Post Match Leicester 0 Tottenham 2

[big_mac4824]

if we finish in the top 10 it will be a huge achievement at the moment.

 

[David Gwilliam]

Leicester City and Kalechi Iheanacho did very well last night.

Football is a team game and when the whole team is ineffective it allows Iborra to bond with the other players. Imagine ten Leicester players being effective - how embarrassing for Vicente.

It must be remembered that Tottenham are playing Barcelona this week. Our defence gave Tottenham a very good training session. The Spurs players will have returned to London having stretched their legs and in high spirits If by chance Tottenham defeat Barcelona the Leiocester team can feel a tinge of pride,

As for our Kalechi Iheanacho I think back to the first great player I ever saw Nat Lofthouse. He was incredibly exciting and would not have fitted Mr Puel's Leicester anywhere near as well as Kalechi Lofthouse would have made sure that the Tottenham players limped painfully onto the bus.He would never have played with the restraint and decorum of Iheanacho.

Sadly Nat died a few years back but I am sure his shade would admit "Nat Lofthouse you were no Kalechi Iheanacho."

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[Anonymous Fox]

I was a fan of Puel when he first started at the club. We played well under him as we moved up the table to a top ten finish and I had hopes that this season we would move on. I have now come to the conclusion that under Puel we cannot move further.
Yesterday we looked like a team that has just been cobbled together for a game, passes going adrift, players looking like they were uncomfortable playing alongside each other. That is because we are a team that is cobbled together. The manager constantly changes players and positions. If a player plays well they are dropped for the next game. I believe that we have signed some good young talent but any new player especially a young one should be brought into a settled team not thrown in with 2 or 3 other players that haven't played for a few weeks.
In Ianachio we have the most overrated, clueless player that I have ever seen at Leicester. He simply doesn't know how to read a game, he doesn't know where he should be. As an example, if you look at Lukaku at Manure, he constantly botches chances but at least he is in the position to do something in the first place. This is completely beyond Ianachio.
I fear that we are becoming a team that has no chance of competing in the top 6-8 of the league due to the above. The problem with that is how long will the likes of Maguire, Chillwell, Maddison hang around if they believe that we are simply insipid as a team and happy with it.
I like Puel, I think he is basically a nice guy, but I am sorry he has to go. Were are treading water and becoming very tired of doing that and are in danger of drowning. We should be looking for a new manager whilst we are in a position in the league and with half a season to go to make it attractive for a good manager to come. Maybe Benitez as an example?

 

[Blaarev]

Leicester City and Kalechi Iheanacho did very well last night.

Football is a team game and when the whole team is ineffective it allows Iborra to bond with the other players. Imagine ten Leicester players being effective - how embarrassing for Vicente.

It must be remembered that Tottenham are playing Barcelona this week. Our defence gave Tottenham a very good training session. The Spurs players will have returned to London having stretched their legs and in high spirits If by chance Tottenham defeat Barcelona the Leiocester team can feel a tinge of pride,

As for our Kalechi Iheanacho I think back to the first great player I ever saw Nat Lofthouse. He was incredibly exciting and would not have fitted Mr Puel's Leicester anywhere near as well as Kalechi Lofthouse would have made sure that the Tottenham players limped painfully onto the bus.He would never have played with the restraint and decorum of Iheanacho.

Sadly Nat died a few years back but I am sure his shade would admit "Nat Lofthouse you were no Kalechi Iheanacho."

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Go back to using ‘’Leicester’s number 8’’, will you?

 

[big_mac4824]

what exactly are Puels options upfront? is it now worth taking a punt with a youth player or looking at the players available with Nigel Pearsons team?

 

[Lako42]

what exactly are Puels options upfront? is it now worth taking a punt with a youth player or looking at the players available with Nigel Pearsons team?

It runs deeper than Puel.

The person responsible for our recruitment should be embarrassed

 

[The Old Fox]

I think that Pochettino's pre-match comments were interesting. He stated that, on spending terms, the two sides were equal.

A lot of money has been spent on players who are not useless, but don't fit together as a team equal to, or greater than the parts. Puel might have some responsibility, as might earlier managers but, one does get the feeling that the job of Leicester manager has a lot of 'Chief Coach' about it.

Nacho isn't as bad as he is painted. I'd be willing to bet that we'll sell/give him away and he'll prove to be a decent striker, used correctly. Vardy is the only striker, at the club, who can lead the line. Richardo is good at the wing side of wing-back but still not really effective at the 'back' part. Iborra is slow: he was slow when we bought him. Did nobody think that this wasn't the way of British football? Silva is a mystery: he was God's gift to football during the three months that he couldn't play and certainly on a different wavelength to the rest of the team now... I could go on but, I think we all know the deficiencies on the transfer front.

With the players available, it is hard to see a starting eleven that would have done any better last night. I am afraid that I believe Puel is right when he says there will be little inward transfer activity until some of these players are moved out but, who is going to offer anything like Leicester wages to our rejects?

Changing the manager is fine but, I suspect that, after a possible 'new manager boost', it is going to take other changes AND a couple of seasons before we are challenging for a top six spot.

 

[Anonymous Fox]

what exactly are Puels options upfront? is it now worth taking a punt with a youth player or looking at the players available with Nigel Pearsons team?

Anyone who can make space for the team to pass to. Anyone who has an idea of movement. Anyone who can hold a ball up. Anyone who remotely worries the opposition defence. Anyone who can pass the ball through to Vardy and not the opposing goalkeeper. Basically, one of the stewards would be better at this moment. Someone last night on the radio suggested Maguire, sounds like a better replacement to me.
I am sick of watching a 10 man city side struggle through games.

 

[Anonymous Fox]

I think that Pochettino's pre-match comments were interesting. He stated that, on spending terms, the two sides were equal.

A lot of money has been spent on players who are not useless, but don't fit together as a team equal to, or greater than the parts. Puel might have some responsibility, as might earlier managers but, one does get the feeling that the job of Leicester manager has a lot of 'Chief Coach' about it.

Nacho isn't as bad as he is painted. I'd be willing to bet that we'll sell/give him away and he'll prove to be a decent striker, used correctly. Vardy is the only striker, at the club, who can lead the line. Richardo is good at the wing side of wing-back but still not really effective at the 'back' part. Iborra is slow: he was slow when we bought him. Did nobody think that this wasn't the way of British football? Silva is a mystery: he was God's gift to football during the three months that he couldn't play and certainly on a different wavelength to the rest of the team now... I could go on but, I think we all know the deficiencies on the transfer front.

With the players available, it is hard to see a starting eleven that would have done any better last night. I am afraid that I believe Puel is right when he says there will be little inward transfer activity until some of these players are moved out but, who is going to offer anything like Leicester wages to our rejects?

Changing the manager is fine but, I suspect that, after a possible 'new manager boost', it is going to take other changes AND a couple of seasons before we are challenging for a top six spot.

I agree with most of your comments except Ianacho. My question is this? All good teams have a core of players and others are brought in ones and twos to be able to get game time with the team. Puel changes the team so often that except for Scmeichel, Morgan, Papy, Ndidi and Chillers all of the remainder are a lottery.
Ricardo has improved 10 fold this season I grant you, but he doesn't know each week who will be in front of him so how can you build a relationship with "someone"
Puel needs to have a settled team first. Start winning games and then make changes to blood players when we are 2 up, not make wholesale changes and hope they all gel.
That is the recipe for disaster.

When you say coach only, do you think someone else is picking the team?

 

[Redditch Fox]

Iheanacho cost a fortune. Deduct that from Mahrez's fee and we got little for Mahrez and wasted millions on a non-footballer. Man City smart on and off the pitch; Leicester - stupid.

 

[City Fan]

Slimani + Iheanacho = Mahrez.

Great business LCFC.

 

[londonfox]

Fickle, fickle, fickle,
Some of our supporters (!) need to take a step back ( if that means taking their heads out of their arses, so beit) and look at the bigger picture.

What is that bigger picture?

 

[Mike - True Blue Tinter]

Why was Chilwell just strolling back to give Alli all the time in the world?

 

[Blaarev]

Slimani + Iheanacho = Mahrez.

Great business LCFC.

Mahrez bought for £450.000 (or thereabouts). Mahrez sold for £65m (or thereabouts) after contributing to a PL title.
Decent piece of business, LCFC.

 

[Brown Nose]

Why was Chilwell just strolling back to give Alli all the time in the world?

Alli was offside. He should also have been booked for two blatant dives.

The truth is that Alli was pretty poor apart from occasions where we decided to just leave him unmarked in acres of space.

Instead, MOTD gloss over reality to put together a puff piece saying how wonderful he is.

 

[Brown Nose]

Mahrez bought for £450.000 (or thereabouts). Mahrez sold for £65m (or thereabouts) after contributing to a PL title.
Decent piece of business, LCFC.

If you gloss over the fact that Man City have only paid a maximum of £24m so far for Mahrez. There are two further payments of £18m pending. Although, we'll have to set aside a loan that we've taken out that was needed to offset this reduced income.

All in all, our money for Mahrez will be less than £60m

 

[Blaarev]

If you gloss over the fact that Man City have only paid a maximum of £24m so far for Mahrez. There are two further payments of £18m pending. Although, we'll have to set aside a loan that we've taken out that was needed to offset this reduced income.

All in all, our money for Mahrez will be less than £60m

My point still stands.

 

[big_mac4824]

Mahrez bought for £450.000 (or thereabouts). Mahrez sold for £65m (or thereabouts) after contributing to a PL title.
Decent piece of business, LCFC.

how much did Slimani and iheanacho cost?

 

[Blaarev]

How much did Vardy cost?

 

[Lako42]

How much would Puel's contract cost?