And it’s not even the Nat Phillips thread…
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well we are 100% not signing this lad.
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On the offal too;
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Did well. Probably just not good enough but worked hard. Will have a good career and hopefully we cross paths again.
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Cool, nice touch.
Thanks for the effort and good luck.
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Shame. I thought he did more than well. In fact, I don’t know what more he could have done.
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I thought it was fascinating that Nat commented on speaking to him in German during games as I just assumed he was able to speak English. Add that to the list of reasons he shouldn’t have been able to perform
- Sneaky young (the fact we were linked to him in the summer as a real target, rather than a Steve Caulker type emergency target I think fooled me into thinking he was more advanced than we’ve got a right to expect from a 20 year old CB
- Played half a season in a terrible, confidence sapping side that was imploding from inside
- Walked into the situation he did
- Language barrier
I dont know he did enough to justify to me as an outside that we should have made it permanent, but under those circumstances I dont know if there is anything you could have expected from him.
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Kabak can speak English. They would speak German to each other because the opposition wouldn’t understand.
Kabak did well and deserves credit, but didn’t show enough to warrant being signed really.
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Why do the Turkish use English type alphabets???
I believe the use of Latin script was implementeted for a number of reasons, it being better adapted to the Turk language (lots of consonants rather than vowels (perhaps easiler to learn?)), legal (copy right etc) and cultural (allignment with powerful western countries rather than dominated eastern ones).
Over time Turks have used a good number of alphabets and seem to follow current cultural influences. The official turkish alphabet has 29 letters i think.
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I guess this was one of the many thing Ata Turk adopted in his drive to modernize Turkey.
Yep, his alphabet reform started in 1928 and was very influential to modernising and westerniseing Turkey. Looking to the west even up to recently (he’s quite the model leader in those parts).
Schalke confirmed that Ozan won’t return to training this week to take care of his future.
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Liverpool: no thanks.
Schalke: show us the money!
Kabak: find me a new home.
Seen some talk of Leicester, that’d be good for him.
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I’d say there it’d be 2 from Soyuncu, Kabak and Fofanna and for Turkey it’d be 2 from Soyuncu, Kabak and Demiral and having only just turned 21 that’d be perfect level of playing and responsibility for him. Not many places would be willing to just jump in and put him down as the pencilled in starter week in week out. A team at Leicester level willing to have him in that level of rotation and potentially playing in Europe would be real good for him.
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Even then it’s a great option for both him and Leicester.
I don’t know who Leicester’s first choice CB pair, but from what I have seen of Kabak, he is good enough to challenge Soyuncu or Fofanna.
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See; I don’t think he is. But he’s still young, so time is on his side.
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You don’t think he is better than Soyuncu or Fofanna? I think Soyuncu is overrated, haven’t seen much about Fofanna.
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Doesn’t matter who out of those 3 is best. For a team competing in Europe you can’t just have 2 starting CBs plus back up. Doesn’t work. Too many talk like that about our options too. For Leicester that’d be 3 real good, young, improving CBs that any of which could play any time based on form, fitness and rotation for keeping them fresh with veteran 33 year old Evans around to plug gaps. That’s a quite good balance and better than many in the top teams.
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