Claudio Fannieri

I'm taking on Prostate United again this October, where I will complete a 5km run each and every day of the month to raise much needed funds and awareness for Prostate Cancer UK which is an amazing cause. I will be running for team LCFC and would appreciate any messages of support, donations and any sharing of my challenge on social media from the Foxes Family. if there is anyone who has links to the club, could you please try and raise awareness so they can share on social media to show support and hopefully reach a wider audience. Link to my just giving page below, and once i start the challenge i will post updates of my progress. https://prostateunited.prostatecanceruk.org/fundraising/steve-aquilina-prostate-united-challenge

Sorry just bumping again as it’s Friday and nearly the weekend 😂

Would this mean we would have 2 potential spare spaces in our 25 man squad if we were able to move him on?

This is great news and should give the whole club a massive lift, however we need to remember our get out of jail free card is on the basis of a legal technicality, therefore this shouldn’t exonerate any one at the club who has been complicit in us breaching the rules. People still need to be accountable however I fear this will now just be swept under the carpet and the club carries on its merry way. There is still many many things that need to change both on and off the field at our club, so yes of course it’s a massive cause of celebration, but remains a hollow victory. Interestingly this is now no longer a free hit for Cooper so does this release or increase the pressure on him. Whilst we have got away this, we will now be a marked club with both the EPL and EFL waiting to bury us at the earliest opportunity therefore we have to get our house in order and quickly. We have won this battle now we have to be at the top of our game to win the war.

Bumping this whilst everyone is in happy and celebratory mindset, get sponsoring 😂😂😂

Another cracking pod, absolutely loving it

Thanks pal very much appreciated

Thanks pal, really appreciate it 👍🏼

Hi everyone, you may remember last October I participated in the Prostate United Challenge of running 5km each and every day throughout October, this year in my infinite wisdom I have signed up again and will be running 31 x 5km this October. In will be running for team Leicester City to raise money and awareness for prostate cancer Uk which is an amazing cause. Last year this forum was a great source of support and I was shocked by the level of engagement I received, it was really humbling how many people reached out with their own personal experiences. Please see the link to my just giving page if you can spare a donation, if not please just give this a thread a follow and give us a like or comment to help me through the challenge. https://click.contact.justgiving.com/?qs=c36de5a6435f3423dc58b6f10619805796a37ce0bbc1c9b0ae525c6c0e218d0b887c4090f18a592fa569d362634172ea3e82e525df183713.

Errrrrrrr Facundo

However managed to start the game on Tuesday night and despite having a niggle continues to be named on the bench, makes no sense whatsoever. He has been largely out of favour since his mistake cost a goal against Palermo. Cooper is stubborn with his view of wanting to attack with his left sided full back rather than just flip his tactic and use the right hand side. His seeming obsession with not selecting Mavididi in the starting line up in the prem is equally concerning. He prefers work horses over quality hence our complete lack of creativity and attacking intent in most 1st half performances.

Do you remember when Puel was in charge, strange team selections, and we were so passive in the 1st half of so many games would go behind and then last 20 or so minutes release the shackles and have a right go, to only feel by full time what could have been had we been braver from the off, this is giving me very similar vibes, under Cooper I can see this season being full of what ifs, if onlys and what could have been.

Likewise the same in the 1st half vs Spurs in the season opener, they could and should have been 3 or 4 clear by half time, these negative first half tactics are actually putting us under more pressure and susceptible to conceding clear chances and goals. I think it’s more by luck than judgement that we haven’t already been on the end of a bit of hiding.

Obviously have to take this with a fairly large pinch of salt but if there is a semblance of truth in this then what the hell are we playing at no wonder we struggle to shift out our deadwood and mid range players if these are our tactics absolutely shit show and another player who will no doubt now walk away for free. Absolutely beggars belief how we operate, if this is isn’t Rudkin then it’s clearly a collective strategy but either way it’s shambolic and rank amateur.

My concern with Cooper is he is setting us up to be ultra defensive so we don’t take a hammering, he is deploying fear factor football and then in the last 30 minutes or so letting off the handbrake to have a bit of a go at the opposition hoping they aren’t too far out of sight. we cannot continue to sit back and gift teams the lead, we somewhat got away with it against Spurs but it hasn’t worked against Fulham or Villa. He continues to ignore Ricardo and Mavididi from his starting line up which is absolutely ridiculous and stubborn to the extreme. He then drops Facundo who has been a bright and creative spark in the 1st couple of games to replace him with Ndidi, there is no intent from the outset to get off on the front foot and get at teams, it’s all about containment, the trouble is at this level if you employ these tactics against every team, you are likely to get punished and then leave yourself with an uphill battle to get anything out of the game. As for his substitutions not sure he should be given much credit for making a few attacking subs to try and salvage what is a piss poor plan A and team selection. It probably is too early to sack him and if we did I think we would be ridiculed for being so trigger happy but in my opinion we have made a huge mistake appointing him and he needs to be gone at the earliest possible moment.

I think you some fair points, I don’t know if it’s perhaps a fear of us losing our reputation for being such good negotiators when we have in the past been very good at getting top dollar for our Crown Jewels or whether it has created an unrealistic expectation of what we should be selling our mid range or unwanted players for, but we seem to really struggle in this market. Whether it’s Rudkin directly or maybe the over arching strategy of the club but something needs reviewing as clearly we are nowhere near a lot of our competitors when it comes to getting fees for our fringe players especially when they are only 1 or 2 years left on a contract.

Hermansen Ricardo Vesty Okoli Justin Skipp Winks Fatawu Facundo Mavididi Ayew subs Iversen Kristiansen Faes or Coady Ndidi Bilal BDR McAteer Alves Vardy

Pretty happy with this, reasonable record at prem level, offers something different to our current strikers and is a good age. A player who has previously been on our radar, think this could just give us that little bit extra we need, at least we are not reliant solely on Vards. This gives us a genuine different option and allows us to mix it up and be flexible in game with our tactics. It’s felt for the last few years we have had very similar options up front so if it is working we are very limited as to how we could change it up, our attacking options have been very like for like. It does feel we now have some alternatives which is good.

But we could and should have shifted Iversen last summer for £4-5m and would have been pure profit, we seem to set a high expectation in regards to fees, don’t budge and then get stuck with players to then let them leave for free. It has become a recurring theme and it points at a DoF who does not have the creativity, ability or network to shift on unwanted players and yet so many other clubs do it year in year out, this is really hurting us, just look at the some of the players who have been able to walk away for free in recent seasons, it is criminal - Soyuncu Tielemans Perez Praet Iheanacho To name but a few just those 5 well over £100m of talent allowed to walk away for nothing. You can see Ward, Thomas, Iversen, Soumare and even Daka eventually leaving under similar circumstances. It’s really not a good look and surely for a club that has to rely on transfer income, to help with both PSR and generating additional funds it cannot continue to be accepted.

Incomings have mostly been functional signings. although Bilal and Facundo are exciting additions, whilst the rest are very solid but very unspectacular signings, little imagination and very meh, very much in the mould of Coopers appointment. At least we have at last started to give our talented youngsters the opportunity to go on loan with some great deals in place which will hopefully benefit the club in in readiness for next season. However where the club and Rudkin continues to disappoint and to a degree show a level of incompetence is our inability to move on our fringe players, here we are after the window closes with Ward, Iversen, Thomas, Soumare and pre his injury Daka still here when we have been trying to shift them all for well over 12 months and across 3 windows. It feels like we set a valuation and refuse to budge from that even if a deal still makes sense from a PSR perspective and it’s really hurting us in terms of restricting our ability to work in the market.

Great to see us finally loaning our young highly rated talented players out with a chance for them to really kick on, hopefully they all do really well and we reap the rewards next season.

Cracking move for him hopefully gives these young lads a chance to really kick on

Just been named in the Italy squad so probably not the duffer that some are making out, maybe just maybe when he has settled we have got ourselves a good one

Absolute madness 😡

Might be the reason they were reported as having an interest in Cannon.