Pointless, farcical and a waste of space! Hard to disagree?

Morning all.

As Mesut Ozil enjoys a break from international duty thanks to Joachim Löw applying some common sense, Chris Coleman, the manager of Wales carries on with his pointless and petty comments about his selection for Wales. This all stems from Arsene Wenger’s comments on why Aaron Ramsey suffered injury:

Maybe he was overloaded a little bit with games.

Ideally, neither he nor Gareth Bale should have played against Andorra.

I’m with Arsene here, ideally, Aaron Ramsey wouldn’t have played in both fixtures for his country back in October but Wales don’t have a huge number of players to choose from and as they were so desperate to qualify for the Euros for the first time in years, Coleman had little choice but to select two of his best players.

But, one could argue that ideally, Aaron Ramsey wouldn’t have played as many games for Arsenal on the trot, ideally, Arsenal would have a deep enough squad for him not to have done so, but that isn’t the case. Just as Ramsey is one of the better Welsh players, he’s not been bad for his club has he and like Coleman, Arsene Wenger has little other choice but to play him.

Not just him either. Coquelin, Ozil, Alexis, Cazorla, Koscielny, Monreal, Bellerin….. etc etc, all who when fit, start because the manager has little to no other choice.

I really don’t understand why this latest break is taking place anyway. The Euro qualifiers are done and dusted, apart from the play-offs and I’m sure international managers know who they’ll be taking to the competition next summer, fitness and form permitting, so what’s the point?

The Premier League together with all the other domestic campaigns around the world are in full swing and here in England, we are soon to enter a very hectic but exciting festive period of fixtures so why do players need to be adding vast amounts of travel time to their already busy schedule?

Yesterday, Chris Coleman’s said:

We shouldn’t be looked at as a vehicle for players to get rest. We’re here to do a job. I’ll rest a player if he’s had a knock, he’s in danger of something happening if he’s fatigued.

I don’t think it’s for anyone else to say who we should be picking and why. As long as we send players back in a fit and healthy state – which 99 times out of 100 we do – it’s not for anyone to suggest who international managers pick.

If it was reversed, I don’t think they’d like us to be saying that to them. It shouldn’t work like that.

What a daft thing to say. International managers will never have a say in who a club manager plays or not and that’s because it’s their club who pays their wages, not their country!

Perhaps Arsene Wenger needs to be a bit more devious and stop his players from representing their respective countries during breaks like this one where there’s nothing at stake. Other mangers have done that in the past and are still doing it now so why not join them?

Even Tony Pulis and Garry Monk think this latest break is ‘pointless, farcical and a waste of space’…..

I agree with them. Now there’s a first.

Can you tell I’m struggling? 😉

Have a good Friday guys, don’t forget it’s the 13th so no walking under ladders…..