Ricardo on the wing

[Haywood_6]

 

51 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Please stop with this Ricardo on the wing nonsense, he's being looked at by the worlds best clubs as a RB, why the hell would we start playing him up the pitch?!

Nuff said.

[Sampson]

Let's be realistic, even if he is "fit" in October time, it will still take him 2 or 3 months to fully recover after that from an ACL injury and his pace may never fully recover to the same level.

 

We're likely not going to be seeing the best of Ricardo until January time either way.

[Jobyfox]

We need a decent winger to play with one of the best RB’s in the Premier League.

 

Not shift him to a position where he doesn’t excel as much and then backfill the position he’s vacated

[Shane]

5 hours ago, HesNotGudjonsonn2 said:

Personally I would love Justin as our right back and Ricardo as the top winger we so want.

What happens next summer if he leaves? We're back to square one with no winger.

 

Keep him at RB and sign a first choice winger asap

[fox_up_north]

Ricardo is one of the best all round right backs in the world. It might be that, to give him minutes on injury return, he comes on for Perez and acts as a defensive wing when we're towards the end of a game. I thought it but FT put me right on it. He started as a RW, retrained as a RB and is comfortable there. 

[l444ry]

If Brendan were to adopt the 3-4-3 system anytime then Ricardo would be the wide man. Can't understand all this play him right back or nowhere nonsense.

[Babylon]

1 hour ago, Muzzy_Larsson said:

Come on people aren't being even half way serious here about playing Riccardo further up on the right and expecting him to play as an inverted winger on his weaker side

He played left back for Nice, Winger before that.... you could put the bloke in goal and he'd probably win player of the season. 

[peach0000]

7 minutes ago, l444ry said:

If Brendan were to adopt the 3-4-3 system anytime then Ricardo would be the wide man. Can't understand all this play him right back or nowhere nonsense.

There's a big difference playing him as a wide man in a three at the back system where defending is still important to playing him as an out and out winger with a defender behind him. We have a genuinely world class full back/wing back we should use him as one.

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

Didn’t mean to start such a discussion. I merely meant I wouldn’t mind it if we didn’t sign a winger. I would prefer we did but if we didn’t then I wouldn’t mind seeing this. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

4 hours ago, Muzzy_Larsson said:

That wouldn't work, for a multitude of reasons.

I'm getting deja vu.

[Foxes BC]

Ricardo will be a greater threat coming from deep and making overlapping runs. He will be marked out otherwise.

[Fox92]

He's the best right full back in the league. Leave him in that position.

[coolhandfox]

Lets just let the bloke get fit first..........

[BraunstoneFox23]

Can’t wait to have him back! We’ve missed him big time. 

[Mawuli]

Ricardo on the wing

Not something I wanna sing

Keep him at right back

Where he can come from deep and attack.

Ohhhhhhh Ricardo

 

 

 

 

[TrentFox]

Ricky. Rickyyyyy P. Rickkky Ppppp on the wing. It just doesn’t scan, does it? Keep him at FB.  

[FoxinNotts]

Why? Why change it. He’s one of the best at what he already does. !

[foxile5]

To add nothing to the discussion but this - I absolutely love Ricardo. He's possibly the best player we've signed since Kante. 

[adam]

Makes sense. One of the best full backs in the league but we have fans who want to play him on the wing! Madness.  I'd much rather we kept him where he is and purchased a winger. 

[Kingleicester]

 No he’s a great left back, why change?

[HankMarvin]

Just now, Kingleicester said:

 No he’s a great left back, why change?

Exactly

[Stadt]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

He's the best right full back in the league. Leave him in that position.

Ricardo's amazing but TAA is on another planet, he scored or assisted 17 goals last season.

[Guest Manini]

Nah 

 

 

Was going to leave it at that but hardly adding to the discussion is it. I think by playing him further up the pitch you take away his available space to attack. Ricardo is so good playing from deep with the space in front of him to exploit. He’s a quality right back and he will continue to be one of the best in Europe in that position when he’s back from injury. 

Edited 2 September 2020 by Manini

[Fox92]

5 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Ricardo's amazing but TAA is on another planet, he scored or assisted 17 goals last season.

haha yeah I'll give you that one.

 

I meant second best*.

[Foxxed]

If we emulate last season and again fail to purchase a proper winger it’s worth a shot but maybe we could buy a winger. It’s not like we don’t have the money, or potential players are worried about being overshadowed by Gray, Albrighton and Diabate. I have a worry that Bren plans on flooding the pitch with wide wing-back in lieu of a proper winger this season, in what would either be a wonderful, or awful, plan. It would certainly give us the element of bewildered surprise.