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Distinctive players, kits, games, grounds, sponsors punctuate it all so clearly too.

Cif-u-en-tes! Better than all the rest Better than anyone Anyone we’ve ever met

Calm’s record as a manager is pretty good in the lower leagues in Spain.

Fairly optimistic about this. Doesn’t seem dogmatically wedded to short passing but prefers it which is sensible. Sort of a poor man’s Corberan. Lets hope he can manage upwards to get some transfer dealings in motion.

Money the club would never be able to payback, it's good that he did it but it's never been an upfront cash investment. The fact he's had to convert the debt to equity is because of his own **** ups - but yes ultimately a good thing he did.

Way overperformed his xg but in a small sample Profile https://fbref.com/en/players/55388631/Rayan-Kolli Minutes were mostly upfront but some on the wing. https://fbref.com/en/players/55388631/matchlogs/2024-2025/Rayan-Kolli-Match-Logs Provided he's not too expensive I'd be up for this

Culturally everything is sclerotic. We were happy to appoint Glover even though he was on gardening leave. By the time he was in post on the 1st of Jan we signed our first player (Kristiansen, big overpay) about three weeks later. There’s no urgency to anything because of any combination of: - Unclear processes - Unclear hierarchy - Incomepetence - Lack of accountability - Too much responsibility for individuals - No delegation What good has Top actually done since he took over? Whats improved? Whats changed for the better. F uck all and he’s a parasitic influence on the club

GTF, Hammond and Wasyl?

I feel like this could be what finishes King Power off here

Trestellar were more legit

Blue and white, mate of mine works in the club shop

DM your address, what the existing panels are and explain which roof face the additional panels are going on

So tense

It's normally quite straightforward, sometimes it can prohibitively expensive if it requires scaffolding but it all depends on your home. Happy to play around on OpenSolar and see what the additional 4 panels will generate if you'd like (no obligation either way)

It's amazing the propensity we have for doing one thing at a time. Rudkin and Top are the bottlenecks and they seem almost aloof

Solid championship player but we ought to be setting our sights on Fatawu type players who are great signings with upside in both the first and second tiers. Plus he's 28 so he'll be her until leaves on a free. He's a Wasserman client though so it lands in Rudkin's inbox and he probably ignores what the scouts and analysts find.

He's had an elite education (at a Catholic school iirc - bizarrely), he'd been a director for 7 years, worked with some very good managers and people. He's had all the tools, levers and experiences available to him - he's just not very competent and worse than that he's disinterested. They were all (Vichai included) very lucky Nigel Pearson had a vision to appoint excellent members of staff that built legacy systems that could continue, for a time, without the people that put them in place. Walsh as assistant manager and head of recruitment is a genius bit of alignment that I'm surprised hasn't been repeated elsewhere. Because they had such rare, altruistic and forward thinking manager (he was basically the DoF as Norcroft said on BSLB) it completely atrophied - if they ever had it - the ownership and directors ability to put people in place.

"He didn't want to be in this position" Surely that was the idea all along, Vichai was 52 when he bought the club, the long term plan would have been for Top to takeover as chairman - you'd have thought. If he didn't want to be in this position at all, either sell up or appoint better directors so he barely had to think about the club at all. Stringing out this ownership and running the club into the ground in memorandum of his dad is not any good for anybody.

Needlessly grouchy response. I was replying to somebody else pointing out that their opinion isn’t uncommon and provided an example supporting it.

The financial situation is completely tied into the football side. We could double commercial revenue and still be in the shit because we still have a runaway wage bill - we almost get it in control then sign Winks, Coady etc on silly deals and give Vestergaard a new one. In a normal business the board and owner would sack/force the shit directors out. But at Leicester Rudkin lives in Top’s arsehole and that’s how they like it

Probably not an unpopular opinion. Women’s sides get comprehensively beaten by male youth sides e.g u16s

They don’t have much, if any say on footballing decisions so they’re at the behest of Rudkin’s mismanagement. The commercial revenue is dwarfed by TV and player trading income. They might have protested the Skipp signing but they’re not on the football side. Davies has only recently taken the role on anyway - as Simon Capper moved to Newcastle

I’m one of the biggest haters in the forum but some of you need to remember it’s the second game of preseason ffs. At this stage it’s about fitness - we don’t even have a manger yet

It’s not even like we’ve ever thrown them in the deep end and they are actually miles off. We had a player as good as KDH make his debut at 20, he only got a first team chance after TWO excellent loans. It makes me wonder how many near misses with first team quality players we’d had. Somebody like Maswanhise certainly could have had a better career trajectory had he been loaned out at 18.

I've said this a lot but you'd think Rudkin as academy director and DoF would be too academy focussed with managerial appointments, squad building, contract handling etc but he isn't. He's an active hindrance to his own life's work. Guy Branston's attitudes were really quite revealing, we had a loans manager espousing the institutional view that young players are just always so far behind.