Caglar Soyuncu emerges as new cult hero at Leicester City

[Corky]

What is seriously impressive is the timing and execution of his tackles. Virtually all where timed to nick the ball without taking the man- see the first goal build-up when he tackled Wilson. Often you'd see a defender try and hook it or nudge in the back- Soyuncu waited for the gap to take it.

 

Really impressed in these four games.

[Lionheart10]

44 minutes ago, EverybodyDannsNow said:

I have to say credit to our fans for the way they’ve responded to him this season. 

 

Collectively, it’s safe to say we were all worried about selling Harry and replacing him with someone unproven at this level, but from the very first minute against Wolves Caglar has received so much love from the stands.

 

Almost every tackle, pass and header receives a cheer/applause, which I’m sure has helped him to settle. 

 

It’s amazing what can happen when you offer a bit of encouragement and don’t boo your own players - who knew. 

100% I think this has helped give him confidence and I reckon he'll get better and better.

[ARM1968]

The lad is mustard. I was always dead against wasting money on another CB when we have this guy and Benkovic in the squad. He will make mistakes over the season, but he is lightning fast, strong and knows how to pass. Doesn’t appear to just lope forwards into a brick wall either. 

 

We may well we’ll have a better player than Maguire on our hands here. If Benkovic can step up as well, and everything says he should, then we have the potential for one of the worlds best and youngest CB pairings on our hands. 

 

Taking nothing away from Evans. The bloke is a diamond and one hell of a player. Lucky to have all three as well as Morgan - who is quite capable of still doing a job for us. 

 

Harry who?

[Pliskin]

29 minutes ago, FoxesFan100 said:

Totally agree with all you've said.

 

I did note for the Wilson goal that it looked like he tried to step up and almost catch him offside, just didn't work. 

 

I can honestly say that Soyuncu has been a revelation and one player who has proved and is continuing to prove doubters wrong (I too was sceptical of his abilities). That being said, with his play style and skills with the ball I think we will see some disastrous moments but that's part of how he plays, he brings excitement in all he does... according to the guy from Gladiator, are you not entertained? 

 

 

Naturally with a ball playing centre back you’ll get errors, midfielders lose the ball and there’s another layer to breach, defence... well you know. I think the goal was more of a defensive unit stepping up, and they caught us napping.

 

He is great entertainment, but I do think his bullish attitude helps him keep the mistakes out of his game..... for now anyway! 

[StriderHiryu]

1 hour ago, EverybodyDannsNow said:

I have to say credit to our fans for the way they’ve responded to him this season. 

 

Collectively, it’s safe to say we were all worried about selling Harry and replacing him with someone unproven at this level, but from the very first minute against Wolves Caglar has received so much love from the stands.

 

Almost every tackle, pass and header receives a cheer/applause, which I’m sure has helped him to settle. 

 

It’s amazing what can happen when you offer a bit of encouragement and don’t boo your own players - who knew. 

 

I very much agree. 

 

I think that to be fair all new new players are given a honeymoon period as the crowd tried to get behind Nacho, Silva, Musa, etc. But this has sadly turned to negativity in recent times. 

 

Confidence is huge at the elite lite level of sports. Look what a difference it has made to Vardy over the years! It’s important to get behind your team and especially players that are struggling. 

 

I once went to see Dortmund play who have their legendary “yellow wall” stand that is probably the nosiest in Europe. German football is a bit different because their singing and cheering is usually directed by a few people that have megaphones and drums which is allowed by the club. But one thing that struck me was that if a player is struggling, the crowd actually sings for that player the most! The megaphone guys instruct the crowd to help the player out and when I went it actually worked as the player in question (Guereiro) turned it round and overall had a decent game. 

 

Fans can and do make a huge difference!

[pazzerfox]

I don't want to get ahead of myself but...What a seriously good player.  Still a lot to learn but he has improved a great deal under Rogers already.  Aggressive, decent on the ball, composed, strong.  Really looking forward to how he develops further.  Evans is obviously having a big impact on him also.  It's a 'yes' from me. 

[Nicolo Barella]

10 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

 

 

 

Can you please post the gif on reddit? I want to make fun of United fans under it

[foxfanazer]

I wince when he goes steaming into challenges sometimes but more often than not he gets it spot on. A less savvy ref would've given that as a penalty against Wilson so he needs to be careful in the box

[Goober]

We sold our 3rd best centre half for £80m. Good business 

[StriderHiryu]

23 minutes ago, Nicolo Barella said:

Can you please post the gif on reddit? I want to make fun of United fans under it

Sure thing  but it will a bit later as I’m

out at the moment. I’ll try and do it with my phone but attaching / linking gifs with a phone is more painful than Lerma’s tackle on Evans!

 

EDIT: think I’ve done it, search reddit soccer for Soyuncu.

Edited 1 September 2019 by StriderHiryu

[Analysethis]

You have to pat the hierarchy at the club on the back for identifying both Benkovic and Caglar in readiness to replace Maguire and Evans. Its such intelligent business from our lot and although Caglar may have got into the first team a little earlier than anticipated, its proven to be cracking business. I really hope we continue to identify young players with high potential like Caglar.

[UniFox21]

Just now, Analysethis said:

You have to pat the hierarchy at the club on the back for identifying both Benkovic and Caglar in readiness to replace Maguire and Evans. Its such intelligent business from our lot and although Caglar may have got into the first team a little earlier than anticipated, its proven to be cracking business. I really hope we continue to identify young players with high potential like Caglar.

I think we'll start to see much more of Benkovic as the season goes on. In 2 games now, we've brought on a 5th defender. Defending a lead and you bring on a 6'4 beast to sit in between Cags and Evans and behind Ndidi/Hamza.

[Analysethis]

4 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

I think we'll start to see much more of Benkovic as the season goes on. In 2 games now, we've brought on a 5th defender. Defending a lead and you bring on a 6'4 beast to sit in between Cags and Evans and behind Ndidi/Hamza.

Its a shame injuries have curtailed his development but the Celts raved about him last season and before we bought him reports were very promising. Hopefully he remains fit and gives us options in the future.

[MarriedaLeicesterGirl]

2 hours ago, Goober said:

We sold our 3rd best centre half for £80m. Good business 

I know it was just gamesmanship on the club's part, but I remember during the summer, there were whispers Cags was so impressive in training that Maguire would be fighting for his spot.

[Mickey O'Neil]

3 hours ago, ARM1968 said:

The lad is mustard. I was always dead against wasting money on another CB when we have this guy and Benkovic in the squad. He will make mistakes over the season, but he is lightning fast, strong and knows how to pass. Doesn’t appear to just lope forwards into a brick wall either. 

 

We may well we’ll have a better player than Maguire on our hands here. If Benkovic can step up as well, and everything says he should, then we have the potential for one of the worlds best and youngest CB pairings on our hands. 

 

Taking nothing away from Evans. The bloke is a diamond and one hell of a player. Lucky to have all three as well as Morgan - who is quite capable of still doing a job for us. 

 

Harry who?

Great post. I’ve used all my “thanks” and 👍🏼 today so I’m resorting to writing waffle! 

 

Agree with all of this except I was only slightly more keen to get a replacement in. I wasn’t fully in favour, but just a bit more so than you.

 

I honestly think we did the right thing in not being held to ransom by Burnley or more so, Bournemouth, and not entirely because of Cags’ displays so far. I did think it was wrong to sell Harry at £80m and get Ake in at £75m or whatever it was.

 

I think Cags is a diamond and we could have so easily lost him if we didn’t give him the opportunity. I hope Benkovic can be patient & I’m glad BR had him at Celtic. 

[sdb]

So, so glad we didn't spend that £80 mill on another CB. Great foresight to get him in last year. Hope we're as successful in finding the next Vardy and Maddison. 

 

Still think he'll have a stinker soon but he's nailed the position down and been a joy to watch so far.

[Ric Flair]

Surely he ought to be shortlisted from August's player of the month? Mind you for a defender to win it there'd need to be a raft of clean sheets or goals and not necessarily exceptional performances.

[mozartfox]

1 hour ago, sdb said:

So, so glad we didn't spend that £80 mill on another CB. Great foresight to get him in last year. Hope we're as successful in finding the next Vardy and Maddison. 

 

Still think he'll have a stinker soon but he's nailed the position down and been a joy to watch so far.

Every player has a stinker at some stage, it is called being ‘human’.  Everyone needs to just give him a break and stop scrutinizing every single minute detail.  

[tetly]

Really enjoy seeing him grow in confidence and expressing himself. Looks like a class player hope he can continue the good start. 

[Hollyfox]

Surely having, what seems like 3 legs, would help him enormously 😉

[Livid]

I see his Turkish fan club has arrived, just short of 60,000 likes 

 

 

[Royston.]

5 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

I think we'll start to see much more of Benkovic as the season goes on. In 2 games now, we've brought on a 5th defender. Defending a lead and you bring on a 6'4 wide beast to sit in between Cags and Evans and behind Ndidi/Hamza.

[DerbyshireFox]

10 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

The other chant for him the UB40 again took off really well.

What are the lyrics? Although I can already predict which chant is going to come from our corner of Old Trafford in a couple of weeks!!

[Leeds Fox]

2 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Surely he ought to be shortlisted from August's player of the month? Mind you for a defender to win it there'd need to be a raft of clean sheets or goals and not necessarily exceptional performances.

 

You’d be hard pressed to see past Pukki after his goal-scoring exploits so far. 

[Stinkenzo]

6 hours ago, Analysethis said:

You have to pat the hierarchy at the club on the back for identifying both Benkovic and Caglar in readiness to replace Maguire and Evans. Its such intelligent business from our lot and although Caglar may have got into the first team a little earlier than anticipated, its proven to be cracking business. I really hope we continue to identify young players with high potential like Caglar.

I think what's smarter is that we got Benkovic to go to Celtic when we knew we were going to get rid of Puel and hire Rodgers, so they could get used to each other