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Tielemans was an exceptionally good player and played a huge part in our top 6 finishes and FA Cup win. If the club really went for it around that time and sanctioned the signing of 2 more players of that quality, we would definitely have finished in the CL places in at least one of those seasons. The fact that they didn't would definitely have had an effect on his mindset, his willingness to sign another contract and indeed his work ethic in that last season. I agree with the sentence in bold, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the fact of how close his involvement actually got us to breaking the big 6 mould.

Listening to the tapes and seeing the pictures, there is no chance in hell that this was a one off.

By meaningful I really meant having a run of games where his contribution couldn't have been done without. Don't get me wrong, there have been examples of his quality (Birmingham at home, the cross for the Norwich winner), but we can't afford to have a player taking a squad place and eating up wages on the chance that he may do something decent every once in a while.

Wouldn't really count that as meaningful.

He's a luxury player that we can't afford to carry. Has talent but not enough to carry a team through what we're going to be going through next year. Didn't ever let us down but didn't really ever contribute anything meaningful.

He has all the tools but doesn't really know how to use any of them. Likeable guy and as others have said, his FA Cup record is the thing that separates him from the other striking flops we've signed in recent times. It's a shame that he got injured pretty much as soon as we signed him and was out for so long. At that point, him, Vardy and Mahrez would have been fantastic together.

I think it was Inter who screwed it up in the end but even if they didn't, breaking rules further still because you know you've already broken them would not be a good move. Seems like both the Premier League and Championship are itching to punish teams like Leicester. Giving them more ammunition than they already have would be just the sort of incompetence that we're regularly accusing the club of.

So living in Cornwall managed to get a ticket for this and have to say, how things have changed amongst the support really filled me with sadness. From minute one, the atmosphere was flat and quite toxic. Arguments between fans, constant booing and criticism (even though we started the game very well) and generally no support for the team and this is more than noticeable on the pitch (evidenced by Hermanson when leaving the pitch at half time actually saying to the fans, 'We need you. Please!'. Having lived down here for a number of years, I don't get to games as much as I would like. I'd be interested to know when support of the team was solely conditional on them performing on the pitch. 'Through the good times and the bad, we always back the lads' are the words we used to sing. Was not enjoyable at all to be in that atmosphere and watch that dross of a 2nd half. Addressing the performance. Personally, i've tried to cut Enzo as much as slack as possible. At the start of the season, it was a work in progress so you can kind of forgive it. After the Jan transfer window, you can understand the frustration with what happened with Sensi, but now? It's actually indefensible the way he will not deviate at all. Faes was last night (and has been for a few weeks) absolutely atrocious and should have been hooked at half time. The defending for the goal was probably the worst bit of defending i've seen for such a long time. Why back off AND show him inside?? Absolutely bizarre and at the other end of the pitch, it must be an awful situation to be in but I can have no sympathy for Daka and he really shouldn't be anywhere near the first team. The chances he's missed against Plymouth, Leeds, Millwall and that header at home (forgive me, I can't remember the game) are just inexcusable. If he's even in the squad for the next game, then I can only think that Enzo was lied to to get him through the door at the start of the season and this is his revenge. Nothing else at this point makes any sense. Having said all this, we are still in a position where we can control our own fate. Not sure I have the confidence that we can do anything positive with that.

Shame it's a boz eye looking the wrong way.

Get a tifo of Rudders with a calculator and fax machine

I think he was showing signs of this at the start of the season before he got injured.

Could see him having a bit of an Ndidi style renaissance under Enzo but if we need to make some space in the squad to bring players in, he'd definitely be on the expendable asset list.

Given the amount of dogshit we've had on that right wing, letting Gray go looks like a really pointless exercise. Apart from that, the only one really is Kasper. That first 10 games where Ward was waging a culture war of his own against the art of goalkeeping, if Kasper was between the sticks, I think we'd have been comfortably mid-table.

Or maybe he's dogshit.

Ward is a perfectly capable goalkeeper. Iverson looks a decent prospect as back up this season. I can see the Ward/Kasper swap working out how the Maguire/Cags did in the first season. Everyone panicking because we didnt sign a replacement for Maguire but then realised we had a perfectly good one already.