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Paul Cook as a short-term fix to keep us up or Javier Calleja to make us a top 6 team again. It's a tough choice as the sort of motivator you need to keep us up with the limitations of our current squad and so few games remaining isn't necessarily the same as the type of manager you need to build and coach our squad in the long-term.

Actually, I agree with you. She was good at getting cash fast but the lack of long-term investment in a business will eventually lead to its demise. When Cortese expected her to invest some of the money she got from her father through no effort of her own, for the long-term growth of the business, she was outraged and sacked him. I seem to recall that her father had left financial provison in his will to take care of the club long-term. I wonder what happened to that money? Yet, nobody was outraged at Kat when she got 210 million paid into her bank account by Gao and even charged the club (supposedly her business) interest on a loan, which had to be paid into her personal account in full before she got the money from Gao. She should be very grateful to Cortese for helping build a business from one which cost her father 12 million to one which she sold an 80% share in for 210 million. Meanwhile, Brighton's owner, Tony Bloom, who is no wealthier than Kat, has spent 150 million out of his own pocket on a new stadium and new players and taken nothing back. Bournemouth's owners have also invested their own money in their club.

Too true. She has probably made more money for herself out of this football club than just about any other owner in football history. The priority of the club has been to make money as quickly as possible at every opportunity, and that includes every trnsfer window. The Academy is there to produce players for sale, although it hasn't produced many of any great value recently, and players are bought primarily as investments to be sold for profit. The performance of the football team is just a secondary issue.

Many of us do but we are realistic enough to realize he wouldn't want to work for Les Reed.

It's incredible how you Reedites are still desperately trying to heap praise on your hero. Fortunately, you are in a tiny minority now.

What's reactionary about not being Reedite? Surely, you Reedites are the reactionaries. The majority of us want change.

For the Reedites on here, the performance of the football team is irrelevant. As long as they can worship Les Reed and wonder at the size of Kat's bak balance, they'll always be content. The only time they ever got annoyed was when that Nasty Nic Cortese wanted poor Kat to invest some of her hard-earned dosh in our football club. How selfish of him. They'll never forgive him for that vicious threat to the size of poor Kat's bank balance.

I don't mean played together. They would share the central striker role over the season. The point brmbrm was making was that you need another reliable goal scorer or two in the squad to cover for Austin when he's injured. We don't have any. Even Gabbiadini, throughout his career has been, at best, a goal every 5 games striker, while Long has only scored 1 goal in his last 35 games and Carrillo hasn't score any.

Pelle and Austin would have been the ideal combination. If we'd than added another goal scorer, like David Gameiro, in the last transfer window, and sold Carrillo, Long and Gabbiadini, we'd have had excellent striking options and saved money.

This is, after all, what football club owners usually do. Football clubs, like race horses, have always been bought as a hobby by wealthy businessmen, traditionally local men made good, like Jack Walker, who wanted to put something back into the local community, not people who wanted to make money out of them. Nowadays, it's a sporting arena where international billionaires compete against each other but football clubs have always been rich men's playthings and the wealthier the owner, the more the fans have benefitted. It's not just the likes of Man City and Chelsea. You only have to look at neighbours, Brighton and Bournemouth, to see that. Brighton's owner has already spent 150 million out of his own pocket to build their new stadium and buy players. Saints and Coventry are 2 of the few clubs where owners have wanted to make money for themselves out of the club, and the quarter of a billion that Kat has made must mean she has made more money out of our club than just about any other owner in football history. The board's main task has been to make as much money as possible for Kat and ensure that she doesn't have to reinvest a single penny - the performance of the football team is just a secondary issue - and that's why we are still stuck with Les Reed.

I don't think the tax evasion case against her has been proven yet.

Ihese stats are from Wikipedia so probably only include league games but even though Gabbbiadini had a little purple patch when he first joined us, he has been a goal every 4 or 5 games striker throughout his career, whereas Vardy is a goal every 2 games striker. That's a big difference. Charlie Austin's goals were the crucial ones which made the difference between us finishing 8th and 17th last season. Nearly every goal he scored won us points. But, we are where we are now in the league this season because of our lack of a reliable goal scorer. We have created just as many chances. Vardy and Mahrez would have scored from most of them and Pelle and Mane from a number of them too. Gabbiadini Senior career Years Team Apps (Gls) 2009–2012 Atalanta 25 (1) 2010–2011 Cittadella 27 (5) 2012–2013 Juventus 0 (0) 2012–2013 Bologna (loan) 30 (6) 2013–2015 Sampdoria 47 (15) 2015–2017 Napoli 56 (15) 2017– Southampton 35 ( Vardy Senior career Years Team Apps (Gls) 2010–2011 F.C. Halifax Town 37 (26) 2011–2012 Fleetwood Town 36 (31) 2012– Leicester City 196 (75)

Without the 25 goals from Vardy and Mahrez this season, Puel's Leicester would currently be 2nd from bottom on 21 points. And if we'd had Vardy and Mahrez's goals this season, we'd be in the top 6. If, Puel hadn't had Charlie Austin's goals in the early part of last season, we'd have finished 17th. So, I suggest it is the quality of the strikers more than the quality of the managers which is responsible for our current postions. If we'd had Vardy and Mahrez instead of Long, Carrillo, Gabbiadini, Ward-Prowse and Boufal we'd be heading for Europe with Pellegrino and Leicester would be going down with Puel.

Positives 1) We got rid of Puel 2) We got rid of Eric Black 3) We got rid of Gardos 4) We got tid of Rodriguez 5) We haven't sold Bertrand and Lemina yet Negatives 1) We replaced Puel with Pellegrino 2) We replaced Black with Kelvin Davis 3) We replaced Gardos with Bednarek 4) We replaced Rodriguez with Carrillo 5) We will do

Yes, even with the strong squad he's got at Leicester, Puel doesn't seem to be doing particularly well. It's hard to see him lasting another season there. Without the points won by Charlie Austin's goals in the early part of last season, we'd have finished 17th.

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Austin was our top goal scorer last season and he is again this season. Without his crucial goals v West Ham, Everton, Bournemouth, Arsenal and Huddersfield this season, we'd already be down and without his goals last season, we'd have finished 17th. It's not only his goals that we miss: he lifts the performance of the whole team when he plays as they can actually see some point in attacking. Admittedly, he is physically falling apart, which is why we got him so cheaply. He's still been a bargain though and the only striker we've had over the last 2 seasons who can score goals. You're right about Long though but perhaps as others have said he might be better played as a winger as with his poor finishing he is just wasting space when played as a lone central striker.

There is a lot of lethergy and inertia in the senior management of the club, as we have seen in the last couple of transfer windows. We have an old man at the top, who should have retired last year and another who is not really interested in football. If you really believe "Reed has lined up a top promising manager for next season", I think you are going to be very disappointed. Every appointment he makes is worse than the previous one and I expect that trend to continue until Reed is forced to retire.

He has had an impact. He scored their equalizer yesterday. That's 10 goals and 10 assists for him so far this season.

That's true if you are looking to buy younger players to sell for a profit to Liverpool but if you were lookiing to make Lawrie McMenemy style signings who could bring immediate results to your team but who might not be young enough to be sold to Liverpool after one or two seasons then it's not. We could have bought plenty of goalscoring strikers for that money or less, like Kevin Gameiro, Carlos Bacca or even Albert Adomah (a Mane style winger who scores goals). Glenn Murray cost Brighton just 3 million and he already has 12 goals this season (admittedly he is too old to sell to Liverpool). Investment in goal scorers like Gameiro and Adomah in January rather than Carrillo would have seen us climbing up the table immediately, even if we couldn't have sold them to Liverpool later.

Whatever style of football we played, at Premier League level he'd still have been a pointless signing. Meanwhile if we'd had Harry Kane this season, we'd have got a lot more points. It's easy to wrap up all of your problems and bundle them all on to a single scapegoat, in this case Pellegrino, but it's totally misguided to do so. Pellegrino may be one of the problems but he's not the only one. Our lack of a goal scorer, now that Austin is almost permanently injured, is a far bigger problem. If we'd had Harry Kane instead of Long followed by Carrillo, we'd probably be 7th now, even with your scapegoat as manager.

Yes, they all must be absolutely salivating at the prospect of getting an attacking midfielder, who is slow, can't tackle and who has scored a grand total of 12 goals in 189 games, 4 of which have been against West Brom. Who would want a player like that? West Brom?

And, as I said, in JWP's case, it would be a big relief for him and his family, if he could play for another club. But, he will struggle to find another Premier League club prepared to take him. I guess his dream would be to follow in Oxlade-Chamberlain's footsteps.

I think JWP 'gets it'. When the players were on the platform at Southampton station, waiting to set off for an Arsenal game last season, he was chanting 'Play Up Pompey!" to annoy the Saints fans. His family are all Pompey season ticket holders and he is a big Pompey fan himself so I sometimes wonder how keen he is to score crucial goals for Saints. Of course, he is a professional athlete so he has to consider his own career but I think he'd be slightly more motivated if he was playing for another team.

The vast majority of players in our first team squad are not even regular starters for their national teams. I don't think you'd find a single Leicester fan who'd swap their squad for ours and I doubt even Watford or Swansea fans would either. As I said before, just the fact Les Reed spent a lot of money on players doesn't mean they are any good: Southampton 25 Squad players Alves Soares, Cedric Ricardo Austin, Charlie* Bertrand, Ryan* Boufal, Sofiane Carrillo, Guido Marcelo Davis, Steven* Forster, Fraser Gerard* Gabbiadini, Manolo Gardos, Florin Hoedt, Wesley Hojbjerg, Pierre Emile Kordt Lemina, Mario Rene Junior Long, Shane Patrick* McCarthy, Alex Simon* McQueen, Samuel James* Pied, Jeremy Redmond, Nathan Daniel Jerome* Rose, Jack Joseph* Stephens, Jack* Tadic, Dusan Taylor, Stuart James* Vidal, Oriol Romeu Ward-Prowse, James Michael Edward* Yoshida, Maya Leicester City 25 Squad players Albrighton, Marc Kevin* Amartey, Daniel Benalouane, Yohan Diabate, Fousseni Dragovic, Aleksandar Fuchs, Christian Hamer, Benjamin John* Huth, Robert* Iborra, Vicente Jakupovic, Eldin James, Matthew Lee* Maguire, Harry* Mahrez, Riyad Morgan, Westley Nathan* Okazaki, Shinji Schmeichel, Kasper Peter* Silva, Adrien Sebastien Perruchet Simpson, Daniel Peter* Vardy, Jamie* Swansea City 25 Squad players Ayew, Andre Morgan Rami Ayew, Jordan Baker-Richardson, Courtney Bartley, Kyle* Bony, Wilfried Guemiand Britton, Leon James* Carroll, Thomas James* Clucas, Samuel Raymond* Dyer, Nathan Antone Jonah* Fabianski, Lukasz Fer, Leroy Fernandez, Federico Ki, Sung Yueng King, Andrew* Mawson, Alfie Robert John* Mulder, Erwin Narsingh, Luciano Naughton, Kyle* Nordfeldt, Bo Kristoffer Olsson, Martin Tony Waikwa* Roberts, Connor Richard Jones* Routledge, Wayne Neville Anthony* Van Der Hoorn, Mike Adrianus Wilhelmus Zabret, Gregor* Zaragoza, Angel Rangel Watford 25 Squad players Bachmann, Daniel* Britos Cabrera, Miguel Angel Capoue, Etienne Carrillo Diaz, Andre Martin Cathcart, Craig George* Chalobah, Nathaniel Nyakie* Cholevas, Chose Loint Cleverley, Thomas William* Deeney, Troy Matthew* Deulofeu Lazaro, Gerard Doucoure, Abdoulaye Femenia Far, Francisco Gomes, Heurelho Da Silva Gray, Andre Anthony* Hughes, William James* Janmaat, Daryl Kabasele, Christian Kaboul, Younes Karnezis, Orestis-Spyridon Mariappa, Adrian Joseph* Ndong, Didier Ibrahim Okaka, Stefano Chuka Pereyra, Roberto Maximiliano Prodl, Sebastian Zeegelaar, Marvin Romeo Kwasie