oldbluefox

True I expect his sheer presence will occupy a defence leaving space for others to come through, something we have not had for a long time. However he is not the freescoring forward he once was. Hopefully City can tap into his experience to nurture our developing youth.

The point I was making was that a record of goal scoring does not mean the same success at their new club. Daka was a good example what a gamble finding a striker can be.

I may be wrong but didn’t Daka come to us with a good goalscoring record? Everything is a gamble.

Hopefully as well as what he may provide on the pitch he will be able to help along some of our younger strikers.

If I behaved like that at work I'd be sacked.

But is he any good at keeping the ball out of the net?

If they are fit that will be an improvement straight away. Stop feeding the greedy lardarses donuts and chips at Seagrave.

I’m getting quite accustomed to seeing all those with any quality going for free to other teams secure in the knowledge that we will be there to sift through everybody else’s rejects and probably paying over the top for their services. We do it every year

I’m not sure a move to any of the big clubs is ideal although I can understand why he would be interested but they all have a habit of hoovering up all the young talent so there would be strong competition. For many it’s a loan out and often forgotten as they mop up more talent.

I agree entirely. It is up to the club to present something worth cheering about. When you are spending (a lot of) money to watch your team and be entertained by their skills, their levels of fitness and their commitment to the club which should mirror that of the fans it is reasonable to expect some semblance of pleasure and satisfaction. If all you are getting is some half hearted performance from a group of highly paid players who couldn't give a sh** about you or the club you have every right to feel aggrieved. I don't agree with some of the abuse thrown at them but likewise I would not be praising them either. It would help if the players remembered people are paying to watch them and are not earning the vast amounts of money they are.

If we don’t have 11 lumps of lard turning out for us it will be an improvement.

Not sure who we could have appointed with that team. I doubt even Alex Ferguson would have got a tune out of them. The damage was done long before these no-hopers came in. That applies to the whole setup.

I don’t think he’s ready for a starting spot at Championship and above , not yet. You could see last season that defenders had worked him out and coped easily with him. I feel he needs experience at a lower level to hone his skills, work on new ideas and broaden his game. He may be best to remain at City depending on who they bring in or go to a club with a strong reputation for developing youth players. He is certainly not ready for first team football at a higher level and it would be a bad decision to push him on too soon before he is ready. A season in Lge1 may do him good.

You’re right there and we didn’t have the players who could play that way. How many times did we try, gave the ball away and conceded a goal? It was painful to watch yet we still persevered with it week in week out. I reckon they thought they were Barcelona. Just been watching the Lge1 play off semi finals - quick decisive football played with energy and determination. We’re going to need to match that and if we continue with tippy tappy football we’re going to come unstuck. For my money Challinor is the man to build what we need not only to survive but to challenge for a top spot.

These players should not forget the supporters are their bread and butter. Distance yourself from the fans and turn them against you and you are on a slippery slope. The majority of last season’s team did little to endear themselves either in their effort, their displays or their arrogant attitude towards the club and its supporters. I’ve been a supporter for 70 years and have never known it as bad as last season and there have been some pretty lean times. The difference is those players gave their all on the pitch, the problem is they weren’t very good but nobody could criticise their commitment. The same could not be said about this current crop. You only had to observe the body language during and after the match. Things need to change.

There is talent in Fatawu but it will not develop at Leicester unless there is a distinct change in culture at the club and that culture needs to change all the way through. Over the past few years our approach to game management, fitness levels, strategy and most importantly in my mind commitment and application have been abysmal and Fatawu has suffered as a consequence. When Tielmanns was with us it was plain to see he was overweight and unfit, as were many of the players. Do we necessarily blame him. As a professional yes but there is more to it than that. He went to Villa and within months he was playing and being effective in their first team, looking slimmer and fitter. For a long time now Fatawu's body language has said that he feels no commitment to club or fans. He has faded in the last quarter of the game and provided nothing of any value. It looks like he has given up and just wants away. Given proper training he could be a great asset but likewise he could just drift into obscurity. He could go either way.

Jordan James shone in a poor team and showed what quality he had. If Fatawu were that good he too would have stood out but he was just as poor as those around him. He clearly had talent but for a professional footballer his attitude was as poor as the rest and his heart was elsewhere certainly not at LCFC. Get rid.

Claridge and Marshall, two of the scruffiest individuals to wear a City shirt but that lot last season weren't fit to lace their boots. Wish we had them now.

October.............."Should have waited and got the right manager in"

We are going to need to be much fitter if we are to survive in this league. I have been appalled over the past few seasons by how many of our players just are not fit for the full 90 minutes. There has been a dramatic turnaround in Tielemanns since he went to Villa. For the first few months he didn't play, presumably because the larda**e was not fit enough. To my eyes the whole setup at City is rotten to the core and it is little wonder we have been relegated. How can you go 3-0 up against a team which finished winning it 4-3 with 10 men!!! An absolute disgrace.

Please, please let this be true.

The ground he made up for his goal was impressive and something we have never seen from any of our players for the past two seasons.If not him I would like somebody like him who has the same drive, purpose and determination to get forward and latch onto balls like that. He had a superb game all round.

As midfielder who gets forward and scores goals? And keeps passing the ball forward? What’s that all about? It’ll never catch on!! 😂 Can you imagine our scouting team being one bit interested? He is just the sort of player the team and the fans need to inject a bit of excitement instead of the turgid crap which has been inflicted on us of late.

From his body language it seems his head has been turned and he is thinking about elsewhere. He does not display the verve and enthiasm you normally see from young players of his age. It's a pity because he obviously has talent and could be a very exciting player in the future but there's a long way to go yet and many pitfalls to overcome.

But we are talking LCFC here.