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Not sure how much of this is your own interpretation of ability, or based on these players being used poorly by rodgers. But Thomas, had some really good spells (i'm not sure why he's ended up with such a bad rep), ditto soumare, even though he was mainly played out of position; and daka had very good goals/to minutes ratios in the PL and europe, but again wasn't really given a fair crack. given there's a real chance we'll be palying far more counter attacking football this year, he might finally fulfil his potential As for 'too many centre halfs' - it's an area where historically we've had a lot of injury worries, so maybe it doesn't hurt to have a good collection all of a similar standard, to allow some rotation?

Vestergaard only played 564 minutes for us in the PL, but he had 3 seasons with southampton that i suspect were well received by the locals.

Would imagine Nelson is the most likely candidate to be loaned out, given his age, experience and quality - and that we're overstocked at CB.

Other than OHL, have any of our academy players ever been loaned out in europe? There're lots of good teams out there beyond the EFL.

"I'm sorry, my English is, as you say, inelegant."

I suspect we'll be doing a lot of defending - it's also worth remembering that one of the reasons for our decline was having all our CBs injured and having to use n'didi and justin and anybody else as stand-ins That said, Nelson seems a good bet to get a loan move.

If cooper likes the look of kristansen, i suspect they'll be BFF. Kristiansen is coming off the back of a good season and will be happy to play in the PL again and what else does cooper have? - thomas who failed in the PL last year and Justin who didn't exactly set the championship alight

bored and pedantic but 'or' not 'ro' and Iestyn not Lestyn ...you're welcome

We don't know that at all. A lot of assumptions about Cooper seem to be based on what he did at forest - but the team he has here is nothing like the one he had at forest, so there's no reason why he'll feel he has to just play with a low block. The feeling i get is that he'll play differently against different teams (as opposed to last season where we played more or less the same every week, even when perhaps we shouldn't have). There are a lot of unknowns with our current situation, but for me the three main questions are: - who comes in as an attacking playmaker - how will untested players like mavididi and fatawu adjust to the PL - how will players who struggled/were frozen out last time round play under a new manager

Yeah, but who (outside of cambridge) gives a føkk about cambridge city - when you have a following of 3000 followers on instagram, you're working at a very local level. we have 7.9 million followers, we are very much in the spotlight - communication is a global practice, it's wholly unrealistic to expect the two clubs to behave in the same way.

With all due respect that's not the sort of stuff the club are going to release - firstly, as i said before, because it's not the way the club works, and secondly, because it's meaningless to the vast majority of fans. Maybe we haven't had announcement that the plans are on pause because, um, they're not? Maybe there just isn't any new information that is worth sharing. They have revealed that they acquire more of the land since permission was granted, so it's not entirely silent. Your average leicester fans won't care until the club do some kind of ceremony of laying the first stone or something - they wouldn't know what relevance a tendering date has, or even what one is. Most fans don't want technical updates or info, they want pretty renders and a drone video showing the steels going in. so until then, you'll just have to be patient - I get your frustration but i think you have expectations that are wildly unrealistic.

But if we'd waited for the stadium process to be completed (remember, when seagrave was started we didn't even know if the stadium would be approved) - we'd be sitting here with no expansion and still waiting to start on seagrave - how would that have helped? Clearly the club intend to do both projects, seagrave was the easier and more doable project, so they kicked on with that while the planning process for the stadium dragged on. There is nothing to suggest that the progress of the stadium has been hindered by Seagrave. Do you really think that if they'd not started seagrave we'd have a finished stadium, seagrave open two years before the council even approved the planning for the stadium.

Well, no - it's not remotely an indicator. We know that the club doesn't and never has given out much in the way of information about anything, so there's nothing to infer from continued silence other than 'the club don't communicate' - nothing: not good or bad. The nature of most largescale construction projects features long periods where nothing seems to happen and then there's a flurry of activity - throw into the equation the economic downturn, rising costs and the relegation, there are all manner of things that could be slowing proceedings, including (and everyone seems to have overlooked this) - the ineptitude of LCC. A lull in a project of this nature tells us nothing of 'where LCFC are at' - nothing at all, unless you choose to put 2 and 2 together and get 5.

You do realise we are in a recession and construction/materials costs are off the scale. I'm sure the reasons for the delay are economic/bureaucratic rather than a lack of balls....

The process of signing players has been well documented by people like Tanner and Blackwell - and it's very much a team process - with Glover and the manager seemingly having the most influence on the final decision.

This was the consensus opinion for much of last summer and we ended up scoring 89 goals. Yes we have lost a lot with KDH, but equally, had enzo been a bit more enthusiastic we wouldn't have spent half the season consolidating a 1-0 lead - who knows how many more we could have scored had we tried - so there are goal scorers and creative players here, we just need to add in a little extra in the middle of the park.

Yeah, i'm not saying he's my preferred choice, but i've based it on 'current squad' so without the option of ndidi, which leaves ricardo or hamza - ricardo i'd play at right back and i think soumare has (potentially) a higher ceiling and more to offer than hamza.

Just checked and i do have the first (most expensive pressing) https://www.discogs.com/release/517224-Oasis-Definitely-Maybe

My impression is we'll see something based around 3 CBs, so a 5-4-1 off the ball, pressing forward to a 3-4-3. So based on current players i'd say: hermansen ricardo - coady/vesty/faes* - Kristiansen fatawu - winks/soumare - mavididi vardy *or some such variation. What i'm really looking forward to is fatawu and mavididi having players in support, especially mavididi who seemed to play so much better when he had doyle actually pressing forward.

I got 'definitely maybe' the day it came out on the strength of the singles - don't think it ever got played more than a few times.

Were we found out against norwich and birmingham or is it only when we don't win that we've been found out? He got it wrong tactically today because he changed things, but if daka or nacho could head a ball we'd have had 1 or 3 points. sometimes you just have to admit that the other team took their chance and we didn't. sometimes you don't need to over analyse things, sometimes it's really as simple as we didn't play very well, regardless of the tactics.

Such a ludicrous statement - it's these tactics that have led to us - prepare yourself for this - to be top of the table with 5 games of the season left, in a season that will go down as the most competitive ever. You can't have it both ways, feller.

Unfortunately, that's what he did, by inverting the number 8s - a case of trying to fix something that (last two games) wasn't broken.

i've been a big supporter of enzo and still am, but tonight he got it totally wrong and, even worse, didn't change things when it was clear that he'd føkked it up. and then to really hammer home his failings, took off the one bright spark (yunus) and left on the worst player on the field (ndidi). surely the logical choice would have been to take off ndidi, switch KDH back to the left and yunus to the right #8 spot? the substitution did nothing. Whatever he thought he saw to cause him to flip the #8's clearly wasn't right - and even if it was justified, ndidi is not a natural #8 on the right, but on the left he barely qualifies as a footballer - so instead of that wonderful kdh/doyle/mavididi triangle we saw last week, we ended up with all three players completely isolated with an ndidi-sized hole in the middle. Still, as with pretty much every loss this season we still had enough opportunities to blow the game wide open but that old chestnut of 'poor final ball and poor finishing' reared it's ugly head again.

dreadful. better team won and, goal and a couple of blocks aside, did so without really having to do anything. Maresca got his tactics wrong and, i'm afraid to say, was wrong not to change when it was clearly not working. but even then, it was really down to poor execution from the players.