cityfanlee23

I wish they’d go to infinity and beyond…

Could Jake Evans be moulded into a striker? we would still need a new signing with some experience to help him out, but with Mavididi, Fatawu, Alves and potentially Monga on the books (and the other two that we don't talk about), game time might be limited on the wing.

Interesting to hear Ruud talk on multiple occasions about alignment, implying that currently there isn't an alignment at the club, I can only guess that is alignment on vision, transfers and style of play, something that regardless of Ruud in or out we have all known for a while now, we have signed the wrong players for each system under multiple managers, as well as going rogue from that system in Summer, multiple lies told to multiple managers. Ruud is atleast subtly publically saying what others have avoided.

Comments coming in fast so I haven’t looked back to see if it’s been posted but Ruud is asked multiple questions about Jamie. They had a 45 minute question about his career all all sorts of other things.

I wouldn't mind seeing him go to Wednesday, both sets of fans singing his name would be incredible. Reminds me of when we played Doncaster 13/14 and we all sung "There's only one Dickov" who he was managing at the time.

Sad sad day, the GOAT. Get him a statue, either lifting the premier league trophy or the celebration pointing to himself as he broke the record. This day had to come and it’s really sad that it comes on the back of relegation. He will always be a Fox and his legacy on this club won’t be forgotten.

I'm at the point if he went into next season i'd have no choice but to wipe the slate clean and judge him as if it was day 1, for me RVN is an issue but nowhere near the main threat to this club. With the squad we will likely be left with we can still get promoted whether its RVN, Rohl or Dyche, the question becomes can he really stamp his standards and authority with a full summer window and pre season, can he get rid of the dead wood and overpaid grifters. I'd snap your hand off now if you gave me the choice of starting the season with Ruud and getting a better DOF in. If Ruud goes tomorrow, it won't make a shred of difference if we have Rudkin giving over the hill players 90k a week in the championship again.

Manager says he wants to strengthen position, scouts find players, manager has final say, Rudkin is then invited in to do the negotiation.

Bit of a mixed bag of results but I still rate Domenico Tedesco quite highly.

That's the rumour but it is just a rumour at this point, nothing concrete, he worked there previously and Southampton were definitely interested in him, but I'm yet to see any evidence of some deal that has been made, if they had a deal in place they might as well bring him in now since the buyout will be the same. I don't think a deal has actually been agreed personally.

I don't really want Dyche but in terms of baby steps to get ourselves back on track as a club, Dyche definitely represents a step in the right direction or atleast the start of turning the ship around, the question is whether we gamble on the unknown and hope they can build a solid foundation, or do we go for foundation builders now, maybe sacrifice exciting football for a bit in order to really build a solid foundation that a future manager can take advantage of. If we do go for someone like Dyche I think we need a bit of ying and yang with a director of football that focuses on bringing in young exciting players with a bit of bite about them. I really don't want to see the club go down the direction of signing "experience" all the time, Dyche's record of signing cheaper players that can do a job at a higher level is admirable, but his record is also littered with a certain "type" of player, Jay Rodriguez, Jack Cork, Ashley Westwood, Nathan Collins, Robbie Brady, Wout Weghorst, Jeff Hendrick. They weren't massively expensive, but all bar 1 of those names cost >£10m, for that sort of money we could be going in for players like Fatawu, Buonanotte pre Brighton, Bilal type players.

Didn’t want Carsley when Cooper was sacked as I thought it was too early for him but I was moderately impressed by his stint with England when he stepped in briefly, the players had glowing reviews for him when he left the role and some even took a subtle swipe at Southgate when comparing Carsley’s positive changes that he made around the place. Hes got massive knowledge and contacts with the best young talent in the country, could also massively help some exciting talent we have and bring through a new era for us with the likes of Alves, Monga, Nelson etc. I still think Carsley is a risk, but given the reset we need it could be a risk worth taking in the Championship, allowing him to rebuild the squad around Evans, Monga, Nelson, Fatawu, Okoli and other younger players like Mavididi would really solidify a proper foundation.

He did play almost 2000 minutes though and missed 8 games to injury, i'd want to see that down to about 700 (15 mins per game max) If we are going to replace him we can't afford to sign someone who "needs time" then have Vardy poaching thousands of minutes off of them, especially on the wages he's likely to be on. I agree on the affordability though, hopefully we have a bit to spend!

I still think we can be promoted next season. This squad under the right manager with 3-4 proper Leaders signed can get promoted. We need a big exodus of players, but I don't think we need 7-8 new signings to have a good go at promotion.

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.