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Again, being one of our best players isn't hard when we have barely left our own box all game. He's running about a bit sure, but he's not up to the pace of the game yet. He had a moment in the 47th where he tracked back to help Kristiansen and put a good slide in, we got the ball out and he started to jog forward as you do, kristiansen got himself out of position and bilal watched 2 west ham players just drift past him and made no effort to track back again. Being one of the better players on the pitch when we've played awful doesn't mean he's playing good enough.

We've been completely dominated but we've defended much better.

Vesty has been our best player, just ahead of Vardy who hasn't been given any service.

So poor then? Vardy had a great finish and hasn't been in the game since so it's not a very high bar. I've seen Bilal make 3 very clumsy and heavy lunges where he's given a foul away or completely missed the ball.

Ndidi has been getting his toe in today good to see.

Al Khannouss is nowhere near up to speed with this game. Looks heavy on his feet.

GET IN!!!!!!!

I just want to see a rocket straight up Soumare, none of his usual jogging around, hope Ruud can make him a warrior.

Hopefully the defensive structure work we've been doing comes in handy, we desperately need it tonight. Happy he's shaking a few things up, but the CB/CM combo is dodgy

Not sure about dropping Mavididi, but dropping Faes is huge, playing El Khannouss as an attacking midfielder also positive. Take this tbh.

To be honest 2 days of work really isn’t enough to massively turn things around, but if Ruud can get a basic defensive structure into the team, and get the players fighting we could see a massive improvement. All I care about is performance here, result is ideally needed but he’s taken over a complete mess, so I can’t expect much from him so early on, just fight for the badge, never shirk a tackle and hope Buonanotte, Vardy or Mavididi can produce a piece of magic.

We need a huge window in January which will be difficult, but just some random defenders names to throw out there, proper football manager stuff. Cancel Edouards loan deal. Victor Lindelof - (Loan) Not the greatest, but is a huge improvement on Faes, he's struggling for game time and his deal is up in the summer, a good 6 month loan deal could be what he needs to put himself in the window for potential clubs Devyn Rensch - Dutch right back at Ajax, he's been slightly unsettled last couple of seasons as he was fighting with Mazraoui for a starting place before Mazraoui joined Bayern, 21 years old and his deal is up in the summer, maybe he wants to join the Dutch revolution in Leicester and would likely be on a cut price deal if he's only got 6 months left. Chancel Mbemba - CB, Played 54 prem games for Newcastle 2015-2018 before moving to Porto, played 87 games for Porto over 4 years and moved to Marseille where he's played 61 games in 2 seasons, not featuring this season, deal is up in summer. Very random one: Simon Kjaer - (6 month deal if interested) he's on a free transfer and had a pretty solid Euros as Denmark Captain, very solid on the ball, played 20+ games for Milan last season and Milan fans loved him, if he's kept fit he could help shore up the defence on a short term 6-12 month deal, he retired from International football in August but I don't think he's fully retired from club football?

Yeah he's a big risk but JJ needs a rest, I was also not 100% sure on El Khannouss, I think he will give us a bit of flair coming from central to link the defence to the attack with Buonanotte, but he leaves us a bit more exposed in the middle

I still dislike him for that, embodies the problem at the club.

We just seem to have absolutely no standards, no leadership, nobody cares. Watching Ndidi and Soumare today every time Brentford broke through our pitifully weak midfield they were more often than not jogging back. First priority in January for me is to sign some nasty bastard player who is willing to lead this lot, we need to rebuild this squad in Summer with STANDARDS. If you can't follow the standards you're out. Blood sweat and tears for the badge. If you are jogging on the pitch you'll never play again. Where are the Roy Keane/Vieira/Adams/Keown leaders anymore? Absolutely spineless bunch. I wouldn't care if any of them left really. A couple i'd be a bit nostalgic over, but the vast majority can go and rot in the Championship for all I care.

Has he run yet?

Okay I’ve revised my January wishlist. We need a minimum of 4 defenders.

I fear you are probably right, but always willing to give players a chance under new management, we will likely have to go 6+ weeks (half way into January) before we would likely sign a new DM so my gut instinct is Soumare will play there.

Mine relies on a few variables, IF Ruud plays a defensive midfielder, I think it will be Soumare, and think he will improve massively with a proper role, if it's Ndidi playing in that role, it will be him. Sangare was a very important role in his PSV system, I think Soumare is the closest we have to that.

If it means dropping JJ, yes, especially if his plan is to invert either JJ or Kristiansen. Don’t get me wrong I don’t think Hamza is cut out for it either at this level, but I don’t think Hamza is going to cost us a goal a game whilst we wait for Ricardo to return.

I agree with you, but I think Soumare is closer to the Sangare role than Ndidi is, I’m just assuming he is going to want to replicate what he had at PSV.

So I haven’t quite kept up the last 2-3 days since it was basically confirmed it was Ruud by everyone, can someone explain to me why our new manager hasn’t had 2-3 days to train the team and take us into Brentford tomorrow? Just Leicester stuff or?

Credit to those pointing out that Hamza could be playing right back and tucking into midfield. That makes far more sense than my daft idea of making JJ do it (because kristiansen literally fled to Italy to avoid doing it) I’d be happy to see JJ given a rest and for hamza to step in too.