Number10 said:
"Flop" is a harsh word.
But, to see if he has been a success or not, we have to see the expectations with which City bought him.
Dzeko was bought in January, in a hard competition with other top teams in top leagues who wanted him for the same reasons City did: To get an established top striker from a top European League to help push the club to success immediately.
If City would have wanted a striker who would be given 6 months to "come good", and someone who would actually just replace Jo in our line-up until then at least, I believe City would have bought another striker.
I am more of the opinion that he hasn't lived up to the expectations, which is perfectly fair statement. Who of you imagined that Dzeko would not have scored in the league in late April, let alone not be a somewhat valid backup to Tevez or Balotelli, when we bought him for €27m in January? I certainly didn't.
Whether he'll have any long-term future at City will be decided next winter, if we don't swap him for a bigger and better deal this summer.
The thing that we don't play to his strings, I don't buy 100%. The lion's share of his goals are not from crosses. From what I've seen he does not have the explosivity, the touch, the aerial ability and the precision. What he's got going for him, though, is that he has struck me as a hard working lad that knows he needs to improve, and that he wants to do well by seizing his opportunity at City with both hands. It's also fair to believe that, given the impressive record in his latest seasons in Bundesliga, he probably will be more given time and patience.
Have been watching Edin since the very beginning of his career and i am prepared to agree on couple of points in your post. Just want to try to make thy picture more complete and some more background.The whole last year his game work rate in Germany and his training has been pure. I would call it as a some kind of protest pushing the Wolfsburg's managers to sell him. On top of that came a one month brake for him almost laterally without any training.So he came to your club totally unprepared. That showed to be a terrible mistake ha made. Last couple of months he has been paying a price for that.
Edin has never been a runner, he never had to be one in order to achieve certain things. The positive side of that is that there is lot of space for improvement. The only thing he needs to improve is to sharpen up everything he knows and does.Knowing his character as a fighter he is working hard on that piece.
Sadly for him he chose a "wrong" club. A club with an unorthodox game style where a luck of organized attacking play has been replaced by out-paste/ out strength the opponent type of game. On top of that he has an undecicive manager and two cranky Tevez/Balotelli concurrents for the position.You do not need to be an expert to see that he is not getting bolls, whether it is a luck of confidence teammates have towards him or something else i am no sure.
Edin has in him lot of qualities and dimensions that your squad is lucking and if gets a time to establish himself you will suddenly discover that there is something called collective game,one touch football ,team spirit and an "easy" way of scoring. The things that make even the first place possible for you not only the forth, things you are lucking. Edin is only a symptom of that.
