Oh Ay Oh, We’ve lost Ahmed Kashi

Played all his good football when I wasn’t watching. Used to think passing to the opposition was a new plan.

Woo ho oooo we lost ahmed Kashi
Woo ho ooo but we still got Forster Caskey
Woo ho ooo Roland will give our whole team awayyy

"Kashi left the Valley at the end of his contract last summer, but has not started a game for Troyes since August."

Average player - definitely overrated.

Good player but he made us too defensive. Would rather have Cullen or Bielik any day.

What is KR's obsession with previous players?

It's like he can't actually manage to scout anyone new.

cantersaddick said:

What is KR's obsession with previous players?

It's like he can't actually manage to scout anyone new.

It’s weird, players must like him though because lots seem to go back and play for him.

Charltonparklane said:

Cause he was over fucking rated, especially on here.

He made a terrific start to his Charlton career ..... and then got a serious injury.

Perhaps you mean he was fucking fucked up by the way Charlton treated his injury?

Cost the player 2 years of his career.
And never quite as quick as before his injury.

Oggy Red said:

Charltonparklane said:

Cause he was over fucking rated, especially on here.

He made a terrific start to his Charlton career ..... and then got a serious injury.

Perhaps you mean he was fucking fucked up by the way Charlton treated his injury?

Cost the player 2 years of his career.
And never quite as quick as before his injury.

Wasn’t half the issue that Charlton weren’t able to treat gus injury because he buggered off to Dubai?

Kashi's injury situation is basically symbolic of the club's ownership over the last few years.

Lots of promise, and actually a sort of decent start, thinking we might have a bit of a gem here, then it all goes to absolute rubbish, and further attempted resurrections have brief moments of class before buggering off for way too long due to injury et al.

Just waiting on the "finally departs and it's for the best" bit to complete the comparison.

CAFCTrev said:

He was shocking in the first leg of the shrews playoff game. Kept passing to the other team through most of it!

He done that all season and put teammates under pressure with hospital balls.

LenGlover said:

At his best he was a pauper's Kishishev.

At his worst a cross of Racon and Semedo.

I’d rather Semedo than kashi. Racon wasn’t that bad either

Kashi's injury coincided with our downturn under Luzon which ended with his demise and our eventual relegation. We were looking pretty decent up to that point. As it traditional now with Charlton Kashi never really recovered from the injury. I'm aware that with an Achilles injury you need to decide between surgery and natural healing and we evidently picked the wrong one and he ended up wrecked. That debut against QPR and the ludicrous long range goal against Peterborough still stick in my mind. He got injured before the Wolves match in August and we went from unbeaten to not winning a match until November and that was under Karel Fraeye, serial joy murderer. Him and Igor must wish they'd never heard of us again.

A couple of things affected Kashi's performance when he came back

1) He'd had a career threatening injury and missed over a year of football.
2) He was clearly told by management to play a very deep role.....possibly because they knew he was a bit restricted by his injury or possibly because there was a rigid formation.....or both.

Under Guy Luzon, we generally only played four in midfield and Kashi was everywhere. He was so effective, it meant we could do without a midfielder and play an extra striker. His performances v QPR and Hull in those early days were excellent. There was one game at The Valley last season (can't remember which one) when he started bursting forwards late on when we went 4-4-2 chasing a game. The shackles were off and he looked like the player we first signed.

Kashi might've flourished this season, with confidence returning, a new system and a manager who has a more traditional view of what makes a good midfielder.

Simonsen said:

A couple of things affected Kashi's performance when he came back

1) He'd had a career threatening injury and missed over a year of football.
2) He was clearly told by management to play a very deep role.....possibly because they knew he was a bit restricted by his injury or possibly because there was a rigid formation.....or both.

Under Guy Luzon, we generally only played four in midfield and Kashi was everywhere. He was so effective, it meant we could do without a midfielder and play an extra striker. His performances v QPR and Hull in those early days were excellent. There was one game at The Valley last season (can't remember which one) when he started bursting forwards late on when we went 4-4-2 chasing a game. The shackles were off and he looked like the player we first signed.

Kashi might've flourished this season, with confidence returning, a new system and a manager who has a more traditional view of what makes a good midfielder.

I've never seen a midfielder play such a deep role - took defensive midfielder to a new level.