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He was pretty bad in 21/22 but his drop off was overshadowed by Ward being far worse.

I cant believe we looked at Man United and Chelsea's transfer model and decided we should replicate it. When has overpaying for talent that's not 100% committed ever work out for anyone?

Fossehub just quote articles where players have been linked to Leicester. They're not meant to be a reliable source but a single account where you can get all the LCFC related news.

He's an academy player in the way that you wouldn't trust him with regular PL minutes, the same way that we wouldn't trust Choudhury as a regular starter. If we do have injuries to Winks and Ndidi then we are guaranteed to go down with Skipp as a starter same with Choudhury, Golding and Baybrooke. At least with the likes of Golding and Baybrooke they might develop into PL level players and wont cost £10m.

What happens to Skipp if Baybrooke goes out and proves himself on loan? If Skipp doesnt cut it then what's stopping us from spending £10m on a new midfielder even if Baybrooke does well? Dewsbury Hall went through the whole loan process and it still took Soumare not being good enough for him to get a chance. If we're willing to spend £10m on a backup midfielder then that means that there are minutes to spare for our own academy players, why fork out £10m on the academy player of another team that doesn't cut the mustard at PL level anyway?

I was more surprised by the way he made space for the shot than the shot itself. It looked like something Mavididi or Fatawu would do, not our holding midfielder.

Time to take the money we offered for Soule and target a natural attacking midfielder rather than a player who is more comfortable on the wing. Soule going to Roma is a blessing in disguise even though he is clearly very talented. Gabriel Sara would be ideal but if we can find a cheaper unknown alternative similar to how we identified Mavididi and Fatawu then that would also work.

Mavididi was £6.5mil, James Justin was £6mil, Winks was £7.5mil, Hermansen was £5mil. On the other hand Dennis Praet was £20mil, Ghezzal was £20mil, Danny Ward was £12mil. A properly scouted player bought for £5mil -£10 mil can be better than a £20mil player that was bough with very little thought behind it. In fact going for better value transfers almost always seems to bring in better players as it forces the recruitment process to be more diligent at identifying targets.

He would be a good purchase at £5mil in my opinion, not £10mil. We need to be using our money more wisely than throwing £10mil at players who dont automatically improve our starting XI.

Demarai Gray has better end product than Saelemaekers. Saelemaekers is the better player due to being more rounded but there's no denying that his end product is lacking.

We were able to find players with workrate and goal threat in Mavididi and Fatawu though. It's fine to sign solid players like Cordova Reid on the cheap but for £10-12 mil you would hope our scouts would be able to find a more exciting player with some end product.

didn't think he had that kind of goal in him. Looked like a winger there.

Who's the goalscorer at 28 seconds?

Yeah i guess it makes sense if they sell Ait Nouri. It's the sort of low value high potential signing we should be going for though.

i would be surprised if Wolves went for him, they have Ait Nouri who is a very good left back.

We have money but FFP works on a 3 year cycle so it doesnt factor in our profits from the 2010s.

I dont think he's a hideous player. Similar to Albrighton he's good enough to play the role of a consistently decent performer in a good team. He's never going to be the standout player in a team though and we absolutely should not be paying £10m for him.

Yes but why spend £10m on an option? It's the kind of ludicrous spending that got us the points deduction.

Other clubs must love doing business with us because we love overspending on players that they dont want. You know that if they weren't already our players we would be lining up £15mil+ bids for the likes of Soumare and Daka.

O'Riley has played in the champions league and he looked ok despite Celtic not being able to compete at that level as a whole.

Would rather we take the money we have already offered and use it to buy Gabriel Sara to be honest. We already have Fatawu and if we're playing an attacking mid surely a natural midfielder would be a better choice.

Surely it's not the end of the world if he goes to Roma? There's lots of very good players we could buy for £30mil.

Yh that's a strong point, if he matched his expected assists he would have gotten 7 assists. £30 mil is a lot of money for one player though, I hope he turns out to be worth it rather than our scouting team getting worked up into a frenzy like they did with Trincao as mentioned above.

He's got very high potential but surely 30mil for a player with 6 non penalty goals and 3 assists last season is a bit steep.

I assumed we would play 3atb because of the okoli signing. Think we're going to be pretty horrible defensively with 4atb.