Eljero Elia (20 Viewers)

deggen10

Senior Member
Jul 27, 2011
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'German football expert and HSV fan Dan Bu on Elia- “A few thoughts on Eljero Elia for those who asked earlier. Tricky right-footed left winger. Very good pace and technique. Primary a left winger, doesn’t like to play on the right. Lots of potential and all abilities to become a top winger, but no consistency yet. Only fulfilled his potential the first 3 or 4 months at HSV, but always talked about a move to a top club (already after his presentation). Seems to be quite immature & sensitive mentally. Had problems to deal with criticism & only performs well if everything around is perfect. HSV tried lots of things to make him feel comfortable, but surely made mistakes as well. In the right environment he might find consistency. IF he settles down at Juve (a team that has more quality than HSV atm) & finds consistency, he might be worth 2 or 3 times as much in 2 yrs. The IF in the last tweet is a big IF, but as a Juve supporter I would rather look forward to see him play, than doubt his signing.
I'm happy to take the chance on this guy and go the Arsene Wenger route. Much better than drums like Vargas and Bastos who will be worth 0$ in 2-3 years no matter what.

Finally we have a couple players that can genuinely 'dribble' their opponent (him, Vuci).
 

donpiero

Stella D'Argento
Jul 3, 2009
3,370
Well this guy insulted us(he was not misquoted) and i'm not gonna forget about that.
he seems like he's as much an egocentric snob as balotelli is who thinks too much of himself, a grown up child i say.
I watched a coupla his preseason games and seemed pretty insignificant to me.
all that said, i hope he grows up and can make a positive impact here and be consistently useful to us.
 

Red

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Moderator
Nov 26, 2006
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Well this guy insulted us(he was not misquoted) and i'm not gonna forget about that.
he seems like he's as much an egocentric snob as balotelli is who thinks too much of himself, a grown up child i say.
I watched a coupla his preseason games and seemed pretty insignificant to me.
all that said, i hope he grows up and can make a positive impact here and be consistently useful to us.
How do you know he wasn't misquoted?
 

king Ale

Senior Member
Oct 28, 2004
21,689
why, what do you know about him?
Nothing. I have never even seen him play but I don't like players who are not willing to come. I could get over this if it was a Sneijder but it annoys me that Elia of all players was reluctant to choose us even over his sorry team, Hamburg.

You're on your own there.
I was more comfortable even when we signed Martinez.

The first? Really? :D This is like the 4th or so for this summer for me.
Who else?
 

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