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This nails the whole problem. It wouldn't make a big difference whoever we put on the pitch the squad isn't good enough. Recruitment across the whole club from analysts to managers to players has gone down the drain since probably Pearson and definitely Puel left. The problems are so deep it will take a decade to sort out in my opinion. Root and branch restructure is required. What is the point of having world class training facilitates if we hardly ever produce any home grown talent for eg.

This is the result of rank bad recruitment over a number of years. Yes he could have played Coulibaly instead of Justin but the 4 centre halves in the squad are all as bad as each other though I'd argue that at least Faes has the potential to score a goal (both ends admittedly). Thomas is the only other left back and most people on here moan when he plays. The central midfield option is Skipp, another who most on here don't rate. Then there's McAteer, another choice which would have been pilloried on here too. Ok he could have changed the entire front 3 for those on the bench but let's be honest Buonanotte has been pretty poor for weeks now, Mavididi has been disappointing most of the season and Daka, a striker who can't score, is another who, in here, gets slated. I'm not defending Ruud especially but, it is hard to see what can be done that would either please most people on here or even perhaps get a positive result. Time to admit the squad, without the three key injured players, simply isn't up to the job.

Possibly true. We need new players to give both the fans and the team a boost and some hope. Getting too late now though.

Well I think we can all agree with this part. 3-0 to Spurs.

This is indeed the main issue. However, a decent manager may at least be able to make them hard to beat which we are not.

To an extent yes but we've made poor decisions, like not getting rid of Brendan after losing the first 7 games, and player recruitment has really been poor over the last few seasons with a lot of wasted money. And for me frankly losing any sort of money with the massive income streams clubs receive is just an illustration of rank bad management throughout the whole league.

This nails it for me. However, anyone thinking getting rid of Rudkin will be like a magic bullet needs to think again. The club needs a full reset from top to bottom. Although it would help having a half decent DOF the problems are far greater than just one person. There's nothing about the playing side of the club which is up to the required level. The youth teams are not good enough. The first team squad isn't good enough and the manager isn't good enough either. The club took a big gamble on Ruud and it has clearly backfired. Sounds stupid but I'd get rid now. We need a complete overhaul of the way we develop players and about how they can seamlessly transfer to the full squad. If we had this then we wouldn't need to keep on buying all the crap we've bought in the last few seasons. But I don't see any long term strategic planning. Not since Pearson and Puel. I recall many of us berating Puel but I'd take him back tomorrow in all honesty. And off the pitch is inadequate too. We need to raise more off field revenue but don't seem capable of doing so. New management might be the answer but then there's plenty of history of even worse owners. We're going down and probably won't be back for some time.

Presumably if he got a bad injury the loan would be cancelled?

We just need to get moving on this. It is clear we need better defenders but also a winger and striker and ball winning midfielder. I don't care what order we get them in though I think a right back is the most urgent.

I fear this may be true. If so the club needs to make changes quickly at board level as we surely must know whether we have breached or not. After all we submit the damn figures. I'd really like to see at least a couple of incomings this week as we need to get some fresh impetus into the season right now. In three weeks time it will probably be too late.

If the club really are confident that they will not have exceeded the losses then they should make a public statement to that effect and back it up with figures. Otherwise this will have a negative impact on any recruitment we may wish to try and do in the next two weeks before the judgement is declared on 13th January.

I think the trajectory points to the opposite direction. We're now not scoring goals but still conceding. The quality of the squad isn't anywhere near good enough. We've taken 4 points from the last 6 matches. Can you see us getting a result like Ipswich yesterday? I can't. There's no identity to how we play apart from just easy to play against. Not saying we definitely can't do it but everything is pointing the wrong way right now. A good January transfer window might tip the balance but I've little confidence of it being delivered based on previous attempts.

If it isn't this week then that would be very poor but I'm not holding my breath.

I'm afraid I think we are gone along with Southampton. We're just not picking up any points, in fact we're not even close to doing so. Villa away will in all likelihood be another defeat. Ipswich are showing some spirit but still have a lot to do. The summer recruitment was nothing short of disastrous. 35 million wasted on two players who offer nothing. we're going to need 7 wins more and I can't see us getting them right now. Recruitment in January is always tricky and we need around 6 players to improve the starting line up to have even a chance of staying up. Looks like the three who came up will go back down.

Presumably we could still sell him if an offer for a permanent move came in.

Right back. Absolutely essential. Centre Back the ones we have just are not good enough. We need one who can dominate set pieces and who is a good communicator on the pitch. Probably need to offload 1 or 2 of the current lot though to make this happen. Defensive ball winning midifelder... We simply have to be more combative in the middle of the pitch. Need to stop teams having so many chances. If Ndidi could stay fit this would be less of an issue but that doesn't look that likely. Attacking wide player. We simply don't have any quality there right now. I'd say this is second priority after a right back. Striker. need a different but effective option here. Someone who can actually hold the ball up and link up play. Send the palace lad back asap.

Hard to see us getting anything from this game either I'm afraid.

It will be too late then. he needs to have been busy since August. His role is surely to identify targets others do the legal contract work etc. We need 4 players in in the first week of January but we all know we won't and we'll be dithering around until the final week and end up with one signing on loan. Don't be held to ransom. Give firm deadlines for decisions to sign and if they don't make it then move on quickly. We don't have time to waste.

Whelan is in the post because she has a long connection with King Power. Until recently I'd say she's done a pretty decent job and was very well respected outside the club. She was the person who eventually secured 80 million out of United for Harry. Now I think her course here is run. New and fresh ideas in management are required. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen. Rudkin is a different situation and should have gone long before. In fact I'd have sacked him after that ridiculous situation with Silva where we missed the transfer deadline by 14 seconds or whatever it was. Trouble is just removing him doesn't remove the issues we now have of a poor squad and what might turn out to be an incompetent manager. The loss of Vichai has turned out to be the club's greatest loss of all.

Well I'm only saying what I was told. I guess different people have different opinions.

In some ways he's an easy target but it is because he's the company name behind all matters football. I'm not ITK but a couple of years back I was with someone from our company, I hope you don't mind me not naming him, at a completely unrelated event to sport. This person's agent turned out to be a top football agent who had just sold a player to a Premier League team for a lot of money. He told me that Rudkin was actually well respected among football agents and he also indicated that Rudkin was very heavily involved in player recruitment and that agents had to go through him to sell players to Leicester. Whilst ticket prices and food offerings aggravate supporters what really matters is, is their team winning? So whilst he might not get praise when things are good he, for sure, gets criticism when things go wrong and, from the little I know, with some justification.

So easy to say so much harder to achieve. I'm not defending KP but it really isn't as easy as some on here think it is. Top players want to play for top clubs. Kante was impossible to replace. A unique player. I can't recall anyone quite like him in over 60 years of watching football. Even if we had done as you suggest we would not have been able to keep the winning squad together. Financially we would however, have been stronger, but the insane amount of money spent by top clubs to ensure a side like us is unlikely to win the premier League again would have meant we still wouldn't be able to compete easily.

Spot on. He's just not quite good enough. Ok for a squad player but not a starter at this level.

I think that is pretty obvious from your posts TBH.

I don't doubt that that is true. However, if he does not have overall responsibility for football matters within the club what is the point of him or indeed of the position. Senior management in any business is less hands on than we would think but they still need to be accountable.