time to leave i think, he doesn't seem to put much effort in anymore and didn't look close to being bothered when he scored 2 against fulham
That's odd because he celebrated at least one of his goals( may have been both) directly in front of where I sit and he looked pretty chuffed to me. He came to City to play PL football, I'm not having it that he's not arsed about scoring.
But Erik was right; he has been ****e this season and was crap for most of last year too. I thought this after he scored his first against Fulham. Guessing that's the one you mean. His face is completely blank.
When he does leave I hope the fans are given an opportunity to give the club captain a decent send-off. Unlike the disgraceful behaviour of the club when our previous long standing skipper was hounded out of the club.
I think Koren has been a terrific player for the club, he may be past it as a PL player now. But I am chuffed he got to play and score in the PL. At the start of the season pre injury, I thought he was really effective. I don't think he warrants any of the abusive posts on here to be honest.
Agreed. Some posters on here revel in slagging him off at every given opportunity. Even his goal celebrations aren't good enough now. You watch he'll score a screamer and go mental and all the daft lads who ritually slate him will say he went over board and made a tit of himself. In some people's eyes he can't do anything right.
I've just quickly watched it again - it's just the type of celebration he's doing - it's a 'I'm the man - cool as a cucumber' type celebration. Watch the Fulham highlights again. Goal 1: Koren wins the corner from which Elmo scores from. Goal 2: Koren scores. Goal 3: Koren not involved but he's the first player to put his arms up in celebration - rubbishing the notion that he's 'not fussed' Goal 4: Koren plays a great ball to find Figueroa who has a shot which gets rebounded to Huddlestone to score. Goal 5: Koren is one of the first players to Matty Fryatt in celebration Goal 6: Koren scores. So Koren was involved in 4 of the 6 goals and celebrated all 6 of them.
x2. Definitely still has something to offer. Squad depth is everything in the premier league and Robbie gives us other options.
During the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons, I thought Koren was arguably our best player. Whenever he got the ball, I got up out of my seat in anticipation. However, since he got that injury towards the end of the 2011/12 season, I just don't think he's been the same player.
Kind of disproves the theory he never does anything. If he's happy to say and play bit part I'd keep him on for another year. I guess he'll probably want to try for one last decent contract at a decent level where there's nice weather and I wouldn't begrudge him. I definitely wouldnt let him go now unless we have a replacement for him. He looks after himself, he still looks the same player as he did when he signed 3 1/2 years ago. But if we stay up I think we'd be able to do better than him now, but not sure at what cost, number 10's aren't cheap and everyone's after them.
Hang on. Goal 1: Koren wins a corner? You mean he misses a ****ing sitter? If that was Graham who'd missed from there people would have gone mental. Instead people moaned that Sagbo didn't pass to Koren even though Koren's miss from the resulting rebound proved it was a good choice. There's some massive double standards here.
Look where the ball ends up when he goes to strike it, it's up at his hip meaning he has to readjust, and jump to strike the ball.... he then fended off the defender to make sure it went out for a corner. Danny Graham would have probably stood still pondering his miss.
Yes, from you. Koren can't do anything right in your eyes. If you can't tell the difference between a shot from a tight angle with the goalie having the goal covered that needed to be hit about waist height, and an on the floor one on one from the middle of te box with the whole goal to aim at, you're not just thick as pig **** you're blind as a bat and all. I've finally come to the conclusion that you know absolutely **** all about football and have never kicked a ball in your life.
That'd all make sense if Graham had missed "an on the floor one on one from the middle of te box with the whole goal to aim at". He hasn't, but he's an easy target to pick out so you can just invent missed chances for players like him. The above sums this board's view of Graham up, it was the same with Simpson last season. For Koren I give you countless examples and there's always some long explanation why it was really difficult, yet these issues don't seem to affect anyone else. What about when we had a counter on Saturday with the ball at Koren's feet, 3 on 2 against the defenders and he literally tackled himself while looking up for the next pass? I guess that was ignorable for some reason too. I'll say it again, the double standards are there. For certain players people go out of their way to see things differently and look to blame them, yet for others everything they get wrong is either excusable or instantly forgotten.
You're so right about double standards PLT, you're the worst for it by a million miles. A very honest self observation from you there.
