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When has he shown that since about Feb 2024?

I'm not saying he was any good. I just think he gets put on a level above because he was the one to eventually take us down. IMO everyone we had between Micky Adams and Nigel Pearson was as bad as each other. None of those managers were any good and I think that that was why we found ourselves in League 1. I feel as though i'm white knighting for Ian Holloway ffs

A football club isn't anything like an ordinary business.

I'm no Holloway fan by any means but that squad was tragic. Just full of old blokes who had no interest. Only Gareth McAuley, Paddy Kisnorbo, DJ Campbell and Richard Stearman went on to do anything after leaving us. Holloway was a part of a long list of poor managers who were left to look after a shite squad. He was awful but he's unfairly remembered against similar managers at the time because he was there when we went over the edge. If he gets sacked in the March/April that year and someone else takes us down then I think he's not getting as much of the stick that he does get. I don't think he was any worse than Levein or Kelly for instance.

You seem to have missed the point. Very interested to hear your experience of running a football club though.

Again, I thoroughly disagree. But even if it reduces the size of the pond we're fishing in, at least we know the pond will be full of players wanting to do their best for the City. It's a privilege to play for a club like Leicester and any big club would hold that standard.

Obviously every footballer will back themselves. You don't get to the level of Premier League without that self confidence. But Buonanotte couldn't get into the worst Leicester side i've ever seen. It's a bit much for him to think he could get into the Chelsea squad.

Exactly the same for me. £35m was a fantastic deal for Palace for a player that would clearly like to leave. Glasner will not be at Palace this time next season and neither will Marc Guehi. They're essentially paying a £35m loan fee for a centre half. Yes he's a very good player and I never like to see mid-table clubs be bullied out of their managers or players because it happened to us, but this was a good deal for Crystal Palace. If Glasner wasn't (or isn't) willing to give his future for the club I would have sold Guehi and used the money in January or next summer to kick start the rebuild. They're too good to go down and have a lot of good players.

Brendan put himself before the club and it set us back years. Taylor was awful vs the position of the club at the time. However, while Ruud inherited a club in disarray on and off the pitch, the output was unbelievably bad. 1 win, 1 draw, 16 losses between 14th December and 26th April. We went from 8th December to 3rd of May without scoring a home goal.

I just used my eyes mate. Clubs from outside of London always get hit with that sort of "Why would a footballer want to live there" sort of question yet Eddie Howe has brought in top class footballers who have bought into their supporter's ethos. Their team leaves everything out on the pitch and the relationship between fans and players is pristine as a result. We've signed too many players over the years that would immediately swap Leicester for London and are only here for the dough. What's wrong with telling those players to do one? Why do we have to accept players that don't care?

Look at how Eddie Howe has transformed Newcastle. It absolutely can be done.

Because Pearson built the culture of buy in or **** off. Do you think Pearson would accept Harry Winks behaviour? He’s shown no inclination that he wants to be here.

I don't believe that, at all. I am not asking that players live in a flat on Granby Street. There are so many lovely places to live in Leicestershire. Your bog standard office job lets people work from home because they’re advertising it as a bonus to save them paying you more. It’s not like a footballer can work from home. When you’re on 75k a week long term deals you should be expected to make “sacrifices”. One of those should be that you integrate yourself into the county properly.

Strange that neither Carranza or Ramsey went for 11 now that Bilal has gone. I assume that that number would be available.

That's fine, I'm just saying that if it was up to me I wouldn't sign a player with your attitude.

Why isn't the club requesting that players buy into Leicester when they sign? Why is there a such a lackadaisical approach to it all? The club clearly isn't asking players to move here yet kicks up a fuss when obvious issues surface later down the line (Winks refusing to stay here on the eve of a game, Vestergaard bringing his dog into training etc). It sort of feels like LCFC doesn't care about the City/County anymore. It doesn't feel as though we have people working at the club who want to show off what we have. You get the impression that the players we've been signing are only really here for the money and that has taken away from the family like feel we used to have.

I've said it before but I think we were unlucky in that Filbert Street became uninhabitable too early. We wouldn't get one of these flat packed 30k stadiums if we were designing a new ground now. It feels as though clubs have learned from the mistakes made by us, Southampton, Derby, Coventry etc.

Harry Winks is being paid the best part of £4m a year to be a Leicester City player yet hasn't deemed it necessary to immerse himself with Leicester and Leicestershire. I don't really understand why people think it's acceptable for a player on that sort of money to half arse it? We should be telling people when they sign that we want players to come here and feel a part of the city. There are plenty of fantastic places to live here. Full of life, great scenery, great education, great space and it's a safe environment to raise a family. The club should be requiring ever player that comes here to be a part of that. Too many players come here that live in Manchester, London or, even worse, ****ing Nottingham. If Leicester isn't good enough for these people then I don't want them here.

There needs to be better collaboration between UFS and the club. From the outside looking in (emphasis on 'outside', I might be - and probably am - wrong here) it appears that there are people from both sides actively making an amicable collaboration impossible. It just seems so uncooperative and discordant in comparison to other fan groups across the country. That's not to say UFS should be silent when questioning club decisions and or that the club should be happy with anything UFS wants to do. But I think the club has to do more to placate the whingers and the NIMBYs in the first instance instead of bowing down to them. The current method of "these few people aren't happy with it so it can't happen" isn't working and is driving a wedge between fans and the club. These your 90 minutes meetings seem to get these published notes where incidents are brought up anecdotally and used to evidence seemingly big issues when the reality is more likely that one or two people have raised an issue. It probably doesn't help either side that the club has been so turbulent in recent seasons. I would imagine that things were easier pre-covid where it felt as though the club, the fans and the players co-existed harmoniously.

This is where the club needs to help IMO.

Of the 6 bullet points from that 1st picture... 1st - Totally agree. 2nd - I think any display adds to the atmosphere. 3rd - I get that. Shouldn't be obstructing disabled areas and I get why there's be a touch of annoyance about having your view obstructed. Maybe UFS/The Club should inform people that there will be a surfer beforehand? I don't know. 4th - I agree, I think these are the best displays. 5th - Isn't this exactly the same point as 3rd? 6th - This is something that I feel strongly about. The club should be letting everyone know when the displays are fan funded.

Schmeichel Ricardo Evans Huth Fuchs Kante Tielemans Izzett Mahrez Vardy Maddison

Oops, he's actually 34.

1: Jakub Stolarczyk 3: Wout Faes 4: Ben Nelson 5: Caleb Okoli 7: Abdul Fatawu 8: Harry Winks 9: Jordan Ayew 10: Stephy Mavididi 14: Bobby De Cordova-Reid 15: Harry Souttar 16: Victor Kristiansen 17: Hamza Choudhury 20: Patson Daka 21: Ricardo Pereira 22: Oliver Skipp 23: Jannik Vestergaard 24: Boubakary Soumare 25: Louis Page 27: Wanya Marcal 28: Jeremy Monga 31: Asmir Begovic 33: Luke Thomas 34: Michael Golding 39: Silko Thomas 56: Olabade Aluko 61: Stevie Bausor 65: Jake Evans TBA - Jordan James TBA - Aaron Ramsey TBA - Julian Carranza

Good that the Belgium manager has put pressure on him. No chance is he starting games here.