Dan

I think they're doing this from next year - replacing the September break with a two week one in October. It's got to beat this. This international break is a joke - every single year it bugs everyone to have it around 3/4 games into the season. At least wait for about 7/8. As a side note, wouldn't be a jot surprised if England lose in Serbia.

The league couldn't have fallen much better for us so far. It looks extremely open and we're starting in a decent position having now strengthened somewhat too. In short yes I do think we can get promoted. Not saying it's anywhere near a given like two years ago, but it's possible.

We'll be in a better place but our squad will be pretty tiny assuming those out of contract leave. We will need double figures of incomings next summer, that's my worry.

For me I'd go around 5/10. I think the late flurry has probably blurred the lines a little. Now fair play - they've plugged for me probably our three weakest areas and I will give a bit of credit for that, as basic as it sounds - I was seeing links to goalkeepers and wingers and fearing the worst. They've also made fairly cost effective signings. Carranza, James and Ramsey are all relatively cheap deals. In our position this is the sort of thing that will tie us over for a little while - it would've been nice to have brought in a couple of young prospects on permanent deals though, low risk, high upside types, but this is another way to do it, I suppose. Departures - again, it's an improvement, but it's from an extremely low bar and I still think we have far too many players now who are going to walk away for nothing again. I still think we needed the likes of Winks, Soumare, Reid, Ayew, etc.. who didn't have much time left on their deals moving on. We've gotten good fees for McAteer, Ndidi and Justin, a pretty disappointing one for Hermansen and an absolutely abysmal deal for El Khannouss that renders the signing of him in the first place essentially pointless. We did manage to get Coady out too, which can only be a plus. I just think it should've been more drastic. I think we've made some fairly prudent moves but I think it could've been a lot more. There's still a bit too big an element of kicking the can down the road for me. I don't think we're particularly well set up for this time next year. What I will say though is in the short-term we do have a decent chance of promotion with a points deduction. The league so far has fallen excellently. As unconvincing as we've been, we have clearly made an improvement to our team upon the first four performances where we were pretty dodgy in all of them yet still managed three wins. The expected rivals have been pretty appalling for the most part - Sheffield United, Ipswich and Southampton so far have 1 win between them. Even if we were to be docked 9 points, we would be level with Sheffield United, 4 points off Ipswich, and 5 off Southampton. This is better than any of us thought would really be the case. I think things have fallen pretty well for us. An 'OK' window for me, but as ever I think there is certainly room for improvement.

We've been playing Skipp and Soumare - it's a horrid midfield even at this level. We absolutely can't rely on that despite their decent performance the other night. Winks needs to suck it up now as well.

We're incredibly thin in midfield already though.

I do think this one gets done. Dunno about Ramsey though.

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Our admin is a top tier troll to be fair. A real artist.

Which is why it's nonsense that we leave it this late 'every' year. Constantly playing catchup and making rash decisions as a result. We should've maxed out loans with options this summer in our position.

I'd caveat the above however by saying I don't think Carranza and James is enough. I think 3 should be the absolute minimum and I'd probably want 4, even 5. But I'd be astounded if it was more than 3.

There'll probably be some announcements after 7pm to be fair. Often the case. I do want this one - I think this signing makes a big difference for us.

Demonstrably was true - whether it was down to him or not, we scored far less goals when he came in for Buonanotte.

All in all a total waste of time. Didn't make any difference for us ultimately despite some flashes. Clearly another bad egg. Not even going to make any money back on our investment if he turns out any good and going to have to suck it up if he doesn't. A name forever associated with the worst Leicester side possibly ever. Some legacy.

I wonder if there's a chance Palace come in. They've been left short.

No, some are happy for him sit on the bench and 'cash in' too!

Haha what the ****

He's a good player - would be a really good signing from us.

Palace's best player gone, their next best on the verge of a move and Glasner still goes to Villa and slaughters them. He's absolutely top drawer, top 5 manager in the league for me.

Out: El Khannouss In: Carranza, Rak-Sakyi

If that deal is true then we would quite literally be better off to have never signed him. This means we're locked into all of the potential downside. Say he flops at Stuttgart we get him back with his tail between his legs. If he does well there, we just get our money back for a post relegation level fee, nominal profit of which we just paid on his wages anyway. It's totally amateurish. I think keeping him here despite his sulking, chancing he has a change of heart trumps this deal. It stinks.

We weren't in a strong position (which is ultimately the fault of those at the top as a general point) but this is a ridiculous deal for us if it's true.

That's just an absolute joke if that's true. What on earth are we doing.

I don't think he was the main offender by any means but there's a hint of the Demarai Gray about him - looks good but doesn't 'really' deliver and while everyone blames the shit around him, he had similar issues in a Genk team that were one of the more dominant sides in their league. He's young enough to get better but it wouldn't surprise me if this plagued him for a while. Again - not saying this was 100% down to him, but when he came in for Buonanotte, we scored quite substantially fewer goals. This is fact.

Obviously sell. We definitely need two midfielders if he goes though.