Jobyfox

I was surprised it’s as recent as that. It feels like years!

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I’m so affected by the last few seasons that I’m still wondering if we can find a way to f*** this up…

Well that’s going to be the case all season with our squad and the league that we’re in. So you probably should give this one a miss

He’s not quite the “Finnished” article yet

This is sh1t!! (Sorry, I thought I’d go early. Has it kicked off yet?)

Top three in possession stats in the Premier League: Man City, Arsenal and Brighton. Personally I don’t think it’s the playstyle that’s finished. It’s about flexibility and making it work for the players at your disposal. The real skill is looking at the players that you’ve got and utilising their skills to the full potential - as we did so ruthlessly in 15/16. If you look at many players in the lower leagues or women’s football they don’t have the technical skills to retain the ball and play through a press. That’s our real issue. We’re asking the likes of McCarthy, Thomas and Souttar to both be able to control the ball, but also have the football intelligence to use it properly. I don’t think it’s the style that’s finished. It’s the obsession that’s it’s the best approach for all players, irrespective of ability and technique and at all levels of football.

Just got in. It brings it home how far we’ve fallen when I had to scroll past the Women’s Super League and Women’s Players Cup on the BBC website before I found our result. Also briefly got angry at our 2-2 draw before I realised that it was against Watford in the aforementioned Players Cup

I wouldn’t write anything off currently. Simply because every time I think we’ve hit rock bottom we seem to contrive to sink to even greater depths. This is already the worst LCFC team in the entire history of the club. Anything is possible

Kante had a release clause

BDCR is the last of the horrific signings in that window where we recruited “experience” for the Premier League. Considering players like Ayew, BDCR and Skipp were signed specifically for their ability at the highest level makes that transfer window arguably our worst ever. Especially when you consider the context and what’s happened since. We’d have been better served not spending any money and playing the kids. BDCR is a walking reminder of that window and how it was emblematic of the disastrous recruitment, dreadful decision making and muddled thinking that has characterised our dramatic decline. The sooner he’s gone the better!

Vardy is the exception that breaks nearly every rule. Any comparisons with him, his evolution while at Leicester and fan reaction during his development are, therefore, rendered meaningless. The “what about Vardy” comments don’t serve any purpose in any debate about a striker’s ability or potential. Simply because he was a one off

Will Smallbone

3 year contract incoming

I was so excited by this signing that I had a Smallbone!

First Hamza and now Faes. Suddenly we’re seriously underrepresented in the bouffant hairstyles department

I won’t be satisfied unless they are fined £100m, thrown out of the Premier League and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayer Al Nahyan is beheaded

If this is the guy someone has fantasised about signing for years then they can’t have a very vivid imagination.

He was/is on a hiding to nothing as he’s not the appointment people wanted - just as Cooper wasn’t. We then proceeded to hound Cooper out only to then burn through RVN, Cifuentes and Rowett. The manager might be part of the issue but I can’t be arsed enough to actively want him out. We’re in the 3rd division and run by clueless individuals. I can’t see us attracting anybody much better and I can’t see them appointing the right person even if we did. Nothing will change until the owners and directors are changed

I’ve seen a few comments saying he’s a bit cr@p, but I’m not sure anyone wants to take it that far 😮

So not the Messiah we were hoping for then

Finally a signing we can all get excited about

I wish I could bake a cake full of rainbows and smiles and we could all just eat and be happy

He’s probably been our best CB so far this season as well

I suppose there is that. Shame we can’t just terminate him if that is the case