ALC Fox

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Often excellent and threatening but the quality of his end product tailed off despite remaining a real danger one-on-one. Probably could've done with McAteer coming on for him for the final 15-20 really.

Proper battle this

His team play in the Copa Libertadores final tomorrow night at 8pm. Watchable on BBC iPlayer.

I like it.

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I'm getting pumped for this already. Two teams who won't be scared of each other and who will be really motivated to make a statement win. Can't wait.

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Enzo loves a winger doesn't he!

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If we keep the manager I think we'll be fine. Recruitment has been exciting and we've been willing to spend in the Championship. Some higher earners may still leave but that also frees up wages for new players. We'll need to make signings no matter what, but when Maresca came in he immediately identified the keeper, CBs and midfielders he wanted to play his style. We'll have targets that are more suited to the Premier League, surely. For now, I'm enjoying the ride with fingers crossed that it continues and we do go up.

It was

Reminds me of a time when I used to frequent Birmingham New Street on a regular basis about 15 years ago. Every time, despite all the overt signage everywhere, somebody would ask me - or I'd overhear someone asking somebody else - "is this the train to Leicester?"

He was a top player for us and it's a shame his career turned out like it did. I don't blame him for leaving. He'll have backed himself to succeed at Chelsea, as so many who fail there do. He made mistakes but he is yet another example of how young men with money and time on their hands often need a good support network in place. Often, when your life is your work and your work is going terribly, that's when they need help, especially if they already have a reputation of being 'a complicated character' as Nigel Pearson put it. I don't know how much the PFA were involved with Drinkwater during his darkest times but he clearly needed someone or some people around him to guide him. There's a lot of talk about kids who drop out of academies and never make it in the game, and I believe the help they receive is improving (to what extent, I don't know). But pros who suddenly drop out in their mid-to-late twenties probably need more help too. It'll be more obvious and available to those whose careers are ended by injury, I imagine, but there are those in Drinkwater's predicament where they're bombed out of a team and cast onto the sidelines who will require some sort of mental and practical help to get their careers back on track, or to find their way post-retirement. Jadon Sancho is the biggest example I can think of right now who is probably having a miserable time. Yes, he's rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he'll currently be aimless, structureless and rejected, and therefore at real risk of slipping out of the game if he can't find the motivation to get back to his Borussia Dortmund best. The gambling, drugs, alcohol and behavioural problems will also become big risks then, too.

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Really impressed with Choudhury's contribution to the first goal. Lovely intricate one-touch passing, but also baiting the press in the first place and pointing to where others should pass to. Then Mavididi for the second goal. Could've played the easy ball forward but shimmied inside and laid it off to Winks. A narrow win but moments of quality made the difference.

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3-1 They'll come to play, maybe even take the lead. But we'll push and pick them off. Vardy, Dewsbury-Hall, McAteer the scorers.

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Is it possible to love this guy any more? I do hope his injury troubles are behind him. A good Premier League campaign behind him could easily see him back in the thinking for the national team. I imagine it's too late for the Euros with them being next summer and we're in the Championship. But he must be having little thoughts about the World Cup, especially with a dearth of quality centre-backs, injury-prone left-backs, and Trippier and Walker potentially coming towards the tail end of their careers.

Hope we get Wolves in the cup and hope young Alves bags a hat-trick. Great to see he's almost ready and that he's straight into the first-team group.

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Ah fair enough. I'd have thought he would have more takers though. I feel a bit for him really because a lot of teams are crying out for goalscorers.

To see him come on, could that mean that he's turned a corner mentally and is a bit more accepting of the situation now? Or could that be reading too much into it? I think he suffers from being too much like a 2014 version of Vardy. He's clearly rapid and a good finisher, but Vardy has developed his game a lot since then. I'm convinced that Daka will be a roaring success for a good club that wants to use him correctly. We're just not in a position to be that club while Vardy and Iheanacho are still performing, and now we have some succession planning with Cannon. If we choose to cash in on Kel in Jan (if it becomes clear he isn't going to sign a new contract) then maybe Daka gets another chance. But it absolutely baffles me that Soumare can get a move to Europa League winners and current Champions League side Sevilla but Daka's move to Bournemouth fell through.