Fox85 Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Terminate his contract 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest An Sionnach Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 17 minutes ago, Blanchflower78 said: He cost 30m and is on thick end of 100k a week. How dare you expect more than average He is Rodger's player , he bought him and probably doesn't want to admit he was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lestajigs Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 28 minutes ago, Claridge said: Snake? Same lines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopfkino Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 That was a stinker today. Was never a £30m player in the summer and hasn't shown anything to make me think he is. But I do like him and think he does offer us a really good option just need someone better as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfox Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 He ain't worth 3p let alone £30 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-fox Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 He’s a bottom half premier league player, like he was at Newcastle. He wasn’t even their best player. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StriderHiryu Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 No defending that performance, he was dire all game long. Mahrez went for 60m, we've tired replacing him with Gray, Diabate (remember him), Ghezzal and now Perez. None of them are anywhere close to being the game changer Mahrez was for us, or that he was for Man City today. A quality wide man would be the most welcome addition to our first team and squad in January / the summer but they aren't so easy to get hold of. I really want us to get one though as it could end up being the difference between 4th and 5th, which could be huge to the next few years for the club. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paninistickers Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Just now, StriderHiryu said: No defending that performance, he was dire all game long. Mahrez went for 60m, we've tired replacing him with Gray, Diabate (remember him), Ghezzal and now Perez. None of them are anywhere close to being the game changer Mahrez was for us, or that he was for Man City today. A quality wide man would be the most welcome addition to our first team and squad in January / the summer but they aren't so easy to get hold of. I really want us to get one though as it could end up being the difference between 4th and 5th, which could be huge to the next few years for the club. We replaced Mahrez with Maddison. A like for.like is not mandatory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shailen Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 21 minutes ago, CityIsBlue said: If you honestly think every player contributed equally to our success then i'm not sure what you were watching. Like with anyside, there are key players which are more important than others. There were no other players in the league that season capable of offering what Vardy/Mahrez/Kante did. Compare the career trajectories of the 4 I mentioned earlier, two are now considered World Class, two are Premier League backups. I dont question Albrighton's Work Rate, but I question his quality. Like I said, like with Nugent after Promotion, he's not young enough to improve individually, and not currently good enough to improve us. He's fortunate Gray/Musa havent worked out, Perez is not a natural there and that Barnes isnt consistent. The reality is, if Albrighton was as rated highly as you say, why has every manager tried to replace him? It probably says more about how low he is thought of by them that his replacements havent worked out, and he still hasnt got that spot back. Are you serious? Albrighton was key in our title winning season and used to do so much defensive work it allowed Mahrez to play more offensively that season. He was pivotal in our counter attack feeding Vardy down the channels. I agree that he is not suited to all managers, especially a side that wants to keep possession like ours, but in 2015/16 he was as key to our play as anyone. He did a lot of the dirty work which is why he never got the headlines. If you're talking about players being rejected - remember that De Bruyne and Salah were rejected by Chelsea and they have turned out to be okay players. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StriderHiryu Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 1 minute ago, Paninistickers said: We replaced Mahrez with Maddison. A like for.like is not mandatory That's a fair point, but I think a like for like replacement is long overdue! Very happy with Maddison of course, who I think was decent today. He at least tried to turn on the ball and play the passes unlike many others on the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityIsBlue Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Wonder how Okazaki would have looked outwide.....Another natural number 10. He's filling in, and it isn't working. What do people want though? Gray plays, its his natural position, and he marks himself out of the game the whole time he is on the pitch. Or Albrighton, who tracks back so much that he actually puts us under more pressure and is no goal threat whatsoever. It's the area of the team we need to improve the most, we can all see that. That isn't Perez's fault, and i'm not seeing a lack of effort, just a lack of understanding of the role he's being asked to play. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ttfn Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Tonight was just a more exaggerated version of the performances we’ve been watching all season. He's a patchy player, he will have a good spell at some point but we’ve been carrying him most of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityIsBlue Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 5 minutes ago, shailen said: Are you serious? Albrighton was key in our title winning season and used to do so much defensive work it allowed Mahrez to play more offensively that season. He was pivotal in our counter attack feeding Vardy down the channels. I agree that he is not suited to all managers, especially a side that wants to keep possession like ours, but in 2015/16 he was as key to our play as anyone. He did a lot of the dirty work which is why he never got the headlines. If you're talking about players being rejected - remember that De Bruyne and Salah were rejected by Chelsea and they have turned out to be okay players. I think there were many many players in the league that season who could've replaced Albrighton....... But none for Vardy/Kante/Mahrez. No coincidence that those 3 are still 3 of the better players in the division. Regarding De Bruyne/Salah, you can quote this post if you like when Albrighton gets to that level. It isn't one manager that didn't think Albrighton was of the standard we wanted, every manager he's had here recruited in his position. Add Rodgers to that too, who still has Perez/Gray ahead of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volpeazzurro Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 9 minutes ago, ttfn said: Tonight was just a more exaggerated version of the performances we’ve been watching all season. He's a patchy player, he will have a good spell at some point but we’ve been carrying him most of the season. At the level we're aiming for we haven't got half a season and mostly ineffectual piss poor performances to wait for the rare odd good patch. He's a total waste of space and if he can't understand what he's being asked to do then after half a season he must be incredibly thick. If he physically can't do what he's being asked to do then thats down to him being a poor buy like Silva. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volpeazzurro Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 5 minutes ago, CityIsBlue said: I think there were many many players in the league that season who could've replaced Albrighton....... But none for Vardy/Kante/Mahrez. No coincidence that those 3 are still 3 of the better players in the division. Regarding De Bruyne/Salah, you can quote this post if you like when Albrighton gets to that level. It isn't one manager that didn't think Albrighton was of the standard we wanted, every manager he's had here recruited in his position. Add Rodgers to that too, who still has Perez/Gray ahead of him. It's possibly only because Perez was Rodgers purchase and a 30m price tag that puts him ahead of Albrighton because it's certainly not his footballing ability. One good game in half a season is poor, had Albrighton been given that opportunity I think he'd have had far more influence than powder puff Perez over the course of those games. I hope we don't see him out again for a while. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCryptoPoet Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 I've thought throughout this season that a lot of the time Perez has been made an unfair scapegoat by a lot of the fans, but today there's no defending him, he was very poor. So was Tielemans for that matter. Reality check today, title challenge all but off the table now, top four still well on and we should be focusing on how far away we are from 5th. Semi-Final of a cup too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrington fox Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Underwhelmed with this lad if I’m honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendi Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 He was poor today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pazzerfox Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Too lightweight, falls over far too much with being touched. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox92 Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Should be closer to Vardy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frany104 Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Not good enough. £30 million. Another waste of money. Our signings are so hit and miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamptonfox Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Absolute waste of space in the team or on the bench. Time to move him on in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Not cutting it at the moment. For that amount of cash and the experience he has in the Prem he should have hit the ground running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr The Singh Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 Gives the ball away too often, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest An Sionnach Posted 21 December 2019 Share Posted 21 December 2019 As I said Rodgers will not admit he f**led up with this one. Good player-wrong team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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