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Erm. All banter and memes aside, I'd be gutted if we signed someone who was only half as good as Ulloa. Loved Leo but he was very much at the bottom end of Premier League quality.

Oh man Alan Sheehan vs @Manwell Pablo is one of the all time, top 5 bits of FoxesTalk drama lore. Offered him out over Facebook iirc. I actually remember standing with Mabs at a preseason friendly vs Hinckley about ten feet behind Sheehan and his missus, giggling like a pair of school kids (us not them. Sheehan looked relatively pissed off.)

Tbf only one of them ever threatened to fill in a FoxesTalker

Oh THAT Red Star. Ngl I checked the Belgrade kits and was ready to disown MTWG.

Yeah but we've already got a pending points deduction for a season that, unless I'm mistaken, is still in this rolling three year window. If we survive this year without spending too much we'll be in a pretty strong position to invest next year, no?

Sorry Jannik, you're going to need a new squad number. Oh, his name is Bilal Toure Leicester's number 23 Yes, his loan cost ****ing nothing But we're dead skint so that's alright with me

My expectations were basically zero then we tried to spend almost thirty mil on an Argie wonderkid after signing an Italian U21 centre back and I dared to dream. Now I'm just coming back round to expecting nothing again.

A six foot target man who made his break through at Almeria... #itshappening

Michael Johnson was saying this. There's no rule against him competing but ethically it was pretty shit.

Would have to be a loan. There's quite a bit of interest in him, all the usual Prem clubs and Stuttgart. Atalanta paid about 30m all in for him, though. His book value will be massive, it'd take a big bid for them to even make profit. They'd have to think he's pretty shit, which is worrying, to want to cash in for only a nominal profit or breaking even.

It's a bad look either way. He's either faking it because of his ego and he can't take losing (which I don't believe, by the way.) Or, more likely, he knows he has covid and he says **** you to all the other elite athletes in the village and stadium and turns up to compete anyway. Which is unbelievably shitty. It's horrendous luck to get ill now at a major pinnacle moment in your career but these are setbacks that happen to elite sportspeople. You suck it up and get on with it. You don't know who he's given it to or whose olympics he's potentially ruined.

Alan ****ing Sheehan

I wouldn't take that personally, it's just frustration. A few years ago we were walking so the likes of yourself and Brentford could run. But we took our eye off the path and just walked off a cliff. I dont think any of us mean to belittle Brighton, we're just resentful that we've thrown a lot of our progress away. We're supposed to be the club finding Facundo not just borrowing him for a season.

What the **** is this narrative? We played Southampton twice last year and had the same tactical approach and hammered them both times. We never stopped playing Enzoball last season, the players never went in to open revolt and started changing the tactics to be PrAgMaTiC. The **** is that. Yes, they had a meeting between themselves to clear the air and set their minds straight because we were starting to bottle it but it wasn't about undermining the manager. Seriously. This revisionism is getting stupid. We get it, the dude went to Chelsea and a lot of people are salty about that but let's not ignore the fact he got us comfortably promoted at the first attempt in his first full season in management.

Yeah absolutely and his teams have generally struggled to win titles because it's harder to keep up for a whole season and it's harder to break down a low block. Watch Klopp's teams play a low block, it isn't exciting at all, it's just as tedious as watching a Pep team. People watch Liverpool play against other top clubs, they watch Liverpool play Man City and win (or watch Leeds beat us and win) and they think that's great. But go watch Liverpool play 90 minutes against a stubborn bus parking job or watch Leeds try and break one down in the Championship and tell me you found it fun.

Remember when Solanke had basically never scored before he played us?

In fairness, there is something in this. Michael Zorc is one of the best sporting directors / directors of football there's ever been. He was instrumental in the creation of what we think of as Dortmund now. Almost their entire identity, the style of play we think of, their recruitment and youth development, the way they operate, it came from him. The "heavy metal football" we associate with Klopp, high pressing, fast, attacking, quite direct football is something Zorc thought was important to the fanbase. Dortmund is a working class, coal mining area and he felt the football should be uncomplicated and represent the people and the fanbase. He said: Our philosophy is linked to our region, a working-class region. So it has to be daring, it has to be attacking. The fans don’t like it when the team plays like chess on the field. That’s a very important point. I actually think we're very similar. The core fanbase of City is still pretty working class, certainly in the more vocal support and I think there's a very similar appreciation here for simplicity and hard work. There's a reason the likes of Albrighton always got more love from the crowd than Riyad, the same reason Vardy is beloved (more than just his goals) and it's why guys like Praet have had way more sympathy and patience from people who still think he could have made it here over the likes of Maddison. We love a grafter, we love someone that'll run around a lot. We love Iain Hume and Joey Gudjonson, not because they were talented but because they were honest and hard working. I don't actually hate our fanbase. If I owned Leicester City I'd very much be looking for our own Michael Zorc, I think the biggest flaw with the King Power way is that they never truly understood the region and the fanbase as much as I do think they've tried very hard to embrace us. Pearson's team was more beloved than Enzo's because it just represented us more. But I do hate how tactically dense a lot of people are still. I get it, football is a genre more than just one hobby. There's lots of ways to enjoy the sport. Some people love the fan culture, some people love the gossip, some people love the match day experience. I like the game technically, I love the tactics of it but plenty don't and just aren't interested and I guess that is OK. But they still want their opinion and they still want to yell it and it is frustrating when what they're talking is pure waffle ha. Enzoball was largely what people do want. Those wins against Southampton, Plymouth, Norwich, that is Enzoball. And were some of our best goals last season all that different to 15/16? Enzo had us press high, work hard and counter when we could. Yes he had us maintain possession against stubborn defences but when defences are that relentlessly stubborn is literally the best approach. I'm gutted he's gone. Cooper can charm the fans with charisma and his one of you act but he's got the same football philosophy as Enzo he's just not as good at it. You're going to see a similar approach this year to what you'd have had under Maresca. The difference will be that the entire Prem isn't going to park the bus against us this year.

No there aren't. There are 15 examples of Rotherham, Preston, Millwall, Stoke, Huddersfield, etc boring the stadium to death. I will absolutely die on this hill, I'm fed up of the team that wants to attack and score goals being criticised and the team parking the bus refusing to leave their half dodging any blame for making a game dull. To be clear, I understand why they did it. We were the Man City of the Championship last year. We had infinitely more quality and financial resources than any of those sides could dream of. They did what they had to do. But it was them making the games boring. They wouldn't have been magically less boring if we'd play Klopp style faster football instead, we'd probably have just had more nil nils because we couldn't break them down being that impatient. Leeds had better attacking players than us last year and finished miles behind us and are still in the Championship. Is that what you'd have preferred? As soon as we had the opportunity to play faster and get the ball forward quickly last season we did. Not just against the top teams, even Plymouth came to Leicester and (naively) tried to high press us and play a stretched game and we absolutely murdered them on the break.

God I hate our fans.

Or we want to sell them and buy / loan. It would be a bit of a u-turn to reject last year's system through all of preseason so far and then revert. Not that I'd be complaining, it's what I want us to do. It would be surprising though. Especially given the amount we seem to be targeting 10s.

If we're going to persist with the left back being the attacking width then he's not good enough in that role. Simple. I think it's actually one of our biggest problem positions. After a 10, I'd say we need a left back probably more than anything based on how we've played in the friendlies cos I'm not convinced JJ is it either. Not for that role.

Even though we got promoted, we had to sell KDH and lose Enzo to avoid a second points deduction. We probably wouldn't have done the Sensi deal anyway.

To be really honest, mate, the rumours that get posted in here are so rubbish that you might as well be discussing Patson Daka or fish puns. You're not missing any serious news.