cityfanlee23

If anyone needs a confidence boost it's JJ. Needed that!

Own goal?

It's for the best.

No issue with the squad at all, we need momentum and hopefully battering a championship team could provide a bit of a boost (Incoming 2-1 loss) but the fact Ruud has gone out of his way to talk about Monga recently, surely this would be a perfect opportunity to get him on the bus and onto the bench even if he doesn't plan on playing him. And where the hell is Alves? Why does he keep being overlooked?

Well Everton are now safe, I think Moyes going to Everton is another nail in our survival coffin.

I miss Yuki Abe, was really sad when he left due to homesickness, he was a really hard worker. Him and obviously Shinji were well loved by fans during their time here! Hopefully if this signing is for us we will see the same work ethic and hard work on the pitch!

Regarding managers that would come to us in the champ if RVN isn’t here and we go down. If our entire transfer budget is £5m I’d spend the lot buying Danny Rohl out of his contract. The job he’s doing at Wednesday is absolutely phenomenal. Serious serious talent based on his work there so far. If we go down, I hope Wednesday faulter and don’t nick a playoff place, Wednesday are only marginally a bigger circus than us and I reckon he would come. If I’m being honest I’d probably take him now.

It's been a long while since I've seen owners who make such poor decisions over such a long period of time, throwing away such a golden opportunity through lack of leadership, be given so much time by the fans. KP are lucky that they own this club and not another, most fans wouldn't have given them so much grace. I still believe if Top sacked JR most fans would give him another year before calling him out again. He just doesn't seem to care, his stewardship of the club has seen the entire foundation built by his father eroded, I've never cared less about this club in my life. And it feels like the club is completely detached from the fans, I've fallen out of love with football over the years for various reasons outside of Leicester City, but it's getting to a point I really don't care if I see the game or not, really saddened to feel this way.

Sadly I think you're right. One half of me says don't spend big we need to be stable if we go down, the other half says this is it, do or die, spend.

If this is the case, it simply HAS to happen. Yesterday.

This is the thing, we've paid a fee to take him, and presumably are covering his wages, why would palace agree to take a player back that won't play AND palace then have to start paying his wages. Utter madness from this club, this is Dejphon Chansiri levels of club ownership/DOF

Wait, so we can't just cancel the loan? We've paid a "significant" fee, and have no right to cancel the loan? Presumably because we are covering wages and Palace would then end up with those wages on their books?

It’s a shame we treated him so poorly for 18 months under Brendan, but Cags was one of our best players when Dean Smith came in and recalled him, I don’t think we would have gone down if he played all season. I doubt he would want to leave Fenerbahce for a relegation scrap now though. Just the sort of player we need right now and if we were a bit safer in the table would likely only cost £12-15m, 28 years old.

Not the way we are playing atleast. Throw Vardy into a squad that gets balls into the box quickly and he can probably get 12+ goals for us. But right now he's feeding on scrap and sadly doesn't have the legs to grab the ball and make something happen, nowadays when he drops back and gets the ball, it seems to slow play down, sad to see.

I really hope so, if we can replace the back 4 we have a chance, but I'm just hoping our lack of attacking freedom is because of our defensive frailties. Ultimately everyone needs to improve 10%

It's obvious we need to strengthen, but we won't be signing the 6-7 first team players who will change our fortunes in January, we will be lucky to get 3 permanent signings and a loan deal whilst sending back Edouard IMO. Ultimately, Ruud is going to have to improve what we have as well as signing a few players. There is no point signing 3-4 quality signings on premier league wages if players are getting worse. A couple of players have improved, most have been just as bad if not worse.

Our CB's have big problems right now, but I'm reminded of Rio Ferdinand talking about the importance of being able to trust your full back.

Whoever we sign needs to be largely risk free, players like Mbemba are perfect, they offer immediate experience, lower wages, and would dominate the championship. I seriously don't think at this stage giving Ruud 100m will guarantee us safety, and if we spend £50m on a couple of big signings and we go down, we are back to financial struggles. Unfortunately unless Glover has some of the best transfer business in a decade like finding the new Mahrez, Vardy and Kante, we probably shouldn't be splashing the cash on Ruud.

Players are awful, he's not convincing me he can fix the basics, he needs reinforcements but there have been very few signs IMO. Can't see the defence not even slightly improving under someone like Moyes, he would have likely shored us up a bit. We look as clumsy as ever, in fact at times even more clumsy and yet the attack is still spineless. There have been a few moments where we look like we are trying to make a system work, but honestly, overall we are not really any better than under Cooper. Signings won't save us unless we are going to spend 150m on 7 positions. At some point Ruud has to improve what we already have.

The sad thing is, I genuinely think Moyes would have got us defending better than this. And the attacking I don't think would have got worse, how could it? This club is making me miserable. It's getting time for a break I think, they aren't worth the time.

So frustrating, they were there for the taking today, and once again we just lack any proper bite. We NEED signings YESTERDAY.

Djed spence.

Jobe bellingham now on the radar of some top clubs, should have gone for him last season when we could have got him for about 10m

I think I saw in the summer Truffert was being touted for less than 15m to the premier league, If we could get him for under £18m it might be worth having a try, he's only 23, his wages are modest (rumoured to be as low as 25k a week in ligue 1) so you could possibly entice him for £40k a week. I would say though of the 4 defenders positions LB is the least of my concerns though, CB and RB are an absolute must, fix them first or we are relegated with a whimper

Zalewski is probably worth looking at, can play LB and LM, I'd wager he could play LW too. Struggling for game time with only 500 minutes played in 10 appearances. Sign him in Jan for probably 5m, worth the punt. Welcome Max Gradel.