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I can understand that. I don't think Puel is helped when he picks Okazaki on his own up top, and moves Maddison to left midfield though. But I wouldn't say he plays a defensive way at all. Rather just too boring with loads of sideways + backwards passing.

Chilwell is doing well. But he can still improve. His positioning needs work however for a full back he is so composed and aways supports the attacks. He will be a superb full back and glad he has signed to us longterm. Gray I am unsure really, as he always shows immense potential. And usually plays very well for England youth sides. There is a great player there somewhere, just need to find his best position and give him 1Oplus games to show how good he is and can be.

We are in a reasonable position. I just feel we should be playing better with a manager knowing his best 11 and having a style of play we use every week. Maddison AM, and kelechi and Vardy up top will create and scare opposing teams. Cardiff and Burnley has been better, prior to the horrible fatal incident - Bournemouth away pathetic and few others [ not downgrading bournemouth at all more the manner of our performance and team application ] Taking it back to Chilwell. I am delighted to see him in an England shirt, playing as our first choice left back and signed to a long term deal. I just think there are aspects we shouldn't ignore such as defensive positioning + final ball that when we gets those he will be a superb left back for years to come.

I don't quite think your surmising is quite correct on this. As a Puel out fan of Leicester, I don't see why you have to bring a level headed statement into this. Chilwell is doing great and has deserved his England call. Purely down to Puel giving him more game time. I still do not think he is great defensively and his final ball needs work. He has incredible potential to be not only our left back but also Englands left back for many years. But the basis of one player doing well you have to downplay Puel Outers? What can I say for Gray, Diabete, Vardy not scoring in many games, Kelechi, Okazaki, Morgan, Ndidi for their performances below their ability level. Does that mean as these players are not improving I am correct to want Puel out and you are in your own words extremely silly for wanting Puel in? Of course not, my opinion is that I want the best for the city I was born and live in. My points for wanting Puel out are that the team we have in my eyes are capable of better performances. And I don't think he is the man to provide the support, encouragement + motivation to get these. Puel is doing well in regards to keeping us in a mid to high position in the league, however I just think the squad on paper should challenging for 7th playing positive passionate football.

Very hard to criticise when he never gets a decent run in the team. Always dropped for vardy when he is not suspended. I would play Maddison behind Kelechi and Vardy for 5 games and see how they get on. Give them a chance and we will know more after a decent run of games.

I agree 352, without Vardy maybe he will go for Shinji and Iheanacho. I just can not see 3 cm with Mendi, Ndidi and Iborra all too defensive minded. Maybe 2 of those and Adrien Silva could work?

leonardo jardim the monaco coach is available. Developed wonderful youth players and got Monaco semi finals champions league as well as league title. This year he started poorly admittedly, but the same thing happened with Klopp and he has not done to bad with Liverpool.

I understand your team and maybe for an away game this would work. But at home we can not play 3 holding midfielders. However 352 with maddison behind Iheanacho and Vardy looks frightening.

Correct, but after the Richarlison tackle that was the time to make the decision. Can't play against a decent side like Everton and our defender can not make a tackle for 3Ominutes.

We won the league with a budget and a team that in total cost around 35million. We not only competed but we beat clubs with a far greater reputation than our own. This is the biggest accomplishment in football to show a small group of rejected players can go onto dominate the league. I say dominate as we lost only 3 games. Playing excellent football and defending as a team. There is a huge likelihood that we will never ever see this day for the rest of our lives. We should always remember this and never worry what other clubs feel and say that there club was failing. Chelsea won the league after us, and people will say only Guardiolas first season. Man City won it and can say Chelsea players stopped playing for Conte / United were playing boring negative football, Wenger was in his final season at Arsenal, Liverpool were waiting until chrstimas for VVD to sort there defence out. And this season can say Mourinho lost respect of his players and already an injury to KDB at Man City etc. Never ever stop to remember the best times in our clubs history. We won the league and deservedly so as we were the best team over the course of a season by 1O points.

Vardy was only behind Aguero and Kane last season, Kalechi with a run of games will score as well. Just need to play 352 and let the front 3 play together consistently and all 3 will get double figures.

valid point, but they did have Gabriel coming in as a replacement. Nacho is an excellent finisher as he showed at Man City, and starting to do with us with the Spurs away goal last season + Peterborough goals, plus Huddersfield this season, he needs a consistent run with him and Vardy and I think they will both get 15+ league goals each.

Its good he changes the team, just surely an attacking full back is better for home games against a side who offer little? I do agree Ricardo was poor defensively so I can see why he has been dropped. Pleasing he is playing Vardy and Kalechi, but why not use 352 where we have perfect balance and no players out of position. Anyway, results based if his team wins then he has got everything correct!

He looked good when he played last year. What has happened to him then?

I don't think he has improved from last season. He was excellent on loan at Huddersfield by all reports, and I really felt he would be better defensively than he is at the moment. I rate chilwell and think he has potential to be a top full back in the premiership, I just personally don't see an improvement at the moment. Agreed, on our right back, similar too Chilwell they are better going forward than defending, and Ricardo looks like he can not tackle either which is worrying for a full back. So many goals have come from his side.

No need to bring who has or hasn't got a clue.. This is a forum for a discussion. The fact we disagree is no problem. I never mentioned Pearson is as good as Klopp, so please read carefully before replying. I am on about touchline presence, and for the negative you mention about Pearson we never lost by more than 2 goals when he had us in the premiership and need to remind you he had GTF, Hammond and Konchesky in his teams, and certainly did not spend 1OOmill on players and be in no better position. He had an aura on the sideline and players played for him.

I completely understand after reading a lot of 'shite' posts [to steal your phrase ] that you would come to such conclusions as there is a lot of negativity towards Puel. We may not come to an agreement over the team / manager but can always have open discussions. I am not a fan of Puel, but I am massively a fan of our club. So although I do not ever boo the manager at games or shout rubbish for him to leave, i will always support our team. We are not going to get relegated nor come in the top 6 so being a leicester fan for 3O years all I want to see is our team play with pride for the badge. I have no problem losing, tottenham away last year I loved that game. We played for the team and had a great match. Of course we can tear apart the defending and conceding so many goals but I saw a team play for each other. We have a hugely talented youthful squad who are not playing near their abilities which is my worry.

I don't mean to come across in a bad manner, but if you think that is exhibiting passion and coaching from the sidelines every Saturday I am afraid what you would think of Pearson / Klopp or Conte [when he actually tried in the first season]. I guess this is why we love football, we can all watch the same game and managers styles and have completely different views on the topic. With Puel he just comes across so drab, and this to me leads to performances below the capabilities of the team. His media puts me to sleep, not a problem if the team show pride and passion, but I can not see anything to suggest that he motivates a team.

You do have a point, as fans of our club we can be that way. I will say though that this season our 2 wins we were poor in both games. Wolves could have easily been 2-O up before our first, we lacked any effort and desire at all. Southampton was a drab game, with a good goal from Bertrand, and then a long range Maguire winner that went between 2 players legs from distance. We did not play well in both our wins so I can see why people would come to that conclusion. I would say against united and Liverpool second half especially we played well. Looked to move the ball quickly and had chances to score. But we only really play well under Puel against the top 6, spurs and arsenal end of season, even though we lost to spurs, was a brilliant game to watch. Kalechi and Vardy linked up well, but then this season they don't play together. and against any other side, i think with the team we have on paper we should be dominating games with a tempo and pleasing style to watch. Yes we have young players but they are good players too. We set up so negatively and boring against Wolves, Southampton and Bournemouth where we should do what Wolves did to Burnley. Win, but dominate the game.

Puels Brother ?? The one we have does nothing on the sidelines.

I do not think he has improved defensively as a player at all. He is reasonable going forward as he always has been. But defensively he is average, positional play not good enough and I have not seen any improvements.

I don't have an accurate idea either, defoe and Begovic would easily be on top salaries. I think we would comfortably have a higher wage budget than bournemouth, but as you said thankfully it is irrelevant. We won the league with one of lowest wages in whole division.

Surely that can not be true? We have reserve players Silva, King, James, Iborra, Simpson who must all be on incredible salaries + I am sure we have a far larger squad depth than Bournemouth.

That is a possibility to remove Puel and end up with no plan, we can see he plays youngsters and gives them a lot of game time, which is great! I just can not see that he improves any of them. Of course things take time, but he has been here for 1Omonths pretty much, and I have seen some of the most dull and flat performances from the manager, players and even our supporters. As an example, Burnley at home last season sums this up just nothing for 9O minutes. I did not remember that particular Vardy hat trick so thank you for reminding me and getting to see the goals again. Both of those teams kept respective managers but liverpool were playing decent football with regards to style and learning a new way to play pressing from the front from Klopps first game in charge, and Guardiola is arguably the best manager around at the present time. I just can not see Puel's vision having a positive impact on our team. Of course I will support the team and not chant for Puel out at games. The players we have are certainly good enough to finish in the top 1O playing attractive passionate football that represents our club. We seem to represent our manager and that is flat, uninterested dour football. His press conferences do put us too sleep, and I think his team talks must be similar [of course I do not know if this is actually true but performances can suggest this]. Our team are showing signs of lack of discipline and we could have had both cbs sent off yesterday easily. The team do not seem to be playing with hunger / desire, I am not asking for Pearson back but we had a toughness and defensive shape instilled which has completely vanished under Puel. I do not think it is too much to ask to set a team up where we are not left with 2 slow centre backs on the half way line against 2 of the quickest strikers in the league. Regardless of the teams style of play, and our manager sits in his seat offering as much 'coaching ' and instructions to change the game when we are losing, as I give from my seat. I do agree we had no vision under Ranieri or Shakespeare who were both just playing the next fixture rather than implementing any strategy or plan.

Valid point. Most fans gave him time from the start and performances for a brief period were very high standard then we have been very stale since christmas arguably. Bournemouth are a decent side at home and I have no problem losing to them. However the manner of the defeat the abysmal tactics to play a high line with 2 slow cbs and both fullbacks continuously bombing forward leaves a lot to be desired. Puel is coming up to 25 league games for us I think, which granted does not sound a lot, but there are no signs or progression to our play or to anyone of our players, in fact there has been a severe decline in performances since his initial good spell in charge. We have a very good team on paper, who play well below the team capabilities I think.