2015/18 Shinji Okazaki @ Leicester City F.C. (ENG)

Good luck to him. Great deal for Leicester at that surprisingly low price. Will miss him in the BL.

 

We'll see. The only thing that worries me is precedent history of Japanese in EPL.

 

I hope he can do well in EPL, as long as he's getting his chances. Btw, what are his chances @ LCFC?

 

For Buli standards it's pretty much, for EPL standards it's very cheap. I didn't think Mainz needs money that much right now, it's easy to sell to EPL clubs during the Winter window as well if they wanted to cash in before Okazaki's contract runs out.

As for Okazaki I hope it won't be a second Stuttgart. It's reassuring though that he appears to be seen as a striker, not a winger there. Hope we'll see him play regularly.

Edit: According to tranfermarkt I guess Kramaric and Ulloa would be the biggest rivals. LCFC plays in 4-4-2 I assume?

 

Wow.

 

I smell another disaster. Japanese players need to stay away from the league. They constantly screw Japanese players.

 

Has nothing to do with japanese or not.....small players like Hazard or Özil make it there....and let`s be serious Kagawas first season was very solid...not great but not worse....and he was injured very long...he made 6 goals + 6 asssits in 26 games is very okay for first season. Not as great like in Dortmund but good. The only reason why Shinji not succeed there was David Moyes ...and under him the hole team was a disaster. The media and fans and people talk Kagawas PL time much more worse then it was.

Okazaki can clear succeed there cause he is strong and has muscles. His legs are maybe the biggest legs in the hole PL and he has no real competition in Leicester. They do try to buy him for 10 million (even in PL this is not less) for 2 seasons when the don`t cleary plan him for starter spot. I think Leicester is quite similar to Mainz in Germany . A mid table club who trust in him. Have a little more trust in Okazaki,he deserved it. My prediction is that he scored similar to Mainz, something arround 10+ goals.

 

I am very happy for him. He seems is great lad on and off time. I like his efforts in the games. A good pro to me.

I wish him best luck in his new team .

And, I believe he will success.

Regards,

 

Leicester Manager fired.

Okazaki will now fail over at Leicester and wont get playing time.

Just like Kagawa when Ferguson left.

 

There have been plenty reasons and occasions, Pearson is known to be a difficult character. He was already fired back in February once but afterward everyone pretended nothing happened. To his credit he's the one who stabilized LCFC, two times actually. Him being fired is very likely linked to his son, though one has to wonder why he still got to plan the squad for next season and already bringing in players, only to get fired now of all times without any replacement prepared yet.

I can only imagine Christian Fuchs being really ecstatic about having moved from one messed up club to the next. At least with Okazaki he got a colleague to marvel about their calm days back at Mainz.

 

don't think Okazaki signed to challenge the top of the PL, he just wants to play in the Premier League. He probably doubled his salary as well. So relegation struggle or not, I think he's ok with it.

 

There will be Okazaki Vs Yoshida?

 

Neil Lennon is the early favorite for the job. Should be good hire & good for Okazaki.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...rges-early-frontrunner-leicester-city-manager

and of course, you have the BS links to the job.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/next-leicester-manager-guus-hiddink-5989565

 

Yea, he did. He's coaching Bolton atm after he quit Celtic.