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I get that in your scenario. This is a house that is quite clearly vacant from the photos however - so it’s literally just on the estate agent. I’m also perfectly happy with my house as-is and only looking to move if I find something that I feel is an upgrade and worth the upheaval. Compare to the car market where you couldn’t view a car if you hadn’t yet sold your current one. It seems like estate agents have it a bit too good if they can turn away potentially decent leads - which would lead to the question: why are they needed at all?!

Anyone had experience of getting viewings without their house on the market? My situation is that I’m happy where I am but if the right house pops up I’d explore. I’ve kept an eye on the market for the last couple of years and seen about three houses in that time that I’d be interested in (one of which I got a viewing on but wasn’t quite right). One of them has just come back on the market (assuming another sale fell through) and the estate agent is “prioritising viewings for people who are proceedable”. I get the estate agent doesn’t want to waste time with lots of speculative viewings but this is also a house that is clearly vacant so there’s no issue around the seller having lots of people looking round being disruptive. My mortgage is up early next year so it provides a good opportunity to move if I find something worth moving for. Am I supposed to just put my house on the market and/or sell it with nowhere to move to and on the off chance something pops up that makes me want to move?! Or do I just lie to get the viewing and then tell them the real scenario once I’m wanting to do something?! It all seems a bit broken to me as an industry. As an estate agent you’re there to sell the property and someone wanting to come along and view one that has stood empty for months is surely in the sellers interest regardless of how inconvenient it might be for the estate agent

Obviously a Christmas party but I don’t think the sign happens without them having a hunch Cooper was going. If stories are to be believed that a senior player had a word with the owner post-match, I imagine they might have left that discussion with an idea of what was going to happen next and shared that with the rest of the team. They’ll probably have woken up today and regretted the sign a little but if that’s the biggest controversy or regret that comes out of a Christmas party then we’re doing alright.

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The whole Kane vs Vardy stuff is cheap and tired now. No need to turn this thread into that kind of Talksport/Twitter nonsense. I can see Vardy doing another year here if we stay up. Still has so much to offer the team.

That stadium clapped our team to the most disgraceful relegation ever and round the pitch after it had just been confirmed. A bit of accountability is fine by me.

Are the club going to hold a memorial service annually for the rest of eternity? I mean, after 6 years it’s a bit weird to be doing it every year. Almost a bit cult-y like he was some kind of deity. I’m sure everyone who knew him, personally or professionally, has the ability to remember him and pay their respects however they wish to. The whole ‘Forever In Our Hearts’ orchestrated stuff I find a little bit exaggerated now.

That’s the thing. I don’t think it was. 99% of our fan base couldn’t pronounce Vichai’s surname, couldn’t pick his voice out of a crowd, couldn’t tell you anything about him other than he owned King Power. They did a good bit of PR by giving charitable donations and giving the odd freebie (at a time when other clubs were also giving freebies such a free coaches to away games), but was it not just more the case that they benefitted from the success on the pitch and appreciation by association? Now, of course, they took some financial decisions that massively helped the club, and it gave us the platform to achieve what we did, but there’s been many a sign of ineptitude along the way and I think everyone just got a bit carried away with the nice story of a fan-owner relationship that wasn’t really there. A tragic event which stirred the emotions only served to exaggerate that. In the same way as when Princess Diana died.

Won’t be missed I gather. How bad can the replacement be? Over to you, LCFC!

You’re a kid from a disadvantaged background. Maybe not so far away from the stadium - somewhere like New Parks or Braunstone. Of course you can’t afford a season ticket or membership but a walk, bus or bike ride down the ground during half term is achievable… LCFC do not give two craps about you. So unnecessarily sad to see. Shame on you, LCFC.

In the big picture it was a brief showing, but it’s still possible to show a bit of willing and effort in a brief cameo. Looked lazy and half-arsed to me.

Yep - that’s exactly the point! Was perfectly capable of noticing who was on the pitch at any given moment

Never known a manager pick players in offensive/creative positions based on their defensive ability. Ndidi and Ayew in the 10. Refusal to play Mavididi and Fatawu on the wings in favour of the likes of Decordova Reid and Ayew. It’s boring, dull, negativity.

Completed but it felt like a survey for a new stadium that has been built in a new area. There’s been a football stadium in the vicinity for more than 100 years so there’s no resident impact that shouldn’t have been known when choosing to move into the area.

So many decisions at the moment just stink of absolute desperation. Desperate times, desperate measures and all that. They must know that £10 for a pre-season friendly is objectively obscene. But if it’s one of your few chances to milk the Foxes Player revenue now you’re back in the Prem and can’t sell it weekly, and no one’s really going to check or know how many people paid to watch the friendly, and you might even be able to bang a bit extra on some income stream to meet some financial rules that are looking a bit tight… Ok, maybe there’s not anything shifty going on here and they are just completely tone deaf at the moment. But it just all seems so wildly off that surely, surely, there’s more to it than someone thinking this was a good idea that would be well-received.

Leicester “have boots will travel” City. Sacked off the US tour at the behest of Maresca - having clearly not consulted him on the plan before signing up - only to then lose Maresca a week later. It’s led to us travelling to France and Germany to play anyone who will have us and now a random game in Chesterfield. It’s a make it up as you go along pre-season schedule. Second summer in a row the man in charge of the first team has to contend with an off-pitch operation blundering their way through things.

I guess they might have felt that your experience at clubs like Brentford and Doncaster in the lower leagues wasn’t applicable for a club that sees itself as Premier League or even pushing for European football on the regular.

I just don’t feel we have any less chance staying up next season with a new manager than we would Maresca. That for me is the acid test. I shouldn’t feel that about a manager that has just got us promoted and won the league, but I do.

Let him talk to them. If he wants to go and they want him then the price is the price. If he doesn’t, or they don’t want him, on we go. No new contract just for meeting what was expected of you last season. Maresca showed so many signs of inexperience last year. Things only picked up when the players locked themselves in a room without him to discuss. Someone will pay the price for that inexperience next season whether it’s us or Chelsea.

No ticket collection in Moscow. Ironically, it was as simple as a pdf sent to our phones!

Another step, after the wave of Americans investing in the English game (which isn’t getting anywhere near enough attention), towards a turn en masse to non-league for thousands of English football fans.

I get the sense he’ll not get this opportunity again. Putting Albrighton on the spot re. retirement and asking Vardy to give an exclusive about staying or not is not what the control freaks in the club Comms/PR department would want.

The stadium MC guy is having a shocker. Can’t help just being an old fan with a microphone and asking the players either poor questions or ones they’re not meant to be answering without the go ahead from the club/their agents.

Not sure who’s more shameless, Top or Danny Ward. Both should show some humility and fade into the background knowing they put us down in this league and then did nothing to get us back out of it.

Glad others are commenting on the deluge of Thais in amongst this title celebration. If the ownership had been doing their job properly we wouldn’t even be in this league to begin with but the majority of Leicester fans clamber to fawn over them at any given opportunity. Hundreds of them on the pitch yesterday so you couldn’t see who’s who and replacing the usual framed picture walk round of the king of Thailand with Vichai like some martyr. Top throwing cuddly toys to the peasants whilst his club charges them £25 to keep a season ticket card. Four buses for the parade because associates of the family are driven through the streets of Leicester fans there to see the people who actually did something to achieve the success. The optics are all so wrong. Get them gone and get us back to some form of normality with owners held to account and the on-pitch success credited to those who have actually stepped onto the pitch.