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Premier League 2021/22 Thread

By davieG, in Leicester City Forum

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24 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:


Id say West Ham’s scouting in the last two to three years has been better than ours for sure.
 

You can’t deny our spending after winning the league was disastrous and was one of the factors in our inability to build upon winning the league. Our signings were unoriginal but we were in position where we could afford £40 million on a striker without having to selling a player (excepting the player enforced on us but we pretty much swap like for like in value with Mendy)
 

Kante left through a clause in his contract. Something we had to do for his signature. 
 

Mahrez stayed for a further two seasons. In part largely down to a contract we could afford thanks to the cash received from the CL. We could afford to sell Mahrez at the eventual price because we had him signed to that contract rather than the lesser terms and less length we had before winning the league. 
 

Similar circumstances to Vardy where we could afford a better contract to equal Arsenal’s offer. Both examples are largely financial which was only possible with qualifying for the CL.
 

West Ham will probably have the same situation with Rice. From being a near certainty of having to sell him this forthcoming summer. Top four qualification will retain him and put him a contract where they can sell for maximum value. 
 

You’ve mentioned the London pull for them too. Which is another factor which would work against us should they qualify for the CL. Apparently West Ham wanted Fofana as well at the same time as us, if they had CL, we wouldn’t have got him 

If they qualified for Europe again it might make them more appealing but its not game changing. CL qualification is a short term cash injection unless you back it up.

Fox92

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40 minutes ago, Corky said:

Disappointing lack of chants in support of Ranieri from the away end given how badly they took his sacking.

Man City fans are proper weird but it's even worse when they sing about a manager that has nothing to do with them (and that's when they do sing. People talk about our support but fvck me as Champions of England their support is so poor).

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lcfc_forever

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Man City are the best team in the league, such a good side. Their biggest issue will be playing the weaker sides without a top drawer striker - they create so many chances but it can be harder without a top goalscorer to break down sides when they defend deep, which lower sides are likely to do.
 

I don’t think any team has scored more injury time goals than Liverpool in the PL’s history, they’re a machine. They just do the simple things so well and are really efficient. 
 

Chelsea haven’t been so good recently - drew vs Man Utd, lucky vs Watford and defeat today. They don’t seem as solid, maybe they’re missing Kante as their back 3 is now more exposed?

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22 minutes ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

If they qualified for Europe again it might make them more appealing but its not game changing. CL qualification is a short term cash injection unless you back it up.

I'd argue any kind of European football gives a side an edge over a similar sized club if both are trying to sign a player. 

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I'm guessing people are taking objection to West Ham, because they prove that many of the reason given to excuse Brendan's running of the team are not genuine and just excuses?

 

The reality is West Ham are above us because they have a better Manager who is clearly coaching them well and is actually changing his tactics based on opposition....Moyes has clearly adapted as a manager since Everton, the stint abroad and learning from other managerial strategies has clearly made him a more well rounded coach.

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Gravel

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I really hope West Ham 'do a Leicester' this season. 

 

I don't mean winning the league by surprise. I mean showing the promise to finish in the Champions League positions all season only to go flaccid on the vinegar strokes.

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Corky

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1 hour ago, FoxyLeon said:

I'm guessing people are taking objection to West Ham, because they prove that many of the reason given to excuse Brendan's running of the team are not genuine and just excuses?

 

The reality is West Ham are above us because they have a better Manager who is clearly coaching them well and is actually changing his tactics based on opposition....Moyes has clearly adapted as a manager since Everton, the stint abroad and learning from other managerial strategies has clearly made him a more well rounded coach.

Or maybe they think West Ham doing well isn't great news for us? We are in this game for ourselves, after all.

 

You can admire what they've done and also hope it doesn't continue. Let's also remark that they've done nothing yet that we haven't. If they get into the Champions League then they've done exceptionally well- I think Man United will now take fourth, however.

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That's a brilliant touch and finish from Maupay. After his acrobatic finish in midweek too. What is it with him missing ridiculously easy chsnces and they taking the difficult ones.

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I am both thrilled that West Ham will probably make Champions League because I endorse any side shaking up the status quo but it also makes me sick that we squandered a simiar opportunity two years in a row.

 

This current squad is better than the one that won the PL but they don't have the same mental fortitude. Bottle jobs in comparison.

 

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Jimothy

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5 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

To think Silva could have been forced out in the summer. Shoes how pointless the Grealish signing was. What a player Silva is.

Grealish signing was truely pointless. I think they signed him because he was the fashionable player during the summer. They'd just lost Aguero and were light in the striker department, and as much as Man City can be brilliant without a striker in the team, spending that £100m on a top striker would have taken them to the next level. Problem was apart from Haarland I don't think there was a striker Pep felt fitting his way of playing, but that didn't mean they had to spend £100m on what they already had lots of.

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Aus Fox

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2 hours ago, Tanya said:

I am both thrilled that West Ham will probably make Champions League because I endorse any side shaking up the status quo but it also makes me sick that we squandered a simiar opportunity two years in a row.

 

This current squad is better than the one that won the PL but they don't have the same mental fortitude. Bottle jobs in comparison.

 

I love that we spent the best part of two whole seasons in the CL spots and missed out on the last day, yet your thrilled West Ham are in after 15 games. 
There is a long old season still to go…

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gerrytaggart

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5 hours ago, Facecloth said:

Grealish signing was truely pointless. I think they signed him because he was the fashionable player during the summer. They'd just lost Aguero and were light in the striker department, and as much as Man City can be brilliant without a striker in the team, spending that £100m on a top striker would have taken them to the next level. Problem was apart from Haarland I don't think there was a striker Pep felt fitting his way of playing, but that didn't mean they had to spend £100m on what they already had lots of.

It stopped anyone else from signing him. Which seems to be a tactic of some of the top clubs.

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Matt

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3 hours ago, gerrytaggart said:

It stopped anyone else from signing him. Which seems to be a tactic of some of the top clubs.

I think Man City play poker with other clubs, well, Man Utd anyway.

 

Abit like a kid having no interest in a toy but then when another kid comes along wanting that toy the other kid becomes interested all of a sudden.

 

Man City imo had no interest in signing Sanchez but knew they could lead Man Ud down the garden path and get them to waste a load money, the same goes for Ronaldo (Even though they've made money on that deal commercially I think its caused so many problems for them on the pitch)

 

But yeah I believe the 'top' clubs buy players they're not really interested in or don't need purely to stop anyone else having them, in turn diluting the competition and limiting the threats.

 

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