Ric Flair

Xmas chopping

But the £2.6m will be accounted for from July 2025 for 2025/26 anyway, so agreeing for him to leave on a free in the summer makes us no worse off and we save the years wages (same as just loaning him out as well). Agreed on the rest, hopefully really clear up and have a new strategy.

Watford are very good negotiators, probably be £10-12m but we'll worth the punt.

Slid down the middle bit of an escalator at Oxford St tube, bobbing and weaving the bollards in the middle like a young Nigel Mansell only to shatter my coccyx on the metal box at the end.

I'd scrap the attempts to sign a CB this month, try and get one of Coady or Faes out and use Nelson when he's back fit next month. Let's face it, any new signings would be adeadlien day and another week to get international clearance, another few games out the squad or on the bench and then available for selection back end of February.

Futile I know but that Rocco Vata at Watford is pure sauce.

Him not being in the match day squad vs Fulham was an indicator this might have been close. We'll see what happens. I think we at the very least get one more in so we need one out.

Prime candidate to shake hands and let him go in the summer on a free.

A club like Birmingham would be a very good loan move for him, with Davies and Petty there. Only issue is they're poised for automatic promotion and will already have a very settled squad. Sormaz at Barnsley is another we could hopefully use our past links with.

That's fairly irrelevant, as always it's about PSR and we make £4.5m + save half a seasons wages. So all in all that's about £5.5m in the positive column which is the equivalent of a £15-20m signing over 5 years if we're looking to replace this financial year.

Was that not Coulibaly? Wr aren't in the market for a 5th choice DM replacement.

Can't see why Hamza would hold it up, he'll have his wages covered regardless and he'll get to play. Maybe he doesn't want to play? 😂😂

And yet it's reported Sheff Utd are very keen to get Choudhury and we've stalled on it.

Mavididi with El Khannouss at LW cutting in. Or he rotates with El Khannouss and Bounanotte in the dual 10 roles. Our options to replace any of the three mentioned above are Reid, McAteer and Ayew.

Somethings off here. Whilst it was clear we'd done the majority of our budget in the summer as the elusive striker turned out to be restricted to loan options, we've reached desperation levels in our pursuit of staying up. Maybe the notion we'd spend now and sell in June to comply is off the table because we already need to sell to comply in June and relegation would make that unfeasible. Sorry state of affairs if so. However Ruud's been told there's a level of funds available that surely isn't just a £3m permanent transfer and a loan, especially when Tom Collomosse who I respect has said we're targeting up to 5 new players. A loan is likely to cost us £1-2m in fees anyway which is no different than a £5-10m transfer over 4-5 years. I'd be targeting those whose contracts are up in the summer and value leagues like Scandinavia and Japan.

To be fair if I could get a shirt made up of 33% of these I'd wear it.

BOSH cheers

Pod potential?

The Mark Draper of 1994/95

For that price I'd be taking a punt that he didn't have the season for the ages last year and he's reverted for being a very mediocre Championship player. How dominant he was last season would surprise me it's thr latter rather than the former.

Been reported that Diaz is seen as a left winger and they still want Cannon.

The buy option is about half what we paid for Oliver Skipp as well 😂😂 Gronbaek is more of a like for like Dewsbury-Hall type player too. Terrific.

RUSKIN

Read the articles from the most respected journalists who have managed to get beneath the surface of the way our football club runs and they've stated that Rudkin is the most trusted employee under Top. So whilst what SHOULD happen with the way a CEO operates at a functional enterprise, we're led to believe that's absolutely not how Leicester are ran. The amount of jobs Rudkin holds across the King Power operation speaks volumes too.

I think you're doing a massive disservice to the sentiment of your username if you think our CEO is the one who decides on the position of our Director of Football. I know we tell our kids that Santa's real but come on man we were once Champions League.