Freedom makes football better.
There is no point in ruining midfielder Wendel’s career
He doesn’t want to play for Zenit. Doesn’t want to play RPL a long time ago. Since the serious talks with Flamengo, where they wanted to take Marcus with Claudinho. Wendel is consistent in his decision, he doesn’t lie to anyone about his immeasurable love until the death of a footballer. I gathered in the fall for a series of good matches to arouse the interest of other clubs. But you can see it in Brazilians when they offer a mandatory program. They sound like singers singing to the soundtrack of a boring concert in the provinces.
Wendel is cool enough to collect 8 assists and 1 goal in slow motion. RPL. He has a 91.4% success rate and a generally low turnover percentage in simple situations. Wendel is a tough player. But if a few years ago I was in the top ten by average ratings of RPLthen now we are 27. Many players have played more consistently than Marcus. Wendel has given up six of his eight assists this summer. Since the end of September, he has not made a single effective play in Zenit matches.
How else can a player hint at a loss of motivation? Marcus only received yellow cards during the period with Krasnodar, Krylia Sovetov and Akron losing. Semak himself said that players’ eyes do not light up. We know the reason. Zenit does not achieve successful sales for increases. Renan, Isidore, Krugovoy, Malcolm, Queiroz and Alberto were not promoted to serious clubs in the major championships. Wendel does not play for Marseille, Barrios is not the leader of Nottingham Forest’s sensational midfield.
Players like Claudinho, Wendel, Cassierra and the others feel like they are stuck in a matrix. Zenit can win all the trophies again. They won the Super Cup against Krasnodar. Musaev and his protégés are prone to self-sabotage, just like Stankovic’s Spartak. But Wendel doesn’t want to be just a champion RPL. Dreams of development, and it can be done outside RPL. The footballer tried to reach an agreement, but he was refused. And athletes are proud people.
In St. Petersburg, it is customary to believe in the infallibility of the club’s decisions. But commentator Orlov and experts, who do not hide the status of Zenit fans, question the strategy, according to which some players refuse to return to the team during the offseason. Wendel had already done something crazy and came back with fat on his sides. He gave various reasons for his departure. From now on, his worldview is based on the desire to participate in European competitions. Or at least in a very serious division in Europe. He has the right.
Right to freedom of movement. And Zenit has no right to harm. Wendel was given a price of 30 million euros. A player with his approach to work is not the most disciplined, at 27 years old he is valued at 20 million euros. Considering Zenit plucked the young Brazilian from Sporting for exactly that kind of money, it’s time to bring Wendel back to European competition. Or find a suitable club for the midfielder in Brazil. Eternal selfishness can harm football teams, Zenit must be able to let go.
It is important for Zenit to learn to play in a new style
There are panic arguments about why Wendel should not care about his wishes and be forced to return. Zenit fears Marcus’ departure could trigger a chain reaction. Suddenly a lot of people will want to leave. It is obvious that Wendel is one of the actors in the system. Without him and Barrios, the old Zenit may be broken. But even when the midfielders are on the field, the middle peasants add nerve to Semak RPLand not just the leaders. Spartak in St. Petersburg was close to victory, although the leaders were at the base.
Gluchenkov’s successful debut showed Semak that change is not always bad. Maxim was injured and slowed down, but I liked his arrogance more than Claudinho and Wendel’s ability to move the ball at a slow pace. The players are stagnating. They don’t need to develop to challenge for the title until the final round. Usually the competitors themselves help to stay with the championship cup. This scenario is discouraging. “Zenit” does not play differently, but simply places strong players in the positive points.
Glushenkov, Latyshonok and Mostovoy shot. Last season, Cassierra carried the ball, but now he hits the ball much less often in the net. Zenit needs to change. They are afraid that without Wendel, the orchestra will disappear, but Marcus will leave sooner or later. Even if he spends the spring at Zenit, he will want to leave in the summer. We must prepare. But Semak does not have a reliable sports director who is on the same wavelength as his partner. The coach reproached the management for not asking his opinion.
But here, Semak himself is to blame. Always tries to stay away from conflict situations. He did not defend Krugovoy, who was sent to the reserve for his decision to do his military service. CSKA free agent. It didn’t help Wendel get to a club of Juventus’ level. Arthur was marinated in the reserves. Zenit will then have to play without Santos, Barrios and Wendel. The sooner reality is accepted, the easier perestroika will be. But Semak is afraid of change. Hence the collections of full-backs, wingers and centre-forwards.
Wendell is not the only one considering leaving
Zenit insists that everything is under control. And the players, since they have crazy salaries, use standard phrases in interviews. Nobody says what’s on their mind, it’s a dangerous story. We have been convinced a thousand times that when Zenit collapses, it is mainly from within. Hulk against Denisov, the antics of players of the Shirokov generation, discontent with strong foreign coaches who were promised paradise and were deceived. Now, another refusal of Wendell to return. Not everyone is as loyal as Santos.
One of the club’s leaders, Arshavin, was not heard when he proposed changing the vector to Russian. They believed that trusting only one’s own people was costly and dangerous. You can see Muscovites and Krasnodar with trophies. They were probably right. Generally brilliant segments from Claudinho, Wendel and Cassierra are enough to conquer RPL. But you can’t repeat a melody endlessly for years, presenting it like a new champion single. Zenit is not the Kerry singer to make his fortune from a Christmas album.
Cool clubs outside the top 5 know how to sell on time and profitably. Zenit doesn’t know how. There was a time when Dzyuba should have been sent to nuclear submarine – they couldn’t get out, even though Artyom himself wanted to leave. Cassierra had options recently, but Zenit ignored them. And Mateo became bitter. And Sobolev, abandoned in Serie A due to his difficult character, did not play right away. How healthy is the Semak team? There are many competitors and dissatisfied people. Wendel is just being impudent, so he protests louder than the others.
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