Fox 4 Life Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Hindsight is a beautiful thing but were we a little short-sighted in letting him leave for £1m last year? He has been brilliant for Reading in a near promotion season and Burnley are apparently closing in on signing him. Given we have/had ageing centre backs and no real youth coming through in that position should we have continued to loan him out or given him a shot. At the time he was nowhere near breaking the Huth/Wes partnership and looked quite average but he is young and has all the right physical attributes - I do wonder if he will go on to make us regret that sale!
Riot Van Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Wasn't he terrible at Bristol when we loaned him? I think it was logical to let him go but I'm glad he's improved his game. Stood next to his dad at Burnley away when Nuge scored ton win 1-0, nice chap.
MC Prussian Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 3 minutes ago, Fox 4 Life said: Hindsight is a beautiful thing but were we a little short-sighted in letting him leave for £1m last year? He has been brilliant for Reading in a near promotion season and Burnley are apparently closing in on signing him. Given we have/had ageing centre backs and no real youth coming through in that position should we have continued to loan him out or given him a shot. At the time he was nowhere near breaking the Huth/Wes partnership and looked quite average but he is young and has all the right physical attributes - I do wonder if he will go on to make us regret that sale! It was him who wanted to leave because he did not play in 15/16 and saw no future under Ranieri: http://www.teamtalk.com/news/liam-moore-the-merrier-after-ending-leicester-nightmare
Dan Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 I don't think it was a mistake letting him go, it was failing to sign another quality defender.
dominicmsb Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 5 minutes ago, Riot Van said: Wasn't he terrible at Bristol when we loaned him? I think that's would sealed his fate. Didn't perform well at Bristol. But if we knew he'd be one of the best defenders in the league this season of course we wouldn't let him go.
Babylon Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 8 minutes ago, Fox 4 Life said: Hindsight is a beautiful thing but were we a little short-sighted in letting him leave for £1m last year? He has been brilliant for Reading in a near promotion season and Burnley are apparently closing in on signing him. Given we have/had ageing centre backs and no real youth coming through in that position should we have continued to loan him out or given him a shot. At the time he was nowhere near breaking the Huth/Wes partnership and looked quite average but he is young and has all the right physical attributes - I do wonder if he will go on to make us regret that sale! He might go on to do ok, he probably wouldn't have been any worse than Was, Benny, Hernandez if he'd stayed. But he wasn't close to getting in the team ahead of the two starters, didn't really perform when he went on loan elsewhere, always ended up losing his place in the team when he did play here. So I'm not sure what else we could do.
AKCJ Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Stood near him when we played United away last season. Started a "Wesley Morgan is a blue" chant an all. To be fair he started off quite well in the Prem and he kept Lukaku quite on his Prem debut but Wilfried Bony completely rinsed him when we played Swansea away and he never looked the same again.
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Seeing that we won the league without him I'd say yes 100% we were right to let him go.
Clever Fox Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 No I don't think it was a mistake to sell him. I always felt he was playing at the top end of his ability just to keep pace. What was a mistake was not to sign Maguire or Shane Duffy who could have been bought 2 million or less then.
Babylon Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 26 minutes ago, AKCJ said: Stood near him when we played United away last season. Started a "Wesley Morgan is a blue" chant an all. To be fair he started off quite well in the Prem and he kept Lukaku quite on his Prem debut but Wilfried Bony completely rinsed him when we played Swansea away and he never looked the same again. He and Wes were all over the place to start with to be fair, but they did have Konch and De Laet next to them so it's not shock.
AKCJ Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 4 minutes ago, Babylon said: He and Wes were all over the place to start with to be fair, but they did have Konch and De Laet next to them so it's not shock. I think that "all over the place" is harsh. We had a tremendously tough start to the season and we came out of it with 1 defeat in 5 having played United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton and Stoke away. But you're right, they soon did go AWOL and Konchesky and De Laet did nothing to help that. At the time one was seen as a kid with no experience and the other a chubby ageing centre half with no pace. They did okay.
Babylon Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 2 minutes ago, AKCJ said: I think that "all over the place" is harsh. We had a tremendously tough start to the season and we came out of it with 1 defeat in 5 having played United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton and Stoke away. But you're right, they soon did go AWOL and Konchesky and De Laet did nothing to help that. At the time one was seen as a kid with no experience and the other a chubby ageing centre half with no pace. They did okay. I don't, the overall team performances were ok. But there were quite a few moments each match when they made some awful errors of judgement. That carried on all year until we got in Huth and went 3 at the back.
AKCJ Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 28 minutes ago, Babylon said: I don't, the overall team performances were ok. But there were quite a few moments each match when they made some awful errors of judgement. That carried on all year until we got in Huth and went 3 at the back. Looking back, that wasn't really how people judged it on here. https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/96607-leicester-city-2-2-everton-post-match-thread/#comment-3101875 https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/96743-chelsea-2-0-leicester-post-match-discussion/?page=2 https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/96903-leicester-city-v-arsenal-post-match-thread-1-1/#comment-3124611 https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/97114-stoke-post-match-thread-0-1/?page=3 https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/97250-leicester-city-v-manchester-united-post-match-thread-5-3/?page=8 Lots of calls for Moore to be capped by England.
brucey Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 he didn't want to stay. think he felt disgruntled about contracts or something, I remember him explaining his side of the story while having a twitter argument last summer with some idiotic fan account who was giving him abuse for leaving.
kingcarr21 Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Moore would play ok but there was always a mistake in him every game. We always seemed to get punished by his errors. Morgan's own performance suffered when he was always keeping one eye on where Moore was and what he was doing. De Laet and Konch contributed to our leaky defence but don't try to shove blame away from Moore, he was just as guilty of making mistakes as the whole back 4. As soon as Huth came in you could see Morgan's game improved no end. Knowing he had a reliable experienced partner it was no surprise we went on to do the great escape. Throughout that whole season Pearson was always talking about fine margins, those fine margins were down to the individual mistakes of players who would have a decent game but always lose concentration at certain points and be punished. So for me Yes we should have let him go, he would have only stayed on our bench and been a bit part player, I'm delighted he is playing regular football and hopefully he goes on to have a great career. At the time though letting him go was the right thing to do 100%, more for his own benefit than ours.
RobHawk Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 I was a huge fan of Moore - but at the end of the day him leaving to play every week was the best thing for him! He'd of rotted if he'd stayed here. So yeah, it was the correct decision
Babylon Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 23 minutes ago, AKCJ said: Looking back, that wasn't really how people judged it on here. https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/96607-leicester-city-2-2-everton-post-match-thread/#comment-3101875 https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/96743-chelsea-2-0-leicester-post-match-discussion/?page=2 https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/96903-leicester-city-v-arsenal-post-match-thread-1-1/#comment-3124611 https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/97114-stoke-post-match-thread-0-1/?page=3 https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/97250-leicester-city-v-manchester-united-post-match-thread-5-3/?page=8 Lots of calls for Moore to be capped by England. Lots but not me. Do a search for me and Moore and you'll generally see me critisising him.
lcfc sheff Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Wish we had kept moore and got Keane permanently, wouldn't need a cb this summer most probably
Stadt Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Not good enough in the air for how we play and he switched off too much as well
fuchsntf Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Unlike some critics, I thought he was an OK CB.like many few real chances, like many may never grace a decent PL team.Still youngish so could find a way into the PL as a late talent. But like Evans of Manu , now of WBA, never hit the heights, but reasonable club standard. Shame, 2-3 yrs ago looked like he had that bit extra but then fell off. Some just need that extra 4-5 games that swing it for them, Moore took injuries then personal problems, at the most important time...The big chances were left to drift... Thats why players like Kramaric, and Kapustka , need to be given game time, imo on a more frequent basis, even from the bench.Sometimes you dont see all from the training sessions...
An Away Move Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 He played everyone onside in the last minute of extra time in the playoffs. It was only inaccurate heading that meant Huddersfield had to go to penalties. Seem to remember him being at fault for their televised FA Cup tie too. We don't need that.
dmayne7 Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Not going to dwell on it but it was a mistake. Still got bags of potential. He was crocked at Bristol City which is why he was dump. He has pace and is strong. He's the type of defender that will really mature later on in his career when he cuts out the mistakes.
Lovejoy Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Not sure he's been brilliant in the Championship but he's done ok. If he wasn't home-grown no one would even ask the question. I think he's got Prem potential, but not there yet.
Koke Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Moore isn't that good. He's not good enough for our level. I wish him all the best but we can and should do much better than Liam Moore.
fleckneymike Posted 5 June 2017 Posted 5 June 2017 Yes. He is a very limited centre back who doesn't learn from his mistakes. Watch his performance against united in the FA Cup to see why we made the right decision
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