Luke Thomas

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Greetings lads, friendly Leicester fan here to keep upto date on Luke's development.

Some background:
Luke is a local lad who came through the academy and managed to break through into the first team in 2020 when for two years of Covid we had a Champions League level team about to finish Top 4. Due to Ben Chilwell's injury, Luke had a chance to prove himself.

Luke then made his first European debut in October 2020 at the age of 19.

Due to further injuries in 2021, Luke started in our FA Cup Final win against Chelsea.
This was a key changing point, where our then manager felt that after being part of a trophy win, Luke was finally ready.

Because before this, Thomas could do a job when our starters were injured, but he never really cemented himself as a European qualifying starter.

However, the next 2 years were our downfall.
- In 2022 we had a bad season and dropped by finishing 8th, meaning no Europa league for us in 2023.
- In 2023 we were shockingly relegated and here we are. This is because our former manager completely lost the dressing room due to not replacing our goalkeeper and captain Schmeichel who left, personal issues with certain players, not playing our best starting 11, terrible transfer business and horrendous set-piece and backline defending.

During all of this, Luke started to get exposed a bit more. His physicallity was lacking and his energy was not long lasting. Not to mention the toxic management for the last 2 years which definitely impacted his confidence.

The right move all along would have been to send Luke Thomas on loan at the start of the 21/22 season, so he would become a decent Premier League player organically.

I believe rushing him into European fixtures, league starts and Top 4 chases did more harm than good to his development.
Not to mention giving him £25k a week at the age of 19.....

In this thread feel free to comment honestly about his performances over the rest of this season.
 
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TheMightyFoxes said:
Greetings lads, friendly Leicester fan here to keep upto date on Luke's development.

Some background:
Luke is a local lad who came through the academy and managed to break through into the first team in 2020 when for two years of Covid we had a Champions League level team about to finish Top 4. Due to Ben Chilwell's injury, Luke had a chance to prove himself.

Luke then made his first European debut in October 2020 at the age of 19.

Due to further injuries in 2021, Luke started in our FA Cup Final win against Chelsea.
This was a key changing point, where our then manager felt that after being part of a trophy win, Luke was finally ready.

Because before this, Thomas could do a job when our starters were injured, but he never really cemented himself as a European qualifying starter.

However, the next 2 years were our downfall.
- In 2022 we had a bad season and dropped by finished 8th, meaning no Europa league for us in 2023.
- In 2023 we were shockingly relegated and here we are. This is because our former manager completely lost the dressing room due to not replacing our goalkeeper and captain Schmeichel who left, personal issues with certain players, not playing our best starting 11, terrible transfer business and horrendous set-piece and backline defending.

During all of this, Luke started to get exposed a bit more. His physicallity was lacking and his energy was not long lasting. Not to mention the toxic management for the last 2 years which definitely impacted his confidence.

The right move all along would have been to send Luke Thomas on loan at the start of the 21/22 season, so he would become a decent Premier League player organically.

I believe rushing him into European fixtures, league starts and Top 4 chases did more harm than good to his development.
Not to mention giving him £25k a week at the age of 18.....

In this thread feel free to comment honestly about his performances over the rest of this season.
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Hello Roofie, your fooling no one.
 
TheMightyFoxes said:
Greetings lads, friendly Leicester fan here to keep upto date on Luke's development.

Some background:
Luke is a local lad who came through the academy and managed to break through into the first team in 2020 when for two years of Covid we had a Champions League level team about to finish Top 4. Due to Ben Chilwell's injury, Luke had a chance to prove himself.

Luke then made his first European debut in October 2020 at the age of 19.

Due to further injuries in 2021, Luke started in our FA Cup Final win against Chelsea.
This was a key changing point, where our then manager felt that after being part of a trophy win, Luke was finally ready.

Because before this, Thomas could do a job when our starters were injured, but he never really cemented himself as a European qualifying starter.

However, the next 2 years were our downfall.
- In 2022 we had a bad season and dropped by finished 8th, meaning no Europa league for us in 2023.
- In 2023 we were shockingly relegated and here we are. This is because our former manager completely lost the dressing room due to not replacing our goalkeeper and captain Schmeichel who left, personal issues with certain players, not playing our best starting 11, terrible transfer business and horrendous set-piece and backline defending.

During all of this, Luke started to get exposed a bit more. His physicallity was lacking and his energy was not long lasting. Not to mention the toxic management for the last 2 years which definitely impacted his confidence.

The right move all along would have been to send Luke Thomas on loan at the start of the 21/22 season, so he would become a decent Premier League player organically.

I believe rushing him into European fixtures, league starts and Top 4 chases did more harm than good to his development.
Not to mention giving him £25k a week at the age of 18.....

In this thread feel free to comment honestly about his performances over the rest of this season.
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Did not realise, he was on £25 k was going to ask if you thought there was chance we could sign him permanently if things went well here but wages might rule us out anyways
 
He's probably playing this match because Carrick doesn't want to risk Engel before the Leicester game as we have no other natural cover apart from Thomas who can't obviously play on Saturday. Saying that I hope he has a class match for us tonight, the team needs it and it might just give Engel the drive to put in a performance on Saturday, and while we should lose that one( the foxes will definitely want to give us a drubbing), we are the kind of team who might normally lose to a lesser team we might also just give you your only double defeat all season. UTB
 
Thanks for the insight o.p. I have high hopes the lad will make a positive contribution and become our first choice LB.
 
Find it interesting that a young academy player in U18 or U21 played exclusively LB then made his breakthrough into the senior team as LM for at least the first 15 months played more LM than LB without being notable in the assists metric from there.
 
I thought he played quite well tonight. I think it was his first start for us.

I doubt we would be paying him £25k/week now or next year. More like £18k to £20k/week Our average player is in that range. Full back are usually not the highest paid in a team.
 
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I thought he played quite well tonight. I think it was his first start for us.

I doubt we would be paying him £25k/week now or next year. More like £18k to £20k/week Our average player is in that range. Full back are usually not the highest paid in a team.
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It's a very good question that ..
Of our actual signed players , who are playing.. I'd be surprised if it's that high tbh.
Can't see HH , Engel , RVDB , Bangura, Jones , Glover , coburn, Silvera , Smith, ELL or Barlaser on that.

McNair,Clarke , Greenwood, Howson, Ayling, Thomas, Fry maybe ( premier League wages / here when we spent bigger )
 
TheMightyFoxes said:
Greetings lads, friendly Leicester fan here to keep upto date on Luke's development.

Some background:
Luke is a local lad who came through the academy and managed to break through into the first team in 2020 when for two years of Covid we had a Champions League level team about to finish Top 4. Due to Ben Chilwell's injury, Luke had a chance to prove himself.

Luke then made his first European debut in October 2020 at the age of 19.

Due to further injuries in 2021, Luke started in our FA Cup Final win against Chelsea.
This was a key changing point, where our then manager felt that after being part of a trophy win, Luke was finally ready.

Because before this, Thomas could do a job when our starters were injured, but he never really cemented himself as a European qualifying starter.

However, the next 2 years were our downfall.
- In 2022 we had a bad season and dropped by finishing 8th, meaning no Europa league for us in 2023.
- In 2023 we were shockingly relegated and here we are. This is because our former manager completely lost the dressing room due to not replacing our goalkeeper and captain Schmeichel who left, personal issues with certain players, not playing our best starting 11, terrible transfer business and horrendous set-piece and backline defending.

During all of this, Luke started to get exposed a bit more. His physicallity was lacking and his energy was not long lasting. Not to mention the toxic management for the last 2 years which definitely impacted his confidence.

The right move all along would have been to send Luke Thomas on loan at the start of the 21/22 season, so he would become a decent Premier League player organically.

I believe rushing him into European fixtures, league starts and Top 4 chases did more harm than good to his development.
Not to mention giving him £25k a week at the age of 19.....

In this thread feel free to comment honestly about his performances over the rest of this season.
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I mentioned this when he first arrived.
Syston lad, seemed to have lost his way a little with the ongoing politics between Chairman and Rogers, then Smith trying to do a fire-fighting job. The new gaffa had no place for him, so any upward trajectory was going to be interrupted. He's a good player, with some good movement on and off the ball. He has a turn of pace and an eye for the next target, but Boro don't have players of the quality he used to play alongside, neither had Sheffield United.
He’s still only 22 and has more Premier and European experience than the vast majority of Boro`s team put together.
We should keep him, in my opinion.
It's no discredit to a lad when he was thrown into European football at the age of 19.
Just imagine Engle, Van Den Berg or Coburn in that position at that age.
Perhaps not enough of the Seagrave air has sapped his strength.
It's the Cheese Cobs he needs to build him up a bit, and a pint or two in the Free Trade.;)(y)
 
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