http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Per-Mertesacker-c29680 admits that he has problems while communicating with his Arsenal teammates
Arsenal defender and German international Per Mertesacker has gone on to reveal that he has faced a number of problems while communicating with his new teammates.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 signed the towering defender from Werder Bremen on the last day of the transfer window and since then Mertesacker has become a first choice at the club.
However, the defender has found it close to impossible to get his message across to his teammates and this has often cost the team to concede a number of cheap goals.
Nonetheless, Mertesacker believes that he is going to have to train with his squad members just a bit more and hopefully they will be able to develop a reasonable understanding that is going to benefit the team.
The defender is quoted to have said: “I still have communication problems, but given the circumstances this was unavoidable. Due to the lateness of the transfer, I could do very little to prepare myself.
“I've only been gone from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 for a month. I have not yet entirely acclimated. Sometimes it feels like an extended vacation. I'm slowly starting to get used to the fact that the centre of my life is now actually in London.
"My brother chose a Manchester United shirt; myself, Arsenal. From then on I had a relationship with this club."
Mertesacker has added a much needed height advantage to the Arsenal squad, following his move to the club. However, despite that fact the player has a number of setbacks of his own. Mertesacker is a little slow and his lack of pace has often seen him getting
caught out of position. At the same time, he just isn’t used to playing the game the way it is played in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 and this has also caused him to be caught out on a number of occasions.
Arsene Wenger had initially brought the player in to team him up with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Thomas-Vermaelen-c35002, since the two defenders compliment each other’s style of play. With Vermaelen having picked up an injury, the German has been teamed up with everyone else and is now
partnering http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-Song-c4804 at the back.
Many believe that it is due to these reasons that the defender hasn’t been able to prove his worth so far, but what can be said assuredly, is that he is going to be up and running sooner rather than later.
Should Mertesacker be able to produce the performances that have been expected from him, then he could be the key to helping Arsenal march back into the top four once again.
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