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For £5m we should be all over this. Natural finisher who presses well and works hard. Young and room to improve with more than enough room to make a good profit.

Well, not only that but we play roughly the same shape as an Enzo team and the striker roles in both systems are quite similar. So if he wants to groom him as a starting #9 in his primary system, we would be a logical choice.

I 100% agree. Words aren't enough. They need to back them up and they haven't done in the past that but the fact that they aren't even pretending to care anymore definitely feels worse.

Just off the top of my head, I remember Arteta last season claiming they needed a new striker. I also remember Ten Hag stating they wanted to sign a striker, a CM and a CB a couple of years ago. Arsenal and Man Utd aren't "serious professional football clubs?" I was, however, referring more to the assurance that something IS happening in the background and the club ARE actively trying to improve. What have KP given us to ease our fears after 2 relegations, 2 PSR battles and 2 terrible seasons in 3 years with no-one being held in any way responsible? Nothing, not a thing. I would settle for a "don't worry guys, we got this" with a thumbs up emoji at this point. They don't need to outline in great detail their vision for our future, just acknowledge that they have one because I'm not convinced that they do.

Look at that, a club keeping fans informed and updated without giving much away.... When Kingpower are criticised for their lack of communication with fans, the same people always defend them with "what do you want them to say?" THIS. This is the sort of thing we want them to say.

I didn't actually know this. Surely he's well worth a shout at LB in Marti's system given he's can play with both feet AND likes to get forward.

He has been out on loan the entire time Marti was there. It would be interesting to know how much say he had on him going to Orient in the summer.

Charlie Kelman to Charlton for £3.5m. I have to say, I'd have been tempted to take a chance on him for that. Great numbers last year in leagie 1 and still relatively young at 23.

I don't agree with this observation in the slightest. Yes, he bursts out a trick or two but no where near what you would call an over reliance on it. In fact, I would argue. He could probably look to have a bit more confidence and do it more to beat his man on the outside but he is far more likely to either play the pass to the byline for the player on the underlay or cut inside and look for the pass. We've seen this time and again during pre-season and it results in him contributing heavily to the teams attacking play as a whole and not just from an individual stand point. You say he has nothing to fall back on yet I probably wouldn't even list his skills in his top 3 attributes. His strength, his workrate and decision making are all far more impressive. I agree that fans need to temper their expectation of him and let him develop but your observation of him as a player is low-key bizarre IMO.

I mean, that is quite an understatement! He's missed 105 games in the last 3 years through injury... Essentially hast kicked a ball for over 1000 days!

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....