ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN
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TBF they have a good proven scouting team
Maybe this is where the club should be looking at revamping
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TBF they have a good proven scouting team
Maybe this is where the club should be looking at revamping
mosssideblue
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Are we that bad?TBF they have a good proven scouting team
Maybe this is where the club should be looking at revamping
Are we that bad?
Revamping is far to strong a phrase, but improvements can always be made.
We take a lot of punts on players whom will never play for us, but will be sold for profit to aid FFP.
I would like to see us take more active efforts in signing players with potential to get into the 1st team. I think we have something like 31 players out on loan, yet there are only possibly a couple that could ever get into the 1st team squad.
mosssideblue
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Revamping is far to strong a phrase, but improvements can always be made.
We take a lot of punts on players whom will never play for us, but will be sold for profit to aid FFP.
I would like to see us take more active efforts in signing players with potential to get into the 1st team. I think we have something like 31 players out on loan, yet there are only possibly a couple that could ever get into the 1st team squad.
Perfect business model if you ask me in terms of revenues but we simply have no idea what is happening behind the scenes. Our first team squad is elite, so to break into that as a youngster, I would suggest will be the exception.
decmancity
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Well we haven't exactly done great in terms of recruiting defenders since the takeover. Leicester have comfortably replaced nearly all of the players they have sold with better replacements, they are doing a lot right.Oh come on, ffs. Who are Leicester now, the club we should be aspiring to?
We're a club at the very top of the food chain - there's a reason why we don't take many punts on cheaper players.
TBF they have a good proven scouting team
Maybe this is where the club should be looking at revamping
Proven for what - running mid table?
Please.
So Mid table that we as an elite club want to sign there LB and CB.Proven for what - running mid table?
Please.
Cellarite
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And are behind them in the league.So Mid table that we as an elite club want to sign there LB and CB.
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN
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Proven for what - running mid table?
Please.
Purchasing players at decent price and making huge profit on them.
Look at the table and you will see no longer mid table
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN
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Are we that bad?
Compare our purchases in defence especially CB with theirs and for price.
Laporte apart we are poor at scouting CB especially
So Mid table that we as an elite club want to sign there LB and CB.
Which is exactly how it works - we, the top feeders, buy from those under us. Not the other way round.
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN
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Which is exactly how it works - we, the top feeders, buy from those under us. Not the other way round.
But shouldn't we be looking at why they scout good decent CB but we don't
We need to be the ones leading not following.
Purchasing players at decent price and making huge profit on them.
Look at the table and you will see no longer mid table
And we could do exactly the same if we wanted to sell our players.
We don't sell our talent. We're a winning club and that talent is up there with the cream of the crop, regardless of current table position.
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN
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And we could do exactly the same if we wanted to sell our players.
We don't sell our talent. We're a winning club and that talent is up there with the cream of the crop, regardless of current table position.
We couldn't sell Mangala in a raffle
Cream of the crop my arse, not at CB anyway.
Midfield and Forward positions we scout very well but CB scouting is shite.
But shouldn't we be looking at why they scout good decent CB but we don't
We need to be the ones leading not following.
I've stated this already, and think it's pretty clear. We don't go after the level of players they do and take punts - we go for players who are more proven and more of a sure thing, because we can. That's what the biggest, richest clubs generally do.
Apart from a PL title, regarded widely as a miracle, Leicester have won nothing and are not expected to win anything. It's comparing chalk and cheese.
We couldn't sell Mangala in a raffle
Cream of the crop my arse, not at CB anyway.
Midfield and Forward positions we scout very well but CB scouting is shite.
Scouting isn't all winning. You win some, you lose some - that is the entire game. You hope that you have many more wins and than losses, keeping the wins big and losses small.
The grass isn't greener on the other side - need we be reminded of Leicester signing Nacho for 25 mill.
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN
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I've stated this already, and think it's pretty clear. We don't go after the level of players they do and take punts - we go for players who are more proven and more of a sure thing, because we can. That's what the biggest, richest clubs generally do.
Apart from a PL title, regarded widely as a miracle, Leicester have won nothing and are not expected to win anything. It's comparing chalk and cheese.
I am comparing like for like CB signings and chalk or cheese they are more adept at signing quality CB
We may be the richest but need to comply with FFP etc and my point is that our scouts need looking at as we are not doing as well as we should in CB position.
The point he's making about our CB souting is pretty valid though I'd say. You could argue we've made one very good CB signing in the last 10 years (Laporte), and our fullback acquisitions haven't been that much better.Scouting isn't all winning. You win some, you lose some - that is the entire game. You hope that you have many more wins and than losses, keeping the wins big and losses small.
The grass isn't greener on the other side - need we be reminded of Leicester signing Nacho for 25 mill.
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN
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Scouting isn't all winning. You win some, you lose some - that is the entire game. You hope that you have many more wins and than losses, keeping the wins big and losses small.
The grass isn't greener on the other side - need we be reminded of Leicester signing Nacho for 25 mill.
Nacho is a forward not a CB
mosssideblue
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With our recent trophy haul these last few seasons, I would suggest we are not following anybodyBut shouldn't we be looking at why they scout good decent CB but we don't
We need to be the ones leading not following.