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Soumare isn't a DM so I certainly hope not! Soumare is more likely going to be brought in to play in a box to box role, we don't really have a player currently who can take the ball from deep and run it up the pitch Makes me think we may be aiming for a midfield system a bit more similar to Liverpools (when it was good) - Destroyer (Ndidi), Quarterback controlling the play (Tielemans), the runner (Soumare) If we sell anyone I think it is more likely to be Maddison, although we may not sell anyone, we need the squad depth anyway and Champions League would likely give us the funds we need that would usually come from a sale

The guy has been unreal for us, may not get the numbers but guaranteed he will put in a shift every game

Well there we go

We need to get at least 1 more goal this half, as no doubt Man Utd will get their customary penalty once Fernandes is on the pitch

Rodgers has confirmed for us both Castagne and Ricardo are available for this game, only question will be whether Castagne actually starts or makes an appearance off the bench No new injury news so that means the following are definitely still ruled out for us: Justin, Morgan, Fofana, Praet, Perez

Same thing Vardy does, just moves his leg between the defenders, they catch him and he goes down There are also plenty of fouls that people call dives where players like Grealish and Vardy run quick with the ball, they get clipped whilst running quickly and any small amount of contact can mess up the way they are running so it looks like they trip themselves Just one of those things where you overlook it a lot when it is your own player, but you see it easily when it goes against you

You say that but 5 games in February with 3 wins and 2 draws 12 games in 2021 with 8 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss Just 3 losses in the 20 games since the start of December, 12 wins, 5 draws, 3 losses We had a bad week where we drew with Everton and lost to Leeds, but it is certainly not bad form, especially with how many injuries we keep having

Definitely a good thing, but at the same time he wasn't too badly missed because Fofana really stepped up, quite lucky really that as soon as Fofana got injured Soyuncu was ready to step back in

I take it back guys, Grealish has nothing when it comes to diving compared to those we played tonight bloody hell Be interesting to see how knackered we are after that, wouldn't say we went 100% effort in but Slavia played well Our lineup will likely be very similar to tonights Schmeichel Castagne, Evans, Soyuncu, Ricardo Tielemans, Ndidi Albrighton, Maddison, Barnes Vardy

*Has Grealish playing for his team

Slim Shady redemption tonight, be afraid

No Vardy for us, Iheanacho starting Jonny Evans and Dennis Praet also playing

We signed Mendy for about £12m because he was putting up very similar stats to Kante in France, and he was someone we were actually interested in before we got Kante, then he got badly injured in his 1st game and we signed Ndidi in the January

Wilf Ndidi >

I wouldn’t say we hate him, he is just incredibly frustrating and only seems to be able to impact a game when he comes off the bench in the last 20 minutes when the opposition are tired and he can run at defenders a bit more easily He hardly ever makes an impact when he starts a match, which is a shame but he just hasn’t really developed like he was expected to He is skilful and quick, but he is also a very selfish and tunnel vision kind of player, more often than not he will want to cut inside from the left and try to shoot from outside the box which from memory has only ever come off once He is in the last year in his deal so at this point I imagine we are likely to either give him a new deal or sell, apparently we are after £15-20m to sell him

To be fair with regards to Danny Ward we were after a no.2 who could challenge and push Schmeichel, whilst at the time we bought him and also in recent windows Schmeichel has been linked with moves away so we wanted someone who could step up if he left or good enough for an extended run if Schmeichel got a serious injury Unluckily for Ward Schmeichel has been in great form for club and country and barely been injured so Ward has only really got a chance in the cups Also Liverpool are just masters at getting good money for back up players

Main reason I want us to sign him is that the Celtic fans will have a complete meltdown They still despise us and get proper salty after we took Rodgers

He was pretty good for us in the season he signed, but after that it started to come out that he had a bit of an attitude problem in the dressing room and was quite disruptive and moaned a lot He was doing well at Monaco but then they got a new manager in who preferred to use Ben Yedder rather than Slimani, 1 year left on his contract so I imagine he will be probably be sold this summer, probably no more than £5m, mostly just to get his wages off the bill as he earns £80k a week Kramaric just never got a chance with us really and a lot of Leicester fans think that it is one of the transfers we really messed up by letting him go so soon and Musa was unbelievably quick but had the footballing ability of a semi pro Any striker we have had have all had the same problem, they just aren't as good as Vardy!

Not quite sure why I put central Europe, I was meant to put Western Europe

He hasn't fully joined you until you see a picture of him doing this during a training session

He is a very good man manager and he usually is very well liked and involved with the players - which is why he got chucked in with the whole ridiculous player power thing when Ranieri was sacked He is pretty well admired throughout the English game, and was involved in most of our recent success I will say his actual managerial skills aren't quite there yet as he was pretty poor for us but he is very good at helping set up a team to be stable Pretty good appointment! Mackenzie and now Shakespeare... which of our other former staff are you getting next? haha

Over the past 2 seasons the players they have signed have been mainly from central Europe - France, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, I do believe however they share some our scouting network/system as they are our sister club so I think they have been able to be a bit more expansive in their scouting compared to other clubs in their division

The club he has joined you from Leuven are our sister club and they have just been promoted to the 1st division Leuven mainly have recruited more experienced players to gain promotion this season, usually players not really good enough for the 1st tier teams or the better players from the 2nd tier and below, and usually aged 25 or over But the club have gone from being at risk of relegation last season to promotion this season so they have definitely been identifying the correct players they needed

Seems like he is highly rated wherever he goes, we were rumoured to be considering bringing him back after our head technical scout left last year but we went with someone else, but he definitely has good experience hehind him as well Technical scouting is obviously becoming a massive thing when clubs look at transfers now so having someone like Mackenzie who has been doing it for a while will definitely help, will just depend on the kind of players that Smith wants He used to follow Nigel Pearson around - was with us when he was our manager, left and joined Spurs, then joined up with Pearson at Derby and then recently OH Leuven when Pearson was manager and stayed after he left there

Not technically, Steve Walsh found Mahrez when looking at another player at Le Havre which meant he was then tracked in the system Mahrez was highlighted by the analytics team later on when we were looking for players of a certain criteria (wide player with 1 year left on his contract and matched criteria from the universal database such as progressive runs etc.)