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Just had a quick look on Squawka, Winks does play more forward passes, but also more sideways passes than Soumaré. Winks has more touches and is much more forward thinking than under Maresca, whereas it's clear that Soumaré is playing Ndidi's old role under Cifuentes.

I don't like Soumaré much either, but hasn't he been much better than Skipp this season? If Winks doesn't pick up the slack, then I Imagine it's JJ next to Bouba in the middle.

I make that 8 or 9 players/staff with a Leicester past? Amazing.

We needed to trim the squad and bring down the wage bill, which we have finally been able to do to a large extent. However, this also means we have to rebuild the squad value and create new assets, which I am not sure we are capable of doing with our current staff. The inbound loans address areas where we definitely needed competition/cover, so I am relieved in that sense. Our start to the season has been good result-wise and maybe, just maybe, Cifuentes can use these new loans and our academy products to build a promising team that has something to fight for at the end of the season. 6/10 from me.

If they perform like against Brum, then I suppose it's OK. Though I expect JJ to soon replace Skipp.

King on a 6 month rolling contract?!

Tier 2

Not really uncommon. Josh King, John Carew, Mohamed/Tarek Elyounnoussi, William Osula, Jores Okore, Kevin Conboy, Martin Braithwaite, Mika Biereth, Mohamed Daramy, Patrick Dorgu, Pione Sisto, Riza Durmisi etc. And that's without the slew of Swedish-Bosnian players (Ibrahimovic et al).

Osula reportedly going to Frankfurt for £30m (!!!) I would've thought there was a realistic chance of him going to a Championship club, but that price seems wild.

FC Copenhagen reportedly had a bid of around £4m rejected, Häcken are looking for closer to £7m which Copenhagen won't meet.

Impressive getting two 1-0 wins after having the leakiest defense for the first four games.

Watch our second goal and where Thomas is. Faes is covering the full back position as Thomas is up between him and Monga. He's technically behind Monga, but he's not exactly in a position to cover for a counter.

Gray wasn't a particularly good player for us in all honesty. A handful of brilliant flashes were few and far between. Ayoze was more impactful and consistent. At least that's how I remember it.

Ayew instantly becomes more effective too as a result.

Ayew is much stronger than he looks. Glad we didn't get Gray however. He's been awful.

Humongas Riccy!!

It's almost impressive how poor we are at keeping the ball and stringing together attacks. Daka's touch is so unbelievably bad, but his movement is good. If he can't finish first time, there's no hope

Instantly replacing JJ with another JJ. I like it.

People would lose their zhit if they saw this guy playing in front of Vestergaard

Are you forgetting Woyo? How could you!?

We don't know the details of the deal though. Maybe he's on low wages. Maybe it's with a view to going into coaching. Maybe there's a termination clause that allows him to be released at a discount. There can be a million ways a contract is set up.

Ipswich have reportedly bid for Sindre Wallet Egeli, deal looking close

Hmmm wouldn't have minded Osula on loan, but I guess he will stay there this season and maybe have more cameos off the bench now.

He's not the injury since the same. Good luck JJ.

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