Luke Thomas

[IsItMuzzy]

14 hours ago, Foxxed said:

Made up for the lad.

 

England captain for the u17s

Premier League experience at 18

FA Cup win at 19

Senior England callup at 20

Born in Syston

And made in the Royal Navy

[Jimothy]

12 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

The boy’s from Syston and went to Wreake Valley.

 

He’s already an FA Cup winner and his first senior league goal was a worldie at Old Trafford.

 

Now he’s on the brink of an England call up for a World Cup for a squad and manager who made the semi finals and final of the last two competitions. 
 

He’s literally living MY dream. 

Your dream was to go to Wreake Valley? 

[Sampson]

6 hours ago, Stevosevic said:

He'll go to the world cup. 

 

LB is wide open. He just needs to play for the next 11 months and he'll be in. 

People said the same about how Barnes was 100% going to the Euros, as he was going to dislodge Sterling and that Barnes was a certainty to go to the Euros last summer too. A few good games for a Leicester player and a couple of poor games for established England players and Leicester fans seem to demand that our players should be going to major tournaments for England.

If Chilwell and Shaw are fit I'd be very surprised if he goes in only 11 months time, someone more established like Cresswell as well will be ahead of him very likely, as could well be James Justin from our own club. Good chance that when 2 or 3 of Justin, Ricardo and Castagne are all back fully fit, Thomas won't even be starting for Leicester anymore by then as it is.

Edited 22 January 2022 by Sampson

[Ric Flair]

13 minutes ago, Sampson said:

People said the same about how Barnes was 100% going to the Euros, as he was going to dislodge Sterling and that Barnes was a certainty to go to the Euros last summer too. A few good games for a Leicester player and a couple of poor games for established England players and Leicester fans seem to demand that our players should be going to major tournaments for England.

If Chilwell and Shaw are fit I'd be very surprised if he goes in only 11 months time, someone more established like Cresswell as well will be ahead of him very likely, as could well be James Justin from our own club. Good chance that when 2 or 3 of Justin, Ricardo and Castagne are all back fully fit, Thomas won't even be starting for Leicester anymore by then as it is.

Southgate loves players who have come through the English youth group system. Played pretty much every level and captained a few age groups too. Gareth will be besotted with him.

[Sampson]

7 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Southgate loves players who have come through the English youth group system. Played pretty much every level and captained a few age groups too. Gareth will be besotted with him.

But he already has 2 established left-backs who have done well for England (regardless of Shaw's form this season for club) as well as established right-backs like Walker and Trippier also being capable of playing there and the full-back areas is one where England have been strongest in the past couple of tournaments. not to mention Cresswell has been one of the best creators in the Premier League over the past couple of seasons and has improved massively. Also, let's be honest, Thomas wouldn't even be starting for us right now if our other 3 full-backs were all fully fit.

He's doing well, but saying he will go to the World Cup with certainty seems very presumptuous and very "Leicester" to me, it was exactly the same fans with some fans on here last season with Barnes people saying he would definitely go to the Euros in the summer ahead of Sterling because Sterling was in poor form, despite the fact Sterling had been one of the best attacking players in Europe for the previous 3 seasons.

I'd say there's an outside chance Thomas will go maybe, but it very likely requires at least 2 or 3 other players to be injured.

Edited 22 January 2022 by Sampson

[An Sionnach]

I would say Barnes is our most likely England candidate , he is unlike any other available attacking players. Of course a few goals before the end of the season will help.  When he is running at players he is a genuine danger man with his ability to go either way and outpace defenders. Luke has got a number of years to work on his strength and positional game and then he should get his chance.

[Ric Flair]

22 minutes ago, Sampson said:

But he already has 2 established left-backs who have done well for England (regardless of Shaw's form this season for club) as well as established right-backs like Walker and Trippier also being capable of playing there and the full-back areas is one where England have been strongest in the past couple of tournaments. not to mention Cresswell has been one of the best creators in the Premier League over the past couple of seasons and has improved massively. Also, let's be honest, Thomas wouldn't even be starting for us right now if our other 3 full-backs were all fully fit.

He's doing well, but saying he will go to the World Cup with certainty seems very presumptuous and very "Leicester" to me, it was exactly the same fans with some fans on here last season with Barnes people saying he would definitely go to the Euros in the summer ahead of Sterling because Sterling was in poor form, despite the fact Sterling had been one of the best attacking players in Europe for the previous 3 seasons.

I'd say there's an outside chance Thomas will go maybe, but it very likely requires at least 2 or 3 other players to be injured.

Well as the Telegraph article says, Southgate is set to call him up so its down to Thomas to take his chance. Chilwell is out for several months and Shaw is currently bang out of form so there's a gap opened up. I agree on Cresswell but Southgate doesn't seem overly keen, probably because he's in his 30's.

 

James Justin was in exactly the same position though. I'd Ricardo was fit, he'd not have been first choice and wouldn't have grown to the player he is. Castagne has been dog mess this season and Ricardo is regularly injured so Thomas will have very little trouble continuing his progression in our 1st team. His form these last few months have really been very impressive. He's going to be a great player for us for many years.

[Ric Flair]

3 minutes ago, An Sionnach said:

I would say Barnes is our most likely England candidate , he is unlike any other available attacking players. Of course a few goals before the end of the season will help.  When he is running at players he is a genuine danger man with his ability to go either way and outpace defenders. Luke has got a number of years to work on his strength and positional game and then he should get his chance.

Barnes problem is that left wing spot has several other very talented players vying for it. Left or right back there's not that much choice on form and availability. Maddison may well be hard to ignore once again, he's the standout ACM this season with Gallagher. 

[Sampson]

Maddison is comfortably ahead of any other English player for goal contributions this season. 

He's been hands down the best English attacking player in the league since October and probably the 2nd or 3rd best attacking player in the division after Salah and maybe Jota after his opening poor couple of months.

Maddison absolutely should be in the next England squad, certainly ahead of someone like Gallagher atm and is absolutely our player most in the driving seat to go to the WC right now.

You'd assume Mount would definitely be one of the 2 attacking midfielders likely to go if Southgate sticks to the 4-2-3-1, right now Maddison has to be favourite for that 2nd attacking midfielder place though.

Edit: Sorry quoted the wrong post, was meant to reply to An Sionnach.

Edited 22 January 2022 by Sampson

[majaco]

Thomas has done brilliantly.   But Justin hinted at how far he is ahead of Thomas when he came on against Spurs.

[dannythefox]

Thomas will be better than Chilwell he’s actually got a footballing brain. I’d play him at every time when he’s fit, not many have kept Salah out the games this season and he did. Not surprised he’s been watching him.

[tom27111]

50 appearances in all competitions for Luke today, according to the radio.

 

Hopefully many more to come and he keeps progressing. 

 

 

[ParkerPen]

Did ok again today

[turlo]

Did very well today. Shove your "he needs loan" up your arse

[phoneticerror]

One of his better performances today. Just need to toughen up a little and maybe hit some weights 😂

[Tommy Fresh]

Very good today and good work in the build up to the goal

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Put his body on the line defensively, offensively always going on the over lap and another very promising performance, he'll have games where he's not effective at his age, he's still learning but he's getting better and better and I can't wait to see how good he could be. 

[coolhandfox]

Class today.

[Claridge]

Best performance ive sen from him

 

[Kinowe Soorie]

Shouldn’t have been dropped. One of the few positives this season, along with KDH.

[filbertway]

Luke needs to spend the summer doing leg days with KDH. If he can develop some speed and power in his running he'll be a hell of a player.

 

Easy to forget how young he is because it feels like he's been around for ages now.

[Guest Dirkster the Fox]

Already a Leicester City fan top player.

 

Runs his absolute socks off, all game and has real developing qualities 

 

💪👏👏👏

[Supergray22]

His defensive side is improving all the time. Gets in better positions and times his tackles better. Likewise going forward. He links up particularly well with barnes but also KDH when he plays. Obviously the connection with the development team is paying dividends. 

[moore_94]

Still makes me laugh when people say he needs to go out on loan

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

Was bloody excellent. Well done Luke.