A pretty accurate assessment from Football365 on our January transfer 'activity'...

Mistryman

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Leicester

INS: Woyo Coulibaly (£3m, Parma)

OUTS: Tom Cannon (£10m, Sheffield United), Hamza Choudhury (loan, Sheffield United), Will Alves (loan, Cardiff)


Rarely has a club accepted its fate so readily. Three of the four sides detached at the bottom of the Premier League table signed at least three players and spent comfortably more than they recouped. Leicester found some poor sap gullible enough to rescue James Justin at right-back then locked themselves in hopefully sandwich-free negotiations with Chris Wilder for a month.

It was difficult to lower the bar from the summer and really this is the direct consequence of spending nearly £40m on Michael Golding, Caleb Okoli, Oliver Skipp and their combined 16 starts, as well as the years of careful mismanagement which preceded that disaster of a window. But even then gems were found in Abdul Fatawu and Bilal El Khannouss.

No such attempts were even made in a winter characterised by understandable fan frustration aimed at the owners and boardroom. Leicester have once more systematically weakened an already debilitated hand, failed yet again to either move on players they don’t want or identify good enough ones they do, and compounded those mistakes with a lack of communication or accountability.

Ruud van Nistelrooy must be interrogated as to why he accepted this role so freely because if this is indicative of how Leicester handle their budgetary restrictions, they are entirely and irrevocably doomed. The only uncertainty at this stage is how far they will fall.
 
if we do accept the inevitable relegation we need to start prep now, Ruud isnt going to want to ply his trade in the championship or be wanted i am afraid
likewise half the squad and vardy will be ok as an impact sub in the championship but isnt the answer at 39
 
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