Sagnol gets a time-out
By: Angela | April 29th, 2008So everyone remembers the suspension of Captain Kahn and his fine for bad mouthing Luca Toni and Franck Ribery right? Well, Willy Sagnol came out swingin’ too. Only, not at Toni and Ribery, but at the General. At Hitzfeld himself. This, in my eyes, is a big no no. You don’t publicly abuse your boss.. no matter what the situation. You handle it privately. You never handle it via the media. Well, Willy didn’t see it that way. In response to his public bashing of Hitzfeld, Hitz has responded with a “think break.” What’s that mean? Willy has been removed from the line-up in for Thursday’s second leg match against Zenit. Do you think Willy will learn his lesson?
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Sagnol seems to have contracted a case of that common footballer disease, chronic inflamed ego. Probably, with a case this bad, a cool down period won’t help the swelling.
I can’t imagine what Sagnol thought publicly criticizing Hitzfeld was going to accomplish. Whining only seems to annoy the General more, and it certainly won’t impress Hoeness or Beckenbauer.
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The best part about this whole thing is this comment from Hitzfeld:
Hitzfeld explained his decision and had no time for the Frenchman’s complaints. “As a defender you’re often last man and have to go one-on-one, but he’s not yet recovered his pace and match rhythm,” said the Bayern coach, who leaves in July to coach Switzerland. “So I was trying to accommodate him, in that I actually gave him a game in the first place, because he has no automatic right to be playing at the moment.”There are other players in better shape than him.”Posted from
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