Ricey

Same players letting us down, match after match, season after season. That starting back four, plus Kristiansen, have proven themselves not to be good enough and most of them have proven that they don’t want to be here. Pick players that do.

He has wanted to leave for the last 3 windows and we have wanted to sell him, but there’s not even been a sniff. Why would someone come knocking in January, regardless of whether he’s playing or not? I would argue that performances like Friday’s are bringing his value down.

A performance that would have fitted right in last season. Soft, slow and weak. The whinging and diving summed it all up. It’s 2025 and I’m still watching Faes, Vestergaard and Soumare repeatedly let us down. All three were petulant and pathetic last night. Six managers along and somehow they are still deemed to be our best options. Marti isn’t blameless, he’s picking them (and persisting with Ayew up front) but a proper football club would have shifted them out long ago. Give the likes of Nelson, Okoli, James and Carranza a run. Let them adapt, let them learn from their mistakes rather than shipping them out after one shaky display.

Ayew is paid by the touch, I’m sure of it.

We had the same situation two years a go, with a squad that didn't want to be here and mostly disliked by the fans. We sold the best few players and then a load left on free, yet here we are two years later counting down the months until another bad batch run their contracts down. Some of the players I mentioned in my list joined in the last two years or were given new contracts. This cycle will keep happening until the incompetence at the very top of the club is dealt with.

We haven’t got rid of the big wages or big egos though, all the worst swamp dwellers are still here stinking the place out.

5. We are still left with all of the players that we needed to ship out the most. Faes, Winks, Vestergaard, Kristiansen, BDR, Daka and Soumare. The sales we have made have essentially allowed us to carry on paying their wages. We left all of our business to the last day, which is never ideal, and although all three seem promising, there are also coming in off the back of a failed spell and/or a bad injury. They are also all loans, so if they don't work out and they go back at the end of the season, we have potentially 10+ players leaving next summer on a free or end of loan...which is not the sign of a healthy football club.

We need to replace Vardy, BEK, Ndidi, and McAteer, plus VK and anyone else who might go (Faes could leave after the window to go to Turkey). So could be 5 or 6 ideally needed today. Which is frankly a ridiculous situation to be in and simply won’t happen. We don’t have the infrastructure to deal with that many deals in one go. Shambles.

It’s badly under market value. A young, creative player who shone at times in the Premier League has to be close £40m, as proven by Fernandes, Dibling and Hutchinson. I can only assume that clubs know we are in the shit and desperate.

I think Stolarczyk's distribution might be the issue.

A lot of people are saying there should be no restrictions and that owners should be able to spend their money.

Easier said than done, finding a suitable middle ground would allow too much spend for the promoted teams, putting them in danger if they went back down.

It wouldn’t surprise me. Going public that we are under a business plan serves no benefit to us or the EFL whilst the transfer window is open.

People moan about PSR and I understand why due to the loopholes and inconsistencies, but imagine a world with no financial restrictions at all? Newcastle and Man City would blow everybody out of the water, agents would have a field day, whilst erratic or incompetent owners would be allowed to risk limitless long term financial damage. Imagine if we’d been allowed to spend in the summer of 2022? More crap like Daka, Soumare, Vestergaard, Kristiansen and Tete would only have deepened our problems in the long run, especially once King Power ran into their financial problems, and probably not kept us up. PSR does favour the big clubs, and that needs to be softened, but it also rewards smart operators, which we are absolutely not.

The Premier League have only “relentlessly pursued” us because we’ve relentlessly refused to cooperate and relentlessly breached. The Arsenal situation is not relevant at all and the delay in the Man City cases isn’t due to the Premier League not caring, there is not a lot else they can do. The EFL way over stepped their mark two seasons a go, granted, but the idea that they would be happy to see us go out of business is ridiculous. Maybe if the club sorted themselves out and cooperated with the leagues then things would be a lot smoother.

Always felt like those compilation videos of him being out of position were a bit harsh, as they often cut out the bit where Faes has charged out and got nowhere near the ball.

Feel exactly the same about this as I did McAteer, good deal financially for a player that feels replaceable, but he wasn’t one of the bad eggs. Always gave his all and was never scared to be honest and candid in interviews. You take the money but it’s imperative that we bring in a few with the right attitude.

I assume it’s a business plan. The EFL can enforce that whenever they suspect a club might breach (again). I highly doubt it’s a self imposed embargo to avoid a points deduction, that’s not how the system works. We breached for 23/24 and probably have 24/25, but the only people that can determine the punishment is an independent committee.

It’s only a good deal because of PSR and PSR is only a pressing issue for us because of incompetence.

When we have so many players that don't want to be here or have attitude problems, I wouldn't be selling one of the very few that consistently gives his all and seems to care about the club. Yes he's not a starter and yes he has his limitations, but we need to building a new culture and Kasey is a good fit for that.

Doing any sort of protest last week would have been crazy in light of Wednesday’s situation, which would have totally overshadowed it.

The messaging needs to start being aimed at him and King Power. Ultimately it’s Top that makes all of the final calls and it’s Top that refuses to restructure and freshen things up.

God bless Deadpool.

All of them.

It's a vicious cycle that we are stuck in, but the blame doesn't lie at the Manager's door. It needs someone higher up, someone who's been here longer than a few weeks to identify these types of players and realise that their time is up. Can't think who. Regardless of their quality at this level, they have all let this club down time and time and time again. Some spend most of their time ostracised in the U23's (whilst turning down chances to leave), some can barely be bothered to track a run, some spend more time waving their arms (and hair) to blame everyone else for their mistakes, some don't fancy staying one night a week in a luxury hotel room (but loves a cheeky aperol spritz on matchdays), most them couldn't be bothered to clap the fans at any point over the last couple of years and all them have played their part in an unacceptable period of incompetence, lack of commitment and, ultimately, abject failure at this football club. The culture and standards need fixing. Clean slates for players that don't deserve them will not do that.