Simone Zaza (6 Viewers)
- Thread starter Salvatore
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What? This is just dumb.
Zaza has never once complained about playing time, or fighting for it. He clearly accepted his role as 4th choice and that he would have to work his ass off for playing, and scored several very timely goals for us.
not willing to accept being 4th choice. If you have a striker who is perfectly fine with this, and has no ambition to get better, earn more playing time, score regularly. That's a $#@! ass striker I don't want on this team.
Zaza has never once complained about playing time, or fighting for it. He clearly accepted his role as 4th choice and that he would have to work his ass off for playing, and scored several very timely goals for us.
not willing to accept being 4th choice. If you have a striker who is perfectly fine with this, and has no ambition to get better, earn more playing time, score regularly. That's a $#@! ass striker I don't want on this team.
Zaza is not good enough to be a starter, and IMO will never be. but he will not accept his role - he wants to play more and I get that, but there are levels you have to go through in order to play for Juve, and he lacks the patience.
And to be perfectly honest, I just don't think he's smart (football smart I mean) enough to be successful.
The point is, 4th choice strikers like Zaza are very rare. He's not the Matri, Pelle, etc type of confidence striker that only scores when in good runs of form and loses confidence when not scoring or playing often. Those guys often suck as 4th choice types because they don't have the confidence and aggression to make a great impact off the bench...
Zaza is perfect for the role because of his unnatural confidence and work ethic. Even though I disliked Quags. It was the same with him. They are perfect bench strikers because they always have that self-belief.
You sell them if they want to leave, or they have an adverse effect on the team with poor mentality, which Zaza has not shown yet.
Zaza is perfect for the role because of his unnatural confidence and work ethic. Even though I disliked Quags. It was the same with him. They are perfect bench strikers because they always have that self-belief.
You sell them if they want to leave, or they have an adverse effect on the team with poor mentality, which Zaza has not shown yet.
He hardly complained. He always said he wanted to fight for time on the pitch, and always knew he would have to. You all are confusing his agents words with his.
As I said. I want a 4th choice striker who has confidence and self-belief and is willing to fight for more playing time. If he decides he wants to leave because we aren't giving him enough playing time, sell him. But as long as he's happy fighting for a spot here and maintains that confidence you don't sell him unless someone is offering over 30 mil.
OK that's fair enough I guess 
Don't get me wrong. 30mil+ we should sell him. But I wouldn't sell him for under that, as what he offered us last season was quite a bit. Let him give another go this year which he wants to do, and make a decision next summer, or even when teams are desperate at winter mercato.
Zaza's penalty from a different angle.....https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=546449812227285&id=331362617069340.....
