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I wish I could even get a signal at King Power when I attend it about five times a season! I still haven't been able to 'Shazam' a tune that always plays at the end of the final whistle over the past few months that everyone seems to know but because of no signal I'm damned if I can name the tune via Shazam cheating!

I'd never get in one, especially after what happened to Vichai - and with that latest mentioned one. I don't suppose Top does anymore either....

I'm wondering will any Prem. manager be sacked this season actually - very hard to call! It won't be Brendan (I hope)!!! Other red herrings such as Steve Bruce will cost money to rid and Ashley isn't known for being 'trigger happy' to be fair. The trio of promoted managers will probably just have a blueprint to finish 17th (with anything higher being a bonus), although Dean Smith will have the most pressure from the trio due to expenditure (a la Fulham last season). If anything he could be the first to go from that trio if things aren't going well. I suppose the likes of Hodgson, Dyche and Howe are all doing as well as they can with middling resources.....while I'd bracket Pocchetino, Silva and our Brendan all in the above average Prem. managers bracket..... Therefore for me the more obvious ones from this outset were likely to be Lampard and Solskjaer : both unproven over an entire season at this level, especially at their particular tiers in the Prem. However I've narrowed it down to Lampard, being that Maguire has since been poached from us :-((((

I agree with what you say about it taking a little over a full season before Vardy clicked in the Championship but Iheanacho has had longer to do so now, albeit at the next level up - although it remains debatable as to whether or not he has been given the same amount of opportunities as Vardy was in his early days here to shine. Kramaric was hardly given a look in here though, then once Pearson was sacked, that was it! Nacho has had more chances to impress than Kramaric ever did IMO and has looked woeful in the main whenever he has been on the pitch! That miss of his towards the end of last season at the Etihad that effectively handed Man City the title, although at the same time slightly suspicious, summed hsi time up here thus far. However it appears Rodgers may persevere with him for a while to come yet so we will have to see.

You say that but had he played against Cardiff in the first play off semi leg (at home) then we might well have been playing and beating Blackpool in the PO Final! Then again it wasn't to be of course!

Can't remember when we last played them now! ;-)

Without backtracking then it's probably been mentioned and noted by a few onlookers already but : the article was right while the OP was a year out with when he signed for us. He signed in Jan.2008 in the rather wayward hope that he would propel us towards the Championship play offs under controversial managerial recruit Ian Holloway : instead we got relegated at the death of course in that infamous, weirdest of weird seasons! By the same stage in 2009 he had become our main hope of going up as Champions of L1 of course, which we effortlessly did. Who would've bet even a £1 coin that we'd have been Prem. League Champions just 7 short years later though?! - not me!

Yes Van Dyke left Southampton for Liv. in the January window from memory and that hardly did them any favours! Let's hope we can get another season out of him as we did with Mahrez in the end : even if it might be unlikely.....

Yes, I think he will start the season but his position will then be up for renewal in January transfer window.....so then could be the time he leaves instead.....

If anybody can bring Gray on it is Rodgers, given his track record in this dept. Make or break season ahead re Gray's chequered time here I think!

We have no real like for like to replace him either, unless we can sign a Callum Wilson, as was being mentioned late on last season - then again he's injury prone! Great to see Vardy finish in the top 5 Prem. strikers for two consecutive seasons now, in spite of finishing 9th in both of them!

Wrong appointment from the off, done as a default to Pearson's unexpected departure of course.....and flimsily based on the fact that he did ok at Swansea (albeit with Martinez's team).Thank God Sven succeeded Sousa and that Pearson then came back as Sven's time with us didn't live up to it's promise!

Yes, maybe - although it went the other way for Watford that season of course as they failed to get to the Prem under Zola after basically not turning up for the play off final against Palace! That said it took them a while to get up after that season (three seasons possibly), whereas we walked the Championship the following season after......

Yes, mostly remembered by me as a significant part of the Brian Little era at a time when we were always challenging for and reaching the play off finals. I also remembered seeing him play for Ipswich on the odd occasion when in opposition before he signed for us and thought he was a skilful, tricky looking winger even then, so was therefore pleased and surprised when he then signed for us - that in spite of Ipswich going up to the newly titled 'Premier League' that summer in 1992 when he did so. Fair to say that he was part of some very good Foxes teams, a good midfielder cum winger from memory who chipped in with some decent goals : especially against Spurs in the first of our ill fated Prem. seasons! Overall I think he did well for us and good to know he's still in the game.

The appointment of the Messiah in 2008 was definitely the major turning point in the club's history over the past decade. I was gutted when he left in 2010. However controversially I do think we'd have come straight back down from the Prem. in 2010-11 had we gone up in NP's first spell, if Kermogant's penalty not been so cocky and he'd scored : and had we defeated Holloway's Blackpool in the final of course…….and that we wouldn't have done the unthinkable a few years later had that happened. It's all ifs and buts but we definitely had a weaker, workmanlike squad that season we finished 5th in Championship - which in itself was remarkable for a promoted team and considering what had happened two seasons earlier. I don't think Mandaric would've stuck with Nigel either had we been relegated at the first attempt and it was left to Vichai/Top to get him back for chapter two of course : which I for one never foresaw!

They were all Levein signings I think, he who had his hands tied financially the season after our fall from grace (the Prem) and when taking over from Adams who resigned - plus we were probably still coming to terms with the administration debacle from two years previously. That said he hardly had an eye for bargains/talent and De Vries had two good games for us I think (including against Spurs in FAC R3 of course!) - although I think he was just a poor player, not a flop. As others have said, to be a flop you have to have a reputation of being good!

Either or for me - we need a few more Midlands derbies since WBA 'brought it' last season and failed to get back at the first attempt!

Sad to see Shinji go naturally but as others have said, the time under this 'good on the eye' Brendan Rodgers team is now about right for him to move on from now, as much as it is with Danny Simpson. He was a vital cog in the title winning side though - and although of less obvious benefit than Kante was to the overall link up of that side, all the same he did very well for the games he started in and when used as a sub with his high pressing, harassing the opposition - and of course for some of his unorthodox goals. His brace at Everton was particularly vital in that season that ensured we were top at Christmas! The following 'poor to middling' season under Ranieiri then Shakespeare was maybe less impressive (as was the entire team!) and he was then largely out of favour under Puel and never really rediscovered his previous title winning season form due to his lengthy absence from the starting 11 under much of Puel's reign but it was nice that he was played in the final game against Chelsea by Rodgers. Good luck to him wherever he ends up at next - abroad I'm thinking. Reminds me very much of the popular fellow countryman Abe that was here in the Sven era and early 'part two' tenure of Pearson of course....

The two stand out names there are Abe and Waghorn obviously - Abe was a good player at Championship level (call him the league below's version of Okazaki) and was the only signing of Sousa's to truly stand the test of time (even if only for two years......!). Although the much travelled Waghorn did well for us whilst on loan in Pearson's first spell, he definitely flattered to deceive thereafter after signing full time......and unsurprisingly moved on. After Pearson's great first spell in charge (relatively speaking), Sousa's era was amongst the most forgettable at the club and was nearly on a par with the nightmare triangular Allen-Megson-Holloway disaster that preceded it two-three years previously!

In the present team then Iheanacho by a country mile : but it was interesting that he was used in a potentially important way on Monday by Rodgers - albeit he fluffed his lines! Maybe it was as a deliberate acid test to test his worth for the sake of the possible close season departees list though..... Back tracking a wee bit : then Slimani is another glaringly obvious one! Also - although dogged by misfortune as regards the transfer FIFA deadline debacle then Adrien "we signed him in September" Silva was another who flattered to deceive throughout his time with us (although Puel hardly got the best out of him of course by barely playing him!) - but on the plus side at least we gained Tielemans in January when we exchanged with Monaco - a move which seems to have suited both parties. I haven't read any other people's posts previously up to this so I'm sorry if I'm echoing already expressed sentiments here : but I think that we should never have let Kramaric go when we did - although he was essentially Pearson's player who was signed in the great escape season - and one who Ranieri seemingly couldn't fit into that 'oh so well oiled' magical 2015-16 machine a few months later! I basically can't be bothered to go back much further but Gareth Williams (Craig Levein era) was a major flop in 2004-05 and Arnar Gunnlaughsson (in the late O'Neill era in 1999) was another relative 'flop' who was signed for relatively big money at the time....even though he lasted until sometime during the duration of the chequered Peter Taylor....which tidies this thread up by mentioning Ade Akin(bad buy) !!

I was en route back home to the SW from my folks when the Battle Of Stamford Bridge was taking place so had to stop off that night in a Stroud PH to keep updated via my phone and the news on TV in there : then having a quiet-ish pint when celebrating the final score! Unbelievable Jeff!!

Yes, I think 'Deano' Saunders scored for them, once possibly twice even....we were dog poor that day and the team got boo-ed off the pitch big time..

Yes, I think the cops were rather more preoccupied with stopping the unruly away contingent spilling onto the pitch that day and getting spat at in their faces from point blank range by some of the hooligans whilst doing so through the wired fencing! We were pretty poor that day I recall, although we were a bang average second division side playing a first division side at the time in 'those Pleat years'!

I hope this mistake hasn't derailed his career entirely and that as you predict he'll resurrect it elsewhere next season in some way, shape or form away from Stamford Bridge. Getting back into the England squad will be purely on playing merit under Southgate you'd imagine rather than being held to account for this 'easily done' charge. Many ordinary folk have done this and have gotten away with it but you cannot afford to when you're in a professional footballer's position of course, regardless of how your career is or isn't going...…….

Oxford away (FAC R3) 1988 - 2.0 defeat : the sight of fans chanting out aloud 'Leicester aggro' and scaling the Manor Ground's floodlights was fun - but less amusing were the plentiful amount of fans at the front of the away terraces just in front of us nearest the police (stewarding/safeguarding the away end's perimeters) having the hooligan element of away fans gobbing in the cop's faces. Nostalgic yet equally shameful times in football it has to be said...…..different times for sure....