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I don't think think that his ability is really in question. Like you say, it's his decision making and his attitude. His over confidence in himself often puts him in bad positions and that throwing his hands up and looking around accusingly every time he makes a mistake drives me absolutely mental.

The thing that is different about Monga is his strength. The thing I've noticed about young lads coming up from u21's is that they are caught on the ball quite a bit and thats purely down to senior football being much quicker and them not having the amount of time on the ball that they are used to. You don't notice that with Jeremy because when he is caught in possession, he has the strength to hold his opponents off. Most 16 year old players don't have that.

Unless we were waiting for some movement on the Mads deal before pulling the trigger on this one.

By drawing a big ol' boaby on an Addidas T-shirt?

I was thinking the same. I don't mind games like this in pre-season. It shows the new manager our weakness' and it doesn't gloss over what we need but there ARE still positives to our performance so far.

Are you King Power's accountant?

I would take it all day long but doubt there is any truth in it.

Really? I think Alves has been quite poor. I've lost count at the amount of times he's had the ball taken off him. Ofcourse, it means nothing in this sort of game but I do think he's been off it today.

Makes sense. There isn't an obvious #10 choice to play in this game when considering the other squad. Him, Monga or Page. Probably the latter. I hope he does try Mcateer there. I think he is far more suited.

I don't imagine that this means Alves is going. We just needed to fill out that squad.

I really do think that what you do to yourself is some sort of cruel and unusual torture. I would bet money that John Rudkin has never even heard of Viktoria Plzen, let alone any of their young and promising players. It'll be Rhian Brewster or Patrick Bamford, take your pick!

Fair. My mind completely slipped Daka so I thought Evans uo top but you're 100% correct.

Looks like a diamond in midfield?

He wasn't involved last game at all, I can only assume he picked up a knock.

Oh, well....

To be fair, Schlupp would fit Marti's system to an absolutely tee. A LB who can play CM and winger.... He's almost custom made for what Cifuentes wants from his FB's. Saying that, I still don't think we should sign him.

Jakub. Aluko. Okoli. Nelson. Justin Ricardo. Winks. Fatawu. Bilal. Monga. Ayew. Granted Aluko over Ndidi (with Ricardo at FB) and Monga over Stephy are gambles, those are the two that look ready and have impressed in pre-season so far so I'd give them their chance in this system, which I think suits them AND Ricardo centrally.

I'm not sure about the WORLD in general but certainly in the UK, we aren't very liked and people are enjoying our current predicament and it's purely down to our PSR/financial mismanagement. Thats on or owners. They've destroyed the reputation we built under Vichai.

Just in case Daka is having a bad day?

It doesn't matter if WE are happy. Is HE going to be happy? I want players that want to be here, if he wants to go...

I'm aware of that but getting someone with a proven record to come off the bench isn't realistic. Not at this level and especially not in our current circumstances. A young promising forward and an experienced savvy forward as backup is about as good as we are going to get at present as long as they can show they can do the job Cifuentes demands of them in his system.

Ofcourse, we all know that we need a striker and it is becoming even more evident but on the plus side, I think it's also becoming clear that between Ayew and Evans, we have enough cover for this level. Marti's system really looks like it will suit Ayew as an option off the bench. Something I wasn't convinced of before pre-season.

I thought it was interesting watching Skipp and Winks who would take turns of sitting deep with the other going forward.

I thought the "free man" was Thomas.... was it maybe switching? I was watching Luke and he was doing the same. LB position, CM position, winger, striker....He was all over the place.

If he has, I feel sorry for the alien that got his "talent". That fella got short changed.