OPINIONS According to some sources, Zanka is on the verge of joining the LA Galaxy, just a few months after his arrival in Brussels.
An opinion on the question. Decryption.
The sadly remembered defeat at home against Dender got the better of the patience of the slender Dane who, despite being almost 35 years old, went crazy while he was being booed copiously by the Lotto Park public.
Was this formal crucifixion justified?
As is often the case, 2 camps will be for and against to interpret this sentence from the Vox Populi.
Contrary to what we have sometimes read or heard here and there, Zanka is not a goat or a loser.
This easy and peremptory conclusion is necessarily erroneous.
Everyone will agree, I imagine, that we do not play 102 PL matches and 37 in the Danish selection, passing through clubs like Copenhagen, PSV, Fenerbahce and Brentford if we are a quiche on the pitch. Let’s stay serious.
Doesn’t it make more sense to admit that Jorgensen is in fact a player who simply does not suit current Sporting?
Zanka is basically a valiant soldier, certainly aging, who could be a good piece in an already solid defense.
However, he is not a boss and the comparison made with Vertonghen, a world-class defender, is not fair.
In his defense, it should be mentioned that he was forced by events to play in a register that is not his own and to assume a role that goes well beyond his skills.
The fellow was not placed in the best conditions being, most often, flanked by weaker than average full-backs from a defensive point of view (Foket and N’Diaye), behind a crumbly and rarely dominating central midfield in which Leoni blames his lack of kilos, Rits the weight of years and Dendoncker his total decay.
Take it easy, man.
To top it off, he is still associated with a good 19-year-old rookie who must necessarily be guided rather than focusing on his own tasks.
What else ?
As if that wasn’t enough, he will still be asked to play on the left side of the defense, he being a pure right-hander.
Cool !
Finally, Anderlecht tries (clumsily) to build from the back to create a gap, which absolutely does not fit into the qualities of the Dane, who has neither the technique nor the long pass of Debast or Vertonghen.
We thus practically have the typical example of a player who has the opposite profile of what corresponds to the needs.
We are thus in the most blatant contraindication!
This is called a casting error.
Fredberg and his Danish Addiction have once again bypassed recruitment based on technical-tactical skills in favor of criteria more focused on the passport, the narrowness of the network and the “free” nature of the player.
The lack of confidence accumulated in this inappropriate use of Zanka, added to the dismissals of those who hired him (Riemer/Fredberg), ultimately made him so bad that the player is now no longer capable of make a pass at 5m.
Should we therefore get rid of it? Absolutely because today it is more harmful than useful to the team’s performance.
Is it entirely his fault and due to his lack of qualities?
No ! Sporting and its disastrous sports management in recent years, which looks like elusive tinkering, is once again caught up in the reality on the ground.
As with DDK, Foket or even Vasquez, not to mention Patris or Flips for which nearly 10 million were spent recently.
Our management, however, did not lack luck with the Cosemans miracle which allowed us to place ourselves in the championship, 3 places at least, higher than where we should have been.
And as Colin was spared injuries and suspensions, we almost ended up forgetting that there was a big goalkeeping problem at Lotto Park.
As long as it doesn’t break, it’s fine, but for how much longer?
The bitter defeats against Genk and Bruges really put our feet back on the ground.
The gap with these machines is enormous and to imagine that the returns of Vertonghen and Hazard will give Sporting sufficient weight to compete for prizes would be naive optimism especially since the Union has also found the right carburetion.
Unless spending the European winter and reaching the OPs to make up the numbers is the objective.
Basically, why not?
If the RSCA has other ambitions, it will be more about strengthening itself than simply transferring.
Potential arrivals must absolutely be better than the players already present, otherwise it will be illusory to maintain any ambition for glory.
Noblesse oblige.
The one in question is not acquired by birth or past history but by actions.
It is said that the Fox is a cunning animal.
Let’s see if he has more than one good trick up his sleeve.
Wait and see.
COYM
Kargamel
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