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His two goals he has scored were from shots thst will have registered low on the xG scale but I can recall at least 6 absolute sitters he's missed this season. Him and Casadei together must have an xG about 10 goals higher than actual.
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Haha not sure. He must be doing one tomorrow before they set off to Hull.
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Probably not doing one because of the furore around our financial questions.
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Depending on how much we need to raise to comply, here is some rough valuations we'd need to sell our players for just to break even (i.e remain the same under PSR as if we were to keep them). Hermansen - £4.5m Ward - free Stolarczyk - free Justin - £1m Faes - £9m Coady - £5m Ricardo - free Thomas - free Kristiansen - £9m Souttar - £9m Nelson - free Winks - £6.5m Hamza - free Soumare - £7.5m KDH - free Mavididi - £5m Fatawu - £14m (not sure if his permanent transfer would count in 23/24 on 24/25) McAteer - free Daka - £10m Cannon - £6m It's essentially all on KDH to raise £25-30m. We could possibly flip Hermansen for a £10-15m profit if we are lucky, Faes we might get back what we paid for him and a £5-6m plus on the books. We certainly aren't making money on any of Souttar, Soumare, Daka and co. It's absolutely desperate. Perhaps that's why Ben Nelson is being fast tracked in the hope he impresses teams enough to chance £15m + on. Another sorry day in the history of Leicester City.
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Leicester 1-0 Sunderland Post Match Thread.
Ric Flair replied to Muzzy_no7's topic in Leicester City Forum
Yeah it's baffling because the total control philosophy doesn't actually happen as it did earlier in the season so I'd love him to explain the hypocrisy. -
And we don't play the bulk of our remaining games against teams in there until the latter part of the season so hopefully some of them are much closer to being home and hosed (Plymouth, Millwall, Brum, Blackburn)
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Leicester 1-0 Sunderland Post Match Thread.
Ric Flair replied to Muzzy_no7's topic in Leicester City Forum
The style of play wasn't the problem last night, we just played badly after a bright start. I don't take much notice of fans grumbling about our philosophy when we are poor, they'd be doing the same under an array of different types of tactics. Fans hate poor performances especially on the back of a run of poor results (where certain performances were much better). My focus is more on what Enzo can tweak / get better at. It's a mystery why he's stopped making 3+ subs around the hour mark to apply the same intensity as he did in the 1st 15-20 games and he needs to move heaven and earth to learn the art of getting his team to be more clinical. Certain managers have that knack and its not just down to the quality of a player. For all Brendan's faults, his teams score a higher % of goals from chances than the average decent manager. And finally, I hope this comes with experience but he needs to tweak his methods that drum in to his team that when you are chasing a game and you're not creating much that there's some variation in the patterns of play. More aggression is needed, I'm quite surprised for an Italian manager that we are the way we are in terms of mentality but again that may change in time. -
Maybe so but he's actually played over 100 1st team games and there's no excuse for it.
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Leicester 1-0 Sunderland Post Match Thread.
Ric Flair replied to Muzzy_no7's topic in Leicester City Forum
Still concerned about Enzo's in game management, after the Bournemouth game I thought he'd have taken confidence of the fringe players being motivated and capable to make their mark in games for us when needed but he's still reluctant to make changes. Someone else said it, but Hamza looked to be injured and yet he kept him on and it will be of no surprise if he's now out for the weekend. -
I thought he was excellent 1st half, but my god for a supposed centre half and 6ft + defender he is shocking in the air. I love his ability to control the ball though and get passes off first time and prevent the opposition getting in their banks of defence.
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Enzo's best work has been in the international breaks too with certain players and tweaks.
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We don't have many traditional full backs either though. Nor wing backs to play 3-4-1-2. I tell you what, the 1st signing I'd try and make if we go up is Trai Hume. Ideal for the system we play and he's very strong.
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He's shown precious little interest in doing so and JJ has been pony recently. Hamza has been excellent vs Leeds and Bournemouth so I really don't get the calls to drop him. Rest him if we had options fair enough given he's played a lot in quick succession but his performances have been better than most. As for his off the field antics, I'm certainly not happy about them but we're our fans saying this about Wes Morgan when he got done? The club will have done what they see fit.
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Scruffy but comfortable 2-0 win for us I think and then free wheel in to the cup before a well needed 2 week break.
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Agreed he might be running on fumes but who plays that role with Ricardo out?
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Him, Mavididi and Winks crying out for thr international break.
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But might still be close enough to 3rd that you'd want to get 6th in the semi's rather than have to play West Brom who'll likely get 5th.
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Leicester 1-0 Sunderland Post Match Thread.
Ric Flair replied to Muzzy_no7's topic in Leicester City Forum
If Enzo tries to defend that performance after we took the lead then he's pulling plonkers. That said, we needed a win by any means. That makes up for the scandal of Leeds. I think we so badly need the international break, if we can get a result on Saturday and free wheel in the FA Cup in the sense that we've a 2 week break then it's very timely for us. We're dealing with Leeds who have won 10 in 11 and Ipswich who have won 6 on the spin. We just have to dig in and build our own run which will then put huge pressure on them to keep up (one of them won't if we do that). -
Hull have been massively disappointing in recent games, a very strange team really. Got plenty of ability to cause us problems and it seems the teams that do well against us, do well against us in both games so we could well be in for an unpleasant weekend once again. Let's hope we can break that cycle. Coady has to stay in, would drop Faes for Vestergaard.
