Kelechi Iheanacho - 2016/17 Performances

[cadds92]

It will be a sale with a buy-back, that's my thinking.

We need the money for the transfer kitty.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

He has generally scored tap ins and contributed little else.I just dont see the player youre describing and obviously,neither do the management team.As for the players you mention above,thats the usual apples and oranges stuff.

Hopefully,i'm proved wrong when he moves on this summer,and he comes back a player Pep cant ignore.

No one would argue with his lack of game time if Peps alternative style of play and players picked was working but it hasnt been has it? ! Hes cocked up and made mistakes he admitted it a few weeks back. His management of Kelechi is just another one im affraid. 2 wins in 10!

 

[domalino]

I love Sane, but lets not kid ourselves, he put in more dire performances in the 1st 6 months he was at the club than Kelechi has in 2 seasons, yet he wasn't just cast aside.

Which performances were those?

Sterling was horrendous last season and continues to please and infuriate in equal measures this year but still gets chances in the side.

I imagine that's got something to do with his 10 goals and 20 assists this season...

KDB over the past couple of months has been distinctly average in a number of games. Don't even get me started on Navas.

KDB is playing because Gundogan is injured, and Navas because both RB's were injured....would you want to see Kelechi at right back instead?

I am not saying Kelechi should be replacing any of the above on a regular basis, but I am sick of our manager bemoaning our finishing time and time again and yet never turns to the guy on the bench who scores goals for fun.

...But Kelechi has been just as guilty at missing chances. He missed multiple in the league cup derby, he missed plenty in the Bucharest game, the Everton 1-1, even in the OT derby he missed a bunch of chances to kill off the game.

He started the season with Pep's confidence, he got thrown straight into the OT derby, and lost his place over the course of Aguero's suspension with bad performances.

 

[domalino]

Haha, when was that back in Oct wasnt it? That one chance they had to develop a partnership lol and we were doing better then wernt we ? Taking our chances more ? Since then its fair to say we have been missing chances left right and centre and been knocked out of everything or have i got that wrong too?

So he's had 1 chance, the same as Gabriel Jesus has had 1 chance to play with Aguero? But hang on, you just said he'd never gotten a chance?

We've been missing chances true, nothing Iheanacho has done this season suggests he wouldn't have missed them, or that we'd have gotten through those games with him on.

 

[FantasyIreland]

No one would argue with his lack of game time if Peps alternative style of play and players picked was working but it hasnt been has it? ! Hes cocked up and made mistakes he admitted it a few weeks back. His management of Kelechi is just another one im affraid. 2 wins in 10!

I just see,irrespective of rationale,its just another stick to beat the boss.

If thats your thing,i'm gonne leave you to it while i look forward him proving he and his team know far better than any of us.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

He has generally scored tap ins and contributed little else.I just dont see the player youre describing and obviously,neither do the management team.As for the players you mention above,thats the usual apples and oranges stuff.

Hopefully,i'm proved wrong when he moves on this summer,and he comes back a player Pep cant ignore.

How many times this season would we have appreciated someone in the side that could score a tap in? We all loved him when he did it at United or when he kept us top of the league against Southampton. For me, he should be playing in a lot of the home games, where the opposition stick 11 behind the ball and play for a 0-0.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

So he's had 1 chance, the same as Gabriel Jesus has had 1 chance to play with Aguero? But hang on, you just said he'd never gotten a chance?

We've been missing chances true, nothing Iheanacho has done this season suggests he wouldn't have missed them, or that we'd have gotten through those games with him on.

Jesus has been fit to start for something like 5 matches and has been paired with Aguero in one of them. Kelechi has been fit for most of the season and has been paired with him once. I don't think you can compare the two situations like that tbh.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

So he's had 1 chance, the same as Gabriel Jesus has had 1 chance to play with Aguero? But hang on, you just said he'd never gotten a chance?

We've been missing chances true, nothing Iheanacho has done this season suggests he wouldn't have missed them, or that we'd have gotten through those games with him on.

Haha no problem. Its clear you dont rate him and dont think we could have done with him the last five months, fair enough thats your opinion.

I think otherwise and rate the young lad I think we could have given him more oportunities especially as we have been missing chances but thats just mine opinion.

Good debate but clearly no point in discussing further.

 

[domalino]

Haha no problem. Its clear you dont rate him and dont think we could have done with him the last five months, fair enough thats your opinion.

I think otherwise and rate the young lad I think we could have given him more oportunities especially as we have been missing chances but thats just mine opinion.

Good debate but clearly no point in discussing further.

Actually I do rate him, I rate him incredibly highly and not just as a finisher. The difference between us is I'm not so blinkered and hellbent on blaming everything on the manager. Kelechi isn't the answer to all of our problems, hasn't looked comfortable in the team when given starts and could do with a loan somewhere he can have time to learn how to play the way we do. If he can do that, and Hoffenheim would be the perfect place for it, then he could be an incredibly good player for us in the future, under Guardiola.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

I just see,irrespective of rationale,its just another stick to beat the boss.

If thats your thing,i'm gonne leave you to it while i look forward him proving he and his team know far better than any of us.

Sorry is that someone elses rationale that you just happen to agree with or my rationale. Didnt realise this forum was suposed to be run like north korea ;-)