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Post by lordb on Mar 4, 2018 22:05:13 GMT
That's bollocks tbf Benji. The Ramadan we signed was a very confident and positive footballer. Hughes then turned him into a defensive work horse who forgot how to attack. The signing was a good one, he was miss managed, like most of the squad. Sorry but in day one I said he won’t make it in the premier league to much abuse and I stand by it, it’s easy to blame Hughes but his record suggests he knows a premier league player by and large, my view remains the lads not good enough half the player Redmond is and that’s Exactly why we signed him because he was half the price . . Erm...We were after Redmond but Arnie signed a new contract instead of going to Everton. Signing Ramadan had nothing to do with not signing Redmond.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 22:09:22 GMT
Ramadan should be in the starting eleven ---- simple as
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Post by wilcopotter on Mar 4, 2018 22:11:41 GMT
Ramadan over hyped, too slow. First decent offer accept and move on. Disappears up his own arse.
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Post by stokiejoeofalsager on Mar 4, 2018 22:13:41 GMT
The guy is still only 20 years old ffs he’s obviously going to be raw. He’ll turn out a very decent player if he plays regularly. As many people have said he’s much better than Salah was at his age. I’d love to see him given a really good run in the side with him and Jesé either side of Shaq. He defends much better than choupo and is direct. I think choupo would be better off the bench too.
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Post by larstoke on Mar 4, 2018 22:25:56 GMT
It is a strange one, this. has ramadan even played at all under lambert?
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Post by thegift on Mar 4, 2018 22:28:11 GMT
Ramadan over hyped, too slow. First decent offer accept and move on. Disappears up his own arse. Choupo is better is he?
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Post by lordb on Mar 4, 2018 22:32:16 GMT
It is a strange one, this. has ramadan even played at all under lambert? One sub appearance.
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Post by boskampsflaps on Mar 4, 2018 22:34:38 GMT
They are so they will need a bigger squad. He's shown he can play in the PL. He's got a mate in their squad and he's one of the better young players in the league already. Sessegnon needs to go to Spurs. No axe to grind Bayern but people were crying out for him to play when Arnie was here. If he could have stepped up when Arnie left fair dos but he hasnt taken his chance. Cant beat a player He easily beats a player, his problem is he tries to do it again straight after.
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Post by jeycov on Mar 4, 2018 22:35:09 GMT
The guy is still only 20 years old ffs he’s obviously going to be raw. He’ll turn out a very decent player if he plays regularly. As many people have said he’s much better than Salah was at his age. I’d love to see him given a really good run in the side with him and Jesé either side of Shaq. He defends much better than choupo and is direct. I think choupo would be better off the bench too. Shaqiri will want a move at the end of the season regardless of our survival outcome Ramadan ideal opportunity to play on the left
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Post by jezzascfc on Mar 4, 2018 22:46:07 GMT
Ramadan has his issues (a bit slow for a winger, poor final ball) but he is still young, in a foreign country, adjusting to both life and football here. Hughes killed his confidence and made him an auxiliary full back. Lambert should be trying to build him up to play a part in the run in.
That he was not on the bench, if fit, was ridiculous when Fletch and Johnson were.
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Post by wilcopotter on Mar 5, 2018 8:42:52 GMT
Ramadan over hyped, too slow. First decent offer accept and move on. Disappears up his own arse. Choupo is better is he? Unfortunately not, that’s why we’re in the bottom three.
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Post by cheekymatt71 on Mar 5, 2018 8:47:58 GMT
The comments from his agent are very concerning. Ramadan has been dropped before by Hughes and he didnt complain. I think its clear he doesnt have a future under Lambert.
Choupo needs dropping and Ramadan cant do any worse at the moment
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Post by thegift on Mar 5, 2018 8:50:50 GMT
Unfortunately not, that’s why we’re in the bottom three. So ramadan should be starting then, yes?
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Post by wilcopotter on Mar 5, 2018 8:59:04 GMT
Unfortunately not, that’s why we’re in the bottom three. So ramadan should be starting then, yes? I don’t think it would make much difference.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Mar 5, 2018 9:07:04 GMT
Ramadan has his issues (a bit slow for a winger, poor final ball) but he is still young, in a foreign country, adjusting to both life and football here. Hughes killed his confidence and made him an auxiliary full back. Lambert should be trying to build him up to play a part in the run in. That he was not on the bench, if fit, was ridiculous when Fletch and Johnson were. He's also one of the few players on who's on the same wavelength as Shaqiri, and links well with him(when actually played!). I've backed Lambert but Saturday's bench was pathetic. Our last three managers have been bizarre on team selections at times.
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Post by thegift on Mar 5, 2018 9:07:38 GMT
Ramadan has his issues (a bit slow for a winger, poor final ball) but he is still young, in a foreign country, adjusting to both life and football here. Hughes killed his confidence and made him an auxiliary full back. Lambert should be trying to build him up to play a part in the run in. That he was not on the bench, if fit, was ridiculous when Fletch and Johnson were. He's also one of the few players on who's on the same wavelength as Shaqiri, and links well with him(when actually played!). I've backed Lambert but Saturday's bench was pathetic. Our last three managers have been bizarre on team selections at times. Surely they can see something we cant then?
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Post by trickydicky73 on Mar 5, 2018 9:19:41 GMT
He's also one of the few players on who's on the same wavelength as Shaqiri, and links well with him(when actually played!). I've backed Lambert but Saturday's bench was pathetic. Our last three managers have been bizarre on team selections at times. Surely they can see something we cant then? Dunno, mate. It makes you wonder, but I can't believe Ramadan is worse than Choupo on what I have seen so far, and the inclusion of Fletcher is absolutely baffling.
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Post by thegift on Mar 5, 2018 9:23:48 GMT
Surely they can see something we cant then? Dunno, mate. It makes you wonder, but I can't believe Ramadan is worse than Choupo on what I have seen so far, and the inclusion of Fletcher is absolutely baffling. And johnson, and adam. But Hughes played johnson, and also played adam, similar to what lambert is doing.
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Post by westgatelakes on Mar 5, 2018 13:20:21 GMT
Can`t for the life of me understand this Ramadan love-in ? Has repeatedly failed to take his chance whenever offered to him. He may well be the best left sided `attacking` player we`ve got but he`s still woefully short of being good enough to be a regular starter in the first team. If the truth be known, all of our forward players apart from Shaqiri are not up to the standards required of a premiership footballer in 2018. I`m not one to dismiss his longer term prospects of making it in the UK entirely and, with more experience and a following wind, he may eventually turn out to be a good player, most likely at championship level.
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Post by enuntio on Mar 5, 2018 13:29:58 GMT
More than good enough to be on the bench tho'
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Post by spitthedog on Mar 5, 2018 13:32:50 GMT
My problem with him is he has zero awareness of the rest of the game.
He runs with his head down, beats as many players as he can until he loses the ball. He looks great until he inevitably loses it.
What good is that?
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Post by thegift on Mar 5, 2018 13:52:56 GMT
My problem with him is he has zero awareness of the rest of the game. He runs with his head down, beats as many players as he can until he loses the ball. He looks great until he inevitably loses it. What good is that? He was our only threat against Coventry. Everything came through him. Everything.
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Post by jezzascfc on Mar 5, 2018 13:58:58 GMT
There is some truth in the post above that only Shaqiri of our attacking players is of the required quality (you could argue adding a fully fit and motivated Jese, which we have yet to see, and Crouch, back in the day) which goes some way to explaining why we are in the mess we are. However, we have to work with the squad we have now until the end of the season, and to leave a fully fit Ramadan out of the match day 18 (if that is, in fact, what Lambert did) in favour of Fletcher is pure madness.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 14:08:47 GMT
Completely fucks me off seeing that absolute cart horse Choupo starting over him. If we go down I'll actually pin a lot of it on this decision from both managers.
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Post by Gary Hackett on Mar 5, 2018 15:53:24 GMT
How this lad can't get a game with the shit that's in the squad is totally beyond me.
It doesn't make any sense whatsoever why he's not getting game time.
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Post by goatbulgaria on Mar 5, 2018 16:06:17 GMT
Can`t for the life of me understand this Ramadan love-in ? Has repeatedly failed to take his chance whenever offered to him. He may well be the best left sided `attacking` player we`ve got but he`s still woefully short of being good enough to be a regular starter in the first team. If the truth be known, all of our forward players apart from Shaqiri are not up to the standards required of a premiership footballer in 2018. I`m not one to dismiss his longer term prospects of making it in the UK entirely and, with more experience and a following wind, he may eventually turn out to be a good player, most likely at championship level. Spot on End of thread. He just isn't good enough
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Post by thegift on Mar 5, 2018 16:12:01 GMT
How this lad can't get a game with the shit that's in the squad is totally beyond me. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever why he's not getting game time. Him and Lambert must of fell out. That's literally the only explanation.
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Post by nott1 on Mar 5, 2018 17:13:07 GMT
I think he is better than Chopper Motel, Jese, Bera and Diouf (out wide) and Lambert is an idiot to ignore him!
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Post by skilljim on Mar 5, 2018 18:21:22 GMT
Don't know what some of you guys trying to argue that he's just simply not good enough were watching when he was playing but I thought he was always one of our best players. When he first came to the club he was unreal, seemed to barely lose the ball, could beat 2 or 3 players, showed great strength, decent speed, and knew what he wanted to do with the ball, although it didn't always come off. He is 5x better than Choupo imo, especially in Choupo's recent form, which has been utter gash. It makes completely no sense to me, the clear disrespect in dropping him completely from the bench. If you recall the last proper time we saw the lad he scored 2 goals in 2 games, and looked to be someone who can find the net - which is rare these days, unless your name is Shaqiri. Watching videos of the lad again on Youtube, that spell when Allen was on a scoring spree aswell, Sobhi was at the heart of some of those attacks. Although he lost alot of that early attacking that he demonstrated, Hughes seemingly turning him into another Diouf only on the left hand side, he still showed character I thought in grabbing that role, and often running back and winning the ball and showing strength, which you can't really say of Choupo, who literally just stood and watched Leicester attack the other week.
Why does our club / managers all seem to ruin the most promising players careers? Theres loads of players we've seen over the last 10 years that are fan favourites, and would be the first name on most peoples starting 11's, that are completely dropped, don't get any game time, and frustrate both the fans and player. I think back to players like Tuncay, and more recently Bojan, Joselu, even Imbula. Seemingly dropped for no apparent reason and never to be seen again.
It just doesn't make sense to me, and it's actually hurting my head now trying to figure out what the hell is going on. The whole Bojan thing was a farce, even giving away his shirt number to Badou, what is the club thinking? We're just left here making topics like these because no one can get their head around some of the stupid decisions going on.
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Post by nigerianstokie on Mar 5, 2018 18:39:50 GMT
They are so they will need a bigger squad. He's shown he can play in the PL. He's got a mate in their squad and he's one of the better young players in the league already. Sessegnon needs to go to Spurs. No axe to grind Bayern but people were crying out for him to play when Arnie was here. If he could have stepped up when Arnie left fair dos but he hasnt taken his chance. Cant beat a player Whereas Choupo-Moting and Jese have set the league alight...
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