Kelechi Iheanacho - 2016/17 Performances

[Churchlawtonblue]

So your alternative is the manager doesn't pick the players who will do the best at the style of football he's set the team up to play?

Hoffenheim play as similar a style of football to Guardiola as anyone in Europe. If the club is setting up a loan deal with them, it's because they think Kelechi has got the potential to do well in that style of play, but needs a season with a lower level of competition to get more game time to come to terms with it and get up to speed.

This lower level of competition bit baffles me when everyone knows one of our problems is that we havent been taking our chances this year. What competition hs he been up against these past five months exactly? aside from peps blatant refusal to give the lad a chance.

 

[domalino]

This lower level of competition bit baffles me when everyone knows one of our problems is that we havent been taking our chances this year. What competition hs he been up against these past five months exactly? aside from peps blatant refusal to give the lad a chance.

Sergio Aguero? The most deadly striker in premier league history and a guy who's got 31 goals this season despite being out for 10 games of it? You may have heard of him.

Gabriel Jesus, Brazil's number 9, most hyped up young player we've ever signed coming in and being polished and brilliant added another level of competition he just can't cope with at the moment too.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Sergio Aguero? The most deadly striker in premier league history and a guy who's got 31 goals this season despite being out for 10 games of it? You may have heard of him.

Gabriel Jesus, Brazil's number 9, most hyped up young player we've ever signed coming in and being polished and brilliant added another level of competition he just can't cope with at the moment too.

You clearly havent noticed that Aguero despite being the best striker in the PL hasnt been able to carry MCFC all on his own.

And fyi Jesus has been out for four months.

You seem to be sugesting that we have been taking all our chances up front this year? Is that what you are telling me?

 

[domalino]

You clearly havent noticed that Aguero despite being the best striker in the PL hasnt been able to carry MCFC all on his own.

And fyi Jesus has been out for four months.

You seem to be sugesting that we have been taking all our chances up front this year? Is that what you are telling me?

So you would have dropped Aguero, with 12 goals in his last 12 games, for Iheanacho?

You seem to be sugesting that we have been taking all our chances up front this year? Is that what you are telling me?

No, despite your rather desperate attempts to put those words in my mouth, I have in fact not said them.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

So you would have dropped Aguero, with 12 goals in his last 12 games, for Iheanacho?



No, despite your rather desperate attempts to put those words in my mouth, I have in fact not said them.

No one is talking about dropping aguero, give Nacho some reasonable game time, at least 15 - 20 minutes in every game. Nacho is a game changer

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

So you would have dropped Aguero, with 12 goals in his last 12 games, for Iheanacho?



No, despite your rather desperate attempts to put those words in my mouth, I have in fact not said them.

Thw point i was making and which you have avoided answering is that nearly everybody knows we have not been taking our chances this year. Aguero despite being fantastic hasnt been able to do it all and the goals from midfield have dried up. Our new lad Jesus gets injured and Kelechi still gets fuck all game time despite being a finisher. I could have played Aguero and Kelechi together more. Kelechi is also nearly 6.2 so he does offer another option as oposed to our small attack. Basically i think its piss poor from Pep.

 

[domalino]

No one is talking about dropping aguero, give Nacho some reasonable game time, at least 15 - 20 minutes in every game. Nacho is a game changer

Except when he's not. Like against bucharest, Everton, Spurs, Leicester, Burnley or United.

Fact is, in pretty much every scenario, keeping Aguero on is more likely to result in a goal than takign him off for Iheanacho, and beleive it or not, just throwing on all your strikers isn't the best way to get a goal either.

When he's played this season, he's looked uncomfortable with the system and not in touch with the rest of the team. He needs to go somewhere, like Hoffenheim, where he can get a whole season of playing that style of football, loads of time on the pitch to get comfortable with it and succeed, and then when he comes back he could be a genuine option.

 

[domalino]

I could have played Aguero and Kelechi together more.

Just throwing on more strikers doesn't mean better finishing or more goals FFS. If that's really what you believe than I give up. Perhaps we should have kept Bony too and played 3, as that would have gotten us more goals.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Haha,this thread is comical.

Kelechi is a young lad with potential but also an awful lot to learn.He isnt currently good enough to be a starting player,as the opportunities he has been given have seen him largely anonymous.We have superior players who are keeping him out of the team,thats not Pep's fault.....its just the way it is......and no manager is going to change that just to appease a few unrealistic and hyperbolic supporters.

Those suggesting he is better than Rashford or Mbappe need to wake up,he really doesnt have their qualities at this moment in time and he certainly wouldnt be keeping them out of their respective sides.Hopefully we can find a suitable club willing to take him on loan where he can blossom into the kind of forward many predicted.

PeP FC....?? lol,do fuck off.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Yes that is *the* truth.

I'd love to hear you define that "single very specific" way of playing, see if you can actually nail it down instead of just parroting the media drive BS that Guardiola is some sort of dogmatic idealist who doesn't compromise.

Well there you go, maybe I'm just parroting media driven bullshit, maybe you are a member of the Cult of Pep FC and are deluded. Maybe it's neither, maybe we just have different opinions. I watch us every week and I know what I see, I don't expect you to agree with me on anything and that's fine, after all we all perceive the game differently. I realise that all successful clubs have a preferred way of playing but I also think plenty of them are able to win matches in different ways if need be. If you don't think Pep is absolutely devoted to certain principles of playing football then I'm surprised. The club itself (Soriano was it?) has stated certain principles in terms of way of playing football that we must stick to and presumably brought Pep in because he buys fully into those principles. What is that if it isn't dogmatic, idealisitic and without compromise? Only my opinion though, it's nice that you have *the* truth though.