ALC Fox

We've made 14 signings. Not all of them will work out, not all of them will fit in or get on with the manager. If there has been a proper falling out beyond normal training ground stuff and/or there have been disciplinary issues, then it's very early and you have to question what kind of person the player is. Bristric has previous. Knowingly bringing him in the first place showed that the club either thought these issues were behind him, or that this kind of character might help the squad, or that the manager and players could help him. And very probably a failure in the recruitment process. On the other hand, it might be unfair to tar Bristric in this manner. He may have done nothing wrong but his past has caused people to question his reputation. If it's true he's unhappy at 'being replaced', then he has to be better. He's barely shown anything in games. He isn't up to speed and needs to knuckle down, learn, do the business in training and take a chance when it comes his way. That first chance should be on Tuesday against Fulham U21s in the EFL Trophy. If he puts in the kind of performance that can't be ignored, he's back on the bench for the next league game and has a chance to make a difference that gives the manager a headache. If he's throwing a strop and giving up already, then get him gone in Jan.

Needs to be polished but I do think this lad is supremely talented. Sometimes versatility can be a hindrance but I'd trust him at RB, CB and LB to be honest. I think if we needed him at CM or on the wing he'd be decent as well. Just looks like a really talented footballer.

This is 100% a huge problem for us. We're getting into some really promising positions but a lot of our shots are tame and/or erratic and we often make some strange decisions. On one occasion, Alves had multiple players to put through on goal but held on to it and then had a poor effort. Then the ball fell to Riis who I thought could have whacked it first time but he took a touch and ended up passing it out wide. I think we'll click at some point but it's currently very frustrating.

Bit of a weird name that

First go today. Checked out with -4 in 10 guesses with three busts. One was not realising you couldn't get a score of over 180. Another was a 163, presumably because it's not a darts score. The other was a stupid guess.

Him being back-up to Riis would be no bad thing. Riis has played in English football for a number of years and has a decent record. He already looks the part and is off and running with two goals at the weekend. He's the main man. Bristric as a sub/extra presence up top could be exactly what we need late in games when we're pushing for a goal. There's less pressure on his shoulders than if he was our #1 striker and he can watch, learn and acclimatise to the league without needing to score goals. He'll also get a great chance to pad out those stats against Fulham U21s next week. Maybe he won't work out. But we can afford to be patient with him now we have a bona fide L1 striker on the books.

He's so young so we can't expect consistency every week or for him to run a midfield at his age. Lundstram coming into the side will be so beneficial and the experiences he has this season will be a brilliant platform for him to build on. He has the raw materials and already looks a class above most players in this division. Finding that consistency and authority will be what his career hinges on. He'll want to test himself at the highest level possible, that's only natural. But I do hope he stays here for the season and gets enough real experience under his belt, helps us clinch promotion and - if he's going to leave - fetches us a really good price for (hopefully) our new owners to reinvest and go again next season.

How many more loans have we got available? Surely we'll be looking at bringing in an actual first-choice keeper in Jan?

To think how ours and Forest's fortunes have switched in the last few years. And their owner is outwardly batsh!t. Ours, by contrast, is just incompetent. Better to have a maniac who knows what he's doing than a guy who means well but can't do it, I guess.

Walkers and Cofresh should team up. There'd be no need for clappers with the deafening sound of all those Leicester-based snacks being crunched on in the stands.

Unfortunately for KP, they hung on to our best players too long instead of selling at the top of their value and reinvesting the money. The spiral stems from that and now we have KP trying to sell the club at what it was worth in the Premier League rather than as a League One club that has yet to provide the evidence that it has arrested the slide down the divisions. Nobody is going to pay what they want. So either they sell for a vastly reduced price, or they drive us out of existence. Past behaviour says the latter is more likely. I'd hope that administrators would be able to force through an acquisition that is more realistic. And then it could be anybody buying us, from a consortium of local businesses and real fan representation to a petrostate looking for a bargain and/or a sportswashing opportunity.

I've been thinking about this again, beyond 'rock bottom' meaning the continual dropping to our lowest ever ever positions in the pyramid or even going out of existence. People have sneered at mottos like Foxes Never Quit, Keep the Faith and even the 2015-2016 club-created one, Fearless. But growing up in the late 80s and 90s, this club did embody these traits. They were real. At Filbert Street it felt like the fans willed the ball into the net. We failed in the playoffs two seasons running before finally winning one. We got relegated again but bounced back in the last minute of the next playoff. We won the League Cup in extra time in a replay after equalising in extra time in the original fixture. We got promoted after going into administration and having players that offered their services for free. Even when we circled the Championship drain the last time, it took several seasons of mismanagement and fighting against the tide before we actually dropped, instead of plummeting straight through. And then we bounced back again at the first attempt, with players that fought and helped us make the Championship playoffs in the season after promotion. We responded to Deeney day winning the league with 102 points. We had the Greatest Escape followed by the greatest Premier League title ever, probably the greatest story in team sports or sport in general, followed again by a fight against relegation and overcoming Sevilla in the Champions League against the odds. That's hundreds of players, multiple managers over 35 or so years. Foxes Never Quit might be a bit cringe worthy but it was a very real part of this club. I don't see it anymore. And that could easily be rock bottom.

That is absolutely damning. Considering Phil Brown has been invited to bring whatever team he would have been coaching, presumably his most recent one, Peterborough Sports, he's looked around these incredible facilities and he's come away and called it soulless on national radio. Just because it's a sprawling, state-of-the-art facility, it doesn't have to be that way. There can be soul, and standards, and a strong mentality, and a will to win, and a proper culture. But it starts at the Top.

The rock bottom from a sporting sense will be going out of business and having to reform from the regional leagues. I doubt we'll end up as low down as the very bottom. AFC Wimbledon started again in the ninth tier as a guide. But that might not even be the rock bottom. That may come with the fracturing of the fanbase. Who runs the phoenix club? How many will agree on such a thing? If KP don't sell up, will they hold on to the club's name, etc., like those at Bury FC did until the phoenix club (Bury AFC) purchased Gigg Lane and absorbed the original club's history. As a much bigger club with a much bigger fanbase, will all of us put our collective support behind the same phoenix club? Will some support Leicester City AFC, will some support Leicester Fosse FC? How many of our fans who decide to support one phoenix club (or a local side like Harborough, Coalville, Oadby or Hinckley) will come back if one of those clubs becomes the 'official' continuity club by virtue of it being the most successful early on? Even as we rise back through the divisions, what we lose on the way may yet be our rock bottom.

Didn't see a minute of it. But it seems we can go from decent stuff to honking from one game to the next and also within the same game. Martin's style of football seems determined to stifle any kind of momentum. As if a cerebral, dispassionate approach is the best one. But if that's genuinely the approach, he's forgetting that passion is as important an ingredient to winning football matches as talent, ability and trying to 'control the game'. If you can marry the two, brilliant. But when we're playing badly or we've been unfortunate and find ourselves behind, we need players to take the game by the scruff of the neck and force the issue. Knocking it about probing for an opening isn't going to cut it. It looks lackadaisical and arrogant. And it has to stop now.

Can't wait for his hat-trick against York in the Johnstone's Paint or whoever the sponsor is now

No Kangasniemi is odd. This'll be the game Doyle shows he can replace BDCR as the preferred 10 once he comes off the bench surely. O'Hora for Thomas also.

Poor bloke.

Great news. A mature footballer for his age with a touch of class about him. This season's surprise package so far. A good window and a good bit of news before hopefully our next win tomorrow and we'll start building some momentum

I hope his goal is the catalyst for his confidence to soar, that he starts taking a few more shots and putting up good numbers in this division. His balance and skill are something else at this level. If he puts it all together he can be a real force in League One and then look at progressing and doing the same in the Championship.

Changing the culture is massive. The young lads bring the energy and the excitement. Signings like Lundstram, Chaplin and O'Hora look like they'll demand standards. It's one thing having quality - which we certainly have - but it's entirely different to demand focus, all game, every game, and the will to win, and if you can't win then don't lose. It's the kind of thing we've lacked since Maresca, a certain professionalism that we became aware we were losing when Harry Winks thought it was a good idea to prat about and undermine Steve Cooper at a nightclub. And when we just didn't pull our fingers out of our backsides and coasted to defeat after defeat under Ruud. Slowly I can see things starting to turn. We'll have brilliant games this season, I'm sure. But we won't be every game - and if we can pick up points in those, it'll be because this kind of attitude has spread among the whole squad. I feel a bit for Jordan James, really. It was like he was the only sane bloke in the asylum last season. He'd be a great fit this season.

I guess we wanted to get him a move to League Two and this has happened because we weren't able to do that. Maybe a month of men's football might benefit him? Not entirely sure the quality of the shots and crosses will be as high as U21s football but it might be more competitive and physical at set-pieces. Especially in a division where any performance bonuses in September could mean extra money in October's pay and therefore in time for Christmas.

Let's face it, moving here at this point in time is a sideways move at best. And it probably isn't even that right now. But it could be a step up if we go up at the first attempt and he's a part of it. And if he continues and we go up again, then it would be worth it. Wes Morgan wasn't a PL player until he was 30. We do unlikely success stories here.

Incredibly disconcerting. I wonder if something like that has caused an incident that otherwise wouldn't have happened

Just going to enjoy watching him, Alves, Page, Joseph and Aluko play this season whatever happens. They're the upside to this whole sorry situation. I hope we get promoted and they all stay with us and they keep making the step up as we hopefully go back through the divisions. But for now, I'm just going to enjoy the energy and how talented they all are.