HIF wrote:Tielemans to Villa confirmed.
I think Tielemans is a class player and I think he'll do well at Villa. Villa did good. I say that first because I don't want people to think I'm dissing Villa or Tieleman's qualities with my following comments.
Tielemans refused to re-new his contract with us because he wanted to play CL football (we had just flopped to 5th in the prem and were only playing Europa league). Over the last couple of years Tielemans has continued to refuse to sign and we've been told by his agent that Real Madrid and Arsenal were the two most likely places he'd end up.
Now we see that Tielemans is going to a team that finished 7th in the Prem and who have a Conf league place. I can only laugh at Youri Tielemans. He has had a poor year, his mind has been elsewhere and his standard of play has dropped. This is part of the reason we were relegated, clearly it's not only Leicester fans who think this as we now see the best offer he got was from a non-CL team, a team who were not as good as us when he refused to re-sign a very lucrative deal with us.
He has incredible skill and with a manager of the quality of Unai Emery I'm sure that things will work out well. But if you see him puffing and panting to get back from March onwards next season, then you'll understand that Youri has been held back from being a world class talent because he has natural stamina issues which he has been unable to overcome. He runs out of steam in the final quarter of the season. Very intelligent as well as skilfull, i thought he'd end up at Liverpool, but tbh he needs a more sedate possession based team to thrive.
In the end it's a step sideways and another player shwoing that football is about money and a team is the supporters and not the owners nor the players.
It seems to be the general consensus for his move by Leicester fans, I get it because I felt the same when Villa got relegated and some of our players in the lead up felt the need to stop playing for the club for various reasons.
In the last 10 years I’d say Leicester have been the best team in the midlands, you’ve won the Prem and Fa Cup in that time span. Majority of teams would dream of that, while playing in an error dominated by billionaire owners and states running teams.
In regards to Youri, I’m generally pleased with the move but I’m skeptical of him due to the way he leaves teams. Also the fact his effort goes out the window when a move doesn’t materialise. I trust Emery as he was the one that pushed for this so he probably thinks he can ‘resurrect’ his career as the last 18 months he’s dropped off quite a bit. (Although some of his stats don’t look as bad as I thought they would in the last year).
He’s not likely to start for us as Douglas Luiz and Boubacar Kamara are our starters, but Tielemans will get quite a lot of game time because of the amount of games we could play this season.
