OntarioFox

The expansion was going to be funded with loans taken out against TV money from the top flight. Our club's moronic structure let the relegation of 22-23 happen through sheer ineptitude, which jeapordised everything. They're just too shady to publicly admit that it's now dead in the water unless by some miracle we survive and get the second year's worth of EPL money we need for it. Internally, I think they gave up on it by the time we lined up against Cov that August.

I mentioned it before a few months back when it happened, but it kind of got overlooked so I'll mention it again - I met him with some other folks including an ex colleague of his after a match last season and, while he was great company and very knowledgeable, let's just say he was very loose with inside info about the club. Basically told us [some fairly confidential info about the expansion and its likelihood of happening after relegation. Which at that point was not good, and based on what he told us is now 90% not happening.] That's coming from someone inside the club structure, knowing full well how secretive they are about anything. If you're willing to tell some randoms in the Blues Bar stuff like that, I can imagine there's more to his dismissal than just getting Rudkin a hearty boo at the Clock Tower.

Had the (dis) pleasure of visiting a friend in Coventry overnight, which would be my first time in the city proper rather than their crappy stadium which may as well be in Nuneaton. Good lord what a dump. I wasn't sure if the tales about the centre were exaggerated but nah, it really is like they cobbled together all the worst bits of Birmingham's 60s concrete hellscape into one car-centric monstrosity. There were some very sketchy characters around once night fell too. Loads of roadmen, far more than I'm used to seeing in town. Even the suburbs are just... Nothing. I took a wrong turn driving out and ended up in Radford, which is supposed to be a 'nice' bit of town but as it turns out is just miles and miles of... Well, nothing. Just endless rows of semi-detached houses with barely any amenities or proper transport connections. Yuck. It's the only time, besides our recent trip with the foxes to Walsall, that I've realised that - while Leicester is far from perfect - it could be so much worse.

Bears repeating that Leicester gave the Tories their only gain in the entire country last election. 🤮

Ricardo, Ndidi, chose other because despite his detractors I'd happily keep McAteer around for another Championship campaign, lad at least gives a shit and was effective last year. Accidentally selected Mads to keep but i think realistically he needs selling alongside BEK to maximise our budget to rebuild. We have a perfectly good backup in Jakub for the second tier. And both are realistically getting poached even if we somehow survive. Bin the rest to whatever extent possible.

If two up top works, it's absolutely vital we make a space for either Evans or (god forbid) Edouard on the bench, so we aren't forced into a formation change when in the ascendancy. We can't do it without any backup in the position. It's all relative mind you - this is LCFC in 2025, it's not going to work.

Not exactly going to sit here and gloat at him struggling for them. Mostly because he's more than likely going to be contracted at a Premier League team next season, and it ain't us!

That Wolves equaliser is everything we arent.

To be fair, Luke Thomas is the cautionary tale against throwing academy products in at the deep end - after some early promise, the tail end of 21-22 and the debacle of the relegation season absolutely tanked his development. That being said, I think the current situation is very different. There's a clear acknowledgement that the first team as a whole is terrible, and I think (or at least hope) the fanbase will be a lot more forgiving of youth players that come in even if they weren't to set the world on fire. I don't think even the blindest fan now expects the likes of Alves and Braybrook to drag us back to a top-6 position, we just want a new spine that has some energy and displays even a hint of being proud to wear the shirt.

this is the season we deserve 🤮

Not sure what's going to be more shit next season - watching F*rest and C*v play each other in the top flight without us, or the Sheep not even have the courtesy to give us a local Derby of any sort. We deserve everything we get as a club, team and in many cases as a fanbase too. Feels like the football gods are personally making things as embarrassing as possible for us right now.

Imagine having one in your squad instead of someone who was one 10 years ago

TV's got me jealous of a Plymouth defender, bugger me we've sunk so low

'We'll walk your dog for you, we'll walk your dog for you'

If it's true, he's a multi-millionaire for crying out loud. He can hire a bleeding dog sitter.

decent first half from the fullbacks to be fair literally nothing else to say, we're painful to watch

Those travelling to West Ham tonight can save themselves a lot of hassle by turning around and leaving now.

Rudkin is waiting to get spades in the ground 14 seconds after planning permission expires

That Saliba clearance could well be the difference for them making UCL, game saving tackle and probably cost the splinter dicks two vital points. Looks a good draw on paper but in reality it's two dropped.

a last minute scuffed goal off andy king's shin isn't exactly putting them to the sword, but point taken can we bring him off the bench if it gets to 80 mins and we're still in it? 🥺

We could do our bit for world peace by offering to sell him the club and letting him turn Seagrave into a hotel / golf resort. It practically is already, must be far less effort than where his current focus lies. All he has to do is slap a new sign on it and call it a day. Imagine him in a room negotiating with Rudkin. Art of the deal, innit?

Considering Enzo is currently the devil incarnate according to a lot of Chelsea fans, he's got them back into the UCL spaces.

Fair enough, if he's had an injury prone season. Still shouldn't be on the books past this summer though.

True, but i think it's the decision to offer someone a two year extension literally weeks after they were dropped from the squad and deemed surplus / of questionable attitude that's the main thing to focus on. Would have been around the same time Enzo was being told we couldn't sign Sensi, doubt he was happy with what was undoubtedly a decision taken by higher ups. Bears repeating that he decided to name a second substitute goalkeeper ahead of him, and he didn't feature again in the second half of the season, so something had seriously soured. A year with a view to sell in the summer would have been far wiser, if the verdict at that point was already that he didn't have a future for us. Or just let him go if the wages were as low as suggested - no real loss rather than clogging up our books with uninspiring 'assets'. He's played three games this season for what it's worth. Even Braybrooke managed seven for Dundee by the time he was recalled, and that was considered a failure of a loan, but Marcal is still out in the Netherlands.

Marcal is contracted until 2026? Good lord, he was at best a squad player at Championship level and was dropped by Maresca in favour of having two keepers on the bench with questions around attitude. Completely missed that he'd been given an extension weeks later and he's been a bit-part on loan at a second division Dutch side this year. Even when it was good under Enzo it seems we learned nothing about handing bloated contracts out like sweets. By all rights he should have been one of those due to have to find a new club this summer.