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When Barnes first got into the Leicester team his worst attribute was finishing. Over the years we turned him into a goal machine. Hopefully Akgun can get the same coaching!

The key attributes we're recruiting for in the wide positions are work rate and the ability to beat a man in 1v1 situations, both strengths that Jimboom specifically mentions. I'd say from the first few games we can see the same attributes in Mavididi and it's reflected in his stats. Our system, with the inverted fullbacks, is designed to get the wingers in 1v1 situations against their fullbacks so having players that can beat a man will create so many chances. Work rate is important too to cover the spaces out wide when we're being counter attacked. We're never going to sign the perfect player in the championship and the ability to create is more important than scoring goals for us in this system, the goals will come from the striker and the high 8s filling the box. I think it's a logical signing!

https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11095/12471697/brendan-rodgers-leicester-manager-distances-himself-from-disrespectful-man-utd-speculation "Secondly, I can't really comment on it because it is something that is not real. I am here as the Leicester City manager, I'm proud to be here, privileged to be here and fully committed to the players, the club, the ownership. "That's about it really. All the other noise around that is something that we can't control. I've focused, like I have done in my career, so the only club I'm thinking about is Chelsea and getting ready for that."

https://www.pne-online.net/forum/index.php?threads/iversen-player-of-the-season.3434374/ Preston fans have nothing but good things to say about Iveren!

Three good saves on here

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Brendan has said in the past he's a fan of the Castagne/Pereira pairing on the right. The only reason we haven't seen it more is injuries. “It’s been something I’ve been waiting to do for quite a long time, but this is the first period where both of those boys were fit to play,” “They’re different types. Because of how we play, they find themselves in that attacking third of the pitch quite a lot. Tim will run more without the ball and penetrate, and Ricky’s one who can be inside and manipulate the ball. “I just thought that combination of those two, because Ricky is comfortable coming inside, he can turn, he can pass, he’s very aggressive when he attacks. “I thought the two of them were very good and combined well together.” He said all that after the game vs Villa. That was the game Maddison got injured in after his golden patch last season. After that game we played Arsenal and he played the same thing again but with Iheanacho in for Maddison. In that game Barnes got injured. That birthed the 3412 we played for the rest of the season with both as wingbacks since we had no fit 10 or left winger. I'd argue Ricardo as a right wing is something Brendan has his eyes on, the problem has been getting a fully fit team together. Ricardo was injured for about a year, then when he's back they get two games playing together before two of our key players get injured and we have to change shape. Now Castagne and Justin are the ones injured so there's no one decent to play RB in place of Ricardo. I'm sure we'll see them play together again this season.

He was injured for that game

Those are his stats vs fullbacks. These are his stats vs wingers...

I've never seen that part of transfermarkt before so I went for a look and found this page. I don't think we can read into those probabilies very much considering they have Soumare at 85% when its ment to be a done deal while having Coutinho at 73% which almost certainly won't happen imo. Also strange that they have Daka at 96% but a guy that works there says a bid hasn't been accepted yet...

Just had a Google and its reported in The Sun. It also says he's in the last year of his contract and has told the club he wants a new challenge so basically they have to sell for whatever they can get or else he's going for free next season. I'd definitely take him, great player. Played in a midfield 2 most of this season but before this season mostly played 10 and right wing. I think at that price he'll have UCL clubs queuing up so I don't think he'd have any interest in us unfortunately.

I disagree. I agree that agents do a lot of talking and get transfers moving, which I referred to in my post, but to have an absolute agreement behind the back of the club is not normal. If Burnley were aware that we've agreed terms with Tarkowski behind their backs (which would be the case as Ashley's information has came from the Burnley side) then they would be kicking up a fuss. Imagine Leicester found out Tielemans had agreed a deal with Liverpool. We'd be fuming. An example of this is Liverpool approaching Van Dijk in 2017. Liverpool talked to the player directly without consent and Southampton reported them for it. "Saints are aware direct and indirect approaches for players are commonplace – even if the practice is forbidden – but, in this instance, they felt they needed to take a stand, believing Liverpool to have been too blatant in overstepping the mark." My point is that there are limits to what agents and clubs can do and having an absolute agreement is too far for Burnley to see as acceptable.