Leicester progression

[Fox92 11,733]

1 minute ago, when_you're_smiling said:

The other thing with Kasper, as we heard last night, is he’s a f@@@@@g leader.

 

Think his general professionalism, willingness to win and attitude are all pretty important in the dressing room and that would be difficult to replace, especially without Big Wes and Fuchs. I’ll forgive him a few dodgy kicks if he’s setting the tone in a fairly young dressing room with his 10 years of experience at the club. 

Good point.

[Chocolate Teapot 3,870]

17 minutes ago, Steve Earle said:

I’m sure you don’t find it baffling @Abrasive fox ? It’s not just me and we now have a thread on Kasper’s kicking. 
 

He made some great saves against both Liverpool & Braga, but his distribution and reluctance (refusal?) to come for crosses cost us goals in both games.

 

I acknowledge that our midfield was hopelessly outplayed in Braga until Tielemans came on.

 

He’s a legend and I don’t want him gone any time soon. But. But there are reasons no team bigger than us have ever tried to sign him, and those reasons are being laid bare match by match.

What a weird view. Plenty of bigger clubs have tried to sign him. Liverpool and Chelsea for 2 - we wanted too much money.

[Stadt 13,153]

Why is Barnes held to a higher standard than the rest of our players? His finishing isn't great but has he actually missed a sitter this season? There's a few efforts where he's stuck it straight at the keeper but there's not one that stands out to me any other player (Vardy aside) would have scored. In the league he's underperforming his xG by 0.6 (2.6 xG, 2 goals) but that's an accumulation of missing low-is quality chances imo.

[Costock_Fox 11,855]

5 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Why is Barnes held to a higher standard than the rest of our players? His finishing isn't great but has he actually missed a sitter this season? There's a few efforts where he's stuck it straight at the keeper but there's not one that stands out to me any other player (Vardy aside) would have scored. In the league he's underperforming his xG by 0.6 (2.6 xG, 2 goals) but that's an accumulation of missing low-is quality chances imo.

I get your point but I guess that opinion is based on a longer period, what was his XG performance last season?

[Steve Earle 1,143]

25 minutes ago, Abrasive fox said:

What a weird view. Plenty of bigger clubs have tried to sign him. Liverpool and Chelsea for 2 - we wanted too much money.

I didn’t know that, nor have I heard any such rumours?

No way would a ‘big 6’ club go for Kasper now given the skills required at that level. Well that’s my view anyway!

[kyleolly 905]

4 hours ago, coolhandfox said:

Which would cost us 30-40m, no chance we are doing that when we will be looking for a long term successor's to Vardy, which is probably going to cost the same.

Yeah no way we would ever spend £60m-£80m 

[Dahnsouff 5,691]

There is zero chance we find a like for like successor to Vardy.
In my utterly unfounded opinion, we can’t nor should we try. We just have to look to change tactically to accommodate his loss.

Edited 27 November 2020 by Dahnsouff

[Gillies Apprentice 118]

2 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

There is zero chance we find a like for like successor to Vardy.
In my utterly unfounded opinion, we can’t nor should we try. We just have to look to change tactically to accommodate his loss.

Absolutely right - we tried to replace Emile Heskey like for like and got Ade Akinbiyi 

[Stadt 13,153]

26 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

I get your point but I guess that opinion is based on a longer period, what was his XG performance last season?

6 goals from 8.7xG in the league. Typically 1 on 1s are scored at a lower rate than people think

[mozartfox 5,256]

9 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

No matter how many times you refer to him as 'Tarkdonkey', I'm willing to bet a small wager that nobody finds it funny.

Unlike you of course who everyone thinks is hilarious

[mozartfox 5,256]

1 minute ago, mozartfox said:

Unlike you of course who many thinks of as hilarious

 

[Costock_Fox 11,855]

16 minutes ago, Stadt said:

6 goals from 8.7xG in the league. Typically 1 on 1s are scored at a lower rate than people think

I’m shocked by that, he missed some sitters haha.

 

Big fan of his and he’s the best talent that’s come from our youth team in a long time, if he sorts his finishing out he’s a hell of a player.

[foxpleasure 452]

9 hours ago, danny. said:

Is this Kelletzi Iyahnatcha who plays for BT Sport’s version of Leicester?

I'm sure he only calls him that to allow his pronunciation of Fuchs.

[AjcW 5,533]

1 hour ago, Abrasive fox said:

Find this view baffling given kasper has kept us in both the last games.

 

People moaning about his distribution need to realise we had an entire midfield avoiding the ball which didn't help.

How do you avoid a ball that ends up closer to the press box than the centre circle? 

[foxestalkisfullofidiots 340]

Personally I can imagine Kasper is a massive part of the club and the dressing room but his distribution is awful and in reality you could upgrade on Kasper

 

It would take a brave manager to do it

[foxestalkisfullofidiots 340]

19 minutes ago, AjcW said:

How do you avoid a ball that ends up closer to the press box than the centre circle? 

Yep pretty sure the midfield can do owt with the ball once it goes out of play 

[ParkerPen 252]

56 minutes ago, Gillies Apprentice said:

Absolutely right - we tried to replace Emile Heskey like for like and got Ade Akinbiyi 

tricky Trev is ignoring your barbs 

[UpTheLeagueFox 10,312]

Kasper is a terrific goalkeeper.

He makes some errors, some of which occasionally lead to goals, but I daresay he makes fewer errors per game than most of his team mates.

And when it comes to positive moments (ie the big saves etc) I suspect he has more important moments per game than most of his team mates.

If there's an upgrade within our budgets, fantastic.

But real top drawer goalkeepers (ie those significantly better than KS) are more likely to head to bigger clubs than us worldwide right now.

 

I'm not saying we should 'know our place' but we should measure our expectations appropriately.

[Leicester_Loyal 5,363]

1 hour ago, Abrasive fox said:

What a weird view. Plenty of bigger clubs have tried to sign him. Liverpool and Chelsea for 2 - we wanted too much money.

When did they want him? I don't remember hearing about any of this!

 

Genuine question btw, although if you can't say too much I understand.

[Corky 13,534]

To get a keeper of a much better quality will cost a serious amount and I think the money is better spent elsewhere. 

[murphy 6,777]

Some of the characters in this team I would rather keep even if there was a better option available.  Schmeichel is one of those.  

[murphy 6,777]

3 hours ago, nnickn said:

Doubt very much he gets a regular spot, when the squad is back to full fitness.

We are waiting on Soyuncu, Wilf, Amartey, Ricardo and Castagne.  Which of those do you think is going to take Barnes' spot?

 

He is one of the first names on the team sheet for me and only going to get better.  Weird that you're so down on him. 

[HighPeakFox 11,397]

1 hour ago, mozartfox said:

Unlike you of course who everyone thinks is hilarious

When I aim to be funny, I am. 

[mozartfox 5,256]

2 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

When I aim to be funny, I am. 

Yes of course you are👌👍. So sorry.

[coolhandfox 3,019]

13 hours ago, kyleolly said:

Yeah no way we would ever spend £60m-£80m 

We would but only after selling a one of our better players, like Maddison or Tielemans

 

If that happen you want them to use the money to replace Kasper?