jim5000

Real shame Vardy is suspended

There isn't a like for like replacement for Marhez, certainly not within the calibre of players we can attract. Our only hope is to find a rough diamond like Diabete and turn him into a Mahrez. Puel needs to adapt the team and find creativity in other areas.

Kane was playing too deep, Vardy would have been on the shoulder and given Sterling some to pass to. Although admittedly, no-one would have played the pass to Sterling if Kane wasn't the one there passing to him!

Vardy would have scored 2 in the semi

It's basically wanting to be one of the teams that focus on how high up they finish rather than thinking about relegation. At the moment we are at the top of the second group. Relegation is still a possibility for us next season, and most of the other clubs in the league apart from the current top 6.

He just doesn't seem to be involved in the matches as much as the other England strikers. He plays on the last man constantly, but the rapid counters of our style aren't replicated by England and he doesn't have Marhez to play him in. That last friendly with Welbeck scoring seemed to push him down to at least 3rd place after Kane and Rashford for playing spots. Still hopeful he gets on and scores a couple, hopefully in the knockout rounds

The film will be released in September after Vardy scores the winning goal for England at the World Cup.

The dismantling of the title winning side will go into full swing this summer. Probably only Vardy and Kasper will remain from that team.... Signing Ben Arfa should be a given if he'll come and he's a free agent, he could be a straight replacement for Mahrez's creativity and Puel got the best out of him at a previous club.

The previous appointments by the Thai's are Sousa Sven Pearson Ranieri Shakespeare Puel It seems when appointing externally, they look for managers with PL experience, and experience of managing abroad. Pearson and Shakespeare were both part of the club already, so I expect if Puel does go (and he probably should), they won't limit themselves to managers currently in the UK but will look for Premier league experience. They also seem to like the 'big name' factor.

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I'm joining the Claude out brigade. The performances recently, against teams struggling at the bottom of the table, have been horrendous. Our players are limited but he doesn't have a clue how to coach them, we've not created a goalscoring opportunity for weeks! Why did he let our two tall strikers leave on loan when his only tactic is our fullbacks crossing into the box? There is no interplay between the players on the pitch, we are all over the place and today's result was a direct result of his terrible management, lineup, and tactics. He's not going to turn this round. He's tried all our players and can't get anything out of any of them. Why let him spunk away £50m this summer?

Despite the misfortune, Puel did himself no favours with the starting line up, and having to waste 2 subs at half time. Ending up with Silva as our defensive midfielder and Maguire as the attacking midfielder is in-excusable!!!!!

Hamer diving out of the way of the penalty

What a total cluster**** this match has been. Puel got everything wrong from the start

penalty for palace 5-0 coming up!!

4-0

Place quicker, stronger, more creative, harder working We just try and cross it into Vardy against 5 massive defender over and over again /facepalm

3-0 Palace better than us in every way imaginable

Not much chance of that.

Puel created all his own problems with his terrible starting lining up. Had to waste his first 2 subs and now this cluster****!!

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Next season we will only have Vardy left from the Kante/Marhez/Vardy dream team that won the league. Without those two players we can't keep playing the same system and last night Puel was practicing a new shape ready for next season when Diabete drops in for Marhez. You can't expect a complete change of system and associated style to work perfectly overnight, but if he keeps working on it towards the end of the season when we are already secure and can afford to lose a few points, so that we hit the ground running in August, then so be it. We're safely in the top half of the Premier league, experiencing our most successful period for at least 30 years. But we've been in this position before and we know that one bad appointment can relegate us. Puel has gotten us into this position of safety and I'd take 6-8th happily next year if that's what happens. Stable, top half of the Premier league club was the Thai's ambition when they bought us. Better that than pulling the trigger again and getting relegated with Pardew next season.

Problem with Nacho is he pushes Marhez back, and Nacho just isn't the same calibre

We have pretty much all our attacking players on the pitch - Vardy, Nacho, Marhez, Grey, Albrigton, Silva, and we can't get any of them into play. It's just our back four passing it around and hoofing it for Vardy!

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