funkyrobot

Best player for us in that 1st half tbh 🤷🏻‍♂️

Been some very slap dash passes in this game. Hamza and Nelson have been particularly guilty but it’s been throughout the team. I do think though that the ball is running very slowly on this pitch. Seems to have been very heavily watered and this isn’t helping the quality of the passes. Maybe it’s a purposeful tactic by Huddersfield but tbh it isn’t helping them much either. Hamza and Nelson have also been particularly vulnerable to the press and need to sharpen up!!

I’m encouraged that Cifuentes sees Alves as more a central player rather than an out and out winger. RVN incorrectly said he was a winger and he was the one that loaned him out.

He wasn’t public enemy with me. He was and is our best creative midfielder. I was one of those who didn’t give a 💩 where he was driving from. It hadn’t been a problem for Enzo and it wasn’t even an issue for Cooper. It’s was RVN and his terrible people management skills that caused the problem. Asking Winks to stay for a day a week was a petty, unnecessary and badly timed flex against a senior pro. It would’ve have no discernible impact as the squad wasn’t good enough to stay up and the manager was even worse.

Winks wasn’t useless last season. He was criminally mismanaged by Cooper (who often benched him alongside Mavididi) and even more so by RVN. Under Enzo he would’ve been fine.

Ricky P is absolutely not an adequate replacement for Winks. Very different skillset not to mention an inability to stay fit. There’s no other player in our squad that can replicate Winks. Maybe Page in the future but that’s some way off.

There’s probably little reality in the Fatawu rumour. Before the season started there were numerous statements saying we had interviewed Dyche for the managers job and he was on the shortlist to get the job. Dyche was interviewed last week and confirmed it was all absolute rubbish and he hadn’t spoken to the club at all.

Surely keeping Winks gives us a better chance of promotion and the significant cash injection that it brings ? Selling him now reduces the likelihood of promotion and won’t stop a points reduction coming. So the only positive is what would be a small fee and taking his wages off the bill 9 months earlier than would be the case when his contract runs out. Don’t forget that we’d need to buy and pay a replacement in the meantime too so that would offset some of the benefits of taking his wages off the books. Just doesn’t make sense to me unless we have 1 or preferably 2 absolute midfield maestros coming in to replace him. A midfield of Skipp and Soumare is definitely ruling out any chance of promotion.

He was good before that too

Ayew played well before Daka came on, combining effectively with Winks from the 1st minute of the second half. Yes he might operate in a different way to a traditional centre forward we are used to at Leicester. He’s going to come deeper and hold the ball up rather than running away from the last line of defence. As for your strawman, ad hominem, whataboutery comnent - Maybe it is some of that but what’s wrong with that? Why can’t I point out contradictions or a bias? I’m merely pointing out that you have been very quick to criticise one but were a staunch defender of another striker. You use stats to back up your argument for Daka, I’d be interested in the stats you use to back up your criticism of Ayew. In his last two games he’s scored a goal, has numerous shots on target and created opportunities for others (and that’s before Daka entered the pitch.)

It’s nothing to do with funding anyone. If he has a release clause and it’s correctly activated by a buying club there’s absolutely nothing we can do! As I’ve said earlier, having a release clause has to be a factor in why ELK would’ve signed for us last season and why he agreed specifics in his contract. We know this as otherwise there wouldn’t have been a release clause - It wasn’t just put in for banter. This is exactly what happened to Kante and it was the only way we were getting him too when he signed for us.

Technically we have one. The alternative option in Daka is already there. I’d expect Cifuentes to continue rotate between the two or play them both together assuming PSR is preventing any transfers this window.

This the same Finnegan that thinks Daka is an absolute baller? Let me start by saying I am by no means an Ayew fanboy but I appreciate that at this level he has the potential to be very effective. Ayew was excellent as the central point of attack yesterday. Yes he played it in a very different way to Vardy and Daka and yes he’s not going to be prolific as a goalscorer but he performed a central role well, linked up well with Winks and the wingers and had a number of shots on goal. BTW I watched the match at the KP. I’m a season ticket holder that also goes to a lot of away matches and has full access to every game on tv too, I just have a different (equally valid) opinion to you!

I thought Ayew was one of our better players in the first half when we weren’t great and got even better when Winks added creative support that had previously been entirely down to closely marked Mavididi and Fatawu. This was well before Daka came on.

Ayew was excellent in the number 9 role yesterday??

A release clause was possibly the only way ELK would’ve come to us last season, particularly as it happened after Maresca jumped ship. If someone triggers a release clause correctly there’s not much we can do other than hope he chooses to stay. In the short term it might give Page and Alves more opportunities. I have to say I’m surprised Newcastle would be interested, don’t really see his position as a priority for them, particularly with their lack of strikers.

It was the crowd shouting WOUTTT not booing. It was around me in H1 anyway.

This is exactly what it was. I think it even confused Faes who was pissed off when he scored. Personally if no one is in for him, I think he’s very good in The Championship despite his flaws.

Winks is outstanding in The Championship. He completely changed the game today. He should stay and start. I agree that the other two are not good enough. Soumare has all the attributes but his application is shockingly bad, Skipp is bang average in every aspect and is better suited to League 1 or 2. Time for Louis Page to stake a claim.

Noticeable silence from Kingfox on Skippy this afternoon. The difference between him and Winks is massive. There’s an absolute gulf between the two in terms of creativity and quality and I’ll reiterate that I see no major energy from Skipp. Hopefully Cifuentes will now stick with Winks and find an alternative to Bouba too.

He can be a bit clickbaity anti LCFC sometimes like in this instance which is strange if he’s a fan.

If I was a blades fan I’d worry a bit about their manager a bit. Not sure he’ll be better than Wilder was

Loads were being robbed by people who don’t usually go to games after the fiorentina match. Saw one old guy with about 3 under his arms. I think he genuinely thought they were free to take.😂

Genuinely don’t think there’s that much between Stolarcyck and Mads. Mads might be a slightly better shot stopper but Jakob is better coming for corners and crosses. Mads is great with his feet but that’s mainly short range passing, he’s not particularly a pinger like Pickford, more a confident pivot that just keeps the ball moving. His pivot play is a luxury that a struggling premier league club probably won’t maximise use of. That might be a fair description of WHAM this year tbh.

Hutchinson is expected to leave the club.