Piotr Zieliński

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

Not a perfect display by any means but I’m seeing some positive signs in terms of his integration into the squad. He is so nasty with the body feints. Combine that with some more precision in passing and shooting and we’ll have the player we wanted when we signed him.

 

[ADRossi]

This was probably the best game by any of our new signings this season.

 

[varmin]

Honestly I don't like him. He is carrying well the ball due to his dribbling, but other than that his impact is too low for the expectations.
If we have a chance, we shall send him to Saudis together with Taremi.

 

[bubba zanetti]

Honestly I don't like him. He is carrying well the ball due to his dribbling, but other than that his impact is too low for the expectations.
If we have a chance, we shall send him to Saudis together with Taremi.

He assisted for a goal, if he scored that penalty he would be man of the match I dont know what people expect here, him being Zidane or Iniesta? He did better than Mhiki in most of the games this season.

 

[wera]

He did okay. He was never a creative force or had great crosses, so I'm not going to be mad at him because he is not Kevin de Bruyne. His runs were good yesterday, but he still seems worse than Mkhitaryan in this system, but showing promise that he can click with this group. I think he has a good understanding with Barella and Bastoni.

The main issue for me is that he still feels a bit soft in his tackles, like he doesn't fully commit. So while I think he is good for these kind of games, he'll have to show more against (potentially) Bayern, Atalanta or any other bigger match we have left.

 

[varmin]

He assisted for a goal, if he scored that penalty he would be man of the match I dont know what people expect here, him being Zidane or Iniesta? He did better than Mhiki in most of the games this season.

I don't mean only this game but overall. He was taken for a replacement of Mkhitaryan, and it is clear that he cannot step in his shoes. For his fat salary, I don't like what he brings. Simple as that.

 

[wera]

He is more of a "cheap" stop gap for the next 3 seasons than a proper Mkhitaryan replacement. We haven't found that yet.

 

[vex]

I don't have problems with his performances so far tbh, and for the simple reason coz last night game wasn't great by any means, and yet he was still visible on the pitch, tried to play and be involved and even had an assist. So even when he looks flat, you can rely on something. You can't say the same thing for fratessi or asllani when they are on their lowest points.

 

[HernanesLeftFoot88]

I'd like to get a look at him once he's played 4 or 5 games in a row - 90minute games not sub appearances. Until then its impossible to say.
I mean, there are flashes of class but then misplaced passes or he goes to sleep.
Needs a run of games to get some form IMO.

 

[Kraits]

I'd like to get a look at him once he's played 4 or 5 games in a row - 90minute games not sub appearances. Until then its impossible to say.
I mean, there are flashes of class but then misplaced passes or he goes to sleep.
Needs a run of games to get some form IMO.

Very very true.. this applies to all rotational players like fratessi, aslani, taremi arna and etc... obviously we won't hope for that to happen coz it would mean injury to our 1st team players...

Almost all good players would be shit once they are no longer 1st eleven.. that's because they have much less time to try and try again.. Ie.. imagine lautaro goes to Madrid or Barcelona to be a sub.. I think he won't hit 5 / 10 goals a season

 

[varmin]

He is more of a "cheap" stop gap for the next 3 seasons than a proper Mkhitaryan replacement. We haven't found that yet.

Generally I would agree with you, but not in the particular situation where Inter is right now.
First of all, Mkhitaryan was supposed to be a stop gap, then we brought Zielinski, who should be a stop gap of a stop gap. Don't you see how ridiculous is that? Instead to find a proper replacement of Mhiky, we have another old player with lower quality. Then we have Arnautovic, Taremi, Acerbi and the oldest squad in Italy, or maybe even in Europe top leagues.
If we keep going this way, we can be much closer to another banter era instead of stay competitive on a high level.
"Cheap" is another thing which I want to discuss. If we speak about Acerbi and Mkhitaryan, that is valid as we get immediate starting material for a bit higher salary. But if those deals turn to a failure, like Arnautovic, Taremi and Zielinski, we end up with deadwood with no release value.
For instance, Taremi+Zielinski salaries are around 10mln net, while Frattesi and Asllani have less than 5mln net combined. We paid close to 50 mln in total for the latter, of course. But, we can sell them now for the same price at least, and to invest the money in someone new. With Taremi and Zielinski we cannot do that. They are deadwood. And we are heading to the moment, where we will be full of old "stop gaps" with no release value

 

[wera]

We tried for that guy who was at Udinese at the time (Samardžić) and we failed. I'm sure we tried for some other players too, like Gudmundsson (haven't check the spelling).

So I'm okay with him being another stop gap solution at this moment. I do hope that after we changed our overlords, we'll finally get that player that Frattesi sadly wasn't.

It's not like we haven't been trying to find that kind of player.

 

[junior55]

The perception for Zielinski was that of a top Serie A player and one key member of Napoli's team that won the scudetto so i wouldn't call him a stop gap
He was brought in to start on top of Mikhy in my view , the fact that he couldn't is a problem for him ( or credit to mikhy) however we want to position it.

Zielenski is still a valuable player to have moving forward assuming we drop Mikhy and we buy a top-young potentially starting midfielder

 

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

This guy could put in a motm performance for every single game for the rest of the season and people would still be calling him a flop. He hasn’t 100% met expectations yet but we also can’t be blind to his contributions.

 

[wera]

Can you call him a quality stop gap? Stop gap is just because he is on the wrong side of 30 which is were midfielders usually lose steam and overall productivity on both ends of the field.

I think he's been pretty good in CL, all things considered.

 

[Damageplan]

If you were to go by stats he is pretty much exactly the same as Asllani in terms of performance with about 400 more minutes played.

 

[JJM]

It looked bad (

 

[bubba zanetti]

Looks like season is over for him, hope I'm wrong. Unlucky.

 

[BasedGodPunk]

Massive blow honestly. I expect Asllani to move into our primary backup now and Hakan moves up a bit when Mikhi or barella come off. Frattesi seems finished here.

 

[Gaindé]

Play Bisseck CM.