Part 2 - Special Feature: Transfers gone bad...
Carroll’s capabilities as a footballer are clearly limited. Yes the striker is an excellent holder of the ball and can influence the game through his physical presence but that is all he has going for him.
He isn’t an ambidextrous quick footed player, a trait you would be forgiven to expect of someone who costs 35 million pounds. Not only that, a 35 million price tag for Carroll only adds insult to injury when analyzed in the larger scope of things.
In the summer transfer window of 2010, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Villa-c10629?
The Spanish target man is undoubtedly one of the finest strikers in modern football. In the English Premier League alone, looking at Arsenal’s squad, the accumulative price for Szczesny, Clichy, Djourou, Vermaelen, Sagna, Nasri, Walcott, Fabregas, Song,
Wilshere and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robin-van-Persie-c31380 totals up to 44 million but a Torres alone is worth 50 million pounds in the English transfer market. If this isn’t lunacy then what is it?
Granted that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/South-Africa-c757, Torres wriggled
on the ground and grabbed his hamstring while seething in pain.
A transfer fee of 50 million pounds for the Spaniard is indeed a fee which just goes on to reflect the financial and economic irregularities that have crept into English football. Sure, Fernando Torres is worth a lot of money but a line needs to be drawn
somewhere.
Taking up the case of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Darren-Bent-c10358 is another classic example of an overhyped up, overpriced and overrated English striker. Bent is a gifted goal scorer but his lack of a substantial goal scoring record in European competitions alongside his limited abilities
as a contributor to the overall team in which his plays limits his effectiveness as a striker.
Yes, Bent’s goal scoring record at Sunderland was remarkable as he netted 32 goals in 58 appearances for the Black Cats but before that at Tottenham, Bent just netted 18 goals in 61 appearances and preceding that at Charlton, he scored 31 goals in 68 appearances.
Is the Englishman really worth 24 million pounds or are the English so excited when they see a natural goal scorer that they end up overestimating his value? English football is going through a dark time for sure but some people will attribute such tendencies
(read misevaluation of footballers) to their downfall at the international stage as well.
There is a famous conception in English football that if you can head the ball and can run fast, it automatically qualifies you as a world class footballer. Whereas in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 and Italy, you need to control, pass, shot and lastly run with the ball
to even come within a touching distance of becoming an above average footballer.
English club’s spending trends are just mirror images of the perception of football in the British Isles. If http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 want to be considered as a nation which play football with their “brains” rather than their “heads” then they need to change the mentality.
Welsh footballer and manager, Phil Woosnam, said, “The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does”.
It seems the British Isles have taken this philosophy to heart, what they need to do is to pay more attention to what Brain Clough said about passing to feet, "If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there".
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