I'm as much a fan of Taarabt as the next man (if the next man is somebody like Col) and yearn for him hitting the sort of form we saw in the Championship. I'd like to see Spunky do something really bold and get somebody like Zidane (maybe not Zidane!) in to spend time with the lad. Adel is as frustrating as he is brilliant and talented. Like so many blessed footballers, he carries flaws. For him it is his temperament, the capacity for his head to drop, to sulk and be petulant. He has some growing up to do, but there are signs that he is maturing. Back to the abuse. I see no problem with effing and blinding at footballers, managers, the media and the professional pundits. But its disappointing to see it needlessly directed at fellow posters on this board. I recommend tackling the ball and not the man (Swordsie will remember that this is a popular mantra with me). Good argument is about picking apart the points made by others and showing them to be false, or countering a different point of view by articulating your own position with sound reason and respect. Then again, perhaps I'm just a stupid ****ing arsehole.
Totally agree Queens,hes not good enough.Why does he have to stop the ball everytime we move forward,do 4 step overs and then make a pass that should have been made before the stepovers.To slow and selfish. Cannot or does not want to track back when he loses the ball etc etc etc. As for "its the first game" we have been watching this for 3 seasons now with very little improvement.
He carried the team in the promotion season and, after a load of problems, many of his own making, he was a massive part of our revival last season which included plenty of tracking back. If he's given a free role I don't particularly want him tracking back all the time anyway.
Look on it as friendly advice Uber, he needs to do himself a favour & stop going on & on about it, cos at the moment he's like a boring bloke down the pub.
Adel will deliver but probably not as often as we would or MH would like in the premiership the fact is he was given far too much responsibility yesterday and therefore we were easily nulified by Swansea's tactics. I was amazed how many times he picked up the ball in our own half something NW would not allow and now you know he was right also I thought he was the linking man to Cisse however there he was never close enough to him to be effective. Back to the drawing board MH and get your tactics right next time.
It happens when the Taarabt lovers have their feathers ruffled. Not necessary at all. There's at least three people on this thread agreeing with the OP Col so its not really appropriate to tell Queens everyone thinks he's crazy. Its just not representative.
Taarabt is the kind of player that is meant to TRY things. And we're meant to have a good midfield-defence unit to pick up the pieces, which wasn't there yesterday. So, maybe we let him sit out until things shore up at the back and midfield?
That's just a lazy stereotype swords. He wasn't particularly guilty of that yesterday, and hasn't been in recent games either. I think he squandered posession a few times.. but then so did a few of our players. This is spot on, we all know Adel comes alive in the final 3rd, 70% of his time spent on the ball should be there, yesterday it was more like 20%
Its just that the reason someone said we should drop him is because everyone else wasn't up to scratch. A ridiculous argument. Great players don't blame others when they themselves are playing sh*t. They get on the ball and change things themselves. They dictate and are not dictated to. You call pull out all the excuses you want mate but until he actually starts playing well, a lot of people will rightly continue to question his ability at this level.
He played well at the end of last season, everyone was heaping praise on him for his newfound work ethic. One poor team performance and all his old knockers are straight on his case again. I think cisse was worse than him yesterday. He didn't pressurise their back 4 at all, and spent too long on the floor complaining to the ref about percieved fouls whilst swansea were on the break. You could say that he was isolated as a lone striker, but then wouldn't that be a form of this:
