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That Sueleman at Southampton looked decent, odd how they only really used him after they were down despite paying a fair bit for him.

I'd probably agree with most of the above, though I think Livramento has been injured all season unfortunately for him, if he does recover his level then I agree he was very good against us last season.

Kyle Walker Peters is a funny one too, can be both terrible and great in ten minutes of play, defensively he's weak though I think.

Picking a defence from that lot is hard though, based on performances over the season. But there will be a few midfielders and forwards from these 3 picked up by lower half to mid table premier league teams again I think.
 
None of those players are good enough yet to get into the first eleven for our next two games, but Maddison would and Lavia might be stronger than some of the squad alternatives we have.
 
Bazunu

Walker-Peters
Evans
Bella-Kotchap
Castagne

Ward-Prowse
Lavia
Tielemans

Maddison

Barnes
Rodrigo
 
Maddison, Barnes, Bella-Kotchap, Lavia, Ward-Prowse & Gnonto are all too good to play in the Championship but I wouldn't have any at City.

Leeds squad is absolutely diabolical. They are in real trouble next year already. Leicester and Southampton have decent young players and I expect both to bounce straight back.
 
Kippax Street 1880 said:
Maddison, Barnes, Bella-Kotchap, Lavia, Ward-Prowse & Gnonto are all too good to play in the Championship but I wouldn't have any at City.

Leeds squad is absolutely diabolical. They are in real trouble next year already. Leicester and Southampton have decent young players and I expect both to bounce straight back.
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(I wrote this on another thread but copy pasted it here and it explains Leicester's extremely bleak situation)

Leicester City have next to no chance at all of coming straight back up if relegated.

Southampton will probably be okay they have a lot of good Championship players that nobody else will want, half of their squad are probably good at that level but not good enough for the Prem, strikers have been their weak link but at that level those current strikers have done very well before.

Leicester are in turmoil by far the worst position if they go down and their own fans (a couple of whom I know) would admit that too, it's not even close either they're in terrible shape this is the current season's expiring players:

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This is next season's:

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Leicester's owners nearly went bankrupt these past couple years due to poor turnover:

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That's likely due to COVID and the money hasn't come back to expected levels since normal travel resumed, it might not seem it at first glance but they're doing all they can in a bad situation, it's really messed up they didn't see it coming they're desperate for the club to survive and are depending on Premier League money to run it, all their sales have gone towards securing the club's future too scared to gamble with that money in wake of their own financial mess.

None of those Leicester players expiring this season will be pledging their undying loyalty to them, hardly any of next season's that actually matter all on high wages too will be wanting to stay to help them, they'll be on their bikes given the chance and that's without some of their better players on long-term deals who might be sold this summer.

It's a recipe for disaster... I'm talking possible relegation to League One in the next couple years type disaster if they can't convince their best players to stay, if they have too many leave it's unlikely they'll find players good enough to challenge they're truly up shit creek without a paddle, bar the survival of an already dead looking team and a miracle takeover and a good managerial appointment it's all looking grim, not impossible no but it seems improbable all of that... they desperately need to survive because they have very little chance of coming back up anytime soon.
 
Leeds’ pickings: Gnonto, Bamford, Harrison
Leicester’s pickings: Iheanacho, Vardy, Maddison, Evans, Tielemans, Ndidi, Albrighton, Perez, Choudhurry
Soton’s pickings: Ward-Prowse, Bazunu, Walker-Peters, Djenepo, Livramento, Bednarek, Lavia, Tella

Who could benefit us: One of Gnonto, Harrison, Maddison, Ward-Prowse, or Tella. None would be regular starters, none should be targeted.
 
Leicester and Southampton loaned out better players than they had kept back at their respective homes
 
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