Slimani to ....................?

[MPH]

a front three of slimani in the middle of Vardy and Iheancho next season is very appealing to me....

[AmarteyAndChill]

28 minutes ago, MPH said:

a front three of slimani in the middle of Vardy and Iheancho next season is very appealing to me....

Vardy RW and Ihenacho LW? dosent sound that good to me ❓

[MPH]

19 minutes ago, AmarteyAndChill said:

Vardy RW and Ihenacho LW? dosent sound that good to me ❓

 

 

Bit more narrow than wingers...

[Thracian]

22 hours ago, Fennec-Fox said:

His stats are better than all their strikers and still they talk!...

okazaki 65games scored 8 Slim 19 scored 7 , and okazaki plays and slim on the bench, why??, because the coach was too afraid to change something when the team was winning, fair enough, they like Oka because he run too much hhhhhh, so why not get an extra midfielder who runs and that's it if u r not expecting him to score and u r happy with his runs and falls.

 

Jesus said it well "if you know how to use him , he will get u tons of goals" they don't play him and when he plays he scored most of the time, yet he is not good to them,!  I bet if he played the time Vardy played game in and game out, I bet he is on a 20 goal already, and heyyy he plays better alone as a striker so you can put that extra midfielder in the pitch, even in Algeria when they play 2 strikers he is not as productive as a lone.

 

Leicester doesn't know how to get the most of Slimani like Sporting did. 

There could be a whole host of reasons why but they wouldn't change your bias towards a man I'd presume is your compatriot. 

 

Let's see:-

 

a) He's appeared to carry a recurring injury problem and groin problems, just like achilles problems seem difficult to clear completely. 

 

b) Perhaps as a result of this he doesn't appear strong on match stamina. He's active enough for a while but fades. Shinji's the same but lasts longer and gets through endless work while he is around.

 

c) Compatability - I'm not sure Slim's ever quite fitted into our team. His only natural partnership seems to be with Mahrez but, otherwise he seems, not completely detached but less "as one" with the others. In one game towards the end of the season, he and Vardy had words. That's not necessarily a bad thing but it looked pretty pointed and wouldn't go down especially well given some of the couple of ridiculously simple chances he missed in post-AFCON matches any more than his absence for so long after that competition. My own opinion is that he had he groin problems before AFCON and we suffered in the aftermath of that event. If true, some might say he was lucky to be picked at all.

 

Slimani is a good predatory striker in and around the box. I don't think he's lazy outside of it but he's so clumsy I doubt even he's certain what he's going to do next. 

 

Shinji on the other hand is almost always available to do his shift and for reasons that escape me at times we seem to do better for having him and that matters in what is a results business.

 

Frustrating? No question. Shinji's one of the ugliest footballers I've ever seen in attack for us and he's got the ugliest goals to perpetrate that view.

 

But his enthusiasm and commitment to our team is unquestioned. You never get less than 100% from Shinji, admittedly with every kind of fall you'd ever see from an ice-skating novice.

 

If the guy has any studs at all in his boots they must be worn to flatness for the amount of grip they seem to give him but he plays the game with a smile that seems infectious and fits into the group like the shirts they wear.   

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In Slim's defence it must be hard for anyone from a Muslim country - and who I presume to be Muslim - to play in England at the moment with the entirely understandable antipathy felt across the country in reaction to the terrorist killings. It doesn't matter how Slimani feels about the subject, I'd imagine he would feel some of that anger whether he personally experienced it or not and it was just the same in the past with the IRA bombings...feelings against the Irish abounded even if some of the targets were actually loyalists.

 

Whether Slim will finally settle here I don't know but I have my doubts. What I don't doubt is that he's an excellent striker who could certainly get 20 goals a season for us given the chance but whether we'd be particularly successful I don't know because he wouldn't provide the midfield insurance Shinji does. For me the team would need to be restructured as a 3-5-2 to get the best from the Algerian but we'd need to make several changes to do that effectively. 

 

It would make us more entertaining, no question in my mind, but perhaps a bit more vulnerable than the one-up-front+a bit system that Shinji supplements.           

 

[Thracian]

People need to be careful about teaming talented individuals and thinking it's inevitable they'd gel to make an effective whole. We've already shown one way to achieve success and it's tempting to retain that appoach and make sure we have or recruit the players to sustain that approach. 

 

We could try to evolve that system and make it better still but that's some ask given that we won the title by a distance and, finally, we could try to change our system completely to one that some might think is more likely to bring sustained success at the level we aspire too. 

 

Personally I baulk at the latter because it involves too much change and I've seen no reason why our title-winning style shouldn't continue to be effective especially with a deeper and increasingly talented squad.

 

Pace and ruthlessness are hard to combat at any time by anyone. And if we can change like for talented like - or have a realistic alternative plan B - I really think we can challenge in any competition.         

[Mickyblueeyes]

27 minutes ago, Thracian said:

People need to be careful about teaming talented individuals and thinking it's inevitable they'd gel to make an effective whole. We've already shown one way to achieve success and it's tempting to retain that appoach and make sure we have or recruit the players to sustain that approach. 

 

We could try to evolve that system and make it better still but that's some ask given that we won the title by a distance and, finally, we could try to change our system completely to one that some might think is more likely to bring sustained success at the level we aspire too. 

 

Personally I baulk at the latter because it involves too much change and I've seen no reason why our title-winning style shouldn't continue to be effective especially with a deeper and increasingly talented squad.

 

Pace and ruthlessness are hard to combat at any time by anyone. And if we can change like for talented like - or have a realistic alternative plan B - I really think we can challenge in any competition.         

I see what you are saying to some extent.

 

However, replacing like for talented like is far easier said than done. Kante is a key example. In Ndidi we have a talented 20 year old, who, if he keeps progressing will be a top four player. However, his attributes do not make him a like for like for Kante. There is no one who fits that bill. The issue with that is simply, if we can't find a player to simply slot into a roll, we will have gaps  and issues appearing. 

 

To evolve the system (by still applying the same principles of pace and power) allows us to incorporate different dimensions to our game. For example, Shinji's effort levels are up there on its own. However as a footballer, a creative force, he offers near to nothing. If we could evolve the system (I.e. Bring in a third midfielder) we could adapt to bring in a poignant threat alongside Vardy. A different dimension to our game. 

 

We have something good without a doubt but it can still work if the system changed. The style doesn't necessarily have to change.