Brendan is right, Arne Engels will come good for Celtic…
Brendan Rodgers yesterday spoke of his belief that Arne Engels will flourish into the great player we all know he is capable of being. It’s not only excellent man management by the Irishman, but it also happens to be the truth.
Brendan spoke about how it took time for the likes of Paulo Bernardo and Nicolas Kuhn to adjust and he is right.
Arne is getting some stick off the supporters, which is a bit understandable due to his price tag, but he is only 21 after all and adapting to life in a new country, whilst trying to adjust to a new style of football. And as Brendan said yesterday Arne didn’t set the price.
You can clearly see Arne has the talent, he does things off the ball that perhaps go unnoticed, but he admittedly hasn’t shown his full potential as of yet.
That as Brendan says will come with time and development though. Arne is now a full Belgian internationalist after all, and you don’t get picked for a side so talented if you haven’t got something about you.
I know players don’t often get time to fully settle at a club such as ours, but Arne deserves too, because as Brendan says, he will flourish given time. This season is all about finding his feet and contributing as much as he possibly can. It will be next season before we really see the record signing shine in the Hoops. He’ll be just 22 then.
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Sadly some of our supporters have short memories?
Only a year ago, we had many established players struggling under the adjustments Rodgers was trying to install within the games of many of our players?
Rodgers does play a far more technical game that includes a far higher level of footballing intelligence required?
Even Rodgers possibly hasn’t got that right from the start within our last 2 games, but was able to make the required adjustments at half time?
Yet no-one is critical of Rodgers, where the players in turn are struggling, when the setup of the team, isn’t quite right for what the opposition place upon ourselves?
Paulo is much further down the road in development terms under Rodgers, yet it took him half of last season to start showing his worth to ourselves?
Yet in value terms we paid 3 times more for Engels than Paulo, but was never going to get a player 3 times as good?
So money paid out on players, can be bit of a nonsense upon value in what they actually do provide for our team imo?
Engels is contributing towards our season to date, and will provide more when he becomes more use to Rodgers demands from him as a player for ourselves, and share Rodgers confidence in that regards also?
If Rodgers says Engels will come good then I believe he will – Rodgers has proved that he is an excellent coach & man-manager. Players seem to respond to him & from what I’ve read, he talks to players individually – unlike quite a few other managers who are well known for keeping their distance.
Look at the way he has rejuvenated Forrest who at one stage, under Ange, looked to be on his way out.
My only concern is that with Engels (& Hatate) being given an automatic start every game, Bernardo is missing out on the starting run of games which I believe he needs, to reach his full potential … & he certainly has shown that he has bags of it. Likewise, McCowan is missing out as well and whilst I know it’s a difficult one, I just hope they all get sufficient game time to develop fully.