http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/402168

I posted this on the Leicester board.

Let’s just say, he can be robust in his approach

Needs must. It was looking like our CB pairing tomorrow would be a midfielder and a full back.

We have a separate thread for January Transfers.

I always thought he looked decent and then he'd suddenly do something quite reckless. It looked like he was going to get a look in during our 2017/18 season and then he went through the back of an opponent in a pre-season friendly.

Craig Shakespeare then stated he must learn if he wants to be considered, but we never really saw much of him after that.

Skill-wise, Benalouane always looked quite good. He's strong, can dominate a defence, not short of speed and decent with the ball at his feet.

The big problem was always that he seemed to be unhinged.

Prepare yourselves for the Flying High Boot of Glory.

Fox is already a walking liability, it’ll hopefully be at least an upgrade technically.

If all CBs were fit and available I'd definitely start with Danny Fox. He has been reliable and consistent all season.

Danny Fox gets in the team, at least in part, because of his cultured play bringing the ball out of defence into attack, he has played some wonderful cross field through balls getting us on the front foot.

comment by Red Forest Bear ( Bear Knows) (U6288)
posted 44 minutes ago
Danny Fox gets in the team, at least in part, because of his cultured play bringing the ball out of defence into attack, he has played some wonderful cross field through balls getting us on the front foot.
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True. But his job is to defend and he’s not great at it. When he was out of the team we stopped conceding goals. That also coincided with D@wson having a run of games so perhaps they should play together. Best combo is MD and Figs.

Fox is a left footer; plays some good diagonal balls to the RM. MD plays them right to LM. Fox not a great defender, but at least as good as Figs and better than Hef

By the way, nobody ever seems to have reached a consensus here on how to pronounce his surname. Some attempts include:

Ben-A-Loo-Arnie
Ben-A-Loon
Ben-A-Lu-Wan
Ben-Al-Wan

Even the stadium announcer has flitted between a few of these from time to time when reading his name on the teamsheet.

Most around here know him as Benny.

comment by Redfor50yrs (U2973)
posted 8 hours, 7 minutes ago
Fox is a left footer; plays some good diagonal balls to the RM. MD plays them right to LM. Fox not a great defender, but at least as good as Figs and better than Hef
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Agree with that. Fox has massively improved from where he was a few years ago. His never say die attitude has been a plus over the last year or so. No surprise that the defence has generally beeen better for it?

This Tunisian lad has got a great opportunity to stake a claim at the CG. Hope he makes the most of it. It probably is a little plan B after they were knocked back in trying to recall Worrall. I’ll give him a chance to prove himself first, though.

Bit negative by the 79/80 IMO, the lad had other officers in some more exotic locations, although I guess he will earn a lot more here at the CG.

I've read a few opinions of our new CB from those who have seen him play.

Are there any readers of a certain age who have been reminded of Sammy Chapman? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Oh dear; no matchday thread!

I'm off in a few minutes so I'll post this here:

Go for it Martin; go old school 4-4-2:

Pants

Janko, Benalouane, Robinson, Osborn

Carvalho Colback Yacob Lolley

Grabban Murphy

4-0

COYR

Pretty astute there Red450.
Move Yacob to CH , Osborn to midfield and replace Cash for Cavalho and you've got it spot on...

There is a M/T just a bit late writing it!