Mate I couldn’t disagree more (love you and 95% of your opinions and listen to all your podcasts the minute they come out all the way from over here) but to describe him as a midfielder is incorrect. He was a 10 most of his career and more in the Brooks mould than the Fleck. I still thought he performed well enough deputising for fleck but wasn’t surprised when he made way for him. He was brought in with a very specific role in mind; the 10 in a 3412, when we dropped the ‘1’ for a flat 3 he has no chance. To not rate him based on that; I will just say, if we’d brought in Bruno Fernandes at that point for that non existent role he wouldn’t have played and you wouldn’t have rated him either. Doesn’t make him a bad player. The same goes for his time at forest. They were so fucking defensive and had no room for a player in his mould. They were flat as fuck with a focus on keeping clean sheets so the idea of a guy like Freeman playing the ‘free role’ is as alien to them as it was for us under boring premier league era wilder.
If I’d said to you 2.5 years ago we would be in the championship playing a ten, who’s experienced and proven enough to do that? I doubt you could come up with a better suggestion than Luke Freeman and he’s our player we don’t even have to sign him. Seeing what Slav got out of Cairney, I’m incredibly excited about what he can get out of Freeman. I do feel like (and don’t take this the wrong way) you’re looking at this player in a very narrow minded way. It’s gonna be like a new signing for us and if he didn’t belong to us we’d be crying out to sign him in my opinion. Keep up the good work with the Cobra Kai podcast x
