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I would hope that the club have probably sounded out a few people. Dyche for example. But they are probably being told to do one. Anyway. The performance today was better than we have had to endure for a while. I think we can see how we will set up going into the rest of the season.

Good enough to have earned the right to start the next game. I don't mind having a smaller guy at LCB. His mobility allows Coady to move further up the pitch when we're in possession.

1. We need to convert to a low block/sh!thouse style and counter with both Vardy and Daka on the pitch. 2. None of our defenders actually enjoy defending. They all want to be involved in attacks, and defending is an inconvenience to them. 3. Top misleads managers about the amount of money available, and allows them to go scouting and approach players when there was never a chance of signing them. 4. Enzo would probably have taken us down too.

I feel like he's liable to try and force situations and chances at the moment. I feel like he's trying to do something that stands out so that he can get back in the starting line up. That's probably leading to taking risks and losing possession. I feel like Ayew offers JJ more protection so I can see why he's playing ahead of Facundo

Clearly we have to get him minutes. Even just a couple of minutes are the end of a game we're losing 3-0 is worth it. If it convinces him to stay, great. If he still leaves then it affects his value at tribunal

Maybe it's just because he regularly used to cause us problems at both ends of the pitch. But I'm happy with this. He's a big old school CB. And the second he walks in, he's going to be out only defender who actually wants to defend. All the others seem to want the ball at their feet, like defending is an inconvenience for them. Dawson is big strong and loud. He gives us the option to sit deep and soak up pressure, which we don't really have. He is the closest we can get to a Huth figure. I think he's going to be good for us. (Watch him not sign now)

Might have been the lack of stones, might have been the lack of fit defenders.

3 goals in 35 appearances, 19 starts.19 years old apparently more of a AM than striker. Unless he's playing right wing, I don't see why we're bidding. We have a 20 year old AM and a 19 year old (Facundo) on loan. It's one position we don't need. If we were a well run established club he would be perfect to replace the inevitable sale of BEK in a year or so. But we are in no position to plan for the future.

Although I'd rather have had him than Coulibaly, we don't need a 3rd right back when we're desperately short in the attacking third. Rumours are that Lamptey wanted European football, so going to Ajax makes a lot more sense for him.

I was looking at that list, and something that occured to me is that Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison are the only 2 decent strikers that hes found. Richarlison was already in the Prem with Watford, so I'm not sure how much scouting needed to be done there. Calvert-Lewin was a good deal to be fair at £1.5m. I'm ignoring Ings as he had been all over the league by that point, so he's not really been discovered by Glover.

I think they are more saying that it's not possible to sign him this window, than that there is some sort of plan in place to buy in the summer. This is a bit of a nothing article. We may have been in for him before he went to Monaco. But his price will have trebled by the summer if he keeps this up. We are shopping in the same price range as clubs like Monaco rather than simply taking their future stars.

He seems to be fair more effective on the left. He was also unlucky that Bilal didn't see his clever little run into the channel behind their defence just before half time. As much as I'd rather we signed a younger player who can develop, today he was effective and showed intelligence in his play today. I also feel that we have real competition on the left for Mavi.

Contract Extension please! He might actually be the first name on the team sheet. He deserves our respect for the turn around.

We. Know. Fvck All.

This looks like a Cooper line up. Keep it tight for 70 mins then throw on the changes. It's worrying that this is our "best" option. This front 3 should be good out of possession/collecting a pension.

Ok so next time he falls over, can we all agree to sing a few lines of "Ruuds gonna get ya!"?

Left sided young CB? 6'4? This is far to sensible for us surely?

I think the only way this works is an Okoli swap, followed by a relegation sell clause at about 10m. Unless this is genuinely a loan, with obligation based on our survival. In which case it makes total sense.

A loan with option is a dead deal. Theres no benefit to us in a loan. We lack bite in midfield as it is without losing the best tackler in the club.

We have a lack of quality everywhere. We also had a summer transfer window where nobody wanted to come to us because we were looking likely to get a points deduction. This window, we look increasingly like we're relegated. Say what you like about Cooper but his ugly shithouse footy was at least more effective. I think the idea behind Cooper was to get us through the season whichever way possible. But, he lost the dressing room. RVD doesn't seem to have a plan we're more open but we score less. He praised Daka, then won't play him even when Vardy has to do 3 games in a week. We need a striker and a Winger. Doesn't matter if they are on loan or permanent signings. Doesn't really matter about the ages either as long as they make a big enough difference that we can put some points on the board. We have nothing on the bench. And Daka doesn't suit our style of play.

We need to decide on a direction and style of play as a club. The ethos dictates the type and attributes of player we buy. If we try to stick to the ethos of the past few years, high possession, high press etc. We will need to establish which fullback is moving up and where they go. Looking at our likely squad next year I'd assume that the RB will push up. If he does I'd want an RCB that is mobile enough to cover the space at RB that will be there on a counter attack. (What we failed to do under Cooper.) So. GK:Stoly LB/CB Nelson CB Soutar CB/RB New Defender RB/RW JJ/Woyo CDM Ndidi CDM Skipp CAM BEK LW Mavi RW Fatawu (hopefully too injured to sell.) ST Daka Reserves: New GK Vestegaard Thomas Either JJ/Woyo Choudhury Ayew Bobby I'm going to assume that Skipp is good enough in the Championship, and Ndidi doesn't get a better offer. Bilal might well push for a move though, but he's on a long contract so we will see. Based on that we need 1 x GK either cover or as the number one. 2 X CB 1 as cover. 1 for 1st team. 1 x CDM cover 2 x CAM/Winger 2 x Striker That's a minimum. No idea what the academy can produce for us. And if we get an Embargo we are shafted.

Just looking at this team sheet shows how poor our squad actually is. The only changes you could make is a striker out of form in Vardy(tired but better) for another out of form striker in Daka (fresher but worse). Or Ayew for Facundo, which means that we would have no danger on the bench for when legs get tired. I think we lose the midfield battle today, and we will have to hope for counter attacking.

This all comes from the drive for "premiership experience" which seemed to dominate our summer transfer plans once Cooper took charge. Prem experience is expensive in and of itself, and it doesn't guarantee anything. We now have Skipp BDCR and Ayew in the club on some decent wages without any real value in selling them. I would argue that our best signings have been been Bilal an Facundo who had very little Prem experience between them.

Any idea what his pressing is like? I could see Vardy liking a target man along side him, but the out of possession shape can be problematic with two up. (As we know). It also pushes us into a 442 shape. But if the boy has the potential to take over up front then by all means. I get the feeling that he's going to be a season or two away from leading the line though.

As much as I wasn't sold on his style of play and the seeming "step down" in coaching ability, why now? We've just had an international break and where the new coach could have bedded in and got some training sessions done. Why not get rid at the start of that?