AKCJ

I'd take a punt on Challinor.

Only 63 defeats in 268 games at Stockport is a very impressive record in the EFL.

18 hours ago, Fear Of The Fox said:

If I'm the Arsenal manager and we're on pens in the CL final there's no way any of these players come to me to volunteer for taking a pen. It's MY decision who is taking the pens and in what particular order. 

Arteta let a defender who never took a pen in his life to step up as the last taker. Arteta should have been sacked today. Imo he'll be sacked in June. 

Completely disagree.

I loathe Arteta but he's not to blame. Anyone can take a penalty. It's a 12 yard kick. It's much more important to get 6/7 lads who are happy to handle the pressure than necessarily the 6/7 most technically gifted.

Eze can do things with a football that Gyokeres or Rice couldn't dream of. Eze didn't even hit the target while Gyokeres and Rice scored theirs with ease.

Joe Gomez

Wataru Endo

Virgil van Dijk

Milos Kerkez

Florian Wirtz

Dominik Szoboszlai

Alexander Isak

Alexis Mac Allister

Conor Bradley

Federico Chiesa

Giovanni Leoni

Curtis Jones

Cody Gakpo

Hugo Ekitike

Giorgi Mamardashvili

Freddie Woodman

Jeremie Frimpong

Ryan Gravenberch

Ármin Pécsi

Trey Nyoni

Stefan Bajcetic

Rhys Williams

Calvin Ramsay

James McConnell

Rio Ngumoha

Harvey Davies

That isn't a squad that's going to win the league any time soon. Especially when their best player is long term injured.

Liverpool need to get real with their rebuild. They need a keeper, a centre half, a midfielder and two wingers. All need to be starting 11 material.

10 hours ago, The Bear said:

"Goalkeeper tactical timeouts to be banned at World Cup"

 

This sounds like very good news.... 

 

 

Finally! Something is being done about it.... 

 

 

 

Ah. 

 

 

The same should happen with water breaks.

Neutrals should take water, cold towels, energy gels etc into the centre circle where players can cool themselves down.

Should never be used as a tactical break. It drastically affects how games are played.

June and no manager.

Can we get a ****ing move on for once please?

There's an acceptance of poor behaviour amongst too many at the club. Yes, in the ideal world all Leicester fans would support all Leicester players. But the fact is that it's plainly clear who the bad eggs are and there is next to no pressure on these players.

If you look at the great captains of English football over the last 25 years... Gerrard, Terry, Keane, Kompany etc... do you think they whinge that the club doesn't get support from the fans or do you think they're more worried about players that aren't pulling their weight?

The attitude at the club is all wrong and until they start to realise this nothing will change. LCFC is like a social club full of fat old racist drunks who like going because they get to slob around all day being hateful and getting sloshed because they're doing it in an environment where they're not judged as they should be and nobody calls their behaviour out as being wrong.

Premier League 26/27 and Championship 26/27 threads both in the General Football and Sport section.

Life under Aiyawatt.

He's only 31 as well. Shame that his career has gone down the pan this quickly.

Personally thought he was a bit over rated and the worst finisher i've ever seen play 300+ games in the Premier League.

Demarai Gray in attendance???!?!?!? Why didn't you say so?!

21 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Sounds like Lincoln City need a experienced operator in the Championship who will definitely keep them up, step up Gary Rowett

I suspect their fans would take that.

5 minutes ago, FoxinNotts said:

History of getting 15+ at this level: With the turmoil which Southampton are in,  go get Ross Stewart, who is out of contract - Sell him the dream of making him our main man, up top.24 goals last time he was in league 1.

Since this season in 2021/22, he's only played 65 games. 

He was injured for 802 days and missed 149 games.

50 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Just can't see past Spain to win it

Yamal's fitness will be a concern and losing Fermin last week is a big blow.

I think it's quite open.

4 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Just missing the previous badge.

 

I think it's quite hard to **** up a Juve kit but Adidias have managed it.

20 minutes ago, kingfox said:

Mad to think that someone at the club, whether it’s Rudkin, Glover or someone else in scouting who clearly rates Lyndon Dykes.

 

The striker solution is simple, first target should be someone who has history of getting 15+ at this level, then the back-up should be someone in their early 20’s with potential.

 

But no doubt we’ll get linked to numerous 30+ year olds.

Jack Marriott would be a great signing IMO. 78 G+A in 10k minutes (works out to be around 115 lots of 90 minutes) at league one level.

Just had a very productive season for an average Reading side (scoring or assisting in 15 of his 20 starts).

Best bit about him is that he works his absolute arse off. He'd be a fan favourite here.

Worst bit is that he's got an iffy hamstring and he's in his 30s.

13 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Best bit of social media in recent times was when we signed the non Welsh Aaron Ramsey and that lad from Stoke was showing him round the stadium and gave him time to pause for reflection and to soak it all in when he walked out the tunnel. It's not the ****ing San Siro ffs 

I can't remember the exact wording but I'm pretty sure in that video the social media guy asked him something like "What are your first impressions of King Power Stadium" and he says something like "Well I have played here before for Norwich" in the most matter of fact way, completely throwing the poor lad off.

Genuine Partridge moment.

4 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Wow Southampton could be in bother in the next couple of years.

 

I really can’t see past Wolves, West Ham and Burnley to go back up. Wolves have been aware for a while and have a manager in place who will do well. Burnley are specialists but at some point yo-yoing you can become unstuck I guess. And West Ham feels quite like when Newcastle came down a couple of times and went straight back.

 

I doubt the 4 point deduction will cause them to go down like it would still have for us as we are next level incompetent. But if this financial stuff results in any further deductions next season they could go down.

Burnley will depend on recruitment. I suspect someone will take Esteve but they need to find a new manager.

West Ham will win the league at a canter. Obviously they'll lose a few big hitters like Bowen, Summerville and Fernandes but their squad is generally good enough to breeze that league. Especially considering they've confirmed that Nuno will stay.

I'm not sure about Wolves. Yes they've known they're down for a long time but I'm pretty sure they're in financial bother and don't exactly have too many players of high value. Joao Gomes will go for a fair wedge but other than that I'm not sure. But I really don't rate their manager. I know he did well at Luton and did alright at Boro but I'm not sure I'd trust him for their rebuild. Their fans don't rate him either.

I think the 2nd automatic spot is well up for grabs for a club on the up. Wouldn't surprise me to see Wrexham have a big summer and get it. 

Big ask for Milwall to go again IMO. Especially if Femi Azeez gets nicked which I suspect he will. 

IMO it looks like a very easy league to get out of if you're organised, have a harmonised squad and a competent manager. 

12 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Womp Womp

They're where we were in 2023/24 only we got the stay of execution by getting promoted and this lot ****ed it.

When they sack the manager and the players start to revolt it could go very sour very quickly.

Goalkeepers: Juan Musso (Atletico Madrid), Geronimo Rulli (Marseille), Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa).

Defenders: Leonardo Balerdi (Marseille), Nicolas Tagliafico (Lyon), Gonzalo Montiel (River Plate), Lisandro Martinez (Manchester United), Cristian Romero (Tottenham), Nicolas Otamendi (Benfica), Facundo Medina (Marseille), Nahuel Molina (Atletico Madrid).

Midfielders: Leandro Paredes (River Plate), Rodrigo de Paul (Inter Miami), Valentin Barco (Strasbourg), Giovani lo Celso (Real Betis), Ezequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen), Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool), Enzo Fernandez (Chelsea).

Forwards: Julian Alvarez (Atletico Madrid), Lionel Messi (Inter Miami), Nicolas Gonzalez (Atletico Madrid), Thiago Almada (Atletico Madrid), Giuliano Simeone (Atletico Madrid), Nico Paz (Como), Jose Manuel Lopez (Palmeiras), Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan).

Any team with the greatest to ever play has a chance but I don't think they'll be strong enough to retain it.

That's arguably the worst V neck collar i've ever seen.

16 hours ago, Stadt said:

If we want a target man sign Tom Eaves on a free. Scored 13 goals in his last 35 League One nineties for a rubbish Northampton side. He'd sign for a year on low wages.

I genuinely think he's the worst player i've ever seen play professional football in person.

9 hours ago, The Fosse Way said:

We’ve posted a three-part review of the season over the past three days - the final part is here:

 

https://thefosseway.net/2026/05/28/the-big-leicester-city-women-2025-26-season-review-part-3-looking-to-the-future/

 

It’s interesting covering both the men’s and women’s teams. The numbers are pretty small in terms of interest in the women’s side but even running the site, it’s been tough to find the enthusiasm to watch the games or read the contributors’ match reports sometimes when it’s another chunk of the weekend dedicated to watching a Leicester defeat.

 

We’re going to try to keep it going next season though, as outside of this thread there’s very little critical thinking about LCFC Women out there, even when it seems like a parallel of the kind of lazy approach to scouting and strategy that’s affected the men’s side.

Are women's championship games accessible on TV? Can't say I have seen them advertised.

1 minute ago, Samilktray said:

Just been approached by the club to do a giveaway on instagram for 32 tickets to this. So head over to my page at 7pm for your chance to win tickets to our showpiece event 

Do you have 32 followers by chance?