Muzzy_Larsson

Jones is a travesty of a defender, Leicester, or indeed any premier league club would be off their head to accept Jones as a makeweight in any deal.

I think Benitez worked miracles with that squad, take the main two sources of attacking threat out of it in Rondon and Perez, add in a far inferior manager and I think Newcastle will be a shambles this season and a certainty to go down. Sheff Utd look weak also so can see those two teams anchoring the division early on and being cut adrift in terms of relegation by Christmas.

My point is they weren't a perpetual shambles last season, finished on the same points and seem to have smartly strengthened this summer even further. I get Rodgers is a far better manager than Puel but it's dangerous to count your chickens and dismiss any sides like West Ham, Everton or Wolves for that matter, all these sides will have exactly the same aspirations as Leicester this season and will be equally as dangerous. Puel for all his faults presided over a mini-run where you beat most of the top teams in the league, will be hard to replicate that this season so those points will need to come from somewhere else. I think you'll do much better under Rodgers but you need to be careful in terms of tempering expectations or people will majorly overreact at the first sign of things not going in a linear upward curve.

Yeah not disagreeing with that, I'd much rather the Leicester pair, just highlighting Gomes is a very good player who also had a very good season last year, £22m for him looks to be shrewd business.

I'm not so sure I'd be so dismissive of West Ham tbh, they finished level on points with you guys last season and have done some very good business so far, plus they have a manager that knows the league inside out.

He's a different player from Tielemans, played a lot deeper for Everton last season than Tielemans did for Leicester so your not expecting a lot of goals or assists out of him, he's more a playmaker, like comparing apples and oranges really.

Agree with this, Townsend for circa £20m would be value imo, would be an upgrade on anything out wide you guys have at present even if he isn't as box office as some of the names on the list.

Gomes had a very good season for them last season, classy midfield player.

Watched quite a bit of the AFCON and Chukwueze looked frightening, he'd be a great signing and someone Rodgers would work wonders with in terms of developing. Some tasty looking options there, Sarr, Oyarzabal, Carrasco (apparently his club only want £25m for him), Lozano and Bailey. Any of Ziyech, Bergwijn, Neres or Under would be quite a coup but can see them being very hard to obtain.

Surely Bournemouth wouldn't be daft enough to swap Gray for Fraser, that would be an almighty mugging off! I realise Fraser only has a year to go on his deal so that might sway things but he's probably more valuable to them seeing out that last season, her'd probably contribute more in terms of goals and assists in that single season than Gray would over 4 lol!

Agreed, given they already have two decent right backs in Vrsaljko and Arias, unless they are planning to play Vrsaljko at LB to cover for selling Hernandez, think he can play both full back positions.

Yeah really needs to start adding goals to his game though.

I think among the chasing pack, teams like Everton, West Ham and Leicester, they all have obvious strengths and equally, areas where they are weak. West Ham and Everton in the striking position, although West Ham may well have rectified that with the purchase of Haller, hard to say until we see him in action. Leicester on the other hand look weaker than both clubs in the wide positions. It may well be the case that whoever does the best business in the transfer market in the next few weeks will be the side who pulls away this season and threatens the sides above them.

Had a pretty poor season last year tbh, Atletico is a great move for him mind you. Will be interesting to see where he is in the pecking order though as they already have Vrsaljko and Arias who are both decent RB’s.

Yeah I get that, that’s why I said 12-20 points as it’s a hard thing to quantify hence the general point about any improvement being good.

I think this is spot on, it's important to temper expectation as if it goes slightly off track, which it can easily in an environment as competitive as the EPL an element of fans tend to overreact and lose the thread. Bad luck with injuries and a tough run of fixtures to coincide with it can quickly change the fortunes of a season, purely due to bad luck. My hope for this season were I a paying fan would be to be better entertained week in week out as Rodgers stamps his style of play on the team, further development in your fantastic young players and 12-20 points greater than last season and see where that lands. Keep doing that bit by bit, progressing each season and you'll stand a chance of being a consistent top 4-6 club rather than getting too overwhelmed with finishing 6 this season. After all, what is the holy grail that 6th place brings, Europa League football? A competition that pretty much all EPL clubs with the exception of Arsenal and Chelsea view as an inconvenience.

Agreed think it will make for great entertainment and hopefully a very open league this year, beneath the top 2 or 3 anyway as they seem a few levels above the rest.

Pogba's won a world cup, scored in the final and generally had a great tournament, I'm sure that reflects a decent level of mental strength, won Serie A a few times too and a Europa League. In any case I'm not debating his character, I'm in agreement he's a twat, that wasn't the point I was debating, my bone of contention was despite his character people saying he wouldn't get a game for Leicester which I'll say again is very very hard to believe.

I thought about Keane earlier as a similar example. However Keane was 24 when he moved to Everton and bad habits and changes in your game are easier to iron out when your younger, Dunk is 28 soon. All that said £20-25m would be reasonable for him and worth the outlay imo, it's the chat of Brighton wanting nigh on double that which says to me don't touch him with a barge pole at that price.

I get the issues with his ego and personality but with all that in the mix he still contributed 13 league goals and 9 assists last season, miles more than any Leicester midfielder and I'd put money on, that those numbers will be far greater than any Leicester midfielder will achieve this season also. For these sort of numbers alone I therefore find it hard to fathom that any midfielder, with however much baggage, that can deliver that in terms of goals and assists wouldn't get into the Leicester side. For all his alleged negative impact take out those goals and assists from that Man Utd team last season and you'd be lucky if they'd be in the top half. As much as Pogba is a twat, look at how he plays for France, look at the World Cup he had, maybe Man Utd are as much the problem as Pogba himself for the toxic situation that club finds themselves in.

Not being thick at all, processed all the explanations just find it very very very hard to believe and take seriously. Irrespective of his personality, ego, etc Pogba would walk into every midfield in the EPL bar none. I don't particularly like the guy but to argue anything other than that takes some doing, particularly to argue he wouldn't get in a side who finished around mid table.

Not really, based on the last two seasons I'd rather have Morelos as Griffiths has been terrible and Morelos is the top goalscorer in the country. Pogba irrespective of his personality, would play every week for Leicester and greatly enhance the side.

If people are genuinely of the belief that Pogba wouldn't get a game for Leicester then I'm out, heads have gone!

I'm not a fan of Pogba in the main but your not telling me he wouldn't get in the Leicester team, come on, the guy is a world cup winner and despite being in a mediocre Man Utd side last season managed 13 league goals and 9 assists and is being courted by the likes of Real Madrid and Juventus. None of your current midfielders, even Tielemans if you want to take his average over a season come close to that.

Rashford wherever you were to play him would enhance the Leciester starting IX no end, no doubt about it. The guy is an England international, scoring in latter stages of the Champions League and has had Barcelona and Real Madrid after him.