Ben Chilwell's Message for Leicester Fans

[chapero82]

be patient for him to leave? 

[Rusko187]

1 minute ago, Izzy said:

I didn’t realise Danny Simpson was Irish?

 

Everydays a school day on here...

He's "Irish" if you know what I mean, as in eligible to play through once going there on holiday.

[Izzy]

Just now, Rusko187 said:

He's "Irish" if you know what I mean, as in eligible to play through once going there on holiday.

I getcha 

[ARTY_FOX]

2 minutes ago, holyfox said:

I understand the contrast from the entertainment we have been known for. However, the very best teams can both keep the ball and attack fast when the opportunity arises. Blaming Puel for this is crazy as every single interview I have heard from him states his frustration at the sideways passing and lack of self belief.

maybe, just maybe with patience all round, the young grip of players will become more confident on the ball and in their own abilities.

with a young relatively inexperienced squad, you are going to get more nerves than older seasoned pros. But what you get from building a young squad where they develop together with the odd ready made gem is another ‘band of brothers’ who are thankful for the opportunity and in it for the long term. It very much sounds to me that is what Chilwell is getting at.

 

Puel’s post match comments again states how frustrating it was that there was sideways passing early on. 

 

I honestly believe that if we got behind the team no matter what and do that from the kick off like we used to, then confidence and results would improve.

 

I’vr been around a long time and in my experience, drooping young talent works best when you show your faith in them when they struggle and stay positive.

 

Finally, the rest of the mid table teams are mostly high press and counter attack- yet they can’t break into the top 6.

 

i think it’s bloody obvious that the club have tried to compete in the transfer market without going studios like some and realised that we are not that attractive a proposition for various reasons.

 

bullding quality training facilities, showing our commitment for good British and overseas talent, together with making the Stadium stand out is a bloody brilliant Strategy- stay in the PM and fight as best we can and we will see improvement and then have a basis to compete right at the top for a long time!

 

we lost 1-0 against an in form Man Utd and made them look pretty average for most of the match.

can we be more clinical in the final third? Yes!

can we be better than we are at a number of aspects ? Yes!

but if you hadn’t seen the stats, you would have thought that we had got our arses whipped!

17 shots against 10!

thats not negative tactics- just need to improve the finishing which comes with confidence!!!

 

Im backing the team and manager because I believe in the project!

As I said though, we put in a performance against the ‘big clubs’ but can’t do it against others. We saw when puel first took over we were capable of keeping possession and still playing positive football and he wasn’t happy with it then. He wanted less risks and the ball to be recycled more despite the fact we were winning games and looking really really good. 

 

I clap and cheer and encourage them all game every game, being more clinical would be nice but sometimes you just don’t get the luck on your side but we just don’t help ourselves. Of the 17 shots how many were half chances and how many good clear chances did we make for ourselves? I’m not even saying I expect us to carve Man Utd up or make great chance after chance but against the rest, we just have loads of half chances we rarely create any clear chances and we don’t really take many of the half chances. I just want us to take some risks and try something different and that would entertain and get the fans of everyone’s back. We might even win a home game! 

[Ric Flair]

2 minutes ago, That_Dude said:

But that's exactly what it is, isn't it? Do we really have another alternative? I mean look at our squad, where are the players able to produce some entertaining football or crack down a deep lying defense? Mahrez is gone and even with him we had it hard against parked busses. Most of them just arrived this season or this winter and you know that it will take time to make them look good on the pitch. Lapses of concentration, silly mistakes, lack of understanding belong to the process. Puel has his fair share of mistakes but how booing and making the KP hostile for our own players is going to solve anything? 

 

It's going to become a habit. Manager and/or players perceived rightly or wrongly as not good enough, boo and jeer the hell out of them during and after the match. Then wonder when why they find it increasingly difficult to perform at home or why good players wouldn't want to come here.

I honestly don't know, but it's really a tough sell to fans to just blindly go along with it. There's also a massive chance that whilst in pursuit of this, the more advanced ones will be poached by the elite clubs. I still think it's the right way to go, maybe there needs to be a balance between young players and experience it certainly seems we are going from one extreme to another and we need a blend. The goal as a club is to build a team that progresses, you don't always have to do this with all young players, sometimes players with a point to prove can come in and improve as well, this is down to the managers artistry in getting the best out of players. There seems to be an acceptance that Puel comes in to his own when he builds a team of kids and they go on to do the business, I hope that's the case but is there any evidence to this? I can accept being a work in progress as long as there's an identity and I struggle to get that from Puel, his stubbornness and persistence with a midfield that cannot play possession football undoes a lot of his good work. It's become painfully obvious since January last year that we were struggling to unlock deep defences but we failed to bring in a single central midfielder with the skill set to try and do that. The only two midfielders comfortable in possession were both Iborra and Silva and neither prospered nor were afforded the same chances that two liabilities on the ball in Mendy and Ndidi have been afforded. Then we move on to the attack, yet again not a single forward has been recruited under Puel and we currently have 2 strikers with 1 league goal between them all season and they are fast setting new records. Puel moved on all other fringe strikers and rightly or wrongly, it's hard to ignore this.

 

I hope Tielemans can ease the home form, his skill set is exactly what we've been crying out for. I really hope it works out for Puel and the players but the players and the media can moan all they want about the unrest amongst the fans but there's clearly issues between Puel and the same players themselves and Puel will be gone in the summer if they don't pick up results. It kind of makes all things irrelevant.

[CosbehFox]

18 minutes ago, Izzy said:

I agree. 

All this talk of things being ‘Toxic’ is a bit OTT I think.

The atmosphere wasn’t great yesterday but it was far from ‘Toxic’ compared to the Pleat years for example.

Pleat years were a deserved condemnation of the club as whole at the time. Now it's completely irrational. 

 

To add, I can't see the point in losing your shit when it's very, very clear the earliest Puel goes is the Summer unless there's some incredible upturn in form by about four clubs and therefore placing us in the relegation scrap. 

[KrefelderFox666]

3 minutes ago, ARTY_FOX said:

As I said though, we put in a performance against the ‘big clubs’ but can’t do it against others. We saw when puel first took over we were capable of keeping possession and still playing positive football and he wasn’t happy with it then. He wanted less risks and the ball to be recycled more despite the fact we were winning games and looking really really good. 

 

I clap and cheer and encourage them all game every game, being more clinical would be nice but sometimes you just don’t get the luck on your side but we just don’t help ourselves. Of the 17 shots how many were half chances and how many good clear chances did we make for ourselves? I’m not even saying I expect us to carve Man Utd up or make great chance after chance but against the rest, we just have loads of half chances we rarely create any clear chances and we don’t really take many of the half chances. I just want us to take some risks and try something different and that would entertain and get the fans of everyone’s back. We might even win a home game! 

The problem with those "lesser" teams is that they can defend to save their lives and especially at the KP, will build up a wall. It's incredibly difficult to find spaces and requires a lot of creativity that we have lacked this season. I think Barnes can get us going a bit more, Maddison when he wakes up again can also help, Gray given more and more games will become confident and take players on, break that line, Vardy is Vardy.

 

If I think about a lot of the games, although they may have seemed "boring", there are a lot of points that we have left due to mistakes and bad misses (Wolves being daft and leaving 2 defenders in the 93rd minute, both being the slowest on the pitch, Maddison missing a pen and follow-up against Cardiff etc). We are no longer underdogs unless we play the Top 6, and not surprisingly, we fair quite well in those matches as we are allowed much more room to counter and attack in general. Unfortunately 65-70% of teams will defend against us.

 

Maybe we need to sit back in those games for periods and soak it up but can you imagine the fans? Screaming to get forward cause we are only playing Fulham or Brighton at home.

 

Said it before, it is currently fine margins between winning and losing games. If you want to watch exciting football then you'll probably have to go and live in Barcelona or Liverpool maybe. Can't say many teams in the Prem are allowed to play exciting football.

[MonkeyTennis?]

The atmosphere was alright where we were yesterday (family stand, so 'alright' is the best you can hope for). We could have done with a bit more more singing, and there wasn't loads of booing when Ghezzal and Nacho came on - although there was still more than I would like. I'd say all in all it was better and more positive than the Cardiff or Southampton games, I suppose because we expected to win those whereas man u was a more uncertain prospect. And frankly, the football was pretty good yesterday to my eye. 

 

But after Christmas when the Cardiff fans started singing 'Your support is fvcking sh1t,' they weren't completely wrong. That was the low point for me. 

[Woodsey1727]

Wise head in young shoulders 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, AlloverthefloorYesNdidi said:

Player literally asking the fans to stop being bellends

Isn't it sad that the fans needed asking? 

[desertfox2]

5 minutes ago, FIF said:

Isn't it sad that the fans needed asking? 

Very. 

[Innovindil]

1 hour ago, Rusko187 said:

So it's all my fault they aren't winning games? My fault they concede in first 10 minutes? My fault the manager doesn't recognise the glaring issues with the squad.

Not all your fault, no, just like it's not Puel's fault Ricardo decided to play an awful pass. But if you think being negative/hostile/booing does anything other than negatively effect the team then you're a few strawberries short of a punnet. 

[st albans fox]

This article makes Puel leaving any time soon very unlikely 

 

the other thing about Puel leaving now would be that it would give the noisy ‘outers’ too much credibility. You cannot have a club run by the noisiest section of the fan base ....... still think he will go in the summer .... can’t understand why we just don’t get behind the team until then ?

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, Innovindil said:

Not all your fault, no, just like it's not Puel's fault Ricardo decided to play an awful pass. But if you think being negative/hostile/booing does anything other than negatively effect the team then you're a few strawberries short of a punnet. 

Now there is a point - Ricardo could have stuck it up the touch line for vardy to compete and probably win a throw in. But he went for the riskier option ..... was that Ricardo making that decision or the managers instructions to be braver (or foolhardy depending on how it turns out!)??

[Innovindil]

8 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Now there is a point - Ricardo could have stuck it up the touch line for vardy to compete and probably win a throw in. But he went for the riskier option ..... was that Ricardo making that decision or the managers instructions to be braver (or foolhardy depending on how it turns out!)??

Doesn't particularly matter imo. Puel certainly wouldn't have told him to play it straight to a utd player's feet. 

[RumbleFox]

But but but, Steve from Oadby reckons a good ol' boo in the bollocks is the way forward.  X

[ARTY_FOX]

1 hour ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

The problem with those "lesser" teams is that they can defend to save their lives and especially at the KP, will build up a wall. It's incredibly difficult to find spaces and requires a lot of creativity that we have lacked this season. I think Barnes can get us going a bit more, Maddison when he wakes up again can also help, Gray given more and more games will become confident and take players on, break that line, Vardy is Vardy.

 

If I think about a lot of the games, although they may have seemed "boring", there are a lot of points that we have left due to mistakes and bad misses (Wolves being daft and leaving 2 defenders in the 93rd minute, both being the slowest on the pitch, Maddison missing a pen and follow-up against Cardiff etc). We are no longer underdogs unless we play the Top 6, and not surprisingly, we fair quite well in those matches as we are allowed much more room to counter and attack in general. Unfortunately 65-70% of teams will defend against us.

 

Maybe we need to sit back in those games for periods and soak it up but can you imagine the fans? Screaming to get forward cause we are only playing Fulham or Brighton at home.

 

Said it before, it is currently fine margins between winning and losing games. If you want to watch exciting football then you'll probably have to go and live in Barcelona or Liverpool maybe. Can't say many teams in the Prem are allowed to play exciting football.

Yes they will defend deep against us, so try something different than the usual predictable safe stuff we do now. Take risks, try the pass, have a shot, take the player on. We don’t do enough of it. We’ll never get anywhere until they’re allowed to take chances in the final third rather than recycle it until we decide to cross into vardy only for him to be out jumped by players much taller.

[Guest Bob Hazels shorts]

Actions speak louder than words.

 

Look at the reason/s for the groans. As supporters these are out of our hands.

 

I don’t get a round of applause and cheered when I arrive home late wasted.

[VLC86]

Could see this coming a mile off, players think we are huge cnuts. Sound.

[RumbleFox]

In all seriousness we are lucky to have such a talented, hard working young footballer at our club and he handles himself exceptionally well.  I have no doubt he will cement his position in the England team and I hope he buys into the vision of this young team as much as he appears to in this article and stays with us for the long term.  X

[reynard]

26 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

This article makes Puel leaving any time soon very unlikely 

 

the other thing about Puel leaving now would be that it would give the noisy ‘outers’ too much credibility. You cannot have a club run by the noisiest section of the fan base ....... still think he will go in the summer .... can’t understand why we just don’t get behind the team until then ?

A decision will need to be made fairly soon though. Doesn't his contract run out in June 2020? If so we will enter next season with a manger essentially a dead man walking unless we extend his contract in the summer.

[reynard]

3 minutes ago, RumbleFox said:

In all seriousness we are lucky to have such a talented, hard working young footballer at our club and he handles himself exceptionally well.  I have no doubt he will cement his position in the England team and I hope he buys into the vision of this young team as much as he appears to in this article and stays with us for the long term.  X

He's as good as gone. He wanted out before when Liverpool were interested and he will almost certainly go this summer. Several top clubs will come calling. Only a matter of how much we can extract.

[RumbleFox]

1 minute ago, reynard said:

He's as good as gone. He wanted out before when Liverpool were interested and he will almost certainly go this summer. Several top clubs will come calling. Only a matter of how much we can extract.

I feel sad now.  X

[reynard]

1 minute ago, RumbleFox said:

I feel sad now.  X

Don't! We can all dream of a young team staying together and developing but the chances of that happening are next to zero. We're not just talking players these days but agents too.

 

In any case I may be wrong, I often am!

[AjcW]

Clear to see we’re on a serious PR drive of late, must be club lead, I can’t see how all of these articles in the local paper could just be coincidence.

 

The thing is though all those with connections have said new manager in the summer is a done deal... If that was the case why all the desperate PR? I really think this points to them being fully behind Puels plan for the future and the clubs plan of being self sufficient in many respects. 

 

Its bloody tough to watch it the minute, but without the manager coming out and saying “what do you expect me to do with those two useless ***** in midfield I know they can’t bloody pass but neither could any of my other options” we’ll never actually know if this current style is what Puel wants. The fact is he keeps getting angry at the same time the fans do during games, that doesn’t really point towards someone who thinks this is the way we should be playing does it? 

 

And yes i know that points towards communication issues of course.