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I would say enjoy the game but I think we all know what will happen. Hopefully you can enjoy the before and after game aspects to the day then. having lived in Asia for 6 years previously, I know the only thing that will make an impact is losing face. I would be certain that having 0 fans go to an away premier league game will finally make Top aware of what is going on. Top can’t even be bothered to turn up to majority of the games himself! it will never happen as fans will always go to the games, but maybe that is where we, as fans are take advantage of by clubs. they can charge any price that they want as they have a audience who will pay no matter what.

It’s a horrible thing for me to say really. But surely now is the time to make a statement to the board and the players. Avoid going to the Chelsea game and leave the away end empty. The players do not care! Save your money, do something (anything) better with your Saturday. And hear match of the day and all sports coverage talk about no fans turning up. at the moment we just prove that we are fans who accept dreadful standards from the board and the club. I know we all fully support Leicester and it is a poor thing to say. But carry on as we are and nothing will change.

For winks I can’t really see another club signing him. I don’t think he has played well enough or impressed to get a move to a premiership club. And few clubs will match his salary. Ndidi I struggle to see clubs buying him purely because no one signed him on a free, so why pay for him now. I am torn on Bilal as well. I think he is very promising and the only good decision the club made in the summer. However with how poor we have been, I can’t see a club matching what we paid for him. I think he is very good and in no way should his dreadful teammates form hamper him. Maybe a Brighton or Bournemouth could be a good move for him. Strangely I do like the GK and back 4 you mentioned. I would add in Souttar possibly for Nelson. Pretty strong defensive unit. Skipp in the championship, I fear he is a worse Hamza. Lot of energy and work rate but poor on the ball. Tough one who we have in CM next season. Either way that team should be good enough for play off spot

Fully agree. I would play him and Okoli next season. I think that Souttar is a bit of an old fashioned defender in the fact that he defends the box, wins headers, blocks and wants to defend. modern coaches prefer defenders who can pass. Majority of the time he plays I think he is good, and have the same thought as you, why is he not picked. I would play him easily over Faes, Coady and Vestegaard.

I have a real issue with modern day coaches now.. They only know how to use 1 style and set a team up in that. If it doesn’t work plan B is to do the same and hope it is better. all the coaching courses around the world, coaches apparently Pro licence qualified and deemed excellent by The FA and UEFA standards. And standard of players are massively reduced in the last 10 years to what we see now. Surely Ruud would have done as you suggested and tried something different. But modern day coaches can’t and won’t do that. We have scored in 6 home games, and not even 1 change in his tactics during this time. there was a clip from I think Norwegian fans holding arrows to show the team where the goal is when they didn’t score for a while. Kind of Hoping the fans do that next home game just to provide at least some entertainment at games.

Exactly. Ruud then comes out and says he is needed. Not even been in the squad last 2 games. so many crap decisions from our club. What a chance to get some money back into the club and they still say no for a player who barely is good enough for the championship.

I think he is good enough for a move away. i just struggle to see that happen. If clubs couldn’t agree terms with him when he was on a free transfer. Why would they pay more money now. I hope he stays as he will be much needed in the championship

We still have a good team for next season. And a few players will really benefit from a full season in the Championship. Jakub Ricardo / Wayo Okoli / Vestegaard Souttar / Nelson Kristensen / JJ Winks Skipp / Ndidi Fatawu Daka Mavididi that's a good side for the championship. Alves and Braybrooke to be involved more as well. get rid of Faes, Coady and Reid. Ayew will be relatively decent in the championship. Mads Hermansen and Bilal will likely be the only players we can sell. And we will need to bring money in. still a strong side. If done well with playing a few academy players could be a decent season. Knowing our board they will persist with the older players who have relegated us 2 times already and we will be far worse off in the long run.

Strange one as I think he has potential to do well here. He has signed into a group who have created a horrible team. I know performances have not been great but he is in a side with so much negativity from boardroom to the pitch. I think with Souttar and a season in the championship Okoli can do very well for us. I would play him every game until end of season. Not just so two of Faes, coady and Vestegaard do not play. But I do think there is some potential with him in the long run

There needs to be a huge turnover within the squad. After relegation surely even our board can start to plan for the future. I would like to create a team around Jakob S Ricardo, Okoli Souttar Kristensen Winks Belal, Ndidi Fatawu Daka Mavididi Hermansen will be sold. Too good for the championship coady needs to leave. Nelson can be 3rd choice Wayo can rotate FB positions possibly with James Justin too. Faes removed at any price. Just get him off wage bill. Vestegaard can do a job in championship but long term planning needs to leave ayew and Reid unfortunately we will likely be stuck with macateer should have been sold in January. We will not get any decent offer for him again. braybrooke, Alves and hopefully Monga can play some part next season. Vardy might still do a year in the championship. makes the Cannon decision look so poor to sell him whilst in the championship and will likely need a striker without much finances. Skipp will have to stay as hard to move him on. soumare will depart and Hamza will likely play a part in the championship. Wage bill has to drastically come down and we will have a weaker squad than last years team. Ipswich look stronger as well. hugely need changes in the boardroom to bring any sort of cheer and support back to our club. We still have a decent team next season who can do well. But if fail to get promoted next year we will stay in the league for a number of years.

Another poor decision to turn down a decent offer. The money would have been great for us on a PSR scale as he is a local lad. But ability wise Kasey is no way near good enough to start / play. Not even on the bench for the Arsenal game. And we had 2 wide players on the bench already. We seem to retain far too many players who offer limited return.

Really gutted he had that horrible injury a while ago. He was playing with a lot of confidence at that stage. brilliant he has a loan in the championship and if he can play 10-15 games that will be brilliant for his development. Could really be a valuable player next season competing with Fatawu and Mavididi for starting places. if he can return to play with the same freedom that he showed in the academy there is a lot of ability to come.

Been a manager for one season and fell out with majority of his team. wonderful player, dire manager. Sums up that our board hired a completely unproven manager who has never had any experience at the bottom end of a league table. In his defense, Ruud has not been allowed to bring in one staff member to help him, had any sort of money to spend to strengthen the squad, and inherited a team that are dreadful. next season is a huge job for our club and we can’t trust our future in Ruud. 5 games without a goal, 9 defeats in 10 league games. He has made us worse rather than better. Took him 12 games to learn coady and vestegaard can’t play. Played ward in goal as he said he is number 2. Any person who had any sort of research into the team would have known he can not play. Brilliant goal scorer, poor manager.

Okoli is our most committed CB, actually looks like he cares when he plays. The fact it has taken Ruud 12 games to realize this is alarming! Okoli has far more potential than our other cbs and ideally can have him and Souttar / Nelson starting next season.

I certainly agree it is sad that players care more about money than a career. And you are fully correct they already earn huge amounts for the average person to compare. However I have slightly a differing perspective. Possibly because my wife is from a similar country to Jhon Duran. When people can come from these countries they truly can have nothing, and I mean not even a mattress in a room. Overnight Jhon can take his family out of any possibly poverty, and move everyone into a decent home and safer area. Football is so important to all of us posting and reading these forums. However for others it is a job, his profession, he just happens to be very talented at a sport. This money can change his whole families life. Worst case he goes for 2-3 years and comes back at the age of 25 with millions in the bank. 100k in England is 50 after tax. Of course more than my annual wage in a week. But he has chance to x5 his salary and provide for generations annd generations of his family and friends. Incredibly difficult to turn down and I can easily see why he would move. my only query on this would be why can’t we take advantage of the money on offer in Saudi and sell Faes, Daka, Vestegaard etc.

True. Yet, We did miss some key players as well. Which seems to go a bit unnoticed. Mads, Ndidi and Fatawu all would start and add to our starting 11. i don’t really have much sympathy for the Spurs defenders injuries. They rushed both CBs back against Chelsea and caused them longer term injury. our replacements are free transfers like Bobby Reid. Spurs replacement players all cost 20 + million, Archie gray was 40 million alone. certainly they would be much stronger with the team you listed who were absent. Thankfully Leicester did the job and got a vital win

Yes, that’s the one. Funnily enough he didn’t send Kovacic off in the arsenal man city game last season for a terrible tackle. Said at the time didn’t want to ruin the game. Somehow gives this a red card. Referees seem to pick on a new team each season who to give unusual decisions against. Clearly Arsenal this season. Forest last year with Clattenburg around. Didn’t get 1 decision when he was in a role. Referees have far too much influence without any accountability

Fully agree and I would have hoped we did exactly this. Sign young promising players for fees around 5-10million. Let them play 1 season in the premier league and look to build a team for future seasons. Even if, as we will, go down. The players will have develop a lot with 1 year to show their potential. I would play Okoli from now and let him settle, as he will be needed for next season I think. I don’t mind his signing. I do have a huge issue that he never gets game time with other blockers in his way who are picked ahead of him Skipp for 25 million. Really sums up how crap our recruitment was in the summer.

Bilal. Can be an actual joy to watch. feel sorry for him with the team around him. No other positives. incompetence everywhere else from boardroom to managers to players.

Certainly agree. I would play Okoli and start him every game. I might be wrong of course but I think he has potential where in 2/3 seasons he will be a top defender. He may be homesick now as he has not played for months, there were no reports when he was playing. And largely I felt did well. Our only clean sheets came when he was playing. (Unless I have that wrong) we have lost 6 in a row with CBs that offer us nothing now or in the future. Okoli was signed for a decent amount. We should invest in what we signed in order to fulfill his potential. With 20 games in the PL this season and playing a year in the championship next, I think he will be a very good defender. Certainly worth giving him a chance. If we lose money on him, really sums up the board and our club. There is no monetary value in Coady and Vestegaard. Often make mistakes every single game. Yet somehow they play every game ahead of others who could have a real future here.

I would agree keeping him for the championship. The only hope I would have is he is allowed to bring in his own staff with him. I would move on the majority of the technical staff that are here. We saw at Brentford the assistants are clueless and somehow still here. Personally I didn’t want Ruud for the job at that time. As he has no experience at this end of a league table. Previously I would have gone for a Moyes, or now Dyche. But if we are in the championship I certainly think Ruud could do well there.

Thank you for your reply. Even though maybe wary to discuss relegation it is great to hear other perspectives. I agree Hermansen will be sold. He will not want another year in the championship when we can see he is easily premier league level. Chelsea or man city could be in for him. I do rate Jakub Stolaryck. And feel a season in the championship will actually do him well. I would imagine we keep Ricardo and then possibly the new signing from Parma for the RB role. Struggle to see Ricardo being sold with another injury. Souttar and Nelson would be a decent CB. Sell Faes, and then we will likely have to keep coady and vestegaard. I would keep VK if he wants to stay. When he went to bologna it was thought he didn’t want to change his role. I think he will do well next year. Possibly keep Thomas for a season as well as back up if possible. i would try to keep Winks for the season again. As well as Ndidi. Possibly even soumare as that is a strong cm for the championship. Ayew and Reid can be decent squad players or even Ayew starting striker if others are sold / released. I can see Faes, BEK, Hermansen and Cannon being sold. I would personally keep Cannon for next season but I fear our board want him gone now. I would also keep Okoli and play him now. I might be wrong but I think he has far more potential than any of our current cbs. that should bring in 50 - 60 million for those 4. Hopefully that is enough with PSR now. I think a loan move for Alves and Sammy Braybrooke is essential. They need matches and a loan to league one / two would be ideal for both. Staying here and not playing games is benefiting no one. fatawu and mavididi we know can do well in the championship. Depending on how Fatawu recovers from a long term injury. Of can remove the players with bad attitude and bring together a youthful squad who want to play for our team. Could be another exciting season ahead in the championship.

I like part of the team. Attacking wise we should be ok with that line up. Personally I would like to see Nelson at CB with Souttar. However both have had quite serious injuries this season. Coady and Vestegaard will likely be used again next season with Faes leaving. I am still not sure on Skipp playing in CM. I just do not see what he does. Winks and BEK will be great. Ndidi will likely stay and could play those 3 together would be a decent midfield. The QPR game shows we have a good team for the league below. But we could be hit with a points deduction as well. Personally I would keep Cannon and let him start as the 9. Mavididi, Cannon and Fatawu is a very decent front 3 in the Championship.

Vestegaard been great in possession. But that is a poor defensive header. Even at youth football players are coached to head the ball up and away. Attacking headers down to the ground. Really poor defensive clearance. great play from Ayew, Vardy movement superb and great follow up from Mavidid. Much better

Very valid comment. My post was not against Glover. He has only fairly recently joined and I was pleasantly signed with his transfers at the start of the Championship season. Hermansen, Mavididi, Winks and Yunus all positively contributed. even the summer window, personally, I think Okoli has potential to do well here. I would play him ahead of Coady and Faes for example. I think he has potential and will go on to do well. If we give him the chance. As you said the Skipp, Ayew and Reid signings are shocking but that leans more to cooper than the direction of Glovers recent recruitment. my comment on scouting and recruitment is related to where I think Leicester as a club have gone wrong, and this is before Glovers arrival. every club gets some transfers wrong. They are not bad players. Just does not work at certain clubs. But we have been poor in recent seasons (before relegation to the championship). A long with the new signings on huge wages that made it very difficult to move players on. We are still in a mess because of transfers and wages. Transfer window before relegation was Faes, Kristensen and Souttar. 50 million on players who have never improved our team. And anpparently only operate at a level below the premier league. The year before that. We signed Vestegaard, Daka and Soumare. Not forgetting Bertrand on a free, on an enormous pension top up for him. I do believe our incomings and outgoings hugely negatively impacted our club and cost us top half premiership football for a few seasons and is a large reason we are where we are now. Daka is not a bad player. But my issue is, he was scouted and recruited based on his performances playing with a strike partner. We do not play with 2 strikers. Rather Defeats the purpose of signing him. If a team play with 2 strikers I think he will do well. My opinion is that we have recruited too many players who were not better than our starting players, on vast salaries and they had no resale value.