Making Plans

Dowell - round peg in a square hole

Why are we interested in either?

Troy Deeney has just been released by Birmingham. Just our type of player - 35 years old, 11 goals in 2 seasons. What's not to like?

He is on the bench

But we are no longer in the English Top Flight

From BBC "Not a Leicester fan but why have they left 2 of their best attacking players on the bench and picked three pondering midfielders when they need goals to stay up? Does Dean Smith have a clue what he's doing?" The 2 best players left out includes one James Maddison.

Nothing to do with the quality and excitement of the football dished up then

Why would any of them want to take a massive step down and blight their prospects by joining us?

Difficult to throw a hissy fit at Celtic when he plays for Rangers

Interesting piece https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65584026

Serial under performers

That 4-0 win away from home in January looks even more unlikely now Nevermind unlikely, more like impossible

Secure our Championship status

It's not missing the point at all. A trend for managing expectations has clearly been set not least by the fact we have been showing players around the Club who are going to cost us nothing. We are shopping in the football equivalent of Poundland. So they might be decent enough players to keep us in the Championship but that is just stagnation rather than progression. That is not ambition, it is damage limitation. As for spending money we don't have, we hardly went on a wild spending spree when we had some and what we did spend was mostly wasted on players who were/are not good enough and are now worth less than we paid for them.

Extended contracts to Hernandez & Idah, neither of which pull up many trees on a regular basis. Reported interest in a 33 year old striker who if bought would hardly be a signing for the future given that future is next season. Sorry, but we seriously need to do better than that. A lot better.

If Hernandez is the upper level of our aspirations and ambition it's kinda worrying

Even more money chucked down the drain.

It all starts at the top so D&M have to go. They are past it and completely out of their depth by modern day requirements. We are drowning in a pool of mediocrity at every level - ownership, management, coaches, recruitment, squad, academy etc etc. It really is as simple as that. The model is broken

On the plus side. Milner has more footballing ability, more ambition (even at his age) and more desire to win a football match than everybody in our current squad.

In LDC's bizzare fantasy World we still have a chance of avoiding relegation from the PL.

Even if it's not over what would be the point? If we got to the play-offs we would only embarrass ourselves more than we already have the last 2 seasons. Whatever happens, it really is time to realise that for this season at least, there is absolutely no hope. From top to bottom, we are a rabble.

And that, as they say, is the end of that. Please, no more positive, hopeful posts, we are crap. BTW, playing at home and we have only had 24% possession. We have hit rock bottom and I fear there will be worse to come next season.

Crap squad + crap manager = perfect storm You have to change something and you can't get rid or replace a whole squad in mid season