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What do we do with the players we invested in last summer in order to try and play this way? I don't think we have the 'right' players to perfectly implement any one style to be honest. Do you think we've got the pace, the finishers and the workrate in the squad to play even half as well as we did in 15/16? People assume that possession/technical-based footballer is 'harder', and that other ways of playing are 'easier' - it's nonsense. You employ the style that suits that players you have, or something approximating that, and we've spent quite a lot investing in players who play a certain way and are used to a certain style. The board aren't going to throw the baby out with the bathwater, chasing some type of football that we don't have the players for and goes against what we're actually trying to build - well, they might do, they've made plenty of stupid decisions before.

Any rumblings about pre-season friendlies yet? Going on the piss in Leicester with a bunch of old mates on 27th July, hoping there might be a home game we can go to? I think in recent seasons we've had a fairly decent marquee game at the KP around that time in pre-season.

Again, have you seen how Corberan's teams play, or are you just basing 'tippy tappy' on an assumption? https://breakingthelines.com/tactical-analysis/carlos-corberans-tactical-set-up-at-west-brom This shows you how he literally sets up to counter the likes of Maresca.

Yeah let's set up old school and try not to get beat like Sheff U and Luton... Oh, wait. Fact of the matter is, you can set up however what you like, as long as the team buys into it and you have enough quality, that's what keeps you up. Style of football doesn't come into it - you can play tippy tappy football like Burnley and go down, or you can play more direct football like Sheff and go down. Corberan and Cooper are more or less one and the same, they've both taken on clubs that were struggling and improved them, they both like to employ a more patient, passing, possession based game, but they're both pragmatic in terms of adapting their style to the players they have, they sides they're facing and the situation they're in. It's no wonder we're looking at them. People assuming Corberan is a 'tiki taka' merchant because he's got a foreign sounding name is about as stupid as people thinking Cooper is some old fashioned route one manager because he's British. Every argument in this thread seems to be based on ridiculous assumptions.

Doubt it, sounds like there's just been a bit of wrangling over fee etc.

Because he's done a good job in difficult circumstances at Hudderdfield and West Brom. He plays attractive football, but he's pragmatic, he's worked with minimal wage/transfer budgets and gotten the best out of the players at his disposal. Why do Chelsea think Enzo would be ok in the Premier League? Why did Arsenal think Arteta would be ok in the Premier League? Why are clubs after McKenna when he's had no Premier League experience? Why did Brighton appoint Graham Potter when he'd only had experience in the Championship and in Sweden? Why did Palace appoint Glasner? No PL experience there. Why did Bournemouth appoint Areola? He's not got any PL experience! Spurs must have been mad appointing Postecoglou, no PL experience at all! What were United thinking appointing Ten Hag? He's never managed in the PL.

To be fair, let it drag on, start the search and negotiations for his replacement in the background. He's definitely going, they just need to agree on a fee - we should rinse them for as much as we can. No reason it stops us from doing what we need to do. Although I suppose this is Leicester we're talking about.

Preki, the footballing god. Come home brother. I know you've never been here, but Leicester is your SPIRITUAL home. Help us in our time of need, Preki. Through you, all things are possible.

Will Still is a massive fraud. One win in his last 14 games and got sacked. Corberan would be a much better option.

The points deduction, in my opinion, makes it more likely that we'll be able to attract a manager. If you get relegated, then it wasn't their fault - it was the points deduction. If they keep us up - look at me, what a miracle worker I am! Whereas if we were coming into this season with no deduction, any manager we get will need to carry the can for the results on the pitch over the course of the season.

Mark my words, Will Still is ****ing shit.

I dunno why, but I feel like we're set up for an all-timer of a season, I just think it's going to be crazy.

I suppose Cambiasso was texting instructions to Claudio all the way through the title winning season too.

Cambiasso 'took control' 😂 biggest myth in this clubs history

Bless you

Will Still would be an absolute disaster, people have stopped talking about him because that unbeaten run ended and he won just 2 of his last 14 games.

Potter or Corberan please.

I genuinely like Enzo and think he's done a good job, but his confidence-to-the-point-of-arrogance, and so many of his comments during and post-season show that he thinks he's too good for this club, so it's no surprise that he's leaving at the first opportunity. It's a real shame to be honest, and I think he's in for a rude awakening at Chelsea.

If Maresca does go, and it is Corberan in to replace him, then I wouldn't be too mad about it. Corberan has shown at Huddersfield and West Brom that he's very adept at working with what he's got, he doesn't require huge spending sprees, and he has adapted his style - which is not dissimilar to Enzo's - in order to get the best out of the players at his disposal. Bielsa massively rated him at Leeds, and he seems to have done a good job wherever he's gone, apart from Olympiacos. A lot to like there.

I'd like him to stay, but what I hope we don't do is give him a silly contract to ward off any interest, like we did with Rodgers and Arsenal. At Leicester, all players and all staff should have their price, and we shouldn't stand in their way when they want to leave - just make sure we get the best possible compensation. It's a model that has served us so well in the past, and shows that no-one is bigger than this club.

Graham Potter anyone?

Don't reckon they would have been obscene. Think we've probably just decided that there's better places to spend our money.

I think if we weren't watching our spending so closely, we would have probably made this permanent - he's a good squad player.

I wouldn't have thought so, he's got a good track record of giving youth a shot in the first team, and with Liverpool's injury record over the past two seasons, I don't know if they'll be keen to ship out a decent squad player.