Am I the only one who can see............

Personally i think Dzeko is a class player.

just playing in a team at the moment that's not playing class themselves or supplying him with anything worthy of scoring from.
 
you hit the nail on the head there i have bin trying to tell people this but no joy lets give him time ur see how good he is and another point we need players to put good crosses in the box to him
 
In relation to much that has already been agreed in our lack of crossing, I can't help but feel both Sven and Mancini, who are undoubtedly both good and capable managers, drum into their players that they should NEVER hit indescriminate balls forward that give players running into the box and down the channels the chance to dismantle defences, much as the rags do for runners like Nani, Rooney and that Mexican twat.

This regimented negativity definately gives you longer in possession, but is so pedestrian it rarely gives the cutting edge we lack in our excessively pedestrian pace and build up.

When you look at the way Hart is obviously warned never to punt anything forward, he is often left looking like a fat lad and our chance to hit dissorientated opposition defenders, out of position on the break is lost time and time again.

So it may be that even if we had the wingers people have suggested, who could cross good balls, I'm pretty sure they would only rarely get the ball early enough to supply the telling crosses at an early enough point to take any real advantage.

How many times this season have we seen our powerfull and pacey players like Micah and Ballotelli, on the shoulder of opposition defenders shoulders, making a well timed run for a ball over the top, which is either not seen by Barry, Yaya, Vierra or De Jong, or is not serviced, we have the players to take great advantage, but they seem so fixated with never playing a speculative ball that they choose an simpler and less risky sideways or backwards pass, it does my fuckin head in and must frustrate to high heaven those making the effort to offer such an outlet.

I've Backed Mancini steadfastly from the start, but it does make you wonder if his caution will ultimately be his downfall, and as his managerial strategy is obviously so closely alligned to that of his mentor, Sven, maybe he will never adopt anything more cavalier.

I can see many good things that he has achieved from a defensive perspective, but I expected this to be merely a building block, with the final piece of his blueprint being a pacey and dynamic forward line tearing defences apart.
 
To me part of the problem is that Mancini buys somebody on the basis of their skill playing in a certain position and then plays them differently.

It always seemed to be the case in the old days that we would have a good player called up for England and then the match commentator would come out with the usual story ' this player plays left back or whatever but today the England manager is playing them in a differant position'. Inevitably the player would have a poor match and England wouldn't get the expected result.
 
Lordeffingham said:
that Dzeko is going to be one of the best forwards we have had for many years, certainly as good as Quinny, and with a fair chance of becoming a great?

Things to remember: he was nowhere near match fit when he arrived, has had to adapt not only to the Premier league, but to a team with a greedy bastard up front, as well as an extremely overated selfish Italian enigma, who is so hit and miss I'm not sure if we shouldn't fuck him of right now. A team of pretty average players going forward with the exception of our best player for forty years, Silva, and potentially Tevez, but with a squad who have been swapped and changed so regularly I'll bet he's never played with 7 of the same players more than once.

He can and does win his fair share against oposing centre halves, is pretty slick on the deck, shields the ball well, and seldomely gives the ball away. I know he's still not as sharp as he needs to be but is improving in every one of his one in every three starts. he has been in need of some real support and has thus far received neither this nor any decent service. He will start scoring regularly soon and is so much better than a whole host of strikers who have been given years, not months to make their name here. Christ he has hardly been here 3 months and the shite that I see and hear on Bluemoon makes me piss.

Tevez works, runs, tries, scores and is the type of player we need, but by becoming so over reliant on Tevez it seems people think he is the way forward and is the future, well you need to share the goals and have a ballanced attack to become a great team, and I'm afraid unless Tevez can revert to the player he was in his first season here, we are always going to remain as reliant on him as we have been far too regularly this season, and one striker doing all the scoring will never be good enough to carry a team to the title. I can't understand or explain why he has become so selfish, but other than very rarely passing to Silva, he invariably once recieving a ball will just run himself into the ground and often waste a chance rather than pass to an often better placed team mate.

Some on here actually blamed Dzeko for our recent run of form, suggesting we are trying to play for and around Dzeko, well I've not seen anything which suggests this, but I'd be much happier trying to find a regular strike partner for him than settling for a future based solely on Tevez as our attack.

We got beat by a slightly better team on the day at Chelsea, but it wasn't a bad performance and I don't understand why Dzeko is getting any shit at all, I thought he had a fair game and did some good work, some fans on here are getting too caught up in looking for a scapegoat every time we don't win.
Today, other than the same player who was undoubtedly to blame for our European exit on Thursday showing his face for ten minutes before doing absolutely zilch, there wasn't anyone else who didn't do their best, it was a very tough time and place to play today and we gave a reasonable account of ourselves without Tevez, so stop bleating and give some credit where it's due.
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You are not the only one
Dzekos going to be the dogs bollocks and we are going to be a major force for years to come.
Granted we havent done what I thought we would (win the treble this season) but its still better than this time last year and miles better than the year before.
 
We should get off his back, he is not going to improve if there is too much pressure on him. Strikers moving in the Jan transfer window never really hit their best form because they need to get used to the team and fit into the passing style etc. Look at Torres, Carroll. Suarex has been good but he's a different type of striker. More like Tevez, a creator of his own goals, tenacious and fiesty. GNext season we will see the best of Dzeko.
 
He will only come good If mancini changes the way we play.

If he doesnt he will continue to flounder.

He needs to put himself about a bit more and make things happen more often
 
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