Matty James/Andy King

[Koke]

James is 5th choice midfielder at the club. He will see less minutes than even Ulloa. 

[st albans fox]

King does a more than capable job in the middle of the park in a three. Less so in a two. 

 

Matty James could have a big impact on the midfield for us IF he ever regains his full fitness. that's the issue. 

[weller54]

After the Cock up of not securing a quality CM player in the window then these two could be playing in the CL if injuries happen.. 

Only because we ' got away with it ' last season doesn't mean our luck will last (Mendy already crocked!). 

Ridiculous situation to now have to rely / hope / pray that Drinkwater can play 50 odd matches this season!! 

..dreadful planning.. 

Rudders Out! 

[sylofox]

memories so short and such fickle people. Our first season up people claimed Drinky was not good enough Matty was our stand out player behind cambiasso. So he gets a season long injury misses our magical season and all of a sudden he's crap. He can't play at this level some claim. Well he did when we were crap and Drinky could not. Give the guy a chance before you write him off who knows you may end up eating your words. Not like some of you have never done it.

 

Drinky and Vardy are shit Pearson's lost the plot some of you were saying pre match and half way through it

who scored the goals to win 2-1 yes you guessed it. Check out the match thread borro away in our championship winning season.

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, sylofox said:

memories so short and such fickle people. Our first season up people claimed Drinky was not good enough Matty was our stand out player behind cambiasso. So he gets a season long injury misses our magical season and all of a sudden he's crap. He can't play at this level some claim. Well he did when we were crap and Drinky could not. Give the guy a chance before you write him off who knows you may end up eating your words. Not like some of you have never done it.

 

Drinky and hardy are shit Pearson's lost the plot some of you were saying pre match and half way through it

who scored the goals to win 2-1 yes you guessed it. Check out the match thread borro away in our championship winning season.

 

He isn't a technically gifted type sylo. He needs to be at the top of his fitness. His injury was 16 months ago. The signs don't look great at the moment.  I felt that both he and DD could make an impression on the England squad. Infact, Woy was there against soton when he got injured. watching their full backs but also having a look at Matty. 

 

whatever the the reason for not being able to recover that fitness we don't know - but by now he should be there and he clearly isn't. 

[Number 6]

It's a bit weird that we were willing to splash the cash on an area we're already stocked but there we go.

 

If an Arsenal fan came on and told us we were lucky with injuries last season they'd be shot down and told about our great sports science and cryo chamber. Yet now we're apparently going to be fielding a James king mid as everyone else gets crocked.

 

People shit the bed when we didn't get Musa in Jan but we were fine (more than fine) and will be again.

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

Kapustka is a central midfielder too. Many think he's a winger but he has only really played for Poland.

 

http://www.freesupertips.co.uk/leicester-agree-fee-polish-wonderkid-kapustka/

 

OK he's young and raw and maybe more attack minded but a Polish international too. I can see him getting games hopefully in the two domestic cups in that role. 

[les-tah]

The club made the decision not to sign anyone so they must see more than enough with what we have got.

 

It means Mendy injury is probs not that bad also.

[sylofox]

2 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

 

He isn't a technically gifted type sylo. He needs to be at the top of his fitness. His injury was 16 months ago. The signs don't look great at the moment.  I felt that both he and DD could make an impression on the England squad. Infact, Woy was there against soton when he got injured. watching their full backs but also having a look at Matty. 

 

whatever the the reason for not being able to recover that fitness we don't know - but by now he should be there and he clearly isn't. 

It was a season long injury not a broken nail ffs. Our pre season was shite and CR has tried to stick to our title winners and new boys. But even so like I say give him a chance he's been good for us. Don't just write him off as not being good enough.

[les-tah]

8 minutes ago, sylofox said:

It was a season long injury not a broken nail ffs. Our pre season was shite and CR has tried to stick to our title winners and new boys. But even so like I say give him a chance he's been good for us. Don't just write him off as not being good enough.

i always had Matty James down as our future captain to be honest.... He always looked great just wish he could shoot every time he got himself into them positions  *matty james skies it*.

 

A team is also heavily built on partnerships and Him and Danny know each other like gay best friends so i think they could if needed work together.

[Jakemoore]

We can also play Kaputska at the top of a midfield three. I don't get why people are getting on James' back. We all thought he was great in the championship, when he won young player of the season. And then he was the man who partnered Cambiasso during our great escape, until he got injured of course. I think the lad definitely has something to offer if he's fit. As for King, he is solid and reliable if at times uninspiring. But that's okay for a 4th choice CM. I think if he had the freedom to play the way he wanted he would score a lot of goals, we just don't play that way anymore. 

[nwl fox]

10 hours ago, FireFox said:

Would rather play Zieler in CM than James.

Says a lot more about you than it does him.

[Izzet is God]

IMO both Kingy and James are not good enough if we are aspiring to be a top 6 club as many of other people view us on here...so I'm looking at long term.

 

If we make it out the group of CL and get a draw against (for example) Man City, Atl. Madrid or Dortmund who would you rather have starting in those positions if Drinky and Mendy are injured...

 

I wouldn't turn to King and James but apart from Amartey they are the options as they are our CMs....

[Fox92]

Everybody seems to have really overrated James just because he hasn't played for a few months. Same happened to Knockaert. He really isn't in the same class as Drinkwater and we wouldn't be able to play James and Drinkwater together anyway.

 

King didn't look good enough at Hull. Nowhere near it. Drinkwater was running our midfield.

 

When you move forward as a club certain players are improved. Manchester United never stopped improving their players despite winning title after title. King and James are decent enough but they'll not feature regularly at all.

[Foxxed]

I'll be happy with whoever puts in the better defensive shift. You've got to give James a chance. I'd like to see him come on or start in a cup game.

[weller54]

Anyone know what type of injury James picked up the other night? 

[Babylon]

9 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

A regular starter for a team that couldn't buy a win.

 

Like I said, I love him, very handy player but our rise has been unprecedented. We  aren't anywhere near the level we were at the last time he played a competitive game for us. It's very likely he'll not be able to adapt to the level we're at any time soon - sorry if that doesn't fit in with your way of thinking.

 

Loan would've done him (and us) good.

There are quite a few players who won the league who played a part in a team that couldn't buy a win. It really doesn't mean anything.

 

James was a decent player for us, there are question marks over his long term fitness granted, but there shouldn't be question marks about his ability. You compare his stats against DD and NG last year and Cambiasso the year before and the lad is comparable in many of them, in fact he tops quite a lot of them. If you can get him fit and back to his best I really think he's capable of pushing for a starting spot.

[matty98]

So James isn't good enough because the season before last we nearly got relegated, based on that half the team that won the league also aren't good enough. 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

6 minutes ago, Babylon said:

There are quite a few players who won the league who played a part in a team that couldn't buy a win. It really doesn't mean anything.

 

James was a decent player for us, there are question marks over his long term fitness granted, but there shouldn't be question marks about his ability. You compare his stats against DD and NG last year and Cambiasso the year before and the lad is comparable in many of them, in fact he tops quite a lot of them. If you can get him fit and back to his best I really think he's capable of pushing for a starting spot.

Good, finally some stats to dispel the idea that he's not up to it! Just because we won the PL last season doesn't mean we've suddenly left everyone else behind!

[Fox92]

16 minutes ago, Babylon said:

There are quite a few players who won the league who played a part in a team that couldn't buy a win. It really doesn't mean anything.

 

James was a decent player for us, there are question marks over his long term fitness granted, but there shouldn't be question marks about his ability. You compare his stats against DD and NG last year and Cambiasso the year before and the lad is comparable in many of them, in fact he tops quite a lot of them. If you can get him fit and back to his best I really think he's capable of pushing for a starting spot.

It's not a great comparison though because James played every week (or at least most weeks) but Drinkwater was in  and out of the side. Drinkwater only played 23 times. You can't compare  two different seasons.

 

James (and King) aren't on the same level as Drinkwater now. We play a much different way than we did under Pearson. We tried King against Hull and he wasn't good enough, Drinkwater was running the midfield that day trying everything. 

[sylofox]

17 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Everybody seems to have really overrated James just because he hasn't played for a few months. Same happened to Knockaert. He really isn't in the same class as Drinkwater and we wouldn't be able to play James and Drinkwater together anyway.

 

King didn't look good enough at Hull. Nowhere near it. Drinkwater was running our midfield.

 

When you move forward as a club certain players are improved. Manchester United never stopped improving their players despite winning title after title. King and James are decent enough but they'll not feature regularly at all.

Drinky and James can't play together Who got us promoted? No one is overrating James but he deserves his chance. Two years ago people said drinky was not a prem player and James was way ahead of him. James has not had a chance in a class side just one fighting for it's life.

[Guest CityFan 06]

1 hour ago, Cadno'r Cymoedd said:

Kapustka is a central midfielder too. Many think he's a winger but he has only really played for Poland.

 

http://www.freesupertips.co.uk/leicester-agree-fee-polish-wonderkid-kapustka/

 

OK he's young and raw and maybe more attack minded but a Polish international too. I can see him getting games hopefully in the two domestic cups in that role. 

Good point made here and thought this myself. I think Kapustka could potentially play an attacking minded role for us in the future, he seems to have the creativity to play CAM. Of course he could probably do a good enough job in the CM role as well. 

 

Kapustka will be good for us whether it be Central or as a winger, he looks like he can create & score goals. Looks skilful too.

[Fox92]

2 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Drinky and James can't play together Who got us promoted? No one is overrating James but he deserves his chance. Two years ago people said drinky was not a prem player and James was way ahead of him. James has not had a chance in a class side just one fighting for it's life.

Winning the second tier is much different to going for top 6 in the top tier. Plus that was under different management in a different team with a different style. Kante allowed Drinkwater to be much more expressive last season and I'm guessing we've brought in Mendy and also Amartey (who was superb against Swansea) for the same role. James (and King) are way off.

[Babylon]

9 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

It's not a great comparison though because James played every week (or at least most weeks) but Drinkwater was in  and out of the side. Drinkwater only played 23 times. You can't compare  two different seasons.

 

James (and King) aren't on the same level as Drinkwater now. We play a much different way than we did under Pearson. We tried King against Hull and he wasn't good enough, Drinkwater was running the midfield that day trying everything. 

Drinkwater's stats in that graphic are from last season, not the season before. Matty's stats are over a season rooted to the foot of the table and Drinkwaters in a team near the top with a machine like Kante next to him. So I agree it's not a great comparison... because it favours Drinkwater.

[Manwell Pablo]

11 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

It's not a great comparison though because James played every week (or at least most weeks) but Drinkwater was in  and out of the side. Drinkwater only played 23 times. You can't compare  two different seasons.

 

James (and King) aren't on the same level as Drinkwater now. We play a much different way than we did under Pearson. We tried King against Hull and he wasn't good enough, Drinkwater was running the midfield that day trying everything. 

Think we should just give James a break and let him get on with getting fit he's not ready to compete for a starting place yet anyway so I don't know why people are discussing whether he is good enough. 

 

At the end of the day neither he nor King are going to be commanding a starting place anytime soon, it may be disappointing that we have not bought another CM in I certainly would have liked it, but it is what it is, they've both proven their capable of having a decent impact on a Premeir League game even if they probably are a bit short of the level required to take on the top teams, we have Club Brugge and FC Coppenhagen in our group, both opponents to be respected but you wouldn't find them in the top half if you put them in the PL.

 

Hopefully we get ourselves through the Autumn and be in a decent position in the league come Xmas and out of the CL group, then it is a problem we can re address.