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Every Leicester fan I’ve spoken to Bristol today said ‘we’ve ****ed it’. Sums up it. There’s a nagging thing in me what says in the long run maybe it’s what we need. The medicine has to go down.

Fella won’t even make a sub with a game in three days and carrying player who’ve played 180 mins post injury in an international break

Few ciders inspired but Enzo in the bin unless you want to stop being so stubborn

Criticise the lack of support throughout the game. Don’t criticise the booing at full time. They deserved both barrels today. Sometimes players need to know standards

Common piece between Enzo and Hamza - same agent

Fcuk him off. That effort with their goal was pathetic. About the third time in memory he’s done as well

Requires manager to play a deep block system

Hate to break it to you but those sort of deals are commonplace. We have a particular agent central to about everything we do at the moment

Depends in what pattern it’s been announced. Train companies do refund strike days, so you can use your money on the replacement. It’s probably better for Spurs because Forest fans wouldn’t have used the trains on a Monday anyway without an overnight stay

Case been made - awaiting clubs decision. I'd imagine the club want to take centre stage if promoted/champions. Think it's time resources and also the delivery time. UFS at the fans forum mentioned that delivery of the materials is chaotic to say the least.

Feel like we've really let this side of it go. Honestly think we'd have been better looking at L1 players with lots of potential rather than say Akgun

Literally what's happening or as good as but its still subject to employment law

Pace isn't a trait which develops overnight.

Have a big part in two conceded goals and having a team mate sent off I would say constitutes a disaster. Reality is if he’s willing to accept a new contract (or that can give him a new contract), he will be here but let’s not make out he’s going to suddenly improve in the Prem. His pace is going to be repeatedly picked on.

He had a summer with him and the lad didn’t want to know in pre season, so there’s that

We saw him v a mid table Chelsea in the cup and it was an utter disaster

Looks the revisionism on a player when not playing in LCFC blue is truly on here

There's no jurisdiction for that though ie. a points deduction this season. The Premier League own statement read Leicester City were relegated to the EFL Championship prior to the introduction of the Premier League’s new Standard Directions, which prescribe a timeline within which PSR cases should be heard. Therefore, the proceedings will be conducted in accordance with a timetable to be set by the independent Commission, and its final decision will be published on the Premier League’s website. Such a timetable leads into mid-May. All media sources say next season for a points deduction. Equally the wording of LCFC's statement on 21st March debates the charge on the grounds it is not a PL club. Therefore by that admittance the club would admit to be subject to a charge if promoted OR if we had stayed up that we'd be subject to the charge. This is less about delaying this season and more about pushing it out longer towards FFP moving onto a percentage based system (and as suggested by the EFL avoiding stronger punishments for the period of 21 to 24 - makes me fear and back with more certainty that the lower loss allowance of the Championship combined with the failure to improve financial results (to the point we couldn't spare £1m in January), we will fail again on PSR calculations. If we are promoted the club will have to accept a points deduction that isn't changing for the legal proceedings being unleashed by LCFC or any fan furore. If anything we may risk a double bubble without major outgoings in the summer. A Premier League season with a deduction for 20-23 & 21-24 (on the timetable followed by Everton & Forest). The reason I mention the repeat financial failures is because it's exactly the sort of reason why the fans won't unite. We are tired of lines such as 'trust us' or the lack of responsibility in failure which is a constant, consistent theme of the last few years communication. It strikes me screaming murder against the authorities is like a parent disagreeing with their children's grading of F and wanting it bumped up to E. It's still a shit grade.

See this is where I differ and I don’t feel the need to make grand calls about fans becoming defiant to the leagues. The hypocrisy of some Leicester fans in particular has been in part hilarious and in part personally maddening because it displays tribalism over all. This is going to be played out in the courts or as good as court proceedings. With intelligent people of legal status, the leagues don’t get any say in the eventual punishments when it comes to PSR. Rather they seek and an independent board declare their verdict. As seen with the EFL business plan everything is going to be played out neutrally rather than pushing for this grand conspiracy. The PL are correctly within their rights to allege the PSR failure - that’s now not unusual. The EFL transfer embargo isn’t either. As a result of the legal manner it’s all conducted in, a lot will be said of what’s contained with the rules and how they plays out into punishment. The club has a case on additional charges we haven’t seen before. Yet this won’t change the first PSR allegation which we have seen proven correct and guilty in every example brought by the authorities. We are quite aware of the likely penalty on that too. That’s why my anger stems from the failure to adhere to the rules. My personal opinion is the counter-suing is a delay tactic to hopefully push this off into when the FFP rules alter (which those tabled we were pushing the extreme when in European competition as well). All this noise, business plans, and counter claiming wouldn’t happen if the club complied to the rules in the first instance. Alongaide this, part of me is embarrassed that it’s the fourth occasion I can think of in my lifetime as a Leicester fan that we are in some form of financial rule breaking

There’s three separate points though. 1/ Leicester’s failure to keep within FFP while others can 2/ Are the FFPs rules fit for purpose? 3/ Does there need to be some form of financial control to help keep football sustainable? 1 - if other clubs can make it work with similar revenues (before we get to our record revenue intake in 20-23), why can’t we? 2 - No. I’m baffled as to why clubs haven’t spoken up soon or were they just hoping after the COVID concessions they could still keep spending. 3 - Yes. The sport needs to sort out the inequality gap between the levels

Got Huddersfield up as well via a shootout

I'll happily back down from that then thanks. There's a good percentage probably 70 to 80% of the footballing pyramid that has complied - these clubs of variety of sizes. There's awful lot of punching up going in the FFP debate without any consideration to the food chain of football below. You have clubs like Wolves who appropriately cut their cloth in the PL. You have teams within the Championship trying to sustainably improve their squad to achieve promotion. Equally we aren't unique in the 'fight'. The use of language about hostile forces and a fight is proof of the LCFC's communications working wonders. Akin to the sort of spiel Liverpool come out with or Arsenal more recently.

Top two - if we missed out to Leeds and Southampton, I'd accept that as the gap of budget etc is significantly lower. I think the other questions are all conjecture dependent on the time and availability of managers - in the situation we were/are in, the playing style should be that what fits the squad and utilises their abilities the best.

If we've failed this window (which looks a near certainty), this has to be the case. We could have pushed for the Barnes sale earlier and it doesn't explain where we resisted originally with Fofana. You compare with Wolves who worked their arse off to do player trading.

That's because not everyone agrees with the club's actions or rather could foresee it happening. There's a cracking article on Fosse Way - https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-emotional-rollercoaster and on the Mercury website - https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-failed-harness-ffp-9189091 - (tip use reading mode to get rid of the adverts). This line is absolutely on the money - This failure is the pay-off for years of disconnect between a club and its supporter base, but it also gives those in charge an easy ride. There are pockets of real anger but there won’t be any mass protests. If you fail to engage your supporters and at times downright alienate them, don't expect them to come running to your aid but equals it silences criticism.