Glorious Leicester Fan

I have no qualm your are right (I’ve been told Vestergaard is indeed a gentleman and courteous towards all the staff). That said, publicly criticising the manager (and by association the club) seems a pointless task. What does he gain from it?

I’ve always maintained we offered/accepted his contract terms. Vestergaard therefore has the right to sit tight and see out his contract. That said, he really needs to shut up and just accept the money.

Not necessarily. I imagine there’s a significant +/- skew in wages. Knowing the SD/mean deviation would help.

Of course we do. It’s the honourable thing to do!!!!

An interesting comment: “The final months were still plagued by difficulties, with the relationship between Rodgers and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel – whose appointment as captain was not universally popular with the squad – becoming fractious”.

Isn’t his dad am Oadby Owls coach?

£40m? I appreciate he’s in the last year of his contract, but he’s a premium English creative player. Sigurdsson cost Everton £49m!!!!!. I imagine there will be a keen and competitive bidding war amongst the 5/6 interested clubs.

Agree. BR also seems to realise the importance of the (especially the local) press and seems to make a concerted effort to get them on board. I also imagine he’s a decent bloke. Ian Stringer definitely thinks so (recent podcast).

When a great player leaves a club, the best option is sometimes not look for a like for like replacement, but change our tactics, formation and approach. Perhaps Playing Kelechi in that position and buying a striker is an option.

Early days, but there’s a wonderful balance to this team. Prior to the January signings, we were so easy to play against. Just mark Barnes/Maddison out of the game and we were no longer an attacking threat. We now have so many passing options.

Maddison is one of the best at receiving the ball on the half turn.

I’m finding it difficult to follow your thoughts, but If your arguing that titles/cups/league positions are the only objective test of a club’s stature/success, then I agree. I appreciate the ‘back up’ stuff is the essence of all sport, but it’s subjective and unquantifiable. In terms of achievement, do you believe our PL win is comparable to our league cup win?

Agree. And I don’t think I ever said they should be completely disregarded. But in a trophy hierarchy, Everton’s 9 league wins and 5 FA cups trumps Spurs 2/8 in my opinion.

You said that although a cup win is less significant, they are not by much in your estimation. Therefore broadly comparable. For me, any cup won is an achievement. But a top flight domestic league win is an significantly superior accomplishment.

Technically is the operative word. Its based on the assumption that all trophies are equally valued. Do you think us winning a league cup/winning the PL comparable achievements?

Totally agree.

If you follow your argument, then us winning the PL is a broadly comparable achievement to us winning the league cup. I’m not sure that is the case.

Again, I totally agree. There are some clubs who are big, but seem to be ignored. Sunderland for example. My only issue with Spurs is that there is a tendency to place them in the elite ranks, which I don’t think is necessarily justified. This is obviously not negating their achievements.

Agree. In regards to the number of years in top flight, Spurs are 10th. Below Newcastle, Sunderland and Everton. To date, they have spent 2 more years than West Brom.

if you don’t like the model, create your own. What would your criteria be? For me, winning the top league trumps winning the FA Cup and a lesser European cup. I’m not saying they don’t matter, but if you creating an objective hierarchy, a cup win is less significant. obviously you could create an hierarchy based on a different criteria. Fan base and turnover for example.

There’s too many variables involved in winning the FA cup. The number of top league a club has own is arguably a better measurement. Huddersfield are therefore arguably a bigger club.

Most clubs have a ‘grand’ history. If you intend to put a club’s history into some sort of hierarchy, you need a quantifiable criteria. Apart from stadium capacity/attendance, I’m not sure how Spurs could be placed in the higher echelons.

Because a club is demonstrably “bigger” than us, doesn’t mean they are necessarily huge. Spurs have only won 2 top league titles (same as Portsmouth). For comparison, Huddersfield Town have won 3. What spurs do have is an excellent PR department!!!!! I lived on White Hart Lane for several years. When it comes to the stature of their club, they are delusional. One spurs fan I lived with genuinely believed they were the ‘English’ Real Madrid. He was such a dick. He also scarpered without paying his rent/bills….

I once saw a pissed up Frank Sinclair asleep in a corner of Mosquito Coast. Then again, who hasn’t?

Not doing too well at Milan. Summer transfer?