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Just wages we shouldn’t be paying when he’s invariably injured. His wages per 90 must be astronomical

I love Ricardo but we should sell if the right offer comes up (Perhape unlikely). He’s just too injury prone and his deal is up next summer.

Both Iversen and Ward’s contracts are expiring. I wouldn’t be surprised if we gave Ward a new deal. We’ve turned down deals for Iversen too despite being in PSR trouble. Two strong case studies in RudKing Power Decline.

Be careful what you wish for. We didn’t play Manchester United for 10 years until King Power came and badly ran the club until they appointed the manager they forced out in the first place

They just talk about ****ing refs anyway

Funny way of caring

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Who I want to keep Hermansen (No chance) Stolarcyzk Coulibaly Okoli (if he wants to stay) Nelson Souttar Ndidi (if he'll stay) Braybrooke Bilal Alves Fatawu Mavididi Everyone else, sell, release, put in a firework, whatever

We had thousands at the Arsenal protest. It's not true "we don't have it in us", all of the usual cited teams will have a proportion of happy-clappers who won't protest too. We probably have a higher proportion of low-info, anaemic KPFC fans than other clubs do but there absolutely is enough appetite for it. It just needs organising s=and a bit of courage.

Must have the worst xG per game of any manager in PL history. There’s a lot of problems beyond the manager at the club but he is useless - we wouldn’t be this bad with Steve Evans in charge.

It’s almost deliberate sabotage to turn one of our best ever teams to our worst ever top flight one in 3 years.

I couldn’t get over the coach selfies

There were multiple 4-1/4-0 games which means they blurred into one. Yakubu and the De Laet (bizarrely) goals stick out.

I dislike them, they’re rivals and there’s more riding on games against them than everyone bar Coventry next season. I don’t think I could say I hate them though. Humbling them in the 10s was great.

Comparable record with Steve Kean. He's a crap PL manager. Even in the championship he managed: 6th with Guehi, Gallagher, Andre Ayew 4th with Gyokeres, Rodon, Ayew, Hourihane, Conor Roberts, Gibbs-White but still.. Obviously those players were much younger then

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We're even bad at arranging loans. It's not an ideal proxy, but over the last 5 years we're probably 6-8th for academy profits which says we're doing something right, (Chilwell, Barnes, KDH alone c £120m). Then, there's barely any interest from top end League 1 and Championship clubs for our players? I just don't buy it. Our young players have to ladder loans up the league like we're West Brom or Coventry not a club with one of the best facilities in the world. Even the 3 aforementioned players had break through loans at 21 or so, they did have a few pottering around picking up a few appearances before their standout options but why does it take us so long? I can't prove it but it feels like if Alves and Braybrooke came through at Villa they'd have been at midtable Championship clubs at 18 or 19. Jacob Ramsey had a brief spell at Doncaster then started 6 PL games the following season. They also hawked some of their fringe youngsters for decent profits and PSR swindles too, something we never. Archer (after activating a buy-back clause) and Philogene went fro about £40m massively alleviating PSR concerns. Chukwuemeka went for £15m or so at 18 and he'd made 3 starts. Even just a couple of starts can massively inflate a fee. If Monga or Alves had put in Ayew, or Mavididi or BDCR's performances you;d have some people saying they'd never make it. Nwaneri has proved that age isn't a direct barometer of ability. Just play them. Even if it's for 20 minutes, we don't have a development ethos when we have the most influential academy director in world football - more proof he is useless.

Again, I’m almost sorry to labour the point but Rudkin has more influence at Leicester than an academy director/head of development does in world football. That he doesn’t actually use his influence for the academy’s benefit is just absolutely typical. It should be written into managerial contracts that you have to give x% of minutes to academy products.

It’s also why 09-15 was so enjoyable. It was a likeable, rag-tag bunch enjoying the apex of their careers with us.

At exactly the time demand was highest too. A lot of the footballing **** ups would be more tolerable if we were in a 40k ground, with a safe standing end, local beer on tap with reasonable matchday pricing. I'm glad Whelan has finally gotten heat this season because the treatment of fans has been shot for years an that's not Rudkin's fault.

Pretty good set of players. Weale in goal perhaps. Dyer on the other wing, Drinkwater and Hammond in the middle? Drinky perhaps less likely to do it. Fryatt, Izzet, Walsh, Elliott, Taggart, Richard Smith as bench options maybe.

Too young to have watched him play but you could see his affection for the club on the football league show. Him and Manish were a great foil for each other.

Getting your knee bent the wrong way as a 16 year old is hardly the same as just innate injury prone-ness

They are completely defensible signings - I agree with that. Soumare I wouldn't have signed as he played in quite an odd system and his pressure numbers (available via fbref at the time) were just too low for the type of position he plays. I said as much on here at the time. However, the weird thing is they were just completely supplementary signings, none of them were ever going to be first choice immediately. That was consciously our biggest net spend as we didn't sell anybody for the first summer in a while. Perez and Albrighton were our right wing options and demonstrably not good enough. They started 15 and 17 games respectively the season before - had we have signed a decent RW that summer instead of a second (or third) choice striker and fourth choice CM we'd have been in a far better position.

He had the opportunity for a rebuild but the head of recruitment he had installed signed Daka, Soumare, Vestergaard & Bertrand AND we didn’t sell anybody that summer. The recruitment under Rodgers and Congerton was largely shit. Justin and Fofana were the only outright successes in 4 years (Tielemans’ permanent signing doesn’t count). There were a few ok signings like Castagne too. If he’d have just played a side with more defensive responsibility we’d have been fine. Just dropping Ward after his 3rd bad game would have kept us up.