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It's Top and his boards' fault, not the leagues for enforcing the rules (sometimes badly) we signed up to - if we do get punished which seems unlikely

https://fbref.com/en/players/eeba07f8/Luis-Javier-Suarez

Ndidi has been one of our better players this season. He's always been committed, played well last year and has been dragged down by those around him. If he was to leave in the summer then I'd wish him well. 300 appearances, FA cup, Championship and Community Shield winner, a near-constant in our best ever era and a player we won't know how badly we'll miss him until he's gone.

Put together a costly direct mail campaign with an incorrect phone number on it

#WhenTaken #426 (28.04.2025) I scored 817/1000🏅 1️⃣📍2.9 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200 2️⃣📍4.1K km - 🗓️16 yrs - 🥉96/200 3️⃣📍521 km - 🗓️19 yrs - 🥈142/200 4️⃣📍95.4 km - 🗓️10 yrs - 🥇180/200 5️⃣📍1.7 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200 https://whentaken.com Being able to parse Cyrillic would sure be useful

We would be attractive to savvy buyers because Top’s mismanagement has created some alpha in us an investment. - Big(ish) fanbase, ground ripe for expansion and planning secured - Bigger name relative to Bournemouth, Forest, Fulham, Brighton, Palace etc to due to 2016(-2021) - Seagrave - Productive academy, Barnes, Chilwell, KDH c. £120m alone - Central location, ~ an hour to London The outstanding liabilities (Sounds like Top, Rudkin, Whelan wahey) would knock the purchase price down too. Southampton were worth £125m ish in January 2022, we’d be more valuable than that anyway but you’re essentially buying a midtable PL club for a yo-yo price. If Top (or the family) are wavering on us as asset, sell now before our value diminishes further through his incompetence

Perez stunted us the most, not the worst player but a proper right winger would have had us in the top 4 in 20/21 or the following season

Great late drama

I don’t give a shit if Danes, Zambians or Argentines get ‘Leicester’ garbled. People get things wrong in their own tongue because some words are just difficult or plain weird. Expecting 100% faithful, native pronunciations is the sort of exceptionalism some people (not the OP) decry.

He’s too raw for that still

Lacking the killer strike bowler that puts an innings to bed.

#WhenTaken #423 (25.04.2025) I scored 746/1000🎗️ 1️⃣📍264 km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥇187/200 2️⃣📍3.8K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥈131/200 3️⃣📍3.8K km - 🗓️45 yrs - 🥉32/200 4️⃣📍9.2 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇198/200 5️⃣📍6.8 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇198/200 On for a tidy score until #3

First thing I thought of. Went mad at the goal anyway (in the living room) and the celebration has me howling

Not to trivialise more serious things but it does feel a bit like a death in that every time you think of it - it still gets you. It’ll take some time to come to terms with it, how lucky we are.

#WhenTaken #422 (24.04.2025) I scored 730/1000🎗️ 1️⃣📍293 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇183/200 2️⃣📍1.0K km - 🗓️11 yrs - 🥈151/200 3️⃣📍4.9K km - 🗓️12 yrs - 🥉100/200 4️⃣📍18.8K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥉99/200 5️⃣📍6.2 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇197/200 https://whentaken.com Thought the score would be worse

I quite liked both of the blokes from Derbyshire. The laughing at the key in the door was very Top Gear. Letitia speaking Mandarin should be a huge advantage both I didn't think that bore out really.

I know Chelsea, Villa, Birmingham, Brighton and Wolves fans who are gutted, a few said they can't imagine how we feel.

Lump in my throat watching the video. We'll never have a greater player.

It's the right time but... f uck, still gutting

We want £4,000,000 and no less Marseille, you can stick your £3,895,000 offer up le arse

So many on here were hooked back in after a few not-shit performances earlier on in the season. Surely we finally see the back of the twat

His record is 3-2-17, pretty similar tbh

Doomed when we appointed a manager that his won 3 of his last 17 PL games. Forest fans harping on about him keeping us up when they sacked him because he was taking them down

Like I said he wouldn't make my top 10 but time and time again they've appointed the easiest and laziest choice. Just once we've appointed a manager in a job under these - Rodgers. Every manager had previously worked in English football in some capacity. We've appointed more former + current employees as managers than people in a job or from abroad. The people that appointed Cooper aren't going to land Kjetil Knutsen or somebody of his ilk all of a sudden. There've been hundreds of interesting, good names over the years touted on this board and the only left field choice the club has ever made is Maresca, on an agent's recommendation apparently (entirely believable). I'm advocating for Dyche over the dross like Martin, GO'N, Mowbray not in general. My #1 in the summer was Corberan because he's genuinely the most pragmatic (not Cooper's sham pragmatism) in our sort of bracket. If we'd stayed up or gone down he's have been a good fit. He's smashing it at Valencia but we baulked at £4m compo just to spunk 5x that on Oliver William Skipp (born 16 September 2000).

Dyche wouldn’t make my top 10 but this is King Power’s Leicester we’re taking about - we appointed Cooper who is the ersatz/tinpot/heron foods Dyche anyway. Bournemouth/Fulham/Brighton were all promoted into weaker PL seasons, the drawbridge has been pulled up now and there’s basically one or two weak links - there wasn’t in 21-23. Us, Wolves, Palace, Everton, Southampton were soft teams in a way there aren’t now (United maybe lol). He’s had an under-resourced Burnley up twice and had a couple of top ten finishes, admittedly he couldn’t do it now but he’s more likely to keep a team up than ideologues like Martin. The back end of last season was football terrorism. We played anti-football at Plymouth and Millwall, zero threat, zero impetus - it’s not like we’re beyond it. Parker and Wilder have shown you don’t have to have 65% possession to go up. Burnley are 4th and Sheff Utd 9th whereas Norwich and Swansea are 2nd and 3rd. Carrick is exactly the sort of touted manager that we’d walk into the trap of appointing; despite his teams being decent they lack the cutting edge with an over emphasis on short passing, with tidy enough players too. If you detach his name, face and demeanour from his record it’s a completely different proposition. Dyche has achieved more than Martin, Cooper, Gary O’Neil, Mowbray - the sort of pool our myopic twats are looking in. He can also manage upwards far better which is what we need. Substance over style is necessary.