honeybradger

I think it may be just me who thinks Cannon's pressing is really weak. Whenever i see him when we're not in possession he's barely moving.

Still think that even though he's not at his best he is still our best striker. I would feel much more confident going into next season with Vardy as our main man than Daka or Cannon, even though i do think they are both good. Hopefully he stay at least one more year.

They were overperforming prior to Rooney like Preston were. They are very much a midtable side.

Training at the gym as an amateur and training as a professional athlete are different situations. Football players not only have to be strong but they also have to be mobile and flexible, the club physio most likely will have given Thomas a workout routine and would not want him to train too much on developing muscles.

I disagree, Thomas was a better player when he broke through. Yes he could have worked on his game a bit more but he also seems to have suffered from being in a bad environment and mismanagement which was down to Rodgers. His game does have weaknesses but i think he is struggling with lack of confidence as much as anything else.

Had a good game last night but when the popular opinion is that youre a bad player it's hard to turn that opinion around.

Ispwich used it as an opportunity to line up their press. We think we're "inviting them on to us" but 5 seconds later theyre breathing on Hermansen's neck with no passes available to him.

Who are we going to play instead of him though with Dewsbury hall and Ndidi injured. Praet and Akgun are on a similar level to Casadei (that's assuming Praet is even fit).

I think the claims that he's not PL level (or PL proven or whatever) are a bit ridiculous. He was arguably our second best player in 21/22 when we finished 8th and he performed well in EL and the conference league against teams like Napoli, PSV, Rennes etc. If youre basing it on last season then yes he was substandard but players like Tielemans and Catagne were also below the standard for staying up and they're PL level.

I think he could if he finds the right team. He has a good mixture of athleticism, technical ability and foofball intelligence.

Bamford seems to have played his way back into being first choice for Leeds. Just shows the difference in levels between the PL and the Championship, Bamford was ridiculed in the PL and Piroe was praised in the Championship yet Bamford has ended up on top.

They cooperate on signings but Casadei and Sensi are probably players who Enzo picked out and Glover gave the green light to and players like Mavididi, Yunus, Fatawu, Winks and Coady are probably players who Glover picked out and Enzo gave the green light for. Winks might have been a player maresca requested himself.

On form he is a CL level player, Inter Milan fans said his performances when he first joined were some of the best theyve seen recently from a midfielder.

There's been quite a few players who have struggled at championship level then performed elsewhere. Balogun was mediocre at Middlesborough then got 19 goals in ligue 1 one season later for example.

His positional sense is weak which is one of the most important attributes in a possession side and why he has never done well here apart from as a wide midfielder. He has the technical ability but lacks the football intelligence to give us the control we need from midfield.

For me we just lacked the same amount of control when he played as we had with Ndidi and Dewsbury Hall. Ndidi has missed plenty of sitters this season as well but with the dominance we had it didnt matter as much.

He was a bit disappointing but i think he would have kicked on for the rest of the season with Ndidi out injured.

I have seen some Inter fans say that when he's fit he's as good as Barella and Brozovic, even some saying he is the biggest 'what if' in Inter's recent history. If it's true then getting 10-15 games a season from him would not be the end of the world.

Honestly we do not seem to be very good at making big money transfers. 15m and under is where we seem to excel so not having money to spend should be a blessing in disguise.

Who is going to sign Praet or Souttar for a price we would accept though?

Look at that accuracy, gerrimin.

Ayoze's contract ran out, he would probably still be here if we put him on a 5 year deal.

We have had offers for the likes of Soumare in the past and turned them down. Think there were offers for Praet a few seasons ago as well.

One thing that needs to be considered is that two of the key players in Rodgers's side, Tielemans and Barnes, only got a few games under Puel at the end of his tenure. Tielemans especially added a completely different dynamic to the way we played. Puel was bad as well for the record (playing Demarai Gray as a CF over Jamie fing Vardy) but i dont like how people make out that Rodgers turned Puel's water into wine, give Rodgers a Maddison, Ndidi, Mendy midfield and he would have us struggling low midtable as well.

The difference is that Praet is frankly not very good whereas Sensi by all accounts is a very good player when fit.