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Why Caglar Soyuncu has not made his Leicester City debut

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1 hour ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-caglar-soyuncu-debut-2045148

 

Claude Puel has revealed that Caglar Soyuncu is yet to make his Leicester City debut because the centre-back’s lack of English is making it difficult to communicate with his team-mates.

The Turkey international is yet to feature for the City first-team since joining the club in a £19million move from Bundesliga side Freiburg on deadline day.

“For the moment, he has some problems communicating with his team-mates because he does not speak a lot with all the good words and sentences,” said Puel.

 

* Irony Klaxon ;)

pot..kettle..black

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Foxxed

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English won't be that difficult if he already speaks German: ignore all that grammar and don't growl from the back of your throat. Vardy could teach him some English too: in English, the noun goes after the verb; for instance, 'chat' is the verb and 'shit' is the noun, and you can use the verb 'get' along with the past tense of a verb to describe an event that will happen to another person, 'get banged' in this case. I assume he communicates in grunts and and innovative hand gestures in the u23s.

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StriderHiryu

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25 minutes ago, foxoffderby said:

  Not managed to understand one puel interview yet. Got more sense out of Ranieri 

When the interviews are on the official site, they subtitle it and you can skip through it. I find this much easier to get through than watching them in full!

 

Despite this I think he's doing a good job and is a good coach. He just isn't that good with the media, which isn't mich of a problem for me.

 

As for Soyuncu, as long as are picking up results and winning games then it's up to him to force himself into the team. We kept a clean sheet last night and Evans did well. We've now played 8 games this season and won 5 of them, so the team is performing decently. No need to rush a young player in right away and personally I liked the fact that we started with a strong team last night. Shows we have the ambition to win it! I'm sure he'll find his way into the team toward the end of the season / begining of next and his first 6 months are probably all about getting used to English life and English football.

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UpTheLeagueFox

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Puel and Soyuncu in the manager's office.

 

"Look, the players are struggling to understand you and you're struggling to understand them. You really need to work on your English and grammar and constructing a sentence that makes sense. This is a major problem for the team and for the club as well..."

...said Soyuncu.

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https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/bundesliga-stars-of-tomorrow-caglar-söyüncü.jsp

 

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“I give my best, but quite frankly: German is really hard,” Söyüncü said. “I've never learned a foreign language so far, but I'm on my way. The mobile phone always rings when the guys do something together and I like to go, too. But I know that I have to listen closely to hear everything, and I understand a lot.”

The language was no real issue for him or the club, however, as Freiburg’s head coach Christian Streich eloquently quipped, “it doesn’t matter, he speaks football and so do I.”

(Maybe Puel doesn't speak that language :ph34r:)

 

We've only got one German speaker in Fuchs too.

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Ted Maul

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Another Puel-bashing thread? Well, suppose we haven't had one for 4 hours...

 

Who gives a stuff about how boring Puel's interviews are? I'm usually looking for a boozer half an hour after the final whistle, not funny soundbites and Holloway-esque buffoonery. 

 

We've got a young squad which is good enough to not have to worry about relegation so we're able to have a proper go at the cups- isn't that exactly what we've been looking for over the past couple of seasons?

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UpTheLeagueFox

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3 minutes ago, Ted Maul said:

Who gives a stuff about how boring Puel's interviews are? I'm usually looking for a boozer half an hour after the final whistle, not funny soundbites and Holloway-esque buffoonery. 

Calm down, Ted. No one here is asking for funny soundbites or buffoonery.

It would just be nice to have an improved form of communication from the manager to the fans via the media.

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3 minutes ago, Ted Maul said:

Another Puel-bashing thread? Well, suppose we haven't had one for 4 hours...

 

Who gives a stuff about how boring Puel's interviews are? I'm usually looking for a boozer half an hour after the final whistle, not funny soundbites and Holloway-esque buffoonery. 

 

We've got a young squad which is good enough to not have to worry about relegation so we're able to have a proper go at the cups- isn't that exactly what we've been looking for over the past couple of seasons?

Well we've won a couple of games so the usual stuff about his tactics and us keeping the ball can't be trotted out, hence why we're back to his language and media skills

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Anyone suggesting they can't understand what he's saying is either stupid or flat out lying. His English is absolutely fine, he expresses himself perfectly well as shown in last nights interview.

 

Sure he's a tad monatone and wastes a lot of words in his answers that aren't really necessary, but as far as understanding what he's saying then there are no issues.

 

https://www.lcfc.com/tv/862272/cup-progress-pleases-puel

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7 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

Calm down, Ted. No one here is asking for funny soundbites or buffoonery.

It would just be nice to have an improved form of communication from the manager to the fans via the media.

it would also be nice if people in the media weren't mocking his English or just having a dig at every opportunity 

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2 minutes ago, Blue ROI said:

So Turkish is the 1st language for the under 23s then? 

no but its better he plays for them in games that don't matter as he learns to communicate with the rest on the pitch

FoxNotFox

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As someone who is pretty adept at butchering French, I'm not about to be critical of anyone's language capabilities. Tbh, I find it in equal measure difficult and frustrating to express myself in a foreign tongue as I would in my own.  I can get by, sure, (in fact, more than that) but nuance, subtlety and even humour are still beyond me.  

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