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Honestly I've just come to the conclusion that our fanbase are actually clueless when it comes to strikers and make the wrong call pretty much every time. I'll hold my hands up and say I've done it many times in the past. The Tom Cannon mental gymnastics when we missed out on Piroe and got him instead being a prime example. A good chunk of this place also shrugged off the idea of Kone from Wycombe on some vague reasoning that his stats had dropped at the back end of the season and he was 'only' playing League One opposition. Because it's not like out GOAT was playing non league before coming to us, yaknow? In fact I'm racking my brains as to the last signing we made up front where the consensus amongst the fanbase was that he would deliver and then he actually did. Probably Ulloa after he single-handedly bent us over for Brighton? I've been on here long enough in various guises to remember us writing off Vardy, begging for Waghorn to come back in, thinking Jermaine Beckford was going to single handedly win us the league, and wondering what on earth we were doing signing David Nugent. The only tiny bit of hope I'm clinging to with the rabble we're stuck with up front is that a decent few of us have written Carranza off already, which means he'll turn out to be decent... right? EDIT - I will however die on the hill that Harry Kane becoming arguably the best striker in world football is something no sane human being could have ever called after his joke of a season with us. Actual freak of nature, bolt of lightning likelihood based on what we saw.

4-0 loss that means Wrexham jump us on GD incoming then

Wellp, we can chalk up Wrexham as another side who almost certainly leapfrog us when the points deduction hits. Nice one bottling two points against them lads.

Bastards, don't bottle it Hollywood gang

Gonna have to change his name to Frank Mountbatten at this rate

IMAGINE HAVING A STRIKER THAT CAN SCORE GOALS

Wrexham fans don't like him, think we can fool them into a cheeky swap deal in January?

Even if there's a lack of quality, and I dislike both teams, gotta admit it's a good watch. Both teams playing a high press, fast transitions game, and getting stuck into one another. It's entertaining. A far cry from the shite we serve up.

G'won ya big bastard

Oops... Forgive me, my brain was fried after crunching stats for all 92 teams. I'll fix that in a bit

As shit as it would be for us as matchgoing fans, it would actually be incredibly funny from a "f**k the board" perspective if he turned around and did that now.

Do not tempt me to do an 'all competitions' list

I've been meaning to do this for the longest while as our recognised strikers continue to embarrass us - I wanted to ask the question - do Leicester City have the most ineffective striking options in England? Now seems like a good enough time to crunch the numbers - we're three months into the season and, with the exception of the Prem, every team has played at least 10 games. A few points to make before revealing where we stand: For the sake of the stats, and to allow a fairly even playing field, I've counted league goals only for the top four leagues in England - since there's a chance for teams in Europe and the cups to pad their stats otherwise. This is purely the bread and butter stats. The grey area is what constitutes a striker in the modern day - a number of sides, ourselves included, have notable contributions from attack-minded wingers. But that's not the issue we've been highlighting - it's our recognised Centre Forwards. So, for this analysis, I've counted goals only from recognised Centre Forwards, or in some rare cases players listed by Transfermarkt as Second Strikers, as opposed to Attacking Midfielders. As you can guess, there are multiple teams tied on the same (pathetic) number of goals. Where this happened, I have ranked them firstly on games played, then on league / pyramid position. As it turned out, coincidentally these two stats gave the same results regardless of which way around I ranked them. So enough rambing. And, as you could well guess, our position is an embarrassment... We officially have the second worst frontline in England, beaten only by Cheltenham Town who have played two more games than us and still only managed a single goal. For reference, they sit 21st in League Two. Our single goal so far came from Jordan Ayew. I crunched the numbers for all 92 teams, and as well as making for miserable reading, there were a few interesting outliers: Coventry, depressingly, are runaway leaders for the most lethal strike force, with 19 between them in 12 games (Thomas-Asante x9, Wright x8, Simms x2) Haaland remains a beast for Man City with 11 goals. That is every goal scored by a recognised striker for Man City this season. Only two Second Strikers made the chart - Cunha for Man Utd. and McAtee for Bolton Gillingham have arguably the most strength in depth in the pyramid - six of their recognised Centre Forwards have scored league goals this season Barrow AFC are the only club out of 92 whose leading goalscorer is a Centre Back - Lewis Shipley has 3 goals so far. We're actually very lucky that we're just counting league goals by the way. Tom Taylor's goal for Cheltenham in the EFL Trophy would actually mean they've got TWO goals from Centre Forwards. None of ours scored in the cup. So yeah, you're not imagining it. Our frontline really is that bad!

Oh yeah and Klopp is a good example too as you said @cityfanlee23 I guess in my mind I think of the gegenpress / fast transitions approach to be treated more as a leveller for less 'gifted' sides, but there's a Greedy Six team right there who have adapted their game. The less said about Slot so far this season the better, but certainly last year was more a continuation of the style and personnel left by Klopp, which is pretty similar to Claudio's first season for us. Arsenal, can't quite put my finger on but they seem to play a mix. It certainly isn't the death-by-a-thousand-passes football terrorism Arteta was accused of in his earlier time there. It's only really Chelsea I can think of who have moved towards more possession in recent times, and it's only working for them because they have a bottomless pit of players to try and - admittedly - a good manager who can drill it into their brains. They're still nowhere near a title contender and get found out fairly regularly. Oh, and their fans seem to hate the style

The most frustrating thing is that we set the blueprint for the way the game's now going - high press, quick counters, with a bit of class in wide positions - and showed possession based footy could be nullified with relative ease. Remember at the time of our title win the footballing world was still enthralled with Tiki Taka and the Barcelona way and lauding Pep as the next Alex Fergusson during his stint with Bayern Munich. We then decided nah, stuff that, we're going to make it a club mission to abandon that style that clearly worked and adopt the exact philosophy we'd JUST shown to be on the way out. In the meantime, we've been left behind by the likes of Bournemouth, Palace, F*rest, who have all adopted what I believe was our style. Even Brighton have gone that way out of sheer pragmatism - they aren't the same possession obsession team they were under Potter. And then you see it's started trickling down to the second division too, which is why we're no longer walking games in this league - we've been sussed out because our tactics are ten years out of date. It's honestly painful for me to watch other teams play the way we used to play and get results against us. That 4-1 spanking at Forest in particular sticks out as the day the 'true' Leicester City we knew and loved was left behind by football.

You two might not have, but there were loads on here saying he'd 'fell off' for Wycombe and wasn't worth the gamble having come from League One. Hope they all feel silly now. Basically using Steve Cooper logic. I'd also add Joel Piroe to that list, I hold my hands up and say even I fell for the mental gymnastics trying to convince myself Tom Cannon was the better signing at the time

Kone

It's a pyrrhic victory knowing that our club is so f***ed from his actions that we may never recover. But my God is it satisfying to see that slimeball finally getting publicly hung out to dry. He's left every squad he's managed from Swansea onwards in a worse state and than when he started, but somehow kept falling upwards.

You haven't missed much. It's basically last season, we're just in a league so devoid of quality that we've somehow spawned four (!) wins, only one of which you could say we really deserved (Birmingham). Despite all that, we've been well beaten twice and spaffed so many points away on draws that the looming points deduction could put us into a relegation scrap. Again. It's still largely the same spineless wastemen who let you down repeatedly last season, we still have the same DOF, we still have a complete lack of vision, we still play gobshite possession all-fart-no-shit football. And we're now being found out, as many predicted we would. You've saved yourself money - the only thing keeping me, and I presume a lot of others, going is the matchday ritual and seeing friends and family I wouldn't otherwise see regularly in person. Feel like pure shit man, I just want my Leicester back.

Oh I'm with you, I think as soon as the parachute payments run out the club is essentially bust and we'll see the same miserable scenario as they've had at Hillsborough. I'm not sure it's going to be an overnight thing as soon as we inevitably fail to win promotion this year though - the cash injection from those payments should just about service the loans and wages we owe, but will mean more Oliver Twist transfer windows until things really hit the fan in 2-3 years time and we realise we have infrastructure to maintain as well as staff to pay. Of course, none of this would be an issue if we'd had the vision to do our managerial business early and showed a little ambition to get someone like Enzo in to give us some direction and vision. But we don't do that anymore, and haven't done for a long, long time. It's increasingly obvious his tenure was a bit of a fluke, and when it was brought to a premature end our complete lack of vision and plan was exposed again. And our naivety to assume that he'd continue the 'project' knowing full well we were skint and would struggle to acquire the caliber of target he'd want. It feels like a zombie club at the moment - fitting for the time of year I guess.

It's maddening isn't it? At this point the decline is so deep that there's not much worse we can 'wish for' besides administration and the club's existence being threatened... Both of which King Power may well be leading us towards given the seemingly parlous state of the club's finances. The 'we were in League One once' mouthbreathers getting their wish to see us back there may not have long to wait, but the level of football would be the least of our worries while we still have awful players on £50k + a week and no realistic route to the top flight revenue streams that paid for it. There have been some comparisons to Sheff Weds on here, and it would be foolish to say we're at that point... YET. But make no mistake, if there's no return to the prem and the parachute payments run out, we may well be every bit as screwed as they are. King Power are done financing the club, that much is obvious. It was a plaything during good times to get them some global exposure, they just got the luckiest of lucky breaks that it coincided with our golden years. Nobody is tuning in to see their branding plastered around the stadium as we limp to a home draw against Portsmouth.

Pointed out last week that a ten point deduction would put us in the relegation zone, and that the form of Sheffield United and Oxford was better than ours. It was more to play devil's advocate as that's around the harshest deduction we could expect before arbitration, but it's still within the realms of possibility. The gap's now eight points, and we face Blackburn who are seven behind and one point outside it. How long do we have to slip until the gap is small enough for even a moderate deduction to put us well and truly in it? It's not so much the band playing on as the Titanic sinks. At this point Top is playing Nero's lyre.

delete club

FAES DROPPED 😍

Not while we keep spoon feeding him contract extensions he's not Four years