Kelechi Iheanacho

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He's a great player. However, think we add an extra bit of shining light to him because he's an academy player. However, is he good enough to keep Aguero/Jesus out of the equation? Reality is no, unfortunately. Therefore, we should let him move on and flourish.
 
SebastianBlue said:
I actually wasn't arguing against his potential to be better in all those aspects, I was asserting that the bits about it being Pep's fault were nonsense.
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It's pretty obvious it's Pep fault though.

It took Aguero almost the entire season to get used to the system and he looked confused before that aswell. Since Kelechi isn't Aguero he didn't get the time to get used to it and when he played he tried to hard looked afraid and confused. Kelechi under Pep and under Pellegrini is night and day because of that reason.
 
aguerooo93 said:
But I think it's premature to say he'll always be a poacher given his first touch, passing, spatial awareness and coachability.
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With his goalscoring ability I would think what I bolded would be a strong point of his game.
 
Ruzzles said:
This is nonsense.

Iheanacho is a fantastic player in the build up hence why he used to be a 10/right winger. Pep ruined him by pressuring him too much and putting too much tactical stuff into him, Iheanacho is the kind of person that takes that to heart and works way to hard and tries to hard to prove himself to Pep which resulted in him being mediocre.

Iheanacho under Pep was a confused striker that didn't know what to do who was trying to hard for his own good. He wasn't given the chance to adept like Aguero was because he isn't Aguero. Iheanacho will be a fantastic player as a goal scorer and a creator and City will buy him back.
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Unless you work for Pep, how on earth do you know that?
 
We should only let the lad go if or when someone else has lined up to come in.

To hope to get through a full season with just two main strikers is madness
 
Leicester are hoping to finalise a £25million deal to sign Manchester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho (20) this week. [Leicester Mercury]
 
I was going to say I'm surprised a bigger club hasn't gone in for him but at this stage of his career the right club should be the one that will be able to offer him the game time he needs. There was also talk of Spurs being interested at the end of the season but his agent squashed it saying City wouldn't sell to a direct rival, still Everton were another club rumoured to be interested in him which might have been a good fit.
 
Jesus Christ are people that oblivious?

It's pretty obvious that Kelechi looked confused and had no clue what to do when playing last season. If you can't see that then you either don't want to see it or you don't have a clue.

Everybody can read body language positioning etc. etc. it's not hard...

Kelechi looked confused insecure and tried way to hard. This is because he was overwhelmed by Pep's tactical demands(which we know are very demanding) and wanted to prove he could do it even though his replacement had already been bought and the minutes he had to prove himself were minimum.
 
Ruzzles said:
Jesus Christ are people that oblivious?

It's pretty obvious that Kelechi looked confused and had no clue what to do when playing last season. If you can't see that then you either don't want to see it or you don't have a clue.

Everybody can read body language positioning etc. etc. it's not hard...

Kelechi looked confused insecure and tried way to hard. This is because he was overwhelmed by Pep's tactical demands and wanted to prove he could do it even though his replacement had already been bought.
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I think you're probably right tbh. Aguero wasn't far behind for a period.

But Kelechi has been largely deprived of regular football for most of several years, which has severely impaired his development as a player imo, otherwise he might have been much more comfortable with it all. He has never had the time playing that Jesus, Sané & Sterling had.

If he plays regularly elsewhere, then he might get back to the kind of alround ability he showed before we signed him, rather than just being a prolific goalscorer.
 
Neville Kneville said:
I think you're probably right tbh. Aguero wasn't far behind for a period.

But Kelechi has been largely deprived of regular football for most of several years, which has severely impaired his development as a player imo, otherwise he might have been much more comfortable with it all. He has never had the time playing that Jesus, Sané & Sterling had.

If he plays regularly elsewhere, then he might get back to the kind of alround ability he showed before we signed him, rather than just being a prolific goalscorer.
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Yea it took Aguero like 3/4 of the season to finally get the hang of the system and the tactical demands Kelechi doesn't get that so he tries to hard in the little time he did get. But trying to hard is bad.

Kelechi will shine when he finally gets the regular football he will be the player he was for the EDS once again prolific in front of goal but also creating goals.
 
Ruzzles said:
Yea it took Aguero like 3/4 of the season to finally get the hang of the system and the tactical demands Kelechi doesn't get that so he tries to hard in the little time he did get. But trying to hard is bad.

Kelechi will shine when he finally gets the regular football he will be the player he was for the EDS once again prolific in front of goal but also creating goals.
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But don't forget he was banned for 7 of those matches, and injured for few games, so it's a slightly misleading statement.
Having said that, I agree with your overall comment.
 
personally. if I was the manager I would want to loan him out somewhere for a season where he would get to play regular football for a year in a team that likes to play possession football. make a call on him then after seeing how he has done. I wouldn't be selling him, even with a buyback clause, unless he himself is asking for a permanent move
 
depps said:
personally. if I was the manager I would want to loan him out somewhere for a season where he would get to play regular football for a year in a team that likes to play possession football. make a call on him then after seeing how he has done. I wouldn't be selling him, even with a buyback clause, unless he himself is asking for a permanent move
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Will be sold we need to balance the books and we might get upwards of 20m for him. I would try for some form of buy back clause though.
 
His Leicester move is done.


PS.
As I posted on Tuesday, Fernandos move to turkey has fallen through, doubt he will resurrect that at all as things stand.
 
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