Kieran Lee - Should we have kept him?

21 minutes ago, StudentOwl said:

He's played 7 games this season ffs

He only signed for them in January.

How many has Andre Green played? 

Just now, TheEnchanter said:

 

He's had that on and off since 2015. 

Yes, well... 

he was always a good player for me, sad he left

6 minutes ago, SallyCinnamon said:

What sort of club are we that we keep having to cling on to players of the past. 

A really badly-run one.

6 minutes ago, SallyCinnamon said:

What state are we in that we can’t look forward and find the new versions of said players.

A reeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaally bad one.

Do we know how well he's playing?  Do the fans rate him?

He was brilliant for us. Still annoys me that Dave Jones had one of the best midfielders in the division right under his nose and totally overlooked him.

Probably time to move on though

13 minutes ago, SallyCinnamon said:

What sort of club are we that we keep having to cling on to players of the past. What state are we in that we can’t look forward and find the new versions of said players.

This includes Bannan, Hutchinson, Westwood, Lees too. All need moving on imo. 

The sort of club that ended last season with a 12 point deduction going into this season so not many worth their salt were entertaining the thought of signing for us? 

Fantastic player for us 

If it wasn't for injuries he'd have been a premier league player with out a doubt. 

Best player we've had since Premier league days. 

Was the right time to move on for him and the club. 

Just sad that covid robbed us the chance to thank him at the end of last season 

30 minutes ago, parajack said:

NO........how much longer are people going to want to keep  aging,alleged injury prone players!!!!  We need to find the next younger,fitter KL and bring them on....

Your right. But the thing is we didn’t. We kept Pelupessy play Bannan in a two and had to bring back Hutch. Luongo is injured more than he plays Hunt no where near and Shaw jumped ship.

Releasing him was the right move but not replacing him wasn’t which makes releasing him the wrong move. Would have made a difference for us this season.

Hes not the only one mind you Nuhiu who we have needed to upgrade on for years would have been a massive upgrade on all our forwards. 
 

This is the mess Garry Monk left us in. Sent us backwards for years. 

8 minutes ago, Dutch McLovin said:

Your right. But the thing is we didn’t. We kept Pelupessy play Bannan in a two and had to bring back Hutch. Luongo is injured more than he plays Hunt no where near and Shaw jumped ship.

 

Releasing him was the right move but not replacing him wasn’t which makes releasing him the wrong move. Would have made a difference for us this season.

 

Hes not the only one mind you Nuhiu who we have needed to upgrade on for years would have been a massive upgrade on all our forwards. 
 

This is the mess Garry Monk left us in. Sent us backwards for years. 

Bang on the money this post... If KL was on the pitch for us we wouldn't hoof it half as much

5 minutes ago, Inspector Lestrade said:

Do we know how well he's playing?  Do the fans rate him?

“He brings final third quality and legs to the team – and that might seem strange for a 32-year-old but if you look at his data he is running more than 12k a game, which is Championship/Premier League standard, and what we want from our midfield players. He is another calm head, someone who has been there and done it. And he will bring that quality to us and give us a different option.  Kieran is able to do the other side of the game too really helps our two centre backs and helps the team function.

Ian Evatt, Bolton Manager

"Kieran Lee finished tonight's game  with a 97 per cent pass success rate.

And 44 of his 67 passes went forward... in case you think he was just playing it safe. 

Marc Iles, Chief Sports Writer Bolton News

Yes , said it at the time and even more so now , he would have been invaluable to bring on to hold a game , he would not start every game but Joey or KL tough choice 

Personally thought he should have got another year, if we had him for 15 games this season he'd have been worth a contract and anything more would have been a bonus.

Nuhiu another example, it was the right time for him to leave but did we adequately replace him? I don't think so.

Kieran Lee is exactly the type of player we've missed this season someone to break the lines.

It's easy to sit there and say about nostalgia etc being a factor but for me the biggest factor is we needed bodies it was evident that we struggled to bring players in with the signing of Kachunga.

i rather have carried a few extra players like Lee and Nuhiu who would've took reduced terms to stay and to offer us something different than sit there struggling to bring bodies in after we let them go.

People can talk about bringing through the youngsters and finding the next Kieran Lee etc all they want but at the end of the day look at our position and ask yourselves did we improve the squad this summer and did we adequately replace the outgoing players.

6 wins in a row for Bolton & Lee must be helping with that. The likelihood is that we’ll see if “he still got it” before too long. I mentioned a couple of months ago Bolton might make the play-offs; on current form make that automatic promotion! It’s a tricky one because I can see both sides of the argument but the way things have turned out this season we should have kept him & then asked him to stay again for yet another season for our 4th stint in League One! Loved the guy - heartbreaking that injury so debilitated him.