Edin Dzeko

[Bodicoteblue]

Dzeko and Nasri were two of the biggest victims of Mancini's "style " of man management .
If you're a striker and score 4 goals at Spurs and play like man of the match , and then find yourself dropped to the bench for the next game it's bound to affect you .
Dzeko is one of those "confidence" players who need the arm round the shoulder - a treatment sadly lacking in the Mancini era , and I can see Pellegrini getting the best out this boy.
Edin is an old fashioned "sniffer" - get the delivery right and he will be on the spot once we start to play to his strengths - exactly what we bought Navas for . No surprises that Tevez has gone and , so far , Dzeko stays.

 

[woolleyback blue]

Dzeko and Nasri were two of the biggest victims of Mancini's "style " of man management .
If you're a striker and score 4 goals at Spurs and play like man of the match , and then find yourself dropped to the bench for the next game it's bound to affect you .
Dzeko is one of those "confidence" players who need the arm round the shoulder - a treatment sadly lacking in the Mancini era , and I can see Pellegrini getting the best out this boy.
Edin is an old fashioned "sniffer" - get the delivery right and he will be on the spot once we start to play to his strengths - exactly what we bought Navas for . No surprises that Tevez has gone and , so far , Dzeko stays.

This. Dzeko was a goal machine for Wolfsburg. Pellegrini got the best out of RSC at Malaga and he'll do the same for Dzeko.

 

[Marvin]

Dzeko's goal record last season was amazing yet his attitude was very poor

I feel he gave 80% last season. His rare starts were very disappointing. I expected him to play like a player with something to prove

Don't expect Navas to start every game. He'll be used like AJ

 

[Deleted member 52846]

Dzeko and Nasri were two of the biggest victims of Mancini's "style " of man management .
If you're a striker and score 4 goals at Spurs and play like man of the match , and then find yourself dropped to the bench for the next game it's bound to affect you .
Dzeko is one of those "confidence" players who need the arm round the shoulder - a treatment sadly lacking in the Mancini era , and I can see Pellegrini getting the best out this boy.
Edin is an old fashioned "sniffer" - get the delivery right and he will be on the spot once we start to play to his strengths - exactly what we bought Navas for . No surprises that Tevez has gone and , so far , Dzeko stays.

Dropped to the bench? He was only saved for the CL game three days later in which he did play. Plus Agüero scored a hat trick in the Wigan game Džeko was rested for. That's good squad rotation if you ask me.

Džeko is meek. He seems to have no fight in him. If a player can't adapt to squad rotation, he's not that good.

 

[JamesMCFC]

I reckon Dzeko would do pretty well as the only striker upfront

We could build a team round him now with Navas in the side

 

[swblue7]

Edin stays

 

[ianw16]

I don't know enough about Muriel to be honest.

Hilda Ogden used to have one on her wall.

 

[Dzekolol]

Dzeko and Nasri were two of the biggest victims of Mancini's "style " of man management .
If you're a striker and score 4 goals at Spurs and play like man of the match , and then find yourself dropped to the bench for the next game it's bound to affect you .
Dzeko is one of those "confidence" players who need the arm round the shoulder - a treatment sadly lacking in the Mancini era , and I can see Pellegrini getting the best out this boy.
Edin is an old fashioned "sniffer" - get the delivery right and he will be on the spot once we start to play to his strengths - exactly what we bought Navas for . No surprises that Tevez has gone and , so far , Dzeko stays.

I'm not Mancini's biggest fan and I've never like his man-management approach, BUT for the love of god, Dzeko WAS NOT dropped after Spurs game, he was rested, I repeat RESTED ahead of a (Champions League) much more important game to play!

If your boss is resting you for a much more important game, you'd take that as compliment FFS. That was exactly the case so don't get it twisted for cheap shot and LAME excuse. it's getting Rather tiresome!

Football is a confidence game, both the coach and player have an important role to play in building confidence, strikers are there to score, when scoring, you can do no wrong. When it’s the other way round, everything goes wrong and the ball won't go in! You put some effort in, try really hard and make sure everything else is right! It's the law of averages if you're not scoring, you put some fuckin effort... that's my beef with Dzeko.

A world class coach, a man-management genius, together can have a very powerful impact on you! However the desire to succeed must come from within you, so self motivation is absolutely necessary if you want to be one of the best!

There's striker and world class striker, it takes more than having great coach, it takes two to tango.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

"Dropped or rested " end result - player on top scoring form sat on bench .
Squad rotation - fine ,but what we now know about Mancini's man management skills and shortcomings in that department, I can imagine Dzeko's unhappiness and it seems to me that the relationship between the two became irretrievable after that.
OK , Dzeko was apparently quite sulky but again , Mancini was too and he seemed unable or unwilling to do very much to help the situation.
I'm not saying anything other than Dzeko is a professional footballer and wants to play every game - not possible- we all know that ,even if he was playing at his best , but he will be psychologically better managed by Pellegrini.

 

[Dzekolol]

"Dropped or rested " end result - player on top scoring form sat on bench .
Squad rotation - fine ,but what we now know about Mancini's man management skills and shortcomings in that department, I can imagine Dzeko's unhappiness and it seems to me that the relationship between the two became irretrievable after that.
OK , Dzeko was apparently quite sulky but again , Mancini was too and he seemed unable or unwilling to do very much to help the situation.
I'm not saying anything other than Dzeko is a professional footballer and wants to play every game - not possible- we all know that ,even if he was playing at his best , but he will be psychologically better managed by Pellegrini.

Spin it how you want it, Dzeko was not just quite sulky, he was fuckin lazy, sulky and disgrace with his 'can't be arsed' performances.

"Steve McClaren has warned City boss Roberto Mancini that the Bosnian star will have to up his work rate to cope with the demands of the top flight" Mmmm