Zelalem: 30th best young player in world football

[pcbear 10,923]

Flatters to deceive, he is neat and tidy but seldom plays the killer pass and gives the ball away too much even when trying simple straightforward passes, I also thought the last Arsenal player we had (Kyle Bartley) was a poor footballer.

[AlBear. 8,499]

People going on about his passing. He'll be used to training/playing with Arsenals first team, clearly a better standard than our squad. Could be the fact that he is reading the game on another level to our players which is why he puts the ball places where he's used to higher quality players being and our guys aren't there.

 

At least that was always my excuse when I was younger. 

[TheMotor 2,208]

1 minute ago, AlBear85 said:

People going on about his passing. He'll be used to training/playing with Arsenals first team, clearly a better standard than our squad. Could be the fact that he is reading the game on another level to our players which is why he puts the ball places where he's used to higher quality players being and our guys aren't there.

 

At least that was always my excuse when I was younger. 

Then he's still no use to us. We should sign someone of lesser ability who knows where our poor players are actually standing on the pitch.

[AlBear. 8,499]

Just now, TheMotor said:

Then he's still no use to us. We should sign someone of lesser ability who knows where our poor players are actually standing on the pitch.

Doesn't sound very ambitious.

[legalbeagle 3,734]

He is blatantly not the 30th best young player in the world, otherwise he would probably be a first choice for a team playing in the second tier of this crappy country.

[TheMotor 2,208]

1 minute ago, AlBear85 said:

Doesn't sound very ambitious.

It's more likely to win us games than elite players who can't find any of our other players with the ball.

Or it could just have been a specious argument in the first place, which only really works when you're trying to tell your mates that they're just not up to your level yet (I've also tried it on but nobody fell for it).

[TonyRice1872 105]

33 minutes ago, TheMotor said:

He's being out-performed on his productivity, in terms of goals and assists, by every other midfielder at the club who is getting any game time. That includes Dean Shiels and Nicky Law, who a number of fans do not rate at all. I don't believe for a second that there aren't at least a hundred young players worldwide who are better than Dean Shiels and Nicky Law. He may have potential (I think he has, others don't) but he is not delivering just now.

Does Law really have more assists than Zelalem, I don't think so...

To be honest mate, I understand what you mean, but I think that Law had a poor game against Morton and sort of trundled through it, if Zelalem done as poorly as Law against Morton I am sure that people would have pointed it out on the forum, whereas because it was Law it seems to have been left unopened in the mailbox.

[geronimoo 1,474]

3 hours ago, RD.1872 said:

The only reason he's on that list is because he's on Arsenals books.

 

Anyone remember the next Bergkamp - Nacer Barazite? 

 

Better still Freddy Adu, he was going to be the next Pele.

[RD.1872 890]

3 hours ago, yermaw145 said:

And the only reason he's on Arsenals books is because he has that potential. 

Don't get me wrong I think he'll turn into a tidy wee player but 30th best youngster in the world? Nah. 

[TheMotor 2,208]

14 minutes ago, RangersMind said:

Does Law really have more assists than Zelalem, I don't think so...

To be honest mate, I understand what you mean, but I think that Law had a poor game against Morton and sort of trundled through it, if Zelalem done as poorly as Law against Morton I am sure that people would have pointed it out on the forum, whereas because it was Law it seems to have been left unopened in the mailbox.

For the amount of game time they had, up until the end of December, Law was more productive. He delivered a goal or an assist for every 198 minutes he played. Zelalem delivered every 257 minutes played. I haven't got January's numbers.

But as we know statistics can't tell you everything. People like players mainly for subjective reasons, like how entertained they are watching them, which is fair enough. I think he has great touch and great potential. I just don't think he is ready to deliver yet and he doesn't get me out of my seat.

[SeparateEntityMyArse 53,765]

48 minutes ago, legalbeagle said:

He is blatantly not the 30th best young player in the world, otherwise he would probably be a first choice for a team playing in the second tier of this crappy country.

Bad day when I agree with LB.

Today is a bad day.

[SeparateEntityMyArse 53,765]

So wee Barrie must be 15th or so, no?

Just behind the wee rattler Tierney or whatever his name is who has played 5 mins but the bheggars value at about 40 million.

[Guest]

The list more like the most famous young players, not best.

I must admit i forget how young he is at times, good player but just makes silly mistakes

[brazz1972 397]

I think he'll turn out a quality player in years to come. His time at Rangers will do him good in the long run.

He could end up being a similar type to Özil. He has the potential. Good vision and technique. He has been sloppy some matches and giving cheap balls away but he's only going to improve. 

 

I can however, see why he splits opinion amongst fans. 

[Sket 13,610]

1 hour ago, TheMotor said:

For the amount of game time they had, up until the end of December, Law was more productive. He delivered a goal or an assist for every 198 minutes he played. Zelalem delivered every 257 minutes played. I haven't got January's numbers.

But as we know statistics can't tell you everything. People like players mainly for subjective reasons, like how entertained they are watching them, which is fair enough. I think he has great touch and great potential. I just don't think he is ready to deliver yet and he doesn't get me out of my seat.

You said in terms of goals and assists that Zelalem was the worst of the midfielders getting game time.

 

Going by the stats on here,Law has 3 assists and 1 goal. Zelalem has 6 assists and no goals. So Zelalem has contributed to 6 goals and Law has contributed to 4. So going by goals and assists as you said, then Zelalem is not the worst.

[BlueSuedeSambas 53,854]

5 hours ago, RD.1872 said:

The only reason he's on that list is because he's on Arsenals books.

 

Anyone remember the next Bergkamp - Nacer Barazite? 

 

I'm sure we nearly signed him a few years ago.

Was he not on trial but we couldn't agree a deal?

[LeeWallaceRFC 3,920]

One of many players who look good because they don't lose possession, play simple sideways/backwards passes and get the ball away as soon as possible. 

Never seen a player so scared to shoot in all of my life. Regardless of what anybody says, he's not very good. With the build of a snooker cue he's going anywhere but the top.

[AlBear. 8,499]

3 minutes ago, LeeWallaceRFC said:

One of many players who look good because they don't lose possession, play simple sideways/backwards passes and get the ball away as soon as possible. 

Never seen a player so scared to shoot in all of my life. Regardless of what anybody says, he's not very good. With the build of a snooker cue he's going anywhere but the top.

Tbh I'd take the opinions of Warburton and Wenger over some guy on the internet.

[bluenose48 951]

I'm sure he'll be devastated by all the negative opinions on here.

[THE_Ibrox_Preacher 2,812]

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[Blueshoff 11,870]

11 hours ago, RangersMind said:

I bet the other 29 of those youngsters on the list aren't beefy tanks mate, like some people expect Gedion to be. 

You don't have to be a tank to be able to shoot or go by someone or be able to tackle for that matter.  He just doesn't do enough.

[Boybluesy 3,721]

14 hours ago, Blueshoff said:

There must be a world wide shortage of talent

He can pass short balls with the best but can't go by a player, can't shoot and can't tackle.

Or header a ball....apart fae that he's no bad...we need wee Andy Murdoch back imho

[OlegKuznetsov 10,816]

22 minutes ago, Boybluesy said:

Or header a ball....apart fae that he's no bad...we need wee Andy Murdoch back imho

Not a bad call, but would it really only be for one game, potentially?

[WadeWilson 4,670]

10 hours ago, geronimoo said:

Better still Freddy Adu, he was going to be the next Pele.

Ah, Fredua... The very dude I was thinking of when I read the OP.

Since leaving Benfica - eleven league games in four years - he has played for such giants of world football such as Çaykur Rizespor, Philadelphia Union, Bahia, Jagodina, KuPS Kuopion Palloseura, KuFu-98 and Tampa Bay Rowdies.

So, I suppose he has mirrored Pelé in the sense that he has never played in one of the top leagues.

Still only 26-years-old... Which would be considered a promising youngster around these parts.

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/66/united-states/2016/01/28/19765022/freddy-adu-takes-full-responsibility-for-disappointing

 

He must sometimes wonder how it would all have panned out had his mother not won the Green Card Lottery and he had stayed in Ghana.

[Smile 26,610]

36 minutes ago, Boybluesy said:

Or header a ball....apart fae that he's no bad...we need wee Andy Murdoch back imho

Murdochs a far better player than him.