StriderHiryu

My biggest concern isn’t even the manager here but the direction from above. This is an opportunity to build a new squad in a style that is more applicable to what works in 2026. With Martin we are going to recruit and play heavy possession again, which isn’t working anymore, teams have wised up. Even in League One last season the champions had the lowest possession stats of anyone!

In an alternate reality, LCFC is a competently run club with Enzo Maresca off to Man City after successfully winning the League Cup in his third season as LCFC manager thanks to star player and captain KDH as commercial revenues hit record highs.

I am convinced once Vichai passed away Rudkin used the situation over time as an opportunity to seize power, hence why Susan Wheelan left and why he ends up as the CFO. Classic Power Battle and we lost out. Wheelan herself I know has many detractors at the club but by comparison she is a big miss.

I think this is the correct answer, but another big turning point for me was the move to Seagrave. If you recall we moved to Seagrave just before Covid. That season we were brilliant up until that time, when we played and lost to Man City and Liverpool in quick succession and then post Covid break, choked our chance of getting to the Champions League. For me since we moved there, the culture of the club has completely changed and the club went from "plucky underdogs" to "arrogant willy pullers that think they are way better than they actually are." Now we did win the cup that year, so it's not like it happened overnight, but slowly but surely, that place changed the culture of the club and its killed us. But fundamentally the culture changed when Vichai passed, there are no two ways about it.

Which is why he is about to follow up the most embarrasing relegation from Premier League history with the most embarrasing relelgation in Championship history. On both occassions, we will be the team with the highest wage budget and wages to revenue ratio to get relegated in history.

The Cuck Power FC fanclub can say "we were there supporting the club in League One" whilst being oblivious to their lack of action being one of the many reasons why the club finds itself in that position in the first place. That's the one thing some can look forward to. For everyone else, I implore you NOT to renew your season tickets and for the love of god do not buy new kits or merch from the club. The hierarchy do not care about you and one of the only ways to force some change is to show your dissatisfaction in a way that hurts them the most. If you did that then maybe the one thing to look forward to is the club finally acknowledging how badly they have treated fans over the last 5 years and might start changing things. I can't see it though.

I would have changed players, probably Mavididi or one of the CB's just to shock the team into action and provoke a reaction. Pretty much the entire first half just drifted by. I suppose we did have some chances like the Skipp opportunity, but an intricate 4231 needed to be thrown out of the window after 1 minute and 11 seconds when we went behind. If you're thinking "but it would damage Mavididi's confidence", that guy is already beyond saving. I make that 16 games now without either a goal or an assist. I almost punched my monitor when he tried that outside of the foot shot.

The goal comes from one striker flicking it onto another. Ayew almost scores a second when Fatawu is played as a traditional winger crossing it to a striker. We are in squeaky bum time in the Championship in a relegation battle. No point trying to b-tec Pep-ball your way out of trouble in a game like this one. I'm astonished a manager with as much Championship experience as this one waited so long to switch to it.

Millwall. Most obvious loss of the season, a team that will bully us and easily win the game, especially when under pressure.

Waited way too long to go 442. I would have made changes after 20 minutes, the game completely passed us by for way to much of it. Why he takes so long to make subs I don't know.

This grinded my gears so much. The definition of Cuck Power.

Depends on the new Sporting Director, as it should be noted that Man City recently massively modified their style to be able to deal with the massive shift to man to man marking across the pitch and away from positional play. I’m inclined to agree with you but surprisingly our attacking patterns and chances in open play have improved a lot under Rowett, and that’s with a team whose confidence is in the bin. I expected our work-rate, defence and attacking set pieces to improve but not our overall performances too. As such I could see a two year deal being put on the table if we stay up.

To be honest the protest was as flaccid as the performance from the players. The Police escorting the march were laughing. Respect to everyone that showed up but it’s clear the protesters are clearly in the minority. Many people turned their noses up or mocked the group. At one point an elderly in hospitality flipped off the protesters 🤣! Too many people in Leicester live in the past. To quote the comment in Sky at the end “Leicester City are going from the impossible to the unthinkable!” But the fanbase as a totality will allow it to happen. I find the lack of action more depressing than the team. I feel like as a society we have forgotten to fight back or to fight for what’s right. People are too easily placated.

The effort he put in during the last 10 minutes was incredible. He looked shagged but found a second wind from nowhere. Great to see.

I was pretty impressed. Nowhere near as attritional as I thought it would be and seemed to get way more energy out of the players. Let's see if it continues, but I saw signs of life at least!

He was brilliant. 4 goal contributions in 3 games and he should have had more. His touch map summed him up, he was everywhere! His link-up play with Mavididi was great too, it reminded me of KDH. Once we get him and JJ into the team we will pick up wins. I was very impressed by him today.

I had grave concerns over his injury but fair play he was the bright spot today.

We discussed King a fair bit on Blue Tinted Glasses at full time and the guys will be covering him tomorrow too. I think you could criticise him for not making changes fast enough, Birmingham made a tripple sub and scored shortly therafter, with our players tired because of having to cover so much ground (though Winks should not have been as tired as the others). But at the end of the day he's been completely let down. Ricardo in particular who is supposed to be the Captain with an absolute brain fart was criminal.

I feel awful for King. He may turn out to be hopeless as a manager, but shocking decisions by more senior players in both of his two games has left him in the mud. I can't think of any manager that has been this unlucky in his first two games.

There's going to be a few shows in the next few days on BTG. Tonight we are going to lok at why Marti failed in terms of his team setup and selections, and as part of that we will look at who comes next. We will also touch on the Top interview, though there will be a show dedicated to that tomorrow night.

I'm guessing that's Swedish Krona? Which is 2-3M.

Leicester City basically agree with Gais on a transition for Ibrahim Diabaté, experienced Sportbladet. Now it is up to coach Marti Cifuentes to make a decision regarding the striker. Something that is expected to be done soon. Ibrahim Diabaté won the Allsvenskan shooting league on 18 goals in 2025. He shared the win with Djurgården's Danish forward August Priske. After the success season for the 26-year-old, the rumours have been many around the shooting king. Now Sportbladet is experiencing Leicester City in English The Championship after the striker. The club's sporting management wants Diabaté into the January window and is prepared to meet Gai's demands, where both a loan with call option and a sale, have been discussed. What remains is for Leicester's coach, former Hammarby coach Marti Cifuentes, to make a decision whether he wants the striker or not. The club has a couple of other tracks they work with in parallel, so it remains to be seen if they take in the all-Swedish shooting king or not. Cifuentes is expected to make a decision regarding Diabaté in the near future. Leicester is currently in 12th place in English The Championship. Even Welsh Wrexham are interested in signing the striker, according to Sportbladet's data. Gais has expected to sell both Diabaté and Amin Boutri in this window and enlisted striker Samuel Salter from Atletico Ottawa in October. The 25-year-old is seen as a replacement for the ivorian.

You jest, but this though has crossed my mind too. Or it could be that he can't leave Thailand because of financial pressure there. I've worked for several Asian companies in my life and whilst I enjoyed working for them, one thing I noticed is how because of pride they will never tell you if things aren't working out till the very last moment. It starts with some subtle things; events are cancelled at the last minute, payment dates get move back and expenses take longer to process. And of coure the killer, upper management is hard to reach and never around...

Involved in two relegations, makes a number of errors this season in the Championship, pisses off the fans to the point that they despise him, not involved in the first team in a team mid table in the second tier and still blags a move to Monaco, not only a very good team, but in an idylic location. Bro should downright play the lottery at this point, but he's already a millionaire!