Popular Post Tuna Posted 15 April 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 15 April 2023 (edited) Pleased Cags is back in the team but it's ridiculous that he has been excluded all season and his treatment by Rodgers was shameful, situations like this should not occur at football clubs. Edited 15 April 2023 by Tuna 22 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickyblueeyes Posted 15 April 2023 Share Posted 15 April 2023 Seeing Cags today, I can’t believe I thought the parasite was right about him. The best defensive performance we have had all season. Disgusting that he hasn’t been playing. Like I said in the match day thread, Top is a piece of shit for what he has allowed Rodgers to do to so many at this club. I hope he performs and plays for the rest of the season and leaves us not as a relegated club. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusko187 Posted 15 April 2023 Share Posted 15 April 2023 Is he definitely off to Atletico? Or perhaps there's some way we can convince him to stay? Cannot believe Rodgers has not used him, night and day the better CB today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Posted 15 April 2023 Share Posted 15 April 2023 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Rusko187 said: Is he definitely off to Atletico? Or perhaps there's some way we can convince him to stay? Cannot believe Rodgers has not used him, night and day the better CB today. Not sure how pre contract agreements work if they binding or not, but we need to stay in the EPL first before it would even be a consideration I would have thought. The fire in his eyes though at least indicates he wants to play football instead of just collecting his wage. Edited 15 April 2023 by Chrysalis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hales Posted 15 April 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 15 April 2023 Kudos to Cags for keeping himself match fit for these months of not playing. He was first in the training video lined up to get going. Has seen this as a fresh start and grasped it with both hands by putting in a good performance. Again considering he hasnt played he didnt seem rusty. Clearly kept himself fit and focussed. Well done Cags. Top professional 💙 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post John12345 Posted 15 April 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 15 April 2023 One benefit of his reinstatement is it makes Rodgers look like the **** we all know he is. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nicolo Barella Posted 16 April 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 16 April 2023 My king has redeemed himself. I was starting to think that after so long without featuring that maybe he had indeed lost it and didnt deserve to play, but I just had Rodgers syndrome. Fck this makes me so mad. We didn't have to watch Amartey play every week. We could have had big Cags. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCFCJohn Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 8 hours ago, Col city fan said: I have no idea why he was ousted by Rodgers but consistently playing Amartey over Soyuncu could herald to be Rodgers biggest error of all. Soyuncu we know can blow hot and cold but I’d play him over Amartey every day of the week and twice on Sundays. If both fit and able to play, we could go back to an Evans/Soyuncu partnership. But I expect Smith to often play three CB’s. I thought Smith preferred two cbs? I reckon f Barnes is back it’s a no brained to play a back 4 with wingers (Barnes and Tete) either side of Nacho. If it is a back 4 though, and assuming Evans is a continuous sick note, do you think Soyuncu and Souttar would work together? I feel that Soy and Faes would be a bit…..of an accident waiting to happen. Whereas Souttar seems a more steady, Evans like, type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LCFCJohn Posted 16 April 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 16 April 2023 6 hours ago, Hales said: Kudos to Cags for keeping himself match fit for these months of not playing. He was first in the training video lined up to get going. Has seen this as a fresh start and grasped it with both hands by putting in a good performance. Again considering he hasnt played he didnt seem rusty. Clearly kept himself fit and focussed. Well done Cags. Top professional 💙 But according to Rodgers, He IsN’t TrAiNiNg WeLl! 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 36 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said: But according to Rodgers, He IsN’t TrAiNiNg WeLl! And people took that for gospel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 Has he actually signed a deal with Atletico yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox1980 Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 (edited) 38 minutes ago, StanSP said: Has he actually signed a deal with Atletico yet? Don’t know but like Tielemans he holds all the cards now his contract is nearly up and let’s be honest can’t see him staying here no matter what league we’re in over going to Madrid and challenging in Europe and being one of the top 3 in La liga every year Edited 16 April 2023 by Fox1980 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyrobot Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 Smith clearly likes Cags. That support from the boss was backed yesterday, he was clearly our best centre back. I think he’ll start alongside Souttar in a back 4 v Wolves. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Buzzell Posted 16 April 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 16 April 2023 And after all our defensive issues that we have had over the past few seasons, Cags being left out because of Rodgers is absolutely criminal. Just goes to show that some of the decisions Rodgers made were ridiculous. Thank **** he’s gone. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dan LCFC Posted 16 April 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 16 April 2023 13 hours ago, Pliskin said: It’s just proof that Brendan was willing to sacrifice the team to stroke his ego. As we all knew. Our board keeping that dickhead here until April could be looked back on for years. I wonder how long it will take for me to not get annoyed just thinking about what Rodgers did to us. Absolute parasite. Fraud. As funny as it would be for him to **** Spurs up it would be galling to see him somehow get a good job off the back of this. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzell Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 Rodgers with his ego and stubbornness are exactly the reason why we are where we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio Fannieri Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 (edited) Great to see Cags back in the side and i thought he was excellent, especially given he has hardly kicked a ball in anger this season and also given the opponents. I cannot believe he has been frozen out all season and is one of the reasons why we have ended up on the brink of relegation. I am not ITK so just pure conjecture, but I think Cags may well have spoken out against Rodgers for his treatment of Cengiz Under, remember they were best mates from childhood and too be honest Under was in and out and never really got a chance or a sustained run in the team, I think this was the catalyst for the falling out and Rodgers then freezing out Cags. Anyone listened to the Undr the Cosh episode with David Cotterill, he is damning off Rodgers, who froze him out after missing 2 penalties in consecutive games and then literally bullied him out of the club…… Edited 16 April 2023 by Claudio Fannieri 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Aleksz Posted 16 April 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 16 April 2023 Much like the situation with Iversen, if he’d come into the team sooner we might have a good few more points by now. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 He’s clearly our best CB, so the question is who partners him in defence for the rest of the season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafewayFox Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 4 minutes ago, Shane said: He’s clearly our best CB, so the question is who partners him in defence for the rest of the season. It depends what Smith/Terry opt for. Faes and Cags are more front footed and almost admitting that we aren’t all of a sudden go to behind hard to scoring against but will at least have strikers being in a battle throughout. Or, Cags and Souttar offers more of a balanced, one high press and one more pragmatic, my big concern with that is Souttar’s reading of the game seems to be worsening in each game. How he plays a striker on (every game) and is often in no man’s land with minimal pace is criminal and reminds me why he has been in the Championship up until this point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 Yeah, he's not been training well yet plays a full game, fit and motivated, against a top side. He also played well in the home game against them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beachyboy Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 3 hours ago, LCFCJohn said: I thought Smith preferred two cbs? I reckon f Barnes is back it’s a no brained to play a back 4 with wingers (Barnes and Tete) either side of Nacho. If it is a back 4 though, and assuming Evans is a continuous sick note, do you think Soyuncu and Souttar would work together? I feel that Soy and Faes would be a bit…..of an accident waiting to happen. Whereas Souttar seems a more steady, Evans like, type. Smith sounds flexible according to the players available, personally I'd play Evans, Souttar and Cags with Barnes out next weekend. It also means there's more protection and less need or point in playing Ndidi. Evans has to play Saturday, if we feel confident playing with 2 Cbs, drop Souttar as we only have a 3 day turn around between Wolves and Leeds. Gotta play Evans once a week, he's basically fit now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox_favourite Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 Rodgers was jealous of his man hood size! In all seriousness, I would love to know what the reason was, but it looks like Cags has taken the new manager as a clean slate which is good to see. Credit for Smith for throwing him straight in. They must have thought - why hasn’t he be playing. Let’s hope it continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grebfromgrebland Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 I thought it was because he bottled that tackle against spurs and wasn't risking injury to himself as he anticipated a move away? Hence not being fully committed in training either? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafewayFox Posted 16 April 2023 Share Posted 16 April 2023 2 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said: I thought it was because he bottled that tackle against spurs and wasn't risking injury to himself as he anticipated a move away? Hence not being fully committed in training either? That was the Rodgers narrative but if he trained that poorly, he is a freak of nature as didn’t look like someone who was unfit/unprofessional. A bit of rustiness but by far our best CB yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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