You mean his poor close control like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XACY0YRebo
It is this kind of rubbish that irks some of us who understand the game a little better.
When you say lack of control it is just utter fucking piffle. He has amongst the best close control in our side. he is actually better under pressure than any of midfielders. And probably better at escaping a man up him than Carrick was. I don't remember often seeing Carrick drop a shoulder and leave his marker. The easiest way to stop carrick playing was get up him and many teams did. The same for Huddlestone. Thankfully zokora is not so ruffled and it is one area of his game that he clearly excells.
It's really hard to spray it out wide when your wide players keep drifting in because they are actually CM's out of position. And our strikers movement off the ball often consists of making a run behind the defence and expecting a miracle ball. if the actually dropped and moved into space it would give the midfielders an outlet more often. You watch in a game how many times Keane and Berbatov are standing on the edge of the penalty area with spitting distance of each other static.
You say carrick would have always been in the right place but carrick played in a more defensive spurs side and Jol said so himself when describing our tactics last season.