cityfanlee23

Yep, to be honest i'm not really one for apologies either, I just want to see them have to gulp and swallow their pride, embarrass them a little bit for the sheer lack of care they've shown for the best part of 5 years.

Reading *could* be in trouble today, facing league expulsion if the club is not sold by the end of today after their owner Dai Yongge was disqualified having failed the EFL owner director test. My gut feeling is they will get an extension, but if they can't it's a VERY harsh punishment, within 6 weeks of failing the owner director test they are at threat of being kicked out of the league because the club wasn't sold fast enough. The time limit obviously leads to a rushed sale and doesn't bring forward the best potential buyers as candidates, it brings forward people who want to buy a desperate club cheap. Hope they can get an extension over the line. American businessman Rob Couhig currently favourite to buy the club, previously owned Wycombe.

He will easily score 10-15 goals next season, the main issue is how can we effectively replace him if he's still commanding 45-60 minutes per game next season, if we sign a younger striker and Vardy is taking minutes off of him, we are then back to square one if we manage to get promoted, since Vardy will be leaving having effectively taken thousands of minutes off of our new striker. It just seems to me like this is the perfect time to part ways, unless JV is willing to accept a massive pay cut and 15 minute cameos, in that instance he could be a good help for a new striker, but something tells me he won't want that.

The problem with JV is he's meant to be a Leader, he's clearly struggled on the pitch, he can see there is a huge disconnect towards the fans. So where was he in his leadership role? If any single player was needed to put themselves forward every week to be doing post match interviews, going on these silly podcasts, putting themselves in the match day program, posting interviews on social media accounts trying to rally us together it was Jamie, I've hardly heard a sniff from him all season. I'm certain his statement is genuine, but it's not a difficult thing to post it's just stating the obvious. We need to part ways, sadly.

They sit around 10th since Cooper left around 6 points off European places, but in the last 10 games they are 3rd! There's no way we wouldn't have been in trouble under SC

I completely agree on the sentiment, Cooper was getting results, however there were many on here pointing out the fact that all of the stats and metrics showed Cooper was very fortunate to be getting the results he was, we were bottom 3 for pretty much every single metric that mattered. At the time that Cooper was sacked, Mads Hermansen was performing as one of the top keepers in world football, he had an xG prevented of something like 6.5-7 which is absolutely absurd, we were nicking goals that got us points, and at the other end Hermansen was saving Coopers skin every single week. All of the metrics showed that the moment Hermansen came back to form and stopped performing like prime Buffon on steroids we would collapse. Ruud and Hermansen's injury were the catalyst for that collapse sadly, but I've no doubt Cooper would have ground more points out this year, but still take us down.

He's one of the players where if he wants to stay with us (and we reasonably think we can get another 35 games out of him next season) he simply has to stay, but if he has ANY second thoughts about his future, I'd applaud him leaving, he's one of the few players this club doesn't deserve to drag down to the Championship.

I can't help but notice just how big of a decline we've had, in 2018 we signed Ricardo Pereira from Champions League club Porto. 7 years later we have more chance of signing his replacement from Port Vale.

The issues have been getting pointed out for multiple years now, nothing has changed, the club didn’t listen, they were not open and transparent, they marked their own homework and continued on the same path.

What would be required for Top to get the fans or at least me back on board (minimum): - Full public apology from Top on the club website and social media - Full public and published review of how this happened, and a promise to address it - Pay Ralf Rangnick or someone of his calibre as DOF and pay him whatever he wants to oversee this club, given full control over all footballing decisions - Move Rudkin somewhere else if he won't sack him, let him oversee King Power across us and Leuven - Bring in a young, hungry manager who has a clear identity - Set out clear club rules that set the standards for what it means to be a Leicester City player, with significant punishments for players who do not comply - Sign 3-4 LEADERS on the pitch who do not allow any sort of deviation away from the clubs standards - Ship out the dead wood on 70k+ per week, and replace them with an approach to young, hungry, often lesser known players on cheaper wages who actually want to fight for 3 points on a saturday, return us to the transfer approach of Nige, Shakey and Walsh plus Claude Puel, give youth a clear path to the first team. - Fix the general culture around the club, learn to read the room (talking to you social media team)

I just don’t get the baby part, if he wants to spend more time with his child why spend 18 hours a week driving? Which is the same time he would spend if he stayed overnight at the ground, the numbers don’t add up. If you really want those 18 hours back, you buy a house in the area and live 10 minutes from the training ground, then everyone wins. In the current situation everyone loses including Harry’s partner and child.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

They have the oldest average age team in the division and Rohl was given £5m to spend.

Fair enough mate, edited my comment as my opinion was clearly formed on bad info!

Covid had huge government protections in place to be fair, and I was under the impression that there were some layoffs confirmed last season unless I'm wrong.

Edit - Bad information

Can we get Big Nige in to coast us through to the final game, let him work half hours if he wants, just give us something to celebrate and give him the freedom to make a proper assessment on behalf of the club how we move forward. I don't care if he turns up for an hour a day at this point, just give me some nostalgia to feel good about.

I want Ruud to go, one of my favourite players growing up, soured that as a manager here having seemingly given up. But my gut feeling is the gap is so big to the Championship we will be top 6 next season with or without Ruud. The board need to go, or failing that, Top needs to go. This is very quickly turning into a Mike Ashley's Newcastle situation.

I'd rather sell Kristiansen and convince Thomas to be our #1 next year, we need a huge clear out and Thomas is the least of our worries. Kristiansen would be fine in that league but it depends who the manager is, Kristiansen only sees himself as a traditional wingback, would rather keep Luke of the two but you're absolutely right, he's not done much wrong since forcing himself into the team.

That was absolutely dog water from Hermansen there, flapping all over the place.

Or Fatawu.... or Mavididi for about 8 games...

I don't care how bad he often is, Daka HAS to start over Vardy for the rest of the season. He's done more in about 5 minutes than Vardy has in multiple matches.

Ruud has been quite animated today, I've seen him barking orders and moving people around quite a few times, too little too late but it makes a change.

Thousands of fans clapping a counter attack where Soumare ran from the middle of the pitch almost to the touchline, was offered zero support until bilal arrived, who then ran it straight off the pitch, with zero options offered to either of them. This fanbase is done.