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Actual pic of Ruud post Okoli boot rant. 😬

Course it is.

Dr Tottenham v Dr Leicester!

Cannon is miles better than Edouard though and a different type of striker to Daka. Loaning TC out to loan in the Palace waster Od Ed was a decision bordering on the criminal. These loans and the Cannon sale with Edouard STILL here is another embarrassing and catastrophic mistake by our senior management team.

There’s absolutely no way our defence can play #Dycheball. He relies on strong and fit shithouses at the back, immense in the air and brutal in the tackle. We’ve not got anything like that, Vesty can’t head the ball or run, Faes thinks he’s Franz Beckenbauer. Coady’s strength is on and off field rapid-fire banter only and Okoli is clearly a PSR casualty and probably not up to it. If RVN leaves then going for Dyche isn’t going to stop us going down, but it will mean we play awful football in The Championship.

Pipes is by the far the best expert on Radio Leicester footy coverage. He’s sorely missed on there at the moment. He speaks directly and with honesty and like with the BSLB podcast he genuinely helps me process the post games mentally, particularly when the results are bad. Hope he’s back soon.

Big money at Birmingham now, they’ll start flashing the cash, actually giving Alves game time, he would have a decision to make. If he was loaned to say Shrewsbury, there’d be none of that risk!

The danger of going to a club like Birmingham is they might end up turning his head and as we are both likely to be in The Championship next year they’ll have the money to test our PSR resolve.

It was a great podcast. Really beneficial listening to informed chat and it does help the weekly mental recovery of watching our club disintegrate. You genuinely provide a service! Pipes has a similar effect when he’s on the Beeb but unfortunately he’s not been there so the catharsis has come from the BSLB crew. Keep it up 👍🏻

Not sure about lucky officiating at Ipswich. Phillips deserved a red card in the first half for an elbow assault on Buonanotte. He stayed on the pitch, Ipswich scored and then he got sent off later. That early decision to only yellow card Phillips probably cost us 2 points.

Dr Tottenham? Dr Leicester will see you now.

Mendy is levels above Skipp. Nampalys was quality ‘water carrier.’ He sought the ball, had excellent close control. constantly moved into space and could take the ball on the half turn. Don’t see any of those attributes in Skipp.

Spurs fans I know were very happy we paid £25m for him. Very happy!

That’s the laws of the game. The position of the arm is irrelevant when it’s the goal scorer. Any contact with the arm if the goalscorer in the act of scoring is handball 100% of the time

He could certainly do better with his shot count and accuracy but he’s high statistically with key passes which would be assists if any of our shots at goal actually hit the target rather than sailing high and or wide most of the time!

Not seen anything that backs that statement up, certainly in a Leicester shirt. He hasn’t demonstrated any decent standout attributes at this level for us. I suspect he’s a lower league player that was lucky to hold on to a Spurs contract for as long as he did. Probably because he takes no risk with the ball and in a better team, when he did get game time he had much better players around him to flatter or mask his true ability level.

Worst take on this whole thread. El Khanouss is quite clearly premier league level.

Timo Werner hasn’t scored in the Premier League this season - Dr Leicester will see you next

Not just that, he’s not got an alternative left winger to rotate with, to sometimes be replaced by and vice versa.

Strange day to post this hate, he was our best player today.

Drop our best striker? Seems a lot of mucking around to fit in a player who isn’t good enough in Skipp just to have an extra body in deeper midfield when Bilal can do that job?

Why play Skipp in a 3 though having all of us seen his lack of ability at this level? Particularly as this will necessitate the loss of the number 10 role and as a result Bilal’s position in the first 11. It would make much more sense just to play Bilal deeper and leave Skipp on the bench. Bilal can press, he can tackle, he can take the ball on the half turn, he can pass progressively and played deeper at times in Belgium.

Surprised by the low score for Faes. Of the players who stayed on for the full game, I thought he was our best player and played well.

Surely a good midfielder can operate in a 3 or a 2 though? A midfielder who can only play in a 3 would suggest he has deficiencies that are exposed when he’s not got that extra support. That describes Skipp for me. He’s not quick, he’s not physical, he’s not got a great 1st touch, he isn’t renowned for ranged passing, he doesn’t score many goals and he can’t play on the half turn. I’d say £5m is too expensive for such a flawed player, never mind the fact Skipp actually cost us £25m. Bad transfer value for a bad player in my opinion. I’d rather sign a midfielder that is good enough to play in a 2 and play him in a 3 if the formation requires it.

No back at you! Okoli has played the vast majority of his games on the left hand side of our defence, playing instead of Verstergaard.