How well do you feel we have performed in this transfer window?

[lcfcben76]

3 hours ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Where's the shambolic option 

Got to be said none of the signings have hit the ground running 

musa- poor and can't get a look in

mendy- injured straight away and haven't seen him since

kaputska- sitting in the under 21s whilst off form players are still playing

Hernandez- decent enough but mistakes in him

slimani- some good goals, has had bad and good games. Looks the best if the bunch quite comfortably

 

looking back on it now though it must be said none of them have been great and players like musa are barely challenging vardy (who's been awful) for a starting place. I can only hope mendy comes back soon and it's half decent to sort out our defensive issues otherwise it must be classed as a poor window 

[erlee]

wow - majority close to 90% responded we have done well in the transfer mkt..

 

[StriderHiryu]

3 minutes ago, erlee said:

wow - majority close to 90% responded we have done well in the transfer mkt..

 

Yep looking back many of us (myself included) were far too optimistic. 

 

Didnt replace Kante effectively, Keane would have turned out to be a steal (seemed way over priced at the time) and the squad is full of forwards and wingers but we can't engineer chances at the moment. 

 

Will be interesting to see the January window as depending on league position we may be forced to make some moves. 

[dayday]

Im amazed people voted good the only area we have strengthened is the forward line.

 

The areas that we needed to bolster midfield/ defence have so far been uninspiring.

 

 

[zak_lcfc]

Looking back with hindsight, when the window initially closed I was fairly content with the signings, whilst we had lost Kante we had brought in more depth (granted I still felt another CB and CM were needed) and broke our transfer record 3 times without having a massive net spend, now though it evidently wasn't enough with players from our main XI last season underperforming and we didn't use our position of being champions and having CL football to our advantage over the summer.

 

Whilst Claudio couldn't have anticipated that Mendy would be out for so long the other signings apart from Slimani have been underwhelming, hopefully having European football in January will allow us to strengthen where it's needed! 

[Livid]

I went for average. The jury is out on the lot of them at the moment.

 

We've signed some decent players to give us depth but they just don't seem to fit in somehow.

 

I'm not sure where Musa should be playing or how he fits in at all.

Hernandez seems to be a CB we're using as a RB. Sometimes looks composed at other times like a rabbit in the headlights.

Slimani looks like decent, holds it up well and he has goals in him but only if we change the way we play and get crosses in (Why take Albrighton off for King after bringing him on Saturday?)

Mendy I've not seen enough of to  comment, he looked off the pace against Arsenal but I remember Kante looking the same in his debut.

Kaputska, I think he needs to be given a chance, amazed he wasn't in the 11 for the Chelsea league cup game. Good enough for Poland but not our bench ?

[Rich Fox]

Would Walsh have done better if he hadn't left ?

Seems a huge coincidence our signings have been poor since he left 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

I went for Quite badly, and spoke out about Musa being gash - which meant I got ridiculed on here at the time. However I'm hoping to be wrong about our recruitment and Musa by the end of the season.

[Guest CityFan 06]

At the time I was pleased with our recruitment, and it's not that I'm not, but for me all we need now is another CB and CM. These are the areas I'd be looking at in January. No overhaul but just a few positions invested in here and there. 

 

When it comes to Summer 2017, we can then analyse what needs doing to the squad, as we will have a firmer understanding of who's moving on from the club. 

[lgfualol]

17 minutes ago, Rich Fox said:

Would Walsh have done better if he hadn't left ?

Seems a huge coincidence our signings have been poor since he left 

I think we signed Kapustka and Slimani since he left. Slimani has been great imo and Kapustka could be if he ever plays. 

 

More surprised we only signed two players from July 21st to deadline day. 

[foxinsocks]

I look at the strength of the benches at utd liverpool city arse . .sprurs even.  For midfield we have king. 

We are clearly not competing with those top teams... hence  our results

We have yet to see how goof mendy us.... even if he is great we are still two cms down

How did we do? Very poor

[Charl91]

52 minutes ago, Rich Fox said:

Would Walsh have done better if he hadn't left ?

Seems a huge coincidence our signings have been poor since he left 

 

I imagine lots of them will have been people that we've been looking at for a while, since way before he left.

[crazyleicester]

I think we did very well.

 

I think we did everything we could to also add Keane from Burnley and Adrien Silva from Sporting which would have completed our squad perfectly. 

 

Compared to some other clubs I think we did some great business. Time will tell if the likes of Kapustka, Uche, Mendy and Musa come good but Slimani has contributed enormously and Hernandez has done OK.

 

I hope the transfer window is remembered in a positive way in the months to come but I think we used our new found fame well enough to add quality. I just hope we are not in the mire come January and then cant quite add Slimani like quality in other positions. Getting the the KO stages of the Champions League may help though!

[MC Prussian]

We've apparently strengthened our midfield and especially our attacking options with Kapustka, Slimani, Musa and Mendy. This makes us spectacular to look at when we're actually going for it and/or the opposition allows us to do so.

Sadly, not signing another experienced CM and a good RB seems a bit of a criminal offense now. Especially for Premier League matches.

[Blue ROI]

Not voting for now.

 

Some might appear disappointing at the moment but many of last years squad didn't hit the ground running initially when they first joined. Too early to judge many of the players.

 

Despite the disappointing league start we are still in a reasonably good position by our modest standards and we are playing well in the champions league. Let's not get carried away and lets enjoy ourselves

 

 

[DB11]

I have closed the poll to stop people voting in hindsight and skewing the stats. Clearly none of us could have anticipated what would have happened as shown by the majority being content with the signings when the window closed!

[sylofox]

I've gone for very bad. Not because of the players we got. But because of the players we did not get. We seemed to only be after fwd's and wingers.

 

last minute we try for a CM but miss out. We did not seem to be looking for a quality RB or 2 quality CB's we now have to wait till January with a very poor back line. Most on here could see what we needed and where we was short. But the club seemed to miss it. In the words of the great Brian Clough

"you build a team from the back not the front"

[Wymsey]

Happy to have signed a more experienced goalkeeper back-up.

I think Zieler has improved some of Schmeichel's game in areas.

[RoyFox]

Average, very top heavy recruitment. A fail with just one CM in after Kante (and to a much lesser extent Iner going), we only have one high class CM at the moment in Drinkwater. Now we're fully exposed and offer no creativity from CM because Drinkwaters having to do twice the work as last year. Mendy might be decent but he's not going to play until mid December at the earliest.

 

Musa - Average. His first touch is woeful, at CSKA he got away with it. Not in the Prem.

 

Kaputska - good. I think he'll be very decent from watching Poland. He'll play in the new year and hopefully Schlupp will be shown the door.

 

Hernandez - average. Good throw and distribution, quite physical but flat footed and one paced which is a liability in the league and later stages of CL.

 

Zieler - Good. Great shot stopper but doesn't come out for any crosses and flaps, not a leader like Kaspar.

 

Slimani - Very good. Exactly what we need one of the best headers in the game. Excellent work rate and hold up play. Only weakness is pace, but that's fine with the right service from crosses.

[erlee]

2 hours ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

I went for Quite badly, and spoke out about Musa being gash - which meant I got ridiculed on here at the time. However I'm hoping to be wrong about our recruitment and Musa by the end of the season.

i thought i was the only forumer who had doubts about Musa even before a single ball has been kicked.

Having said that - i am yet to be totally convinced he is a total write off because he hadn't had too many full matches.

 

People keep harping on Mendy - i doubt Mendy would have made that mucccch of a difference anyway.  Musa is more or less Vardy MK-2 (plenty of speed & turns) .  He needs plenty of space and an opposition-defence who would play high up. BUT this season - no one would be silly to push high up when playing Leicester. LOL. therefore both Vardy /Musa has failed to score.

 

The only decent signing has been Demarai Gray and that was last season. If decent players don't get a look-in & more play-time- they'll leave too because other clubs might pay more. 

 

Hernandez looks pretty decent but not really top-notch like Stone or Cline. Huth & Morgan - just too big/slow for the CB positions.  Not a good proposition for flat 4 at the back.

[MC Prussian]

2 hours ago, DB11 said:

I have closed the poll to stop people voting in hindsight and skewing the stats. Clearly none of us could have anticipated what would have happened as shown by the majority being content with the signings when the window closed!

Well, wasn't that the point of the poll in the first place?

 

I think it's only natural that you expect new signings to add to what we've already got and that it's not worked out (yet) has hardly anything to do with "skewing the stats". It's a simple poll amongst fans and not entirely representative of the fanbase as a whole, FFS!

[ZeGuy]

Hit and miss. Slimani is a good upgrade of the attacking front. Musa is an overpriced, unnecessary joke et Schlupp should have been sold. But no CB and which CM? I don't believe in Amartey and Mendy? We'll see after he recovers from his injuries. Kanté is a massive loss, I'm seriously amazed by some posters saying that Leicester "just" lost Kanté.

 

He was the key of Ranieri's system, protecting the CBs and feeding the attacking midfielders. Beside his unbelievable work rate, his awareness and game vision were absolutely unique. No wonder SAF said he was the best player of the league and for me, he indeed was. Attacking players like Mahrez could really shine because they were rapidly getting more balls to try their tricks or build their counter attacks. Leicester's game was already figured out in January 2015 but was still effective nonetheless.

 

Maybe the new grappling rules don't suit the defense but I don't think Leicester was conceding that many set pieces last year. While there is a natural hang-over after winning the League and some Players really are underperforming, the whole counter build-up is too slow, there is no fluent transition between defence and attack and the quality of the passes dropped dramatically. Drinkwater is doing more than anyone this year but he's too isolated.

 

I don't expect Amartey or Mendy to equal Kanté's performance, but I don't buy the "give them time".  I know the fixtures were really tough until now but the succession of heavy defeats is never good for the morale and will eventually induce a negative mindset with players already losing a game without even having played it. Until now, the team has done very well in the UCL and it's still a source of motivation, I wouldn't underestimate Copenhagen though. Especially in the actual context.

 

I'm expecting a tough game tonight and think it will be decisive for the rest of the season.

[DB11]

1 hour ago, MC Prussian said:

Well, wasn't that the point of the poll in the first place?

 

I think it's only natural that you expect new signings to add to what we've already got and that it's not worked out (yet) has hardly anything to do with "skewing the stats". It's a simple poll amongst fans and not entirely representative of the fanbase as a whole, FFS!

Yeah... but if you've not noticed we're now in the middle of October and the poll was asked on the 1st September Dunno what's so hard to grasp about that tbf

[Koke]

If we had sold Schlupp and Ulloa for the £25m or so we could have gotten Adrien. Granted, he was well overpriced so I understand why we didn't eventually pay what Sporting wanted. But what about Nzonzi? 

 

Hernandez is decent enough for a freebie. He can do a job. But we needed defenders who are gonna push for a starting place. 

 

Slimani is also a good purchase. He's got goals in him and works hard but everybody on here identified we needed an Okazaki upgrade. Someone who can link the midfield and forwards and is actually a goal threat. 

[murphy]

5 hours ago, Rich Fox said:

Would Walsh have done better if he hadn't left ?

Seems a huge coincidence our signings have been poor since he left 

We signed Amartey and tried to sign Musa in January and Slimani and Mendy have been on the radar at least a year.  We nearly signed Mendy pre season last year, so they've all got 'Walsh-Approved' stamped on their foreheads.

 

At this stage, it seems like poor business as you would expect to improve the team for 70mn but some didn't come off.  It looks like we should have been bolder for Michael Keane and Silva and Bailly would have been nice.  We went for them but they didn't come off.

 

Regardless of the signings we have made, it doesn't explain the poor form of the existing players.  I blame the new contracts for that.