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I asked AI and the average salary for a manager in the Portuguese league is about to £100 - 300k p/a. If we showed a bit of iniative we could very easily 4/5/6x their salary which would be a big incentive to join now. Vasco Matos is doing incredibly well at Santa Clara. Marco Silva joined a doomed Hull side, admittedly he was unemployed but we're a global name, pay well, we have the skeleton of a talented squad and a top 5 training ground in the world. Getting somebody in now and giving them 5 or so games gives them a massive head start.

We could be prepping for next season with both a new manager and blooding young players. We’re doing neither. RVN can’t coach an attack, it’s not just the players aren’t up to it - I’d expect a bottom half championship to offer more than we are. He’s also barely played Mavididi and Buonanotte, neither of whom are world beaters but they’re not worse than Ayew and Reid. Persisting with players who are only getting worse is dumb, particularly when we actually have a promising crop coming through. There is essentially zero point in Seagrave if we don’t appoint managers that will play youth teamers. If Yamal came through our system he’d get his first start in 18 months time not before being loaned to Stenhousemuir first. Rudkin wields the power at the club and is also the academy director and never does anything to help academy prospects with that autonomy.

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Not sure how unpopular it is but the Premier League and Champions League eras are much more relevant than whatever came before. I sympathise with 'football didn't start in 1992 sentiment as there is some general erasure of the past - but it's almost a different sport now and that revolution happened in the early 1990s with the confluence of major rule changes. The offside law changed in 1990, the backpass law in 1992, the Bosman ruling in 95 - modern football is so different from what occurred before that it makes sense to differentiate the two. The PL and CL both rebranded around 1992-1993 and football is completely different. Dixie Dean scoring scoring 60 goals in a season as forward playing against 2-3-5 formations with 3.9 goals per game just isn't relevant to the modern game. There;s lots to complain about modern football now (so much of it is crap e.g ticket pricing, over saturation, refereeing discourse) but when you watch a 30+ year old game it's a chore.

Wharton is back fit and exactly the sort of player we're crying out for. Henderson and Walker will be 36 at the World Cup ffs.

It’s still the case. It’s not like we benefit from the infinitely larger non-fan pool with better experience, ability and execution. Stems from the crap, zero-accountability owner and CEO. Football marketing should be EASY because you have 10,000s of fans that would love to give you more money.

There’s all sorts of top of the funnel out of home stuff they could do. They could afford to install digital billboards all over and even use the space for additional sponsorship - that’d require some slightly unconventional thinking. They like safe-not-quite-failure instead

They’re complacent because the footballing department was competent 10 years ago. It’s like we won the euromillions jackpot with a £2 scratch card. The only advertising channels are digital which is a bigger problem than the digital itself (although the emails only ever try to flog shit).

It’s a classic case of the club not realising fans pass on tickets as a consequence of a sclerotic ticketing system

West Brom aren’t bigger than Birmingham City in *Birmingham*

He's not 21 years off state pension age tbf

It should be exciting and I really hope it it is - but I can't shake the feeling they'll roll it out in the most KPFC fashion

We deserve the ignominy of it

Should be - but it's like saying we're signing a new winger, sounds exciting but it turns out to be Joe Aribo

He seems more competent just by virtue of having a football background, compared to his predecessor

We're already on 62 conceded , won't score that many either - I thought this was pessimistic too

Sorry perhaps unclear I meant my circumstances probably aren’t representative - almost half the people I go to games with live outside of Leicestershire entirely. I don’t think that’s the case for the modal fan

Our Argentinians have been our best of any nation in general

As far as I'm aware his role is quit logistical/secretrial e.g sorting travel, passports, hotels, food, buses etc

The sample size is just too small to compare them tbh. 10 games has to be the absolute floor for comparison. Alves I reckon will be around the 0.3 - 0.4 xG+xA per 90 mark which is absolutely fine for his age (and lack of minutes generally). I really wouldn't be surprised if he started over Mavididi next season.

He’s started three games and set up a nailed on goal. If he hadn’t have been injured he’d probably have a few more goal contributions by now - in a poor side too.

Fresh blood into a fanbase is what makes the difference atmosphere wise, plus low attendance so like minded fans can group together. We haven't had the former because ST availability hasn't been there since 14/15. The club did the absolute bare minimum for the latter too. Hopefully we get safe standing one day and that does lead the necessary churn.

This is absolutely bollocks and a few others spout it too. Tigers' support comes from the whole of the midlands (plus Sheffield, Peterborough, Cambridge etc) and their attendances have never been particularly close to ours. Tigers are the biggest Rugby club in the country and can't hold a candle to the probably the ~12th biggest football club.

The decline has been chronic rather than acute but our league position hasn't necessarily borne that out. We were good behind closed doors which fostered a lot of goodwill so Rodgers from the tail end of 21/22 to 22/23 - didn't really get any grief despite how poor performances were. We've almost had the perfect storm for apathy rather than anger. I'm so conflicted by wanting us to hit rock bottom because the people at the club deserve it.

Midlanders are pretty reserved and stoic generally, then we have what’s possibly the least urban fanbase in the country. Partly by accident, partly by design we have a very lower middle class fan base. Perhaps not representative but I know far more City fans that live outside of Leicester (excluding the county) than live in it by probably 5:1.