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A certain poster on here has spent the past 6 months launching a venomous tirade at Adel Taarabt and his supposed 'attitude problem' and it has got me thinking how do we define an attitude problem?
When I look at Taarabt I see a match winner, a player who no one else can match for ability in this division. We have seen a degree of petulance on the pitch from AT which certain fans have used to demonise the player as some sort of anti christ and I just don't get it.
We had no harder working player in the final third than Taarabt last season, you can see that from the amount of efforts he had on goal which more often than not were real shooting opportunities made by himself and were it not for the woodwork and some wayward shooting he would have easily doubled his goal tally last year. It then frustrates me to hear Taarabt being described as lazy because he isn't tracking back every 5 mins. I'll tell you another thing if he loses possession he does his best to get back, why? Because he constantly wants the ball and going back at the opposition on the attack.
AT is simply not happy to collect his wages each week he loves playing football. Ok he liable to storm off down the tunnel at the end of a game when things don't go his way or when substituted instead hanging around shaking the oppositions hands after defeat, but who cares he is a winner, I wish the rest of the squad wanted to win that much and be a match winner.
Off the pitch I have heard AT is a model professional, he is teetotal and religious and is part of community here in London. You don't hear off AT falling out of night clubs at 3am with a couple of tarts on his arms, beating people up in wine bars or shagging team mates wives. These are the sort of things which give someone an attitude problem IMO yet because he is an emotional player he gets frustrated and constantly wants to do something special he has an attitude???
Flair players more often begin life as individual talents and become team players as their career progresses. More often than not it takes a bit of nurturing from the right manager to make things click. To have so much confidence and ambition at such a young age should not be used as a stick to beat the individual. So we are not his first choice, so what, we are a mid table CCC side who can't even fill our ground, believe me we are not the most attractive proposition to a player like AT. We are reported to be the only club in for but in truth no one knows the full situation and it maybe no one can match our offer or guarantee him first team football like we can.
I just hope if he does sign a certain section of our support get off his back and stop looking for reasons to hate AT and welcome him with open arms like we should because from where I'm sitting he is not the one with the attitude problem.
When I look at Taarabt I see a match winner, a player who no one else can match for ability in this division. We have seen a degree of petulance on the pitch from AT which certain fans have used to demonise the player as some sort of anti christ and I just don't get it.
We had no harder working player in the final third than Taarabt last season, you can see that from the amount of efforts he had on goal which more often than not were real shooting opportunities made by himself and were it not for the woodwork and some wayward shooting he would have easily doubled his goal tally last year. It then frustrates me to hear Taarabt being described as lazy because he isn't tracking back every 5 mins. I'll tell you another thing if he loses possession he does his best to get back, why? Because he constantly wants the ball and going back at the opposition on the attack.
AT is simply not happy to collect his wages each week he loves playing football. Ok he liable to storm off down the tunnel at the end of a game when things don't go his way or when substituted instead hanging around shaking the oppositions hands after defeat, but who cares he is a winner, I wish the rest of the squad wanted to win that much and be a match winner.
Off the pitch I have heard AT is a model professional, he is teetotal and religious and is part of community here in London. You don't hear off AT falling out of night clubs at 3am with a couple of tarts on his arms, beating people up in wine bars or shagging team mates wives. These are the sort of things which give someone an attitude problem IMO yet because he is an emotional player he gets frustrated and constantly wants to do something special he has an attitude???
Flair players more often begin life as individual talents and become team players as their career progresses. More often than not it takes a bit of nurturing from the right manager to make things click. To have so much confidence and ambition at such a young age should not be used as a stick to beat the individual. So we are not his first choice, so what, we are a mid table CCC side who can't even fill our ground, believe me we are not the most attractive proposition to a player like AT. We are reported to be the only club in for but in truth no one knows the full situation and it maybe no one can match our offer or guarantee him first team football like we can.
I just hope if he does sign a certain section of our support get off his back and stop looking for reasons to hate AT and welcome him with open arms like we should because from where I'm sitting he is not the one with the attitude problem.
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