Sardar Azmoun @ Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 2022/2023

[PSGman#19]

interesting just how bad all attackers stats are on this team besides Diaby (who is probably the most wasteful of the bunch).

we can sit here and shit on Sardar as some do for sport, admittedly he did not help himself with lack of fitness or missing chances the couple games he did start. But we can also take into account that none of their CF have had any type of form in last 12 months. Schick who had 50 million offer last summer ended up playing so badly alonso benched him before the World Cup too. Now no club will touch him with 12 foot pole, much less offer that insane sum of cash. Hlozek hasnt scored more than a few goals either. Hudson odoi has given them next to nothing, and in general offensively they are not productive, while still being unstable defensively.

that can’t all be sardar’s fault.

there Is also something as too much competition/ too many similar players. This team has 3 CF that are all at a level where they can be starters, yet they have a coach who often prefers to play without a Cf at all. Meanwhile they are totally lacking in CM department with a bunch of redundant players that are so similar they call back amiri, who was on loan at relegated Genoa, and he becomes a starter to give some creativity to the middle of the park.

their problems are much deeper than Sardar, he is not the only one whose form went to shit in the past year. And the other guys have gotten 5x the minutes. For that reason I hoped marseille move would go through, as their situation just isn’t great and league table reflects it.

Again marseille episode shows he will still have solid interest now that he is out of Russia. Hopefully he gets more playing time from now until summer and if not then a summer transfer is certainly needed

He has solid interest because his prime at Zenit isn't that far. If it continues like that the interest will fade away.
Also we also have to reckon the Marseille interest come bc their scout is the former zenit one. Azmoun heavily benefited of some well known faces for his transfer or almost transfer: berdiev in Russia, lunev at leverkusen, bosz at lyon, ribalta at Marseille..

About leverkusen fans turning more against him than against others, here are some reasons :

1) first impression was bad (with the sitters he missed against koln). It's like a first date, if you made a bad impression you have to shown much more after. Beiro had the same shit at antwerp. It is even worse when you were hyped before the first impression

2) he was not there when leverkusen was winning and was there when they were losing

3) the few good things he did don't have the weight than the negative ones.

[inarsenewetrust]

He has solid interest because his prime at Zenit isn't that far. If it continues like that the interest will fade away.
Also we also have to reckon the Marseille interest come bc their scout is the former zenit one. Azmoun heavily benefited of some well known faces for his transfer or almost transfer: berdiev in Russia, lunev at leverkusen, bosz at lyon, ribalta at Marseille..

About leverkusen fans turning more against him than other, here are some reasons :

1) first impression was bad (with the sitters he missed against koln). It's like a first date, if you made a bad impression you have to shown much more after. Beiro had the same shit at antwerp. It is even worse when you were hyped before the first impression

2) he was not there when leverkusen was winning and was there were they were losing

3) the few good things he did don't have the weight than the negative ones.

With regards to your first point this is the case for many players. Lunev did not assist with his transfer at all, maybe just said on a personal level he is a good guy. The people that really pressed for the transfer was Rolfes and Rudi Voller, two completely independent entities who thought sardar could help leverkusen close gap with top 2. Bosz interest, Mourinho interest was totally separate and underlines the fact that across europe his profile is respected by big coaches, even if he is out form/fitness for the past 12 months. It cannot be coincidence all these people think he is a good player, even if his "fans" here are convinced his next stop will be russia and then qatar lol.

I think more than points 1-3 its that they have never seen sardar at his best. Schick may be garbage for the past year, but they have seen him be in world class form. Hudson Odoi, Adli, Hlozek get a pass for their age + fans see them as long term investments probably.

[PSGman#19]

With regards to your first point this is the case for many players. Lunev did not assist with his transfer at all, maybe just said on a personal level he is a good guy. The people that really pressed for the transfer was Rolfes and Rudi Voller, two completely independent entities who thought sardar could help leverkusen close gap with top 2. Bosz interest, Mourinho interest was totally separate and underlines the fact that across europe his profile is respected by big coaches, even if he is out form/fitness for the past 12 months. It cannot be coincidence all these people think he is a good player, even if his "fans" here are convinced his next stop will be russia and then qatar lol.

I think more than points 1-3 its that they have never seen sardar at his best. Schick may be garbage for the past year, but they have seen him be in world class form. Hudson Odoi, Adli, Hlozek get a pass for their age + fans see them as long term investments probably.

I think Azmoun choose leverkusen over the other offers because he knew lunev in leverkusen squad and thought it would help him to find his friend there

[inarsenewetrust]

I think Azmoun choose leverkusen over the other offers because he knew lunev in leverkusen squad and thought it would help him to find his friend there

lol...again, not really any indication of that, seems like kind of a ridiculous reason and not really relevant. From leverkusen SM it seems he is close with all the players.

He said before transfer that he preferred to play in Bundesliga, plus consider that they pushed super hard to sign him a few months before that, and their seemed at the time to be a countdown to schick departure.

[BacheLot]

FAK
so the move to marselle fell through for sure already..!!?
perhaps it woulda been an uphill battle there for him but at least he woulda gone fully fit and ready to give his best .... which is far different situation than his Bayer stint..!

both him and Patrick are very much ill suited to Alonzo's football ..!! Both are phenomenal goal-scoring talents who will probably never flourish back to their prime form playing this bs brand of football ..!! Bayer front office would be fool to keep these guys and their hefty wagebills on books and watch their market value plummet even further..!!

[Farhad21]

Well there goes the transfer window, the bench is calling

[diz]

Training yesterday (today was day off)

[Clockwork]

https://youtu.be/0e_-DTQnLBc

On a lighter note here is one of them stupid club challenges. I like his shit talking at the end.

[diz]

^Lol. with all his smack talking, he did back it up as the only scorer!

[diz]

Matchday tomorrow at11:30am PST vs. Augsburg

[Tarsal Claw]

What happened to just fighting for your right to play? As soon as one of our boys is benched, we start moaning about how this was the wrong move and he should go here or there. Let him man up and earn it. I know he needs playing time to do that. But he's gotta earn it in practice and every opportunity. Nothing is handed to you.

[Mahsaa]

Leverkusen needs to try to play with 2 strikers and give him a chance..........

[Babak_Shirazi]

I hope they play him tonight so that he can score again. These German Nazi fans are annoying as fuck on social media, demanding him to be sold and calling him a flop etc. Not that he gives a shit earning juicy 2.8€ millions per season but still I want him to succeed. Please god let him play & score tonight

[alieti]

Not even in the bench today. Wtf is going on???

[inarsenewetrust]

"sick" according to their club twitter...

didn't seem that sick 24 hours ago in training