Ansteyblue Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 Think this is going to be same old deadline day ??
Babylon Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 9 minutes ago, pmcla26 said: Tbf tho it was only really when everyone was fit towards the end of the season and we hit form that we clawed it back a bit. Look for the rest of the season before those final 15 games and you can tell, especially if we lose Drinkwater and don't replace him, an injury or two will make us a much worse side. The start of the season for me was more about mentality than what players we had. We've proven three seasons running we have enough to stay up (and more). We're stronger again this season (only slightly in some areas granted). But I see no reason for people to think we'll struggle unless we lose both DD and Mahrez whilst getting no replacements.
Monsell1976 Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 I know we are not privy to the goings on, but it's not looking promising, this window needs to be a good one, it will be just ok if we don't lose anyone. There is time yet, but not holding out hope
somebum Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 Surely we wont get a window as disasterous as those that came before it
adam Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 Looks like we have given up on any centre halfs now.
dpjfox Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 As the clock ticks away , if Arsenal are willing to sell id pay the asking price for Chambers even if £28 million, 22yo full England international its not a risk , although Simunovic at £9 million could be a risk worth taking
Lineker's Left Foot Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 No incomings or outgoings at Leicester City forecasted #lcfc #nitk
Arkie Bennett Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 This is set to be another disappointing window of opportunity.
Kieran_86 Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 Announce WaguèSent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
SpacedX Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 In other news, surprising to see Delph reject the prospect of being reunited in a working relationship with Mark Hughes. giphy.mp4
Marshall Cockney Fox Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 Only three brought in all summer and likely to lose a few today. Given that we could end up in a overall squad & quality depletion. That would generally makes this the worst window for some time.
steveherbe Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 Helicopter g-Lcfc just landed at Blenheim Palace. Watched it land myself, pilot knows nothing about transfers. Didn't recognise passengers
NotTheMarketLeader Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 19 hours ago, dylanlegend said: That's what everyone said in January 2016 before we went on to win the league. People are are so obsessed with making new signings all the time, I think we look pretty solid We have no decent midfield cover. We have two fit goalscorers - and Slimani is up for grabs. We only have two decent fit centre backs (and one of the two - Wes is shit every other game). Drinks and Mahrez may go, if somebody pays the asking prices which is leaving a lot to chance ffs.
NotTheMarketLeader Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 2 hours ago, lanefox said: Shall we meet down belvoir drive with a rudkin out sign? Yes
Dr The Singh Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 50 minutes ago, Babylon said: The start of the season for me was more about mentality than what players we had. We've proven three seasons running we have enough to stay up (and more). We're stronger again this season (only slightly in some areas granted). But I see no reason for people to think we'll struggle unless we lose both DD and Mahrez whilst getting no replacements. Were stronger so are other teams, were becoming another Stoke or WBA etc.....much of a muchness, lingering around a bunch of turds in mid table............... If we didnt win the league, I probably would have been in quite a happy place, but expectations for me are alot higher, making me abit disapointed
Babylon Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 2 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said: Were stronger so are other teams, were becoming another Stoke or WBA etc.....much of a muchness, lingering around a bunch of turds in mid table............... If we didnt win the league, I probably would have been in quite a happy place, but expectations for me are alot higher, making me abit disapointed Without huge investment, top of the second level is our level other than the odd venture into the top 7. We're going for organic growth and not pumped up steroid growth like Chelsea and Man City. That sort of growth should be measured over 5 - 10 years rather than a few years.
Kitchandro Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 35 minutes ago, Babylon said: Without huge investment, top of the second level is our level other than the odd venture into the top 7. We're going for organic growth and not pumped up steroid growth like Chelsea and Man City. That sort of growth should be measured over 5 - 10 years rather than a few years. Yeh but Babs we have gone badly backwards in the space of a year. That shouldn't be happening. It was up to the club to address the slide into midtable mediocrity. I understand we are Leicester and generally our expectation should be to try and finish in the top half. But we shouldn't have to readjust to that expectation again so quickly. We won the league by such a wide margin and we now look a shadow of that side. Other teams were always going to get stronger but we have failed to even attempt to replace Kante and have not addressed the weaknesses in our squad that were there for all to see. Now some of our best players want to leave and we look below the required standard in those areas. We should still be aiming for a top 6 spot this year. We should not be in a position where the top half is considered an achievement for the squad we have but that would appear to be the case. That is because of terrible recruitment. We are not victims of our own success, we are victims of not capitalising on it. Iheanacho aside, I don't see much ambition in our transfer window over the last 18 months. We're not stronger in the centre of midfield at all we are much, much weaker. The defence hasn't improved but for one player. Up front is the same. Add into the mix that there are so many players in the squad who are a massive downgrade on the players in front of them. Meanwhile we've got 3 players wanting to leave us today and we can't afford to let any of them go because we haven't planned well enough. It's poor. People need to remember that winning the league wasn't a fluke, it was because we got things right and our planning and decision making was immaculate. It has gone badly downhill since then, it's not luck or anything, we're well below that standard now because we've made many mistakes. Winning the league should have been the base to build from - instead we seem to have ignored that and we're happy to judge our situation as if that season never happened. Well it did, and we should have taken advantage. We don't seem to have the ambition to keep what we earned, at least to an extent.
dylanlegend Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 44 minutes ago, NotTheMarketLeader said: We have no decent midfield cover. We have two fit goalscorers - and Slimani is up for grabs. We only have two decent fit centre backs (and one of the two - Wes is shit every other game). Drinks and Mahrez may go, if somebody pays the asking prices which is leaving a lot to chance ffs. We've also got arguably the best squad we have ever had in our history. You guys have clearly forgot the days of Mark De Vries and Jermaine Beckford deadline day signings
Kitchandro Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 Just now, dylanlegend said: We've also got arguably the best squad we have ever had in our history. You guys have clearly forgot the days of Mark De Vries and Jermaine Beckford deadline day signings Yeh because Mark De Vries and Jermaine Beckford have nothing to do with us now. As above, we should be judging the situation based on the position we were in 15 months ago. We have not made the most of it. If we have a better squad than 2 seasons ago where do you expect us to finish? Top 4 at least, I assume?
NotTheMarketLeader Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 2 minutes ago, dylanlegend said: We've also got arguably the best squad we have ever had in our history. You guys have clearly forgot the days of Mark De Vries and Jermaine Beckford deadline day signings I haven't forgotten. I fail to see the relevance of those days given 3 years of PL money, winning the league and being CL 1/4 finalists a few months ago. We have moved on from the league 1 days ffs.
dylanlegend Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 5 minutes ago, Kitchandro said: Yeh because Mark De Vries and Jermaine Beckford have nothing to do with us now. As above, we should be judging the situation based on the position we were in 15 months ago. We have not made the most of it. If we have a better squad than 2 seasons ago where do you expect us to finish? Top 4 at least, I assume? On paper we are better, assuming Mahrez stays. The time to go make the most of it was when we got in the CL. That time has gone I just can't see the desperation it wanting to sign every player other teams have signed. Its typical Foxes talk over-reaction, even if Drinky goes we have loads of capable CMs. Granted if Mahrez goes he needs replacing but I do think it's time Gray stepped up so a young winger would do fine
Babylon Posted 31 August 2017 Posted 31 August 2017 7 minutes ago, Kitchandro said: Yeh but Babs we have gone badly backwards in the space of a year. That shouldn't be happening. It was up to the club to address the slide into midtable mediocrity. We were always going to go backwards, there was no other way to go. Last season was difficult, yes the signings didn't work but there was a huge mentality issue that needed overcoming after winning the league. If Slimani's goal had been ruled onside as it should have done we'd have still finished 8th. 7 minutes ago, Kitchandro said: I understand we are Leicester and generally our expectation should be to try and finish in the top half. But we shouldn't have to readjust to that expectation again so quickly. We won the league by such a wide margin and we now look a shadow of that side. Other teams were always going to get stronger but we have failed to even attempt to replace Kante and have not addressed the weaknesses in our squad that were there for all to see. Now some of our best players want to leave and we look below the required standard in those areas. We didn't win the league because we had a set of amazing players, it was about a system that worked perfectly. Systems can be figured out, by the time people had done that we'd got our noses in front and we ground it out. But now people do find it a bit easier to play against because we just don't have a massive set of world class players like the top 6, it's easier to break a system than it is a set of top class players. We could never realistically replace all the players that needed replacing in that team with the required quality to stay there long term. We replaced Kante in January, his stats for tackling and interceptions were some of the best around second half of the season. 7 minutes ago, Kitchandro said: Iheanacho aside, I don't see much ambition in our transfer window over the last 18 months. We're not stronger in the centre of midfield at all we are much, much weaker. The defence hasn't improved but for one player. Up front is the same. Add into the mix that there are so many players in the squad who are a massive downgrade on the players in front of them. How could we replace one of the best players in the world, it was impossible. It will never happen, it was a one off getting the fella. But the centre depth is far stronger now than it was last season, presuming DD stays. Don't confuse ambition with poor buys, the owners have backed us with money, but the recruitment has got it wrong. 7 minutes ago, Kitchandro said: Meanwhile we've got 3 players wanting to leave us today and we can't afford to let any of them go because we haven't planned well enough. It's poor. How have we not planned, you think the club haven't thought about replacements. The fact is, until they get an offer that's acceptable then the players have to stay. If we do get an acceptable offer, it's only then you can go about signing a replacement. We can have 100 names to replace them, but until we know for sure they are going, then you can't replace them. People on the list will have become unavailable or already sold whilst we've been waiting on other clubs to sort themselves out. 7 minutes ago, Kitchandro said: People need to remember that winning the league wasn't a fluke, it was because we got things right and our planning and decision making was immaculate. It has gone badly downhill since then, it's not luck or anything, we're well below that standard now because we've made many mistakes. See point one 7 minutes ago, Kitchandro said: Winning the league should have been the base to build from - instead we seem to have ignored that and we're happy to judge our situation as if that season never happened. Well it did, and we should have taken advantage. We don't seem to have the ambition to keep what we earned, at least to an extent. The squad just wasn't good enough to keep doing it Kitch, too many limited footballers. The top 6 have spent hundreds of millions to get there. You can't expect a group of bargain buys to stay there. Buying well last summer would have helped, but even then it's a ridiculous ask. It's looked at as the biggest shock ever because it was so unlikely. So many little things fell exactly in line for it to happen, those sorts of things can fall apart quickly and be nobodies fault. The stars just aligned. We still have enough quality for a top 8 finish should we keep everyone.
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