Flappit

Maddison has family he is very close to that live in the area. It's part of the reason he chose us over Southampton. He's been open in encouraging Tielemans to stay, he's seen that being at Leicester is no barrier to getting into the England team and yet you think he's going to run off to a top 6 club that flashes their knickers at him? Get real.

Is this the Tielemans thread or the "bicker about club finances that none of us really know" thread? Ultimately Monaco can sell him to whoever they like and his personal opinion isn't worth a knacker. It's highly unlikely they'll do anything until their season is properly over either and I'm fairly certain that the top guys at Monaco aren't keeping twitter randomers up to speed with negotiations.

Watch the moment in the West Ham game early on when Vardy heads the ball back to Maddison, who cuts inside and hits a weak-ish left foot shot. Gray tosses his head in frustration that Maddison didn't pass to him (even though he was standing pretty much behind the defence by then) and, more tellingly, doesn't even follow the ball in. Every attacking player in the world knows you follow the ball in, just in case the keeper spills it, but Gray couldn't be bothered or it didn't even occur to him. Admittedly Maddison could have passed to him earlier in the move but equally Gray could have made more room for Maddison's shot by making a more intelligent run to drag a defender wide instead of straight into the path of Maddison's shot. He just doesn't have the basics right and shows no sign of wanting to work hard to correct it. He needs to be loaned out or sold, for me.