Lewis's Junior

The biggest downside to his game IMO is his positioning; watch how Vardy moves laterally to pull defenders out of position, or creates gaps for him to use his (remaining) pace. Then watch Daka; he almost seems to gravitate to the centre back marking him. Given his touch isn't the best and he doesn't have a box of tricks to turn defenders, he's never going to get that green grass that would make best use of his pace. Sadly I agree with many that it just isn't going to happen for him here. The only crumb of hope is that if Vardy retires this year, he comes out of the shadows and starts being the main man. But it'd be a frankly biblical turnaround for that to happen.

Seriously f*** modern football; in the last 2 years it's been more important to understand PSR, amortisation and tax laws than tactics, injuries and formations. This is not the beautiful game!

It is of course all about the emphatic win but I spent a lot of time thinking thank f Martin is not our manager.

Hopefully not Hamza

Been reading with interest opinions on here, and trying to decide whether we’ve been reckless or whether the leagues are out to punish clubs that aim higher like we did. Sustainability rules were put in place in part to stop clubs going to the wall if an owner ups and leaves and the club can’t wash its face. On this basis, we have been reckless - astoundingly so. I get the argument that Top / KP will continue footing the bill in the short term; but how sure is anybody this will continue indefinitely? There’s no bond placed with the league to use as leverage if he gets bored and stops underwriting us. And no guarantee the monopoly KP runs continues forever should there be regime change in Thailand. So at the least, as fans we have to be demanding that whoever owns our club gives it a fighting chance of operating sustainably without a benevolent owner. For the simple reason you can’t trust a billionaire to not ultimately be self serving; they accrued that money for a reason in the first place, by making unpopular and often unethical decisions. So if you agree fans are the ultimate custodians of a club, then these losses and their underlying causes should cause considerable anger towards the board for their recklessness.

He’s always nearly where he should be; close enough to make a block, but doesn’t. Close enough to track a runner, but doesn’t. Almost winning the ball cleanly. Can’t execute any of them though. And this is against mid table championship players He’s the definition of mediocrity. Never cemented his place in the team, and is years past hoping he’d mature his game. Good job on the contract rudders 👏👏👏

I'm fascinated by the obsession our board have on ideologues as managers; Puel, Rodgers, Enzo; stubborn to the extreme. Tactical inflexibility, favourites, ignoring the bench. Pragmatists like Pearson, Ranieri or O'Neill need not apply. Fine wanting Enzo out, but it's the vision of the board that will dictate who comes next and the style they adopt.

The beauty of it is that’s in our own hands

Great, this thread now has me thinking about the most lethargic, porous midfield two I have ever seen with Soumare and Tielemans vs Fulham 💩💩

xT (expected Trophies) Oh, still 0 actually.

He's the only player we have no like for like replacement for in the squad. His range of passing could be replicated, but the way he finds space, takes the ball off Mads and turns / passes his way out of danger to break the press...nobody else could do that. I'm baffled nobody in the EPL took a punt on him. But all the better for us; he'll be key to us next season

Of all the episodes of mismanagement we were subjected to last season, Smith deciding a midfield pairing of tielemans and soumare had a place in a top flight game is up there. fulham away we’d have got a better result playing Darren Kenton and Jason jarrett, let alone mendy sitting on the bench.