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He’s just not very good. There’s no harm in admitting it. The level of his ‘ability’ is unfortunately being cruelly exposed by the ability of those around him. I agree with all those posters who have noticed his ability to hide in a match and place himself in a position where he cannot receive a pass. Persisting with him is damaging both his career and our performances.

How anyone can rate Hamza as even close to Mendy defies all logic.

If he plays we play. Stop Youri and you stop us.

Leicester and Leicestershire map from 1630 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~285255~90057928:Leicestershire-?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:leicester;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=1&trs=30

I can now add James Justin to the list of players who have proved my judgement in players to be wonderfully abject.

Hang on, isn't that you judging today?

He's off to Klopp in the summer.

I don’t think anyone knows what you’re actually getting with King. It’s been so long since he played a competitive game for City that making any confident prediction that s hard. Hopefully, for both King and Lueven, you get the steady, dependable and occasional big game scoring Andy King. A steady 7/10 every game.

Let me get the right. Nice £100m training ground, shame about the social media promotion during a week where Christmas has been cancelled, Dover is ****ed and a new strain of a deadly virus is hogging the limelight.

The numbers are correct. The sample size for both are small (and far smaller for the league).

I used this season (and both competitions) because that’s what Hamza’s mum has been bleating about. Plus, to misplace a third of your passes in a cameo off the bench is remarkable. Previous seasons are at 85%, which is still lower than Mendy. This is a lovely article on why, contrary to what the one eyed king would have us believe, Mendy has been quite good https://t.co/RW40Yce0RL

Is this thread a wind up? Passing - the simple thing you’d like a midfielder to do. Hamza’s pass completion in the league 65% Mendy’s pass completion in the league 91.2% let that 65% sink in a bit. Every 3rd pass misses. His passing is 2% better than Kasper ffs. That does shoot up to 85% in Europe but that pesky Mandy infuriatingly stats at 91%. Tackling - the thing he’s supposedly good at Hamza’s average tackle per game in the league 0.5. Interceptions 0. Clearances 0 Mendy’s average tackles per game in the league 1.5. Interceptions 1. Clearances 0.6. in Europe. Hamza tackles per game 1. Interceptions 1.5. Clearances 0.3 Mendy 1.5. 1.5. 0.5. Mendy is just better. There’s no shame in that. Mendy has been consistently better and most likely always will be. To argue that Hamza is in any way a superior is trolling of the highest order.

Could people just add their mother's maiden name and the name of their first pet...

Lest we forget, Dan Roan is a ****.

Still just Danny Tiatto with an Afro

Nor does Demari Gray

That there are different sized infinities

Can anyone compete with my agent? We'd previously had our house on the market with a major online only company and paid them to do accompanied viewings. We'd had views and bids in double quick time but took it off after my wife fell pregnant. A few years later we're ready to move so we ring them up to get it re-listed as we've found our dream home. Agent was too busy to come back to our house to view it and said to stick with the old price. We click the button, set availability to all the time as we want to sell and move pronto. After a few days there'd been lots of views of the advert online but no requests to view. This carries one until the first week is done and our dream house has sold. Feeling a bit despondent we ring the agent to check that everything is ok and clarify why their number isn't available on right move for people to call and there's only an instruction to download an app if people want to book a viewing. They say their number is available (it isn't) and recommends perhaps we lower our price. As our dream house had sold within a week we decide to hold off lowering the price until we find somewhere. Days go by, lots of advert views but no requests to view. This carries on for another week or so until one night we're sat eating tea discussing why no one wants to view when previously we'd had loads and a note drops through our door. Some kind soul who wants to view our house wrote a note and walked across town to tell us that they've been trying to arrange a viewing for weeks but there's no contact number and the app of the major online only company says there is no availability to view our property until the end of October! The agent hadn't even noticed that they'd set our house as unavailable to view. We've missed out on our dream home and three weeks of possible viewings. I'm now in the process of attempting to get our money back and am still waiting for someone to make our house available to view.

Dickov (version 1)

FFP - Mike Newell - he seemed to score every time we went. Then I was amazed that he went to a division 'above'. There were actual divisions above! FG - Plymouth 87 (I think) FM - First clear memory - Beating Norwich 2-0 in the League Cup in 88. I think they were top of the old Div 1 at the time.

Good business all round. We get a known quantity at a reduced rate and Papys gets a place at a top half team and the chance to play in a league that will keep him on the radar of scouts.

About time too.

At least one person got it. Thanks.

This isn’t a doom mongering post more one of practicalities. People frequently refer to our amazing scouting and ability to sign and sell on stars and cite Mahrez, Kante and Vardy as examples of our success. However, with the exception of Kante who is the freakish of all outliers, we’ll never sign players like them again. Not because they don’t exist but because we can’t afford to look at them. Kante, as a signing, was a complete freak. We signed an elite level player at their peak who for some reason wasn’t at an elite level club. The player who joined was the finished article and the player we sold was too. He began playing at world class levels and left playing the same way. It was easy to slot him into a premier league side and have him contribute immediately. Mahrez and Vardy were completely different. They both took time to settle, grow and adapt. There is no way the Vardy and Mahrez’s we signed would get anywhere near this team not be given the time to grow and that’s why recruitment is suddenly so hard to do. If both players had been flops we’d have not really noticed, their fees were such that they reflected their low risk status. Subsequent moves into the transfer market have shown that we, like everyone else, are struggling to find players just below the level of Mahrez and Vardy who might one day improve. That’s why getting to and staying at this level is so hard. We’re no longer looking for those sort of players because we don’t have the time to nurture them.

Chilwell has had the misfortune of playing more under Puel. I think Puel made the right long term decision to play him but he suffered in the short term and has carried that with him since. At the time he was put in the side he wasn’t defensively as sound as Fuchs and therefore looked ‘worse’ than perhaps he was. He also joined a side that was trying and largely failing to transition to a new style of play. He very much had to learn as he went. I can’t think of many other Leicester youngsters who’ve had to learn at this level (be it top six aspirations, off the back of a trophy, and or a campaign in Europe). Most players are blooded in the championship and grow into a role, Chilwell had to hit the grown running and occasionally he stumbled. That perception of inconsistency has stuck with him ever since and caused him to get criticism more readily than others.