Tielemans63

I think he'll do alright at Ipswich

I wish him the best of luck at Ipswich. I'd rather we'd shifted a complete waster like Soumare or Daka, but on the face of it, it's a decent deal.

More than likely, but not definitely

We might not receive the subsequent add-ons if he were to no longer play for Ipswich. All depends on the structure of the deal and what's guaranteed and what's conditional I guess.

You would. In which case, it's a decent deal, not a great one. There's no guarantee he'll see out his contract at Ipswich. I just thought the wording was interesting. I'm nitpicking, but £8m up from front with £2m for year 2 and a further £2m for year 3 would be a great deal. This looks good, but not great IMHO.

Yeah, I guess I'm just curious to know how much of that is actually up-front. Obviously I'm pretty cynical when it comes to Rudkin

£12m over 3 years? Is that a great deal?

Perhaps Rudders turned down the offer from Sunderland because he was holding out for a lower bid from elsewhere

I like Kasey, seems a good lad. I think we should accept a decent offer, but I don't think he deserves some of the mocking he's getting here. The likes of Winks, Soumare, Daka probably deserve it to some extent, I personally don't think Kasey does.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cp94vn1lk0zo Sound familiar?

IF we sell both BEK AND Fatawu then this becomes a distinct possibility. We'd be left with a squad that is very much a championship squad. Furthermore, it's a dysfunctional squad without decent leadership. There's also a total lack of quality in midfield and very little threat up front. KP look like they're trying to claw back some money before they **** off. It's not impossible that we go down. Very little is going well at the club.

It's not even subtle is it? It's killing the competition dead. I'm sure this has been allowed to happen as a sweetener for the 'top clubs' following the failed European Super League.

This is what I think is happening, too.

My daughter (11) was talking about her baby hair (she's getting her hair cut tomorrow). I said, there's no such thing, she must be thinking of baby teeth. My wife than tells me your baby hair is a thing that everyone (with hair) has. I have genuinely never heard of this. I'm 43

Even Leeds look light years ahead of us. Our regression seems to be happening in super fast forward

So we're making very little profit on him? Who is Aaron Ramiro btw? Reliable?

Fans aren't really to blame are they? Top is to blame, ultimately. King Power was decimated following Vichai's tragic death and then Covid Top has kept hold of the club, probably for sentimental reasons following his fathers death, however it's pretty obvious that KP could do without having to fund a PL-level team that involves serious levels of investment. It's pretty clear both organisations are going to the dogs pretty rapidly, partly because of external financial pressure, but largely due to poor management. Top is clearly miles out or his depth, as are the people he's surrounding himself with at the club. It's been error after error in the running of the club, and Top has inexplicably kept faith with those who have a track record of incompetence and failure. He doesn't sack them, because he has even less idea of what to do than they do. If he sacks his confidants then he's completely exposed. People forget that Rudders is a handy fall guy, happy to be paid £200k a year to be so. In my opinion, ultimately Top is to blame. He has the power to sell-up and move on, or to be brave and change personnel, but he keeps it as it is, even though he sees the direction in which the club is headed. Top is responsible for what we've become.

At one point yesterday, I think it was about 10 minutes before half time, I looked at the stats and we'd had 72% possession and created absolutely nothing. I feel like we're in an endless loop sometimes. The club seems to have this ethos that we must play possession-based football that they pushed when presumably they thought we might become European competition regulars. It may have made a bit of sense at the time, but since then we've been relegated twice and embarrassed in the prem......and yet the ethos has never been revised or updated.* We still stick slavishly to this ideology when we clearly don't have the players to carry it out, and teams have long since figured out how to pick us off. It's good to have principles, but it's also good to have the humility to admit when they need revising. It's so stale and I can't understand why they don't care enough to address such an obvious flaw. *Actually, there was the Cooper reign, but God knows what style that was, and that was one of the most poorly thought-through appointments we've ever made.

...as have Brighton ...as have Brentford ...as have Fulham ...as have Wolves ...as have Bournemouth ...as have Palace All clubs we were some way ahead of. It genuinely feels like we've managed to somehow fit a decade of regression into the last 4 years. The decline has been so rapid. It's unforgivable.

It's actually spelt 'inertia'

I know he could be unprofessional at times, but Jamie Vardy genuinely cared about LCFC. I'm convinced he held it together at times because he didn't allow others to take the piss out of the club. That's all gone now and we can see the difference. Riccy seems a good bloke who cares about LCFC, but he seems too soft to me, and he's always injured anyway.

I'll admit it. Not every fact was 100% factual.

I've supported this club for 131 years. There was an unsettling period where we were quite good a few years back, but thankfully we're shit again and back where we belong. You youngsters expecting your club to have built on that success are living it cloud cuckoo land. My Grandad took me to see Woolwich Arsenal on the Vicky Park in 1814 and we drew 1-1 to go 8th in the second division. That's where we belonged then, and that's where we belong now. You youngsters who only started supporting the club after we signed Ahmed Musa need to realise this is where we're at. I blood love mediocrity and so should you, you ungrateful pricks.

Mardy little gimp

He's clueless. He and Rudders need to move on from this possession-based football they've been obsessed with. The team isn't good enough to play it. Doesn't suit our club.