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Jonathon Leko - Jan 2024: on loan at Burton (p14)
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Talk about our Birmingham "friends" on various other threads reminds me.
Anyone know where Jonathan Leko will be playing his football this year? Has he been retained by Birmingham?0 -
Still there and no sign of him leaving at the moment.Fortune 82nd Minute said:Talk about our Birmingham "friends" on various other threads reminds me.
Anyone know where Jonathan Leko will be playing his football this year? Has he been retained by Birmingham?
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/birmingham-city-eustace-leko-takeover-24546621
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This scared the shizz out of me.5
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Thanks.Scoham said:
Still there and no sign of him leaving at the moment.Fortune 82nd Minute said:Talk about our Birmingham "friends" on various other threads reminds me.
Anyone know where Jonathan Leko will be playing his football this year? Has he been retained by Birmingham?
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/birmingham-city-eustace-leko-takeover-24546621
"In the last two he has been deployed at left wing-back". That must be an interesting experience for him. And a terrifying one for anyone watching.
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Title changed before someone has a coronary at the prospect of him coming back again.
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Please Don't let him ever come back to us. About level with DJ on the "he frustrates the hell out of me" scale.3
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Hopefully it won’t be in SE7Fortune 82nd Minute said:Talk about our Birmingham "friends" on various other threads reminds me.
Anyone know where Jonathan Leko will be playing his football this year? Has he been retained by Birmingham?0 -
saw this thread at the top of the page and thought 'surely not'1
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God no.
We need to move on from this type.
He epitomised everything that was wrong with this club. Headless chicken without any sort direction or end product.7 -
He started so well in the RWB role and then when he got injured he came back to a team in disarray. We ended up so, so far from the fluid 4 at the back in possession and 5 without that we started off with and become so static. Leko was pretty well-suited to being a winger when the team had the ball, but he was totally misused once we forgot what the plan was and he's not a striker to create something with very little. He needs a decent partner, but he was often up front with Burstow or Lee and it was tough to watch. He looked totally drained of confidence by the end, hope he gets his mojo back.
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I don't think that he was ever suited to being a winger, as he never knew when to release the ball.Garrymanilow said:He started so well in the RWB role and then when he got injured he came back to a team in disarray. We ended up so, so far from the fluid 4 at the back in possession and 5 without that we started off with and become so static. Leko was pretty well-suited to being a winger when the team had the ball, but he was totally misused once we forgot what the plan was and he's not a striker to create something with very little. He needs a decent partner, but he was often up front with Burstow or Lee and it was tough to watch. He looked totally drained of confidence by the end, hope he gets his mojo back.
He is an incredibly skilful player but somebody needs to sit down and remind him that football is a team game and not the game in the playground where you hog the ball for as long as you can.0 -
Individual players like Leko are difficult to accommodate in any formation. This player will excite said Lee Bowyer and TBF he did at times but his career has gone backwards over the last 3 years and I don't just mean because he had to play wing back at times !0
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There is a player in there, just needs playing in a more forward role.0
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For one match , he played well as a RWB. I liked him a lot in that brief spell with Williams , Gallagher , Cullen and the guy with pink hair ; not again, thanksGarrymanilow said:He started so well in the RWB role and then when he got injured he came back to a team in disarray. We ended up so, so far from the fluid 4 at the back in possession and 5 without that we started off with and become so static. Leko was pretty well-suited to being a winger when the team had the ball, but he was totally misused once we forgot what the plan was and he's not a striker to create something with very little. He needs a decent partner, but he was often up front with Burstow or Lee and it was tough to watch. He looked totally drained of confidence by the end, hope he gets his mojo back.
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Loan players can be a little bit hit and miss, but his performances last season were dreadful. I had high hopes when he signed and thought in league one he’d be a cut above but he was woeful0
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It's weird that he's still only 24. I know he broke into the West Brom team at 16 but it feels like he must be 30 by now.
Still think he can be decent if used correctly, but kind of like with Albie Morgan, I don't know how to use him correctly.
My enduring memory of him will always be his affection for Tracy Leaburn.5 -
The kind of player that would probably have made a bigger impact here if he signed on a permanent deal. A fit Leko one side and CBT on the other round have made a formidable sight2
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After initially being very frustrating, I grew to quite like him in his first spell. Was pretty hopeless in his second, though if I recall correctly he played out of position (wing back?) most of the time.2
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Yeah he had some good moments under Adkins playing wide right and just running at his man with his pace. And then never looked good as a wingback or central striker, especially given that he was played up front with Burstow and that didn't suit either of them.Talal said:After initially being very frustrating, I grew to quite like him in his first spell. Was pretty hopeless in his second, though if I recall correctly he played out of position (wing back?) most of the time.1 - Sponsored links:
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My enduring memory of himSDAddick said:It's weird that he's still only 24. I know he broke into the West Brom team at 16 but it feels like he must be 30 by now.
Still think he can be decent if used correctly, but kind of like with Albie Morgan, I don't know how to use him correctly.
My enduring memory of him will always be his affection for Tracy Leaburn.
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Always was overhyped if we are being honest. Was as good (not brilliant), and I liked him. Not consistent and had other (forwards) who overshadowed him.SDAddick said:It's weird that he's still only 24. I know he broke into the West Brom team at 16 but it feels like he must be 30 by now.
Still think he can be decent if used correctly, but kind of like with Albie Morgan, I don't know how to use him correctly.
My enduring memory of him will always be his affection for Tracy Leaburn.
Would always welcome him back (over most former players *cough* Lyle Taylor *cough*), but sadly think his Charlton career has run it's course.0 -
The injury at QPR really seems to have stunted his career. He was doing really well for us and the team was doing really well for him. First time around, Charlton and Leko were a really good fit.3
