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No idea on the goals. But I'm not shocked a coady and ward combo has bottled it

Positives We dug in thought Okoli and Vestergaard defended well Stolarcyk was excellent Fatawu confidence goal Got through a very tough away game with 16/17 year olds starting Marti subs were decent Hamza was excellent Monga showed bits again Ricardo got some minutes Negatives Midfield is awful, skipp in particular is woeful we have to sign at least 1 CM minimum. We are desperate for a striker, Ayew was awful, when we needed him to do what hes meant to be good at he wouldn't release it, was gagging for fouls and lost the ball so many times. Daka was his normal useless self. Luke Thomas continues to plays like a child. We have to sign a BEK replacement, page doesn't look ready yet. Managed the game so so poorly the last 20 minutes, constantly giving it back, allowing crosses.

We've been awful at managing the game. Very lucky Charlton are a poor side. Regardless of how this finishes we have alot of work to do

Okoli not bad at defending. Absolutely awful at passing, worse than awful maybe haha

I said to my mates it feels like we will only score from Fatawu doing it all. That's some goal. Hes comfortably our best attacking player

Another great save. Be 2 or 3 with danny ward

This is spot on, they know they are the danger, they are almost vacating the middle of the park and saying go on win it with skipp, soumare, page and ayew...

I know we all used to joke about Ndidi being older than claimed. But this guy has to be in his 40s. He cant run, pass, tackle, head, jump and has the footballing brain of Soumare

We are lucky Charlton are a poor side, we are devoid of any real quality. The midfield doesn't exist, they offer nothing. Page unfortunately has looked out of his depth so far. Ayew is a dreadful striker to have playing this way, kills all your momentum, obsessed with winning free kicks and plays exactly like a striker who only score 4 a season. Fatawu is getting frustrated and over complicating it. Its just a squad devoid of quality and belief. No real options to change it other than ricardo and hope. Long season ahead of we dont bring some attacking options in.

That's some save

Got absolutely nothing going forward at all outside of Fatawu taking everyone on

Soumare and Skipp again the problem, dont get forward to help, create nothing and easy to play through defensively.

I maintain Marti hasn't got much chance here if people have pitch forks out already. Vestergaard aside, he has no options, no signings and is relying on a combination of 16 year olds and mercenaries with a couple of relegations in their pockets.

The issue for me is when you look at the bench, wanya and silko thomas being the next men up behind two 16 year olds. Squad is crying out for help in attacking areas. Really happy for monga and Page to be in the mix, but certainly in Page case its a huge ask to be solely relying on him. Monga in a rotation with mavididi is fine

I dont think he has much choice? If mavididi has a knock and BEK is off. Concerns me that Page is now the only player for that CAM role. We have to address that. But otherwise im excited to see what they can do

Vestergaard and the Skipp/Soumare combination is just horrific. This is not a top 6 squad unless these academy lads take a huge leap.

You have to imagine its because of high wage demands he hasn't signed anywhere. As a free transfer he should be a decent low risk addition to most squads in the bottom half of the prem, top half of the championship.

With Dibling to Everton and Glasners comments about investing in the squad, I wonder if they will come back and just agree to whatever the issue was that led to talks pausing. Be interesting to see if he starts today or not, probably gives us an indication.

Its like he had slightly too much exposure to Danny Ward and its done irreversible damage.

As a bit of a guess Mcateer - 20k Mads - 35k Ndidi - 60k Coady - 75k Vardy - 150k Iversen - 10k Buonanotte - 40k Edouard - 90k Ward - 50k Young/ewing/raikhy/wormleighton collectively 10k? That's 540k a week. Obviously not completely accurate, but you could ball park it at 500k a week plus relegation clauses.

Think its good for everyone, hes not technically good enough and thats extremely good money for him. I do however think he suits Mckennas style as he never stops running. If he is to succeed at this level somewhere I think it would be there. All the best too him

Great deal money wise for a player I think we all know isn't technically good enough at this level. My only minor counter is, hes one of the players that actually tries and I think may be a negative loss in the dressing room. But you cant argue with 12m of pure profit for a limited squad player.

All good! Its a frustrating time to be a Leicester fan atm

Sorry, I meant fair money on the assumption if it allows us to reinvest. If we arent allowed to re invest then we might aswell of held out for more, as there was no rush to sell to find a non existent replacement and he would be more of an asset to us trying to help us, even if he was mardy for a few weeks. But yes agree with everything you've said Im not confident we actually will do anything

Agreed, hes got one hell of a job on his hands