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https://www.lcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/dawson-and-alcock-depart

The Premier league have 14 days to examine the accounts submitted “by” 31st December and consider charges, so that is why either 13th Jan or 14th Jan are the dates being spouted in the media.

Kieran Maguire has said basically the same as Percy on today’s Price of Football podcast - the financial “experts” all think we could be in breach but club is confident they haven’t, and could all depend on what PSR limit applies for 23/24 and/or whether we’ve pulled a financial rabbit out of the hat like Chelsea’s hotel sale.

Presumably Golding is the 9th signing he refers to?

I’m pretty sure Maddison is in the 2023 accounts as the transfer was June 2023.

What mostly the same players and manager that finished 8th last season and 5th in both of the 2 previous seasons? Not be so sh*t and not be in the bottom 3 is what I want them to do?

One of the Leicester related podcasts think it was the Leicester City Pubcast - did a brief run through of our last few sets of accounts last week and I think it suggested they showed a debt of £200Million to King Power plus a similar amount owed to other creditors. I may have the figures wrong as was listening while walking the dog and had to pick up a huge dump right at that moment!

Just checked and we play West Ham on 12th November with the next game being Newcastle on Boxing Day - so assuming they all get 2 weeks off - a new manager would get around 4 weeks with most of our squad before they played a game? Much better scenario then the normal international break where they’d get a few days with a handful of players. Would love to see Brendan gone sooner but at least this enforced mid season break could work in our favour if that is when he’s replaced?

Well that made any misplaced optimism drain away! Doesn’t seem much point waiting until the World Cup before sacking him then?

I’m beginning to think we don’t employ anybody remotely useful!

Thanks for that - original post duly edited.

I think Ndidi, Nacho, Mendy and Amartey all play for nations that have qualified for the finals?

As a distraction for those, like myself, who are constantly refreshing the BR thread for news of a sacking - assuming the rumours are true and we don’t sack Rodgers until the World Cup mid season break, I think our new manager is likely to have the following players to work with while the World Cup is on: Smithies Thomas Evans Soyuncu Justin Ndidi Soumare KDH Maddison Barnes Albrighton Dakka Vardy Nacho Perez Bertrand Have I missed anyone? Goalkeeper (and Bertrand) aside, surely any half decent manager (Not Brendan) would be thinking that a month or so working with that group without any fixtures would enable them to develop the basis of a decent Premier League side?

I think you’ll find it was Puel that signed Ward for about £12 million . For context Puel also spent the best part of £30 million on Benkovic and Ghezzal so his buys weren’t all successful. No transfer is a guaranteed success but we have had our fair share of bad buys over the last few years - as well as some good ones - so we definitely need to spend wisely this summer.

Chris Holt (@HoltChris) Tweeted: Talksport reporting West Brom are sacking Slaven Bilić tomorrow despite them getting a point against Man City tonight. Allardyce leading the way to take over. Brutal there are a few other sources saying the same thing on the internet. Bit harsh considering their result tonight if true.

I thought the decision to bring on Wes Morgan when he did, not only strengthened us in the air as they were starting to put more crosses and long balls in to our box, but also allowed Fuchs to move to wing back, in turn meaning Justin Could prevent Traore from getting any time on the ball at all.

http://carousel.royalwebhosting.net/itv/oddsends.html theres a bit about it via this link.

It was “All in the game” and apparently it was us and Man City in the final in the second series in 1977. I can vaguely remember Wortho being the most skill full player in the series and Steve Kember having a nightmare in a round where you had to navigate around obstacles while keeping the ball up in the air?

Think Rogers just said he’s out for a few matches?

Don’t think Evans injury can be that bad as he’s in the merc’s photo’s of team training in their article on Slimani returning. Still suspended for the first 3 games though.

Without wishing to reopen the earlier debacle that was the ominous silence thread (before it got deleted/reinstated/deleted and then reappeared as a new thread) Geoff made - and then deleted - a comment about being gobsmacked which didn’t seem related to the fact that Dave Rennie has left in the back room reshuffle which at that time was the main subject on there (before it turned into a bizarre conversation about somebody making potentially slanderous comments on Twitter!) I wondered at the time if there was any link to the couple of reports I’d seen suggesting we would make/break our record transfer on Ikone? Probably not but who knows as Geoff is probably busy doing his day job and hasn’t enlightened us further!

Did wonder earlier if this is the kind of bid that would leave uptheleaguefox “gobsmacked”?

I knew Mick well as we used to play football together many years ago and still worked for the same organisation. You couldn’t meet a nicer bloke. There is an article on his passing on the Luton Town website that also mentions James: https://www.lutontown.co.uk/news/2020/april/thank-you/

Matt Elliott

Has withdrawn from England squad due to illness according to sky.