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21 minutes ago, M_Afro said:

I am a Leicester resident and most of my neighbours do not rate Iheanacho. Do you?

After this season I personally do rate him as a squad player for us, I think Rodgers has found the way to get the best out of him, 4 goals and 5 assists in 960 minutes is a great return for us and I will be honest and admit in some of the games where he has been subbed off it was a massive mistake on the part of Rodgers as he was usually one of our best players on the pitch at the time (4-1 defeat to Bournemouth is a great example of this)

There are rumours that we are looking at strikers this window (Edouard, Muriqi, Jovic) but I think it depends how Rodgers will want to set us up next season, if he wants us to play with 2 up top I can see Iheanacho staying and fighting it out with the new signing to be Vardys partner, if its 1 up top I can see him being sold to make way for another striker who is more capable of playing the lone striker role

Price wise I could see us looking to get between £20m and £25m for him as he is still only 23 and definitely does have the talent to succeed in the right team

21 minutes ago, paul514 said:

As a Leicester fan...... what do you think of him?

Personally I think Gray is pretty poor, 10 goals and 11 assists in 132 games, yes a fair few were as a sub but still he has never got more than 5 goal contributions in the league for us since we signed him in 2016, Barnes in a season and a bit has nearly already matched Grays entire goal contribution

He really hasn't developed much as a player, if at all since we bought him, he has skill and pace but honestly he has no football brain at all, a lot of times he would take players on and just shoot from outside the box (when from memory I think he has only scored outside the box for us once)

This summer he will either be sold or get a new contract as his current one ends next summer and they are unlikely to want to let him leave on a free, wouldn't surprise me if he went for between £10m and £15m, apparently Spurs have some interest in him

3 minutes ago, PieFacE said:

What do you think of Iheanacho?
I'm not his biggest fan tbh even though he loves a goal against Villa. Would rather look elsewhere. I just can't ever imagine him being the number 1 striker at a club.

On his day he can be a really good striker, but he can be incredibly frustrating as well. One minute he will have a sublime touch/score a really good goal, the next minute he is tripping over his own feet, and his right foot is pretty underwhelming

He doesn't really have the pace or mobility to flourish as a solo striker, he definitely needs to play in a two to get the best out of him

This season in the league he has managed 5 goals and 4 assists in 960 minutes, so he has definitely stepped up compared to previous seasons

1 minute ago, alreadyexists said:

Still think we should try and get Odsonne Edouard from Celtic. He’s had a very good season and is still only 22. I think he’d cost 15-18m, maybe more... but we’ll worth it.

There was rumours about our interest today and apparently it is more likely to be in the region of £30m, which would also explain why there is also rumours about your interest in Iheanacho

Sorry lads but Bournemouth will be getting 3 points against us

11 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Kapustka what happened to him, was a bit of hype about him after Euro 2016

Yeah I was really looking forward to seeing him play for us when we signed him, but in 16/17 he only played in the odd cup game, 17/18 he got loaned out to Freibury but never really played and when he did he didn't do much

18/19 he was with our sister club in Belgium 2nd division for the first half of the season and was doing okay but then he got a cruciate ligament injury in March 2019 and didn't come back from it until January 2020 and has now only played the odd game for our youth side

But it seems like Rodgers has started using him in with 1st team training so he might get his chance during the rest of this season, possibly off the bench, I certainly hope so! Only has 1 year left on his contract so if he doesn't get much game time the rest of this season I can see him being sold this summer

6 hours ago, OxfordVillan said:

I thought exactly the same! Looks like he might have given Wes Morgan and Ndidi a hard time, he looks so powerful. It might be interesting to note that Leicesters 1st choice CB pairing played at Villa Park and kept a clean sheet (allegedly?). From the pictures I’ve seen we can definitely see that Davis, Targett, Vassilev, Drinky, Nyland, Elmo, Hourihane, & Trezeguet all played at the King Power for Villa. Leicester players at the King Power included Morgan, Matty James, Vardy, Praet, & Ndidi. Villa players who played at Villa Park include ElGhazi, McGinn, Samatta, Luiz, and I assume Reina? Leicester players at Villa Park included Evans, Soyuncu, & Maddison. That’s as much as I could see. 
Anybody know which game Grealish played at? 

Seems to have come out this morning that our line ups were:

Villa Park:
Schmeichel
Justin, Evans, Soyuncu, Chilwell
Maddison, Mendy, Tielemans
Albrighton, Iheanacho, Gray

King Power:
Ward,
Choudhury, Morgan, Fuchs, Thomas (this defence is horrifying)
James, Ndidi, Praet
Kapustka, Vardy, Barnes

I have seen a good picture of Matty James and Danny Drinkwater battling for the ball from the King Power game which is quite nostalgic to see

35 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

I can't quite tell from that film who was in our line up - Trezeguet was the goalscorer, looks like Jota down the right hand side, I think Elmohamdy behind him. Is it Targett's ball in to Samatta for the back heel that sets it up? 

Drinkwater started the game at the King Power

A few pictures here you could look at, not much good at noticing who Villa players are unfortunately! I think I spotted McGinn playing in the Villa Park game?

https://www.lcfc.com/galleries/1680100/joint-training-exercises-take-place-at-villa-park--king-power-stadium

11 minutes ago, useless said:

Interestng that we won the away game but lost the home game. Only a small example but makes you wonder if in a small way it suggests that home advantage might be lost without a crowd.

Seems like our stronger team with most of our main 11 played at Villa Park whilst our King Power team had 3 first 11 players (Vardy, Ndidi, Barnes) and the rest squad players/youth (from social media pictures of the matches)

Wouldn't take much from these anyway, from the footage of these friendlies it looks like a lot of players aren't putting in a lot serious effort, just using them to build up fitness

From what I have seen on twitter seems like Villa won 3-0 at King Power, Leicester won 1-0 at Villa Park

No idea on line ups though

14 hours ago, VillaChris said:

They don't all have to cost 50m + either. We've been frequently linked with Jose Callejon last six months. I know some will turn up their noses at signing a 33 year old but very often teams on rise will sign a player or two in their 30s as much to get the mentality up in the dressing room. Man City signed Patrick Vieria when he was 34. Chelea signed Ruud Gullit when he was in his 30s.

Given he's still a key player at Napoli it's fair to say he'd be more effective for us than Jota or Trez so that's what you have to weigh up. Seems Everton are interested in him so given Ancelotti is there he'll probably join them if it's a credible link.

Most of the news about Callejon coming out of Napoli and Italy is that he will be heading back to Spain, clubs like Sevilla, Betis, etc. are interested in him

Will be a shame to see him finally leave Napoli but he just isn’t as effective as he used to be

1 hour ago, sne said:

Guess Çağlar Söyüncü did in fact stop by 2 years in Germany before moving to Leicester but he's been quite good.

Their best players seldom end up in England but rather go to Italy, Germany or Spain.

Kabak, Demiral, Elmas all look lite interesting prospects who are off to solid starts after leaving Turkey but in general y prejudice against Turkish players is they often have trouble to adjust to moving abroad and that they often are a bit of trouble. Turkey is a strange country.

As for Luyindama all I know is he's big strong and fairly fast for a big guy, and being Congolese he speaks French. That knee injury scares me thou and I'm not sure he and Mings is an ideal pair as from the little I've seen he also likes to take unnecessary risks.

Soyuncu is a classic case of struggling to settle, he needed a year on the bench and just in and around the squad before he settled in properly, he really struggled to pick up the language

There was even rumours he was going to go out on loan back to Turkey or Germany because he hadn't settled

Looked like an absolute bombscare with the ball the few times he played for us last season

Thankfully we stuck with him and it has paid off

2 hours ago, villa4europe said:

Did think of them but they have a Croatian u21 kid called benkovic out on loan at bristol who could come good and I think would be in the squad next year (or so FM told me...) 

The money would fit, they've also got Ryan Bennett on loan from wolves so they do need a CB

Our options next season look like:

Starting 2 - Evans and Soyuncu

Back up 2 - Morgan and Benkovic

We are very unlikely to make Bennetts loan move permanent

Last summer and in January we were actively looking for a new centre back, mainly Demiral from Juventus until he got injured, so it seems like we will definitely be in the market for a centre back in the next transfer window, with Morgan likely to take on a 5th choice/coaching role next season and the new signing and Benkovic pushing Evans for his position

17 hours ago, Villan4Life said:

Is anybody seeing a pattern

Leicester went 10 in a row in the championship and won the Premier league 2 years later

I'm just saying I'm see a pattern 

This summer all you need is a video of the son of your manager involved in a racist orgy in your owners homeland during a goodwill tour to be leaked, getting the manager sacked, and some unsuccessful past it manager to be hired in his place, then you are well on track!

What a rollercoaster that was

Vardy will be included in the squad for tomorrow night, no confirmation as to whether starting or on the bench

Expecting him to be on the bench with Iheanacho starting, and coming on around 60-70 mins if needed

Rodgers has confirmed Vardy injury not as bad as first feared

Will definitely miss our FA Cup game tomorrow but is hopeful for Tuesday

6 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

Vardy injured for Leicester tonight.

Rodgers said after the game it was only a twinged arse muscle and nothing serious, should hopefully be alright for the 2nd leg

30 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said:

Both Vardy and Mendy went off injured today for Leicester - potentially both out of the Villa match (hopefully!)

Vardy seems to have only twinged his arse muscle, not too serious, should hopefully be back for the 2nd leg 

20 hours ago, VillaChris said:

Hopefully Leicester won't just donate three points to West Ham aswell on Wednesday, that's all we need.

Ever since we beat you at the start of December we have been absolute guff apart from 2 games around New Year

Fully expecting West Ham to get at least a draw from us on Wednesday

Decent win I guess... 

16 hours ago, useless said:

I think Grealish is much more of a natural footballer than Maddison. Maddison is someone who can get goals and offer creativity in the final third, but he can't run games in the same way that Grealish can,  you'd never play Maddison in a midfield three, and expect him to dictate the pace of the game, I don't mean this a criticism as it's true for a lot of players that play in his position, but he's more of an highlights player, whereas Grealish is constantly involved all over the pitch.

Maddison did play in a midfield 3 last season, and we played most of our best football when he played there with Ndidi and Tielemans, in fact it is the one criticism I have of Rodgers so far this season that he doesn’t play him there usually until the 2nd half when he subs on a winger.

He is more than capable playing that position and would regularly come deep to collect the ball to dictate the tempo and get us moving forward