How significant was the loss of Kasper Schmeichel?

[Wymsey]

16 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

The single worst decision we’ve made in the last 5 years was letting Kasper go and not replacing him.

This is the major reason for so many of our problems right now.

Think he wanted to go.

[dylanlegend]

Honestly think Kasper was irreplaceable. The levels he demanded from other players was huge, we would not have been relegated if we offered him a new deal and he stayed. He did a podcast saying he wanted to stay. 
 

It was the last few games of the season and Kapser was one game away from hitting a consecutive milestone and rodgers dropped him and played Danny Ward- still blame rodgers for that. I assumed they fell out a bit but surprised hes ended up back with him

at Celtic.

 

The attitude of players like Kasper, Morgan, Albrighton, Vardy and the levels they demanded off the field was a huge reason for our success, i think fans underestimate this. Another reason why Pearson deserves so much credit for our success

[dylanlegend]

11 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

We'd have stayed up in 2022/23 for sure. But I don't think it would've solved what are quite evidently deep-rooted problems at the club and I think him leaving was kind of a pointer towards that.

Agree but by staying up we may have had a bettter chance to keep players like Barnes, Tielemens, Castagne, Maddison etc.
 

Basically anyone who Rodgers didnt sign 

[Lambert09]

I adore Kasper but I do think this is something that is overstated. The Brendan rot had already set in and we were heading downwards already. 
 

Any half competent keeper or even a pretty shit one would have kept us up. 

[TeamRocket]

Never understood why we let him go before getting rid of BR. Honestly saw him as a player manager some day managing us along with some others but starting as assistant coach/manager then some day taking over. Or even replacing Rudz

[Bob Hazels shorts]

Brenda wanted away. He’d already sold his house, rented for a while and then moved north in preparation.

 

He'd ran out of steam and dining out on previous managers signings

 

He wanted a big pay off and orchestrated it. Thick Jon as a mate aided and abetted this process.

 

A potted plant could see that Ward was a fat Conrad Logan.

 

KS was sacrificed as was our premiership for the Red Dwarfs ££££

 

Re Brenda signing him for Celtic….you couldn’t make it up

 

Lowest of the low

[Bob Hazels shorts]

1 minute ago, Bob Hazels shorts said:

Brenda wanted away. He’d already sold his house, rented for a while and then moved north in preparation.

 

He'd ran out of steam and dining out on previous managers signings

 

He wanted a big pay off and orchestrated it. Thick Jon as a mate aided and abetted this process.

 

A potted plant could see that Ward was a fat Conrad Logan.

 

KS was sacrificed as was our premiership for the Red Dwarfs ££££

 

Re Brenda signing him for Celtic….you couldn’t make it up

 

Lowest of the low

Ward and Hamza are neighbours in West Bridgeford.

 

They both have the same thirst!!! 

 

GW despite lack of ability could at least try to be fit…but why £££££

Hamza is the most naturally fit player at the club regardless of lifestyle 

[Soar Fox]

5 hours ago, Bob Hazels shorts said:

Ward and Hamza are neighbours in West Bridgeford.

 

They both have the same thirst!!! 

 

GW despite lack of ability could at least try to be fit…but why £££££

Hamza is the most naturally fit player at the club regardless of lifestyle 

Who’s that?

[Fox92]

We should have been looking at good enough replacements years before Kasper left. Then we he did leave, we'd have a goalkeeper ready to replace him as our number one.

 

Same with Vardy now.

[foxinsocks]

6 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

We should have been looking at good enough replacements years before Kasper left. Then we he did leave, we'd have a goalkeeper ready to replace him as our number one.

 

Same with Vardy now.

We had the other Danish bloke... but rodgers chose ward

[Sampson]

On 23/01/2025 at 09:28, coolhandfox said:

Moving him on was the right decision he was the 3rd highest paid keeper in the league but wasn't performing to that level.

 

The issue was he's replacement.

 

We have done the opposite with Vardy and keep him to long.

 

Between the 2 of them they were costing 15m per annum.

 

 

I disagree we kept Vardy too long, because he is still our best option - its the exact same problem we had with Schmeichel, we bought Daka too replace Vardy, but like Ward, Daka turned out to be awful and way out of his depth at PL level.
 

Vardy is still our best striker at his age, as Kasper was, which says a lot more about our horrendous attempts to replace them, it’s been the recruitment to replace them that’s been the problem.

Edited 24 January by Sampson

[Gamble92]

I think anyone saying it was the right time for him to go are just wrong. I agree they'd have come a point (probably the season later) where we'd look to replace him as first choice. Then he would likely leave because he has proved he can still be number 1 for European sides. He wouldn't have stuck around on our bench. 

 

One thing Rodgers did right early on was keeping Morgan and Fuchs around and enough of that title winning side in the dressing room. There was quite clearly a remit for Puel to get rid of as many of them as possible. Another awful club decision. We at least did the turnover right under Rodgers, we just ****ed up who we brought in. 

[lcfc278]

It's so easy to sit here now in hindsight and say all these things but at the time, let's be honest there was no real massive uproar about him leaving, it was the way it was done.

 

The fact it kind of came out of the blue and he had no real proper send-off was definitely something that wasn't pleasant as he'd been such a legend for us. But I think the season before there'd been a lot of people saying now was the time we needed a new No.1

 

The biggest crimes for me were 1) deciding that Danny Ward could be the new No.1 and 2) the club not realising how much of a leader and a presence that Kasper was within the club, and how much that loss among many others has led to us descending to our current situation.

[coolhandfox]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

I disagree we kept Vardy too long, because he is still our best option - its the exact same problem we had with Schmeichel, we bought Daka too replace Vardy, but like Ward, Daka turned out to be awful and way out of his depth at PL level.
 

Vardy is still our best striker at his age, as Kasper was, which says a lot more about our horrendous attempts to replace them, it’s been the recruitment to replace them that’s been the problem.

The issue is his never going to be replaced until he's gone, he will always be in the background, and a new striker will always be looking over his shoulder. 

[lfu]

9 hours ago, Soar Fox said:

Who’s that?

Think he mixed up Danny Ward with Gavin "my mate's the ref" Ward

[iancognito]

Not very just rose tinted specs thinking we were perfect with Schmeichel here. We had some collapses with him here too and however good his shot stopping was he wasn't a talisman keeping us up. The rot syarted earlier amd the bigger losses were the likes of Huth, Fuchs, Drinkwater and Morgan who were all winners with winning mentalities who were replaced with vastly inferior players coming from teams with no record of success.

[Old Fox]

If you look back in the KS thread many on here were saying it’s time for him to go and he had lost it but whilst he undoubtedly had a dip he was still a massive dressing room leader and also one who was a winner and had the highest standards of professionalism - at the time it felt like a massive error in judgement and undoubtedly we would not have gone down had we kept him - when you look back we had a number of fantastic leaders in our champions team - Kasper, Huth, Morgan, Sharky, Kingy and Vards yet the club has done nothing to retain that in the back room or in the pitch with exception of Vards who is clearly a once in a lifetime striker - it’s baffling, confusing but when we look back probably the biggest error was letting Kasper leave !

[spaghettilegs]

Don't think he would make much difference right now to the current defence. But if we kept him the season we got relegated, we probably would have stayed up. We went down by 2 points with ward in net. Think Kasper would have saved us at least those 2 points over the season. If we had stayed up, maybe things would be a lot different and we wouldn't be in the shit show we are in now. Although we would still have shit senior management so probably just delaying the inevitable until things change up top.

Edited 24 January by spaghettilegs

[Jazzy_Jeff]

Random thought re loss of Schmeichel (and this summer as a whole) - am I right in thinking our only loan player that season was Tete?

 

So when we were struggling for a goalkeeper and defenders, primarily, we had two Premier League loan spots and did nothing with them?! 

[fleckneymike]

Some revisionist history here. 
 

I can distinctly recall the semi ironic cheers that first match post Kasper when Ward collected a cross from a corner. 
 

Kasper had declined significantly and wasn’t worth the astronomical wage he was on. He was however infinitely better than Ward but that isn’t exactly high praise.