Michael Ballack has encouraged Kai Havertz to add some robustness to his game as the attacking midfielder faces challenges at Arsenal.
In a surprising move that didn’t generate much excitement among Arsenal supporters, Havertz joined the Gunners from Chelsea in the last transfer window.
Mikel Arteta takes full responsibility for signing the former Bayer Leverkusen man and has consistently included him in the lineup.
While Arsenal boasts some fine players in their squad, Havertz is finding it challenging to justify the significant amount they paid for him.
Having observed his struggles, Ballack believes that Havertz can perform better but needs to make adjustments to his playing style.
The German legend said, as quoted by Sport Witness:
“Kai Havertz has outstanding skills.
“But as already mentioned: he seems a bit too reserved for me. You need a certain robustness and mentality, especially abroad, to assert yourself in difficult situations. I hope he gets it done.
“In my opinion it is still too early for that (an exit). He should assert himself at Arsenal by all means possible.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Havertz is running out of time to prove he is worth the money we spent on him, but this is just a few months into his arrival.
We probably should offer him more time and support him more.
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Mikel decides that, it’s all up to him to decide when to unleash the beast in Havertz. I have no worries at all as to whether he’ll come good or flop, i’m confident he’ll prove to be good purchase.
Well , IF there indeed IS a beast in HAVERTZ, would that same beast mind getting him to try at least ten times harder for once!!
IF he could even look like he was INTERESTED, just for once, that would be at least a start!
I still hope Havertz will come alive at some point. I just find it unacceptable to be mugged by Chelsea into paying 65M for him. He was deems to have underperformed at Chelsea after 3 seasons. That’s why I posted in another article that it doesn’t matter how he turns out, it is indisputable that we overpaid for him at 65M.
Even if Havertz becomes the best player in the world at some point, no one can deny that we overpaid for him because after what happened at Chelsea, HOW ON EARTH DID CHELSEAS ALMOST GOT BACK WHAT THEY PAID FOR HAVERTZ?!
I fully agree with your Havertz assessment. The guy needs to up his game 10 times, start by grabbing opportunities when presented. He is a one touch player, proving LACK OF CONFIDENCE. Arteta made a costly mistake with him, now Kai must perform!!!
Havertz will never unleash the beast until he is back playing in the Bundesliga. Premier league is not his style of football!!! The man looks as miserable as sin when playing, and happy to be subbed. He will know that Werner is as happy as he will ever be playing back in the Bundesliga!!!
Surely at some stage the big German will comes alive.
Havertz is a good player with great believe in himself but I just feel he plays too jelly like for an EPL midfielder
It’s not how a player looks on the field, it’s what he contributes to the team.
At present, we have lost one game in the PL, a contentious one at that, and sit one point behind city, who, according to everyone and his dog, are the bees knees that everyone needs to emulate.
So, as a logical, deep thinker, wise beyond my age and having watched every home PL game this season at The Emirates, can someone please tell me how we have achieved this?
Havertz has been described as anything from useless, a non trier, waste of space to a chelsea reject etc etc etc.
Yet, our manager, also described as a breath of fresh air, top class and now engaging in phase four of five, keeps playing said player.
So the question is, should we back the player and manager or not?
I’ve seen improvement in Havertz overall game and will support him as he, hopefully, continues to justify the transfer fee and grotesque salary.
The second question to be asked is, if he doesn’t continue to improve, should we then stop supporting both the player and the manager?
I’m not sure how Havertz turns out, but he’s got a few cheap, stupid red cards in his future.
He’s getting all the minutes since he boarded the Arsenal ship, surely by now we should be able to say something positive about the lad. Unfortunately, there is nothing good to be said, all we hear is “Give him more time” I thought when he was brought to Arsenal the word was he was going to hit the ground running.