cityfanlee23

Hope this form continues for Southampton. Them and Ipswich have been awful in the opening match. Wrexham should be 3-0 up but lack that cutting edge. Southampton are being opened up with ease at the back, hopefully we make it count tomorrow

Southampton right now remind me of many of the games under Enzo, just messing around in the middle at such a slow pace the opposition can practically walk into their next posiiton.

Southampton are building into the game and they have far more quality, I think if Wrexham concede they might ship a couple more. Wrexham deserve to be 3-0 up though.

Can see Southampton winning this. Been quite poor though, should be 3-0 down.

Looked like a natural reaction to be honest, he jumped up into the air and got knocked off balance, hands seemed to be up as a natural response to being knocked off balance mid air, but obviously shouldn’t have been up there and it’s definitely a penalty

Do Ipswich want an absolutely rapid striker who once outscored Haaland?

I can see it too, oh well, hopefully we walk the walk if they do 🤣 Imagine the reactions if we get a 3 point deduction 🤣

Of the 3 that came down I think Ipswich might struggle most. Top 6 I’d imagine but they look nervous at the moment. Birmingham and Wrexham also being blown well overboard by fans saying they will be fighting for top 2 in the case of Birmingham and top 6 for Wrexham. Keeps us under the radar so I’m happy with that. Probably on my own with this one but I’d rather play without fear in the opening 10 games then get whatever deduction might be coming. Would be nice to clear the deduction quickly obviously but I’d rather begin this season looking down the table rather than up it. Get a few wins rolling and then we can take a deduction confidently.

Has anyone else felt that our SM team have somewhat turned a corner recently? their Youtube content and pre season coverage has been a massive improvement, the work they've done with Marti has been great also. Still massively lacking on a lot of communication but from a media perspective it's been solid for the last month or so.

What a fantastic servant to the club 👀

Bet he could strike a ball in these though

Barry Bannan is going to be playing in lost property P.E Kit at this rate…

Regarding the EFL “having it in for us” on the points deduction, I keep hearing this from fans right across football suggesting we are going to get smacked with a 12-20 point deduction. I just can’t see it. Firstly, us making the EFL look stupid is irrelevant because they don’t set the deduction, Secondly, I would argue that there is strong evidence that as a club we have been actively trying to comply since about 2021 when we started to curb spending and even lied to managers about budgets, if we were truly ignoring the rules we would have continued spending but we reigned it in. The only argument I can see against us is that we signed players like Winks and Coady, the only defence Leicester would have in this situation imo would be that we expected players sales to go through that collapsed late on leading to us breaching, but if those sales did go through we would have complied. Whether that washes is another story. But even if the EFL did decide the amount of points deduction, there is no precedent for a 15+ point deduction, especially given we’ve got evidence we were selling players, letting players leave on a free instead of renewing and actively trying to sell players like Soumare before inevitably having to loan them out. If the EFL gave us a 15 point deduction, my guess is it would be laughed out of a court room on appeal as being blatantly a revenge punishment and not on merit. My best guess is 9 points, with an appeal that brings it down to 6, if I’m right I think we are in a position to try to challenge top 2.

Just when we think maybe the board are turning a corner by signing Marti and actually having some good PR around it for once, and seemingly looking at players like Kone on cheap fees and selling the likes of Coady, they go and get a god awful sum for a player as talented as Mads, Man City have just spent £30m on James Trafford and we can’t even break £20m on a guy who pre injury was statistically top 5 in all of Europe for expected goals saved. Good luck to Mads, great player with a big future and it helps us with PSR, but this deal absolutely stinks, he’s worth 25-30m of anyone’s money. Hopefully we have a decent sell-on clause added to justify such a poor fee.

As a fanbase I really hope Leicester fans get fully behind Sheffield Wednesday fans for the first game. Loud applause when they take to their seats 5 minutes after the game begins, even joining in with Chansiri out songs. As a football community we need to get right behind them, what that scumbag is doing to that club is beyond acceptable and Wednesday need support from the wider football community. I'm shocked given the Thai connections the club have even allowed it to go ahead, let's not waste the opportunity to show some solidarity, it's also an opportunity to show King Power what fan unity looks like if they carry on messing about with the club.

If only they had been listening to fans for the last 5 years 🤣 completely agree with you, some credit has to go to them if they did indeed go back on the deal because of fan backlash.

Meanwhile in contrast both of the main Rangers forums are approaching meltdown. Early days north of the border but it’s safe to say the start has been massively lacklustre under RM and the fans have taken to it poorly.

Marti-Ball is showing signs of being everything that most of us who hated Enzo-ball wanted it to be. Possession football can be dynamic, it can be aggressive and it can be played quickly.

Yeah they just gave Fred a new contract though, mistake imo as much as I love Fred and think he would do well in another team, what Ferrari need is someone prepared to walk in, kick a table over and tell them to change their ****ing car

With Okoli and Nelson, we could very easily have a partnership capable of playing at a good level in the premier league, I hope Okoli stays, he could be a top top player one day and we could be the perfect place to develop and grow for a massive future move. Nelson for the same reason. Both of them have had a great pre season.

I think we may need to offload atleast 2 fullbacks. Kristiansen, Thomas, Coulibaly, JJ, Ricardo, Hamza and Aluko is way too many especially given most of them are better than this level and will expect a lot of game time. If Kristiansen can't be moved on because of injury and he's going to be back in say 2 months, we may have to offload someone like Thomas and possibly loan out Coulibaly or sell JJ. That would also take us a step closer to keeping Bilal.

Can someone put some glue on Daka's boots?

Looking really solid so far.

Great drive from Lando, 39 laps on hards, feel sorry for Oscar who I thought drove a better race but just got unlucky. Ferrari are a clown show once again. Huge for Alonso and Bortoleto!