James_lcfc

Would be interesting to see what he could do at this level I suppose. Best if he just left though.

Very on-brand for him then!

I know I could Google, but has anyone followed Soumare at Sevilla? Has he done OK?

Entitled to your opinion, obviously - But 'far' better?? Not sure what you're basing that on. I don't think Casadei has had a single 'good' game for us... In fact I'd say he's been awful in a few of them!

How about the fact that he missed over a month with an injury? ...or that he's played like half the minutes of Casadei? To be honest - I don't **think** he's at the level we want to be at over the next few years, but I can't say that with confidence as we just haven't seen enough of him.

Yep - Fair point.

That's fair enough - I could also just be blind to it!

I think the 'loud minority' are incredibly harsh on all our players after a few bad games aren't they? Wouldn't have thought there was extra reserved for academy graduates. The ones you mentioned didn't get it any worse than say Soumare, Perez, Tielemans or even Maddison at times last year? Nobody got it worse than big Danny Ward!

It's weird, as his final ball whether a shot or cross is sometimes more controlled and measured than even the best attacking players. ...and yet sometimes it's worse than an '06 Josh Low. You just never know what's coming. I guess it's because he's still very new to the position, but it's fun to watch at least.

If you think it's been vitriolic on here, you should read the Sheff U fans' opinions on him. I actually think he gets way more leeway from our fans being an academy graduate. Despite the 'weird' post above, most of us are desperate to see our youth come through and go on to be top players - It's one of the most satisfying things in football as a fan!

Take whatever we can get and run. He’ll drop down the leagues over the next few years.

The highlighted part sums up my feelings on him too.

Amazing how many times you have to read posts like this. He was genuinely terrible for nearly two years - At what point are you allowed to write a player off?? His comeback has been fantastic regardless of the level he's playing at, but fans were well within their rights to hope he was moved on at the start of the season. A few on here mentioned that he had been suffering with long Covid along with some personal problems which had a big effect on him. Obviously that would explain the awful performances, but when you're not privy to this as fans you can only really go on what you see on the pitch...

https://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=190642

Really thought he was going to contribute this season and be a good option for us. Looking more and more likely now that he's just going to leave with a whimper - What a miserable signing he's been.

Well the players would also need to be on board with not going for this to work.

Well my point was it’s hardly ‘keeping him on his toes’ if we have to sign him if we get promoted. It’s not really our decision to make if the obligation is true? If we go up I mean…

I was under the impression that it was an obligation if we get promoted anyway? Looks to be untrue if he’s saying we haven’t decided yet! It does sort of look like we’re going up now.

Given our league position, we probably can compete with the lower half of the PL for signings now. Well, you'd think so anyway...

Haven’t watched any PL football at all this season but sat down to watch that one tonight. Proper entertaining. It’s almost a different sport to what you see in the Championship - The different is scary. Yes I know the game involved the current league leaders, but still.

I’m a fan already.

He’s getting better every game. Good out of possession too. I thought he was one of those; ‘very good Championship wingers’, but I’m changing my tune on that one…

Plays a bit like he’d rather be elsewhere. Might be best to try and do a deal for him in January…

He’s quality, genuinely love watching him play.

I said on here in the Summer that we’d struggle this season. I thought we’d be battling for a play-off spot. The rot just seemed to have fully set in and some of the performances were as bad as I’ve ever seen…and I remember those Levein years pretty clearly! I’m so happy to have been wrong though. What Enzo has done is extremely impressive - The more I hear/read about him, the more I’m sold on him being exactly what we need now and going forward. It can’t be understated just how much of a mess the club was in. Now I’m excited to see what he can do after another mini clear out and (hopefully) a bit of a recruitment budget next Summer!