Ben Chilwell: A possible star in the making

[foxfanazer]

Class player. Some of you lot are just plain weird about our young players

[Ric Flair]

21 minutes ago, anstey blueboy said:

Has Ben been told not to cross the ball into the penalty area or has he lost a bit of confidence because all he seems to do is pass the ball backwards 

 

Decent scuffed shot/cross for Morgan's goal today

[worthosoriginals]

3 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Class player. Some of you lot are just plain weird about our young players

some people are just happier moaning.

unhappy with selves, or with life? I don't know.

[foxfanazer]

1 minute ago, worthosoriginals said:

some people are just happier moaning.

unhappy with selves, or with life? I don't know.

Just bizarre. We have England's best left back but apparently he's not good enough for us. Swear some of our fans would prefer us to be full of old journeymen players

[Vardinio'sCat]

 

Barcelona will have got their man before everyone on here rates him.

 

He's got a touch of the Gareth Bale to him, now he has bulked up. He has already bossed some great players, and we await his 'Taxi for Maicon' moment with mixed feelings.

 

https://www.caughtoffside.com/2019/03/31/spanish-giants-barcelona-and-atletico-enter-race-for-50m-rated-ben-chilwell/

 

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According to The Sun, Barcelona and Atletico were extremely impressed with Chilwell’s performance during England’s win over Spain in October of last year, it’s understood that the Spanish giants have been keeping tabs on the 22-year-old as they sent scouts to watch him when England played Czech Republic last week.

Atleti see the Foxes full-back as a long-term successor to Filipe Luis and Barcelona see the ace as someone who can provide competition to Jordi Alba.

[Nicolo Barella]

44 minutes ago, Vardinio'sCat said:

 

Barcelona will have got their man before everyone on here rates him.

 

He's got a touch of the Gareth Bale to him, now he has bulked up. He has already bossed some great players, and we await his 'Taxi for Maicon' moment with mixed feelings.

 

https://www.caughtoffside.com/2019/03/31/spanish-giants-barcelona-and-atletico-enter-race-for-50m-rated-ben-chilwell/

 

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According to The Sun, Barcelona and Atletico were extremely impressed with Chilwell’s performance during England’s win over Spain in October of last year, it’s understood that the Spanish giants have been keeping tabs on the 22-year-old as they sent scouts to watch him when England played Czech Republic last week.

Atleti see the Foxes full-back as a long-term successor to Filipe Luis and Barcelona see the ace as someone who can provide competition to Jordi Alba.

I wouldn't even be that mad if he left us for one of those two clubs eventually. How incredible would that be?

[Koke]

From being accused of being Joe Mattock 2.0 to being linked with Atletico Madrid and Barcelona in the space of 18 months.

[ian_marshall]

If the above report is true then we have no chance of keeping him. When Barca coming calling you don't say 'no'. 

 

If that was to happen it'd be very ironic. Mahrez spent year's with us tearing up the league whilst constantly sharing his desire to play at the Camp Nou in the press, only for a kid from our academy to come along and have one decent season and secure a dream move completely unsolicited 

 

[Nicolo Barella]

2 hours ago, ian_marshall said:

If the above report is true then we have no chance of keeping him. When Barca coming calling you don't say 'no'. 

 

If that was to happen it'd be very ironic. Mahrez spent year's with us tearing up the league whilst constantly sharing his desire to play at the Camp Nou in the press, only for a kid from our academy to come along and have one decent season and secure a dream move completely unsolicited 

 

Tbh if the above was true I think a move to Atletico would be more likely. He'd be getting a lot more first-team minutes, at this stage in his career that's what he wants. I'm still optimistic we'll hold onto him for another year though. 

[Koke]

Not sure Ateltico can splash out £50m on a full back. CAM or Striker yes, but a left back? I doubt it. They'll probably sign a competent Uruguayan left back for €8m.

Edited 31 March 2019 by Koke

[Col city fan]

12 hours ago, foxfanazer said:

Just bizarre. We have England's best left back but apparently he's not good enough for us. Swear some of our fans would prefer us to be full of old journeymen players

Completely agree. If people on here aren’t happy that we’ve got Chilwell at left back then the forum gets even weirder.

[foxinsocks]

2 hours ago, Col city fan said:

Completely agree. If people on here aren’t happy that we’ve got Chilwell at left back then the forum gets even weirder.

This.  Chilwell wil get better and better.  ... as will madison.... ndidi ...ricardo...This is how our team moves on

[KFS]

Not surprised by the Atletico rumours, he was class in that game in the Champions League

[Hanan96]

I'm still bit confused at Manchester City and Barcelona interested at him

I know he's got potential, but that's only if he keep playing. 

Man city play passing game, using inverted wing backs, thats made them put central midfield there occasionally. 

Barcelona are simmilar but more technical team. 

 

Chilwell, while good at running up and down the pitch, still have problem in open play. His final ball aren't that good for our level, let alone for man city and Barcelona. His passing aren't awesome, even compared with fuchs. 

 

He still need a years or two to improve it. If he move now, he will hamper their passing side of game and might get relegated to the bench after. 

 

I really can't understand wheter those rumor are true. 

[UniFox21]

For me; one of the worst performances from him today. Seemed unable to pass to a blue shirt for majority of the game

[Kopfkino]

I wish he'd try to take a player on rather passing it inside all the time

[Anglodanglo]

On 31/03/2019 at 11:02, Koke said:

Not sure Ateltico can splash out £50m on a full back. CAM or Striker yes, but a left back? I doubt it. They'll probably sign a competent Uruguayan left back for €8m.

Mr Koke, with respect as one of our longest serving players we've spoke about this before.

When you learn to correctly spell the name of the club that pays your handsome wages, then you can speculate about random Uruguayans we may or may not be looking at.

 

See you in my office Monday.

Enrique Cerezo

[Always Next Year]

20 minutes ago, Kopfkino said:

I wish he'd try to take a player on rather passing it inside all the time

Glad you feel the same as me, I will say that he made quite a few runs down the line late into the game.

But his back passing really pis— me off.

[shailen]

He gets into great positions but 90% of the time he then wants to go backwards and the other 10% he rarely beats the first man. 

 

Has everything in his locker but needs to improve his first time crossing ability when his runs have already stretched defences.

[Guest]

He's a very good player and I think his crossing and passing will improve. At the moment I think the thing that could end up preventing him becoming a truly elite full-back is his lack of a right foot. The reason he ends up playing a square or backwards pass is presumably that opponents have figured that if they show him inside and onto his right he's nowhere near as comfortable going forwards.

 

There are weaknesses in his game but he's got plenty of time to work on them and he's a much, much better player now than he was a year ago, when I don't think many of us would have predicted he'd have the England left-back spot nailed down. If he continues to progress at a similar rate then very soon we're going to have an incredible player on our hands.

[South Shire Fox]

Dont think he overlaps the winger enough near the 18 yard box and just hovers behind them. You look at the best full backs in the world and theyre constantly overlapping getting to the byline and whipping in crosses. Think with abit of coaching he’ll be class though.

[Aus Fox]

He and Barnes appreares to get in each other’s way quite a bit today, feel they can both be great players but need to work on the partnership and work ote who’s doing what.

[Bob Hazels shorts]

Thou shalt not pass

[Royston.]

So overrated.

 

However if he figures out an end product and a bit of composure man city will give us £50 million, mahrez and take iheanacho back.

[Beechey]

53 minutes ago, Royston. said:

So overrated.

 

However if he figures out an end product and a bit of composure man city will give us £50 million, mahrez and take iheanacho back.

"Overrated but if he slightly improved his game, Man City will pay effectively £135m for him"

 

Uh huh