Caleb Okoli Signs

[honeybradger]

1 hour ago, MPH said:

 

This guy stands no chance does he?

 

 

Young guy moved  club and  country and is trying to learn the language, settle in and people are vilifying him before he’s played a professional game. 
 

you’d think pre-season would be the perfect  time to get new player in.. help them learn the position..

 

 

 

I hope all those criticizing  were the top performers  at their companies less than a month after joining..

I am less annoyed at the player and more annoyed that we seem to have spaffed the majority of our transfer budget on a centre back who doesnt seem to improve our defence.

 

The fault lies with our ownership and scouts for this one.

Edited 10 August by honeybradger

[pleatout]

Wasnt impressed today, but then I said - walking away from Sincil Bank - "dont rate the Fuchs much".

 

Be delighted to for it to proved (yet again) that after over 50 years of watching this lot I know the square root of SFA about football.

[Clever Fox]

3 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

It's baffling that we aren't progressing in our academy players compared to other clubs, really liked how Liverpool in their summer friendlies have nicely slotted in their youngsters and given them a chance

Yes, One of the things I read in signing Cooper was his abilty to bring young players through.

 

Yet he's given none of them a chance and in fact it seems he want's to ship them all out on Loan. Leaving it to others to develop them.

 

While standing over the signing of inferior players or players maybe for the future, When what we need is proven quality right now. 

[The Doctor]

23 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

other than the fact a few of them are crap, you mean?

 

This poor guy needs at least a few league games before we judge him, surely?

got to ask why we signed him though. we've got Faes, Coady, Souttar on long term contracts, we just renewed Vestergaard, we've got a promising young CB in Nelson. Now, yes Faes is a bombshell and Souttar is a championship player but there is no point spending significant amounts of your budget signing positions you're well stacked in while having basically no depth in centre midfield and having already lost a centre midfielder, unless you're planning to actually move on the players you've already got.

[Clever Fox]

2 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

got to ask why we signed him though. we've got Faes, Coady, Souttar on long term contracts, we just renewed Vestergaard, we've got a promising young CB in Nelson. Now, yes Faes is a bombshell and Souttar is a championship player but there is no point spending significant amounts of your budget signing positions you're well stacked in while having basically no depth in centre midfield and having already lost a centre midfielder, unless you're planning to actually move on the players you've already got.

More Importantly no Striker to lead the line, Score goals, Hold the Ball up, Bring others into play, Take pressure from our midfield and defence.

 

It's a CF we need not another CB.

[Paninistickers]

Hopefully we can loan the lad out before transfer deadline day. 

[MPH]

24 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

I am less annoyed at the player and more annoyed that we seem to have spaffed the majority of our transfer budget on a centre back who doesnt seem to improve our defence.

 

The fault lies with our ownership and scouts for this one.

 

but this post still judges him before he’s even played a professional game for us.. owners to be blamed or not..

[honeybradger]

9 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

but this post still judges him before he’s even played a professional game for us.. owners to be blamed or not..

He's played quite a few professional games and the fans who had watched him previously all said that he has good physical attributes but lacks a defensive brain and has some stray passing, which is what we're seeing in pre season.

 

Sadly that's not going to change overnight, I dont think he's a bad defender, he's the type that's good in the right system but then so are all our other defenders. Realistically we could have stuck it out with Faes and Vestergaard and I think we wouldn't be any worse off, and we've spent too much money on Okoli for him to just be more of the same.

[Blue-fox]

🐎 💩 

[South Shire Fox]

Hope he comes good but you can bet your life Maresca wouldnt of signed him if he was still in charge. If you arent comfortable on the ball then you arent really much use at this level.

Edited 10 August by South Shire Fox

[SafewayFox]

Way too early to put him in the bin even if the early signs from previous clubs/limited pre-season games suggests too.

 

I’m with the many others that are frustrated we have blown so much of our limited budget on a position we are stacked in.

[Jazzy_Jeff]

Didn’t see the game yesterday but fro

 previous pre-season games he looks like he was brought up to stop us being bullied.

 

We were very soft back there and he’s the muscle we didn’t have. I’m not expecting him to be a Maldini on the ball, but am expecting his to put his head/boot in 

[ClaphamFox]

14 minutes ago, Jazzy_Jeff said:

Didn’t see the game yesterday but fro

 previous pre-season games he looks like he was brought up to stop us being bullied.

 

We were very soft back there and he’s the muscle we didn’t have. I’m not expecting him to be a Maldini on the ball, but am expecting his to put his head/boot in 

So during his childhood in Vicenza, his father was saying to him, “My child, one day you’ll be defending corners at the King Power stadium alongside Wout Faes - and you need to be ready for it…”

[Clever Fox]

4 hours ago, Jazzy_Jeff said:

Didn’t see the game yesterday but fro

 previous pre-season games he looks like he was brought up to stop us being bullied.

 

We were very soft back there and he’s the muscle we didn’t have. I’m not expecting him to be a Maldini on the ball, but am expecting his to put his head/boot in 

I hope you're right because we've been too soft for to long. If he's any good he and Coady might make a decent partnership.

[Vindaloo FOX]

Looks a bomb scare to me. 

[Richmondfox]

11 hours ago, honeybradger said:

He's played quite a few professional games and the fans who had watched him previously all said that he has good physical attributes but lacks a defensive brain and has some stray passing, which is what we're seeing in pre season.

 

Sadly that's not going to change overnight, I dont think he's a bad defender, he's the type that's good in the right system but then so are all our other defenders. Realistically we could have stuck it out with Faes and Vestergaard and I think we wouldn't be any worse off, and we've spent too much money on Okoli for him to just be more of the same.

I’m not sure what type of defender he is.

He hasn’t came across as a brick shithouse commanding the area and dominating with his size.  He didn’t have great reading of the game and his passing out the back wasn’t great. In the Palermo game he was passing to Soumare which didn’t help though. 
 

I would’ve preferred Doyle again on loan or use Nelson. They could've saved 10m to use on areas we actually need. 
 

It has to be Vestagaard to Winks or pinging up the pitch quickly. 

[cityfanlee23]

4 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

So during his childhood in Vicenza, his father was saying to him, “My child, one day you’ll be defending corners at the King Power stadium alongside Wout Faes - and you need to be ready for it…”

Credit to his dad but for his foresight but I don’t think anyone could be prepared for that 

[Clever Fox]

I expect the pace and agression of the premier league will catch him out quickly if he's not ready for it.

 

I would have prefered if we gave Nelson his big chance. I can only think of one mistake by him in the games he played.

[DezFox]

Looks pretty poor. Hopeful improves in competitive matches. Otherwise,  just add to it the long list of constant mistakes made by everyone at the club 😂

Edited 11 August by DezFox

[Tielemans63]

14 hours ago, jock2612 said:

Another poor call by Cooper.

I really don't think Cooper gets much of a say in who comes in and who leaves. Listen to his post-match interviews, he's as frustrated as the rest of us.

[ozvaldo]

Pre-season or not, he’s been awful. 
Just watch the highlights from yesterday. 
He can’t pass the ball or competently control a stray pass. 
 

Don’t tell me he’s “learning the language” and therefore that justifies a complete inability to defend. 
 

Our season will be summed up by signing this clown. Spunk the majority of our limited budget on someone who doesn’t improve us when we’ve got ample in that position. 

[CosbehFox]

Those highlights 😳

[Ian Nacho]

Don't get why we've signed him when we're wanting to pass it around the back. The bloke is awful with the ball at his feet. 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Strange signing in that I don't think he's better than Souttar. We just seem to love wasting money for some reason.

[Lcfc82]

2 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Strange signing in that I don't think he's better than Souttar. We just seem to love wasting money for some reason.

Seems like a signing we didn’t need. Another one who’s going to be a nightmare to get rid of, be sending him out on loan for the duration of his contract.