It’s very clear to me.
He’s just not good enough.
He needs a slightly better middle class team with an absolute counter-attacking game where he plays at the top.
That was no longer RB when he came back and neither was Tottenham.
That is the prerequisite for it to work.
He is good in this role.
As you can see, it works maximally ineffectively in other positions roles.
This is a problem that he can deal with even with a low salary and a right to a regular place.
But if he happily accepts such a situation, we won’t see Werner score more than 15 goals in a season.
It’s a shame because he can have an impact in the right system.
Tottenham actually have exactly the right system for him. Things went quite well in the last second half of the season because he was integrated exactly according to his strengths. He went behind the chain at speed without the ball on the left, received a pass from a teammate and played the ball flat into the center. That worked really well. But even that doesn’t work anymore this season. Either he is too late, too early or he misses the cross pass into the middle
So it’s obvious that it’s not working.
But the thing with the system is that mmn. There is too much running and passing from the left. Of course you should expect cross passes, but with him it’s really the long pass. He runs and pushes in.
It is too technically limited and therefore too bad to do more.
He can then grow in his core tasks and other skills improve through self-confidence, but mmn. it’s just this fast tip that’s his thing.
I would classify the passing momentum as offside, too fast or too slow, but it’s actually also a matter of self-confidence.
He’s never been one to lead the way.
I don’t think he’s lazy, but unfortunately he only stands out when it’s tailored to him and the rest of the team works.
All very good posts, in my opinion! I would sign a lot of things 🙂
I think you have to differentiate between Tottenham’s situation and Werner’s situation:
Tottenham aren’t really shining this season and the Ange ball has already been decoded a bit by the PL from what I see and read. At the same time, there is no plan B and, despite their rather poor performances in recent years, Tottenham of course also has a name in which many teams like to put themselves at the back first and therefore, as you have all correctly noticed, do not allow the quick switching game .
Werner’s strengths clearly lie in his transition game and that’s why Tottenham loaned him out. What’s precarious about him is that he can only really play them as a striker and so far this has mainly been in a two-man attack. All things that were fundamentally not the case at Tottenham or at Chelsea at the time and were no longer the case at Leipzig in the meantime. Maybe. There was hope at Tottenham that Werner could be molded into a player similar to Son, who has the same strengths but is significantly, significantly more versatile. I don’t know… Now Werner hasn’t performed for the last 5 years and the way I see him, he’s not someone who has the strength of his head or any kind of resilience. He is someone who only gains form through self-confidence. Seen in this way, the last few years have been a complete negative spiral for him and if Postecoglou now publicly hits it like that, then I think it will be an absolute low blow for Werner and extremely counterproductive.
All in all, I would share and summarize your opinions as follows: Werner can be used very effectively in the right system, but he is incredibly inflexible and one-dimensional in his abilities and positional play. Top teams come into playful situations that are not suitable for Werner, which is why he would be better off at a small club that can regularly play transitional football and for which the opponent opens up space. At Tottenham, all of this will be his downfall. In addition, Tottenham is currently not playing completely successfully and is not variable enough in terms of football to be able to celebrate success as a club and to support Werner as a team and give him self-confidence.
What can he do now: Someone else wrote that he will be financially taken care of. That will be one hundred percent the case. I think he should make sure he plays a lot, gains self-confidence, regains the fun in football and therefore the fun in his job and in life. I’m very sure that Werner had to endure a lot mentally and now has to endure it again. I hope that he manages to resist this, that he doesn’t collapse psychologically and that he realizes that it no longer has to be the biggest contract, but that he can and should enjoy life. Then smaller clubs can also come onto the scene and then there will definitely be a great club for him where he can destroy the league.