cityfanlee23

I often wondered what would have happened if we gave him another season. Ultimately the owners were new and were making a financial statement signing all of those players and it just didn't click straight away and we were undone a few times, with hindsight bringing back Nige was the best decision we ever made, but I still like to think Sven would have got us up the next season.

Thinking about some of the players we signed under Sven, I thought Leicester were going to win the world cup I remember the summer anticipation when we had signed Matt Mills after getting promotion with Reading and deciding to sign for us, Jermaine Beckford, Kasper , Nugent! Sean St. Ledger, Konchesky, Yakubu, Fernandes. Sol Bamba with his trampoline touch driving the ball out of defence when thought he was beckenbauer Michael Johnson, massive shame that he had his problems, probably one of the most naturally gifted players i'd seen in years when he signed for us, slightly overweight and got an injury that basically finished him off. Was a fun time to be fan!

Wasn't it Sven who signed Kasper?

In the spirit of smiling is it time we dug out this gem again?

"I had a good life. I think we are all scared of the day when we die, but life is about death as well," he said, speaking at the end of the Amazon Prime documentary 'Sven'. He added: "You have to learn to accept it for what it is. Hopefully at the end people will say, 'yeah, he was a good man', but everyone will not say that. "I hope you will remember me as a positive guy trying to do everything he could do. "Don't be sorry, smile. Thank you for everything, coaches, players, the crowds, it's been fantastic. Take care of yourself and take care of your life. And live it. Bye."

Sometimes I think you have to gamble and by god we’ve gambled over the years. I want to give him a couple more games and if we look as poorly as we have done then we have to move on if we want any chance of surviving a potential points deduction. Regarding the finances, if sacking Cooper and Bringing in a new manager was going to cost us £10m, but that new manager was going to improve the entire squad as a unit by 10-15%, that would have a far bigger impact than any £10m player signing would ever do. I get the feeling Cooper has agreed to managed us in the championship if we go down, there’s no other explanation for such a poor window at such a pivotal point of our recent history, feels like the board accepted it before we even came up.

Was fully prepared to back cooper even down to the championship providing we played well, fought hard for wins and were solid as a unit, like we were under Nige 14/15 where we looked destined to go down but were well in most games but losing by fine margins. As a broader look since Cooper came in, we’ve had a single 45 minutes of decent football across pre season and our 2 league games. That’s not good enough and as much as Cooper does talk quite well he does come across as bland and uninspiring to me, and you can see how easily our heads drop, we’ve not instilled any fight into our team for years. If we have a few more poor results where we get dominated and we show absolutely no signs of playing to our maximum capacity (right now everyone is playing at 70% imo) then cooper will have to go. We don’t yet know what the points deduction is and I know we all suspect it will be 6+ points, that could be enough to really give this a go and fight to stay up, but not unless we improve dramatically. I can accept going down fighting tooth and nail, I can’t accept going down playing how we have all pre season, then today and the first half vs spurs. If this continues next week I’d say get rid. Either take a gamble or give it to a firefighter. We have to stay up if it’s within our grasp, the entire point of Cooper being accepted by a lot of fans regardless of most of us not really wanting him here was his track record of getting the most out of many players he has worked with, so far we’ve regressed. I do like Cooper, but a few more performances like this and it may get into territory where it’s more of a gamble to keep him than move on. Trying to be optimistic but so far we have looked very poor.

Sounds like our opponents last season 😂

I can't imagine how Cannon felt when Bouba Soumare went on upfront.

10/10 all round for our new star striker Bouba!

Cooper is now walking around the pitch applauding the fans. Saw him also doing the simple stuff like waving his arms to fans to get them going when we put the pressure on, you can see little moments like that and how he's applauding the fans now how he gets fans on board.

It's only game 1, but this is a MASSIVE point. I missed the first half which I've heard was as bad a pre season, but 2nd half we looked up for it, fighting for the ball and solid defensively. Few really good chances and we could have nicked it. Play like the 2nd half for the rest of the season and we have a chance this season. This is the most deflated I've ever seen our fans in pre season, hopefully that 2nd half performance and a couple of signings will show everyone we CAN stay up if we unite. The board have let us down, the owners have let us down, we have to get behind Cooper now, it's him and the players that will save us now.

Yep. Far better 2nd half, given the pre season we have had we can hope with a couple more signings and a few more games under the belt we may improve further.

Come to think of it, that is a strange one.

Vesty has been pretty solid too, few times they've tried to catch him out on pace and he's positioned himself well.

Soumare has no idea where he is

And as an advanced mid/striker too have to give Cooper some credit it takes some balls to do that

I have to say, given it's only the first game, if we can replicate our 2nd half across the entire season we might be in with a chance of staying up. I missed the first half but from what I've heard it was just as bad as pre season, so this 2nd half has been far better.

Bouba Soumare as an attacking midfielder could be the greatest managerial gamble in history

Class from Vardy there! Incase anyone missed, spurs fans jeering at him, Vardy pointed to the prem badge on his arm and then did "1 - 0" to them

Yeah he's not really offered much so far but he's had a few link ups. Would be nice to let Stephy run at them.

Damn, hopefully his 2nd half performance is just the beginning for this season.

Yep it's early to tell but his off the ball movement has been fantastic, reminds me of a top class striker who always arrives on time, he's been finding pockets of space all over, even before they've been created.

Buonanotte looks like a good little player you know, finding himself in space constantly at the moment. Has an eye for a gap on the pitch. Do we have any sort of option on the loan?

YESSS!!!!!!