funkyrobot

MOTM last night. Not arsed with his beef with his Cifuentes or that he’s leaving at the end of the season. He absolutely has to start for me.

Bias clouding people’s judgement works both ways. I’m not alone on here in seeing that despite fabulous effort, Skipp is an issue in such a key central role in the team.

I applaud his effort, I really do but if you watch that game again, he’s beaten often in a one to one situation and from an attacking perspective he offers very little. We can’t afford a player that is so one dimensional in a central pairing of two. He has to offer more than just hustle and bustle and water carrying, particularly when a lot of that hustle and bustle other than those two great blocks at the end was unsuccessful. JJ also offers 100% but has much more to his game. When he’s fit it’s a no brainer for me. A midfield ‘6’ pairing of Winks and JJ with Skipp an impact sub.

Bassey can play a bit too. Okoli can’t.

Skipp doesn’t influence the game enough for me as a senior central midfielder, particularly in a two. In that role you’ve got to dominate. Things break up around him or pass him by.

Has Skippy ever done a reaction test? I swear he plays with lag or high ping. He so often seems to tackle or intercept a second after he the ball has gone. We desperately need James back.

Wout can at least pass a ball

Okoli can’t pass. He either needs to play a very simple ball to someone close to him or just hoof it. He’s not worked that out himself yet too which would suggest he’s brainless too.

Yeh he got the goal but he was 100% to blame for the equaliser. Terrible, terrible pass. The lad is an absolute liability when he has the ball.

The problem with Bobby on the wing is he doesn’t have pace nor is he a dribbler. To be an effective winger you need one or preferably both of these attributes.

Beggo is absolutely glued to his line.

Matt Targett is a weak link in the Boro team but unfortunately I can’t see BDCR exploiting that weakness

Bobby Reid marauding down the wing then 🥴😬

Capology are more likely to be correct than your hunch.

Vietes is on £5k more a week than Fatawu, Mavididi and Jordan James and he has another year left on his contract. He’s on £15k a week btw.

He’s easy to hate because of his body language but I saw a good connection with Mukasa that reminded me of how he played with KDH. I still believe that the system we’ve played since Maresca has left and specifically the players that have played in this system haven’t helped either winger. The lack of a quality number 8 inside Mavs and Fatawu have allowed teams to double up, and without lightning pace this particularly impacts on a trick merchant like Stephy. The number 10 when it’s BDCR doesn’t offer enough support or a diversion as he’s lightweight and is barely more than a second striker. Now we have real quality in Mukasa I think Mavididi will show up better

It’s a bit much to say he performed well at Atalanta, he only played for the first team 17 times and was loaned out 3 of the 4 years he was with them. The 17 appearances only coming when he was used sporadically in 2022. We signed him after he had finished a season long loan at Frosinone. Frosinone were relegated that season. He could be looking at 3 relegations in 3 years. Based on what I’ve seen of him, I’m not surprised relegation follows him!

Aribo won’t go back to Saints as his contract ends at the end of the season. He’ll end up at QPR or somewhere like that. Very unlikely a Championship club will pay Skipp £50k a week so we’ll be stuck with him alongside Hamza, BDCR and Luke Thomas. I’m assuming Verstergaard has had his hernia op during the season because he’s got his eyes on a move in the summer so maybe he’ll be gone. Marcal’s contract is running down. Not sure there’s much interest in renewing it from either party tbh.

Gerry Taggart referred to him as ‘Moussaka’ on the post Stoke match Leicester City official podcast. 🤣(5 min 11 seconds in if you want a laugh.) Certainly some sweet moves in that second half by the lad so living up to his name. 🥴

Same can be said for all of the others really. Daka gets off so lightly - the lad is on 75k - 65k more than Mavididi a week suggesting where both players are in the standing at LCFC and yet Daka can’t even control a pass. They’ve all been poor in that first half but Daka and Monga were worse and Mukasa just as bad.

That free kick given against Ricardo at the end of the half was classic Gavin Ward. No contact, blatantly obvious to everyone that Pearson was trying to con him with seconds left in the half and he fell for it and then wasted time warning Ricardo about the foul he didn’t commit.

Mavididi is the hot thread on here but he’s been no worse than the other 3 attacking players. Daka, terrible, Monga, non existent and pocketed by Cresswell. Mukasa equally as scruffy on the ball as Mavididi and off the pace.

Doing more than Monga though

Daka after all these years still can’t understand that he isn’t going to win soft free kicks. Every time he feels contact he goes down and he almost never wins a free kick. He’s the opposite of Ayew in his ability to garner undue sympathy from the ref and yet he continues to do it. Someone needs to tell him to stop trying to win free kicks in his last few games for Leicester and finally man up, stay on his feet and get on with the fkin game.

Absolutely the worst ref that could’ve been appointed. That blokes mate again. Someone bump the thread