Right now I have your attention π.
Itβs obviously quiet and slow on here due to
1) International Break
2) Back to Back wins
3) Puel no longer manager
4) BS taking a needed breather
5) Nev counting grains of sand
6) Dunge still working out player ratings from the Burnley game
So I thought it a good opportunity to discuss if Inspector Puel of the Gendarme has actually left the green shoots of a legacy at our club.
We know the football was dire, the tactics bizarre, the substitutions baffling BUT
As England U21βs prepare for their game tonight there is a strong possibility that Leicester City will have 4 (yes 4) players starting a match representing their country.
Gray
Maddison
Barnes
Choudray
Are all tipped to start.
So considering that Puel gave Maddison his Premier League break after we bought him from Norwich, he has also given Harvey and Hamza their chance of a run of first team games.
We all know Puel likes to bring youth through, but that is something to be proud of.
For all his failings I think he should be remembered for bringing youth through and potentially setting our club up for moving forward over the next few seasons.
Or am I wrong and people just think he was pants and canβt see any positives of his time with us?
Over to you.......
UTF
Does Puel deserve more credit than he got?
posted on 21/3/19
posted on 21/3/19
Stop now, for the love of God just stop π€¦π»βοΈπ
posted on 21/3/19
Stop now, for the love of God just stop π€¦π»βοΈπ
posted on 21/3/19
comment by The_Dungeon_Master (U4830)
posted 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
That Man City League Cup game has to go down as a missed opportunity. Particularly considering Man City drew Burton Albion in the semis and then an inconsistent Chelsea in the final.
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We had already beat Chelsea at their place too!
posted on 21/3/19
I really did wonder how he got the sack at Southampton for getting to a cup final and finishing 8th?
Not anymore! Bon voyage......
posted on 21/3/19
Puel takes credit for the fact he’s the only manager we’ve had, since we returned to the Premier League, who hasn’t had us looking nervously down the table at relegation. All that whilst transitioning the team away from stalwarts like Fuchs, Huth, Simpson, Mahrez, Drinkwater and Okazaki. He’s brought through some promising youngsters and left the club in decent shape. It’s allowed BRodgers to come in without the usual panic of having to steer the club away from the drop.
The strategy and direction of the club all looked sound under Puel. I did get it. The real problem was that Puel was the right man to start the revolution, but not the right man to see it through. People often talk about: “transition”, but I fear we’d have never got to the destination under Puel.
I lost patience with the slow starts, dire football and bizarre game management. It all became too predictable and the players and fans were bemused by the lack of flexibility. He had to go!
But, personally, I’ll remember him as very mediocre. He’s not Ranieri, Pearson or MON, but neither is he Taylor, Pleat, Allen, Holloway or Megson. The whole Puel era will just be remembered as an unremarkable phase of grey - a bit like the man himself.
posted on 21/3/19
I'll remember him for the generally dire boring football - with a few notable exceptions.
Certainly bringing on the youth and keeping us in a nice boring safe mid-table spot at a difficult time.
Blowing excellent chances for Wembley appearances in both League and FA Cups.
Perhaps being a tad unlucky not to have fully benefitted from Tielemans.
Being a star during an awful period for the club.
I think he won't be remembered with any great degree
of fondness by most, but I've always got a tinge of sadness when managers depart.
posted on 22/3/19
His downfall was not playing a player who had a good game, in the next match. That will not motivate any player knowing you may be bombed out next match regardless of if you played well. Madness.
posted on 22/3/19
I have to disagree with Nuneaton fox about puel a tad unlucky not to have tielemans. he had attacking midfielders in silva and ibora who were behind mendy and ndidi. in his mind of thinking. tilemans would not have had a look in
posted on 23/3/19
Langley - that's simply wrong, Claude started Tielemans in both of his last two matches, he was clearly seen as the missing piece in the midfield jigsaw despite being patently not yet up to Premier League speed/fitness.