N’Zogbia, imo one of the best wingers in the league who I’d take over the likes of Nani, Kalou and Babel, for his sake aswell as ours, I don’t think a move to Birmingham would be best.
We should not be selling our best players but as we all know that is the only way we can survive. So lets sell him for serious money as he is under contract and we don’t have to sell 15-20 mill or tell them to fook off.
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Can’t stand this modern trend of playing the wingers on the wrong wings. its really dull football. You end up funnelling everything through the middle, becoming very predictable and easy for poor teams to defend against.
Yes.Can’t stand this modern trend of playing the wingers on the wrong wings. its really dull football. You end up funnelling everything through the middle, becoming very predictable and easy for poor teams to defend against.
Dear Dear mate Zog plays on the left hand side what do we get a rasounding nowt on the right hand side he proberbly kept us up
We’re playing him out of position anyway, so might as well flog himHow many times has he cut in and looked dangerous on the right flank, and on many occasions even scored or assisted. I think that is possibly his best position.
So you guys would have played Valencia on the left then….
He’s got the odd goal cutting in, but not many assists this year. I reckon he’d have had more impact with assists playing on his natural side and getting down the wing properly. We’ve spent all season playing in front of teams, and this is one reason for it.
N’Zogbia is our player of the season, because of the shift to the right-hand side. . .
We saw under Bruce, when he was played as an auxiliary left-winger, an average footballer; fair? He never looked like he would be capable of producing the sort of stuff that he has this season and that was because he played one-dimensionally, as a left-winger I.e. get the ball and run down the flank with it to try and get a cross in. Standard stuff for someone playing in their ‘comfortable’ position, and he never set the world on fire when played there.
Shift him to the right, and you eliminate the option of giving him the scope to be one-dimensional. Now, he has to cut in onto his favourite foot and in order to get into a position to get a cross in on his left, he has to beat defenders and bring some thought into play because it’s no longer a case of get the ball, run, cross. Now he is forced to play with a more thoughtful, considered approach which has brought out some great performances from him.
We could harp on about assist statistics etc, but the truth is that given our impotence in front of goal this season, nobody would have excelled on our flanks (on paper) so I think we should judge our players on the football that we’ve seen them play rather than stats, which can be very misleading in judging a player’s ability or performance.
I have judged him on his performances. He gets the ball, cuts in on his left foot, runs right across all the central midfielders, removing all the space, beats one or two players, then loses it. Thats why he rarely creates a goalscoring chance. He’s a good player being misused in my view, and it symptomatic of Bobbys style. Looks good for a while, but finishes up creating nothing.
Under Bruce I thought he played well on the left, and with Valencia on the right gave the team balance and width which we don’t now have.
So you’d rather see him play down the left, get to the byline and cross? Despite the fact that we’ve got one up-front and have won very few contested headers in attacking positions this season?
Creating chances is relative, too. N’Zogbia on the wing and Pele up front would probably produce more goals and chances than N’Zogbia on the wing with Jason Scotland up front.
Would you say that he was better under Bruce then, when played down the left?
I would say that under Bruce the team as a whole had more balance, and looked better as an attacking force, yes. OK he had Valencia who gave quality right sided width, but Martinez has Moses who could do the same.
If we’re playing 4-5-1. (we’re not playing 4-3-3 as some suggest), I’d rather see it the way Bruce played it with real width. Take Zog example, and assuming we had any sort of centre forward, Zog gets the ball down left flank beats full back, gets to byline, we should have the centre forward at near post, the right sided winger on far post and the advanced midfielder(s), say Watson, bursting through the middle. Because Zog and others aren’t cutting inside all the time you’re giving him more space to run through. Thats what Tottenham did to us in the 9-1 win with Lennon torturing Edman.
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