indierich06 Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 He really sold us a whopper didn't he? 7th March 2022 https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-transfers-brendan-rodgers-6765231 Quote But it’s not just in defence where City could be looking to add when the summer window comes around. Having been at the club for three years, Rodgers revealed that plans are already being put into place for a summer ‘refresh’. “For us, our focus is very much on the summer window,” he said after the January window. "We know we need to make big changes to freshen up the squad and the planning is well underway for that. There’s no doubt we need to make changes come the summer. We’ll have been working together for over three years come then, so we will need to refresh the squad, and that’s something we will do." In the meantime, the window's been open for nearly a month, we're one of the only sides in the league to make zero signings, we haven't shifted any players out of the door, there's been plenty reported but no movement on any of our supposed targets and pre-season - the time when Rodgers claimed we'd be working on ironing out all of the issues from last season - has already started, without any of this new & improved squad he's talked about... but we've been planning since the end of January if you believe the manager. Looking pretty clear that we're going to be doing fairly minimal business at this point due to a lack of funds/not being able to shift quite a lot of deadwood - and there's nothing inherently wrong with that - but don't build expectations for a busy summer when it's unlikely to materialise. Looking more and more like he's simply made these claims during a difficult time to cover his own arse for a string of extremely poor results. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Year Of The Fox Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 9 minutes ago, indierich06 said: He really sold us a whopper didn't he? 7th March 2022 https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-transfers-brendan-rodgers-6765231 In the meantime, the window's been open for nearly a month, we're one of the only sides in the league to make zero signings, we haven't shifted any players out of the door, there's been plenty reported but no movement on any of our supposed targets and pre-season - the time when Rodgers claimed we'd be working on ironing out all of the issues from last season - has already started, without any of this new & improved squad he's talked about... but we've been planning since the end of January if you believe the manager. Looking pretty clear that we're going to be doing fairly minimal business at this point due to a lack of funds/not being able to shift quite a lot of deadwood - and there's nothing inherently wrong with that - but don't build expectations for a busy summer when it's unlikely to materialise. Looking more and more like he's simply made these claims during a difficult time to cover his own arse for a string of extremely poor results. Given the fact that 25 players or whatever don’t suddenly become not good enough overnight AND all at once, this has been obvious from Day 1 imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhandfox Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 36 minutes ago, indierich06 said: He really sold us a whopper didn't he? 7th March 2022 https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-transfers-brendan-rodgers-6765231 In the meantime, the window's been open for nearly a month, we're one of the only sides in the league to make zero signings, we haven't shifted any players out of the door, there's been plenty reported but no movement on any of our supposed targets and pre-season - the time when Rodgers claimed we'd be working on ironing out all of the issues from last season - has already started, without any of this new & improved squad he's talked about... but we've been planning since the end of January if you believe the manager. Looking pretty clear that we're going to be doing fairly minimal business at this point due to a lack of funds/not being able to shift quite a lot of deadwood - and there's nothing inherently wrong with that - but don't build expectations for a busy summer when it's unlikely to materialise. Looking more and more like he's simply made these claims during a difficult time to cover his own arse for a string of extremely poor results. Nearly two months of the window left, but don't let fact get in the way. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 5 minutes ago, coolhandfox said: Nearly two months of the window left, but don't let fact get in the way. Getting the players back from injury is like signings for me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 42 minutes ago, indierich06 said: He really sold us a whopper didn't he? 7th March 2022 https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-transfers-brendan-rodgers-6765231 In the meantime, the window's been open for nearly a month, we're one of the only sides in the league to make zero signings, we haven't shifted any players out of the door, there's been plenty reported but no movement on any of our supposed targets and pre-season - the time when Rodgers claimed we'd be working on ironing out all of the issues from last season - has already started, without any of this new & improved squad he's talked about... but we've been planning since the end of January if you believe the manager. Looking pretty clear that we're going to be doing fairly minimal business at this point due to a lack of funds/not being able to shift quite a lot of deadwood - and there's nothing inherently wrong with that - but don't build expectations for a busy summer when it's unlikely to materialise. Looking more and more like he's simply made these claims during a difficult time to cover his own arse for a string of extremely poor results. Let’s not forget it’s not actually his job to organise and complete the signing and sales of players. Everyone at the club might well want there to be a rebuild, but it’s the recruitment team and DoF who are in charge of the buying and selling and therefore it’s their fault if it’s not going to plan. Brendan will recommend and provide sign offs, but no more or less. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 9 minutes ago, Dusty said: Let’s not forget it’s not actually his job to organise and complete the signing and sales of players. Everyone at the club might well want there to be a rebuild, but it’s the recruitment team and DoF who are in charge of the buying and selling and therefore it’s their fault if it’s not going to plan. Brendan will recommend and provide sign offs, but no more or less. To be honest, if we go into the season with the same team but injury free, I wouldn’t be overly concerned 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheStig Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 50 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said: Getting the players back from injury is like signings for me ....getting them back from the break Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indierich06 Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 51 minutes ago, coolhandfox said: Nearly two months of the window left, but don't let fact get in the way. He's also made a point of saying that pre-season is when we'll work on the issues that plagued us last season - set pieces for example. Probably make sense to have these new signings in place when he's doing all this tactical work ahead of our pre-season games? If he wants a new CB, like he's mentioned several times, surely it would be better to get his man before he's doing all the work on the training pitch with the rest of the squad? There's two months left but we've been planning since the end of January, so to move at this glacial pace - when other clubs are out there signing players - seems frankly ludicrous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indierich06 Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 58 minutes ago, Dusty said: Let’s not forget it’s not actually his job to organise and complete the signing and sales of players. Everyone at the club might well want there to be a rebuild, but it’s the recruitment team and DoF who are in charge of the buying and selling and therefore it’s their fault if it’s not going to plan. Brendan will recommend and provide sign offs, but no more or less. Then maybe don't spend the last three months of the season promising things you, as manager, have absolutely no control over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dames Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 57 minutes ago, coolhandfox said: Nearly two months of the window left, but don't let fact get in the way. “For us, our focus is very much on the summer window,” he said after the January window. "We know we need to make big changes to freshen up the squad and the planning is well underway for that. There’s no doubt we need to make changes come the summer. We’ll have been working together for over three years come then, so we will need to refresh the squad, and that’s something we will do." This is the quote in the article and it really doesn't look like there has been any focus and planning because if there was there would be some movement by now. As it stands pre-season has started and has just over roughly 3 weeks left - the longer this goes on there is less time to integrate new players into the squad ahead of the new season starting. Bearing in mind its a pretty condensed start to the season you'd have expected a manager/board that had planning well underway to be prepared for that as its quite rare you can just parachute new signings into competitive games from the off with little to no pre-season and have them succeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 18 minutes ago, indierich06 said: Then maybe don't spend the last three months of the season promising things you, as manager, have absolutely no control over. Like I said, everyone at the club might be on the same page and have no issue with him saying that. The issue we’re having is that we’re clearly struggling selling the players we no longer want, and that’s stopping any refresh/rebuild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indierich06 Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 Just now, Dusty said: Like I said, everyone at the club might be on the same page and have no issue with him saying that. The issue we’re having is that we’re clearly struggling selling the players we no longer want, and that’s stopping any refresh/rebuild. If budget is non-existent or the squad is bloated to the point of needing to rely on player sales to bring in new signings, again I would personally have been more cautious about promising a summer refresh/rebuild every two minutes. It's notoriously difficult to move on players you no longer need/want for acceptable fees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxile5 Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 Just now, indierich06 said: If budget is non-existent or the squad is bloated to the point of needing to rely on player sales to bring in new signings, again I would personally have been more cautious about promising a summer refresh/rebuild every two minutes. It's notoriously difficult to move on players you no longer need/want for acceptable fees. Especially given the public condemning he's been giving them for some time. Fundamentally, this has been a poorly managed 'refresh' publicised by the manager. It looks like we've done little to no preparation for this and have no concrete plans. Whether you attribute this to Rodgers or not is up to you but I'd wager many do at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 1 minute ago, indierich06 said: If budget is non-existent or the squad is bloated to the point of needing to rely on player sales to bring in new signings, again I would personally have been more cautious about promising a summer refresh/rebuild every two minutes. It's notoriously difficult to move on players you no longer need/want for acceptable fees. I don’t think what he says in press conferences has any bearing on what other clubs think. Clubs will have identified players that they want to buy through scouting and data, not what Brendan says in his interviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarriedaLeicesterGirl Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 59 minutes ago, Dames said: As it stands pre-season has started and has just over roughly 3 weeks left - the longer this goes on there is less time to integrate new players into the squad ahead of the new season starting. Most of our internationals aren't even back yet! And some of our targets would also not be due back from vacation until later this week in any event. We have over a month until the start of the season, and apart from Tielemans and Mendy, the entire starting lineup of our last game of the season should be part of the squad (and Ndidi would be coming in for Mendy in any event.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volpeazzurro Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 9 hours ago, pmcla26 said: Stop putting Perez in the same bracket as Vestergaard and Bertrand. Why? I see him, like them, as a poor signing, in my opinion. Your word 'stop' suggests that only your opinion counts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dames Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 1 hour ago, MarriedaLeicesterGirl said: Most of our internationals aren't even back yet! And some of our targets would also not be due back from vacation until later this week in any event. We have over a month until the start of the season, and apart from Tielemans and Mendy, the entire starting lineup of our last game of the season should be part of the squad (and Ndidi would be coming in for Mendy in any event.) The thing with those guys is that they are already at the club, part of the squad, know how we play and are settled into a routine with their family life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajthefox Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 I watched one of the training videos the other day and then it clocked him doing his clap. I know it's daft but that stupid little clap really grinds my gears. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxile5 Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 24 minutes ago, ajthefox said: I watched one of the training videos the other day and then it clocked him doing his clap. I know it's daft but that stupid little clap really grinds my gears. Did he have his notebook out? That's a gear grinder for me. It's great how our great managers have weird idiosyncrasies. Ranners and his phrases. Nige and his Pure White New Balance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafewayFox Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 36 minutes ago, ajthefox said: I watched one of the training videos the other day and then it clocked him doing his clap. I know it's daft but that stupid little clap really grinds my gears. It is funny as when we’re doing well it’s a likable quirk but when you’re not as positive about him it does become an annoying trait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxile5 Posted 5 July 2022 Share Posted 5 July 2022 15 minutes ago, foxile5 said: Did he have his notebook out? That's a gear grinder for me. It's great how our great managers have weird idiosyncrasies. Ranners and his phrases. Nige and his Pure White New Balance. Claude Puel and...well...we ****ing know what he liked to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 6 July 2022 Share Posted 6 July 2022 He'll moan he hasn't had the chance to work with the new players long enough when we're still shipping set pieces and our new signings only joined in the last week of the window but he'll promise to sort it next summer when he works with them next. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filbertway Posted 6 July 2022 Share Posted 6 July 2022 4 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: He'll moan he hasn't had the chance to work with the new players long enough when we're still shipping set pieces and our new signings only joined in the last week of the window but he'll promise to sort it next summer when he works with them next. It's quite a fun game to work out what exuses he will be using next season. We probably need to sort out some form of Brendan Excuse Bingo I'm sure they're being discussed in the Brendan Rodgers fan club meetings. Also congrats to @coolhandfox and @Simoken who will joining the group after a solid year of proving their devotion to the man. The members list now reads Brendan Rodgers (founder and chair person) SO1 Guest4545454545454545 coolhandfox Simoken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 6 July 2022 Share Posted 6 July 2022 10 minutes ago, filbertway said: It's quite a fun game to work out what exuses he will be using next season. We probably need to sort out some form of Brendan Excuse Bingo I'm sure they're being discussed in the Brendan Rodgers fan club meetings. Also congrats to @coolhandfox and @Simoken who will joining the group after a solid year of proving their devotion to the man. The members list now reads Brendan Rodgers (founder and chair person) SO1 Guest4545454545454545 coolhandfox Simoken Reign it in. Attack the post, not the poster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filbertway Posted 6 July 2022 Share Posted 6 July 2022 9 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said: Reign it in. Attack the post, not the poster I agree with the sentiment, but that's not an attack It's a playful jibe at worst. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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