BenTheFox

They'll use excuses like "getting rid of this manager" will derail our automatic promotion bid". Well we're going to miss out regardless. At least get a manager in for the play-offs who can galvanise the players.

We need this manager gone. If we are in the play-offs which is looking the most likely outcome, we need a manager who is going to galvanise the squad and get the best out of it.

These are dreadful. His brand of football acts as a leveller for poor sides.

To be honest, I got a bit giddy about him simply because he said a lot of the right things and wasn't Brendan Rodgers. Our performances have been underwhelming for most of the season and they certainly haven't gotten better. I still quite like the bloke, but his football is stifling us massively.

The logic behind the club playing this way is that it's similar to how the top clubs play and therefore means they are more likely to buy our best players (in theory anyway), yet we now find ourselves in serious financial trouble. This season more than any other we just need to win enough games to get out of the division. Honestly, I genuinely think we'd be winning more games or at least losing fewer if we had a manger who just took the 'you're better players than the opposition, go out and beat them' approach rather than being glued to this ideology.

McKenna isn't a very experienced first-team manager, but he's clearly a very good one.

It should be one of them but I just don't care as much as I think I should. The whole sport is a complete farce.

Not gonna happen, I'm afraid. He's far too wedded to this way of playing. Last night he could point to missed chances from Ricardo, Iheanacho and Daka, but really we should be creating far more chances.

It's more because there's a lot I like about Maresca, but I think this football is stifling us.

Rodgers has desensitised me somewhat. The fact that the football is bad but he's not behaving like a complete twat has allowed me to give him a bit of leeway. I still want him gone, but I don't feel anywhere the near the visceral disgust towards him.

Spot on. I know it sounds odd but we lost that game in the first half yesterday, not the second because we showed them far too much respect and it meant that we one bit of quality/one mistake from us away from winning.

To be honest, we were unconvincing for most games in the first half of the season too. I just think the chickens are coming home to roost.

If we were managed by Farke or McKenna, I genuinely think we'd be promoted by now.

One thing that genuinely makes me laugh watching this team is when we take a kick off and Ricardo and Winks pass the ball back and forth when they are three yards away from eachother.

I said in another thread that Dean Smith would have gotten this squad promoted. He may have struggled in gaining the respect of the players after relegation but say if he came in fresh I don't think he would have done worse. I genuinely think if we had a manager that essentially just had the 'we have better players than you, just go out and show it' attitude rather than being so fixated on this ideology, then we would get over the line.

This bloke's football allows shite like what we played against tonight to drag us down to their level. Genuinely think that ****ing Dean Smith would have gotten this team up.

I like him more than I like his football.

You are correct. However, I don't care at this point to be honest. With the financial situation that we are in, getting promoted is the most important thing. Even if it means that we start next season on -12 and can't spend any money. Pocketing the Premier League TV revenue, making player sales and reducing the wage bill will be far better in terms of getting this club back on a stable footing long term than staying the championship, even if that means us getting pumped every week in the Premier League and finishing on a very low points tally.

My fear for the future of this football club is bigger than a return to mediocrity.

Ok, but if he won't get rid of them, then what?

It becomes even more gift wrapped when you remember that Bangkok is one of the top five most visited cities in the world.

Purely from a sporting merit point of view, I don't agree with them. However, they make for great entertainment and also mean that far more teams have something to play for.

I think there's some truth in this. However, the Super League attempt had just happened, which resulted in a wide range of calls for an independent regulator. It wasn't completely unthinkable that the Premier League would start trying to show that they can regulate themselves or if they would even be an independent regulator.

Do you know what the worst part of all of this is? If they had come out in the summer of 2021 and made it clear that finances are tight and that we'd have to cut our cloth accordingly with a big player sale or two and that we need to run a tight ship until we've expanded the stadium and increased revenue by other means, I'm sure most of us would have accepted it and appreciated the transparency and would have altered our expectations accordingly. Most of us would take finishing say 13th in the premier league instead of 5th-8th if it meant that the club was on a stable footing. I'm not saying any of this with the benefit of hindsight, I genuinely would have respected it. Instead we ended up with a £90 million net spend and an even more inflated wage bill when we had sellable assets with the likes of Tielemans, Ndidi, Fofana, Maddison, Barnes and Soyuncu.

My heart would be in the right place if I were to buy Leicester City Football Club. It doesn't mean I'm fit to run it though.