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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #680 on: September 18, 2021, 08:11:26 pm »
He handled the Benteke 1 v 1 perfectly too, looked totally in command of that situation.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #681 on: September 18, 2021, 08:19:45 pm »
https://twitter.com/IbrahimaKonate_/status/1439285307757715462

This sums it up.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #682 on: September 18, 2021, 09:29:36 pm »
https://twitter.com/IbrahimaKonate_/status/1439285307757715462

This sums it up.

The day he goes Super Sayian God mode it's over for all. ;D

Does that mean he will turn into Voronin?
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #683 on: September 18, 2021, 09:37:39 pm »

Someone of his age and attributes if English would easily be over £100M

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #684 on: September 18, 2021, 09:52:47 pm »
He’s a beast physically and has all of the tools to grow into one of the world’s best. It felt like we might have to throw him into the fray with Virgil, Matip, and Gomez all coming back from injury, but it’s nice we’ve been able to ease him in.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #685 on: September 18, 2021, 10:12:44 pm »
Do you think he will start ahead of Matip and Gomez from here onwards?
No Matip should be starter till he leaves or somebody beats him out. Ibou was good today but he still getting up to pace with the style of football along with the speed of the english game.
They should rotate to keep Matip healthy considering there is 4 very good CBs at the club

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #686 on: September 22, 2021, 02:29:15 pm »
Watching him last night and he seems like that oversized hallion in an u14 game that can just physically bully all the wee lads around. Really excited by him. He will make mistakes as he settles but he really is a serious talent and also a man mountain.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #687 on: September 22, 2021, 04:36:49 pm »
Watching him last night and he seems like that oversized hallion in an u14 game that can just physically bully all the wee lads around.

 ;D

There were a few occasions where he got closed down and casually shrugged the defenders away in best Virgil mode, totally unconcerned.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #688 on: September 22, 2021, 05:01:20 pm »
Yeah he has that thing where he looks like he’s a man playing against boys, same as VVD. Absolutely unfazed by midgets attempting to challenge him. Are there any others in Europe who profile like that? We’ve done really well with this signing - hopefully we can replicate up top and in CM.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #689 on: September 22, 2021, 05:14:46 pm »
No Matip should be starter till he leaves or somebody beats him out. Ibou was good today but he still getting up to pace with the style of football along with the speed of the english game.
They should rotate to keep Matip healthy considering there is 4 very good CBs at the club

I keep forgetting Gomez is only 24. He’s in Goal today talking with Neil Jones about him and Ibou learning from VVD and still improving. It’s great we have the two older CBs of VVD and Matip with two young CBs who have good experience too. He talks about rotation also and how he thinks it’s important to protect against injuries and how it motivates them all to improve and earn their starts.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #690 on: September 22, 2021, 05:15:27 pm »
Early impressions obviously, but for me hes miles off coming to terms with the speed of the Prem game.  Its true his physicals are immense and his technical's also appear pretty good, but he flat out dawdles on the ball in Prem terms, especially when he thinks hes got's lots of time but probably really doesn't. By no means the first guy to come into England and do that, obviously. Even Ali had that situation a couple of times. Hes so good physically only at the margins is this going to catch him out but it needs looking at for me.

We know Klopp generally likes to take several months or even a year to get newbies up to speed with both the system and the league, and adjusting to a higher tempo may take time but is a very doable thing, so we well may have an extraordinary defender on our hands before long. On physical ability hes some kind of a Gomez-Virgil love child.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #691 on: September 22, 2021, 05:26:01 pm »
Just needs to stay switched on, very early days but a few times he looked very far from Gomez and in no mans land ballwatching. In terms of pace and strength he's pretty ridiculous and its good he isn't rash, he's stood his man up a lot instead of just stupidly diving in

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #692 on: September 22, 2021, 06:02:33 pm »
Yeah he played a few loose passes and dawdled on the ball a few times. He’s really young though and if he learns from those mistakes, we’ll have an excellent CB   
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #693 on: September 22, 2021, 07:38:21 pm »
Early impressions obviously, but for me hes miles off coming to terms with the speed of the Prem game.  Its true his physicals are immense and his technical's also appear pretty good, but he flat out dawdles on the ball in Prem terms, especially when he thinks hes got's lots of time but probably really doesn't. By no means the first guy to come into England and do that, obviously.



 He's played one PL game. :lmao

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #694 on: September 22, 2021, 08:04:28 pm »
He's played one PL game. :lmao

And even in that game he did well ;D

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #695 on: September 22, 2021, 08:13:55 pm »
All we can say is he looks promising. Between himself, Matip, Gomez and Phillips we probably have the best set of centre backs in the league……..oh I left out the best one in the league…..VVD.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #696 on: September 23, 2021, 12:49:15 am »
He's played one PL game. :lmao

I know, i know.  ;D  wasn't trying to be harsh. He dallied a bit in pre season too. Just trying not to get over excited either because the guys a Total Unit physically speaking and fast af. Gotta remind myself hes young in a new league to keep my expectations in check. He could really be something.   
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #697 on: September 23, 2021, 08:48:19 am »
I've really liked what I've seen so far from Konate. We probably wont see the best of him until next season as he's a young centre back and they need time, but he's got absolutely everything. He played against Norwich in first gear for most of it.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #698 on: September 23, 2021, 11:43:46 am »
It’s very early doors but I really like the look of him up to now. As other have said, it’s going to take a couple more months at the very least for him to properly get up to speed with everything but I feel confident in saying at this moment that he was definitely worth waiting for.

Agreed. Never really got why people would want to stick with Kabak when we had Konate on our radar.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #699 on: September 23, 2021, 11:57:29 am »
Agreed. Never really got why people would want to stick with Kabak when we had Konate on our radar.

I think Kabak has the making of a decent centre back. Maybe a very good one in time. However, he never looked ideally suited to our system at this point. Lack of real pace and lack of dominance in the air where the main points. I think you need at least one of these to play CB effectively in a Liverpool system. Even with just 1 you probably need great positioning and anticipation that comes with experience.

Konate is different in that he looks to have the pace and aerial ability to excel. Just needs experience playing in our system and playing with new players. What we haven’t seen yet is if his positioning and decision making is up there against better opposition. But so far, so good. Looks a much better long term fit than Kabak or probably all other CBs on  the market in January 2021.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #700 on: October 24, 2021, 06:23:33 pm »
What an imperious fellow Ibou is.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #701 on: October 24, 2021, 06:24:49 pm »
Big Mini Virj!  8)

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #702 on: October 24, 2021, 06:25:47 pm »
Kept Ronaldo and Rashford in his pocket. That was some performance.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #703 on: October 24, 2021, 06:27:22 pm »
Quality player, deserves to keep his place on that evidence. Much tougher tests to come though of course.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #704 on: October 24, 2021, 06:27:37 pm »
Played well today.  There were a couple of moments where he ended up swapping positions with Trent that he didn't necessarily need to do because of the lack of pressure from Utd but whatever.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #705 on: October 24, 2021, 06:29:56 pm »
He must be wondering what the fuss is about with this league  ;D

He strolled around the pitch. Love his turn of pace.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #706 on: October 24, 2021, 06:30:10 pm »
Seems odd to say he played well when we’ve won 5-0, but there were times in the first half when we were sloppy and a bit disjointed and he did everything he needed to do. Didn’t look out of place or fazed by the occasion.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #707 on: October 24, 2021, 06:31:41 pm »
Kept the Portuguese donkey in his pocket.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #708 on: October 24, 2021, 06:39:53 pm »
Kept the Portuguese donkey in his pocket.

which one? the ass or the donkey?

Played superbly, did his job, that's all you ask for from your centre backs.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #709 on: October 24, 2021, 06:44:22 pm »
Didnt get out of 2nd gear, absolutely cruised through that.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #710 on: October 24, 2021, 06:45:11 pm »
Massive performance, much better that the previous start, which was good.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #711 on: October 24, 2021, 06:50:04 pm »
He’s very good isn’t he

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #712 on: October 24, 2021, 06:52:19 pm »
Superb and deceptively fast.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #713 on: October 24, 2021, 07:00:14 pm »
Perfect game to be eased in, so he can gradually get ready for proper opposition

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #714 on: October 24, 2021, 07:12:27 pm »
The best was when he and Virgil came over to get in Ronaldo’s face after the Curtis incident - he was a head taller - would have loved to see Ronaldo keep talking while backing away.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #715 on: October 24, 2021, 07:13:55 pm »
Massive performance, much better that the previous start, which was good.

amazing how a few weeks of solid coaching at a new team helps a young player!

(Not a dig by the way F, just that a few where worried/moaning about lack of game time for him).

Ibou is going to be great.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #716 on: October 24, 2021, 07:26:30 pm »
I think so too. He will get enough game time, maybe even mid week in the cup.

I was surprised by his selection, but thinking of speed it’s a “no duh” decision. He had a few shaky moments very early on, but kudos for his performance. As you say, training with the best and coaching by the best had results.
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #717 on: October 24, 2021, 07:27:37 pm »
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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #718 on: October 24, 2021, 07:33:26 pm »
He's going to be a Monster of a CB for the next 10 years.

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Re: The Indomitable Ibou
« Reply #719 on: October 24, 2021, 07:35:17 pm »
Fantastic today, thrown in for a big game. Fast, strong and a great reader of the game… will only get better with Virgil’s guidance.