CosbehFox

This is one of the reasons we are going down. When you playing shit, you either lose your temper or you over try. Now the latter I could aim at Buonanotte and El Khannous but other than that no one. They aren’t a team. They don’t have leaders. They don’t want to work. We haven’t had a player completely lose it and just do a filth tackle which says a lot. Evans and Soyuncu spring to mind here

He must not support Stoke actively because they are the perfect example of just giving up on something they had and their fanbase is very much divided like ours currently (ironic given I’ve been speaking to Stoke fan this lunch)

People by nature aren't critical thinkers. Therefore in an areas where they have little knowledge they play the trope of the majority. The argument against us translates as no-one club of medium size should ever look for sustained success. There's this hierarchy in existence how English clubs are viewed. The same applies to how Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford are viewed as clubs what don't belong in the top flight over the sleeping giants of Leeds or Sheffield Wednesday for example. It reaches back into a British psyche that ambition isn't attractive and derided or tagged as arrogance. There's a bizarre feeling amongst some Leicester fans that we will always fall back to a mean - it doesn't have to be like that.

The question I would often rephrase in reply to this sort of thing is. If Man U won the league & cup and then ended up relegated twice in three years, would you expect the fans to be annoyed? If Villa did the same, would you expect their fans to be annoyed? So why should Leicester fans accept similar? Just accept that we are by default a smaller club who shouldn't show ambition or use the success to stabilise themselves? It's the punching down nonsense prevalent in British society

Dates are out for the first 12 weekends of the Swedish season.

Of course as well our stock was still high when Rodgers was failing and they would have been plenty really, well regarded managers that wanted in.

Exactly what I think will happen if they seek to change anything. Wins over a number of fans in the process too. There's a direct correlation in the success of recruitment heads here and the managers being those with the experience in their careers to act as a traditional manager (rather than the head coach system now common in football). Thinking of Puel (& Macia) and Pearson (& Walsh) specifically here who knew what a well-run football club looked like. Rodgers got too much power because of the success of them pair (ie he's doing well with the football, so give him the keys to backroom staff - goodbye Dave Rennie), his recruitment buddy was fcuking crap (and typically has all his ex-Leicester targets excelling at Atalanta). No-one at LCFC football wise enough or strong enough to challenge Rodgers.

We are going over old ground here but the club have no inkling of preparing and targeting managerial appointments. They follow up 'applications' rather than say that's our man (except Rodgers but you still feel like they have been something which led them to that given how quickly it all evolved).

He made an excellent early save v Man City which near certainty would have gone in with Iversen or Ward who aren't agile enough.

I now agree with the calls for 3-5-2. Pack the pitch, give Vardy some support, our wingers effectively work as AMCs anyway. Make it really tiresome for Spurs, protect the defence who in a three might find safety in numbers. The full backs get a bit more freedom.

He's atypical no 2 keeper. He's functional if not perfect. Might do well as a Championship no.1 and develop his game. His game would probably kick on if he has a centre-half he trust calling some shots at the back. Ie he knows when he come off his line and he knows when he claim aerially. Might sound daft to say but possibly the most competent back-up we've had since Pearson's days. Hamer, Zieler, Ward all wank.

Think there's been frustration at times. Particularly on decision making but they might have conceded some of that to the DoF now. Some patterns when it comes to managers and the same agents/agencies popping up though!

It will be someone who used to be involved with LCFC if it ever happens. That or someone of that ilk tells them outright you need an Ashworth type character.

About two years ago they got a DoF in and they have a board full of locals

Yeah because of the ground being set into like a dip and they've taken advantage of the difference in levels. Appear to be a decent day out as well. I am eagerly awaiting the date of February fixtures for Ligue 1 who've gone to a real shit system for notice and pull in Nantes when we have Man U. Dundee derby @ 3pm on a Sunday, so Hearts is a possibility. Stockholm looking possibly out of price range but might be a scandi trip in mid July.

That's exactly the game I am doing. Only issue is that they have reduced the capacity of the ground because now they are looking good to stay up and need to do it for ground grading. Might have to be Harrogate away end if needs must (got a booking history with them).

You only have to look at someone like Wrexham whose immediate action upon buying the club was to install people with good CVs of running football clubs.

Sander Berge went for the same fee. Had something the rest of squad doesn’t have.

Exactly this - I’d struggle to find even those who are in support of the owner et al to argue against this. There is a clear lack of strategy with no evidence of counteracting the lessons learnt of the previous relegation. The club had a number of decent options in front of them over the summer. You could invest in a manner much like last summer (young, prospect players - deals like El Khannous), you could have gone with the quality only idea of bringing in a new spine of 3 or 4 or backed your own squad supported by the younger players. Each have benefits and none are a golden bullet. The main lesson learnt should have been that you sign every player with the idea that you are going to be able to sell them for more or that you can at least quickly sell them. I really fear for the overall livelyhood for many connected with the club upon relegation. There’s a shift amongst the fans where I can see smaller crowds and the affects of reduced revenue leading to some tough decisions. The economy of a city already limping given a further hammerblow

The club doesn’t work in the functional manner of a normal business or a top level football club Nothing more to add

Looks both parties have spoken to one another and sorted now. But to me you can see Mark’s thinking

Forewarning in the organisation of this. You will very likely need to contact the Police. All wrapped up in thr Human Rights Bill

In the King Power out thread

Tbf to Mark he’s already stated elsewhere and you can understand his reasoning

See I do. His needless use of Thai influencers, hosting of politicians and need to be at the centre of trophy celebrations etc tells me it’s far more egotistical than a lot let themselves on for