Realistically, what would you do with this squad during the next 12 months?

[Heskey2011]

On 27/12/2021 at 09:46, eddylcfc said:

Base the team around 

 

Fofana

Ndidi

KD
Maddison

Daka

(Vardy to play an important role still)

 

Sell:

 

Tielemans (if he won’t sign new contract) - £35 million

Bertrand - free

Vestegaard - whatever we can get

Kasper - 2-5 mill

Ricardo (love him but cannot see him getting back to his best) - £10 million 

Amartey - £5 million

Choudhury - £7-10 million

Mendy - £whatever we can

Perez - £8-12 million

Lookman - back to RBL

 

Tough to shift the that many players but if you can, gives you around 70 million in sales. 
 

Reinvest and a team could look like this:

 

New GK - £10m

 

Justin 

Fofana

Tarkowski - £20m 

New left back - I like Adrien Truffert at Rennes - just 20 years old. - £15 m

 

Ndidi

KDH

 

RW - in desperate need here! Mbuemo from Brentford could be decent. £20m

Maddison

Barnes

 

Daka

 

That leaves on the bench:

 

Evans

Ward

Cags

Vardy

Iheanacho

Castagne

Thomas

Soumare

 

Transfers out: £70m

 

Transfer in: £65

 

The side looks better balanced and still has depth on the bench. Yes, we lose Tielemans (which is a tough one to accept) but we use the cash to fill areas of need.

 

 

I like it but, a gk for 10mil who can kick, no chance. 

[burleighfox]

Send them to a better physio team for treatment and rehabilitation. 

[foxinsocks]

The club needs to look at the conditioning and fitness.  We often look fagged out  ... and we pick up way too many injuries.

What are the training methods that cause this?

 

Frankly we need a manager who devises tactics that suit our players.

[Genesis1]

On 26/12/2021 at 17:49, Col city fan said:

I agree 

Fofana aside (and we’ll have to see if he comes back the same player), we are very very poor.

Evans is past his best and can’t be relied on in terms of injuries.

Cags has regressed. No doubt about it

Amartey is just not good enough even to rely on as a ‘squad player’

And Vestergaard is worse than all of them

We need another quality, first choice CB to play alongside little Wes. And better options to bring off the bench

But that’ll be difficult to achieve and will cost lots.

Castagne is good enough and Justin is good enough, after that though.. we’re struggling 

I was scrolling looking for somebody to list why they need to go as I couldn't quite put it into words.

I think if Justin did eventually get back to his best you could potentially have him at right back, I forget that was his position and just go Thomas, Wes, new cb, Justin. (That's assuming Justin is as equally good on the right as left). And Castange can be cover for both sides.

I honestly think Ricardo might retire in the summer or move to France or Italy where the football is a lot slower.

The issue I have is Benkovic, we don't actually know how good he is and the fact we're so depleted he doesn't even get one game is very odd and not a we don't the situation odd, especially since he played under him at Celtic and he said he reminded him of Van Dyke.

[WestLothianFox]

On 27/12/2021 at 15:01, Col city fan said:

Genuinely can’t believe this. You honestly don’t think we can get a stronger defence than this one?

Justin… we have no idea how he’ll be when he returns

Ricardo… never been the same since the awful injury and gets injured tying his boot laces

Thomas… one for the future

Bertrand… forget it

Caglar… God knows what’s happened to him?

Evans… past his best and picks up too many niggling injuries

Amartey… meh

Little Wes… quality but again, we’ll have to assess him on his return 

Vestie… meh 

Castagne… good enough 

 

We gotta get a better quality of defence, especially at CB AND more strength in depth 

The defence this season has been dog shit 

I reckon that he has lost some of his love for the Foxes, due to us bringing in his best mate, Under, not playing him, then shipping him out. Brendan does seem to 'freeze' players out, if he did that with Cags best mate, it could have had an effect on his game.