Think we start preseason monday. Between then and us flying to aus in a couple of weeks he'll have decided.
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James Maddison
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Think we start preseason monday. Between then and us flying to aus in a couple of weeks he'll have decided.
tommysvr
Simon Davies
Feels so odd how quickly this happened. I had it down as a late-August signing after Leicester finally budge and lower their asking price. Seems like two clubs determined to move quickly after really bad seasons, which is great.
Fantastic signing too. Really excited to see how he goes in Ange's midfield.
Fantastic signing too. Really excited to see how he goes in Ange's midfield.
metalgear
Nayim
Great signing and good to see Enic willing to spend and early too for a critical position. Once Bentancur was gone so did all attacking impetus in the midfield. Maddison makes things happen - happy to hold the ball, take on challenges and dribbles from the centre of the midfield to open up defences. Like Modric he shifts the ball easily from one foot to another and has great forward visiion
Lemonade Money
Steffen Freund
Would be madness to get rid of Davies at this point IMO.
Leicester need to get some high earners out and also need spending money to build a team to get back up. Guess they have some common sense at last. Signed Coady yesterday and Winks joining soon.
Spence hasn’t been forgotten about at all!
people on here keep on banging on about him like he’s the next Messi
Jurgen the German
Tommy Harmer
Very happy with this signing. Get them in early, no fudging about so he can have a good preseason with us. How it should be.
monkeybarry
Ian Walker
Vicko
Madders
Ripper!
Madders
Ripper!
monkeybarry
Ian Walker
It'll be a whole season of integration. I'll be happy if we push for top 6 and can see a real development and structure. Could be higher if we hit a purple patch or someone else slips up.
We really only NEED a CB and we're ready. Two would be ideal for squad depth.
Vicario - new. Forster.
Royal. Spence - new.
Romero.
New. And new.
Davies. Udogie - new
Skipp.
Bentancur.
Maddison - new
Bissouma - fresh start
Sarr - raw
Porro - new'ish
Kulu
Son
Kane
Richi - ??? Fresh start ??? (Personally I don't rate him and we're seeing him at par. But who knows)
That's a 19 man squad with 6/7 new players and a couple with ??? over them.
Plus a new coaching set up.
It's blank canvas time. It's exciting.
Ironically, considering Conte and Mourinho, there is a lot of skill, pace, athleticism and attacking intent across all of those players! We probably need a defensively solid CB.
Another player who can chip in with goals, so that's now :
Son
Kulusevski
Richarlson
Maddison
In support of Kane who you expect to be chipping in with 10-15 goals if they have good seasons, add in Kane with his standard 20 - 30 and we're looking at 60 to 80 ish goals from the attack, 90 if they all have seasons close to their best - if you look at the league table it's often goals scored which determines how you fare so that puts us in good shape on paper. Need to shore up the defense now on top of that to give us the best chance of making the goals count.
Son
Kulusevski
Richarlson
Maddison
In support of Kane who you expect to be chipping in with 10-15 goals if they have good seasons, add in Kane with his standard 20 - 30 and we're looking at 60 to 80 ish goals from the attack, 90 if they all have seasons close to their best - if you look at the league table it's often goals scored which determines how you fare so that puts us in good shape on paper. Need to shore up the defense now on top of that to give us the best chance of making the goals count.
Bedfordspurs
Arthur Rowe
I’d say we have now
Goal scorers
Kane
Son
Richarlson
creators
Maddison
Kulu
Gil
but of course there is a blend there
Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
Yeh could maybe even add Porro and we have a very decent selection of creators and scorers. Exciting at that end of the pitch
tommysvr
Simon Davies
Good question! On my list would be Dele, Scott Parker, Kyle Walker, Defoe for various reasons. But the one that seems to match closest in terms of hype and (gulp) somewhat personality would be David Bentley?!
FatBloke
Niko Kranjcar
I'd say Dele. I mean, he absolutely exploded on to the scene and quickly became one of the poster boys of the Premier League -- and his performances matched the hype. Defoe, Walker, Parker, etc. were all well before him.
That said, Dele was a relative nobody when we signed him, as was Walker. Maybe Parker then?
Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
Yeh Dele, Walker were probably more prospects that exploded. Defoe and Carrick as players who were definitely already rated, Carrick came with the whole "West Ham youth prospect" tag and he operated at a high level when he joined. Jenas for me was a big signing, taking a player off Saudi Sportswashing Machine who were big fry back then was a thing back then, he never hit the highs we hoped but was def a big signing at the time
indospurs
Young-Pyo Lee
Also Bentancur, but he'll be a while to come back
