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They won't have a meltdown to begin with. When it was posted on r/Championship that we were interested in him they were all murmuring that he's crap or injured. I suspect, like most Leicester fans, most won't have seen him actually play and will just have done a twenty second Google and Wikipedia search. It'll be in a month or six weeks time when everyone's had a good look at how absurdly far ahead of the average player he is technically that they'll all be moaning about how unfair it is etc.

Depends what he wants out of his next move. I can see him doing very well at Betis and in Spain in general to be fair. I agree I think he could find better wages by signing for a lower half Prem side if he just waits out his contract here. But maybe he wants a proper fresh start and a club to convince him he'll be first choice.

I expect the site banner to be a tribute to all his best moments when he leaves.

Well Patson Daka is a definite future club legend. 👀

Now maybe through a lens of extreme recency bias and the emotional attachment that foxestalk's core demographic has to them. But King is memorable for the amount of time he stuck around, as an ever present, not because of great footballing moments. That's the sort of thing that gets forgotten. When people look back in twenty or thirty years and remember Vardy's 11, Kasper and Wes lifting trophies, etc, what do you think they'll look back and remember Andy King for? The average Leicester fan couldn't describe Chandler or Rowley or tell you anything about how they played, they just quote their numbers. I dunno, maybe that'll help King. Maybe people will still be repeating the fact he won League One, the Championship and the Prem and it'll be the opposite - history will forget how little involvement he had in 2/3rds of those achievements.

I mean look the entire thing is completely subjective semantics isn't it but personally, yes, as somebody asked a few posts back - I do absolutely think a club should and does only a few genuine legends per generation. Anything beyond that and you're just watering down the term and over using it. Andy King for me is the dictionary definition of a cult hero. He's a player who is enormously popular with the fan base (hence some of the very strong reactions to what people perceive to be me hating on him, which I disagree with. I love Kingy) but whose popularity significantly outweighs his talent and impact on the pitch. However much I like Andy King, I'm sorry I roll my eyes every time one of you desperately point out his trophy cabinet to justify his legend status. You know absolutely full well that if he wasn't in the Premier League and Championship winning squads that we'd have won those things anyway. His playing time was fairly low in the Championship and nearly non existent in the Prem. Yes, I'm sure you can remember the odd time he came off the bench in a key win and did OK but let's be realistic. Compared to Vards, Kasper and Wes he's just a footnote in that story. If you take sentiment out of it you've got an average player who was effective in League One and in our first season back in the Championship and then faded from prominence. If you take sentiment out of it and you don't still have a player who was absolutely essential to the success of that era, you don't have a club legend you have a cult hero. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It still makes him one of our absolutely most beloved and I'm not trying to take that away from him. I'm just saying we very much over use the word "legend." All of you moaning that I'm disrespecting King, frankly, to claim King has had the same impact at the club that Vards, Wes or Kasper has had and deserves the same label is disrespecting three of the best players in our history. Now before this gets out of hand, can we all come together, join as one, sing Kumbaya and agree Kelechi Iheanacho isn't a club legend.

Bingo.

It's very unusual for Fab to still be talking in these sort of certainties so close to alleged completion. If we had to sell before we confirmed it, I think he'd know that by now and be throwing water on it. He could have bailed on this story easily by joining in saying we did want Sensi but needed to free up some cash first. Looks like this will happen.

He's fairly obviously not good enough for the Premier League, he'll be on the list to be replaced anyway.

Made up click / rage bait with no source or credibility. It's just looking for engagement and shares. If we can barely scrape together the pocket change to get Sensi, we aren't going to buy O'Hare who Coventry would want the world for.

I mean he might get a token fine that'll mean nothing to him but that's probably all. We're not going to rip up the contract of an asset worth probably still eight figures in this market purely because of this incident.

I work in the public sector. Couple years ago a tradesperson I know got shit faced and wrapped their car around a lamppost. Lost their licence. Their job involved constant daily driving of a van on their own. They just got partnered with someone else and doubled up in another van. That was it. Obviously if they'd done it on work time in their work van it would almost certainly have been a dismissal, probably likewise if they'd been in the work van on their own time actually. But in their own car on their own time? Apparently not our business.

Coming home tomorrow if they don't win today, no? And they've got Morocco. Surely available for selection for Swansea if not Brum?

I think the last part is a little unfair. Rodgers had been here several years and had had plenty of time to have an input in to the personnel in his squad. Maresca has only just arrived and has inherited a squad in transition. He's obviously going to have guys he doesn't particularly think he can use or see much value in. I think that's fairly normal when a new manager comes in, especially one with such a prominent and distinct style.

Not sure what there is to be all that negative about to be honest. Any time we don't lose to Leeds, Southampton or Ipswich it's a great result. We're top of the league because we're getting more points against everyone else than they are and that isn't likely to change. We were seven points clear before last night, now it's eight. Ipswich have managed two draws with us after we've completely outplayed them because they've gotten freak deflections. Sometimes luck just swings, it's not really a big deal. If not for their keeper having an absolutely excellent game, we'd have been out of sight long before then. Dont even think the second half was as bad as people make out. How much did they really create?

Twice we've comprehensively outplayed these and drawn. 🤦

That is sensational from Akgun. Way way too slow though McAteer

Why is that not a yellow card. Don't care if it's deep in our own half Ricky breaks if he gets round the guy pulling him down

**** me Ipswich love a dive.

Rising ball and Burns manages to get on to it keep it down and put in a decent shot top bins that forces a great save. But he should keep it down? These fvcking comms.

That's more of a dive than the foul on KDH a second before

I'm no convinced you need the bucky.

If it makes you feel any better I've spent the whole first half complaining that Ricardo is on the wrong side and then he basically creates the goal with Mavididi.

Yeah but you're the eccentric, bohemian middle class. Give you enough chateau, you'll stand and chant in the middle of Vicky Park unsettling the local youth.

I guess I can only speak for my block (C2) but I'd say it's really quite middle class these days.