Kelechi Iheanacho

[volpeazzurro]

On 06/04/2022 at 15:42, frakenfox said:

Being called an enigma is no bad thing and is certainly not a criticism. Personally, I think it kinda endearing. I might shake my head at a Nacho miscontrol or offside but I'm laughing at the same time. It's impossible to not like the guy. It can go in off his backside (and has hasn't it?) for all I care, he gets goals and that's why he's there.

 

That said, if we get a decent offer for him I reckon we'd let him go... now would we get that offer?

 

 

The question is, for the money we got, who could we currently get with the same goal and assists to games ratio. Particularly if they're not given a consistent run in the side or just the odd 20 minutes. 

[Shane]

Played two great balls to put Daka and Barnes through on goal. He’s unlucky not to have two assists tonight.

[Wilfcho]

[splinterdream]

12 minutes ago, Wilfcho said:

I think nacho knows this, he certainly doesn't lack the confidence in games that he used to, let's face it Vardy missed a header today that he should have scored. He's a great player that would be even better with an extra yard of pace 

[JimJams]

Or if his right was for anything more than standing on.

 

Thought he’d turned a corner with that when he bagged his hat trick but seemingly just used up his right foot quota. Mind you if he had 2 feet he’d probably have stayed in Manchester.

[An Sionnach]

Apparently half our squad including Kelechi is not good enough for us but are plenty good enough for other teams. Well if they can't hack it with us they are not going to do it with any other top flight team. Their value then is pretty small so if we want to replace them with better players we have to be thinking of spending about £200 million net. Ridiculous? Of course it is. We are not Man. City. Are we getting the best out of our current squad? No, they can and have done better. Its been a messy , uneven season but with a couple of quality additions , and I don't mean 19 y.o. wannabes , we should be more consistent next season. We must not sell Kelechi , a replacement would be extremely expensive.

[KingsX]

Whatever club picks him up this summer will pick up a lot of goals.

[CrispinLA in Texas]

Great goal.... good to see one of our strikers score. 

It's got to give him confidence for the game on Thursday to score.

[messerschmitt]

On 06/04/2022 at 13:33, Bourbon Fox said:

Agree, however one aspect of his mentality is really strong - he can sit out of the XI for periods, and still deliver even when lacking game time.

 

I'd love to see how his concentration and touch might improve if he was given a decent run but in the circumstances it isn't likely to happen. 

 

We're lucky we have him.

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[blurryface]

Did anyone see him beat his chest over the club badge last night at FT. Dunno why but seeing how much it meant to him that they couldn't do it for us almost set me off. Love him.

[Jabfox]

17 minutes ago, blurryface said:

Did anyone see him beat his chest over the club badge last night at FT. Dunno why but seeing how much it meant to him that they couldn't do it for us almost set me off. Love him.

Really hope we keep him in the summer tbh. 

[melrose]

We really need to improve on him for next season!

[CrispinLA in Texas]

2 hours ago, melrose said:

We really need to improve on him for next season!

And who do you think that would be?

[honeybradger]

1 hour ago, melrose said:

We really need to improve on him for next season!

4 goals 5 assists in 1000 minutes in the league this season, our top scorer last season, scored a vital second goal vs rennes, should have gotten multiply assists over both games against PSV if it wasnt for the poor finishing of barnes and daka. I genuinely dont see how our fans are writing this guy off at all, he delivers for us almost every time he plays, one of the biggest disparities between end product and how much the fans rate him ive ever seen.

[KFS]

I know you lot ****ing love this guy but his actual contribution to the TEAM is honking. He’s erratic and breaks us down in key moments with stupid decisions. I’d rather our support striker is a big ****er who can change our dimension. Sell this guy on a highlight reel that doesn’t include his gaffes please. 

[adam]

1 minute ago, honeybradger said:

4 goals 5 assists in 1000 minutes in the league this season, our top scorer last season, scored a vital second goal vs rennes, should have gotten multiply assists over both games against PSV if it wasnt for the poor finishing of barnes and daka. I genuinely dont see how our fans are writing this guy off at all, he delivers for us almost every time he plays, one of the biggest disparities between end product and how much the fans rate him ive ever seen.

Would you be happy with him starting up front every game next season then as a lone striker?  Brendans only going to play one.  

[CrispinLA in Texas]

It's hard to find a good striker nowadays for sale!, every team bar Liverpool are desperately want one and are need of one.

Even Spurs supporters online last Sunday were saying Iheanacho would be great as an understudy to Kane and on Arsenal fans wouldn't mind him.

Those who say sell for 30m, there isn't many that are available and we don't know if they can adapt to playing in the EPL

Without Iheanacho's we wouldn't have got through to the FA cup final...look at how Mourinho treats Tammy Abraham after he wasn't wanted at Chelsea, and now he's paying Mourinho back with goals

Edited 6 May 2022 by CrispinLA in Texas

[honeybradger]

8 minutes ago, adam said:

Would you be happy with him starting up front every game next season then as a lone striker?  Brendans only going to play one.  

Honestly out of him, Daka and Vardy i would pick iheanacho currently as the lone striker, maybe that will change when/if vardy returns to form from his injury but currently Daka cant find himself on the end of chances because he doesnt have vardy's worldclass movement and vardy isnt getting chances because he doesnt have the pace anymore to make space for him self (on current form, im not writing him off as finished yet). I dont think any of our strikers are currently a good fit for one up top (ive always thought vardy is better in a two but because he's world class he's made it work in a one up top), at least iheanacho has the ability to hold up the ball and bring others into play, with Daka and Vardy alone up top it's like playing with 10 men.

[splinterdream]

playig with a lone striker requires midfielders to be creating chances and scoring goals, that'd be Barnes, Maddison, KDH and Lookman, and between them they're just not offering enough

[UniFox21]

It's one of those where, in the right system he'd be incredible. If we're able to buy a combative RW, he'd be able to drop slightly in and feed both/Maddison or shoot from deeper.  

Him and Maddison flowing through the edge of the box would be difficult to mark, especially with wingers and attacking fullbacks

[Clever Fox]

I thought he was excellent when he came on last night. He only got one decent chance when he tried to curl the ball into the goal but straight into the keepers hands.

But his general play, positioning etc I thought he was excellent.

I still think with a big mobile CF he'd get double figures every season.

[foxile5]

4 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

It's one of those where, in the right system he'd be incredible. If we're able to buy a combative RW, he'd be able to drop slightly in and feed both/Maddison or shoot from deeper.  

Him and Maddison flowing through the edge of the box would be difficult to mark, especially with wingers and attacking fullbacks

This is a solid assessment. 

 

He needs to be built around but the question is whether or not he's the man WE build around. 

[UniFox21]

4 hours ago, foxile5 said:

This is a solid assessment. 

 

He needs to be built around but the question is whether or not he's the man WE build around. 

Not even necessarily built around. Currently we are set up for Vardy, but when he's injured we don't fully change to suit others, and it's time we started to do so

[smudger63]

8 hours ago, Clever Fox said:

I thought he was excellent when he came on last night. He only got one decent chance when he tried to curl the ball into the goal but straight into the keepers hands.

But his general play, positioning etc I thought he was excellent.

I still think with a big mobile CF he'd get double figures every season.

Although when he came on, he does what is obviously natural to him, and dropped more into the number 10 midfield area, which meant that maddison spent even more time out wide, where he is no where near as creative or dangerous, and also meant that we never were playing with 2 up front, which I assumed was the idea of the formation change at half time.

[foxinsocks]

2 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

Not even necessarily built around. Currently we are set up for Vardy, but when he's injured we don't fully change to suit others, and it's time we started to do so

How are we set up for vardy. When he plays only albrighton tries to pass to him