Ninja Elephant
Doctor Elephant
- Feb 16, 2009
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I think he’s not getting a fair shake from you and others. I know he broke the transfer record for BHA but you guys act like you’re Man City and just spent 50mil on a World Cup Champion. I’m not here to simply defend him.. I thought BHA football and AJ were not a good match from even before he signed because of the lumbering, somewhat messy and cautiously defensive style of football BHA play. I have been watching AJ play in a very similarly-playing Iranian national team, where he really does not shine, and that is why the move to Brighton was so unusual to me.
It’s not a pathetic comparison. A winger needs to play on his dominant side. A winger’s first move MUST be with the confidence of the dominant foot. How are you expecting a right winger to make it down the left flank when he is a right winger? Or cross it in?? It’s like some of you have never played football seriously before!
I’m not even disappointed in you, you don’t get paid to do this, I’m disappointed in the recruiting team and managerial team. It takes a 5 minute YouTube review of his goals last year to see why he is not doing well in a completely different position.
I'm with you entirely. I can't speak about the Iranian national team, but you can only really judge a player when he's had a fair chance in his natural position. Jahanbakhsh is a right winger, not a left winger. He's doing his best out there, and he's shown that he can use his left foot but, to use your expression, it's not his dominant foot. All the time he's not used in his strongest position, we're not going to see the best of him and having spent so many years and so much money bringing him in, I don't understand why we wouldn't then want to get the most out of him. It baffles me, but there it is. We never saw Mackail-Smith play off another strike and we may never see Jahanbakhsh play regularly on the right wing.
Any ideas what his Instagram rant was about?