Claudio Fannieri

Also want is concerning is Cooper doesn’t seem to be making many positive in game changes, which was levelled at Enzo, from what we have witnessed to date, Cooper is a massive downgrade on Enzo, and whilst we have a KDH shaped hole in our side that doesn’t excuse what has been a very poor pre season in terms of results and performances. Cooper is struggling and I think his comments regarding recruitment and the need for bodies, whilst we would welcome some reinforcements, it is also being used to deflect from a man who already looks devoid of enthusiasm, energy and ideas.

I am sorry but whilst I completely recognise we need further squad reinforcements, there is still significant quality and options in this squad, we shouldn’t be going 3 games without scoring and barely creating any chances when you take into account the opposition. Cooper has picked the team, he chose to go with the most uncreative midfield 3 yesterday, leave out Ricardo, Vestergaard and Mavididi, decide not to give Alves any minutes, left another young attacking midfield prospect in Golding at home and continually chooses not to give Cannon any significant game time. So whilst he has not yet been given the signings he expected he is guilty of leaving a number of our more creative outlets and attacking options on the bench or not involved. He is either setting us up to play god awful anti football or it was one hell of a dirty protest to Rudkin and Top, but either way only a handful of weeks into your new job, neither are a good look. Rudkin and Top are overseeing a train wreck but the train driver seems to be quite happy to drive the train straight into the nearest bridge. For a new manager to already be where Brendan was in the summer we got relegated is of massive concern. His comments in the athletic article where it was stated he wouldn’t go public about needing players so it didn’t damage morale, well how the hell as it been leaked in that way? Also his post match comments effectively put his frustrations at the door of tie players and that they need to see incomings, whilst distancing himself from the loan signing of the young lad from Brighton. This is shaping up to be an absolute shit show of epic proportions. I wouldn’t be shocked to see Dean Smith or someone of his ilk back in the dugout by Christmas time.

Got a horrible nagging feeling that Chelsea are going to come in with a bid for Riccy, Reece James Is injured again and given Enzo’s system & structure is so reliant on the inverted full back it would make sense to bring in someone who could bit the ground running.

It isn’t being too reactionary to question team selections, substitutions, tactics etc, yes of course Cooper should be given reasonable time however, the results, performances and patterns of play are poor we look toothless in attack and devoid of ideas, this is after 5 weeks of coaching and working with the players. Whilst we are light squad wise in terms of quality additions the level of opponents that have beaten us the last 3 games to Nil are hardly world beaters therefore there is every reason to be concerned and to question if Cooper is the right appointment. He is already making team selections to prove a point, why not give Alves or Golding an opportunity as an attacking midfielder rather than picking the midfield 3 he did, also refusing to give Cannon any meaningful minutes and opportunities is also frustrating. It’s not started well and for an appointment that divides opinion he can ill afford to get off to a poor start as I am not sure he will be afforded the patience of the fanbase.

This summer is going to be a massive missed opportunity, to use our promotion to build foundations to push on again, even if we get relegated. Investing in young attainable talent that enables us to build a new team that can grow and develop over the next 4/5 seasons into a side capable of challenging top half of premier league whilst also being able to develop saleable assets each summer to reinvest. The club enabled Rodgers to break our model, under Enzo we looked to be getting some identity and strategy again, however that seems to have disappeared and we find ourselves all over the place. It would appear there are cracks forming between the new manager and the club’s hierarchy, those comments about needing reinforcements seemed almost a plea of desperation and it would appear Cooper has not been massively involved in the signing of Buonotte so you have to question how much he will be involved. Cooper already looks forlorn and has lost a lot of his spark and energy, for a new manager to appear so frustration this early on in his tenure suggests all is far from well and I would not be surprised to see a partlng of the ways pretty early on.

What frustrates me is clearly we are hamstrung financially so why are we not using our promotion and PL status to attract the best of the young EFL talent available at sensible prices. If we can’t compete for mid range players then be innovative and inventive sign 5 or 6 top end EFL young talents and create a young fresh vibrant side that the fans can get behind. Players like Harrison Burrows, Ronnie Edwards, Jordan James, Morgan Whittaker, Jonathan Rowe would have probably cost no more than £30m and have limited risk from a PSR perspective or wages and all have a high ceiling for future sales. These kind of signings supplemented by creating a pathway for academy talents such as Braybrooke, Nelson and Alves whilst we may get relegated would set the club up for future sustainable long term success. We seem to have no plan whatsoever it just seems chaotic and scattergun. I genuinely feel Rudkin is out of his depth and doesn’t have a long term plan, it now seems to be about short term self preservation, rather than the good of the club, whilst Top will not make the tough decisions required, so the club will now drift into mediocrity, once we lose Vardy and the remaining quality we have we will end up back in the championship but mid table. I honestly believe without significant change at be top of the club our next relegation will lead to a decade of decline.

Just watch that as part of the sale conditions Rudkin gets to keep his job for a further ten years.

It was July, a month later and I am thinking what the frig has the club been actually doing. We are a shambles.

I have never felt so negative going into a new season, absolutely dreading it, we are a shambles. I am becoming so disengaged with the club and how it is being run.

Maybe the Enzo haters will realise that he whilst far from perfect he was a decent coach who had a plan and a structure, he also challenged the hierarchy and expected high standards rather than the fecking circus we are seeing now. cooper got the job because he is a yes man he will accept whatever Rudkin and Top tell him and tow the party line, we will be cut adrift by Christmas and the season will be a complete and utter write off. The biggest worry for me is who the hell do we bring in when Cooper does get the bullet, because this job will be so unattractive so highly likely we end up with a washed up has been. The mismanagement of the last 3 years has been devastating and Enzo was actually our hope of dragging ourselves out of the shit and challenging the club to improve its standards. Rudkin and Top I have lost all faith in your plan and vision. For the sake of the club, sack Rudkin, or force him to resign. We have to change and move forward. Enough is enough.

Wow whilst pre-season no way defines the shape of our season, this is looking pretty demoralising, week before the big kick off and I am not sure the manager has a scooby as to his preferred line up and we are so toothless going forward. Enzo was stubborn and frustrating with his insistence on playing one way but feck me at least we had a plan and an identity. Cooper was never my choice as Manager my fear is he is just a puppet and yes man to Rudkin and Top. This has been a poor poor summer for the club, we look to have zero plan or strategy, it just seems the whole thing is broken. Zero succession planning and our only idea is to play like Man City, what an absolute fecking shitshow we have become. I am dreading next Monday and the rest of the season, but look forward to a shit house 1-0 win and being made to look a complete arse come full time against Spurs 😂😂😂

Let’s hope Bournemouth still retain a strong interest in Daka and are in a position to pay a fee that makes a permanent deal viable for both parties, enabling us to reinvest I. A position where we desperately need a new option to freshen us up

The world of football finance is a murky business and with so many opportunities to write off losses etc etc it would be very easy to lead a prospective manager to believe whilst budgets would be reduced there was still headroom to work and there was no breach on the horizon. Unless Enzo had Kieran Maguire in tow, the club with the sale of Fofana, Maddison and Barnes pending, could easily peddle out the narrative that we wouldn’t breach and Enzo wouldn’t really have been able to dispute or doubt it. People can say Enzo was naive however in the same way we as fans had an inkling things were bad but didn’t have the facts as to the severity of any breach and whether we were in the mud financially or more if we were struggling for financial wriggle room. I don’t blame Enzo in the slightest, even Brendan was led down a garden path that he could rebuild then to be told that wasn’t an option at the last minute. The board and leadership of this club has form for keeping Managers in the dark regards budgetary constraints and it would not surprise me in the slightest if this happened again with Cooper.

Maybe the club feel that Alves would benefit from a loan, given how much football he has missed, a season of playing plenty of games could be just what he needs and then next season comes back ready to step up to our first team, much in the same way Barnes and KDH did. If this is the plan then the deal and the terms of the deal make much more sense.

However in that time we managed to lose our manager, which has impacted our summer preparation, make no mistake our recruitment will have been structured around what Enzo had identified was required and Glover will have had a rake of options ready to go. The appointment of Cooper will have meant a change in direction, time needed to assess the squad and then potentially a shift in strategy and potential targets. Our plans will have been disrupted and hence why we have perhaps been a bit slow since Cooper joined the club.

I really am running out of any justifications for this current mob and how they are running this club. We most definitely have vacancies within the clubs academy structure where a former title winning captain would no doubt be respected and a role model and yet we allow him to move to one of our nearest rivals, it really is starting to piss me off, the levels of self preservation and the way the club are allowing itself to become further and further detached. Every day they seem to outdo themselves. Beyond a joke now, it is like the club has become a parody.

Promotion has massively got the clique out the shit, I honestly think they believe we are back at our level and whatever happens now is not of there making. my opinion of the situation is that the hierarchy believe we are better than we actually are and that we are still dining out on past success. we are no longer the Leicester City that won the league in 2015/16 or FA Cup winners, we need to accept this is in the past and realise we need to show to prospective managers and new signings a desire to build a new exciting future and make people buy into it. We have lost our hunger and what made us the club we were, we have become complacent with a degree of arrogance and entitlement and as a consequence we have become run of the mill again.

Are you Brendan? 😂😂😂

John? Didn’t know he was a mean mover as well as a super agent and Rudders chief advisor 😂

Hang on where the hell did I say that? Cannon barely got a sniff and when he did it was a handful of minutes. I think he started 3 games and in those he scored 3 times. At the time he was bang in form and could have kicked on but was pulled out the team to be replaced by Daka who largely from February onwards stunk the place out and could barely hit a cows arse with a banjo. Cannon has lots to learn and is far from the finished article however had he been given a decent run when his confidence was high I actually think his numbers would have been better than Daka who even at championship level was still bang average barring a handful of games.

Another decent young player that we have missed out on. Really disappointed given our recent challenges with PSR that we haven’t been more creative in the transfer market, there is some real value in the EFL with some decent young talent available at decent prices. Rowe, Harrison Burrows, Ronnie Edwards and Jordan James would have cost circa £20m and would have been £4/5m in terms of PSR with opportunity of high sell on potential. Really confused by the direction and strategy of the club at the moment. Surely investing in young hungry players with high sell on potential is the best way for us to start to rebuild.

Not sure which is in more disarray at the moment, our club or the country but what we both have in common is that the leaders seem to not have a clue

Cannon barely got a sniff of a run though, majority of his game time was cameo’s off the bench.

Difficult one to assess as to whether he even wants to be here or whether we should look to move him on. what is absolutely criminal is that we didn’t take a punt on Harrison Burrows given how we want to use our left back to provide an attacking threat, his numbers were insane last season, would have been a really low risk transfer.

Really concerning that we are failing to break down bang average teams and our lack of creativity and goals is alarming considering the quality and level of opposition. Lots to consider for Cooper in regards to personnel, how he utilises certain players and how can he make us more potent. As for Rudkin and Top they need to act and provide the players needed to give us the slightest hope and chance of being remotely competitive. Very very flat feeling going into the new season.