Bold Tone wrote:
Bold Tone wrote:
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Ozil may be washed up Ozil is the opposite of a solution but other players are responsible for their own shit performances and the manager is responsible for the team's tactical failure.
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Point still stands. ;D
IMO at this point neither Ozil nor Emery are likely to survive their stand-off in terms of their time at the club. There are no 'winners' only 'losers', and it is more likely to be the club that pays the price if we fail to regain CL football. Not just in terms of recruitment or revenues, but also in terms of being able to retain our better players (particularly the attack), which could set us back years in terms of rebuilding to regain CL. This current squad is genuine top4 quality, but we may not be able to say the same again for some time if things do not go according to 'the plan'.
IMO Emery v Ozil is little different to AW v Sanchez & Ozil in terms of impacts/outcomes. In both instances IMO it is the manager who is 'wrong' and cutting their nose off to spite their face, as it is the team performance and capability that is paying the price. It is all very well to drop players who are underperforming or do not fit, so long as they are not crucial to the team capability & performance.
In both cases the decisions to drop those players had the impact of detracting from the team ability to create opportunities (Ozil), and to score goals from nothing (Sanchez). Further to this it also broke up our best combination in transition, and potential attacking play (Sanchez-Ozil-Laca). Lastly any possible validation in doing so was lost as soon as Ozil was given a new deal = the player 'wins' as he is still here. The losers are both the manager and team/club as the manager has gone and the club is not in the CL.
In the current scenario many of the same issues/errors are in play. Despite limited playing time Ozil is still our most creative player during Emery's reign. The primary reason for this is that there is no other player/s who provide the same capabilities in the squad at this point. The other point this season is that with Rambo's departure we have no longer have an identified & effective alternative/planB. The issues are further accentuated by Emery's selections and roles that further expose and underline the issues rather than mitigate them. Pepe may well become the replacement in the team for Sanchez in terms of being able to create scoring opportunities for himself, but he is not there as yet. Currently our attacking players rely upon service which is essentially non-existent. At the very least we are effectively devaluing one of our primary assets in terms of both market value and more specifically in terms of interest in signing him.
That said there is still time to address the situation, but I think it will take intervention from Sanllehi & Edu to make that decision as a directive to both manager and player. IMO it all depends upon how crucial regaining top4/CL is for this season to Sanllehi & Edu, and how big a priority this played in signing Emery (let alone other potential impacts to the team/players). If this is indeed the primary objective in both situations, then the current stand-off is actively detracting from achieving those outcomes and is also damaging both manager & player reputation, without altering the likely departure of both in the summer.
