by chrissicross Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:32 pm
Silvestre is unbelievable slow, both physically and mentally. He is simply completely over-challenged with Bundesliga football most of the time. He loses the ball all the time, he can't cross the halfway line, because the game would already be over before he could return defending in our own half. Hell, he even can't do a throw-in right, most of time he just throws the ball directly to a rival player.
So is Silvestre responsible for our current situation? Well, partly. Imo we have two main problems:
- Our defense was already weakened by the injury of Naldo. But Silvestre put the boot into it.
- We're missing a playmaker. That's the main reason why our attacking play doesn't work well enough this season, especially when Pizarro is injured. Or when he has to play in the midfield half of the time to compensate for the missing playmaker, where he also has to run much more than he should. No wonder he suffers from a muscle injury all the time.
Defending was never really a strength of Werder Bremen during the last years, but below the line our attacking play has always been good enough to compensate that. This season however we've completely lost any balance between attack and defense.
Now we're in a kind of downward spiral, which is hard to stop.
It was a big mistake not to sign a replacement for Özil, and it was a mistake not to sign the much needed decent LB, and it was a big mistake to spend around 3m Euro per season for a senile snail, who makes everything even worse.
In that sense Silveste is yet another symbol of our insufficient transfer policy during the last three years.
[9%] 
I dread to think what that Arsenal mate of Thomas Schaaf's made of it...
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