{"id":285943,"date":"2011-03-01T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/01\/john-mensah-wants-offensive-role-for-muntari-at-sunderland\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T13:06:08","slug":"john-mensah-wants-offensive-role-for-muntari-at-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/01\/john-mensah-wants-offensive-role-for-muntari-at-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mensah Wants Offensive Role For Muntari At Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"83\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/d82fd723non_2563631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24353\" title=\"Stephane Sessegnon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/d82fd723non_2563631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephane Sessegnon (left) and Sulley Muntari (right)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana captain John Mensah has suggested his international team-mate Sulley Muntari might be wasted as a defensive midfielder as Sunderland wait to see the best of their January arrival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The loan signing of Muntari from Inter Milan represented a major coup for the Black Cats, but he has failed to have the expected impact so far on Wearside.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old, who won the European Cup with Inter last season, as well as the Serie A title, was hauled off in the second-half of the 2-0 defeat at Everton and appears to be finding it difficult to re-adapt to the pace of English football.<\/p>\n<p>Muntari was at Portsmouth earlier in his career, but left two years ago and first-team football hard to come by in Italy before getting the return to the Premier League he wanted.<\/p>\n<p>That helps explain why he has struggled to find his best form, although Mensah also feels he would be better off used in a more attacking role.<\/p>\n<p>With Lee Cattermole still out with a back problem, Muntari has played as a defensive midfielder under manager Steve Bruce, a position that he does not fulfil for his national side in which Mensah is a team-mate.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah said: \u201cSulley likes goalscoring, but maybe that\u2019s not the kind of game the manager wants in these matches. The Sulley I know in the national team normally plays on the left wing. He gets forward, comes back to defend, and sometimes gets in front of the attackers. I believe he can do that for Sunderland too if the manager wants him to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to see Sulley here because he\u2019s a player who won the European Cup with Inter Milan and he can have a big impact on this team. I believe he\u2019s going to do well for Sunderland, but we must all work together as a team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe Sulley can play in all the midfield positions because he has a powerful left-foot shot and he can score and defend, he can play on the left wing. He can move everywhere and come back to defend.<\/p>\n<p>Black Cats defender Mensah is also pleased to see another African at the Stadium of Light and is impressed by what he has seen of Stephane Sessegnon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/d82fd723non_2563631-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/03\/john-mensah-wants-offensive-role-for-muntari-at-sunderland\/\" title=\"John Mensah Wants Offensive Role For Muntari At Sunderland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Mensah Wants Offensive Role For Muntari At Sunderland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Stephane Sessegnon (left) and Sulley Muntari (right) Ghana captain John Mensah has suggested his international team-mate Sulley Muntari might be wasted as a defensive midfielder as Sunderland wait to see the best of their January arrival. The loan signing of Muntari from Inter Milan represented a major coup for the Black Cats, but he has failed to have the expected impact so far on Wearside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Mensah Wants Offensive Role For Muntari At Sunderland - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/01\/john-mensah-wants-offensive-role-for-muntari-at-sunderland\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"John Mensah Wants Offensive Role For Muntari At Sunderland - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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