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Few promising talents have passed through Nurnberg recently tbf. Can Uzun, Stefanos Tzimas and Finn Jeltsch all making the step up to top five leagues. Jander could be the next one if his form continues. 🤷‍♂️

Selby, Ford and O’Connor all through to the R16 at the Welsh

Leicester recruitment team should’ve listened to @Ric Flair Tanaka cost Leeds about £3 million, we paid £20+ for Oli Skipp

Starting early. Potential Ndidi alternative/replacement. Caspar Jander - Nurnberg. Currently averaging the most tackles per90 in Bundesliga 2.

His subs have pissed me off plenty of times this season, but when it came to last night, I wasn’t surprised he made the subs that he did. Maybe Justin for Coulibaly instead, but Ndidi was always going to come off early. Whether it was Winks, Skipp or both coming on, losing Ndidi’s defensive nous was always going to hinder us, because we have nobody else who can do what he does. Yet again that comes back to recruitment and having an imbalanced squad. You can say Winks and Skipp are similar to each other, but nobody is similar to Ndidi. Soumare has shown improvements, but defensively he is still capable of bad habits. The key for me is Ndidi from now till the end of the season. We have seen under Ruud albeit minimal, how crucial he is to this team. It’s going to be an extremely difficult task to stay in the division, but Ndidi being fit and showing good form hopefully sees the team improve as a whole. And as I’ve just said to Micky, that’s down to recruitment and squad imbalance. We have no proper alternative to Wilf, when he is out injured or he goes off like he did last night, the only alternatives we have is Winks or Skipp, two players who just don’t have the defensive nous that Wilf does. Ruud just doesn’t have the right options to “cover the weaknesses”. Ndidi was always going to come off early last night, but what was Ruud supposed to do. As I’ve also said above, whether it was Winks, Skipp or both coming on, taking Ndidi out was always going to hinder us. What this squad is missing is another ball winning midfielder, that’s been evident ever since Ndidi got injured, we didn’t rectify it in January now Ruud is left with imbalanced options. All fair points. I said on this thread last week that I wouldn’t mind seeing a formation change. Okoli has hardly covered himself in glory this season, look at that mixup against Everton for example, but after last night’s performance he deserves a run in the side. Hardly using Buonanotte is a bizarre one. He’s used Vardy far too often, but our alternative is Daka, that just sums up our poor squad depth. As for Skipp, I really don’t know what he is best at. In his loan spell at Norwich, he was basically used like how Maresca used Winks for us last season.

He may not be the right man, but last night yet again proved how tied his hands are, because our squad depth is simply not good enough. You can moan about the substitutions all you want, in Ndidi’s case he was never going to play the full 90 last night, managing his minutes is going to be crucial, because we don’t want to run him into the ground and he gets injured again. Our alternatives to Ndidi though are Winks and Skipp, that’s not RVN’s fault, that’s on recruitment for not signing an adequate replacement for Ndidi. Regardless who starts out of Mavididi, Ayew, Reid and McAteer, more often than not, two of them will be coming on anyway, not an ideal situation. Yet again that’s not Ruud’s fault, that’s on Cooper for wanting the likes of Ayew and Reid in the first place. Ruud has had his faults, but if we end up getting relegated, our lack of squad depth will play a huge part in it.

As much as the linesman robbed us, our lack of squad depth cost us tonight, as soon as Wilf went off the game completely changed, not having an alternative to him will keep on costing us for the rest of the season.

He once blew a load in Natalie Sawyer and got her pregnant, one of life’s biggest mysteries tbf.

Where’s VAR when you need it

Start Okoli every week after that.

Give Bobby Reid a new contract.

As usual depressing, but at least it isn’t a Faes/Vestergaard combo.

That front three makes me wanna cry.

I’ll be intrigued to see how he develops at Lazio. He was one of the more highly rated defensive talents in Denmark last season, Bologna were supposedly very interested in him in the summer. Good shout regarding Villads Nielsen, Danish Scout has tweeted about his impressive performances in the Europa League a few times this season. Lucas Hogsberg at Nordsjaelland is another one I’d keep tabs on. Can play anywhere across the defence. Will probably get better suitors than us though, Como had a bid rejected in January. These pesky Italian clubs keep snapping up Scandinavian talent

Understandable explanation regarding transfers, especially when it comes to only wanting players to improve the starting 11, but operating like that, you’re just restricting yourself even more especially with our budget. Adding the right quality was either going to be too expensive, or those types of players probably had zero interest in joining us because of our current situation. Still disappointing though that we didn’t get at least one loan in from abroad, surely we could’ve got someone better to improve our defence. With the budget we had, I’d rather we went for some upcoming talent in the £5-10 million range, at least then you’d be building for the future. Now it looks like Ruud will have to dip into the future any way, with academy products such as Monga and Evans.

Very annoying Ric, thought we’d dip our toes back into the Scandinavian market after Hermansen’s success. Like you’ve said yourself, some of the fees have been absolute bargains. Bischoff for £6.5 million, a player with attributes that we ideally needed, but another opportunity falls by the wayside. Been tracking Provstgaard too, mentioned him to Strider a while back. Another Danish centre back talent in Tobias Slotsager went to Serie A also for 800k. Fuming Ric, I’m fuming

Brighton strike again

A fully fit Matty James > Danny Drinkwater

Fvck. Joey Barton is gonna be our manager next season.

What about those calling for Dan Ashworth

Chris O’Loughlin the Sporting Director of Union SG. https://analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2024/12/09/transfer-gurus-royale-union-saint-gilloises-chris-oloughlin/

Just seen these graphs that the BTG fan channel replied too. How to compete by spending money wisely(Brentford & Fulham) vs how to struggle to compete by spending it wrongly(Leicester, Southampton & Everton) There’s a lot of factors on why we’re struggling, but how much of that 258 figure have we pissed down the drain, especially from the 21/22 season.

Gave up my season ticket because of Covid and Anxiety issues, thought I’d miss the KP but looking on it now, it’s the best decision I’ve ever made. This club has made me feel numb for a good few years now, this season has been an absolute clusterfvck from the start. It’s the final straw for me, something has to change and protests against Arsenal is the start, but we need to keep banging the drum until changes at the top are made. Until that happens I just can’t be arsed to watch us anymore, why waste two hours having to watch this defence and the likes of Ayew and Reid on the wings. It just brings your mood down and makes you feel depressed. Luckily Snooker keeps me occupied, and I know it’s extremely difficult to switch off from Leicester City, but to any other posters feeling the same dejected way, just concentrate on other things that you enjoy instead, it will make you feel 10 times better.

Beating L’Oréal was sure worth it.