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Hermansen Justin Coady Okoli McAteer Ndidi Winks Kristiansen Buonanotte Mavididi Daka Just bored of watching the same crap. Let’s try something different.

We’ll be fine in the Championship, unfortunately the system has allowed crap run Premier League clubs to succeed at that level due to the bottle neck. We’re in for a points deduction but we’ll be easy top 6 with the squad we have.

He’s one of our best players, one of the only players that clearly is trying their hardest each week.

Low block Hermansen JJ (if fit, Coulibaly if not) Coady Vestergaard Kristiansen Buonanotte Ndidi Skipp El Khannouss Vardy Daka Looks shit, it is shit, but just defend deep and try hit the channels when possible.

You hope before the game today will be different but then we’re in this position at half-time and it doesn’t even feel that surprising.

Reid, Ayew and Okoli all need hooking at half-time.

No one’s buying Conor Coady off us either, we’re stuck with him until the end of his contract.

Why is everyone so keen to get rid of Kristiansen? He’d be one of the best left backs in the Championship.

I don’t think we need as much as what you say we do for the Championship. All of our full-backs are fine for that level, we won’t get 2 new centre-backs unless Okoli goes. Faes is gonna be off, Vestergaard is locked in and I doubt anyone comes in to pay Coady’s wages. So with Nelson and Souttar returning, that’s your 4/5 there. Midfield will need bolstering, Soumare and Ndidi will both go so we’ll only have Skipp and Winks, I don’t mind one of them starting but ideally we sign someone better than both for the starting 11 in the summer. We’ll also have Choudhury potentially returning so that’s another number. Wings will be tricky to add to as Reid and Ayew are locked in on deals now, they’ll probably both stay. So we’ll have the same 5 as this season I would’ve thought. (Mavididi, Ayew, Reid, Fatawu, McAteer) Number 10 is one where we’ll have to sign someone of genuine quality if El Khannouss goes. If not, we’re fine there too with Alves as back-up. Striker is the big one. We need someone who’s going to get at least 15 minimum. Daka as back-up and a youngster maybe (either new signing or Evans if he is ready? Maybe too soon). Makes the Cannon deal perplexing. So to summarise, probably 2 strikers and 2 centre midfielders as a minimum (expected departures of Vardy, Edouard, Ndidi, Soumare) then reaction to whoever else further leaves. It’s not exciting to look at like that, but it’s probably the reality of things.

Yeah I agree would rather blood new through, but just going off of what we have. Definitely would need to sign a striker, but Mavididi and Fatawu at Championship level will chip in from the wings. Could probably do with another goal threat from midfield, too. If you look at the teams in the Championship starting lineups it’s better than mid-table.

Stolarczyk Coulibaly Okoli Nelson Kristiansen Skipp Winks Fatawu El Khannouss (hopefully, Alves if not) Mavididi Daka That team without any signings is good enough to be top 6 Championship.

He’s an inverted right-back or an 8 in a 3 now. I don’t think he’d be very effective on the wing these days for the same reason’s he wouldn’t be very effective as an overlapping full-back. I doubt he’ll get much game time under Ruud.

Ranieri and Rodgers didn’t steal the glory. We weren’t winning the Premier League with Pearson and we wouldn’t have won the FA cup and pushed for top 4 with Puel.

Would he not be ideal for sweeping up at the base of midfield and covering empty spaces exposed by those who may get caught out of position when pressing high? Maybe not quite 2019-2021 level but still, makes sense to me.

Hermansen Coulibaly Faes Okoli Kristensen Soumare Ndidi Buonanotte El Khannouss Mavididi Vardy

I’d go with Woyo, Faes, Okoli, VK. We know Thomas and Coady aren’t any better, Woyo should get a chance because why else did we sign him and JJ has been poor this season. I’m fed up of Faes but I still think I’d rather have him in than Coady.

Surely Bobby Reid, Jordan Ayew and Jamie Vardy have the oldest combined age of any front 3 in the Premier League?

Didn’t we try to sign Okazaki in Jan 2015? Sensi. Pretty sure we went in for Slimani in summer 2014. I think Charlie Austin rejected us summer 2015. Craig Mackail-Smith. We used to have a lot of signings that seemed like players we scouted extensively over a long period of time or tried signing across different windows (mainly when Walsh was here) but now it seems to be a bit more random.

Robbie Brady and Michael Keane summer 2016, as if that window could have been any worse than it already was. Dwight McNeil for ages until he went to Everton. Loic Remy Jan 16, and that Italian/Brazillian striker as well (Eder?), remember a lot of people stressing when that window shut in case Vardy got injured at some point.

Brendan Rodgers with a proper director of football/sporting director and management of money would have seen us top 10 consistently since 2022/23. He’s never been a bad manager he’s just arrogant. The problem was (in hindsight) he asked for too much, was allowed to do it with Congerton, the club handed out big wages to enable what they wanted and then when 2022 summer come around they had all done too much damage collectively to go back on it. Someone in that board room in summer 2021 needed to stand up and say ‘we’ve had two good attempts at top 4, we’ve won the FA Cup, we need to look at the finances now and reset to go again’. Sell one or a selection of Tielemans, Maddison, Soyuncu, Ndidi and get the next crop through to build around Barnes. Instead Rodgers, Top and co. all decided to gamble and it went terribly wrong. Seems like they made decisions on emotion rather than practicality, like we did between 2017-19 that had got us to that point in the first place.

They’re a few Chelsea and United fans. Not been to Stamford Bridge or Old Trafford so not sure - it was more about speed and the staff they couldn’t believe how slow things were.

Every time I go to games with friends/family who aren’t LCFC fans they are always complimentary of our atmosphere (although the concourse is crap compared to their clubs).

It's not snobbery. Almiron isn't an improvement on our options. We should be improving the starting 11 to stay up, not signing squad players.

Large South Asian community in Leicester and he'll become Bangladesh's most high-profile international ever.

So we never get the chance to have another 5-3 vs Man United, or FA Cup win vs Chelsea? (and the same for all the other games where smaller clubs have beat the big ones) I'm not bothered about us not being one of the big fishes in the pond, it makes it sweeter when we get to stick it to our glory-hunting mates. This is what you expect when you sign up (or forced by family members) to be a Leicester fan. Personally, I think keeping football as it is would be the best thing. Where's the fun in winning the Premier League just because Everton, Brighton, West Ham and Leicester are the big clubs? You kill every dream or hope of another Premier League win against odds, gate crashing the top 4 or beating one of the big boys in a cup final.