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We just slowed down so much, slow ball, no movement. The opposition was well set before he even got the ball, add in lack of confidence... oh and I think he was struggling from the serious knee injury from the season before.

He inherited a wonderful young team full of talent and a 20 goal a season striker. It worked wonderfully to start with, but sadly the club allowed him to get rid of our physios and replace them with his own. Along with then head of recruitment being his choice. That's when the injuries started, he's ruined numerous players through injury and we were missing most of our team for huge chunks of seasons. His signings in the main have been utterly woeful, buying and then casting aside players. So he can moan about money all he wants, he wasted about £220m on utter shit that never troubled those already starting. So things started to go stale within the squad, players started to get unhappy as he was forever throwing them under the bus, or not giving players a chance. We basically entered last season with about 11 players running down contracts and wanting out of the club. Then you have the football, he's inherently negative and is more worried about the opposition than he is focusing on what we are good at. We were absolutely flying to start with, we lost one game and he just bottled it, going negative constantly. The football just got more an more negative as he went along, he couldn't fix any problems... see our set piece issue which went on for several years, until he accepted he couldn't sort it and brought in an outside specialist. He basically just slowing chipped away at the fabric of the club bit by bit, of course that's on the head of those at the club allowing him to do so. But things started well and they thought he was god. There is no way we should have been relegated in a million years, ludicrous we were. That's down to his man management, in the summer all he did was slag the club off and set a negative mindset from the off. He could have gone down the route of siege mentality, but just chose to try and save himself and his reputation at every opportunity. How the club didn't sack him last summer I don't know. Anyway, it's so hard to get across without writing a book. Safe to say even before relegation the man was despised by most, which says a lot.

We've taken a huge risk in the manager, could be shrewd, could be sh***. At least he's buying players that actually fit how he wants to players... unlike the poison drarf he would sign 7ft tall centre backs with zero speed and then put them in a high line.

Yes

Not massively, but then judging him on what Brendan (can't set a team up to defend properly if his life depended on it) Rodgers asked him to do is totally and utterly pointless. Fans here have grown frustrated with him in recent years, but we grew frustrated with everything, watching that little turd ruin a decades hard working bit by bit, without anyone at the club barring 32,000 fans there on match day being able to see it. Barnes has the potential to be an absolutely brilliant signing, his numbers show that what an average Barnes can do it a shit team... so imagine what one full of confidence, in a team playing well and a positive decent manager could do?

There is plenty of room for improvement, his numbers ere good under Rodgers, and he's an utterly horrendous manager who couldn't get players playing to their maximum for more than a month or two a season. He's not one to take on players with his pace, what he thrives on is quick ball and being allowed to make quick decisions which catch the opposition off guard. You ask him to take 11 touches all in the name of not losing it, then he'll be a hard watch at times. Now a few caveats, he seems like he desperately needs coaching on where he needs to go and when he needs to go. So often he's wandering around in a poor position when there is a giant gap out wide waiting for him to exploit. IF he's coachable and not just really really bad at positioning and won't be told, then he's going to get double figures.

It’s FFP, but the UEFA FFP and not the premier league one. We obviously have designs on playing in Europe, so you have to keep within them, but it’s not really a massive deal. Plus we just need to move players on to bring players in. But we don’t have to sign players do we. And before anyone says it… I’m on holiday.

We’ve lost an ageing keeper who was on the decline ffs. Whilst not on his level, Daka and Iheanacho have both scored plenty.

Rodgers will just see who is best. Iverson has received rave reviews in the championship. I suppose there will be an element of giving Ward his shot having waited for it. But ultimately I see it being Iverson being given the chance to take the spot.

I’ve said if you bid the right price, he’d probably be sold. Contrary to the opinion on here, lowballing is isn’t going to get him.

Close the thread then, I’m just attempting to give a different perspective as people seem to put two and two together and get five.

In which case we can just go with what we’ve got. But a number were already on loan to other clubs before who we know still have interest in them. It’s likely to all be late loan deals. And we juts loan players in, our RW both of last two seasons has been a loan, so we’d just do it again.

Seems like it, the club really rate Iverson and we have another top class young polish keeper. I think they want a progression route for them. Kasper hasn’t been amazing, this season. So it’s a good time to make a change. Still gutted as he’s a legend though.

Rodgers said absolutely nothing about selling a big name. He said assets, every player on the books is an asset. “It would have to be about trimming the squad or selling your assets.“ The aim is to sell or loan out fringe players and always has been. With the exception of Soyuncu or Tielemans being in their last year. We have to sell or loan out to buy. But we don’t really need to buy that much. Gk Ward / Iverson RB Ricardo / Castagne CB Fofana / Soyuncu CB Evans / Amartey / Vestergaard LB Justin / Thomas RW Perez / Albrighton LW Barnes CM Tielemans / Praet / Choudhury Maddison CM Ndidi / Mendy / Soumare / Dewsbury Hall ST Vardy / Daka / Iheanacho We have too many CM’s and not enough wide men. So we’d want to lose two or three CM’s (not Maddison) and get a winger. Next would be sell a fringe CB and get another better CB. Then perhaps a cheap third choice keeper.

Leicester don’t want to lose either.