Despite Leicester City enjoying a solid start to the season, there’s been one major negative, and that’s the performances of Çağlar Söyüncü.
The Turkish defender has been struggling at the beginning of the campaign, and things are not going well.
That’s led to a comment piece from Foot Mercato today, in which they say he is ‘deeper than ever’ in the hole.
They explain how he was ‘excellent’ in the 2019/20 campaign and became a ‘benchmark’ in the team both domestically and in Europe.
That’s now changed, though, with an injury-hit season last year and a ‘catastrophic’ Euro 2020, meaning the Turkish star now finds himself at the ‘bottom of the wave’.
They say he’s started this season ‘in the worst possible way’, having returned from the Euros where he was ‘regularly out of his depth’ and carried on in that vein.
A shaky partnership with Daniel Amartey has not helped things, but that ‘does not excuse everything’ with a ‘catastrophic’ display in Leicester’s 4-1 defeat to West Ham, particularly standing out.
This is something Brendan Rodgers has acknowledged, and the situation didn’t improve during the international break when he was benched against Montenegro and saw red in the 6-1 defeat to the Netherlands.
These facts are ‘stubborn’ and ‘piling up’ against the defender. At this moment in time, he is nowhere near his best and that needs to change.
Indeed, the situation is ‘becoming urgent’ for him, with Leicester desperately needing him to find the form and belief that made him such a star in his first season.
