The players Rodgers got rid of.

[Sly]

So self explanatory title, I’ll leave out the ones that we sold for big money and wanted to go on to bigger and better things. 
 

Would any of these, have helped our plight this season:

 

Ayoze Perez - Loaned out

Mark Albrighton - Loaned out

George Hurst - Loaned out

Hamza Choudhury - Loaned out

Kasper Schmeichel - £1.0m

Eldin Jakupovic - £0

Filip Benkovic - £0

 

Also ….

Rachid Ghezzel - £3.0m

Demari Gray - £1.00m

 

For me neither are worse than Teté! 

 

[Kilworthfox]

Schmeichel and Albrighton. 

[Tielemans63]

Kasper is the obvious one. I really don't think we'd be in this position with a man of his leadership qualities as captain.

 

The rest.....maybe Sharky, but nah.

[Bettsj2]

Given the amount of dogshit we've had on that right wing, letting Gray go looks like a really pointless exercise.

 

Apart from that, the only one really is Kasper.  That first 10 games where Ward was waging a culture war of his own against the art of goalkeeping, if Kasper was between the sticks, I think we'd have been comfortably mid-table.

[The Year Of The Fox]

Kasper- we wouldn’t have even needed him on the pitch, just at the club, to keep us out the bottom 3. He saw through Brendern and Brendern knew it 

Edited 16 May 2023 by The Year Of The Fox

[StanSP]

Schmeichel, million per cent. 

 

This team needed it's leaders. We got rid of the main one. Amateur. 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Lookman would have been a handy addition but I sensed BR never rated him for some reason.

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

In any other situation I wouldn’t say this, but I think Hamza might added some bite and fight in the middle of the park in recent months.

[TJQuik]

Schmeichel, Albrighton and Hamza. The main issue with most of these is the recruitment though. We had to ship out a few to make room.

[Gamble92]

2 minutes ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

In any other situation I wouldn’t say this, but I think Hamza might added some bite and fight in the middle of the park in recent months.

He definitely wouldn't have played any worse than Ndidi or Soumare 

[bmt]

3 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Schmeichel, million per cent. 

 

This team needed it's leaders. We got rid of the main one. Amateur. 

This. Pathetic rather than amateur. 

[Guest]

Schmeichel without a doubt. Aside from whatever he offered off the pitch he's simply a much better player than Ward and Iversen.

 

The rest I don't think would have made much if any impact. Allowing two wingers to leave in January was pretty thick but I can't honestly say I believe we'd be any better off with either Albrighton or Perez still here, although if the latter had got his customary goal against Southampton maybe we would.

[Gamble92]

I do wonder whether the Kasper situation is as black and white as we think it would have been.

 

Don't get me wrong, I completely agree. Better leader, better player. No doubt whatsoever.

But if we remember he went to Nice and got absolutely slaughtered for being overweight and terrible. In a much worse league.

 

If he stayed, would there would have been the same level of performance and maybe the fingered pointed at him for it? Obviously all theory but it's easy to say after knowing now how bad Ward was. The Kasper thread was already clammering for us to look at new goalkeepers or give Ward a go.

 

But I still think the idiots at the club seen this as one of the least risky of their "calculated" risks in the summer. One of many that failed spectacularly. Even if the above did happen, it wouldn't have been anything like as bad as Ward for 28 games.

[TheLittleBigMan]

What would have helped the most was not getting rid of the entire squads confidence. 

[Sunbury Fox]

5 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

I do wonder whether the Kasper situation is as black and white as we think it would have been.

 

Don't get me wrong, I completely agree. Better leader, better player. No doubt whatsoever.

But if we remember he went to Nice and got absolutely slaughtered for being overweight and terrible. In a much worse league.

 

If he stayed, would there would have been the same level of performance and maybe the fingered pointed at him for it? Obviously all theory but it's easy to say after knowing now how bad Ward was. The Kasper thread was already clammering for us to look at new goalkeepers or give Ward a go.

 

But I still think the idiots at the club seen this as one of the least risky of their "calculated" risks in the summer. One of many that failed spectacularly. Even if the above did happen, it wouldn't have been anything like as bad as Ward for 28 games.

After a poor start Kasper is now doing brilliantly at Nice. Ridiculous that he was allowed to leave without a proper replacement being brought in. 

[davieG]

Soyuncu.

[Kettering Fox]

Schmeichel without a doubt!

You don’t let your keeper go without a replacement lined up whatever the circumstances. It’s the one position you can’t take a chance on

[FoxTimmy2]

3 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

I do wonder whether the Kasper situation is as black and white as we think it would have been.

 

Don't get me wrong, I completely agree. Better leader, better player. No doubt whatsoever.

But if we remember he went to Nice and got absolutely slaughtered for being overweight and terrible. In a much worse league.

 

If he stayed, would there would have been the same level of performance and maybe the fingered pointed at him for it? Obviously all theory but it's easy to say after knowing now how bad Ward was. The Kasper thread was already clammering for us to look at new goalkeepers or give Ward a go.

 

But I still think the idiots at the club seen this as one of the least risky of their "calculated" risks in the summer. One of many that failed spectacularly. Even if the above did happen, it wouldn't have been anything like as bad as Ward for 28 games.

After a challenging start at Nice, Kasper eventually established himself as one of the top-performing goalkeepers in Ligue 1 (statistically), significantly surpassing Lafont, whom the club had been considering signing during the transfer window.

A recent article specifically lauded Kasper for his remarkable knack for securing crucial points in the dying moments of matches for Nice this season. But no worries, Im sure one our comical goalkeepers are all set to achieve that for us in the upcoming season.

[SK3Blue]

Schmeichel and Albrighton. 

 

Albrighton gives us something defensively, and still offers more than Tete (mind you, who doesn't) gives 100% too. 

 

Not sure on Hamza, but could be no worse than Soumare or Ndidi. 

 

 

[foxsake]

5 hours ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Lookman would have been a handy addition but I sensed BR never rated him for some reason.

He was great, exactly the kind of player you need to step up and make things happen when the chips are down. I loved his endeavour. Absolutely criminal that we didn't snap him up after the loan period ended.

[Gamble92]

1 hour ago, FoxTimmy2 said:

After a challenging start at Nice, Kasper eventually established himself as one of the top-performing goalkeepers in Ligue 1 (statistically), significantly surpassing Lafont, whom the club had been considering signing during the transfer window.

A recent article specifically lauded Kasper for his remarkable knack for securing crucial points in the dying moments of matches for Nice this season. But no worries, Im sure one our comical goalkeepers are all set to achieve that for us in the upcoming season.

That's missing the point of everything I said. Im fully aware he's gone on to do well.

 

If he'd started the way he'd started for Nice at us this season then there's nothing to say Rodgers wouldnt have dropped him for Ward. I'm just counteracting the hindsight in here. We all know Kasper is far superior. That isn't what I was getting at. 

[HybridFox]

Perez did put in the odd shift tbf and might have been an option albeit not the best. We're just so short of players in those areas. Most teams have 4 wide players they can turn to, we somehow are content with 2 (1 of whom goes missing virtually every game)

[Daggers]

6 hours ago, Kilworthfox said:

Schmeichel and Albrighton. 

This.

 

Removing their professionalism from the changing room was criminal. Not recognising the impact their loss would have was unbelievably thick.

[Richmondfox]

6 hours ago, SK3Blue said:

Schmeichel and Albrighton. 

 

Albrighton gives us something defensively, and still offers more than Tete (mind you, who doesn't) gives 100% too. 

 

Not sure on Hamza, but could be no worse than Soumare or Ndidi. 

 

 

Hamza had a mistake in him but he wouldn’t let a player walk with the ball into midfield and then jog away like Soumare does.  He would have helped the defence rather than add pressure. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

5 hours ago, Daggers said:

This.

 

Removing their professionalism from the changing room was criminal. Not recognising the impact their loss would have was unbelievably thick.

Or Rodgers did this intentionally, I honestly believe that some of the senior pro’s had seen through him and he moved them on or forced them out in an attempt to exert even more control. 
 

There has been a lack of leadership throughout the season and I think there are some divisions within the camp and that is impacting us on tje pitch, this wouldn’t have been allowed to happen if Kaspar was still here.