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I also find it difficult to call for his head because I just don’t see it with this squad. I said on here at the start of the season that this squad reeks of Championship, we failed to strengthen our squad by producing an horrific summer transfer window, now we’re paying the price. But he hasn’t helped himself today, his substitutions were crap against Palace, they were even worse today. Losing games mixed in with bizarre managerial decisions is just the perfect recipe for the sack I’m afraid.

He has inherited a Championship standard squad. But he may have killed his Leicester managerial career today, because of yet more shit substitutions. He may not be the right man, but of course our problems run much deeper than him.

Time for banners and protests, this can’t fvcking continue. This club is a shambles right now. Rudkin and Whelan out.

Don’t feel like criticising him too much because he’s inherited a poor squad. But his substitutions are really starting to piss me off.

Bilal’s workrate

Toothless again. This team lacks pace, especially on the wings where our options are horrendous.

2-1 win incoming. The game changing duo of Bobby Reid and Kasey McAteer with the goals.

Was looking at him the other day as he’s caught a hot streak. His strike partner in Shuto Machino has been doing well too.

We’ll probably try for someone a bit more proven, but a couple of LCB’s who have been performing well in their respective leagues, both of which should be under £10 million.

Surprised Draper is still standing after what he’s put himself through this week. Just the small test of Alcaraz next

FFS, in the one position we don’t actually need @Ric Flair

Running through tomorrow’s schedule, I see Lleyton Hewitt’s son Cruz is playing in juniors, damn I feel old

Not to be for Selby, not killing off a couple of frames just changed the balance of the match, especially the fourth frame. As he said in his post match interview, his game seems to be trending in the right direction, just needs to find consistency, a few of the top players seem to be in a similar boat atm.

After last night is probably the most frustrated I’ve felt all season, I still feel frustrated with the result today. It’s difficult to feel optimistic, but all I want to see is us stick to a plan like we saw last season. After the disaster of a relegation campaign, we got back on the right track with Enzo, he threw a spanner in the works by leaving, but we simply didn’t build on his work. There’s been a catalogue of errors since the 21/22 season, you can class it as complacency, arrogance, I like to use the word incompetence. Incompetent planning and not building on a particular plan that Enzo left behind has knocked us back. When you build on such a particular style, only to derail it by deviating away from that style by also recruiting differently to the previous style, then you’re going to be left with a disjointed squad. This team last season was set up to play a possession brand of football, now with RVN in charge we seem to have got that particular plan back on track, but elements of this squad that needed improving in the summer, still need improving now. hence the phrase you used “Piss poor planning”.

In a way he is correct. I said on the Martyn Glover thread earlier that last season we had a clear plan in terms of playing style and recruitment. Cooper’s obsession with wanting Premier League experience has sprinkled some shit over the squad and harmed it. We need to get back to building on what Enzo left behind, Ruud clearly has similar philosophies, and elements of this squad as we saw last season under Enzo are perfect for what Ruud is trying to implement. But the step from the Championship to Premier League seems to be getting more difficult, there’s also elements of this squad that don’t fit the bill at this level, but instead of filling those holes in the summer, Cooper decided to litter the squad with bench warmers and a pair of wingers who are completely the opposite of Enzo and even Ruud style wingers. There’s wrongs that need to be rectified, but if we actually stick to a plan like we saw last season, I’m not usually optimistic, but this current mess can definitely be turned around.

Good find, but Lille will probably give him a shot as he’s currently doing the business on loan 😕 Plenty of good defensive midfielders knocking about though, who could be seen as a long term alternatives to Ndidi, but my head says it’s a position we probably won’t strengthen this month 😕

We have punished ourselves by deviating away from a particular model. Of course there was a time where our recruitment would often get praised, then we seemed to deviate away from that by overpaying for certain players, which we’ve seen both under Congerton and Glover’s guidance. We went with a particular model under Enzo, a clear identity and plan both on the field and in terms of recruitment model, then like we’ve done previously in terms of recruitment, we then deviate away from something that was perfect, then we spoil it by appointing a different style manager who wanted a different profile of players. Brighton are simply consistent because everything about their structure is consistent, from managerial appointments to the recruitment of players. They deserve praise for a reason, anybody who downplays their model is in the wrong imo. Like Brighton, we had a clear plan and identity last season, but we then fvcked it

We identified a particular style and planned perfectly for that particular style. Of course Enzo leaving threw a spanner in the works, but we should have continued with his blueprint and built on it. Brighton have been consistent because they’ve stuck with a particular blueprint, Bournemouth seem to be in the works of a particular blueprint, their recruitment recently has been mostly excellent. Where they are is where we need to strive towards, but one managerial appointment that deviated away from a particular plan has unsurprisingly hurt us. Who knows whether Enzo’s style would have worked with us in the Premier League, but to start building on something only to rip that plan up by appointing a different style of manager, it’s no surprise we currently look like a disjointed mess. Agreed. As I’ve mentioned to Aleksz above and as you’ve mentioned yourself, the blame firmly goes on the board for not sticking with a particular blueprint. Last summer was so particular in terms of signings, then you rip that up by appointing a manager with a different style who only really cared about Premier League experience. Now with RVN, imo we now have a manager more similar to Enzo, personally I can see what he’s trying to implement, but in certain areas he simply doesn’t have a strong enough squad to make it work. At least with the Coulibaly signing, some planning seems to have gone into it. Whether he is the answer we’ll have to wait and see, but at least he has certain attributes that we desperately needed in that RB position. Going forward I hope we see signings that you can clearly see fit in with a particular plan. A ball playing centre back with pace for example. As you’ve said yourself, the only way to get out of this mess is by following a particular model, Brighton being the perfect example. We got on the right track with Enzo, then we killed it, but now in terms of playing style I feel we’ve got back on the right track with RVN, but we now need the right recruitment to make it work, unfortunately a January transfer window is less ideal than a summer one.

Last season we had a clear direction under Enzo, both in terms of playing style and recruitment. On the whole Glover and his team pretty much delivered us a perfect window. Enzo wanted a ball playing goalkeeper, they identified Hermansen. He wanted wingers who were good in 1vs1 situations, they identified Fatawu and Mavididi. He wanted a midfield controller who is good in possession, we got in Winks. But then you undo all that good work by hiring a manager with no real plan, all he seemingly wanted was Premier League experience, which has done more harm than good. The only one that seemed to come with any real consideration was El Khannouss, because it reached a point in pre season where we were desperate for creativity. A mixture of overpaying for players, then moving away from Enzo’s structure just when things looked back on track has severely damaged us. Congerton now Glover have had a real mixture of a time with us, we have definitely overpaid for players on a number of occasions, but when you go from a particular style under Maresca, to then appointing Steve Cooper who tried to move away from Maresca’s style, then you’re bound to be left with a squad that is a bit all over the place.

They supposedly paid about £2 million for him and has instantly become a fan’s favourite. Instead we wanted Premier League experience and whacked £20+ million on Oliver Skipp. It boils my piss

Goncalo Franco at Swansea is the one. Even their bloody scouting team is better than ours

Wolfsburg paid about the same amount for Koulierakis than we did for Okoli.

Looking forward to the 1-0 home loss to Oxford courtesy of an Elliott Moore overhead kick.

Extremely depressing isn’t it mate. Signing only one defender in the summer was a catastrophic, idiotic, incompetent mistake. Probably the worst mistake I’ve seen from a Leicester City recruitment team, and we’ve had a number of recruitment mistakes in recent seasons. Add to that £20+ million on Oliver Skipp and two slow over 30 year olds as wingers, it’s no surprise we’re in this mess. Pretty much the defence we got relegated with last time, a lack of pace on the wings and relying on a 38 year old to score goals. We’ve basically assembled a Championship squad.

No idea what to think about him because imo he’s been dealt a bad hand. He has come into a team that by large parts is Championship standard.