Going back in time you will always find answers to certain situations appearing in life. Leicester are under pressure at the moment and they do struggle heavily in two very important positions.
To play without a striker not able to score goals and not have a goalkeeper up to the task to make special saves, you will over time suffer with crucial points lost.
Looking at everything in the back mirror, Brendan Rodgers must be put to ransom for his huge mistake. When deciding to let Kasper Schmeichel leave and replace him with Danny Ward, you have missed the target by miles. The gap in quality was a distance you can not really describe. By this action Brendan Rodgers changed Leicester from a top four candidate to a relegation struggler.
Jamie Vardy left Leicester last summer, not really being replaced. Marti Cifuentes overlooked the problem and believed Jordan Ayew or Patson Daka would be good enough as replacements. A total disastrous decision as the two had no chance of replacing JV9.
These two positions in football are the most important. Without class players, you will miss the target and be out of a second or third tier promotion push, or be able to keep running steady at the top level and get out of bad form situations.
Leicester has not been able to replace neither Kasper Schmeichel or Jamie Vardy. There are also massive gaps to fill in other positions, but still being without top special quality in these two most vital positions, no surprise to see Leicester struggling heavily this season.
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Kasper Schmeichel and Jamie Vardy are still in the professional game of football. Vardy playing in Serie A with Cremonese and Schmeichel doing well at Celtic. The problem for a club like Leicester is that they over a long period of time, made a decision to overlook the problem, not being able to replace them with proper options. Both players managed to hold their positions, with ease, as other signings not really were up to the task to take on those very special roles.
When you are in charge of a football team, you have your logistics, you can never overlook these situations. To experiment will always see you fail. Since Kasper Schmeichel left Leicester we have seen a rotation of goalkeepers that is more or less crazy. Leicester did sign Mads Hermansen, but his level is below Kasper and since leaving Leicester we have seen him struggle heavily at West Ham. He is no longer their first choice. He was in January seen linked with a return to Leicester, because the current goalkeeper situation looks far from solved. Jacub Stolarczyk has not taken his chance, not really surprised and crazy to see that no one at this football club has had the eye and understood this at an earlier point.
A goalkeeper’s level of performance can vary when you are younger. But if you have trouble to be steady at a certain level and not handle pressure, you seldom will get to the level of performance needed to enhance your performances and become that special man, needed to get back to top tier football.
We did see promise regarding Jacub Stolarczyk last season, hopefully believe he had it in him to become that special first choice goalkeeper, but at this time we see a player, struggling and giving his manager trust issues, that has seen him dropped for a 38 year old competitor. That is a massive warning sign.
To see Leicester linked with Raul Jimenez, was interesting. We do not understand how this has not been a priority as quality talented goalkeepers should be available, if you do not have that type of option at the club allready.
At the moment we do not have any act of special focus as both positions. No real effort seen in the last two transfer windows to strengthen in these two vital positions. That looks strange and far from what we would have expected from Leicester’s recruitment team.
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