Is Iheanacho the most disappointing player we’ve ever signed?

DagenhamFox

DagenhamFox

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I’ve said before with us dropping down a division I thought he’d be a real asset to us this season. The lad just looks disinterested. Lazy. Not at all engaged in his work.

Prior to this he was just not good enough to play top division football in this country. He scored a few goals and some excellent cup goals but he’s never done enough for me.

He needs to be sold this transfer window and someone new brought in. A team in the Dutch or Austrian league might be a better league for him but they won’t pay the mega bucks wages he wants and has been paid during his time with us.
 
There’s a long list of lazy-arsed, or fkin useless tossers that have been installed as an LCFC centre forward….from .Roger Davies when I started going to matches to the current incumbents.
But when we do get a good one….. they are world beaters….. step forward Jamie Vardy….although your time is done, you are cemented in our hearts. Lineker wasn’t bad either…
 
The was a discussion yesterday in the pub a out entertaining football wheres it gone??
I pointed out that it hadn't gone away
It's just evovled into a new form
I regret its not to my liking but, its results that count, as you try to blend in different types of players into one unit to make a team
My early years it was standard 2-3-5 fast raiding wingers cutting to the byline to pull the ball back into the penalty area for the centre forward then we morphedwhen the Hungarians made us look fools at Wembley
with a passing game then Alf started a new system without wingers, the game changed again it just evolves, but l was asked about skilful players of old and replied to an astonished 4 /5 people that skill is all empowering if you took say Gibbo out of the sixties into today because of his skill footwork, brains, bit of pace he would still use it to good effect because he was clever and clever footballers are good in any age as they would adapt
Sorry for moaning
 
He didn’t cause a defence who’ve conceded plenty all season a single ounce of trouble.
As has been said above, his issue is up top. Terrible attitude. I’m sure cannon is fuming.
 
When the guy who scored for them picked up the ball, Nacho just stood and watched him. He'd only been on the pitch 30 minutes. Lazy bleeder. Cannon must have upset Enzo.
 
I think frustrating rather than disappointing. He is so bloody inconsistent that when he is good he can look very good, but..........
 
DagenhamFox said:
I’ve said before with us dropping down a division I thought he’d be a real asset to us this season. The lad just looks disinterested. Lazy. Not at all engaged in his work.

Prior to this he was just not good enough to play top division football in this country. He scored a few goals and some excellent cup goals but he’s never done enough for me.

He needs to be sold this transfer window and someone new brought in. A team in the Dutch or Austrian league might be a better league for him but they won’t pay the mega bucks wages he wants and has been paid during his time with us.
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If I didn’t know any better I’d say he was German Shepherd in disguise 🥸👀
 
There are a lot of professionals that struggle with the basics, like they can't even trap a bag of cement.
Given that most of them now play on bowling greens, goodness knows how they would have coped with pitches that actually got shirts muddy.
Whilst today's generation I have no doubt are much fitter than their predecessors, I feel that the skill levels have gone down.
 
Brauny said:
There are a lot of professionals that struggle with the basics, like they can't even trap a bag of cement.
Given that most of them now play on bowling greens, goodness knows how they would have coped with pitches that actually got shirts muddy.
Whilst today's generation I have no doubt are much fitter than their predecessors, I feel that the skill levels have gone down.
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I think the requirements are very much different today.

Footballers definitely need to be fitter these days, and they definitely are. The pace of old games seems ridiculously slow now.

As for their skill sets with the ball, they need to be much quicker in the mind and be more aware of their surroundings because they have much less time on the ball. So they're probably better at one-touch football. Somewhere on Youtube there is a video involving Youri Tielemans in one of his first preseason matches for Aston Villa. They had a camera attached to his chest or something, and from that perspective it looked ridiculous how little time he had on the ball. He was also constantly on the move.

Whether and how modern footballers would cope with the heavier balls and boots and the more uneven pitches, is a very interesting question. They would certainly not be used to it and need time to adapt, that's for sure. So they would struggle at least initially, I guess.
 
swabianfox said:
I think the requirements are very much different today.

Footballers definitely need to be fitter these days, and they definitely are. The pace of old games seems ridiculously slow now.

As for their skill sets with the ball, they need to be much quicker in the mind and be more aware of their surroundings because they have much less time on the ball. So they're probably better at one-touch football. Somewhere on Youtube there is a video involving Youri Tielemans in one of his first preseason matches for Aston Villa. They had a camera attached to his chest or something, and from that perspective it looked ridiculous how little time he had on the ball. He was also constantly on the move.

Whether and how modern footballers would cope with the heavier balls and boots and the more uneven pitches, is a very interesting question. They would certainly not be used to it and need time to adapt, that's for sure. So they would struggle at least initially, I guess.
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Except they would grow up with it. Train on similar daily. It’s not like they’ll suddenly go back in time 20-30 years or more.
 
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