Steve Earle

There’s your number 6 upgrade…

As long as he wasn’t in Lens…?

A new board?

This, I’m afraid, is the problem. Enzo succeeded despite the board. Cooper isn’t doing, so far. This ownership brought us unimaginable times, for which I’ll always be grateful. Alas, since May 2021 (and I’d argue for quite some time before that), the leadership and decision making we’ve seen from this board has been abysmal. It’s hard to imagine any manager having a successful season with this leadership and the constraints they’ve saddled the club with.

It’s a big if, obviously, but if he signs we’d have something we don’t currently have; a player that demands opponents make a plan specifically for him. Imagine any of the greedy seven playing Leicester now. Manager: ‘show Fatawu & Mavididi down the outside’. Er, that’s the team talk. Zaha spent a decade in the PL being double marked. It’d be the same for us, hopefully. We just need to add some creativity to take advantage of the space his presence would open up.

Always hated his arm-waving & diving. Can’t wait to see him shithouse for us!

Solanke £60m? Crikey, it’s only two years ago that he was the worst striker (IMO) in the Premier League. As @Claudio Fannieri said above, let’s hope that wad is burning a Daka-shaped hole in Bournemouth’s pockets.

I don’t get the negativity towards Szmodics on here. Yes, he’s had just one exceptional season (which he won’t repeat) and he is older than is ideal but he’s a tidy player. Both times he’s played against us at the KP he’s been the most effective player on the pitch. If terms were sensible I’d take him as a rotation option/second striker/squad player in a heartbeat.

Maybe we’re aiming to do the opposite and open up his career path by giving him a season in the Championship?

You really shouldn’t share your password on FT you know?

All things considered, I'd say not. That is if you hadn't accepted back in May that all promotion meant was an opportunity to clean house, sort out our PSR position and put ourselves in the best possible shape for another Championship promotion campaign.

Whatever you're having, can I get some?

That might be right. But the possibility that all ITKs got unfair grief every time one of their suggested prospective deals failed - for whatever reason - to get over the line is perhaps more likely?

We have the money. We can afford him. He prefers elsewhere. It’s not anyone’s fault.

We’d have paid that or thereabouts for Soule. I don’t think we’re short of money but sense we’re looking for value and players we can sell at a profit (I’m ignoring the Ayew rumour here). We then have to persuade them to join us. With O’Reilly the story seems to be his preference for Italy or reuniting with Brussel Martin. The story might be wrong?

Don't disagree with any of this @moore_94, but surely minus KDH, Yunus and Praet we need at least two ACMs? That is, if like me you can't see Alves or Golding being PL ready?

IYKYK Babs and Clean Willy...

Very welcome and good idea @Finnegan Ornstein (same stable as Tanner) worth putting in Tier 1? Kristof Terreur too for sure

I know. One of Drugdealer’s finer works.

My bad - you’re quite right. Always remembered as a Norwich player, but we signed him from Osasuna. He didn’t want to leave or join us either!

Not a word against Rob Ullathorne if you don’t mind. Thank you

I love these snippets of proper Leicester!

Remembering that night at Molineux now makes me almost physically sick! Still, it was fun while it lasted, and always good to beat the Yam Yams.

Fair point & one I expected to be made! But they let him leave on expiry of his contract, so we signed him in similar circumstances to Kevin. The big difference, I grant you, is that one had achieved just about everything there is to achieve in football, and Kevin had to join us to do that!

Forest & QPR top clubs?!?