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https://www.lcfc.com/news/4088035/leicester-city-confirm-litefinance-as-official-trading-partner?lang=en Leicester City Football Club is pleased to confirm LiteFinance as its new Official Trading Partner. - Leicester City announces LiteFinance as Official Trading Partner - LiteFinance provides a comprehensive range of trading instruments in the currency, commodity and stock markets - Branding will be visible at King Power Stadium and the Club’s digital advertising The partnership represents an exciting moment for the Football Club and the leading online ECN (Electronic Communications Network) broker, founded in 2005. Offering high-speed trading in 29 international languages, LiteFinance provides a cutting-edge, accessible platform that gives clients financial freedom through a comprehensive range of trading instruments in the currency, commodity, and stock markets. Their proprietary web platform offers advanced tools for price chart analysis and unique features, such as copying trades from professional traders, enabling users to benefit from expert strategies. Leicester City Commercial Director, Dan Barnett, said: “This collaboration marks an exciting chapter for us as we continue to expand our global reach with new partners. “We look forward to working closely with LiteFinance to further elevate the Club's presence on the international stage in unique ways." The partnership will see LiteFinance benefit from a wide-ranging sponsorship inventory, including pitch-facing LED advertising and logo placement on interview backdrops, as well as a selection of digital advertising. It will also offer them the ability to increase their presence in the sports community and will aim to create memorable experiences for City’s supporters. LiteFinance Chief Executive, Kristina Leonova, added: “We are excited to embark on this journey with Leicester City, a partnership that reflects our mutual commitment to excellence and innovation. “It will allow us to connect with new audiences and create impactful experiences, while working to deliver on our promises and set new standards of success.”

Okay, what’s happening here then? Looking at his Instagram, he’s currently sunning himself in the US?

He’s a massive upgrade on Choudhury and Ndidi.

LCFC are a business at the end of the day. I’m surprised they offer this at all, looking at how they’ve operated within recent seasons. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before they change this approach. If they think they can get away with it, they will get. They haven’t exactly responded to the kick back from the fans about the card and paying for friendlies. Our fan base are a bit happy go lucky, so as a commercial setup, you push the envelope until it breaks. We’d have still filled the the ground this season, if they’d have put £10 / match on each ticket. It’s the brutal reality of it. The big clubs charge more and treat fans like customers. How many Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea etc fans are happy? They’re buying customers with reputation of them being a big club. If you’re a neutral, you aren’t paying top dollar to watch Manchester United. Then you look at what Spurs do for instance and they come at it from a customer experience angle. The new stadium is amazing and it’s a lot more supporter centric. Whilst most of the older demographic will cringe at goal music, fan engagement outside of the ground, bands playing etc, we’ve got to appreciate the future fan base is the younger generation and they approach the world differently. To a degree, the older fan will still attend games but grumble. If they can engage with the younger generation and that does mean potentially changing how the game operates and is viewed, then unfortunately the game will change. You’ve only got to see how popular the Kings League is with its shorter games, funky rules and fast, attacking game play. Over 1.3m people watched a round match last year, which bear in mind isn’t full on professional footballers. It’s growing and it only had its first season in 2023. Once someone tweaks that to make it all professional players and it branches out to a rolling European league, it will fully take off.

I mean, I just wanted to tax myself a bit more so I’d work that bit harder to lose weight.

If you taxed people on body fat percentage, the country would be in a better shape health wise. Annual assessment, then crack on! 10% body fat - 10% fax for the next six month. 45% body fat, you’re spending too much money on food. 45% tax.

Unfortunately the super wealthy utilise that many loop holes for tax avoidance, that they’d just circumvent this as well. Also, what do you prescribe as wealthy, super wealthy etc ? If you look at the ONS survey done last year. They considered property, assets, pensions and net financial position. Top 1% - Over £3.6m Top 10% - Over £1.4m Top 20% - Over £840k Top 30% - Over £618k Top 40% - Over £436k Top 50% - Over £302k I’ve come to the conclusion that the family with its XL Bully, Hot Tub, Land Rover, Louis Veeton Handbags and velvet tracksuits are at this stage, largely living on minimal disposable income. We’ve always had keeping up with the Jones and I know you joke about that stereotype, I think one of the more serious concerns we have, as that people aspire to live beyond their means. So much credit has been touted around, that people must be up to their eyes balls in debt. The wealthiest demographic I’d imagine will largely be the 55 - 70 (Gen C), as they were able to acquire property at the right time and it’s now sky rocketed. They’d have lived through an age where money was tighter, so have saved and made more modest purchases. This may be a bit stereotypical, however I think it’s a generational thing. Baby Boomers would have struggled. Millennials might have got lucky if they purchased early enough!

My body is broken and I’m struggling to do a 5k at the moment. That is crazy!

Skipp (when fit) is a very good player. He isn’t a box to box midfielder like KDH though. He does however, improve our midfield, which isn’t great currently.

Based on what I’ve seen in pre season, I’d have saved the money and kept Souttar based on footballing ability alone. I guess we don’t know if Souttar is a bad Apple, however nothing to suggest that. Hamer and O’Hare both would have improved our midfield options. In fact I’m not sure we’d beat Sheffield United in our current state and they finished bottom last season.

Do we think we have an element of the club waiting until later in the window to save wages?

Crazier things have happened

Fair enough, just “advising” why things get shut down! I’m not a mod.

If anyone wants an insight into how pivotal an Owner / Manager relationship is and you have Spotify, I’m listening to the Gaffer by Neil Warnock at the moment. I‘M sure it’s a good read as well. However we could literally be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

We’d end up in the Championship or League One, as we’d have no money to swim with the rest of the sharks.

I think we can all acknowledge that pre season looks like a disaster. Shrewsbury 1-2 Leicester Leicester 0-1 Palermo FC Augsburg 1-0 Leicester Lens 3-0 Leicester We haven’t signed anyone and the team is worse than the one that went down and got promoted. We’ve Lost out best player, head coach and to a degree identity of how we will play. We haven’t even re-invested the money from KDH (yet). We’ve signed a centre back, that I’m not sure we needed personally. Cooper doesn’t seem to want to play Ricardo, who in my opinion is our best player. No Idea what’s occurring with that one. Financially PSR has put us in a challenging situation. We are a Hermansen injury away from witnessing Danny Ward in goal again. We are potentially looking at a midfield that has as much creativity as a plank of wood. We’ve not scored in three of our four pre season games. in fact, we looked awful again Lens altogether with only one shot on target. One shot on target against Ausburg. Although we did manage to get four shots on target against Palermo. All in all, I can see why lots of us have a pessimistic outlook for this season. I’m no fan of Cooper and how the last 7 or 8 weeks have gone. I’ve decided against going on Monday due to work related stuff, so I’ll watch it on Sky. I expect us to lose and Son to score at least two!

Okay, here’s the thing. Libel cases and defamation of character are a thing. Sometimes it will be easier just to cull the topic as people start posting derogatory remarks about individuals. Freedom of speech is one thing, attacking someone’s personnel character is akin to online bullying. Both Mark and the poster can be prosecuted for this. Every forum needs moderation.

At this point, I think we need to potentially start looking elsewhere. I’d be considering Hannibal from Manchester United. Who you’d like to think we might be able to pick up on loan. He’s a better option than having a midfield containing Choudhury and Ndidi. Baturina at Zagreb is another. He’s a special talent and he’d give us some creativity in the middle of the pitch we desperately need. Bring Noa Skoko with him as well, as although he’s Croatian, he was born in England. If we want attackers, Joaquín Lavega is worth a look, as he can play across the line in all three positions. Aleksandar Kahvic would have been worth a punt as a big centre forward for the others to play off. Or go and loan Youssoufa Moukoko as his transfer to Marseille has collapsed. He’s available for £13,000,000 apparently.

I’ll be replying and stating *Fudge NO”!

It’s significantly weaker as well. It’s basically a reserve side for the team that went down. We’ve lost Iheanacho, Praet and KDH, would have a chance of starting. Looking at who’s left from the relegated team and last season, we’d have Barnes, Maddison, Castagne, Soyuncu, Tielemans, Perez, Mendy. Not Amartey though, he was horrendous!

Pre season training for 25/26 getting them all first team game time for our promotion push!

We’ve lost out to a club that, that plays out out of a town with 3,300 inhabitants and only half fills its stadium unless they play Bayern, Dortmund or Bayer. What on earth is going on.

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