cityfanlee23

If he learns from them he could be here a very long time

It's a pretty fundamental problem when your manager is starting off every match by putting us at a needless disadvantage on purpose. For me this wouldn't be a slight criticism, he needs to wake tf up. We've been awful in pretty much every first half i've seen since pre season. If we started the first 25 mins off on the front foot today we come away with 3 points imo.

That was a very good goal, brilliant play from everyone involved, why can't we do that consistently?

Can I make the call yet?

Yeah, the performance can somewhat be ignored for the 2nd half because it's a completely different game with 10 men, but the first 25 minutes looked exactly like the majority of our performances this season. Really can't state enough that I do like Marti and I like what he seems to be representing, but his system on the pitch has been dogwater so far. Even if we pick up points, I'm here to be entertained and we have NOT been entertaining.

The best way I could explain it is the Bannan/Winks challenge, both players went in similarly, Bannan leaned back and his foot/studs came up and became exposed, which puts his foot in a position that increases the chance of breaking a bone or seriously injuring a player, Winks on the other hand kept his toe pointed down for most of the challenge, so his studs were far less exposed and less likely to cause real damage If your momentum in a tackle leads to your leg raising and your studs facing up as you naturally lean back, I'd consider that out of control. If you can keep your leg down and your studs facing towards the ground you're in control. As I say, I wouldn't have given a red there, but if we want players to make sure they are fully in control of their tackles, players need to be punished, Ramsey put himself in a stupid position where it was left up to the referee to make a call, without VAR those calls can be even more difficult to make.

Really want Marti to click with us and he does need time, but by god we've been awful for the majority of this season. Is it too late to call Danny? The fact we missed him by a week is sickening. I hope that our relatively decent transfer summer has left us in a position with 2-3m to spend should Marti not end up working out.

Leicester fans would have done exactly the same. Football fans are embarrassing in general, fueled by emotion for the most part.

Many fans believed it was, but even if we ignore opinions, he lunged in without control, body went backwards and studs came up, it's a Red card challenge. Bit of grey area over the fact there is a gap between the studs and the player it's not as if he's very nearly missed him, but hes gone straight through the player with no control. Idiotic challenge that opens himself up for a harsh red. Ref can't rely on VAR here, AR made a really dumb decision.

You're right but it was a red card challenge by the written rules. Many Leicester fans wanted a straight red at the time.

Personally I'd have given a yellow, but based on the written rules it looked a red to me. Lost control, went in dangerously and studs came up. If Bannan was a red, so was that.

for ****s sake

Has anyone got a decent link?

Good luck to him, shame really but if we do end up getting promoted I think that could be it for his time with the club, but I think is loan is needed for both parties, it’s clear he has potential but from what I’ve seen this season he’s struggled to really get into the game even during pre season, and he’s clearly not going to get a lot of minutes for us this season. Best of luck to him.

Very strong window from rudKING. Well played, back to the blueprint please. Jordan James is especially good business if indeed we have a 5m agreement written in stone as an option.

Great window, well done LCFC and well done RudKING. A step in the right direction and hopefully a return to the blueprint that made us one of the best run clubs in world football.

This. I hope we haven't made basic errors and not got Jordan James over the line because that would have been a fantastic deal, but even if we haven't got them over the line, I think overall we've taken a big step in the right direction this window.

Rob Dorsett worded it as an obligation

All in all he's clearly forced his way out, doesn't want to be here. £30m deal (roughly?) is fair for both sides, he really isn't as good as most make him out to be in the English leagues, will probably do better in Germany i'd expect. If even 10% of a player at this club wants to leave they need to go. 110% committed to the badge and the club or go.

Has an obligation to buy though, afaik it doesnt include any way to get out of signing him.

I read your comment and thought what on earth is this guy on about?!? Then I read my own comment back and realised 🤣 Not a clue why or how I wrote that

Yep I’ve been quite miffed by the Soumare/winks combo and I was ready to scream today but both had relatively good games despite not really being in the game in the first half defensively. He seems to be recognising his mistakes by dropping the high line, it just feels like this squad is massively unbalanced atm in terms of having the personnel to play the style well. We really need Rudkin to pull off a masterclass and bring in the players you’ve mentioned and we could come good. Marti showing huge faith in the youth too which is something we’ve needed for a long time. Marti seems to “get it” so far.

We are definitely still in a mess because of the poor running of the club over the last 5 years, but JR isn’t going anywhere, so let’s just hope and pray he’s learned from all of this and from the way the fans are reacting to him. He needs to be better, so much better when dealing with players contracts and whatever his role is regarding actually bringing players to the club he needs to properly recognise a good deal and a bad one. This window has been a step in the right direction moving on some earners, if he can secure 30-35m (with a big chunk upfront) for Bilal, then bring in a striker and a midfielder along the lines of Ivanovic or someone in that mold we could sit back and genuinely say he’s done a decent job this summer. At the end of the day if he can get a couple of decent players in and he continues to move on the dead wood and we go back to the blueprint that made us so great, there will come a point where we can all move on and forgive and forget the mess that we have been through, although his record will always have a massive stain on it for blowing such a huge opportunity over the last 5 years to continue to grow the club and instead regressing it. He really doesn’t have any more chances left with the fans so he really needs to finish this window strong.

Yeah

It feels like Wout might be here so long he ends up retiring at 38 and becoming manager.