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How many people do you know in Germany? How good is your German? How much time do you spend every year in Germany?

Simply not true. Thanks to the fact, that I have many relatives and friends in Germany, I can tell you that Mahrez is almost unknown there.

How many top-drawer players have we signed in the last years? How many of our signings of the last 2 years have made it into our starting line-up? Do we have a transfer strategy? I doubt it.

That's really rich. Who started talking about "things" (paintings etc)? YOU!!!

75m for VVD is a bad joke. He is, in my humble opinion, one of the most overrated players in the PL. Why Liverpool was willing to pay such a king's ransom is beyond me.

Absolute rubbish. We are not talking about "something", but about "someone". The painting doesn't give a damn how you treat it. A human being does.

Arsenal signed Aubameyang for just 56m. Do you really think Mahrez is more valuable than a man, who scored 141 goals for Borussia Dortmund in 4 years?

Not if you are a businessman. Like our owner.

Greed is always a bad advisor. Mahrez is 26, but, so far, he has played only one outstanding season. Not two, not three. Just ONE!! 60m was a fair offer. Last summer we would have been very happy about 50m.

Do you really think we will get more than 60m in the summer? Even at 60m his transfer would have been the best return on investment in the history of the PL. I mean, we paid just 450k for him. Our owners shouldn't become too greedy.

Why did we negotiate with City, almost to the last minute, if we didn't want to sell Mahrez? In my opinion, 60m is a lot of money for a player, who, at 26, has only one outstanding season to show for.

Under Pearson we played each and every formation that was ever invented and some, that nobody had ever seen before. 4-4-2 was only one of them. The result of all that tinkering was that we spent more than 4 months at the bottom of the table. During the 'Great Escape' we played 3-5-2, not 4-4-2. Ranieri didn't simply use the same squad from the season before. He turned Drinkwater and Simpson (who didn't play a single minute during the 'Great Escape') from bench-sitters into starters and integrated Fuchs, Okazaki and Kante into the team. And he decided to play 4-4-2, instead of 3-5-2. You are obviously a die-hard Pearson fan, but you should, at least, get your facts right.

Get Silva on the pitch and we will see a new/better Slimani. He needs the right service and Silva can provide it. Those two were a great team at Sporting and I think they can become one at LCFC.

How do you know, that the almost incredible performance improvement of Vardy was due to Mr Way and not to Ranieri? It was Ranieri who decided to start Vardy, although in the season before Ulloa had been the top scorer. Could it be, that this decision was the reason,why Vardy became a record-breaking striker last season, and not Mr Way's magic?

Ranieri was pilloried here again and again, because he didn't drop Vardy. Do you remember? Vardy obviously does.

Read this: ""I owed Claudio to find the right and appropriate words," he said. "Claudio has and always will have my complete respect. What we achieved together and as a team was the impossible. "He believed in me when many didn't and for that I owe him my eternal gratitude." Jamie Vardy Funny, Vardy isn't talking about Mr Way. So far, I have not read any comment from a player about Mr Way. Why?

In 2014/15, while this guy was working for LCFC, Jamie Vardy scored 1 goal in the first 29 games of the season. 1 in 29!!! And this guy is telling in this video how successfuly he was working with strikers. How ridiculous.

The problem is, that Ranieri, like most managers, was in no position to fire anybody. He couldn't have fired a cleaner, much less an assistant coach or Mr Way. Only Rudkin, Ranieri's immediate superior, had the power to do it. Dropping players. Sounds great. But if Ranieri had dropped all the players, that were underperforming this season, we would have been unable, most of the time, to field 11 men.

They lost the momentum in that silly pre-season. Our owners decided to turn our team into the Leicester Globetrotters (Thailand, California, Sweden). Not Ranieri. The rot started long before the game at Hull. In case you don't understand, what I mean. Getting, marketing-wise, the most out of our title-winning team was more important to our owners, than having a proper preparation for this season. Is anybody here putting any blame on the Thais? Of course not, because we need their money.

According to that logic, he will be the only one to be held accountable. Right?

If that is true ( and I think, you are right) why are you and many others in this thread trying to put all the blame for our dismal performance in this season on a single person: Ranieri? Why are you not blaming the owners for our chaotic pre-season, those silly BMWs, those outrageous, new contracts? Why are you not blaming Rudkin for his inability to bring in the players we needed? Could it be, that it is so much easier to have one scapegoat? Especially, if he is no longer part of the "family".

Okay, let's hope, that the owners give him their "unwavering support", let us bring back Mr Way and everything will be fine. Right?

Mr Way was working for LCFC also in the 2014/15 season. Just a reminder: we were rock-bottom for more than 140 days. What did he do during that time? Was he on strike? Jamie Vardy scored in that season only 1 goal before the Great Escape began. 1 goal in 29 games. Where was Mr Way? Couldn't he help him to get back in form a little bit faster? I don't know, what exactly that guy is doing, but obviously he doesn't work fast. In other words. Although Mr Way was at the club since 2011 and had therefore enough time to work his magic on the players, we got almost relegated in 2014/15. Not he made the Great Escape possible, but Huth, Cambiasso and 352. Why am I not surprised to hear from him again right now?

But you know about his injury-history? During the six months, that he spent last year on loan at Fiorentina, he didn't play a single minute, due to a mysterious back problem. In other words, at the beginning of this season he had no match practice at all. It would have been madness, to start him instead of Huth or Morgan, who were a vital part of our title winning team. Question: how many games did Huth and Morgan miss in the last two years, due to injury? Answer: ZERO

What a nonsense. During the Great Escape our 3-men defence (Huth, Morgan, Wasyl) conceded only 7 goals in 9 matches. WITHOUT KANTE