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Cifuentes strikers have never scored. Mediocre players like McBurnie are scoring because they’re getting chances - our forwards aren’t because our attacks are so laboured and slow.

Ramsey pearolled one at home 1st half

Doesn’t matter if we had Vardy, Ulloa, Nugent, Heskey etc - we don’t create any chances

Wednesday - 2 corners against an unfit team down to 10. Birmingham at home, well taken Fatawu goal (not quite a worldie) and a Pereira goal. That’s it.

Even if we drew 1-1 it’s a shit result, not in isolation but on the fact we just don’t win games because we don’t create any good chances - ever really

Come on just give 20 more halves bro, can’t judge a manager on 7.5 winless games, have to give him 8 or 9

Go back about 10 pages

An asset

4 more years to protect his value Lots of people on here defended the deal, “you don’t know what he’ll be on” like it justifies the deal that we’d break a habit of a lifetime to screw a player down cheaply

“We’re protecting his value”

Rouses a lot of suspicion being so obstinate. Another thing that baffles me is how they're so certain some people are traitors despite getting it so wrong all the time. David is particularly bad for it. Cat pulling the ADHD and autism card didn't sit right with me, she'll probably win on the back of it now because people will understandably be uncomfortable combing through her demeanour.

"Big dog theory," "Big dog theory, yeah I like that" "Big dog theory, makes sense" "I'm on board" - Proceed to finally vote one of them off 75% of the way through

No point in Seagrave if we appoint managers who don’t think long term and want to develop players - or hold their feet to the fire. The next Nelson will also pan out this way and the usual suspects will be making the usual excuses. We have two training grounds at great expense, one costing £100m+ and then we just block the pathway to play proven bin bags like Faes and Vestergaard. It’s all so dumb because it’s not even like there’s a short term benefit in the experienced player trade off currently. Had we been even slightly more academy tilted we may be in the PL still - Ward is our worst ever player and yet he got the nod over Iversen because ‘he was better with his feet’ and more likely because was expensive - despite Iversen being demonstrably the better keeper. Academy integration should be an absolutely core part of the manager’s remit given our wage bill, average age, inability to recruit well etc etc but instead it’s treated as peripheral nice to have.

Have a walk around to get your bearings generally, the clock tower is our most famous local landmark at the top of High St. Then wander to Town Hall Square then through The Lanes to the Old Town (Council verbiage) around Greyfriars which is where the KR III centre is - the nicest part of the city centre. Wander around castle gardens and St Mary De Castro church to stop and have a pint in The Castle. Heading up through New Walk towards Victoria Park is worth it, a grand Georgian thoroughfare, Museums The KR III visitor centre is good, the Jewry Wall Museum has just respond after being refurbed - great Roman history in Leicester. Newarke House Museum is more social history oriented and covers Leicester in the 19th and 20th centuries as well. Quite good for military. Leicester Museum (New Walk Museum) is more well rounded and the better museum experience but not quite as Leicester-centric. Food You won't find much in the way of classically British cuisine in the centre (getting out to the county is best for that) but a curry is customary. Mem Saab or Kayal are what I'd recommend in the city centre. Mrs Bridges is nice for breakfast or lunch.

We’ll need to spend to replace the volume leaving but we won’t have that much. We’ll still have some losses in the 3 year rolling window. Plus we’re just a loss making operation generally (lots of staff, training grounds, slumping commercial sales) We’ll have parachute payments but they’re paying the Macquarie loans back plus they taper off quite aggressively - drops down to 45% of the full payment in the second season so about £36m I think (could definitely be wrong). Trouble is we’ll invariably lumber ourselves with some crap again

Cov have kept their core together, they lost Hamer and Gyokeres a few seasons ago but since they’ve remained fairly in tact. They’ve smartly added to their squad. We’re a unique case in speed running going form a CL contending squad to a midtable championship one. We don’t do the reinvesting properly but. The KDH (pure profit sale) funded in part previous expensive mistakes, Golding, Skipp, Ayew, Okoli, BEK and Fatawu. We have to get promoted now, or at the very latest next season we don’t have any family silver left to sell.

I didn’t say that they’re better than the completion - I said we’ll lose our better players over a few windows. Whether that’s loans or contracts expiring and losing players for a fee. Given we broadly get worse window by window it’s correct. Ramsey isn’t staying in all likelihood, James we should tie down but we could easily be gasped by a PL club, Fatawu will have suitors. Monga won’t be here for very long. Even Stolarcyzk, Nelson, Mavididi, Okoli and Souttar are better than the median Championship player.

A couple of transfer windows for us to get worse as we lose our better players? Teams with significantly worse players are creating far more chances than we are. The clowns above him are primarily at fault but it doesn’t excuse the blunt possession-obsessed football.

We won't have much money to replace them with and given our hit rate is about 33%, we probably get worse despite losing two shit players.

There will be no grand rebuild, we renewed Vestergaard who had checked out and was shit until one championship season. We've renewed Thomas and Choudhury. We'll probably give Ayew another year.

But Manuel had a nice powerpoint in his interview

5th for goals, 10th for shots, 12th for xG. 1st for set piece goals conceded (as in the fewest with 0), 4th most shots conceded, 4th for set piece xG conceded. We're actually massively over performing at set pieces. I hate how we're so lucky it masks just how shit we are, really covers Top and Rudkin's ineptitude a lot of the time.

The inability to actually coach the team to attack is the biggest problem - it doesn't matter about the team selection. 12th for xG per 90, 3rd furthest average shot distance, joint worst xG/shot. Stale possession football with so little purpose won't even have us near the play offs. All while having the best player in the league in Fatawu plus Ramsey/Monga/James/Mavididi. The strikers aren't any good but neither are the likes of McBurnie, Gelhardt, Tyrese Campbell etc who are outscoring them.

I'm always torn by players I don't rate being good IG. Thomas was far too good for years but it really breaks the immersion when paying players just for attributes.

Two super finishes, the first (incredible throw from Pope) was struck and placed absolutely perfectly. Criminally underrated player - he has 17 goals and 8 assists for Newcastle in 38 nineties.