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Preston 2-0 Ipswich

Finding the benching of Yunus increasingly odd. Should be starting at 8.

Makes you wonder how badly we have ****ed up the maths. Doubt it’s by just 0.5m. Good chance we’ve breached the rules and will be fined I imagine.

Was it appearances? Or starts? I thought the latter

I think it will be telling whether or not he starts the next game. He is quite clearly the best option at 8 alongside KDH.

Reports, including Percy, say that all the paperwork was signed. The deal collapsed, according to Italian sources, because we realised on the final day on the transfer window, in the evening (after we flew him out and did medical etc), that we did some FFP math wrong and we couldn’t actually afford him. I think that says something about the competency levels in certain parts of our club.

Not to mention the #8 roles are absolutely pivotal to chance creation in our system, they are also expected to score a significant share of the goals arriving in the box on to cut backs. We already needed another 8 even without losing Casadei, imo. Next to no physicality without Ndidi, and next to no engine without KDH. Is pretty concerning, but I do think we have enough to go up. Could see us dropping away and losing out on the title to Southampton though. Id prefer if we had a shortage in literally any other position, ideally we would have a significant shortage of a director of football… but we can’t have everything we want.

That is essentially how it is being reported in Italian press, yes. We “didn’t realise” we had less room that we thought in FFP (until yesterday evening), and that caused the deal to collapse. Screams incompetence, I’d be fuming if I were the manager.

Alves being fit would be a god send now. I was worried about the #8 position before we lost Casadei to be honest. We are a totally different side with KDH, and with Ndidi, but have little behind that. I really like Yunus, but he is a wide player/10 and not a natural 8, but he is the square peg I would put in the round hole until Ndidi is back. Can’t say I’m a huge McAteer fan in general, at 8 or on the wing really, he might make a good wing back in the right system as he works hard. Just don’t think he has got the quality, but would absolutely love to be proven wrong.

I’m sure he’ll be massively cheered up about playing the final part of the season with a worse squad than the one he started it with though? We have one fit #8, plus a Dennis Praet, not really sure what he is/does still. Injury to KDH (which is not unlikely given we have nobody to rotate him with) would be an utter disaster and could cost us literally £100m+. Hope the academy lads are ready because we will need them. Squad is then padded with players leaving for nothing in summer, motivation of those can be in question. He has done a remarkable job to steer the ship around and right the course so far to be honest, keeping the momentum now could also be pretty difficult. Still think we will go up, but boy we don’t half like to hamstring ourselves.

He is about to become a key player until Ndidi is back, after our transfer window failings. God help us… hope he is up for it

Time for Dennis Praet to burst on to the scene at long last and fire us to promotion…

This makes no sense for any party involved. Literally everyone loses.

He’ll be injured again very soon so at least you don’t have to worry about watching him play.

Well, this has been fun. Night lads.

This says that the deal has hit the rocks because Leicester have “less margin than they thought for Financial Fair Play”. If that is true, and we only just realised this, the club fully deserve the anger and frustration of the fans on this one. Sheer incompetence, if true.

I can see it being due to some weird ownership arrangement of the player. They have some player ownership arrangements in Italy that are not allowed here.

Live scenes from the board room

By the time we add up the travel and medical costs, agent and directors time, legal fees etc. I would not be surprised if eclipses the supposed initial fee of the transfer, for a guy who is free in 6 months.

Give Danny Drinkwater a call

Shhh I’m trying to spread panic