Gerard

Who do we need next season?

Very happy with that side, apart from the GK it's full of players fighting for a place in the next league game.

He was League One POTY last season and still very raw and young. You won't go far wrong buying the best player in the league below who is very young, Maddison fitted this profile when he signed. Ivan Toney also came from League One, there are plenty of "exceptions to the rule".

I really don't want to watch a Leicester team without Bilal and Fatawu. I really hope both stay because we have hope with those two in the side, sell them and mid table with a prolonged stay in the Championship beckons. It's no coincidence that our only signing this summer is a free transfer of a 38yo reserve GK on a one year deal. Any player we sell will probably be replaced by someone already in the squad.

If we lose Bilal or Fatawu I really fear for our chances to go up this season. What really sticks in the throat is the money we would get for them covers the Skipp signing from last year and little else. .

League One POTY as well, we'd be buying the best player in the league below us, given his age and rawness then I can't see much downside in that.

Wilf already photoed in a Besiktas shirt (lovely kit as well, Wilf looks sharp). It's done.

At 3m with add ons it sounds like a no brainer, only 21 and was League One POTY last season. Even if he never develops here you would think you could sell him on to another team in the Championship or an ambitious League One side in a year or two. I do like his raw potential as he's never been in an academy, has a touch of the Vardy's about him progressing through the game in an unorthodox fashion.

The lad is still 16 and who is ahead of him for that No9 spot? An ageing Ayew and a shot Daka. Whatever happens we'll need a new striker as the alternative is to put all our eggs in the Ayew or Daka basket. I don't think Jake Evans has any course of complaint, he's very young and he hasn't looked like he's banging on the door of the first team like Monga could claim. Whatever we do in the striker transfer market shouldn't matter to Evans, if and when he is good enough for regular first team action here he'll force his chance but he's not at that level yet.

Hw would be okay but I would be concerned about his lack of progression. Went to Sunderland on loan as a 17yo, Coventry as a 18yo, Leicester as a 19yo, Norwich as a 20yo. You would have thought he was destined for a top half PL team if he was at Sunderland on loan as a 17yo but he'll be 22 in October and he's still knocking around the same level. Nice feet but not the quickest or most dominant for a centre half, I would be concerned he hasn't kicked on from where he was at 17/18. I used to have high hopes for Chilwell but was glad to sell him in the end as he was the same player at 24 as he was at 19 and never developed, Doyle could do the same.

Youth is 18/19 to 21 Kids are 15 to 18 The likes of Monga have proved to be more than worthy of a place on the pitch when he comes on as sub. I still believe 15, 16 and 17 year olds should be protected from too much responsibility in the first team. Ideally if they have the talent then 10-20 minute cameos are ideal when they're on the pitch a short time and they can give everything they have in short bursts until the time their performances can no longer be ignored. Monga is making a case for a start on ability alone but I would like to see him managed and come on in bursts. As for our other youngsters I've not seen enough from them yet that they can oust the senior professionals here. However I would like to see them on the bench and given opportunities.

I think 15k is a bit low for a £5m signing who was League One POTY last season. Looking at the clubs interested in him so far in Swansea and Preston then we don't need to blow them out the water but just a little bit more attractive. One of my criticisms of the club in the last decade is signing players on salaries that are so lucrative that you can't get rid of them and it's a double whammy that you have players who cost big money, can't get in the team and you can't sell because the teams that would have them can't afford their salaries. I've not seen Kone play but I do love his profile. Non academy and playing in the dregs of the football pyramid before getting a big move to Wycombe and then excelling and winning League One POTY. Upside on him is absolutely huge but you also want to pay him a salary that means you can offload him to another Championship club if he fails here. Also I love the idea of us signing the best player in the league below who are still young and developing, that was Maddison's profile when we bought him.

Monga should have the same role he had last season, a 20 minute impact sub. All our very young talented players should look to get that role for themselves this season. As you insinuated very few 16/17 yo are worthy of playing a big role at this level, usually generational talents like Owen, Rooney or Bellingham. The young players need looking after and bedding in as well. In an ideal world I'd love to see a lot of our senior players sold, keep the real talent like Bilal and Fatawu and our very young talented players filling in half the bench and getting 10-20 mins most games. Bilal and Fatawu should be an example to them as the best players in the team and not much older than them.

Sounds like Vardy who when he came here had some great attributes but struggled playing this level of football when a couple of years previous he was working in a factory and playing for Stocksbridge Steels. The other obvious comparison would be Ivan Toney who was the last big striker to come out of League One and he was brilliant, one of the best strikers in the PL for me before moving to Saudi. I was a bit dubious over his record as he played at a really low level before going to Wycombe but he has only just turned 22 which probably gives him a better CV than Vardy or Toney before their moves to Leicester and Brentford. Happy yo hear your analysis of him as an uncut diamond.

Disagree, no way on earth was Ndidi a class above Lennon. I remember Izzet said about Lennon "he's good enough to play for AC Milan" when at that time AC Milan was the pinnacle of European football and I totally get where Muzzy was coming from. I've always thought Neil Lennon was one of the most underrated players we've ever had, if he was at Man Utd in the 1990's, he'd have been there a decade as a squad player. Just read the game brilliantly as a defensive midfielder and was quality on the ball rotating it and rarely losing it.

Too good for us apparently and unilaterally put himself up for sale this summer. It speaks volumes what a massive whopper he is that he has no doubt instructed his agent to get him a move this summer but there has been nothing. Maybe we'll see a statement in September that he wants to be here to get promotion and wants to fight for his place. Echoes of the 40yo man who leaves his wife as he wants to play the field more and begs to come home six months later after living in his bedsit and zero action with the ladies in that time.

Best years for us is when Brendan played him as a No6 and played Tielemans and Maddison as No8's. Under Puel he partnered Mendy and Maddison was struggling as a No10 as the opposition done everything to shut Maddison down and allowed Mendy and Ndidi more of the ball and they were ineffective with it. When Ndidi played as a No6 behind Maddison and Tielemans it just worked because now the opposition couldn't just focus on Maddison as Tielemans was so effective and with no Mendy in the team Ndidi had to pick up the slack defensively so was asked to do more of what he was good at and less of what he wasn't good at. It was no coincidence those were our best years after the title but then Brendan eventually partnered Tielemans with Ndidi rather than Maddison to our detriment.

Lennon was better than Ndidi.

Just seen that clip when he miscontrolled and inadvertently passed to McAteer. I've tried to be patient with him as he came here with high potential and four goals versus Spartak etc but the truth is there are just too many examples of him looking like a newborn giraffe and missing some absolute sitters by huge margins, the truth is quality players just don't have that many bloopers. Daka is a dud I'm afraid and any defence of him is not based on evidence. His best qualities are his defensive attributes which is not what you want to say about your No9 in a side that should be challenging for first place.

The sort of player who someone will mention to me in 10 years and I'll have forgotten he ever played for us.

18 goals out of 69 for Burnley last season, that's 26% of their goals from CM. That's the same percentage Mahrez got in our title winning season. Still 29.5 years old, a three year deal takes him to 32.5, still not too old. On a free and if the manager has plans for him it certainly wouldn't be the worst business we've done in the last few years. Absolutely nothing wrong in signing players who were one of the best players in the division last season.

I actually thought JJ was borderline world class here at his peak, I was a big fan of a young Chilwell but for me Chilwell was the same player at 19 as he was when he left, he never kicked on. Justin was much better at his peak that Chilwell ever was and looked great business selling Chiwell for £50m and replacing him with a player a class above for £8m. Ever since his injury though JJ has been a shadow of the player he was and could have been. Happy to see him go for a fee especially with a year left on his contract.

He's always looked to me what he was, a £2m signing. Seemed strange at the time and seems strange now, a 26yo who was never going to be better than what we had. There just seems no accountability at the club for making inadequate signings.

Rohl was/is far and away my first choice, Cifuentes would have been my second choice mainly because he potentially has a higher ceiling than the plodders like Dyche, Wilder and O'Neill. I'd like to know the reasons why we didn't get Rohl. If it was for financial reasons it stinks that we're too tight on budget to bring in the No1 choice in such a crucial role for a club that thought £20m on Skipp a year ago was decent business to improve a CM that already had Winks, Ndidi, Soumare and Choudhury to pick from.

Our modus operandi seems to be buying players for good money that fail that eventually leave on a free after running their contracts down. A double whammy as you get stung my the inflated transfer fee and then fail to recoup any losses paying a player wages that he wouldn't get at any other club. I can forgive a signing like Daka as he was highly rated and untested in the big leagues but Ward and Skipp we knew everything about them as not good enough PL players who were mid 20's and had failed at their previous clubs, unforgiveable signings as we knew everything about them and the chickens have come home to roost making too many lazy signings.