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Week Leicester Southampton Leeds Ipswich 31 Bristol Millwall 32 Sheffield Wed West Brom Swansea Swansea 33 Middlesborough Hull Plymouth Rotherham 34 Leeds Millwall Leicester Birmingham 35 QPR Birmingham Huddlesfield Plymouth 36 Sunderland Preston Stoke Bristol 37 Hull Sunderland Sheffield Wed Cardiff 38 Southampton Leicester Millwall Sheffield Wed 39 Bristol Middlesborough Watford Blackburn 40 Norwich Ipswich Hull Southampton 41 Birmingham Blackburn Coventry Norwich 42 Millwall Coventry Sunderland Watford 43 Plymouth Watford Blackburn Middlesborough 44 West Brom Cardiff Middlesborough Coventry 45 Preston Stoke QPR Hull 46 Blackburn Leeds Southampton Huddlesfield Average position of the teams the top 4 play for the rest of the season updated: Leicester - 12th Southampton - 11th Leeds - 13th Ipswich - 14th You’d think Ipswich would start to find some form again looking at the next games. Southampton have a trickier set of fixtures coming up, so that will be interesting. Outside of the game against us, you wouldn’t argue against Leeds winning the majority of their next 8 games.

1. Rotherham 2. Sheffield Wednesday 3. Queens Park Rangers 4. ….. If we keep winning, we should start to add to list list in quick succession now. We might be able to add Huddlesfield, Stoke, Birmingham and Millwall next weekend.

https://motleedsnews.com/news/jason-cundy-destroys-leicester-fan-live-on-talksport-after-ridiculous-leeds-united-claim/ Jason Cundy destroys Leicester fan live on talkSPORT after 'ridiculous' Leeds United claim Jason Cundy fumed at a Leicester City fan live on talkSPORT after he claimed he would rather be in Leeds’ position than Leicester’s despite their 11-point gap at the top of the Championship. Leicester extended their lead at the top of the Championship after a win at Watford on 10 February, but the fan claimed to be bored of the football they play under Enzo Maresca. He claimed he would rather be in Leeds’ position because, under the management of Daniel Farke, they play entertaining football despite a gap between the two teams. Cundy was outraged live on talkSPORT [10 February, 19:10] as he questioned: “You’d rather be Leeds right now? You’d rather be third?” the fan then replied: “It’s good football,” as Cundy continued to question. The Leicester fan then attempted to explain: “I know it sounds daft but…” before Cundy cut him off: “No no, not daft, it’s utterly ridiculous. Not daft.” After the call was ended, Cundy questioned: “Leeds United? He’d rather be Leeds United than Leicester right now?” and Dean Saunders replied: “It’s a windup. They’ve only let 24 goals in all season and scored 66.” Leeds United fans would happily swap places At the end of the day, ask any Leeds fan whether they would rather play pretty football or be 11 points clear at the top of the Championship, almost guaranteed to win the league and get back into the Premier League, and nine out of ten fans would tell you the latter. As it stands at Elland Road they sit in third, just one point behind Southampton albeit the Saints have a game in hand. There is no guarantee of promotion, particularly given the run of form Russell Martin’s side have put together. Promotion straight back to the Premier League at the first time of asking is the ultimate goal for all three clubs that were relegated at the end of last season, so to suggest you’d rather be unsure about that chance with the possibility of the playoffs than flying at the top is ludicrous. Leeds United fans will be nervous about the promotion race The promotion race this year is likely to be exciting for everybody but Leicester. Foxes fans can essentially put their feet up and cruise to the end of the season, while Leeds, Southampton and Ipswich fans will be constantly sweating over their position. With the threat of the notoriously unpredictable playoffs a very real possibility at Elland Road, that security is something fans will be longing for, not willing to throw away in exchange for “good football”.

Is he just fishing for votes with controversy at this stage?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/us/politics/trump-nato-russia.html WasSpeaking in Conway, S.C., Donald J. Trump said as president he’d told NATO allies that he would urge Russian aggression against countries that owed the military alliance money. Speaking in Conway, S.C., Donald J. Trump said as president he’d told NATO allies that he would urge Russian aggression against countries that owed the military alliance money.

We could just Yellow card people for these things? And actually Yellow Card them; not this let them off thing.

We’ve had a few worldies against us …. Bergkamp - Arsenal Steltari - Tottenham Kompany - Manchester City Alan Mullery - Fulham Son - Tottenham Sigurdsson - Everton Bartlett - Charlton

It will naturally happen in the summer, when we the 20m per annum drops off the wage bill with so many contracts expiring. I guess that is why we are waiting for this season to finish, before reviewing our position.

Gabriel Jesus as well before he joined Manchester City

Fury looks in good shape in fairness to him. He knows he can maybe drop some of the weight he uses for protection as Uysk is definitely a more technical fight and potentially coming in lighter might help him. So it’s been rescheduled for May 18th. Interesting that blow up by Fury though, has Uysk got under his skin? They’ve also said a big fight will happen on May 18th, and will look to schedule AJ vs Fury is Uysk pulls out.

Nope: List of our finishes when they “apparently” broke the rules. 2009/10 - Championship - 5th 2010/11 - Championship - 10th 2011/12 - Championship - 9th 2012/13 - Championship - 6th 2013/14 - Championship - 1st 2014/15 - Premier League - 14th 2015/16 - Premier League - 1st 2016/17 - Premier League - 12th 2017/18 - Premier League - 9th In reality, it’s hardly made a massive impact on us! During that time, we played them FA Cup - Twice, drawing and then losing the replay. League Cup - Twice, losing both (one on penalties) League - Eight times, Won two, Drawn one, lost five.

Manchester City are being investigated for financial irregularities between the 2009/10 to 2017/18 seasons. It’s being reviewed by an independent review I believe. They basically being investigated for now declaring full information on players wages, managers wages (operating costs), business deals and sponsorship. Then throw in not fully co-operating with their investigation, it gets a little messy, hence why it’s rumbled on for the best part of 5 years already. If you look at possible punishments for them, it’ll be negligible to the overall financial impact they’ve had on other clubs. Stripping titles is pointless, as they’ll always state they won them anyway. Relegate them and they’ll be straight back up, harming any chance of a Championship club coming up on merit. No club is realistically getting compensation for failing to meet Champions League places, or missing out on the title. It’ll be some form of a fine, which will no doubt, line the pockets of the Premier League. The court date is supposed to be summer 2025, so who knows. This falls quite nicely with Guardiola finishing his contract as well, so all the “I’d leave if they’ve lied to me” stuff from him, may be lip service anyway.

The top 4 are making a mockery of this being the “toughest league in the world”. Saying that, we are going to see some major point swings at some points. Week Leicester Southampton Leeds Ipswich 30 Huddlesfield West Brom 31 Watford Bristol Rotherham Millwall 32 Sheffield Wed West Brom Swansea Swansea 33 Boro Hull Plymouth Rotherham 34 Leeds Millwall Leicester Birmingham 35 QPR Birmingham Huddlesfield Plymouth 36 Sunderland Preston Stoke Bristol 37 Hull Sunderland Sheffield Wed Cardiff 38 Southampton Leicester Millwall Sheffield Wed 39 Bristol Middlesborough Watford Blackburn 40 Norwich Ipswich Hull Southampton 41 Birmingham Blackburn Coventry Norwich 42 Millwall Coventry Sunderland Watford 43 Plymouth Watford Blackburn Boro 44 West Brom Cardiff Boro Coventry 45 Preston Stoke QPR Hull 46 Blackburn Leeds Southampton Huddlesfield To put it into context on the run ins, based on the remaining fixtures, the average team place each club needs to play is: Leicester - 12th Southampton - 11th Leeds - 14th Ipswich - 14th

Maybe time to potentially starting looking at the summer transfer window. With FFP having such a massive impact upon clubs, maybe we’ll start to utilise the free agents, as players run down contracts. This way, they’ll get the massive signing bonus, rather the clubs getting transfer fees. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/endendevertraege Some interesting names on that list that we’ve been linked to previously. Josh Brownhill, Gabriel Barbosa, Alex Meret, Nicolas Pepe, Felipe Anderson etc Given our potentially to fill 6 or 7 gaps, we aren’t splurging money on all players with our potential FFP status on the edge. So you’d likely think we’ll be dipping our toe into this pool.

Not sure where to drop this, looks like we tried to sign another defender late on. https://the72.co.uk/2024/02/05/portuguese-club-held-firm-amid-leicester-citys-late-bid-to-sign-23-year-old-report-claims/

What people forget about Choudbury, was that he was once touted as being a major player. He was our academy player of the year and seen as a phenomenal talent. Clearly that hasn’t panned out. One way or another, even via agent links, he was linked to Barcelona and that alone may have forced the clubs hand to potentially overpay on a contract with a view that maybe they could cash in at a later date. In other news, it looks like we tried to sign another centre back late in the window. https://the72.co.uk/2024/02/05/portuguese-club-held-firm-amid-leicester-citys-late-bid-to-sign-23-year-old-report-claims/ So we are maybe looking at alternative players for next season. Which means we are either aiming to ship out Souttar, or won’t be looking at renewing Vestergaard.

I guess the aim at this stage, is stay in the league. Massive game and chance to add a little bit of breathing space against Standard Leige on Saturday.

I guess it depends what role we see for Vardy and Vestergaard.

Also beaten by Maidstone and we chocked. Twice!

They are the only team I think could push us at this point. Ipswich will continue to fall away now I think. Leeds are erratic.

30th June 2024 30th June 2025 30th June 2026 30th June 2027 30th June 2028 Marc Albrighton Danny Ward Conor Coady Wout Faes Harry Souttar Jannik Vestergaard Daniel Iversen Ricardo Pereira Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall Mads Hermansen Dennis Praet Luke Thomas Harry Winks Hamza Choudhury Victor Kristiansen Jamie Vardy Boubakary Soumaré Wilfred Ndidi Patson Daka Kelechi Iheanacho James Justin Callum Doyle Stephy Mavididi Issahaku Fatawu Sammy Braybooke Yunus Akgun Kasey Mcateer Will Alves Wanya Marçal Surely we are working on getting some of these renewed in the background. It’ll be cheaper than spending money on players, if we can convince some of this years contract expiries to renew. So Akgun and Fatawu should be triggered for full on signings I’d imagine. If we can re-sign Doyle, that would be a bonus. I could see us trying to tempt Vestergaard, Vardy and Ndidi to potentially re-new. Then Ward and Iversen move into the last years of contracts.

We’re potentially going to smash the points total. On the averages - 97 points wins us the league, 93 gets us promoted. Based on the average points per game. Us - 110 Southampton - 96 Ipswich - 93 Leeds - 92 People will still moan that we’ve got a poor defence and need more goals though, despite amounting the biggest points haul ever in this league. Then having one of the best defence and attacks. 25 more points required. 10 - 11 games based on our average. So either Birmingham or Norwich. Promotion likely sealed if we can get a result against Southampton on the 16th March. Year Team Games Points GF GA GD xGD46 Av Points Av GF Av GA 23/24 Leicester City 30 72 64 23 41.00 62.87 2.40 2.13 0.77 23/24 Southampton 29 61 55 32 23.00 36.48 2.10 1.90 1.10 23/24 Leeds United 30 60 52 26 26.00 39.87 2.00 1.73 0.87 23/24 Ipswich Town 29 59 53 38 15.00 23.79 2.03 1.83 1.31 22/23 Burnley 46 101 87 35 52.00 52.00 2.20 1.89 0.76 21/22 Fulham 46 90 106 43 63.00 63.00 1.96 2.30 0.93 20/21 Norwich City 46 97 75 39 36.00 36.00 2.11 1.63 0.85 19/20 Leeds United 46 93 77 35 42.00 42.00 2.02 1.67 0.76 18/19 Norwich City 46 94 93 57 36.00 36.00 2.04 2.02 1.24 17/18 Wolverhampton Wanderers 46 99 82 39 43.00 43.00 2.15 1.78 0.85 16/17 Newcastle United 46 94 85 40 45.00 45.00 2.04 1.85 0.87 15/16 Burnley 46 93 72 35 37.00 37.00 2.02 1.57 0.76 14/15 Bournemouth 46 90 98 45 53.00 53.00 1.96 2.13 0.98 13/14 Leicester City 46 102 83 43 40.00 40.00 2.22 1.80 0.93 12/13 Cardiff City 46 87 72 45 27.00 27.00 1.89 1.57 0.98 11/12 Reading 46 89 69 41 28.00 28.00 1.93 1.50 0.89 10/11 Queens Park Rangers 46 88 71 32 39.00 39.00 1.91 1.54 0.70 09/10 Newcastle United 46 102 90 35 55.00 55.00 2.22 1.96 0.76 08/09 Wolverhampton Wanderers 46 90 80 52 28.00 28.00 1.96 1.74 1.13 07/08 West Bromwich Albion 46 81 88 55 33.00 33.00 1.76 1.91 1.20 06/07 Sunderland 46 88 76 47 29.00 29.00 1.91 1.65 1.02 05/06 Reading 46 106 99 32 67.00 67.00 2.30 2.15 0.70 04/05 Sunderland 46 94 75 41 34.00 34.00 2.04 1.63 0.89 03/04 Norwich City 46 94 79 39 40.00 40.00 2.04 1.72 0.85 02/03 Portsmouth 46 98 97 45 52.00 52.00 2.13 2.11 0.98 01/02 Manchester City 46 99 108 52 56.00 56.00 2.15 2.35 1.13 00/01 Fulham 46 101 90 32 58.00 58.00 2.20 1.96 0.70 99/00 Charlton Athletic 46 91 79 45 34.00 34.00 1.98 1.72 0.98 98/99 Sunderland 46 105 91 28 63.00 63.00 2.28 1.98 0.61 97/98 Nottingham Forest 46 94 82 42 40.00 40.00 2.04 1.78 0.91 96/98 Bolton Wanderers 46 98 100 53 47.00 47.00 2.13 2.17 1.15 95/96 Sunderland 46 83 59 33 26.00 26.00 1.80 1.28 0.72 94/95 Middlesborough 46 82 67 40 27.00 27.00 1.78 1.46 0.87 93/94 Crystal Palace 46 90 73 46 27.00 27.00 1.96 1.59 1.00

Are people still not happy with our style of play?

FFP has essentially generated a wage cap. I think if we look at how we’ve developed our squad this season, it’s been reliant on a lot of home grown or younger talent to fill out spots. I can maybe see Alves, Cover and Nelson featuring to some degree, as the lower wages they are on, allows us to carry a few more experienced players going forward. We are in a transition period, as we had a bloated squad with over paid players, as we chased the dream or cracking the top 4. Maybe that end of season review has given us a road map on how we move forward. We didn’t build one of the best training facilities in world football, to then not utilise its potentially and pay for players. The long term aim must be ti develop our own talent. Some clubs will fall much harder than we have if they are relegated. Ourselves, Southampton and Leeds had assets that we could sell to balance the books. Forest for me, would be in worlds of trouble.