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Red wrote:a little off topic and some may not agree, daddyo made a reply/point to which made me think about Cisse,

daddyo wrote

I believe Rafa's trying to play him thru this. thinking that to drop him would do                                                           a. his confidence no good at all and                                  b. not help in integrating him into the system he's trying so hard to perfect (of which he sees Garcia or someone like him) as being a major part.........

now how can some people defend garcia like this? yeah ok like we have all said before Garcia made an impact to our CL campaign last season, But if he aint up to doing the job he should be dropped to the bench,
now as for Cisse doesnt the above quote effect him in the same way? of course it would, he has spent more time warming the bench this season than actually playing, bringing Cisse into a match that has only 20 or 10 mins remaining doesnt give him time to show what he can do, and because he doesnt produce in the time given that keeps him to the bench longer which further dents his confidence and so on.

Now some replys to this post is going to be....Rafa dont like him or hes going to be sold in jan window or he doesnt fit in to the formation that Rafa is using ATM ,AND hes just not good enough, well if he is given the chance to actually start matches and given a good run like 5 or 6 that alone would boost his confidnece by a mile.

now that is my thought

You've taken a wrong turn dude.

I'm NOT defending LG, just like a few on the forum can see he's not playing well, an the discussion is is he good enough or not.

The point i'm making does not change and maybe it does also apply to Cisse, however as the Manager Rafa has decisions to make about formations and personnel.
It seems to me that he's made his decision-i.e. to play LG and NOT change his system or change to acccomodate Cisse.

FWIW i think that by playing Cisse up front with Crouch puts LG right out of the equation, where would he play?
RM to (potentially) put crosses in a la SG? or LM to do the same? (he doesn't go 'outside' of many defenders) or centre mid  and to repeat, IMO Rafa thinks LG gives us more than Cisse, now I may be wrong-Rafa may be wrong and if Cisse plays with the same regularity and he's gone come Jan. maybe we'll never know, but there's one thing thats certain-you can't please all the people all the time.

Oh finally again just a thought, but I don't beleive that if Cisse came off the bench and scored that it would guarantee him a start, if Rafa doesn't 'fancy' him it may even serve to consolidate his position there (supersub???). just a thought.....

Feeney wrote:Garica does give balls away - sometimes almost passing to the opposition. However, if you study him, you will see that a good percentage of his balls are clever balls, attempting to carve open a defence - they don't come off, however it is mostly the 'right' type of ball to play, rather than the easiest.