Maddison

[fuchsntf]

42 minutes ago, Koke said:

When all is said and done Maddison will walk into our best ever 11. Truly a great player who gets a bad rap for being w young millennial, and nothing boomer pundits hate more than the Maddison/Grealish/Pogba type of boys.

Yes agree,never understand boomer pundits ( no fking idea what it means..)

who keep addressing a players off field interests or antics..life is what it is…

Hes alway been or shown,like Beckham, how conscientious and dedicated to the game…& fought his way through a couple of awkward injury periods….but always tried his best,even when chasing form, like Albrighton….but when he is on it and that’s an high % of the time he’s some player to watch.and opposition fear.

 

I still hope he stays,and won’t put out petty posts,pushing the idea,how easy it is

for him to move on

[chapero82]

29 minutes ago, hebangsthedrums said:

Yes, I have to admit I have let his off pitch persona (aside from being very articulate in interviews) cloud my judgement of him at times - 2 years ago he infuriated me, but now without a doubt he is our best player. I'm not sure he would 'walk' into our best 11 though - debate for another thread but there's only 3/4 players who do that IMO (yes all title winners - Riyad/Vardy/Wes/NG) 

I still think Izzett was better 

[ARTY_FOX]

2 minutes ago, chapero82 said:

I still think Izzett was better 

Izzet was my first favourite player when I was a kid. But he wasn't better than maddison is now. 

[Koke]

Maddison - 9 goals & 5 assists in 17 league games. 

 

Mason Mount - 3 goals & 2 assists in 22 league games

 

Grealish - 3 goals & 2 assists in 18 league games 

 

Foden - 7 goals & 3 assists in 21 league games.

 

And Maddison plays in a significantly worse team than the other three. This guy is due his flowers. The football world needs to put some respect on his name.

 

Edited 25 February 2023 by Koke

[Sampson]

6 minutes ago, chapero82 said:

I still think Izzett was better 

That is definitely nostalgia talking. Loved Izzet back in the day, but he definitely wasn’t the same level as Maddison.

 

Izzet was a very good long range passer who had that one season where he got loads of assists because he took all our set pieces in Micky Adams’ long-ball and set piece side stacked full of 6ft5 players.
 

But Maddison’s technique, ball control, dribbling, goal scoring are far far above Izzet’s. His passing isn’t even any worse either.

[coolhandfox]

16 minutes ago, chapero82 said:

I still think Izzett was better 

Love Muzzy great player.

 

But on stats alone Maddison blows him out of the water.

 

Maddison has scored 8 more goals then Muzzy and has 1 more assist in 98 few games.

 

Maddison carries on a his current rate by the time he hit Muzzy appearances he's going to be on 70 PL goals and around 50 assists.

[Koke]

14 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Maddison has scored 8 more goals then Muzzy and has 1 more assist in 98 few games.

 

Astonishing stat. Izzet was a great player but Maddison is a cut above.

[Max Power]

2 minutes ago, Koke said:

 

Astonishing stat. Izzet was a great player but Maddison is a cut above.

Izzet was playing in a worse team though. Muzzy will always be right up there for me, think he’s massively underrated by the wider footballing world. 

[coolhandfox]

1 minute ago, Koke said:

 

Astonishing stat. Izzet was a great player but Maddison is a cut above.

Maddison is already are second highest PL scorer behind Vardy.

 

Outside chance he could become only the 2nd City player to hit 50 PL mark by the end of the season. 

[It'sblueupnorth]

Massively worrying that he’s injured 

[moore_94]

 

[ronnup]

Sick?

 

Stinks that

[StevieH]

Yes clearly can't shift this knee injury. Could be career defining if it doesn't get better

[Les-TA-Jon]

Just now, StevieH said:

Yes clearly can't shift this knee injury. Could be career defining if it doesn't get better

They literally said it was illness, not injury? 

[Sampson]

1 hour ago, Max Power said:

Izzet was playing in a worse team though. Muzzy will always be right up there for me, think he’s massively underrated by the wider footballing world. 

Not sure Izzet was playing in a worse midfield than Maddison has been the past 2 seasons tbh. Maddison has completely carried our midfield the past 18 months while Ndidi and Tielemans have been well well below par.

Even so, Maddison is just the far better technical player. You stick Izzet in this side instead of Maddison we’d be worse off and if you stick Maddison in O’Neill’s or Adams’ sides instead of Izzet we’d be better off, let’s be honest.

 

Izzet was a great player for us, but let’s not be silly, it’s not really a contest between him and Maddison.

[elvisfmcfly]

Here’s a question maybe it’s already been asked, put Maddison of today in the title winning team, what happens? 

[Tuna]

Who was it on here who said he was a wimp with injuries etc?

 

Proof if it were needed.

 

Put it this way, maybe Southgate has sussed him out which is why he wasn't selected for England until the World Cup.

 

His fitness issues would be a concern for a big six club.

[Dahnsouff]

2 minutes ago, elvisfmcfly said:

Here’s a question maybe it’s already been asked, put Maddison of today in the title winning team, what happens? 

We don’t win anything because Maddison is too unreliable in terms of availability due to injury

[CosbehFox]

1 minute ago, Tuna said:

Who was it on here who said he was a wimp with injuries etc?

 

Proof if it were needed.

 

Put it this way, maybe Southgate has sussed him out which is why he wasn't selected for England until the World Cup.

 

His fitness issues would be a concern for a big six club.

Don’t know the extent of the illness. Norovirus has been about and that’s hardly conclusive to playing well (or spreading it around your squad, a week before the biggest game of the season) 

Edited 25 February 2023 by CosbehFox

[Tuna]

3 minutes ago, elvisfmcfly said:

Here’s a question maybe it’s already been asked, put Maddison of today in the title winning team, what happens? 

Nowt, he'd be on the bench.

[Tuna]

5 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Don’t know the extent of the illness. Norovirus has been about and that’s hardly conclusive to playing well (or spreading it around your squad, a week before the biggest game of the season) 

100%, agreed I guess I'm just fed up with him missing games 

[An Sionnach]

I have noticed he has been putting himself about a bit more lately, good for him. However with his "bag of bones" build impact hurts that little bit more.

[Sampson]

17 minutes ago, elvisfmcfly said:

Here’s a question maybe it’s already been asked, put Maddison of today in the title winning team, what happens? 

The title winning team functioned so well as a team and all complimented each other that I think changing a single player would cause the whole team to weaken though. 

 

Even if Maddison was theoretically a better player than say Okazaki, Okazaki did so much dirty work that allowed Vardy and Mahrez more freedom. 
 

In some ways I’m not even sure sticking someone like De Bruyne in the title winning side would improve it as it’s throw the whole side off balance.

[It'sblueupnorth]

2 hours ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

They literally said it was illness, not injury? 

Tbf do you believe anything that comes out of the club about injuries 😂 hopefully it is just illness 

[Manley Farrington-Brown]

19 hours ago, elvisfmcfly said:

Here’s a question maybe it’s already been asked, put Maddison of today in the title winning team, what happens? 

Several possibilities:

 

We could get disqualified for fielding twelve players.

 

But otherwise it depends who he replaces. If he plays instead of Vardy we probably don't score as many goals; if he plays instead of Huth or Morgan we probably let in a lot more goals; if he plays in goal it would be a disaster...

 

Hypotheticals are ridiculous, of course. But basically, you change one single thing that happens between King Power buying the club and sometime around Easter 2016, and we don't win the league.