Big Sam is the man for Chamakh

It is without any doubt whatsoever that the Marouane Chamakh’s career at Arsenal didn’t fare well after a promising start.

 

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A lead balloon can be the only way to describe this once promising spell at the North London club. Chamakh has been ridiculed, used as an example of everything that is fundamentality wrong with British football and with a club such as Arsenal. An overpaid foreign footballer that is taking up time, finances and space for a young English prodigy.

 

 

It’s quite amusing really, we sign a player that David Gold probably worked hard to pull off and would have used his own funds to pay for, and by that I mean wages and agents fees, to seal the arrival of the controversial striker. Despite this, his son ridicules the signing on Twitter with a highly unprofessional tweet saying that the signing was not his ‘first pick’.

 

 

Three years ago Marouane Chamakh was one of Europe’s hottest talents. He was 25, scored goals year in, year out at Bordeaux. He was someone that defenses across France, and Europe for that matter, feared. For Bordeaux, 76 goals in a little over 300 appearances for the south French side and 16 in 38 European fixtures.

 

 

Whatever your current opinion on the enigmatic striker, you cannot argue that his record at his former club was imperious. On ratio this gives the striker a goal every three games for his club. Very impressive and respectable and with a ratio such as this one, it is without great surprise that Arsene Wenger moved for the Moroccan. Though greatest shock and mystery that surrounds the player is what quite went wrong for Chamakh. When he joined he scored 6 times in his first 12 appearances and this was then followed by another 6 goals for the rest of the season.

 

 

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Marouane is clearly talented this is without doubt. Many Arsenal fans may question that belief. There is simply no argument to his goal scoring record in France, but with a new team, a new start and most importantly, a new manager. Sam Allardyce is a confidence man. He exudes confidence; players go to sides that Sam Allardyce manages and reignite their careers.

 

 

 

Joey O’Brien is an excellent case; Joey isn’t most gifted or talented of full backs. He does a job; he’s a squad player. The difference is; he is a good squad player who fits into the ethos that Big Sam is trying to create and the team seems to be pulling together in one succinct direction.

 

Guy Demel is another example. He came to West Ham United after being let go by Hamburg. Then a long lay off stopped him from making much of an impact into his first 6 months at the club. Since then he has really stepped up to become a player who not only performs up to the required standard, but also pulls with the rest of the team in that strong ethos. I saw a tweet from Guy saying that he ‘was proud’ of his teammates after the draw with Manchester United. A sure example that he was part of a strong team group that only want to play for each other, and more importantly play football. Any time you have this mood from the players, they are willing to play for the name on the front of the shirt, more than the one on the back.

 

 

Despite those cases, the best case to show the work of Sam Allardyce and his magic spells of confidence that he casts over players falling standards is Nicolas Anelka. Anelka was a cast off, left Manchester City in a haze of not quite cutting it in the Premier League, despite playing for Arsenal and Liverpool. He returned a flop, and left Bolton as one of the best strikers in the Premier League. Finishing one season at Chelsea as the top goal scorer in the League.

 

 

Can Allardyce spark another revival in a ‘flop’? The future will tell, but his handling of players such as Jaaskelainen, Faubert, Faye, Reid, McCartney and many others should other some positive signs that he can turn players careers around. This very well could be the beginning of the Chamakh renaissance.

 

 

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