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The side I think he will pick which will be the death nail in his coffin Mads Justin Faes Okoli Kristiansen Winks Ndidi Buananotte Mavididi Vardy Ayew The team he should pick Mads Faes Vestergaard Okoli Ricardo Winks Fatawu Skipp Buananotte Mavididi Vardy

Corporate goons running this football club who have no care or concern for their fans (or should I say customers.) Chance for some good PR after the last 2 years of horrid decision making and they turn it down. As a mental health sufferer, raising awareness and support groups is a great initiative so keep fighting the good fight.

That 2014/15 side at the start of the season was infinitely worse than this side in terms both of quality and Premier League experience compared to our current side. Our most expensive signing was Ulloa who 'cost a fortune' but not even half of what we have paid for Skipp and Bilal. We started games with Dean Hammond and I'm fairly sure Gary Taylor Fletcher featured away at Chelsea as well. Added to that the manager had a massive amount of credit in the bank with the fanbase for taking us for the depths of despair to the top flight, and was going to take time to learn how to be a Premier League manager for the first time (not withstanding his caretaker spells at places and jobs as assistants.) That team still took 8 points from the first 6 games which included United and Arsenal. Cooper has had a season and half at Forest as a Premier League manager and survived by the skin of his teeth once after buying a new team and got sacked when he was taking them down the following season. From what I have seen both at his time at Forest and his body of work here is he tactically just isn't up to it as a Premier League manager, it's nothing personal against the bloke as he seems a nice guy, speaks well etc, but just not sure he and his coaching staff can keep us up. If we get beat by Bournemouth next week then the ownership should act swiftly before the pool of available good managers go or we become too unattractive a proposition by being adrift. If we had sacked Rodgers when we should we could have ended up with Emery, instead we got Dean Smith for 6 games when it was already over.

I was fairly neutral when we brought him in, knew with the liklihood of a deduction we weren't going to get anyone of any real ambition. Equally given how poor most on here perceived the season was going to be and the transfer business being shocking, a return of 3 points from 5 games and outside the drop zone is probably about where we expected to be. We also haven't been beaten heavily and been in every game to the last whistle which atleast shows the squad has some fight in them. However that is where the positives stop. His team selections are baffling, alienating Ricardo and Vesty 2 of our 3 best players last year, playing an inbalanced midfield, only playing 1 of our 2 wingers who might do something positive at any given time are all bizarre moves. There is also no real style of play that you can hang your hat on, we don't play out from the back, we're not direct, we don't really counter attack, we don't get loads of crosses in. Compared to the micro management of Maresca last year, this seems the complete opposite, chuck 11 on the pitch and let them figure it out. Added to that his in game management in almost every game has been poor, with his subs either being like for like or the one time we were holding a lead ultra defensive for 30 minutes. Finally whether they are his signings or suggested by the recruitment team, none of them have improved the team vastly from last year. Okoli has looked okay but what more he gives you than Vesty in some areas you lose with his inability to pass the ball, Skipp again tidy but not a position we needed given the glaring holes elsewhere. The rest jury is very much still out. In my eyes he has until the international break, avoid a mauling at Arsenal and beat Bournemouth at home and he has earned the right to have a crack at the winnable games in October, anything less then I think we should pull the trigger. We are a much more attractive proposition than we were in the summer and the players by in large look capable of staying up in this league. I'm hoping given he wasn't given a massive contract and likely to be one of, if not the, lowest paid manager in the league it shouldn't be too costly to get rid so we won't have that hanging over our neck when a decision needs to be made.

Well he played 90 for Denmark on Tuesday (2 clean sheets in 2 for them) but not even good enough for the bench for Cooper.

Would have took a point before the game, but to toss it off the way we did is shocking game management. Coady has being absolute garbage since he limped through the door, literally the only thing he has brought is alleged 'leadership' yet he comes on with 5 to go and does the opposite. We have Vestergaard who is better in literally every element of the game not even making the bench despite playing his nuts off last year and internationally for this gobshite who spends more time on 5 Live than on the pitch. Was willing to give Cooper time given the shambles the club was over the summer, but he will soon lose the majority if he continues with this kind of stuff. If you're going to stay up you need to convert 2-0 leads into wins, can't just rely on beating all the teams down the bottom at home, as that's not guaranteed.

Having been at the game I thought both centre halves had decent enough games. However having watched back this morning all Villa's promising moments cams from an error from one of the 2, with Faes being potentially being worse than Okoli. - Watkins tried to round Mads in the first half, Faes was wrong side of his man. - Mads save in the first half from Watkins, Faes gave the ball away cheaply in our half. - 1st goal Okoli gives a hospital pass which leads to the free kick, Faes doesn't bother to track Onana who can put into an empty net. -2nd goal Duran fights Okoli off to allow him a free header which he takes very well. If this is going to be the pairing, we aren't going to keep many clean sheets as both have atleast 1 brain dead moment in them per game, which in this league gets exposed. Think we will eventually resort to a 3 at the back with Vesty in the middle of these 2 once we are opened up by the lesser teams like Palace and Everton as well in the coming weeks.

To Delilah Why, why why, buy Ayew Why, why, why buy Ayew Now, before, you fcuk up the club even more Pleaae Fcuk off Jon Rudkin we just cannot take anymore.

Anyone who has played football across the County in the last 20 years will have likely have been reffed by Martin, one of the best in the business and always did it with a smile and enthusiasm, seemed to love what he did as well which as a referee can't be easy. As a player and a captain I was always first to have a bit of a chirp at a ref, but never did with Martin because you would have too much respect for him. To find out you're ill just a month ago then pass away must be horrifying for his family to come to terms with.

He hardly had much defending to do last season, we had 65% of the ball so wasn't sat in deep for large parts of the game, we are sadly going to have to do for most games this season. Not saying he can't defend, just think BDR's attributes are going to be better suited to away games and those against the top 6, with Mavididi coming on as an impact.

Unchanged for me should everyone be fit. Another game where we will need BDR's work rate and graft over Mavididi's flair but lack of defensively help. Would keep Wilf in there as well, need his physical presence, playing the 3 technical players in the middle of the park could lead to us being bullied in there. Dunno what Cooper doesn't like about Ricardo but neither Justin nor VK deserve to be dropped after last night.

Classy from Maddison to lay some flowers with Vards before the game. Also lovely to see Nige and Steve Walsh at the ground today, this is the club that those 3 amigos built and got a send off from the fans and players that he deserved.

His redemption really is something, from the punchline to the joke to the best centre half at the club in a year is quite impressive. Play him in a lower block and he will do just fine for us this year, yes he will make the odd mistake and give the ball away, yes the best strikers in the league might be too pacy for him but that won't determine if we stay up. If he can deal with the likes of Solanke, Calvert Lewin, Wood etc and his ability to play from the back in tight areas is something we really need, game really changed when he managed to get the ball into the feet of Winks & Buonanotte

Although it wouldn't be unusual action for some of our fans, a protest first game of the season would be fantastic, particularly as we're on telly and Top will likely be there would embarrass him in front of his rich mates. A mass walk out in the 72nd minute, as that is the most expensive single match day seat for a member, with chants etc. People will say it could affect the players and the game, but this goes beyond a single result, we need to show these charlatans that are running the club that this is our club, and there is a real possibility that King Power leave the club in a worse state than they found it which if you told me 5 years ago was a possibility I would have laughed at you.

Win Win for both parties. He wouldn't have got what he wanted here from a recruitment standpoint if he had stayed and probably jumped at any job should it have came up during the season, which would have caused more upheaval than this with still near on 3 months to the start of the season. He gets a massive contract where if he is booted early gets a mighty pay off. Another positive for us other than the 10 million release clause in the bank balance (finally Rudkin has done something sensible) is that he is going there as head coach with limited say on transfer activities, so he's unlikely to come back and raid us on the cheap for any of our assets, Hermansen in particular would be a perfect fit for his team at Chelsea as their keepers aren't up to much. Dunno what reception he will get if he is still in charge by the time we play Chelsea at home, he delivered the bare minimum given the squad we had, but equally would probably still be here had Top, Rudkin and Whelan hadn't sold him a lie when he first joined about the absolute state of the FFP mess we're in.

Style of play is a complete myth amongst the majority of football fans. If you're winning most weeks you most likely enjoy the way the team is playing, whether that's possession based, counter attacking, getting the ball wide and crossing it into the box etc. If you're losing those very same tactics are rubbish, boring, one dimensional etc. If the club have serious ambitions of reestablishing ourselves in the Premier League, expand the ground and all the other bells and whistles promised, financially we can't afford to drop into the Championship again, as we have seen with Leeds there is no guarantee even if you have a pretty good squad and a decent manager for that level you will come back. So we need a man this season who is going to be able to get us to 40 points (plus potentially the 8 or so we may get deducted) without the resources to invest heavily in the squad. It has to be someone who can get his message across fast, not someone who will take 10 games to feel out the ins and outs of the league, get his 'style' onto the players. I think the long term target would be Potter but if he is in talks about going back to Brighton they are an infinitely better proposition than us, so for me it has to be Moyes, he would give us the best chance of staying up given his 20+ year record in the league. Seems British coaches over the age of 45 are all tarred with the same 'dinosaur' brush, if a 38 year old German had the record Moyes had with West Ham (a team who hadn't gone past the qualifying rounds in Europe since 2005) and got to Europe 3 times including winning a title and getting to another semi only losing to a team who hadn't lose in 40+ games then people would be falling over themselves to get him through the door. Top, Whelan, Rudkin and Rodgers have collectively taken the club backwards 10 years, we made our first forward step in getting out of the hell of the Championship first time up, but we can't afford to go back there again.

Don't get the snobbery towards Moyes at all. We're going to need someone who knows how what this league is all about, not somebody learning on the job. His style of football is complaints from West Ham are standard West Ham fans, not the West Ham way, which for the last 20 years has been yo-yoing between the leagues, Moyes is the only bloke who has steadied the ship, got them into Europe 3 times and won a European trophy, all more to his CV than the likes of Corberan, Carrick, Potter etc. Think we either have 2 options, almost accept our fate is relegation and go for someone who will stick around for a rebuild in the Championship, or try get someone in who could keep us up and steady the ship for a few turbulent years to give us a platform to build.

Looks like he is a goner then. Not devastated as I think his style would have seen us ripped a new one by the top half of the league. More concerned is what the KP clowns will do and how long it will take them to get a replacement in, remember we took 2 weeks between Rodgers going and Smith coming in which probably cost us relegation as the 2 'caretakers' got beat in 2 winnable home games, and it took us til nearly a month before the start of the season to appoint Enzo. Also, all the players we may have been negotiating new deals for, such as Vardy, Vesty, Wilf may decide with the turmoil they will sign elsewhere. For me, his legacy doesn't warrant cheering when he brings his Chelsea team back to the KP. He achieved the bare minimum with the assets he had at his disposal, akin to when Pearson won League 1 with us, if he had left then, and never returned he wouldn't have anywhere near the status he has with the club that he does.

Can see McKenna going to Chelsea whilst his stock is as high as it is, realistically Ipswich are going to be strong favourites to go back down, and would he still be such a hot commodity then, not so sure. Whereas with Enzo, can very much see him wanting to establish himself in the Premier League before taking a big job, say he keeps us up with a points deduction next year then pushes into mid table/top half the following, Pep is likely to walk away within the next 2 seasons and as long Man City don't get an obscene punishment for these 115 charges, Enzo would be a ready made replacement. He already has 1 managerial failure on his CV in Italy, if he went to Chelsea and got the boot after 6 months he has to start from scratch again at a club of a similar stature to ours. Of the merry-go-round I can forsee United - Poch Chelsea - McKenna Brighton - Potter

Email sent, hopefully the more traffic they see come through and the more disgruntlement we show in the stands for the remaining 2 games people at a senior level sit up and take notice. As shown when the European Super League was shouted down, fans as a collective have power, if we just lay down and have our belly tickled and chucked a free pint every now and then to compensate for it then who knows where the next steps are for the club agenda to strip us of other parts of our identity as a club. Have to say, UFS have really pulled through representing the fans this season and hopefully you guys don't become even more inconvenienced by the club because of your aggressive stance on this. We need the section expanded, we need safe standing for large parts of the Kop, we need more general sale tickets in that area at a reasonable price to help us build an atmosphere that teams coming to Leicester actually find intimidating, it's shown in the last 3 home games what a good atmosphere in the stands can lead to on the pitch.

As with most peoples opinion on this forum, and about life in general its always a binary choice. However your response pretty much sums up my view on the entire situation. We have clearly been mismanaged, we knew what the figure was and knew we were pushing the boat out in the hope to go to the next level to allow us to compete. The club at no point have said they haven't exceeded the 105 million. There needs to be some accountability as to whom is to blame for that and heads need to roll. But why if an owner or group of owners can prove that they have access to the level of income needed to fund the club to that level for X amount of years, why should they be published for wanting to do so by these rules. Why should Newcastle, a team who are essentially ran by the richest state in the world be forced to sell their best players to bigger clubs just to ensure they don't get collared by the rules? They are never going to go bankrupt unless the oil suddenly dries up. All these rules do is solidifies that only a handful of clubs ate allowed to compete at the top consistently. In the odd season you might get what Villa are doing this season and Brighton did last, but long term its going to be the same 5 or 6 teams fighting it out at the top year on year on year. If you look at our model of basically selling one of our best players every year for a big fee since we won the title it's quite staggering and a massive pat on the back for the recruitment team (until Rodgers brought in that clown Congerton) to keep us largely in the top half of the table and threatening to disrupt the elite. If you wanted to make it truly competitive whilst ensuring clubs are financially secure, introduce a transfer and salary cap by season whereby all teams abide by the same figure, no matter what you're revenue streams are in the Far East or what lucrative sponsorship deal you have to name your stadium. Then you would actually see who the best scouts, coaches, managers etc really are. But that will never happen as the big 6 wouldn't allow it. In hindsight I wish they had all cleared off to the European Super League (what punishment did they all get again for breaking one of the key constitutions of the PL, a slap on the wrist and be on your way, no points deductions, no embaragos just a small fine) and basically started the PL from scratch, forming a new league with new rules that allowed all clubs to compete on the same level playing field.

That's it, 6 total starts in the prem for Leicester City, he was signed season before last. If you're basing your opinion on 6 starts then fair enough, but I would rather use his Southampton career of his barometer of his ability to play at the top level. They finished where we aspire to be next season is the harsh reality. You say an average Chelsea team, but they're a team in transition with all the new signings but they have an abundance of talent and pace in the forward positions. Look at the Man City game a few weeks ago they tore them apart for large parts of that game as well. As I say put who you want in that system against the big teams who have pace and the movement that Chelsea had and we will be hammered. As I say I hope Enzo would be more pragmatic having learnt his lessons from the hammerings we took from Liverpool and Chelsea (both could have scored 8 with competent finishing) if we do go up against the big boys, if not he will learn the hard way with his job. But again, it's not the games against the top 6 that will define success for us next year, we could lose 10-0 to them all. Its the teams from 7th downwards we need to look at and compete with. I'm not sure if you're suggesting sign someone (we have limited funds clearly and other areas of the field in which to spend it) play Coady (only ever looked good in a compact back 3 at Wolves, as soon as they went to 4 at the back he was exposed, benched then binned), play Nelson who has limited Championship experience and has looked okay in the most part (poor in the defeat to QPR)?

He started 6 games that season in the prem, so not exactly a great sample size to base it on, whereas his 3 seasons at Southampton finishing bottom half to mid table is probably a better sample size. He was signed a week before the season to fill Fofana's boots, and is a completely different player as Fofana is about 3 times as fast, so could cover for Evans lack of pace. The only real howler I remember him having was against Napoli when Osimhen ripped him apart at home, but he is one of the best strikers on the planet. I doubt Chris Wood or Neil Maupay would have the same effect. I don't disagree he has limitations the biggest one being pace, but surround him with pace and defenders who can actually defend (not that idiotic Faes, Doyle and Hamza) and to me his strengths (on the ball, reading the game, aerially more solid) outweigh his weaknesses. As I say I think we're going to have much bigger holes than at centre half to try and buy 2/3 new. Against the better sides Maresca I would hope should be more pragmatic, be more compact, harder to beat than we were on Sunday if we went up. If he isn't and plays that way then we will get sliced open no matter who plays there and Maresca won't last long and we will do a Burnley.

Put anyone in that system with no cover from either full back, playing on the half way line and you're centre back partner being anywhere but where he is needed and you will get the same result. Do you think 85 million pound Harry Maguire would have done any better basically 1 on 1 with Jackson for 90 minutes? Would Johnny Evans? Think things needs to be put into perspective, if we play that style against any of the big teams we will get ripped to shreds unless we sign 2 Fofana type centre halves who are rapid. But you also need him to be the ball player, so unless the scouting team unearth some gem from nowhere then we're stuck with what we have as those type of players a) won't come to Leicester b) would cost 50 million + of money we don't have. As I have said earlier in the thread, it's really not how we do (should we actually go up) against the big 6, it's if he and the defensive line up can handle the bottom half attacking line ups, your Brentford, Bournemouth, Everton, Forest, etc which would be the decision as if to whether we keep him or not. Personally think we have much bigger issues to fill, we're likely going to sell KDH for a wedge to fund any incomings, Wilf will walk to a European team on a free so outside of Winks we're going to have to find an entirely new midfield. We also have 4 forwards, 1 of which may retire, 1 in Nacho will 100% walk which would leave you with Cannon and Daka, they ain't getting the goals to keep you up. Then you have the wing options, assuming we're going to cough up the fee to keep Abdul (and not Yunus) we're left with 2 options plus 2 kids in Kasey and Wanya. Personally think centre half is just about the position we might be okay in with young Nelson also showing promise so if we can keep Vesty and not pay him a shed load of cash then I think his positives outweigh his negatives.

Gotta go strong here, we have essentially 3 weeks off of the worries of the league so try and put in a strong performance if nothing else even if we lose to give us some momentum, going out feebly with a weak side does nothing for anyone. Think Nacho has to play to hold the ball up as we're not going to have enough possession for it to bounce off Daka or him fall over. Maybe tempted to play Hamza in the middle if no Wilf and stick Doyle at LB, Justin RB/inverted. Hermansen Hamza Vesty Faes Justin Winks KDH Wilf if good to go, if not Yunus Fatawu Nacho Wanya