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An Away Move

Tielemans rank in Leicester’s all-time CM list?

By An Away Move, in Leicester City Forum

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shen

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11 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Don't remember Kante ever doing this...

 

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As awesome as that was can you hand on heart say it beats winning the PL?
As a standout moment and direct contribution in a one-off game, Tielemans' goal takes some beating, I'll give you that.

Cincinnati Fox

Cincinnati Fox

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3 hours ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

Which makes sense because football was created in 1992.

Leicester have never been as successful as the last 6 years, so that would suggest our players are currently better than anything pre 1992.

Guest ttfn

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2 hours ago, shen said:

As awesome as that was can you hand on heart say it beats winning the PL?
As a standout moment and direct contribution in a one-off game, Tielemans' goal takes some beating, I'll give you that.

Winning the league was brilliant but Tielemans’ goal in the FA Cup Final was the best moment I’ve ever had in sport and I suspect I’m not alone in that regard. Not only was it the winning goal in an FA Cup Final, it was an absolute Roy of the Rovers moment as our best player scored an absolutely textbook 30 yard screamer.

 

I always thought the way we won the league was very anti-climactic. Not that it matters of course. 

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murphy

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1 hour ago, shen said:

Andy King not even getting an honourable mention despite being our top scoring CM of all time is a bit harsh

Not harsh, just absent minded.  Andy King gets a mention in dispatches. 

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Sampson

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32 minutes ago, DanNDH88 said:

Tielemans easy.. Drinkwater doesn’t come close 

A lot of Leicester fans are very harsh on Drinkwater retrospectively, because of the way he left the club. Drinkwater should absolutely be in this conversation.

To me, it is definitely still Kante. Although I think Tielemans has firmly lodged himself into 2nd place now.

For all the people saying "Kante only had 1 amazing season", I'd argue that is still ultimately true about Tielemans, who was great for the half season he first game, but was pretty inconsistent in his first full season, before being great last season.

Then the next level down you have Drinkwater, Ndidi, Lennon and Izzet (Cambiasso was also great but I'd put him the next level down) - I think it's a perfectly fair argument to say that Drinkwater was the best of those, taking away all the nostalgia of the 90s players and the dislike people have of Drinkwater for how he left.

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Sampson

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3 hours ago, dayday said:

I was surprised Gary McAllister didn’t get a mention to you said, as Gordon Lee once said McAllister was like a Rolls Royce, he had everything 

Gary Mac is an interesting one, because he was the stand out player in some of the worst sides in the club's history.

He was great in a side that played some of the most dire, forgettable football, kicking around the bottom half of the Second Division and even though he stood out, you cannot say he controlled games or ran games when we were losing to losing to Oldham and Port Vale every other week in the bottom half of the second division under Pleat.

He went on to have a fantastic career and developed into a fantastic player for Leeds, Liverpool and Coventry, but I do wonder if he hadn't have gone on to become a great player later on, he would just be remembered as a good Leicester player for where we were at at the time, similar to Mike Newell who was also one of the stand outs of that team is.

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MarriedaLeicesterGirl

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2 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

I feel more love and warmth for Tielemans than Kante, and that's not taking anything away from what the little maestro did in 15/16.

PS. Cambiasso not even in the equation

I was sitting four rows behind the Starman last night (a short holiday from the Family Stand). When he came up and sat down everyone started applauding. He turned, smiled, made a hand signal and sat down (to his phone, wish my eyesight was better.) But it was utterly charming.

 

Oh, and Drinkwater isn't fit to tie his shoes. Seriously, what are people smoking?

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An Sionnach

An Sionnach

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Maddison has more goals and the same assists in twenty more matches. Youri is better on tackles and interceptions of course. We all know stats are damn lies but on that basis DeBrunye is miles ahead. Having said that it is quite possible Tielemans could get close in the next six years but probably not with us.

Steve Earle

Steve Earle

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3 hours ago, OLD norfox said:

This is a tough one, but my call is about who can affect the result of å game alone, and then my priority is :

 

1) Kante

2) Tielemans

3) Weller

 

:scarf:

 

 

The legend that was Keith Weller wasn’t primarily a CM.

Gets into my all time XI easily enough, but not there!

Kinowe Soorie

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14 minutes ago, MarriedaLeicesterGirl said:

I was sitting four rows behind the Starman last night (a short holiday from the Family Stand). When he came up and sat down everyone started applauding. He turned, smiled, made a hand signal and sat down (to his phone, wish my eyesight was better.) But it was utterly charming.

 

Oh, and Drinkwater isn't fit to tie his shoes. Seriously, what are people smoking?

Grown up argument that.

Fox92

Fox92

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32 minutes ago, MarriedaLeicesterGirl said:

I was sitting four rows behind the Starman last night (a short holiday from the Family Stand). When he came up and sat down everyone started applauding. He turned, smiled, made a hand signal and sat down (to his phone, wish my eyesight was better.) But it was utterly charming.

 

Oh, and Drinkwater isn't fit to tie his shoes. Seriously, what are people smoking?

Tielemans obviously is better than Drinkwater, no doubting it in terms of ability and influence, but people forget how good Drinkwater actually was. 

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