Osvaldo Suspended
Saints have just issued a statement regarding club record signing Dani Osvaldo, continuing their new policy of communication with the fans.
Saints have just announced that Osvaldo has been suspended by the Club for two weeks following an incident at the Club training ground, whilst they don't go into detail about just what has happened, which is probably the right thing to do because these things happen at every football club and are usually kept behind closed doors, it is good that they have acted swiftly in not only dealing with the incident but in communicating it to the fans so that further speculation won't fester when he failed to appear on the team list for Saturday.
What is clear though is that their is a problem with Osvaldo, I would hazard a guess that the problem stems from the strikers not only lack of game time, but the relative few times he has actually been played in his preferred position.
When he joined back in August I pointed out that part of the reason he had fallen out with Roma is that he was not happy in any other position other than central striker, I suspect that he is now very frustrated about that and this is the root cause of the problem.
In signing Osvaldo it was clear from the start that the manager had a decision to make with regard to Lambert & Osvaldo, he failed to make that decision and tried to keep both happy by playing them in the same team, that has resulted in both players failing to play to the levels you would expect from them and both will know that their chances of going to the World Cup has been damaged.
History shows us that this is not the first time Osvaldo has been linked with internal strife within a club and when that happens there is an inevitable parting of the ways.
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