Heartener for Kaebi fans?

[Sepehr]

a) Seeing I've hardly mentioned them I can only imagine your reference to "putting down" his supporters concerns my belief that they've voted for him as MoM when they didn't attend the game. It specifically asks that only people who attend should vote otherwise it makes a mockery of the whole exercise.

You thread title is "Heartener for Kaebi fans" and you go on to sarcastically put Kaebi and his supporters down.

b) To be more than fair to Kaebi I've taken the trouble to watch four fifths of all the football he has played in a Leicester shirt, which is probably far more than a lot of his supporters and I judge him exactly the same as everyone else - on what he does. If you go through my match ratings you will see I've been not harder on him than on any other player.

I've watched Kaebi play since he was 16 years old, in Foolad, Perspolis and the national team (I couldn't follow him in UAE). I couldn't judge whether you were hard on him in the reserve games or not as I did not go there. But I have already accepted you have more knowledge than me on his reserve games, so I don't know why you are pushing the issue.

c) Reserve games are indeed a world away from first team games. They are a lot easier and just the place where a class footballer should stand out. Kaebi has not stoood out.

In reserve games a team's structure is less defined, the games are very physical and the quality of the passes to run onto is a lot worse than first team. Kaebi is a type of player that needs balls to run on to, he needs the ball to get to him to use his close ball control to get away from his opponents, he needs through passes on the ground.

The reserve team simply doesn't have the quality to provide any of this. They hoof the ball to the other side of the field and it takes a tall strong midfielder to chase the ball down and hold the ball up until other players join him. The first team on the other hand, if given specific instructions in how to utilize Kaebi's quality can make Hossein an asset to the team.

d) All the talk in the world won't change what's gone. You can be as biased as you like but the only thing that will change my views on Kaebi will be his playing well on the football field.

But here is the thing, in the Ipswich game he was given his chance and, according to the manager, he took his chance and played well, and warranted his second start. But after that game, instead of being happy that you have a quality right winger in your team you went to great extends to disagree with most people’s analysis that he had a good game based of what you heard on radio. In the second game, as I understand it, everyone played poorly and Kaebi was just given 45 minutes. Pulling him out did no good for your team and you went on to concede another goal which tells me that Kaebi wan't the weakest link in that game either.

So there it is one good game (according to the manager) and one average game for the first team in two starts. Now instead of praising him for his good qualities and good performances you come here and open a thread specifically for Kaebi (not any of the other 13 players who played poorly against Hull) and go on to put him down. That is fairly biased to me.

Especially as I have no idea on what basis he got into the first team anyway.

Your manager repeatedly mentioned that he wants to trial all the players, and its hardly surprising that he decided to try out Kaebi.

Also, lets face it your team is 20th on the ladder. It got to this place by playing the likes of Newton over and over again. If your team is losing constantly, you try and change something, anything, because Leicester City is almost at rock bottom and its difficult for the team to do much worse.

I wonder what people like Gradel (exiled to Bournemouth) or Odhiambo (consistently steady but ignored) think of that.

They may think that it’s absolutely unfair for a player to come to a club and get a shot before them. They may think it’s unfair that a player gets picked on his reputation, and may think that he got to where he is effortlessly. That would be because they don’t know how much effort Kaebi has put in, in order to gain his reputation.

He starts his career in a country that destroys talent because of lack of infrastructure. He had to put in faultless performances every time, because no commentator wants to see a teenager come into a league and start putting people twice his age on the back foot. Against all of this, he puts faultless performances day in and day out; his team becomes champions of the league with a record number of points and he gets a call up to the national team. He performs well gets big money transfers to UAE teams and Perspolis and finally realizes his dream of coming to Europe.

Now that he is here, people start putting him down, saying he hasn’t “earned” the right to be given a chance in the first team. Well I have followed his career and he has probably “earned” that chance more than anyone else on your roaster.

Sorry, just reread it an that was a long post. If anyone bothered to read all of it thank you.

[Geo V]

Sepehr you above post highlights plenty mate but Thracian is very one dimensional and makes his mind up very early on those individuals he dislikes or doesn't rate to be more accurate. He finds it very difficult to play players from other clubs or even worse, from abroad ahead of those academy lads he watches all the time and has personal admiration for just because they are local. All we hear about are our kids but loads of them have been playing and doing at best Ok but he still calls for more to be included despite our consistent shite seasons with them featuring. Whilst I wont blame them all on our poor last 3 seasons, none have done that well to be wanting Internationals with 50 caps not to be given a chance ahead of them.

As for Kaebi in particular, lets see how good he is when he does what the likes of Pires did at Arsenal and bulked up a tad and became stronger and ready for English football and once he overcomes the language barrier. I certainly wont put him on the scrapheap yet unlike others but he needs to improve to make an impact and I for one hope he does so.