Ruud van Nistelrooy cannot just go out and buy what he likes, but still there are a lot of new players linked with a move to Leicester. But at this point also other suitors in the picture, so all of these rumours are to be described as absolute cold.
Jamie Vardy, Patson Daka and Odsonne Eduoard are all quality strikers and on the books at Leicester. Leicester also have the 3rd top goalscorer in The Championship, Tom Cannon, on their books. Cannon, on loan at Stoke, has so far scored 8 goals in The Championship this season. This week Leicester are linked with a move for Feyenoord forward Anis Hadj Moussa. The 22 year old Algeria international scored in a game vs. Man City, as he has drawn attention towards a number of PL clubs.
Offensive midfielders are not what Leicester are in need of at this point. Bilal El-Khannouss and Facundo Bounanotte are two very good alternatives, with a certain Will Alves as well as Bobby De Cordova-Reid, Wilfred Ndidi and Jordan Ayew being able to play in this position. Then to see 19 year old Leuven player, Ezechiel Banzuzi linked with a move, just looks very strange.
has been linked with a move to Leicester, together with a group of other MU players seen as potenital departures from Old Trafford in the near future. Marcus Rashford and Christian Eriksen are both players with a questionable future under new manager Amorim, as the could of course be players that Ruud Van Nistelrooy could be keen on, but far from realistic options for Leicester at this point. Tom Collyer is said to have a potential possibility to join Leicester on loan.
Free agents Joel Matip (33) and Ryan Kent (28) are two other names seen linked with Leicester, but it will only happen if players are shipped out, and hardly no point in bringing these type of players into the club.
Transfers cannot be done before players are shipped out. This is a major consern for Ruud, as he needs to balance it all. The squad looks very messy and far from perfect, eying age, positioning balance and contract situations, as well as wages paid to players not really in the first team starting frame.
If you overlook these very important matters, you will soon find yourself in the wilderness as it affect off and on field matters heavily. The problem for a manager is always injuries, and not having enough depth could of course hurt you, but for that you need young hungry players to call on and special men of experience that can play in different positions and have the ability to understand why they are not played every game. You cannot have more than 3 to 4 players in that frame.
Steve Cooper made several errors in the transfer market over the summer, looking at depth instead of correct balance, and as we see this has reduced certain players with several percent as their lack of game time of course will affect their quality when called on. To have five different options for two central midfield positons, and not having a rotation plan, becomes a picture of Leicester at the moment. Having Choudhury, Skipp, Winks, Ndidi and Soumare for those positions, makes no sense, then to see even more players being linked, you just start to feel sick, as it is so far from perfect planning you can get.
Without a good rotation policy you cannot buy players for £20million on long term contracts and not use them, that is a disaster and it will be negative for squad moral, player developement and more. Leicester need to address this fast as it will just kick them hard if they do not understand how you should build a squad of correct balance and quality.
We have talked about this so many times before and to see this happening year in and year out, just overlooking the fact that you are talking about human beings and not playstation players, you will never get it correctly.
Leicester do need more quality to become a strong force in Premier League, but then also a great number of players must be shipped out, and that looks very difficult at the moment, so to see that happening in January would be a massive surprise. To sign players in this window can be difficult, as you could stumble and make very wrong transfer decisions.
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