Abdul Fatawu

[Richmondfox]

5 minutes ago, Blue-fox said:

Utterly selfish player. The sooner we don’t have the likes of him and mavididi on the wings the better. 
 

Give me a Lloyd dyer any day. 

Brain dead player. Happy to play himself into trouble than the simple pass.  At the end of the game he hand so much time to cross, yet waited till he was closed down and it was blocked. 

[Fish]

He’s actually rubbish ……

[Samilktray]

Just now, Richmondfox said:

Brain dead player. Happy to play himself into trouble than the simple pass.  At the end of the game he hand so much time to cross, yet waited till he was closed down and it was blocked. 

Who’s he crossing into? He may aswell cut in and have a pop every time to be fair to him 

[Fish]

On 09/03/2026 at 11:01, Tommy G said:

If his agent is sensible he will direct him to a brighton/bournemouth/brentford esq club.

No chance. He is a poor , poor footballer …..

[Samilktray]

Just now, Fish said:

No chance. He is a poor , poor footballer …..

I think you’re going to have egg on your face in a few years time looking back on this 

[Richmondfox]

6 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Who’s he crossing into? He may aswell cut in and have a pop every time to be fair to him 

Cope. 

[Samilktray]

1 minute ago, Richmondfox said:

Cope. 

Hold this L

[Fazzer 7]

I genuinely can't stand the lad. He's moody pretentious little shit. You can include Mavidid in that category as well. 

[Richmondfox]

Just now, Samilktray said:

Hold this L

Don’t care about him.  I’ll be glad when he’s gone as he is part of the problem and not the solution. He will struggle at a prem team because he isn’t a team player. He needs a manager to drill it into him as he hasn’t got great footballing intelligence. 

[Ian S]

12 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

I think you’re going to have egg on your face in a few years time looking back on this 

Doubt it, he is brain dead and quality players tend to have a brain, if we get £20m I will be astonished.

Bang average but still much better than the garbage on the other wing.

[Tommy G]

Be lucky to get £10m for the arrogant c***
 

 

[TheGoldenGod]

Said he was s***e 6 months ago. I dare the little rat to post something on Insta!

[Pita]

4 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Be lucky to get £10m for the arrogant c***
 

 

If Ruskin is doing the deal we will pay them £10 m to take him 

[Bezzanator89]

Such a selfish player. I could only laugh when Swansea had him worked out, anticipated the one-dimensional cut-inside and nick it off him and start a counter-attack. Sell, sell, sell.

[Guest]

If he'd spent the season crossing it to where Ayew is supposed to be or looking to pick out non-entities like Skippy and Bobby instead of shooting, I'm fairly sure we'd already be down. Getting flashbacks to 22/23 when Maddison and Barnes were our most productive players yet ended up receiving some of the most vitriolic criticism. 

[Guesty]

I get that this guy is frustrating (even though he doesn't really have anyone to cross too). But both him and James are probably the only reason we haven't spent the entire season around the relegation zone.

 

As soon as these two got injured or went off form the entire team went to s**t. We were far too reliant on both of their goals and assists in the first half of the season.

[HarryDee8]

He's more flashy then anything, loves a good trick. BUT completely pointless if there is no end product!!

[dmayne7]

1 minute ago, Guesty said:

I get that this guy is frustrating (even though he doesn't really have anyone to cross too). But both him and James are probably the only reason we haven't spent the entire season around the relegation zone.

 

As soon as these two got injured or went off form the entire team went to s**t. We were far too reliant on both of their goals and assists in the first half of the season.

Exactly. He's been so far below his level and lost what made him great; his decision making/unselfish stuff. And I understand it's maddening sometimes to watch him constantly shoot but it sums up the state of the club when loads of our fans have lost the plot by targeting him. We'd be in Wednesday's position without him sadly.

 

More bizarre when on the other side you have what has been, hands down, the worst attacking season from any Leicester player in my 25+ years; Mavididi. Words cannot describe how inept he has been.

[splinterdream]

He's supposed to be our asset for the model we're going back too, the club proudly announced it (probably Rudkins idea), and nlw he's ruined it by being F'in useless

[oundlefox]

Amazing to think around transfer window time there was talk of him leaving or being valued at 30m

 

30 million!!! We’d be lucky to get 30 cans of Chang for him now 

[BeaumontFox]

53 minutes ago, Fish said:

He’s actually rubbish ……

Utter dog shit

[kiddo]

How does he miss the target with that gift? Trying to be too clever as usual.

[ElusiveEd]

From another players mouth......

 

"Fatawu plays for........Fatawu"

 

And I could not agree more.

 

 

[Richmondfox]

43 minutes ago, Guest said:

If he'd spent the season crossing it to where Ayew is supposed to be or looking to pick out non-entities like Skippy and Bobby instead of shooting, I'm fairly sure we'd already be down. Getting flashbacks to 22/23 when Maddison and Barnes were our most productive players yet ended up receiving some of the most vitriolic criticism. 

If he started crossing in the box we would have picked up scrappy goals, forced players to get into better situations and maybe created more opportunities for the donkey forwards. Ayew was his most useful just hanging around the box and not moving. Fatawu to Ricardo to Mukasa to Fatawu running into space should be bread and butter in this poor league.  We always get opened up by simple moves yet our team never bothers. The goal against Norwich at the start of the season to draw was so simple yet they stopped trying it the next game. 

 

He isn’t a team player but he’s also not good enough to be a luxury player. He will improve with a strong manager and team mates that have more than 2 brain cells He struggles to make simple passes, he doesn’t look to run into space to receive the ball.  He slows everything down to try and beat a player but struggles 
 

A lot of this is down to the coaching staff and managers not developing the team and correcting mistakes.  The players should take responsibility themselves for improvement and understand where they are going wrong. Fatawu could mix things up and be really good, but he is rinse and repeat until it comes off every 5 games. 
 

 

[inckley fox]

I understand why he's in the side and I get what he brings to the table. He's a match-winner and, at his best, one of the best players at this level. He struggled in most of those pre-injury PL outings, but at his age clearly has some potential to play at a higher level. I'm not sure we can class him on balance as having been a particularly good purchase, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility of him having a very decent career either.

 

Obviously when someone is a team's principal outlet they get flipsides of the same coin - on the downside, defenders doubling up on them all over the pitch, and on the upside, plenty of exposure, plenty of the ball in dangerous areas and so on.

 

For me, the trick is to separate what those players actually deliver from their invariably impressive highlights reels. And the outcomes when it comes to Fatawu, regardless of how threatening he looks, just aren't consistently positive enough for it to be clear that he's a major asset. Maybe he's taking on too much responsibility. Maybe another manager could make him a little more unselfish. Maybe he's trying too hard to put himself in the shop window. Whatever, it's hard to say that, over ninety minutes, game-in game-out, he does the basics well enough to make it worth the wait for those flashes.

 

So you could say that we're kind to him because Ayew, Daka, Stephy, Bobby and Mukasa have offered so little. Those names alone render him 'undrop-able', and I wouldn't dispute the fact. Or you could say that he'd look a damn sight better if any of the aforementioned stepped up.

 

Either way, it all amounts to him being pretty ineffectual.

 

As regards the 'blame game' comparisons, with how Maddison and Barnes were also our most productive players in 2022-23 and yet got a disproportionate number of fingers pointed in their direction, I'd argue that this isn't as unreasonable as it seems. In a PL relegation dogfight you need James Maddison like you need a bullet to the head. And not only for the 'you're mad to think we could ever go down' tweet or the penalty miss. He was the epitome of everything wrong with us back then. On his day - wonderful. A superb highlights player. Technically brilliant. When on form, a massive asset. But he was also totally representative of the cultural malaise at the heart of our decline: Arrogant, unaware of the gravity of the situation. A showboater, perhaps. Not up for the fight. 

 

And that, for me, is also Fatawu in a nutshell. Sometimes your very worst players aren't the figureheads for your demise, just as your best players aren't necessarily the figureheads of your ascent. Maybe some of us preferred Rooster to Kitson, Walsh to Joachim, Claridge to Heskey, Albrighton to Mahrez and so on. Some of them just seemed to sum up the character of those sides better than technically more gifted players. And conversely I think Maddison and Tielemans tell you more about our downfall in 2023 than Amartey or Ndidi. And - on the pitch at least - Fatawu and Mavididi have more to do with our current decline than, for all of their endless faults, Thomas or Nelson or Skipp or Bobby Reid.

 

So yes. A technically very nice player. Highly rated and valued. On paper - he should be great. And yet it's all for nothing because he doesn't work for the team, and doesn't appear to have the stomach for a proper fight. That summarises the current squad and its plight pretty much perfectly.