Schmeichel left - our captain and no 1 keeper through various leagues. We allowed him to leave and without properly replacing him but instead the no2 comes in and stays in despite his multiple errors...
Evans got injured, Soyuncu got bombed out, Fofana left, JJ injured and ricky P too for the majority of the year. Leaving us with a makeshift defence of new replacements, young lads or even sometimes midfielders!
And we wonder why our goals conceded is so high? Yet actually we have scored as many goals as Man U?!
Vardy is old and we always knew this day would come. But instead of building up Iheanacho to play alongside him/start taking his place - we rotated with Daka, who is quick and nothing else.
We were calling out for a winger - one of our weakest positions. Could we really not afford to keep Lookman? But Tete did look to be an exciting Brazilian signing and that game against Villa wow... but that was literally his only good game.
I actually have no idea what has happened to Ndidi - its baffling. I guess confidence really can make the world of difference but I don't think it helps playing in front of our makeshift defence.
Tielemans and Maddison are too good for this team now and along with all the other players we have let go over the years, such as Mahrez and Kante then unfortunately these will go too but with minimal value added to us.
Couple this along with our arrogance that our squad is too good to be in the position it is (look at chelsea after spending loads and Everton 2nd year in a relegation fight).
Keeping Brendan for too long and some of his stupidly stubborn decisions is why we are where we are. I had it on good word that Unai Emry was coming to a Midlands club and I was excited as surely it was going to be us. That's when we should have changed it! Look at Villa now, competing for european football! However when we couldn't beat Blackburn was when it hit home how low we had fallen and the climb back up in one of the toughest leagues.
The Board will be kicking themselves when they look back at it but unfortunately its the fans who pay for their mistakes most.