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Next up.. STOKE (A)..pre match thoughts..

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Half of my family/relations are from Cheshire/Stoke-on-Trent; and they often moan about the lack of consistency in the team, as well as moaning about that Mark Hughes isn't the man to take the club forward as he's reluctant to change certain aspects.

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I'd play Chilwell at left back instead of Fuchs for this one. Fuchs hasn't looked himself for some time now, and I personally don't think Chilwell offers enough going forward to play as a winger. 

 

Schmeichel

 

Simpson

Morgan

Maguire

Chilwell

 

Iborra

Ndidi

 

Gray

Mahrez

Albrighton

 

Vardy

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11 hours ago, drofmor55 said:

How do the bookies make Stoke favourites for this?

 

Shawcross is back for Stoke and he made a big difference against Watford last week. They defended deep and nicked a win but Stoke won't be expected to play like that at home. They were toss against Bournemouth and don't have anything close to Vardy and Mahrez in the front line.

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PTSD, people! lol

 

" i must admit I had a chilling flash back to Leicester's 15/16 title charge in seeing their opener against Everton.

It was the perfect break, Gray picked up the ball just outside his own penalty area and hared downfield, passed to Mahrez sprinting down the right and his low cross was swept home by Vardy. Really not sure what you can do about that...??

 

and to their credit, there are some level headed people there

 

"Am I missing something? I read through all 5 pages of that thread and barring a couple of posters there's barely any hatred towards us?
Plenty are confident but given the performances we've put in against them recently why wouldn't they be?"
 

and the cherry on the pie 
"So, on the whole I am quite pleased they hate us. It’s better than being completely irrelevan"

 

 

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Long press conference thread incoming.... some good points in here, nice he mentions importance of young players and also the Silva was born in France so is another he can speak French with!

 

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    CP: “It’s important to change some things, but also important to keep others the same"

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    Claude Puel on Demarai Gray: “It’s good news. He’s a good player. I saw him with the England U21s last season. I liked him”

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Yeah, can't fault a word of that- seems to have come in, assessed what he has to work with and set out where we need to improve well.

 

I also liked that he declined to comment on Gray playing for England- unlike Wenger, who was running his mouth off about Jack Weetabix yesterday.

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19 minutes ago, Babylon said:

He's saying all the right things there... last time a manager actually suggested we wanted to keep the ball more and control games, answers on a postcard.

 

Been an impressive start from him.

 

 

Agreed. Also like the fact that he understands an evolution needs to take place, not a revolution.

 

CP on his first week on the training pitch: “It’s an evolution, not a revolution because we can’t change everything in a few days"

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1 hour ago, AjcW said:

Long press conference thread incoming.... some good points in here, nice he mentions importance of young players and also the Silva was born in France so is another he can speak French with!

 

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    CP: "That’s important for the players. Now we can work gradually and improve together”

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    CP: “He’s a young player, and like Demarai he needs to improve on his final touch. It’s important to finish”

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    CP: “The contract was discussed with the club, but he’s only just signed it this week. It’s a good thing for us”

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    Claude Puel on Demarai Gray: “It’s good news. He’s a good player. I saw him with the England U21s last season. I liked him”

 

Anyone else read this in their head with Claudio Ranieri's voice?

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1 hour ago, Koke said:

 

 

Agreed. Also like the fact that he understands an evolution needs to take place, not a revolution.

 

CP on his first week on the training pitch: “It’s an evolution, not a revolution because we can’t change everything in a few days"

I suppose what he's trying to say is that he doesn't want another Chris Evans on his hands.

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