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Just pretend we're from Hull. It checks out with their accent. You knerrr nuthin, Jon Rudkin

Honestly think I've seen a better pitch on Platts Lane after floods than this

They stole the idea from Chelsea to be fair, and wouldn't be surprised if they got it off something else. Proof nothing is original in this social media era. Our current lot will probably realise it's a trend and do it for the 2030/31 season https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1lefxuc/chelsea_fc_our_202526_premier_league_fixture/ Still, nice to know we're still massive

If we ever get sold the new owners will do it, 100% This lot couldn't sell bottled water in Death Valley

Oh god he's an AUDI driver? Pass.

By comparison, the bare minimum each prem club received last season was £79 million. We really did f*** it financially by throwing away our Prem status the first time around.

I mean he's a sucker for punishment is 'are Danny, if he comes to us. Swapping one club spiraling into oblivion under a clueless Thai owner... for another club spiraling into oblivion under a clueless Thai owner.

Just had a daydream about him trying this on Faes in training. I'm sold. GERRIMIN.

I honestly wouldn't put it past this shower of shitlords to have only realised in the past 24 hours that sacking Ruud and then having a new manager sign a contract on July 1st would mean two big outlays in the next financial year. They probably think they're well smart and stuff, now it's spread over two years! Rudkin & Whelan masterclass, innit. They could have done this weeks ago, asked Kingy to handle the day to day (whatever little there is in off-season) and maybe had a gentleman's agreement in place with their primary target to identify transfer targets for him. But nah. That would be far, far too proactive. We're a month behind literally every other club in the division, bar perhaps Sheff Weds. And, once again, it's due to the board being incompetent.

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Given how dire things are for King Power right now, this development seems a perfect opportunity to diversify their portfolio and move into other markets. Not that Leicester in this day and age is much of a draw, but if they can show they can turn profit on the hotel and entertainment complex, it'd be a good testbed for the company to stop relying on dodgy duty free to stay afloat? Ah, caught myself having an optimistic thought there, I'll go sit in the naughty corner. It's not like the people in charge have the brains to be proactive.

4:30pm on a Sunday is appalling too, means I'll miss the first home game as I work nights and happen to be on at 7:30pm that day. I had Friday and Saturday off! Yes I know fixtures aren't made purely to piss me off, but it bloody feels like it, I could have even made a lunchtime or 2pm. 😭

Some proper pants midweeks to ruin my enthusiasm in there. Wrexham and Bristol City both in the dead of midwinter on a worknight.

That would surely put it at even greater risk of sale if KP call the shots rather than Top alone. The ground will be one of the first things to go to satiate AOT, especially if through our failures on the pitch it's no longer got the significant exposure boost of the Premier League to put the company's name out there. Regardless of whether it's KP in charge of the club or Top himself, if the money from the business dries up (as it clearly is doing before our eyes) capital assets will be the first thing in the crosshairs to shore up the part of King Power that isn't a complete money pit.

I think the issue is that, if the finances of KP are as dire as they're being made out to be, the club will be in serious financial trouble, if not in the next season then certainly after a protracted period outside the Premier League. The club already bleeds money, we have very few saleable player assets, and Top is going to be under increasing pressure to stop throwing money at what's seen as a vanity project compared to the currently-creaking empire back in Thailand. This isn't going to be 2002-04 again where a fan whip-around and a few generous donations from folks like Lineker and Heskey will have a genuine impact in staving off complete collapse. The sheer amount of money in the game today by comparison means any financial black hole will be so eye-watering as to make that sort of thing impossible. If King Power really are stuffed enough that Top ends up having to sell, he either finds a buyer willing to shoulder the Macquarie loans alongside a club that's lost enough money to trigger PSR multiple seasons running - or the whole club goes bust. At an absolute minimum, the club's capital assets (stadium and our shiny new training ground) will have to be sold to third parties, since KP's lack of business acumen means they don't have a diversified enough portfolio to cook the books like, say, Chelsea did. Which will put us into a similar situation as, god forbid, Coventry found themselves in with the Ricoh. I said it last time, but this time around it's even more acute if anything - from a purely financial standpoint, it could be terminal to Leicester City's very existence if we fail to win promotion, if not this season then certainly once the parachute payments run out.

I mean on the one hand having Walkers back on the shirt would be a bit of a comfort blanket, a reminder of a time when we had a club we could get behind, and when matchday was all that mattered. Even today a lot of neutrals see it as 'our' sponsor given the local roots and it being a prominent part of what at the time was our most successful period. On the other hand, it would lead to a huge uptick in shirt sales to KPFC drones, nostalgic folks willing to hold their nose, and probably even neutral football hipsters / shirt collectors. I don't want the morons in charge to make bank out of a fanbase they've been nothing but abusive to for the best part of a decade now. Disclaimer - for the record, I have no real affinity to Walkers, I know it's not even our company anymore, just a brand for the Pepsi blob. I don't even eat crisps because I think cold potato is rank. I just like the nostalgia angle.

No Faes? Build the Dyche statue now

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Two games that sum up the European approach to this competition, especially BVB who almost embarrassed themselves but scraped by while barely lifting a finger. Unlucky for both Sundowns and Urawa Red Diamonds who grafted but didn't really have enough in the tank. I'd say great break for Mamelodi's first, but the tracking would make Faes and Vestergaard blush. Almost as embarrassing as the gift for Dortmund's equaliser! If this is really the best world football has to offer, the game's in a right state. Yeah it's fun to watch, but the quality on show has been laughable aside from the odd individual performance from folks you'd expect it from (Messi, Kane etc.) It is really not beating the "glorified pre-season" allegations. I guess FIFA needed something like this to "soft launch" their watered-down 48-team World Cup format before it happens. They had it before with the Confederations Cup, watching the likes of Tahiti get spanked and then patronising them when they scored a goal, but it died on its arse due to the "big" teams not taking it seriously.

Both can be true at once. There's a lot of elitism, but I've also yet to see a European team get out of second gear. And that's why it's taken until yesterday for anyone to beat a South American team, since they're taking the competition seriously and the European sides, frankly, are not. The gap isn't that big between the 'top five leagues' and Brazil, someone else on here rather dismissively called it an overhyped Eredivise, but in terms of quality that's about right, I'd put the likes of Boca Juniors on the level of someone like Ajax or PSV. And while those two are not 'elite bracket' these days, they are teams capable of giving anyone of any level a bloody nose on their day. Inter Miami on the other hand are a bunch of league one standard footballers being propped up by genuine world class in a few positions. They were a basket case even within the MLS until Messi, Suarez and Busquets showed up, and still are when they don't play. Take them out of the equation and they'd be putting up the same sorts of results as Auckland City are. But they have those players, those players are playing up to the occasion, and I can see them dragging them through this competition (with a little help from FIFA, who are the reason they're there in the first place).

Gonna be a fun one explaining to simpletons in the stands that he's not a "Leicester reject" if he rejected us.

To be fair, at the time he was the most in-demand English midfielder in the league, he could have easily gone on to be even more coveted by big-six sides and turned Spurs a profit on £40m. It's a combo of Totteringham being a meme club and Angeball wrecking his already injury-prone body that have pushed him back under the radar. There might still be clubs daft enough to try it though, despite everything. Part of me could see Man Utd. randomly sticking in a £50 million bid for him, given their transfer policy appears to involve surrounding themselves with fans and throwing poo at them, then blaming the tea lady for the stains on the walls and sacking her.

I mean fair play to the South American teams, but let's not pretend any of the European "scalps" they're claiming are remotely interested. I doubt Porto, Chelsea and PSG fans are losing any sleep tonight. It's sad really, because I'd love to see teams from around the world have a proper tournament that results in all the teams taking part giving their all. This sure as hell isn't it. It's gonna end up being a final between one of the Brazillian teams and either Inter Miami, or one of the European teams will sleepwalk their way there and lose. It doesn't really prove anything besides the endless greed of FIFA and the "big teams" involved. Then again, I'm still just bitter that they didn't include Blurbejkraften Scheissenspiele.

He's young and one of a handful of players that didn't completely stain their reputation last season. If he wants to stay great, if a good offer comes in fair enough, let him go. Like fook are we in a position to demand £40 million for him though, I'd be happy if we got half that as a Championship club. Spurs paid that for Madders and that was a knock-down price - he is not on that level.