Dennis Praet

[Kinowe Soorie]

He offered very little in my opinion.

[Guest]

Oh no, whatever will we do without him?

[Raw Dykes]

29 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Can’t that be Wes until the new year?

No. Even if you don't count Wes, we still need to leave a couple out to add another. I think we might leave JJ out until January, but we'd still need to leave out one more.

[John rayner]

1 hour ago, Raw Dykes said:

No. Even if you don't count Wes, we still need to leave a couple out to add another. I think we might leave JJ out until January, but we'd still need to leave out one more.

Sad to se praet go ,I thought he offered us a different option 

[adamkhalifa]

I really wanted the guy to succeed here. With KDH in the mix. He has gone down the order. 

Hope we actually get a fee for the guy. 

Praet, must have been real terrible in training. Couldn't get in over Perez and Madders, speaks for itself. 

[iancognito]

Did well when he played, got injured, didn't get back in, even when players were out of form, so he's got to have pi$$ed someone off somewhere. Maybe he had Rodgers in the Secret Santa and gave him a note saying "A new personality". There's no other reason for Perez, Choudhury and at times Mendy to be considered ahead of him.

[Phil Bowman]

1 minute ago, iancognito said:

There's no other reason for Perez, Choudhury and at times Mendy to be considered ahead of him.

I’d have happily seen him play in Perez’s position. Choudhury and Mendy do completely different jobs to Praet though.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

1 minute ago, Phil Bowman said:

I’d have happily seen him play in Perez’s position. Choudhury and Mendy do completely different jobs to Praet though.

He's not really a wide attacker either though. Nor is he a 10, so those saying he should be in ahead of Maddison are wrong imho. He's most suited to the Tielemans role, and as we know if Tielemans is fit and available (as he always seems to be) he's first name on the teamsheet. That really leaves nowhere for Praet to play.

[majaco]

We can only have 25 I the squad!   Praet's good but Rodgers doesn't use him.

 

The squad needs more balance

[Tom12345]

5 hours ago, Viva said:

I certainly won’t be crying about Praet going. Didn’t have much of an impact here, so best to move on and try someone else. 

Only because Rodgers stubbornly did not play him. You seemed to have forgotten that we played really well with him in the squad first half of last season. Our collapse sort of coincided when he lost his place to Maddison when the later came back.  A great player that is under-appreciated. He makes clever runs to create space for others. He positioning is excellent and complements Tielemans really well and combined well with Castagne. He makes others look better. He is in the best national team in the World. He was doing great before coming here. He will do well after he leaves us. Our loss (and he deserves better than Torino but guess he is desperate). Just like Gray but Praet is a much better player.  

Edited 30 August 2021 by Tom12345

[Viva]

21 minutes ago, Tom12345 said:

Only because Rodgers stubbornly did not play him. You seemed to have forgotten that we played really well with him in the squad first half of last season. Our collapse sort of coincided when he lost his place to Maddison when the later came back.  A great player that is under-appreciated. He makes clever runs to create space for others. He positioning is excellent and complements Tielemans really well and combined well with Castagne. He makes others look better. He is in the best national team in the World. He was doing great before coming here. He will do well after he leaves us. Our loss (and he deserves better than Torino but guess he is desperate). Just like Gray but Praet is a much better player.  

You say he deserves better than Torino. Do you not consider for a minute why a better club hasn’t picked him up on the cheap? Have all the other clubs missed something too? 
The fact that he hasn’t played much even when we were struggling is all you need to know really. Rodgers would not just drop a player to be stubborn. Especially if it would cost us a top 4. 
It’s so easy to bring up Gray after he has a couple of good matches. He wasn’t good enough for us and needed to go. Whether Gray or Praet go onto better things doesn’t bother me slightly. They both needed to move on from here. 

Edited 30 August 2021 by Viva

[sacreblueits442]

1 hour ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

He's not really a wide attacker either though. Nor is he a 10, so those saying he should be in ahead of Maddison are wrong imho. He's most suited to the Tielemans role, and as we know if Tielemans is fit and available (as he always seems to be) he's first name on the teamsheet. That really leaves nowhere for Praet to play.

...we have played with two #8s before, that is his best position, we just do not play that formation enough for him to be retained!!!

[Buzzell]

4 hours ago, Kinowe Soorie said:

He offered very little in my opinion.

I think the problem with him was that we could never really fit him within the team anyway. Ndidi and Tielemans will never be dropped, as long as they are both fit, as they are too instrumental for the team.

Could see him doing well if he was given the game time, he’s not a bad player. Good luck to him.

 

Also hope you’re well Mark 

[SHANE_]

If he’s as good as some of our fans think why  don’t want one of the top Italian teams want him for a cheap fee? 

Edited 30 August 2021 by SHANE_

[hackneyfox]

He hasn’t actually played that many games for Belgium. Some people talking as if he’s the first name on the team sheet.

[SHANE_]

Just now, hackneyfox said:

He hasn’t actually played that many games for Belgium. Some people talking as if he’s the first name on the team sheet.

They have little depth . Players like Chadli has 66 caps  who last English   club was West Brom 

[Babylon]

Praet is a good player, but a bit like Perez he doesn’t really have one or two particular traits that you look at and say “that’s what he adds”. Seems Rodgers is a fan of those players. 

[NasPb]

3 minutes ago, Babylon said:

Praet is a good player, but a bit like Perez he doesn’t really have one or two particular traits that you look at and say “that’s what he adds”. Seems Rodgers is a fan of those players. 

Disrespectful to praet he's miles better than Pérez. Deserved better treatment here. Rodgers made a mistake without a doubt 

[FoxinNotts]

Squad weaker without him. Good player, don’t want him to go. I don’t get it. 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Just now, NasPb said:

Disrespectful to praet he's miles better than Pérez. Deserved better treatment here. Rodgers made a mistake without a doubt 

With all due respect that is damning with faint praise. The fact is neither Perez or Praet have what we should be looking for in an attacking wide player.

[Jimmy]

6 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

By my reckoning we need Mendy gone as well to name a new winger in the EL squad. PL squad we'd be able to register a new one now Praet has gone I think?

we could always just not name Mendy in the EL squad if he stays

[Kinowe Soorie]

2 hours ago, buzzer_b said:

I think the problem with him was that we could never really fit him within the team anyway. Ndidi and Tielemans will never be dropped, as long as they are both fit, as they are too instrumental for the team.

Could see him doing well if he was given the game time, he’s not a bad player. Good luck to him.

 

Also hope you’re well Mark 

Very true, but reminded me of how Andy King could be anonymous in games.

Hope you are well too!

[UHDrive]

Praet is a technically sound guy, great vision for through balls, good in tight spaces and can run all day. I think the right wing worked a lot better with him in the team and he had a commanding presence too. Shame, but for his sake he needs game time.

[Babylon]

2 hours ago, NasPb said:

Disrespectful to praet he's miles better than Pérez. Deserved better treatment here. Rodgers made a mistake without a doubt 

Did you even read what I wrote. 

[Sampson]

5 hours ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

He's not really a wide attacker either though. Nor is he a 10, so those saying he should be in ahead of Maddison are wrong imho. He's most suited to the Tielemans role, and as we know if Tielemans is fit and available (as he always seems to be) he's first name on the teamsheet. That really leaves nowhere for Praet to play.

But the best football we played last season was in October/November time when Praet and Tielemans were both playing in a 4-3-3 and both those 2 and Castagne were all linking up really well.

He was really starting to fulfill his potential (and bringing the best of Tielemans), then Maddison came back, Praet got injured and never got back in the side.

I remember the debates around Christmas last year that Tielemans and Maddison couldn't play together and Tielemans looked so much better alongside Praet.

With Maddison's form at the tail end of last season and the start of this season, Praet should've been starting. But for whatever reason, once Maddison came back, Rodger just didn't give him the same run in the side.