Patson Daka

[Richmondfox]

7 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

I’ve said it before but look at the thread when he signed. Everyone was buzzing. Nobody was saying it was anything other than a great signing of a young striker who was scoring for fun in a decent/good (not top 5/6) European league.

 

The problem as always, comes back our good old Rudders and ‘the deal’. Between the fee (on the high side for the Austrian league) and the wages (hugely over inflated), the circumstances were set to struggle to move him on.

 

As @shensays, there is more to it than a player (any player really) being just a terrible footballer. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. His output in the first couple of seasons was ok for a young striker coming to a new league and culture.
 

The difference is, most clubs would have had the ability to move the player on when things didn’t kick on and he started to struggle. And you’d just move on. I guess more like us with Kramaric going back. Maybe if Kramaric has stayed for years after he did, we’d have had similar conversations as he likely would have declined after initially not kicking on. 

Anyone who thinks that what has followed is purely about a lack of ability and not a completely mentally broken player is failing to look at the situation in a balanced manner. I will add that mentally broken players or ones who have no confidence are no good to us. We need the mentality we saw in the Pearson era.

The excitement because of his scoring figures overlooked any actual due diligence on my part.  I’ve only just looked back at the games he scored in.  While the over all goal tally was impressive, they were battering everyone 5/6/7 - 0 on the reg.  The league was like if a full strength Man City played peak Marti City every week. 
 

I’m more of a competence breeds confidence person. He should’ve been feeling confident after a club rewards him 

 

He was found out for being not that good against better opponents, stagnated and become even worse while others like KDH, Fatawu, Ndidi even my most hated player JV used strengths to play their part.

Edited 27 March by Richmondfox

[shen]

2 hours ago, Blue.Fox84 said:

Crazy to me people still want him playing and defend him, all because he runs around 🤣

 

No strength, no awareness, horrendous first touch and shocking in front of goal on a ridiculously (and overpriced) high wage. The bar of expectation is so low, you can find lads in non-league who can give you more on a fraction you pay for Daka. We knew we had no strikers going into the season (poor by the club), it’s obvious Daka and Ayew don’t work, an alternative system or player needs to be found - Mavididi (just as poor but looked okay in central area a few weeks ago tbf), a young lad like Hutchinson or a different system. We’ll be lucky if we get more than 1 goal from Daka till the end of the season 

He's not good enough, nobody needs reminding of it or disagrees with this.

This doesn't equate to Hutchinson or whoever "not being worse". We've plenty of very current examples of how our academy players aren't the saviour.

We cannot buy any players outside the window, so we're stuck with what he have. It's pretty simple, it's not "crazy". He's the lesser of two evils between him and Ayew.

 

Absolutely NOBODY is defending or excusing him, including myself.

But you'd think that on an online Leicester City fan forum thread about PATSON DAKA, that one can discuss finer nuances of his time here rather than just have X repeating posts that he's "crap".

[shen]

4 minutes ago, Richmondfox said:

The excitement because of his scoring figures overlooked any actual due diligence on my part.  I’ve only just looked back at the games he scored in.  While the over all goal tally was impressive, they were battering everyone 5/6/7 - 0 on the reg.  The league was like if a full strength Man City played peak Marti City every week. 
 

I’m more of a competence breeds confidence person. He should’ve been feeling confident after a club rewards him 

 

He was found out for being not that good against better opponents, stagnated and become even worse while others like KDH, Fatawu, Ndidi even my most hated player JV used strengths to play their part.

Fair points that I don't disagree with.

I would say that he followed Haaland, the most hyped player at the time, and had similar or better strike rates. It's an understandable trap. But I find it completely fair to criticise the recruitment/management staff for not identifying the flaws (or if they did and still pursued with the transfer). 

[sm1]

He's a world away from the player who scored 60+ goals in 2 seasons, or the one that got 4 against Moscow. The player who instinctively moved into space and took his goals has completely gone. Now he's static, hiding behind defenders and if he is given a chance, you expect him to scuff his shot and miss. It reminds me of Red Dwarf, when the cat changes into Dwayne Dibley.

[JimJams]

14 hours ago, murphy said:

Somehow, for me, Perez was an even worse signing than Daka. 

 

13 hours ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

Sorry but Perez was a much better signing.

You can make arguments for either.  Perez was a better player, but signing?

There's two very different scenarios there.  One player putting in frankly incredible numbers, albeit in an inferior league, with interest from other top European clubs and bought at a price that was pretty much unanimously seen as value at the time.  On the face of it, it's a gamble, but not a massively expensive one, but the upsides meant potentially signing a player whose value increases quite drastically.  We also needed a successor to Vardy.

Perez on the other hand had been in England for years.  Most people would have had a decent idea of his ceiling and he was most certainly not a £30mill player.  So we were overpaying for the underwhelming (which has since become a trend).  In a similar vein to other players we paid the literal height of his value (and then some), meaning we were onto a loss from the minute the signing took place.  We also didn't need Perez.  We didn't play a second striker which is his best position, so why not lump £30mill on a RW?  Signing Perez was an expensive extravagance we couldn't really afford to do.  He was the equivalent of a Borini or Aspas signing, but where at Liverpool they were players who were brought in that didn't really fit and weren't the required level, they also didn't take up the brunt of Liverpools transfer spend.  I didn't mind Ayoze, he did his job and linked up well with Riccy when he was fit.  He was kind of shoehorned in though.  And you can look at that in two ways.  On one hand you can say he wasn't played in his proper position often enough and so that doesn't make him a bad signing (moreover player) but on the other you could say that he shouldn't have been signed at all, especially for a small fortune, knowing he won't get to play his preferred position.

[LCFCJohn]

2 hours ago, Richmondfox said:

The excitement because of his scoring figures overlooked any actual due diligence on my part.  I’ve only just looked back at the games he scored in.  While the over all goal tally was impressive, they were battering everyone 5/6/7 - 0 on the reg.  The league was like if a full strength Man City played peak Marti City every week. 
 

I’m more of a competence breeds confidence person. He should’ve been feeling confident after a club rewards him 

 

He was found out for being not that good against better opponents, stagnated and become even worse while others like KDH, Fatawu, Ndidi even my most hated player JV used strengths to play their part.

I agree.

 

But not being good enough for the PL doesn’t automatically make you a terrible player. A very small proportion of even progressional footballers will make it in the PL. It’s still the best league in the world in terms of depth. 
 

I tend to think he was brought here, was always second fiddle behind Vardy (of course) and completely the opposite of the style the club were going for (goes back to the due diligence point). Even Vardy often struggled. From there, I think the confidence and mentality just eroded away and past the point of any return. Even to the point where he hasn’t been up to it at this level. 
 

We agree about the issues here I’m sure. Due diligence and ‘Jon’s deals’. Weirdly, in a parallel existence, he gets moved on after a year or 2, rediscovers his form and make a decent career for himself. Even in this existence, we as a club would still have spiralled to where we are but I could imagine a scenario where had he moved on, people would have brought his name up (like with Kramaric) during our spiral…

[Blue.Fox84]

2 hours ago, shen said:

He's not good enough, nobody needs reminding of it or disagrees with this.

This doesn't equate to Hutchinson or whoever "not being worse". We've plenty of very current examples of how our academy players aren't the saviour.

We cannot buy any players outside the window, so we're stuck with what he have. It's pretty simple, it's not "crazy". He's the lesser of two evils between him and Ayew.

 

Absolutely NOBODY is defending or excusing him, including myself.

But you'd think that on an online Leicester City fan forum thread about PATSON DAKA, that one can discuss finer nuances of his time here rather than just have X repeating posts that he's "crap".

The lad is awful, thats literally it. He’s a runner and not a footballer

 

Part of the reason why people discuss alternatives is because it’s either him or Ayew who is playing and it’s clearly not working with either. 
 

So because some of our academy products ‘havent been the saviours’ we should over-look any other lad, especially in a position we are light and also very poor! 🤣 

 

CF’s run a lot on confidence/belief - Daka looks completely shot of it, if you’ve got a lad banging in goals elsewhere and he’s old enough, give him his chance. The worst Thats going to happen is he’s going to be bullied off the ball - which we’re getting from Daka anyways 🤣

[Aleksz]

I see we’re debating how effective Patson Daka is, a couple of days into the international break, on to the next thread 

[UniFox21]

He'll be let go on a free, another waste of money 

 

 

[BKLFox]

That's gr8 n all but now i won't sleep until Percy sends 1 out about he who i won't mention

[South Shire Fox]

1 hour ago, BKLFox said:

That's gr8 n all but now i won't sleep until Percy sends 1 out about he who i won't mention

You just know the club will offer him another contract

[J.Lisemore]

16 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

He'll be let go on a free, another waste of money 

 

 

Think we all knew what was coming to be fair, hardly an exclusive that he’s gone in the summer. Good luck to him in the remaining games, he’s gonna need it. 

[OntarioFox]

On 27/03/2026 at 08:16, OntarioFox said:

Rudkin has put a clause in his contract that he gets a four year extension on £60k a week if the Foxestalk thread makes 200 pages.

YOU ALL COLLECTIVELY DID THIS

[HarryDee8]

Best striker in the division 😎

[don_danbury]

holy sh!t! what a player 

[Collymore]

That Maradona touch on 19 mins. "A broken calendar is amazing once a year" comes to mind 😂

Edited 3 April by Collymore

[Collymore]

Daka has done enough in his last 2 games to fully justify playing him full time and moving Ayew into the shadows. 

[Collymore]

13 minutes ago, Collymore said:

That Maradona touch on 19 mins. "A broken calendar is amazing once a year" comes to mind 😂

Daka's second amazing touch on 33 mins to pull it down and shoot!

 

Even a broken calendar amazing twice a year in 'Back to the Future'? 🤷‍♂️

[Manc Fox J]

I've seen enough this afternoon, 5 more years!! 

[Oshhhh]

That's when daka can finish when he don't gotta think 

[Hales]

Daka MOTM today

Didnt stop running!

[Silverfox14]

Really good finish on second….looked confident at least

[SecretPro]

Does make me wonder how many he might have had if we had started him as our number 9 at the start of the season rather than that fkin decrepit potato.

[Guest]

Two well-taken, opportunistic goals, some nice touches on the ball and a big shift off it considering he was playing in Argentina on Wednesday morning. Looked gutted sat on the bench at the end, hopefully he's not injured because we absolutely cannot afford to be starting Ayew and Rowett obviously has no intention of playing anyone else there.

[The Doctor]

gifted the chances but still a lot of work to do in each. confidence will be right up, has to play every minute he's fit for, because if he's on the pitch for me he gets a hattrick with that cross flashed across moments after he came off that Ayew didn't even more for