Bezzanator89

Can see this from both sides of the fence. But I don't get a season ticket to watch boring, passive football for 90 minutes. Or do I just miss the entertaining Leicester City that may have had a bit more of a risk factor about it, but was a lot more entertaining. Boring, boring, BORING. Puel's system does not suit our players, who at times were working on eleven different wavelengths. People may say that he has had the January transfer window to make changes but most clubs are get reluctant to do business until the summer. Does he get that opportunity? Call me mad, and trust me, our football has driven me to that point, but he needs his chance to make his system with his players, rather than the ones he has inherited. So he stays, just.

Was bouncing off the walls when we sold Schlupp, and not just because it was for £12m, which all things considered, was the deal of the century, but also because like Chilwell, he had zero end product. 99% of his shots either ballooned over the bar or was closer to the corner flag. Had raw pace and power but no skill when he needed it most. Chilwell has potential, absolutely bags of it, and he is my pick of the two. Ben has had flashes of brilliance but they are all too far between. Needs some time out on loan at a lower level so he can raise his game. Worked for the likes of Vardy, it could work for him.

Know that putting Gray back on the bench will give him reason to throw his toys out the pram again, but when Diabaté does more in 30mins than Demarai did in double that, you'd think that Claude needs to shake things up. His selfishness on the ball has always rubbed me up the wrong way. Maybe some time as an impact sub may do him some good to get his confidence back up

I'm all up-"standing" for more noise and louder atmosphere. But being someone who is vertically-challenged (5'5"), I wouldn't exactly be able to see if we were all literally standing. Don't really pay season-ticket prices to stare at the back of someone's head. 😅

4s for Schmeichel, James and Gray. 5s for Simpson, Chilwell, Ndidi and Vardy. 6s for Mahrez, Albrighton, Morgan and Maguire. If anyone other than the Leicester Mercury gives a 7 to any of these players I would be shocked. Picked Stay for Claude, as it's easy to get swept along with the current poor league run we are on, but unless relegation becomes an unlikely possibility, I'd say just give him until the start of next season and see what happens. Has some serious work to do though all over the pitch, where confusion reigned for 80mins yesterday.

Feel for Dragovic and Amartey. Admittedly not the latter's biggest fan but they must have been doing the business when we had five consecutive clean-sheets whilst those two were out with hamstring injuries.

Schmeichel, like many others (e.g. Simpson and Drinkwater), had their best season when we won the Premier League. And like them, his overall game-play has failed to reach those heights since. His distribution has been average at best this season, but performances of late show he is struggling to pick out the players like he used to. And his decision making, especially today which nearly put us 2-0 down if Shaqiri had his shooting boots on, has been poor. Not to mention his positioning at free-kick set-pieces is usually questionable as well. No doubt he is still one of the best shot-stoppers in the Premier League, but there are other qualities that need some work.

Tell that to Ben Marshall.

Short corners have their positives, but we just can't execute them. Most we have ever got out of them was a yellow card for Marc Albrighton. Save them for the training ground.

GK: Schmeichel DEF: Amartey, Dragovic, Maguire, Chilwell MID: Mahrez, Ndidi, Silva, Albrighton ATT: Okazaki, Vardy SUBS: Jakupovic, Fuchs, Morgan, Iborra, Gray, Diabaté, Iheanacho.

Matt Prior over Matt Elliott any day of the week.

Jon may have helped sign some gems in the past, but seems to be doing his hardest to destroy all that as well. His card has been marked from the moment we signed six players who were bang-average at best when we had the opportunity to push on from being Champions. And it is moments like these where you seriously have to question why he took so long in getting this one moving AT THE VERY LAST MINUTE. We have had some cock-ups on deadline days, such as the Molla Wague loan which truly stank of desperation. But the idea that we were trying an international transfer with mere hours left was ill-planned, audacious and downright stupid. What an embarrassment. Considering the transfer of Danny Drinkwater was largely dependant on this one happening for both transfers to go through, only for us to be essentially one player-down until January at the very least, it just adds another reason for Jon Rudkin to be taken off recruitment at the very least. Someone needs to be held accountable for this absolute shambles of a transfer.

Does anyone know Riyad Mahrez's current whereabouts? Looking at potential flight departures to Barcelona from Charles de Gaulle airport?

No news around indicating he had found an escape route abroad so looks like he is still a Leicester City player, be it even further down the pecking order after Dragovic's arrival yesterday.

Reminds me of Barkley's situation with Chelsea... Saw West London and got on the first train back to Merseyside.