Kieran Lee - Should we have kept him?

We cant keep resigning players who have a poor injury record and over 30 because they were good 5 years ago.

Instead of Pelupessy, yes. Generally...he’ll no!

Look forward to playing Bolton next season and Lee outclassing Pelupessy who no doubt will sign a new deal.

As someone else mentioned K Lee was probably my favourite player since the 90's. 

That said it was time to move on both for us and him and hope he does well and enjoys his football at Bolton. 

Didn't we get him from somewhere like Chester? Can't remember off hand. 

Let's hope Big Daz knows someone younger, similar in the lower tier and cheap who could possibly step up like Lee did. 

4 minutes ago, matthefish2002 said:

We cant keep resigning players who have a poor injury record and over 30 because they were good 5 years ago.

 

 

How many times have we done it?

5 minutes ago, shezzas left peg said:

As someone else mentioned K Lee was probably my favourite player since the 90's. 

That said it was time to move on both for us and him and hope he does well and enjoys his football at Bolton. 

 

Didn't we get him from somewhere like Chester? Can't remember off hand. 

Let's hope Big Daz knows someone younger, similar in the lower tier and cheap who could possibly step up like Lee did. 

Oldham.

For less than £200k

Remarkable what bargains you can find when you have different eyes looking...

No

Best player in the division , yeah in L2

And he’s played 7 games 

Just for the last 5 minutes vs Rovrum?

Hell why not eh

44 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. 

We all know we should be recruiting new versions (or hoped to be new versions) of those players. 

The problem is, we released Lee and didn't even remotely do that. And my fear is, we move on the above players, and don't do that yet again. 

We should have moved Lee on and replaced him with someone younger with potential. We didn't, so if we weren't going to, we may as well have kept him. 

We should only move on the above if we have any plan about properly and adequately replacing them.

At least since 1 week ago, I hope Darren Moore might prove a big part to play in ensuring we learn from previous mistakes (Fletcher, Lee etc..) and do just that. 

4 minutes ago, shezzas left peg said:

As someone else mentioned K Lee was probably my favourite player since the 90's. 

That said it was time to move on both for us and him and hope he does well and enjoys his football at Bolton. 

 

Didn't we get him from somewhere like Chester? Can't remember off hand. 

Let's hope Big Daz knows someone younger, similar in the lower tier and cheap who could possibly step up like Lee did. 

We signed him on a free from Oldham when his contract expired, he was developing a decent reputation and was highly regarded at that level & was a product of Man Utd's academy.

Finding young, hungry players of a similar ilk to what he was at the time is definitely a route we should be looking at now. Whether he would have made a positive impact this season who knows. 

With his fitness record it was difficult to justify whether it would have been worth giving him a new contract but then as fans we didn't know the exact nature of the financial position and that we were likely to be ht with a big points penalty. If we knew at the time that we would be left with Bannan, Shaw, Hunt, Dele Bashiru, Pelupessy, Luongo and Brown to pick from in midfield then we might have wanted to still have Lee as an option.

There were signs last season that something wasn't right with Luongo's fitness and Brown's career has never pointed towards him being an ever-present. 

27 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. 

Cant blame GM mate for our lack of recruitment,it was the right move(the only move) to get these players wages off our Club,to avoid further FFP issues...Dave i totally agree with you,made no sense not to keep him in his role,but one can only assume the intention for GM was to allow him to replace him.which never happened.

Inconceivable that any football manager by choice,would start a campaign without a striker.....& he cant be held responsible either for the points deduction(12 at that point) the Clubs starting position in the League(bottom) or the wages that could be offered.

2 minutes ago, FreshOwl said:

No. Best player in the division , yeah in L2

 

Unless Moore can pull off an escape plan on par with Frank Morris's dropped a shoulder and runner from Alcatraz we'll be in league 2 ourselves in September.

5 minutes ago, FreshOwl said:

No

 

Best player in the division , yeah in L2

 

And he’s played 7 games 

Chances are we will be competing at the same level as his current team next season. Lee signed for them In January and has missed games due to COVID. 

How many games have our January signings played? 

1 minute ago, Lord Snooty said:

 

Unless Moore can pull off an escape plan on par with Frank Morris's dropped a shoulder and runner from Alcatraz we'll be in league 2 ourselves in September.

 

 

I would hope not Mi Lord! 

1 minute ago, hirstyboywonder said:

 

Chances are we will be competing at the same level as his current team next season. Lee signed for them In January and has missed games due to COVID. 

How many games have our January signings played? 

I don’t know. But what I can tell you is I’m not bothered about a half fit Kieran Lee in his 30s, having some decent games in League 2