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Yeh he played in the friendlies against Shrewsbury and then Palermo. Was on the bench against Augsburg but wasn’t given game time and then dropped to the u23’s before RC Lens. £4m for an u23 squad player.

Cooper is definitely not going to start TC, he’s already shown he’d rather play players out of position to get Mavididi central despite this impacting on multiple positions rather than playing him.

I wish he’d been pushed more on his treatment of Cannon. The fact is he was given the least amount of pitch time during pre season of the fit strikers. It has felt all along that Cooper doesn’t rate him and as such he got the game time of a player destined for a loan or a full transfer. He’s had minimal opportunities and now Cooper is in position where he’s the only out and out fit number 9. I suspect Cooper will still put Mavididi centrally and play BDCR in the LW role or Fatawu there (despite it being clear he’s better as a RW) further damaging the lad’s confidence. Giving Cannon more opportunity and at least pretending he was in his plans would’ve maybe helped the team whilst a new striker is sought.

Can we lock all transfer links except for Ayew? There’s no point in even pretending we are looking for anyone else. Just keep the Ayew thread open until he rejects a move at midnight on transfer deadline day. It’ll save everyone a lot of time.

Lock this ffs

Cooper has dropped Golding to the u23’s. His focus on youth development appears to be a fallacy. The only time he definitely showed it was when he was managing England u17’s and he had no choice! He’s ignored Alves, Braybrooke, Golding, Marcal, and even MacAteer during this pre season.

Cracks me up that just because Rudkin et al are incompetent, suddenly it’s poor old Cooper. Can I remind everyone that he’s shifted our formation from using an inverted fullback and a player that has fulfilled that role very effectively attacking & defensively in Ricardo and changed it to put the overload to our weakest position at left back. He’s still trying to achieve the same outcome of 5 attack 5 defense but his inability to play the Enzo style has had massive repercussions.To enable this change he’s dropped Ricardo and asked the weakest fullback of our main 3 choices - VK, to perform a role as an overload on the left that he isn’t great at. This has had detrimental knock on effects for Mavididi on the Left Wing and Fatawu on the right and has also meant we’ve had to look to buy a specialist number 10 when it would’ve been much easier to fill the less specialised and cheaper number 8 role that KDH had. Cooper’s new system also means Mads in goal under-utilises his footballing abilities and we lose that extra man when building play. Cooper has tried to fit players into a new system that definitely requires an expensive and challenging signing (a number 10) when he could’ve used the current set up that his current players are more used to and made it slightly more pragmatic where necessary during the friendlies.

Get him locked down on a 6 year contract, fcuk it, give his bro one as well.

Close thread and announce the Brothers Ayew.

We need to accept that every road this transfer window is going to lead to Jordan Ayew. We need a replacement for KDH, tried to get Soule, we’ll sign Ayew. We need an alternative winger, tried to sign Zaha, we’ll sign Ayew. We need a 2 new centre forwards, tried to sign Hozlek and Fofana, we’ll sign Ayew. We need a new back up keeper to Mads, tried to sign Johnstone, we’ll sign Ayew. We need a new left back, we’ll sign Ayew. Just fkin announce us signing him at 33 years old on a 3 year contract on £80k. Then within months get the club to talk about needing to manage his hours due to his age.

I’m not saying necessarily replace Fatawu or Mavididi, I’m just saying we need some key players - we need a replacement for KDH, we need a quality alternative to Vardy etc. To get players above their level yes you are looking at plus £20m, and that’s why loans are a very likely option. At some point the academy player rule will change. It’s forcing clubs to use the young players as a commodity rather than developing them at their home club and it feels wrong both from a player treatment perspective and from a fans perspective. The KDH transfer feels wrong, the Gallagher transfer at Chelsea feels wrong. Both clubs have lost players that had a significant connection with their home fans.

It’ll be just our luck to re-sign Chilly and draw Millwall away in the cup.

I don’t see either Mavididi or Fatawu quite at that level yet. *Based on what I’ve seen of BDCR I’m not sure he’s much better than K-Mac! I always feel Kasey is a goal threat.

My concern over Ayew (and BDCR) is both age and that whilst they were both liked by their respective fans, they were both support players, neither were game changers and Ayew excelled in a team were the heavy work was done by a combination of Olise, Eze and Mateta. Ayew’s energy was a great addition but he was not their game changer. Here at Leicester we really need some key top level potential game changers and not more and more support players.

The VK transfer has always seemed a bit fishy to me.

If you are paying £80k a week you aren’t paying for potential. Daka earns significantly more than players that you would see as potential here and at big 6 clubs - Doku at Man City is on £60k, Gallagher at Chelsea was on £50k. Based on our wage structure Daka is paid as an established pro which he was at Red Bull. If you want to compare, Faes is on £50k, Justin on even less, A good analyst also uses the eye test, scouting is done by watching a player and looking at his stats. A footballer plays on a pitch, not a spreadsheet. The fact that your statistics appear to show you that Daka has been a success when he clearly hasn’t backs that up.

No that stat doesn’t address his all round ability. It’s a figure that doesn’t outline if the chances were his own or ones he’d created for others and it doesn’t change the fact that he doesn’t hold the ball up well , isn’t a great passer and isn’t a dribbler as this is absolutely clear from watching him. He’s like the modern day Gary Lineker without the world class finishing ability and it nearly cost us winning the league last season. Your comment about his age etc conveniently omits that when a player is signed for over £23 million and accepts an £80k a week wage he will be judged accordingly.

He struggled in The Premier League, he struggled in The Championship. You’ve damned him with faint praise by saying he’d be good in a lower half team. He was playing in the team at the top of the league last season. I notice you didn’t even argue with my comments about his all round ability. Daka hasn’t demonstrated a skillset to contribute as a forward creator through his passing, hold up play or his dribbling so he has to score lots of goals to justify his position. He hasn’t done enough of that at any stage in his LCFC career.

I think Patson has been afforded lots of time and the fans have never got on his back at the ground but he has no stats, including the ones you have provided, that would make anyone spaff themselves silly about him or any player. If you aren’t going to score a massive amount of goals as a striker then your all round game needs to be able to provide opportunities for others and Patson’s skill set, his running with the ball, hold up play, dribbling and his passing are simply not allowing that. He’s really a finisher who has struggled to finish. That’s nothing to do with his colour or his nationality it’s just a fact. It’s exactly the same with local lad Luke Thomas. He’s one of our own in the sense he’s a Leicester lad who’s come up through the ranks and has been relatively successful in the past. It’s not unfair though to say he’s struggled recently and it’s understandable that he’s not currently in the 1st team plans. Again that’s nothing to do with the colour of his skin or his nationality, it’s just a fact.

I trust that the vast, vast majority of LCFC fans rate or don’t rate Daka based on his football ability and not at all on his colour or his country of origin. Who’s this Patty Deck btw? Is he any good? Danish?

Unnecessary use of the race card there at the end of your comment mate. Anyway, there’s been very little evidence of Patson succeeding at Premier League level so maybe it’s not such a stretch to put another unproven striker in there. Cannon can’t be much worse.

We didn’t play a low block during the great escape and whilst we relinquished control of the ball during the prem league win we didn’t deploy a traditional low block. We often left 3 attackers on the halfway line during opponents corners and there were always 2 strikers higher read to counter. I don’t share your views on our pacey attack, Mavididi isn’t particularly fast & nor is BDCR. Vardy has lost a couple of yards. I’ve not seen this amazing pace in Daka despite frequent chat about this mythical speed. Fatawu is pretty rapid tbf as is K-Mac.

Can’t wait to watch Cooper employ deep block football. It’s going to make even the most vociferous former manager detractors yearn for some Enzo-ball.

Based on the tune ‘Robin Hood Robin Hood’ Bobby De Cordova Reid Struggling on the wing Bobby De Cordova Reid Doesn’t do a thing Does he regret, leaving Fulham? Course he does! Course he does! Course he does!

I’m not sniping at any fans. I’m just laying out facts based on what we’ve seen under Enzo and under Cooper. I personally wasn’t wanting Enzo to leave and I don’t think the majority of fans outside of social media actually did, particularly if they knew who the next manager was going to be when he did leave. The best, most successful managers have a game plan and a game plan that will earn positive results. Cooper hasn’t actually been pragmatic in his approach. He just hasn’t been anything. His LCFC team have combined the conceding of lots of chances whilst created virtually no chances. That’s definitely not being pragmatic!!