Michael Golding and Kaleb Okoli are the two players coming in so far with a transfer fee paid, besides the free transfer of Bobby De Cordova-Reid. These moves looks to have happened without any special coordination from new manager Steve Cooper.
Golding possibly being in there just to get the Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall transfer over the line, and in no way looked at as a potential starter in the team this season, hardly getting any game time at all in the pre-season games.
Steve Cooper looks to go with four in the back and with Wout Faes and Jannik Vestergaard back in the team, as well as having Conor Coady, Harry Souttar and Ben Nelson as alternatives, and in crisis also possible to call on Wilfred Ndidi and Hamza Choudhury to do a job in there, the move for Kaleb Okoli looks totally misplaced and difficult to accept as it makes no sence if he is not seen as a certain starter, and he should not be in front of Coady, Vestergaard or Faes, who are recent full interntionals for their countries.
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— Leicester City (@LCFC) July 7, 2024
The club just handed Jannik Vestergaard a new three year deal, based on his performances last season and it would make no sense if he is not one to be playing week in and week out. Faes has been critisised a lot in different fan channels, they do not have a clear picture of his qualities and defending skills. No way Leicester can bench Wout Faes. So are Vestergaard and Faes for sale, hopefully not.
To use £12million on a player in a position were you have five full internationals from before, and one England U.20 player also to call on, looks like throwing money out the window. We have seen over the years how much money has been wasted on players just going around, not getting enough game time, it looks a hopeless scenario.
The job for a football club is to get a balanced squad of players were expectations are in reach within the group, so that you have happy faces around. You should not have more than 16 to 17 players inside the group that see themselves as first team regulars. You can handle one or two players not being totally satisfied, but as a manager trying to please the rest, if they are out of the picture they have drawn for themselves, then you are in massive trouble.
You can of course balance this off with a rotation policy, but when you are a club with minor rescources and quality players, starting a full rotation would over all make you a weaker team. We have seen in the past how Leicester have managed to compete with the better teams. A settled line-up with little or no changes will be the absolute route to follow.
At this point Leicester lack midfield creativity and having too many similar players in certain positions, as it all looks very unbalanced, but of course as we did see with Enzo Maresca last season, he made changes showing that players could do other jobs, but that was in The Championship, another level coming around the corner in August.
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