Steve Earle

It’s such an obvious PR win for the club to announce that work starts this June. So obvious that they won’t see it.

You are of course entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled to respectfully disagree with it.

Harsh. We’ve really no idea what his capabilities are. Judgements are made based on things we see like substitutions but the reality is surely that Klopp, Pep & Ferguson would all struggle with this board & this group of players? I’m in. Hope he stays for next season

Allegedly, we didn’t get a single offer for Youri in either summer 21 or 22. Allegedly. I suspect the usual suspect of botching this! Our only chance of getting £50m for Youri was hot on the FA Cup win, when instead we spaffed a fortune on Vestegaard, Bertrand, Soumare & Daka… I’ve resisted the temptation to read too much into his facial expressions that season. I do recall the horror of a video clip that season showing Youri’s being sprinted past by a referee!

That’s harsh and pure speculation. He was carrying some weight and plainly not as fit as he had been/is now, but I lay that as much at Rodgers’s door (overplaying him) as Youri’s. One of our best ever midfielders, who had a really poor 22/23 (he shouldn’t have been here, should he?).

The fact (which I believe it is) that our board targeted two managers who couldn’t really be more different in playing style & philosophy speaks volumes. At Brighton, for example, they’ll already have 3-4 names as potential future managers, all playing a similar style to the present and previous managers. Moyes & Potter - I ask you! Confirms the clownish process that saw them flip from Scott Parker then flop on a hunch to Enzo

I’m fine thanks

I’ve 60 years of watching under my belt, and Vardy is without question the greatest player we’ve had in that period. But I hope and pray he leaves or retires at the end of this season. I couldn’t bear to watch even further deterioration in the Goat. Let him please score the goal that keeps us up and call it a day! We can dream, can’t we?!?

Let’s not forget appointing Enzo was more luck than judgement as we now know Scott Parker (FFS!) was the man they wanted.

I can’t be there but were I attending the game I’d bring my own pitchfork! There’s literally nothing more important now for Leicester City than the owner understanding that the current leadership of our club is performing at an unacceptably awful level, and has done for at least four years. Sleepwalking into two relegations in three years should be all the proof Top needs. Good luck @ProjectReset and to all your backers.

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How I envy you your world view!

Gosh, and you can add millions to that in transfers cocked up. Just one example from, I think, August 2023. Crystal Palace bid £4m for Iversen. Rudkin holds out for £5m. Result? Palace go elsewhere and we’re stuck with Iversen and his no doubt inflated wages for two more seasons before he leaves on a free. Man’s a clown. Well intentioned I’m sure, but keeps making the same mistakes. So, for a contemporary example of the above, witness our handling of Luke Thomas’s departure. Can anyone see it ending well?

Well, he comes with a great song, which some of you might remember from his England days? To the tune of Sting's 'Englishman in New York' (you'll find it on Spotify!) 'Oh-oh, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain...'

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I don’t think Elon Musk, Dan Ashworth, Juergen Klopp & Harry Potter would help. We well and truly cocked up, yet again.

Only if we’re relegated, obviously?

Did he say it twice?

So much for our strategy of expecting three clubs to be even worse than us. What’s next Top?

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Hmmm. A full back, a centre back and a winger you say? In a January window? With the club staring at relegation? Sounds somehow familiar...

Very true Peaky, but sometimes it’s good to go with the flow. I’ve read all the suggested definitions of ‘legend’ above and they all have some merit, but none, for me, nails it. FWIW, I can’t nail it either, and think on balance it’s easier to say who isn’t a legend than who is. So, for me, Andy King isn’t, because of his top-level limitations set against his loyalty & selflessness over many years. Albrighton fails too, just not quite good enough as a player. From my 60 years of watching, and being ‘tight’ with my definition of legend, it’s a big handful: Banks Weller Worthington Lineker Walsh Schmeichel Mahrez Vardy Tielemans Plenty come close: Shilton, Nish, Elliott (in my all-time XI), Lennon, Cambiasso, Morgan, Kante & Maddison…but surely legends are the (very) chosen few, not every player who’s stayed a while or won a trophy?

Meh and perhaps

Thanks Bobby

Region? Vintage? Producer? Main grapes? I mean, it’s a start but must do better @Ely fox Happy new year anyway!