Caglar Soyuncu emerges as new cult hero at Leicester City

[Grebfromgrebland]

I don't think there's any chance either Soyunchu Evans or Fofana go in the summer. We've only just got them together and they look formidable.

[Adster]

6 hours ago, Sampson said:

I remember that! My car got dented up in it too. It lasted about 2 minutes but the hailstorm was the size of tennis balls and smashed everyone's windows up.

Remember too! I was 16 and my parents were on holiday in Italy..they thought me and my brother had smashed their cars up until I showed them proof 😂

[Sampson]

44 minutes ago, Adster said:

Remember too! I was 16 and my parents were on holiday in Italy..they thought me and my brother had smashed their cars up until I showed them proof 😂

Im an old fart and have never known any other weather like it in my entire life in the UK.

 

I was in my house at the time and I thought debris from a plane or something was landing on our roof. It sounded like bricks raining down.

 

Then we when saw the car's windows had all been smashed up and when we called Autoglass they said they'd been inundated with calls from Burbage and Hinckley all day.

 

It was incredibly localised around where Burbage and Hinckley meet and lasted only a couple of minutes, but I've never known anything like it, was just one of those once in a lifetime freaks of nature I think. Even people in Stoney Stanton, Sharnford or Aston Flanville didn't get it.

 

I'm sure there's still plenty of used cars around the Hinckley/Burbage area covered in dents from it

Edited 30 March 2021 by Sampson

[Tom12345]

We just got a good team together with a good balance of characters. As Rodgers indicated, this summer is a time to consolidate and build on top, particularly as we get into CL. Selling Soy is madness. Evans is getting old and more injury prone. Soy is the next best CB with Fofana closely behind. Soy is a stayer while Fofana, I feel, will be turned the moment a big club comes in for him. So better to keep the team together. We still have time to consider for one more season.

[gurru991]

5 hours ago, Ian Nacho said:

Cags is good but £70m would be great money. 

I wouldn't sell him for that ! 

Cags & Wes are the type of players that winning teams are built around.

[volpeazzurro]

3 hours ago, gurru991 said:

I wouldn't sell him for that ! 

Cags & Wes are the type of players that winning teams are built around.

Absolutely, it would be a terrible show of lack of ambition. If we think of how well we've done this year despite more than our fair share of injuries to key players, it shows that we're not that far off a regular top six or even four side. Yes, we have speculated to accumulate incredibly in very recent times but, if we actually want to achieve something, there comes a time when you have to build around your better players or else what is the point? Soyuncu is one such player and with Fofana, that's an incredible partnership for the future. We've mostly bought incredibly well over the last few seasons but every new signing nevertheless represents a potential risk, we might not always be as fortunate in replacing such players and, as a club without the wealth to spend compared with our more affluent competitors, we can't afford many expensive duds. Unless a player is fighting to leave, which is a different discussion, now I feel it the time to consolidate.

[st albans fox]

6 hours ago, Tom12345 said:

We just got a good team together with a good balance of characters. As Rodgers indicated, this summer is a time to consolidate and build on top, particularly as we get into CL. Selling Soy is madness. Evans is getting old and more injury prone. Soy is the next best CB with Fofana closely behind. Soy is a stayer while Fofana, I feel, will be turned the moment a big club comes in for him. So better to keep the team together. We still have time to consider for one more season.

do you know him (or his agent) ?

 

and Brendan is quite right to say that .....it’s called an opening gambit in negs. 

[ARM1968]

We ain’t selling NO ONE me bluds, innit. 
 

dis team is banging fam. Keep deez nuts twogever an wheels be rulin da known facking yard. You get me?

Edited 30 March 2021 by ARM1968

[BroughtonFox]

If we make champions league we won’t sell anyone we don’t want to sell for at least another season. I’m confident in that.

[Buce]

20 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

We ain’t selling NO ONE me bluds, innit. 
 

dis team is banging fam. Keep deez nuts twogever an wheels be rulin da known facking yard. You get me?

 

Do you have some sort of digital Tourettes Syndrome?

[ARM1968]

6 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

Do you have some sort of digital Tourettes Syndrome?

Innit blud

[StanSP]

47 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

We ain’t selling NO ONE me bluds, innit. 
 

dis team is banging fam. Keep deez nuts twogever an wheels be rulin da known facking yard. You get me?

 

19 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

Innit blud

AFTV have infiltrated us but blown their cover quite badly... 

[Tom12345]

4 hours ago, st albans fox said:

do you know him (or his agent) ?

 

and Brendan is quite right to say that .....it’s called an opening gambit in negs. 

I am not going to reveal that ... haha ... but ok I should have put “I feel” at the beginning of the sentence to indicate that it applies to my comments on both Soyuncu and Fofana. I have more confident about Soyuncu staying because he was willing to sit patiently on the bench despite being so good and behind (umm) Maguire and also because Soyuncu already has been here for a while hopefully catching a bit of the Leicester family spirit that a lot of others raved about publicly (including Gray, Simpson, Fuchs, Vardy). Fofana - well he did say before coming here that he wanted to leave because the money means a lot to his family. So he could be tempted again when another big money move comes.

 

Anyway ... not arguing with you.

 

And yes you are right too about Brendan saying what he said regardless.

 

I do really hope thought the team stays in tact this year.

[dynamark]

Hard to understand how these guys think -money is not everything when you are earning well and you have to consider moving family and kids schools etc but the lure of trophies and huge clubs seems to be the tipping point .Short career make the most of it seems to be the way to go

[ARM1968]

I just don’t get the money thing. Millionaires want as many more millions as they can grasp. Billionaires scamper for more billions. Seriously how much do you need. It’s obscene and leaves me a bit cold frankly. 

[mozartfox]

3 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

I just don’t get the money thing. Millionaires want as many more millions as they can grasp. Billionaires scamper for more billions. Seriously how much do you need. It’s obscene and leaves me a bit cold frankly. 

Some people think there are ATM's in Graveyards and Crematoriums.  

 

 

[dynamark]

ARM slightly off topic but many years ago I was advised to buy shares ns ARM holdings on the unlisted market .They were about 12 pence and made something called microchips which were nothing to do with potatoes .I didnt . The share went up to about £20 a go as every appliance in the world has a chip in it and eventually a chinese company bought it for many billions. Hey ho never mind. 

[HighPeakFox]

15 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

I just don’t get the money thing. Millionaires want as many more millions as they can grasp. Billionaires scamper for more billions. Seriously how much do you need. It’s obscene and leaves me a bit cold frankly. 

Power and greed. Plus, they get rich and discover how empty their lives are, so they double down to try and find happiness through greater power and riches. No better than any other man, but with greater power to destroy and ruin.

[st albans fox]

‘Money doesn’t buy you happiness son’ ......

 

 

 

but it helps in more cases than it hinders.........

 

cags has no kids to worry about and we would all love to earn enough to look after as much of our family as we could ......

 

And some people have ambitions in charitable areas so more income means they can help more 

[Gazi Giray]

On 30/03/2021 at 03:26, Sampson said:

Im an old fart and have never known any other weather like it in my entire life in the UK.

 

I was in my house at the time and I thought debris from a plane or something was landing on our roof. It sounded like bricks raining down.

 

Then we when saw the car's windows had all been smashed up and when we called Autoglass they said they'd been inundated with calls from Burbage and Hinckley all day.

 

It was incredibly localised around where Burbage and Hinckley meet and lasted only a couple of minutes, but I've never known anything like it, was just one of those once in a lifetime freaks of nature I think. Even people in Stoney Stanton, Sharnford or Aston Flanville didn't get it.

 

I'm sure there's still plenty of used cars around the Hinckley/Burbage area covered in dents from it

Supercell / downburst .. The more warm weather the more and stronger thunderstorm/hail/floods events unfortunately .. 

[Gazi Giray]

On 17/08/2019 at 15:58, urban.spaceman said:

Caglar Soyuncu emerges as new cult hero at Leicester City as Harry Maguire replacement

• John Percy

Caglar Soyuncu received a standing ovation from Leicester team-mates in the dressing room following his performance against Wolves Credit: Getty Images

There is a huge tattoo of a lion covering his back, while he has the chiselled jaw one might expect of a Marvel superhero. Çağlar Söyüncü is already proving there is life after ‘Slabhead’.

The Turkish centre-back has swiftly emerged as a new cult hero at Leicester City, just a few weeks after Harry Maguire became the most expensive defender in the world with that £85 million move to Manchester United. 

Maguire’s departure to Old Trafford could have been a daunting scenario for Leicester, a damaging blow to Brendan Rodgers’s hopes of gatecrashing the top six, yet the plan was already in place last year for Söyüncü to be the long-term successor.

Against Wolves last Sunday, in only his fifth Premier League start, the giant defender known as ‘Cags’ seized his opportunity and received a standing ovation from team-mates in the dressing room after the final whistle.

He is poised to face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge this weekend alongside the vastly experienced Jonny Evans, aiming to enhance his reputation further.

 

It is a challenging task for Caglar Soyuncu to fill the boots of Harry Maguire Credit: Getty Images

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“All the players were so happy for him last weekend because it’s not easy to replace someone of Harry’s quality,” Rodgers told Telegraph Sport.

“With Harry going, of course ‘Cags’ is now going to have his chance. He is a modern-day centre-half and there were teams willing to sign him [this summer] if he wasn’t going to play here.

“He was outstanding last weekend and now it’s about sustaining it and showing consistency over the course of the season. He’s a wee bit quirky with his hairdo and everything, and the fans have taken to him.”

It is certainly a challenging task for a 23-year-old to fill the boots of Maguire, a player who transformed his career at Leicester and became a World Cup hero with England, but Söyüncü replacing Maguire was always in the thoughts of Leicester’s recruitment team.

 

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Caglar Soyuncu, game by numbers:

86 touches
71 / 77 passes completed (92% )
5 aerial duels won
3 tackles won
3 clearances#lcfc #LEIWOL @Syncaglar

 

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He made his senior Turkey debut as a teenager and became sought after across Europe during his spell in the Bundesliga with SC Freiburg, where he was watched consistently by Leicester’s scouts for 12 months.

United had been considering a move for Maguire last summer, when Jose Mourinho was still in charge, so Leicester were aware that contingency plans had to be made.

Söyüncü was signed for €20 million last August while another young centre-half, Filip Benković, was signed from Dinamo Zagreb on the same day.

With Benković quickly loaned out to Celtic - then managed by Rodgers - it was, at times, a frustrating season for Söyüncü with Maguire, Evans and Wes Morgan the usual picks at the heart of the back four under first Claude Puel and then Rodgers.

“I spoke to him at the end of last season as he hadn’t played much, but I liked what I’d seen,” said Rodgers.

Harry Maguire left Leicester for Man Utd this summer Credit: Reuters

“I put him in against Huddersfield [on April 6] because I wanted to give Harry a bit of time off to be with his wife and child. He's had that first year where he had to adapt with a lot of players in front of him, but he’d made a great impression.”

United finally completed their protracted pursuit of Maguire on the morning of August 2. It may have been a world record fee for a defender, but Leicester’s stance was purely dictated by market forces, with the £50 million paid out by United to Crystal Palace for Aaron Wan-Bissaka - who made just 46 appearances for the club - reinforcing their position. 

Leicester did consider moves for either Burnley’s James Tarkowski or Bournemouth’s Nathan Ake, who have both been on the radar for some time. 

However, when it became clear that the fees demanded were unrealistic, the original plan to promote Söyüncü fell into place. After last weekend’s man-of-the-match performance against Wolves, it already appears a shrewd move.

Söyüncü’s idols are Carles Puyol and Mats Hummels, and there are easy comparisons with Maguire in that both players possess a wide range of passing and good temperament.

He is low-maintenance, unfailingly polite but with a rock-solid handshake, and “just gets on with the job”. Some Leicester staff have compared him to Marcin Wasilewski, a popular Polish defender from a few years back, and this weekend on the BBC’s Football Focus Ben Chilwell and James Maddison both revealed Söyüncü is under constant scrutiny due to his unique haircut.

There is nothing questionable over his abilities as a player, however, as underlined by the round of applause last Sunday.

Gerry Taggart, the former Leicester defender who now covers games for the club’s TV station, said: “Other ex-Leicester players have put question marks around him but I’ve always been telling people he has something.

“This guy has what it takes. He has been thrown in at the deep end but I think he keeps it simple. He has the ability to see who is in the better position and pulls it off with his passing. He’s been a bit rash in the past but he has many of the same attributes when I was young, and I think he’s given himself a tremendous start.”

Caglar Soyuncu may not appear as new cult hero at Leicester City in next season.  If some latest news in Turkish media is true  , Leicester City is interested in buying CB  Attila Szalai from Fenerbahçe in summer. If so  Leicester will sell Çağs to Liverpool and replace it with Attila Szalai . Turkish media refer Blikk , Magyar/ Hungary Media as a resource of the news. 

 

Blikk Post : 

https://www.blikk.hu/sport/mindent-bele/szalai-attila-leicester-foci/d4hpl33

 

Turkish media : 

https://www.ntvspor.net/futbol/caglar-in-yerine-szalai-60643834708f48d820259b44

https://www.trthaber.com/haber/spor/attila-szalai-icin-leicester-city-iddiasi-569575.html

 

 

 

 

Edited 3 April 2021 by Gazi Giray

[moore_94]

 

[Gazi Giray]

1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

 

very bad news 😟. 

Edited 3 April 2021 by Gazi Giray

[Strokes]

Ffs, time defund FIFA. No need for these shit internationals this season.

[surrifox]

At least he want returned to us with all the tendons torn in his groin like last time . So that’s a positive