Dunge, you and your click bait titles...
I'm not sure anyone has anything to add to your article to be fair, totally agree with your points.
Rodgers has done the right thing, taking Choudhury out of the limelight with minimal fuss.
Only when he returns to the side will we know whether he has listened to his coaches - he is a tough tackling midfielder sure, and that shouldnt be lost, but the maturity is lacking. He'll be a marked man, whenever he returns to the side, so some relatively low key appearances would be preferable I'm sure in the near term.
He's still a big talent though, and Rodgers and his coaches I trust completely to make the right judgements on him.
I thought he wasn’t being picked because playing two CDM’s starves us of creativity. A choice between him and N’didi is always going to end with N’didi.
Hamza is useful back up to N’didi, but probably behind N’didi, Maddison, Tielemans and Praet for the match day squad. So again probably left out on football grounds.
Let’s just hope that when James is fit and King returns from loan that he’s not pushed any further down the pecking order. We’ve moved on from that era.
Don't think it has anything to do with his tough tackling and any reputation he might have built up, more to do with him competing for a place with Ndidi and us only using one CDM. It's safe to say we'll see him against City and Liverpool at some point.
I thought his tackle was modest to be honest.
That said I think another great point raised by this article is how good Ndidi is. We said Kante was unique and could never be replaced. Wrong.
What for me is the biggest failure of the Puel era was falling to get the best out of two of our best players in Ndidi and Vardy. Massive credit to Rodgers for seeing it, and doing something about it.
comment by Merseysidefox (U4842)
posted 9 minutes ago
I thought his tackle was modest to be honest.
That said I think another great point raised by this article is how good Ndidi is. We said Kante was unique and could never be replaced. Wrong.
What for me is the biggest failure of the Puel era was falling to get the best out of two of our best players in Ndidi and Vardy. Massive credit to Rodgers for seeing it, and doing something about it.
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Exactly. It used to drive me bonkers. You'd look at our match day team and think, great, definitely enough to beat these today...then it would all go Puel ball. There was a period of about 15 games where we only scored once in the first half...that was ridiculous itself. Then we were always left chasing the game with literally no other option but the kitchen sink...week in week out.
BR has simply done the obvious thing, yeah you give him credit, but it aint rocket science. Play to your strengths, win the game, then have the luxury of substitutions not the need for them and running out of options.
Anyway, I think HC has massive potential. He'll be very valuable in a few years
Cheese are you ever going to comment without mentioning Puel you might of noticed my Pearson days are long behind me and which one is employed ?
As for Hamza he is the obviously the replacement for the God that is Ndiddido if he gets injured
You forgot to mention the France U21 player whose leg Hamza broke in the summer!!
The problem will be how he mentally deals with this, will he start backing away from making challenges, will he go too conservative. I would say he needs more experience and a loan when James is fit would be much better for him.
You're right Foxy Boy, I had forgotten that. More evidence that he needs to review the way he challenges. That's three significant injuries caused to opponents in a matter of a few months.
comment by Nevsaysagoal2city (U5194)
posted 3 hours, 6 minutes ago
Cheese are you ever going to comment without mentioning Puel you might of noticed my Pearson days are long behind me and which one is employed ?
As for Hamza he is the obviously the replacement for the God that is Ndiddido if he gets injured
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It was Mersey who brought up Puel, I was quite happy going about my day...
Who said Pearson?
What. A. Legend.
From what I've read, Claude Puel also had a great big tackle back in the day.
As big as Soyuncu’s tackle Dunge?
He doesn’t get his out much so I could only go on hear-say.
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posted on 28/11/19
Dunge, you and your click bait titles...
I'm not sure anyone has anything to add to your article to be fair, totally agree with your points.
Rodgers has done the right thing, taking Choudhury out of the limelight with minimal fuss.
Only when he returns to the side will we know whether he has listened to his coaches - he is a tough tackling midfielder sure, and that shouldnt be lost, but the maturity is lacking. He'll be a marked man, whenever he returns to the side, so some relatively low key appearances would be preferable I'm sure in the near term.
He's still a big talent though, and Rodgers and his coaches I trust completely to make the right judgements on him.
posted on 28/11/19
I thought he wasn’t being picked because playing two CDM’s starves us of creativity. A choice between him and N’didi is always going to end with N’didi.
Hamza is useful back up to N’didi, but probably behind N’didi, Maddison, Tielemans and Praet for the match day squad. So again probably left out on football grounds.
Let’s just hope that when James is fit and King returns from loan that he’s not pushed any further down the pecking order. We’ve moved on from that era.
posted on 28/11/19
Don't think it has anything to do with his tough tackling and any reputation he might have built up, more to do with him competing for a place with Ndidi and us only using one CDM. It's safe to say we'll see him against City and Liverpool at some point.
posted on 29/11/19
I thought his tackle was modest to be honest.
That said I think another great point raised by this article is how good Ndidi is. We said Kante was unique and could never be replaced. Wrong.
What for me is the biggest failure of the Puel era was falling to get the best out of two of our best players in Ndidi and Vardy. Massive credit to Rodgers for seeing it, and doing something about it.
posted on 29/11/19
comment by Merseysidefox (U4842)
posted 9 minutes ago
I thought his tackle was modest to be honest.
That said I think another great point raised by this article is how good Ndidi is. We said Kante was unique and could never be replaced. Wrong.
What for me is the biggest failure of the Puel era was falling to get the best out of two of our best players in Ndidi and Vardy. Massive credit to Rodgers for seeing it, and doing something about it.
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Exactly. It used to drive me bonkers. You'd look at our match day team and think, great, definitely enough to beat these today...then it would all go Puel ball. There was a period of about 15 games where we only scored once in the first half...that was ridiculous itself. Then we were always left chasing the game with literally no other option but the kitchen sink...week in week out.
BR has simply done the obvious thing, yeah you give him credit, but it aint rocket science. Play to your strengths, win the game, then have the luxury of substitutions not the need for them and running out of options.
Anyway, I think HC has massive potential. He'll be very valuable in a few years
posted on 29/11/19
Cheese are you ever going to comment without mentioning Puel you might of noticed my Pearson days are long behind me and which one is employed ?
As for Hamza he is the obviously the replacement for the God that is Ndiddido if he gets injured
posted on 29/11/19
You forgot to mention the France U21 player whose leg Hamza broke in the summer!!
The problem will be how he mentally deals with this, will he start backing away from making challenges, will he go too conservative. I would say he needs more experience and a loan when James is fit would be much better for him.
posted on 29/11/19
You're right Foxy Boy, I had forgotten that. More evidence that he needs to review the way he challenges. That's three significant injuries caused to opponents in a matter of a few months.
posted on 29/11/19
comment by Nevsaysagoal2city (U5194)
posted 3 hours, 6 minutes ago
Cheese are you ever going to comment without mentioning Puel you might of noticed my Pearson days are long behind me and which one is employed ?
As for Hamza he is the obviously the replacement for the God that is Ndiddido if he gets injured
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It was Mersey who brought up Puel, I was quite happy going about my day...
posted on 29/11/19
Who said Pearson?
What. A. Legend.
posted on 29/11/19
From what I've read, Claude Puel also had a great big tackle back in the day.
posted on 29/11/19
As big as Soyuncu’s tackle Dunge?
posted on 29/11/19
He doesn’t get his out much so I could only go on hear-say.
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