LeePhilpottsBaldSpot

It's painfully obvious our centre backs, central midfielders and strikers aren't good enough to play a 4-2-3-1. The best way forward is to drop the attacking midfielders and play 5-3-2. . Begovic . Nelson Veste Okoli . Pereira Thomas . Skipp Hamza James . Ayew Carranza(?) It's a crap team but having the entire spine of the team out of its depth to accommodate some fun wingers clearly isn't working. Yet we continue playing a slow 4-2-3-1 that wasn't good before everyone scouted it, arrogantly thinking it will click sooner or later.

We have a squad which could easily be a top half team in this division (if it wasn't being rigidly forced to play an entirely predictable, turgidly slow 4-2-3-1 every week)

Utterly atrocious

Martin O'Neill was on the radio in the week saying he wants to get back into a full time management job. Appoint him on an 18 month contract, with Andy King being set up to take over.

For me it's for to be Nalis vs Leeds, with Vardy Vs Liverpool in second place

I don't think he's ever done anything controversial. Seems a bit immature, but people's reactions to him are over the top. He's had a really solid career. I can imagine him doing a good job somewhere like Birmingham, but I'd rather not have him at Leicester now. We have enough experienced pros winding down their career.

To the tune of Skippy the bush kangaroo: (Skippy! Skippy! Skippy the bush kangaroo Skippy! Skippy! Skippy the bush kangaroo)

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRNxYFws/ Unless there's more clips, looks like it was a woman holding that sign and Winks took photos. Tbh I find the whole soap opera-ing of players' personalities tedious. You could do this sort of thing for loads of negative stories about the likes of Jamie Vardy, Steve Walsh, Danny Simpson etc in their 20s. Almost all footballers are probably bellends.

Frustrating second half. I'd have been happy with 4 points from the last two games, but the game management is so poor.

Is this confirmed anywhere? Can only see it on some dubious looking social media posts.

Didn't see the game today but fair play to him for getting a good result in what looked like a tricky game on paper. My thought is the rot runs far deeper than the dugout, but Marti has done very little to show he can dig us out of a miserable period. I'm still far from convinced, but today gives me a little bit more confidence he might be able to. A mate who is a QPR fan said he's a very streaky manager. Can apparently go on runs of lots of wins in a row. Fingers crossed...

So except for the multiple examples of bad attitude towards teammates, bad attitude towards fans and bad attitude towards the club, you think there's a lack of evidence of him having a bad attitude? It's true we never really know what happens behind the scenes, but I've got a pretty decent bellend-radar. For the avoidance of doubt, I reckon Wout Faes is one.

i bet he's glad we didn't...!

Get an interim in until the end of the season, and spend the next few months sorting out the boardroom before getting the new structure to appoint a permanent manager in the summer. My wish list 1. Nigel Pearson 2. Martin O'Neill 3. Claudio Ranieri I may be being naively nostalgic, but I think any of those three would be a huge upgrade. So would Rodgers, but I'd rather not have him back

I don’t disagree, but any competent manager could see the system has to change if none of our strikers can lead the line alone. It’s frustrating to say as our wingers are actually good, but I think we need to play 5-3-2 to get extra cover at the back and up front. A back five has steadied us before, and ignoring it now risks relegation. We've got the icing but no cake. Jakub Pereira – Nelson – Souttar – Okoli – Thomas Skipp – Choudhury – James Daka – Fats/Mav/Monga/Ayew Nowhere near promotion material, but enough to stay up. Probably.

Tough one. Option 1: the club I love potentially never gets back to a decent level in my lifetime and could even go bankrupt Option 2: some multi-millionaires (who will earn millions more regardless of performance) don't have a relegation they don't even care about on their CVs

He won't be fired unless we're in high risk of relegation. Hopefully the club aren't too blind to that possibility like they were with Rodgers. If Pearson is healthy, we should be finding a role somewhere for him - even if Cifuentes is still the manager.

I enjoyed Sheff Wed first game of the season. I don't live in Leicester and get to about 3 home games and 1 away per season. Had a crazy run (/chose my games carefully) where I hadn't seen us lose between 2019-2025 before getting hammered at Everton last season. The season of the Rodgers / Smith relegation I went 5 times and saw 5 wins, aggregate score 15-3

It was a joke, but when comparing 21st century trophies, Leicester are 6th and Wigan are 8th

Some of you lot take yourselves way too seriously on here. I'm not saying we shouldn't be proud of our trophy achievements this century. It's just the team you compared our trophies to (Wigan) just happen to be one of the very few other clubs to have won major trophies this century

Huh? Selling a player for 4x what you paid only for the buying club to regret it hardly shrieks incompetence by the seller. The club has made a lot of mistakes and the bad outweighs the good, but it's not like all the transfer business has been dreadful. Plenty of good signings (Mads, Fatawu, James) and decent value sales (Mads £20m, McAteer £14m, Justin £10m). And somehow turning a profit on Tom Cannon...!

TBF Wigan aren't far off Leicester By any metrics Man U, Man C, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool are the top 5 this century. Safe to say Leicester 6th and Spurs 7th... can't think of anyone but Wigan and Portsmouth for joint 8th as FA Cup winners...!

I don't follow his career closely, but you've got to ask why Blackburn played him so sparingly. Maybe it was a fitness thing (which again wouldn't bode well for us) but I suspect despite his relative fame he just isn't very good in 2025... and we've got more than enough of those types!

No thanks - 6 goals since 2022. An average of 2 per season is prolific by Daka's standards TBF. Looking at his career it seems like he only had one remotely good goalscoring season. Years Team Apps (Gls) 2016–2017 Zorya Luhansk 22 (6) 2017–2021 Club Brugge 85 (19) 2021 → 1. FC Köln (loan) 9 (0) 2021–2022 Watford 35 (10) 2022–2025 Nottingham Forest 19 (2) 2023–2024 → İstanbul Başakşehir (loan) 8 (0) 2024 → Watford (loan) 17 (4) 2025 → Blackburn Rovers (loan) 6 (0) A player who has similarly achieved little in recent years but I can't stop wondering about is Dele Alli. Lots of baggage but would immediately become the most talented player in the division. Tbh I wouldn't be confident that Cifuentes would be the man who could get him back on track, but that's a whole other conversation.

Yep. We're in a proper shit loop