cityfanlee23

Faes... Again....

Ayew isn't a superstar, and he's not a flair player but imo he was worth the £5m for his experience and professional side of his game. We could have took a punt on a young exciting player sure, but Ayew has had multiple very solid games for us this season.

Ndidi is so likeable to watch, has his moments of madness but the lad gets stuck in and throws himself about, not afraid to bundle someone over when it's needed. I think he's gone in Summer sadly.

I really like Okoli, man will destroy championship strikers if we hold onto him.

Oh well done, 96th minute 40 yard Partey thunderbolt incoming

We are playing well, we need to make something happen soon or I fear it will bite us. Although we are continuing an upward trend of performances recently bar Everton.

Basically, "get behind us, help us scrape up, and we will then continue to change nothing" Nah, I'm good thanks Top, either sell up or sack the board and take full responsibility for allowing this mess, zero wiggle room on this.

Yep, I can give him full credit for rapidly turning around the doom feeling around the club in the summer when we went down, and the first half of the season whilst visually quite a boring watch for me, produced some good football, but we did spend £40m and had a squad full of players that were quite clearly light years ahead of that level like Vardy, Fatawu, Hermansen, Ndidi, KDH, Winks, Mavididi, Vesty, and Pereira. So he has to take credit for the quick turnaround in feeling, and the immediate success on the pitch, but some of his in game management was questionable, and that run in the 2nd half was some of the most lifeless football i've seen in a long while (until this season) completely devoid of any freedom and just allowing teams 3 working days to organise themselves into a deep block whilst we aimlessly pass it sideway. Our sheer gulf in talent got us over the line in the end when we went far more attacking in the final run of games, but I distinctly remember Enzo on the sideline for one of the games where we were bombing forward and it looked to me like he was screaming them to pass the ball backwards and slow it down. Enzo is better than the level we've seen this season, and I think the players would have been fighting more if he'd stayed, but his job at Chelsea so far has been pretty average, absolutely no doubt Poch could have done the same. Yep, they have so much attacking talent Enzo came out about a month ago to say how hard it was to have 3 top class players who all play the same position and how hard it was to leave any of them out (Palmer, Nkunku and Neto). I did say I had a feeling Enzo would be gone by Christmas so he's proved me wrong on that, but I can't see him getting past the summer if he continues to be so stubborn, this is Chelsea football club, 700+ passes and 0 shots on target. Ultimately I can thank Enzo for getting us up and taking KDH off of our hands to save us from points deductions though.

Shock horror, Enzo learned absolutely nothing from his mistakes here. It's amazing that people still think he is the messiah. Good coach, cheque book manager, still has a long way to go to prove to me he is going to be considered amongst the elite, he spent 250m at a club absolutely brimming with talent, and still wanted more to spend. Hopefully he's still there in the summer to take Mads off of us for an obscene fee should we go down.

Worth noting half the forum wanted Wilf gone when we went down, now they are desperate to keep hold of him, people were happy to let a talent like wilf go for 15m. Okoli has arrived, he's athletic and fine on the ball, he's been making some mistakes but there have been multiple rumours saying he's homesick, he's acclimatising to a completely new league in a country he doesn't know, some humans can do that with ease, some can't. I've seen more than enough from him to know he can absolutely dominate the championship, and having spent 15m on him, that's about the going rate for a top championship player. Keep him, give him a season in the Championship and if it doesn't work, take the hit and move him on, if it does work, that season could give him the confidence to make the step up.

Yep, great point, completely overlooked it.

Ryan Reynolds 'considering £300m takeover' of football club after Wrexham success Unconventional but if he was to buy a club, I'd take him, would make us a bit of a media circus but afaik wrexham fans love them, and they have made a really impressive connection with the fans. Secondly how the hell are the vancouver whitecaps worth that much? That figure must have been plucked out of thin air.

Once again i'm a bit dismayed by Ruuds in game changes, but, with that said after 7 losses in a row, to have a 3 game spell where we were the better side in 2 of them is a clear change in trajectory. I think Arsenal will bring us back down to earth with a massive crash next up, but ultimately if Ruud is still here and we haven't Röhlled the dice yet, we can only look at the trajectory. We played well all things considered and with the problems we have in both attack and defence and our play on the ball was much improved on the Everton performance. I still really want to back Ruud and see what it would look like if we can get rid of the dead wood and bring in some young, hungry, cheaper players whilst offloading big earners like Ward. But still a long way to go for Ruud to prove he's the one who can do it for me.

If we go down he fully deserves a move away. Hell if we stay up I’d give him my blessings to move on for the sake of his career. He’s absolutely miles clear of us.

Is it time to Röhl the dice?

I’m really concerned this will be a typical Leicester performance, nice spells of play, no goal, then concede 4

Ayew is one of our better players. For his lack of ability at times he’s a hard worker most of the time and knows how to play the professional game and dark arts

Ruud is actually managing from the sidelines today, barking orders out which is good to see, shame about the selection again 🤣

All I’m excited for is the potential to see Monga get some minutes, other than that I don’t care about the cup this season at all.

I’m not at home 🤣 although I genuinely didn’t realise it was, I knew I’d said something stupid when I immediately got 4 notifications 🤣

Anyone got a decent link?

Not sure, Ideally I'd have liked us to throw him into the squad given how poor some of our players have been, however this is Maresca, Cooper and now Ruud who have all overlooked him whilst complimenting his ability, so maybe they just feel the loan would be better for him. With Monga my guess is this is purely to get him involved with the hope he sticks around, Alves has a contract with us and doesn't have the best clubs in the world circling him, whereas Monga is at an age where turning his head toward the glitz and glamour of spain or top prem clubs would be easier, so we have to show him he has a route to premier league football with us. We do need a good balance of play time but also shielding him from the limelight. For the sake of the club we need him to play enough games to keep him here (or get a good compensation fee) but not play him so much he proves the hype and we end up losing him before he can even sign a pro contract.

That would be something that could easily swing me toward him again, a manager having a clear direction for the future and wanting to build us back into a club that invests young and sells to big clubs for huge profits is absolutely essential to a club the size of ours. He just NEEDS to fix these silly match day decisions and I will come back on board.

We are in a really great position (potentially) to have a proper blend of Academy youth and experienced players, and I think the experienced players we will likely have are at the top end of the Championship in terms of ability, so it could work out to be a bit of a silver lining should we go down. It could be our "reset", then again, I thought 23/24 could have been that and we struggled to offload the deadwood.

Credit to Ruud here, he obviously saw instantly that this lad is a serious prospect, immediately brought him into the first team training sessions, publicly praised his ability, and is now giving him a direct route to the first team, which if he plays some minutes will massively help us if Monga decides to leave and we negotiate compensation. Can't fault his approach on Monga so far.