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Premier League 2020/21 Thread

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The Bear

The Bear

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1 hour ago, jammie82uk said:

Seems Newcastle are entering the transfer market 

 

 

Standard scouting for Steve Bruce. Majority of his targets are average players from the same division. 

peach0000

peach0000

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9 hours ago, The Bear said:

Standard scouting for Steve Bruce. Majority of his targets are average players from the same division. 

All quality and would have all three at Leicester to be fair. Hardly average.

Miquel The Work Geordie

Miquel The Work Geordie

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I think Fraser is massively overrated and I've never been sure about Holding but Wilson (fit and firing) could be exactly what they need - obviously needs the service but filling the goalscorer shaped hole they've got is a big bonus for them.

I reckon they'll be relatively fine again, 13th or something like that.

LCCFox96

LCCFox96

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West Brom have signed Cedric Kipre from Wigan.

 

Fantastic to see an academy graduate play his way up the divisions to a PL squad. Motherwell - Wigan - West Brom. The lad has done very well for himself there and still only 23. Good luck to him.

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ealingfox

ealingfox

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16 minutes ago, LCCFox96 said:

West Brom have signed Cedric Kipre from Wigan.

 

Fantastic to see an academy graduate play his way up the divisions to a PL squad. Motherwell - Wigan - West Brom. The lad has done very well for himself there and still only 23. Good luck to him.

 

Get ready to read about how we should have kept him every time he plays.

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LCCFox96

LCCFox96

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3 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

Get ready to read about how we should have kept him every time he plays.

 

This is the side effect! To be fair it should be fairly obvious from the relatively quick growth in his career he's developed faster, and possibly to an even higher level, than was ever anticipated. 

Fox92

Fox92

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If Wilson was a bit younger and didn't have so much injury problems I'd love to see him and Vardy up front together. Not that Rodgers would go with 2 up front on a consistent basis.

davieG

davieG

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43 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

Get ready to read about how we should have kept him every time he plays.

Aye, they need to think of all the experience he's gained which he wouldn't get turning out for our U23s or on some L2 loan, Unless they are showing outstanding ability players circa 21/22 that look like they have no chance of making the 1st team squad anytime soon should be found other permanent clubs to continue their development, if in doubt insert a buy back clause. If they are late developers well it's been better for them and we should be happy that as a club we found them, believed in them and did their early development.

 

We seem to be full of players that are never likely to make the 1st team squad just to fill the numbers to compete in PL2, I think this does these guys a disservice and is not that beneficial for them.

Ric Flair

Ric Flair

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37 minutes ago, davieG said:

Aye, they need to think of all the experience he's gained which he wouldn't get turning out for our U23s or on some L2 loan, Unless they are showing outstanding ability players circa 21/22 that look like they have no chance of making the 1st team squad anytime soon should be found other permanent clubs to continue their development, if in doubt insert a buy back clause. If they are late developers well it's been better for them and we should be happy that as a club we found them, believed in them and did their early development.

 

We seem to be full of players that are never likely to make the 1st team squad just to fill the numbers to compete in PL2, I think this does these guys a disservice and is not that beneficial for them.

I'm going to keep saying " we've been done up like a Kipre here " 

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davieG

davieG

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2 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I'm going to keep saying " we've been done up like a Kipre here " 

Hung out to dry and smoked!

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Aus Fox

Aus Fox

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7 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I'm going to keep saying " we've been done up like a Kipre here " 

I hope he doesn’t get together with his mates and school us 

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StriderHiryu

StriderHiryu

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12 hours ago, FLAN said:

Thought this was interesting and we get a mention  http://backpagefootball.com/why-liverpool-wont-win-the-premier-league-this-season/126313/

That is an interesting article, even though it seems like it's been written by a mad man. He's claiming Liverpool won the title because they were overdosing on caffeine!

 

However, what you can infer from it is that in the current game, having your team running at peak physical capability can be the difference between winning competitions and losing them. A series of things influence this; the average age of the team, the physical load placed on the team during training, the style of play, number of games in a season, etc. Liverpool have been playing at 110% for a few seasons now and at some point it will catch up with them. It happened to Klopp at Dortmund  when he ended up leaving as it literally seemed as if on the pitch the team had nothing more to give as early as October in the Bundesliga. Interestingly I feel like the exact same thing happened to us in 2020, only much faster. The biggest difference to me in our play between looking great at the end of 2019 and looking terrible in 2020 was the amount of pressing the team was able to do. Once we were unable to impose our style of play on a game, we regressed back to Puel style football. That's why Rodgers probably pushed for Rennie to go and to bring in some of his own people to improve our physicals. 

 

Given how much Liverpool pushed over the last few seasons I could definitely believe that their physical performance will drop off quite a bit and they will regress. Clearly they will still be in the mix, but I can certainly believe a narrative like that. 

 

For Leicester, for me it emphasises why we desperately need to add strength in depth to our squad. Yes having a world class attacking player would also massively improve us, but with 50-60 games coming this season we are going to need to have the ability to keep our players who play at high intensity fresh. For us that means our full-backs, our wingers and our attacking midfielders. That's why Castagne is a very understandable signing and why I could see us going for another left-back on top of him. Currently we are no stronger than last season as we've simply replaced a player rather than adding to the squad. 

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davieG

davieG

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Not watched it so might be rubbish, wouldn't be surprise.

 

https://www.bt.com/sport/watch/video/clips/2020/september/leicester-2020-21-season-in-preview?s_cid=con_cic_aff_affwin_vidAJM_broadband_143466&vendorid=AJM&utm_source=Affwin&utm_medium=Ref&utm_campaign=143466&awc=3041_1599217454_fe1d44004dc3c048e5d0444f0f58e461

 

BT - Leicester - 2020/21 season in preview

 

Ha! Just watched it, nothing there other than a few well known facts.

RutlanderFox

RutlanderFox

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2 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Messi staying at Barca then? No Man City move for him.

Yep. I'm glad that that well and truly puts an end to the Sky Sports soap opera. It will be interesting to see how Barca get on with him next season as he's looked fed up for a couple years now but it will be even worse next season. Tbf a sulky Messi will still at least gain Barca an extra 10-20 points 

Stoopid

Stoopid

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That Man Utd effort looks like the Razzle ships from WW1 - used to break up outlines to make them difficult to target. 

Not sure it's a great idea for a football team...

200px-USS_Leviathan_escorted_by_USS_Allen_by_Burnell_Poole_1918.jpg

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