Summer 2022 priorities (and realistic options)

[Bluearmyfox28]

6 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

He plays just off the striker, and can play on either flank as part of a three. So he’s actually bringing a hell of a lot more than Kalechi. Daka will be absolutely fine, he’s literally got two areas of his game to clean up and he will be a excellent player in this league. The fact remains we need money, and I think we could easily get £25m for Kalechi. 

So is it fair to say you’ll see CDK’s primary position to be as a right winger & if so do you think he will play predominately as an inverted winger?

 

I agree with you on Daka, just with Vardy’s injury record of late I don’t feel comfortable in simply depending on Daka.

[Ric Flair]

Let's say we do move on the majority of the players we want or expect will go here's my Plan A, B and C signings.

 

Out:

 

Tielemans £25m

Soyuncu £20m

Praet £10m

Soumare £10m

Iheanacho £30m

Choudhury free

Vestergaard loan with option to buy

Bertrand free

Perez £5m

Iversen / Ward £7m

 

In:

 

Center half:

 

Levi Colwill £20m - Plan A

Moussa Niakhate £15m - Plan B

Chris Richards £15m - Plan C

 

Defensive midfield:

 

Axel Witsel free transfer - Plan A

Kephren Thuram £25m - Plan B

 

Central midfield:

 

Orkun Kokcu £25m - Plan A

Hossem Aouar £15m - Plan B

Sander Berge / Curtis Jones loan with option/obligation - Plan C

 

Attacking midfield:

 

Christian Eriksen free transfer - Plan A

James McAtee loan - Plan B

Alex Scott £5m - Plan C

 

Left wing:

 

Ademola Lookman £12m - Plan A

Keane Lewis-Potter £15m - Plan B

Josip Brekalo loan with option to buy - Plan C

 

Right wing:

 

Noni Madueke £25m - Plan A

Maxwel Cornet £17.5m - Plan B

Cole Palmer / Omari Hutchinson loan - Plan C

 

Forward:

 

Mohamed Ali-Cho £15m - Plan A

Charles De Ketelaere £25m - Plan B

Joel Piroe £20m - Plan C

 

Wildcard signing - loan to Leuven

 

Williot Swedberg £5m - Plan A

Odin Thiago Holm £5m - Plan B

Julian Von Moos £5m - Plan C

 

 

I've included quite a few versatile players that means we might not need to recruit in every position listed (mainly in the CM / ACM area and then out wide / up front)

 

A couple of others close to making the list is Xavi Simons on a free from PSG, Ludovic Blas from Nantes - £15m or Giovani from Palmeiras - circa £10-15m.

[Ric Flair]

Just now, pmcla26 said:

Ali-Cho over De Ketelaere? 

The reason I went that way around was purely because of Madueke as the number one RW target. I don't see a player of CDK's profile coming in to be 2nd / 3rd choice striker.

 

I actually could see us going for Ali-Cho as the RW and striker hybrid and take a punt that he's going to progress rapidly.

[Ric Flair]

I'm already regretting my list, I wanted to get Ludovic Blas in as the ACM / RW hybrid which I'd probably look to do as Plan B after Madueke and then the forward would be Piroe who wouldn't expect to play regularly like CDK would.

[kingfox]

13 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Let's say we do move on the majority of the players we want or expect will go here's my Plan A, B and C signings.

 

Out:

 

Tielemans £25m

Soyuncu £20m

Praet £10m

Soumare £10m

Iheanacho £30m

Choudhury free

Vestergaard loan with option to buy

Bertrand free

Perez £5m

Iversen / Ward £7m

 

In:

 

Center half:

 

Levi Colwill £20m - Plan A

Moussa Niakhate £15m - Plan B

Chris Richards £15m - Plan C

 

Defensive midfield:

 

Axel Witsel free transfer - Plan A

Kephren Thuram £25m - Plan B

 

Central midfield:

 

Orkun Kokcu £25m - Plan A

Hossem Aouar £15m - Plan B

Sander Berge / Curtis Jones loan with option/obligation - Plan C

 

Attacking midfield:

 

Christian Eriksen free transfer - Plan A

James McAtee loan - Plan B

Alex Scott £5m - Plan C

 

Left wing:

 

Ademola Lookman £12m - Plan A

Keane Lewis-Potter £15m - Plan B

Josip Brekalo loan with option to buy - Plan C

 

Right wing:

 

Noni Madueke £25m - Plan A

Maxwel Cornet £17.5m - Plan B

Cole Palmer / Omari Hutchinson loan - Plan C

 

Forward:

 

Mohamed Ali-Cho £15m - Plan A

Charles De Ketelaere £25m - Plan B

Joel Piroe £20m - Plan C

 

Wildcard signing - loan to Leuven

 

Williot Swedberg £5m - Plan A

Odin Thiago Holm £5m - Plan B

Julian Von Moos £5m - Plan C

 

 

I've included quite a few versatile players that means we might not need to recruit in every position listed (mainly in the CM / ACM area and then out wide / up front)

 

I’ve been waiting for this kind of post from you ever since the season finished on Sunday, three days late for my liking but I’ll let you off, as you’ve probably been too busy watching videos of Julian Von Moos 

[honeybradger]

Only player that we've be linked to that really excites me is aouar, seems to fit our profile of being ridiculously talented but going through a rough period which means the top clubs aren't interested. If we sign him I can see him going off to Man City in a couple of seasons for 65m to replace gundogan, at 13mil he looks like a steal.

[Staff]

I read Julian Von Moos and thought it said Jonathon Moss 😂

[JimJams]

There’s no Saliba in that post though! 

[sacreblueits442]

7 hours ago, Will1981 said:

Chelsea trying to sell Ziyech.

....I believe at one stage, we would have been prepared to go to £40m for him!!!

It took him a long time to go overseas and he might just be unsettled here, but we would have loved to have picked him up a few years ago.

[sacreblueits442]

5 hours ago, Bluearmyfox28 said:

But can you class CDK as a direct replacement?
 

For me you are replacing a forward with a creative midfielder… Which would require investing in another forward as personally I don’t feel comfortable yet to depend on Daka as our number 2.

...CDK is not a creative midfielder, second striker or main striker, can play with his back to goal and link the play!!!

[FoxesWalk]

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

3 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Let's say we do move on the majority of the players we want or expect will go here's my Plan A, B and C signings.

 

Out:

 

Tielemans £25m

Soyuncu £20m

Praet £10m

Soumare £10m

Iheanacho £30m

Choudhury free

Vestergaard loan with option to buy

Bertrand free

Perez £5m

Iversen / Ward £7m

 

In:

 

Center half:

 

Levi Colwill £20m - Plan A

Moussa Niakhate £15m - Plan B

Chris Richards £15m - Plan C

 

Defensive midfield:

 

Axel Witsel free transfer - Plan A

Kephren Thuram £25m - Plan B

 

Central midfield:

 

Orkun Kokcu £25m - Plan A

Hossem Aouar £15m - Plan B

Sander Berge / Curtis Jones loan with option/obligation - Plan C

 

Attacking midfield:

 

Christian Eriksen free transfer - Plan A

James McAtee loan - Plan B

Alex Scott £5m - Plan C

 

Left wing:

 

Ademola Lookman £12m - Plan A

Keane Lewis-Potter £15m - Plan B

Josip Brekalo loan with option to buy - Plan C

 

Right wing:

 

Noni Madueke £25m - Plan A

Maxwel Cornet £17.5m - Plan B

Cole Palmer / Omari Hutchinson loan - Plan C

 

Forward:

 

Mohamed Ali-Cho £15m - Plan A

Charles De Ketelaere £25m - Plan B

Joel Piroe £20m - Plan C

 

Wildcard signing - loan to Leuven

 

Williot Swedberg £5m - Plan A

Odin Thiago Holm £5m - Plan B

Julian Von Moos £5m - Plan C

 

 

I've included quite a few versatile players that means we might not need to recruit in every position listed (mainly in the CM / ACM area and then out wide / up front)

You really need to get your hole Ric, way too much time on your hands

[Ric Flair]

10 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

You really need to get your hole Ric, way too much time on your hands

Took me 10 minutes, I could do a Plan A-Z with factoring and balance sheet provision in less than an hour, I'm a walking encyclopedia and mathematical juggernaut.

[MalletFox]

Ermmmmm Chris Smalling anyone?

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

3 hours ago, FoxesWalk said:

 

Basset plays LB right? They've only just got Digne

[LVFox]

Out

 

Tielemans 

Soyuncu

Soumare

Praet

Choudhury

Vestegaard

Bertrand

Perez

 

In

Anel Ahmedhodzic

Houssem Aouer

Sander Berge

Keane Lewis-Potter

Brennan Johnson

Charles De Ketalaere

I wouldn’t mind another option at DM too, but not quite sure who. 

 

 

[Supergray22]

8 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Let's say we do move on the majority of the players we want or expect will go here's my Plan A, B and C signings.

 

Out:

 

Tielemans £25m

Soyuncu £20m

Praet £10m

Soumare £10m

Iheanacho £30m

Choudhury free

Vestergaard loan with option to buy

Bertrand free

Perez £5m

Iversen / Ward £7m

 

In:

 

Center half:

 

Levi Colwill £20m - Plan A

Moussa Niakhate £15m - Plan B

Chris Richards £15m - Plan C

 

Defensive midfield:

 

Axel Witsel free transfer - Plan A

Kephren Thuram £25m - Plan B

 

Central midfield:

 

Orkun Kokcu £25m - Plan A

Hossem Aouar £15m - Plan B

Sander Berge / Curtis Jones loan with option/obligation - Plan C

 

Attacking midfield:

 

Christian Eriksen free transfer - Plan A

James McAtee loan - Plan B

Alex Scott £5m - Plan C

 

Left wing:

 

Ademola Lookman £12m - Plan A

Keane Lewis-Potter £15m - Plan B

Josip Brekalo loan with option to buy - Plan C

 

Right wing:

 

Noni Madueke £25m - Plan A

Maxwel Cornet £17.5m - Plan B

Cole Palmer / Omari Hutchinson loan - Plan C

 

Forward:

 

Mohamed Ali-Cho £15m - Plan A

Charles De Ketelaere £25m - Plan B

Joel Piroe £20m - Plan C

 

Wildcard signing - loan to Leuven

 

Williot Swedberg £5m - Plan A

Odin Thiago Holm £5m - Plan B

Julian Von Moos £5m - Plan C

 

 

I've included quite a few versatile players that means we might not need to recruit in every position listed (mainly in the CM / ACM area and then out wide / up front)

 

A couple of others close to making the list is Xavi Simons on a free from PSG, Ludovic Blas from Nantes - £15m or Giovani from Palmeiras - circa £10-15m.

Much more realistic both in terms of valuations and targets. I’m surprised you didn’t include Brennan johnson in the right wing consideration and CDK as first choice forward. Sounds like we are quite advanced on that one and I can see him doing well here. Ali Cho wouldn’t be a bad second though. 

[Ric Flair]

7 minutes ago, Supergray22 said:

Much more realistic both in terms of valuations and targets. I’m surprised you didn’t include Brennan johnson in the right wing consideration and CDK as first choice forward. Sounds like we are quite advanced on that one and I can see him doing well here. Ali Cho wouldn’t be a bad second though. 

Johnson isn't a consideration because Forest will sadly win on Sunday.

 

I don't see CDK coming here as 2nd or 3rd choice forward if we are going to get the right winger in we are anticipating. 

[sacreblueits442]

19 minutes ago, LVocey said:

Out

 

Tielemans 

Soyuncu

Soumare

Praet

Choudhury

Vestegaard

Bertrand

Perez

 

In

Anel Ahmedhodzic

Houssem Aouer

Sander Berge

Keane Lewis-Potter

Brennan Johnson

Charles De Ketalaere

I wouldn’t mind another option at DM too, but not quite sure who. 

 

 

...just watched Keane Lewis-Potter, on YouTube and the amount of headed goals is unreal!!!

He is built like Maddison and seems to know where to be, to get rebounds and take advantage of mistakes. For a team that struggles with heading the ball (us), this player has scored more with his head than we have in the last five years. He hasn't got the back foot turn of Maddison, but in all other ways he is just as efficient.

[Supergray22]

7 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Johnson isn't a consideration because Forest will sadly win on Sunday.

 

I don't see CDK coming here as 2nd or 3rd choice forward if we are going to get the right winger in we are anticipating. 

👍🏻 Well thought out. I may be in denial about Sunday.

 

I’m not totally convinced about the reasoning on CDK as it shows a lack of ambition and confidence on both the player and the club that we can get to where we want to be. Regularly challenging the greedy six and playing in Europe. If we think he will develop as we hope we won’t be able to afford him later. 

[Ric Flair]

42 minutes ago, Supergray22 said:

👍🏻 Well thought out. I may be in denial about Sunday.

 

I’m not totally convinced about the reasoning on CDK as it shows a lack of ambition and confidence on both the player and the club that we can get to where we want to be. Regularly challenging the greedy six and playing in Europe. If we think he will develop as we hope we won’t be able to afford him later. 

That's the problems we face, no Europe means that it's very difficult to offer regular football to the majority of the squad and this is why very versatile players tend to be favoured in some positions to be able to do so. If we suffer a lot of injuries again then there's never enough players we can own as a 25 man squad isn't big enough but I think we'll try and rectify that rather than concede we'll get lots of injuries again.

 

I can see us going for a very unproven 3rd striker who can play in a front 2 or on the wing - enter Ali-Cho.

[ScrumpyJack]

Everyone happy we missed out on Trincao last season? 

[sacreblueits442]

36 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

That's the problems we face, no Europe means that it's very difficult to offer regular football to the majority of the squad and this is why very versatile players tend to be favoured in some positions to be able to do so. If we suffer a lot of injuries again then there's never enough players we can own as a 25 man squad isn't big enough but I think we'll try and rectify that rather than concede we'll get lots of injuries again.

 

I can see us going for a very unproven 3rd striker who can play in a front 2 or on the wing - enter Ali-Cho.

..if Vardy gets injured for any length of time then we will have a forward that can play in the way Rodgers wants to play!!!

  Can play one touch football, link, score goals and more importantly the ball will stick, when played into him.

[Ric Flair]

34 minutes ago, sacreblueits442 said:

..if Vardy gets injured for any length of time then we will have a forward that can play in the way Rodgers wants to play!!!

  Can play one touch football, link, score goals and more importantly the ball will stick, when played into him.

But he's not going to come here as 3rd choice and Daka isn't going to be relegated to 3rd choice either. The only way we get CDK is if we consider him versatile enough to be the RW signing which bothers me greatly. 

 

Look at nearly every PL side worth their salt and how many of them have 3 strikers? They tend to have multi dimensional forwards, most of them don't even have 2 like we do. It's a challenge. 5 subs makes it a bit easier next season to still give players some football but that's why I think we'll take a punt on someone like Ali-Cho or Piroe over CDK.

[Supergray22]

That was my initial logic too. But Vardy won’t be around for much longer and will play less. Daka isn’t quite there but will learn more from him and will get better. If we want to increase competition both in the short and long term then this is what a club with ambition of really competing at the top level would look to do. This all depends on funds and priorities though and what we could get him for. I’m quite cautious as a person and if it was me I’d probably do what you say but in a confident and positively ambitious mood I’d probably advise giving him a punt. I love Kel as a player and person but he can be frustrating in his hold up play, retention and consistency. If we got decent money for him then this may be a sensible ploy. I was a central midfielder and later

CD so I tend to favour those positions but goals win matches at both ends. Kel is a natural goal scorer but if we linked play better and more consistently this would improve across the team and I think CDK could do that. Noted it is always a risk. I’m not too fussed either way but I think this will be what the club will be weighing up.