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Would have been fine this entire time if we'd signed good players we could resell for higher prices. We've bought dross and stuck it on high wages, at the exact time the regulations have come in that require you to be good in the transfer market to succeed. The "we don't want any more Leicester Citys" doesn't work. Remove PSR and the likes of Newcastle and Villa would just have spent even more replacing us at the top.

He's on the pitch at Preston though, isn't he? He's on the open top bus weaving its way around the city centre with the adoring crowds celebrating a promotion only necessary because of the rank incompetence on his watch. @RYM has covered Brentford above. Brighton haven't won for 8 games and their CEO is going on national radio: https://www.northstandchat.com/threads/barbs-on-r5-now.411410/ They obviously get fans wondering if it's all going to shit - but look at the number of responses talking about the bigger picture, the bigger plan, how their chairman communicated with them last summer: https://www.northstandchat.com/threads/have-we-spunked-our-money-on-average-players-or.411226/ Until clubs like Brighton and Brentford overspend, have catastrophic seasons, get relegated or start signing terrible players on a consistent basis then you'll have to put up with our fans continuing to point to lots of different things they're doing as good examples of how to run a football club, because there's very little evidence they're going to do any of the stupid things we did. It's free learning and our club needs to take what it can before it's too late. This was 6 months ago, again referencing Brighton and Barber, and pretty much all still applies now: https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-grand-vision This is a timely discussion right now anyway, as it's the Foxes Trust AGM next Monday and there are 3 new board members to be ratified, all ready to help bring a fresh approach and do what they can to hold the club to account: https://foxestrust.co.uk/membership

Meanwhile, on planet sensible... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c7247423mmdo https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/24343903.bill-foley-afc-bournemouth-hired-tiago-pinto/ https://www.brentfordfc.com/en/news/article/the-long-read-brentford-director-of-football-phil-giles-transfers

New nickname https://www.thefosseway.net/matchday/leicester-city-match-report-wolves-home-24

From here: https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-94-ridiculous-things-2024 (There are 47 things to find in case any of you need a family-friendly Christmas activity)

Ruby Mace is a Lioness 🦁

Yeah that’s a very fair point. Will be interesting to see if it ever has a real effect to the point where the authorities feel the need to do anything. Seen so many Leicester fans say they don’t watch Champions League football any more for instance.

Probably a lot of the same thoughts covered here since the game but hopefully worth a read. There isn’t a huge amount of coverage elsewhere. https://www.thefosseway.net/matchday/leicester-city-match-report-manchester-united-women-november-2024 It’s stark just how little interest there is in the women’s team from the wider fanbase though. Visits to our site are about 5-10% for any women’s coverage. Games and seasons like this can’t help. But there’s still something very likeable about this team. They seem to always give 100% even if ability lets them down a lot.

We’ve just started up there if you’re looking for LCFC to add to your feed - TheFosseWay.bsky.social

Foxy Figures #2 of the season https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-foxy-figures-september

Over on The Fosse Way we’re publishing long read articles about past away wins at each of our 19 Premier League opponents this season. Number 3 - Arsenal in the 1890s https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-arsenal-death-disorder-decampment

Probably at the end where it says Rudkin in?

Today we ask: what is Leicester City’s transfer strategy? — When Jordan Ayew, Leicester City’s latest summer signing, came on for his debut at Craven Cottage, the away end burst into chants of “We want Rudkin Out”. To say Ayew’s signing has been met with scepticism in some quarters would be an understatement. To say Leicester’s summer transfer business has been a frustration would be similarly so. To say the jury remains out on Jon Rudkin as Director of Football would be stretching the concept of the word ‘understatement’ to breaking point. The Leicester fanbase doesn’t agree on much at the moment, but it does agree that the squad needs reinforcements. The away end on Saturday reflects an increasing frustration as August has drifted on, a feeling that the club has had so long to improve the squad and has found itself flailing around desperately in the final few hours of the window to try to strengthen the team. Steve Cooper has been open about his desire for new signings. It has been widely reported that he wants at least two more players in attacking positions before the window slams shut on Friday evening. Even the players themselves seem to be eager for reinforcements, with recent reports suggesting Wout Faes is ‘surprised’ by the lack of transfer activity this summer and considering his position as a result. Perhaps some of this is unfair. In many ways, if you exclude the managerial change, Leicester look like a classic promoted team from a previous era, where you keep the core of the side together and try to stay up on a limited budget. Of course, this approach now feels outdated, in an era when promoted sides go out and buy an entirely new squad to celebrate their achievement. Even in 2024, though, Leicester aren’t that much of an outlier in the Premier League. It’s easy to focus completely on your own club but when you zoom out, this whole summer has been a strange one at the top level. There have simultaneously been so many signings and not enough, with a handful of clubs signing an enormous number of players without improving their first team while others scramble around for scraps, bound by the limitations of the financial rules. — Full article: https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-lcfc-transfer-strategy

Here's some pre-match reading if you fancy taking your mind off the actual game - looking at the first time Leicester won at Fulham and what was happening at the time including some links to the local area, World War One, Leicester Fosse players who fought in the war and how it all ties in to the UFS boat trip this Saturday: https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-oars-war-dying-day-fulham

TFW report: https://www.thefosseway.net/matchday/leicester-city-match-report-tottenham-home-24

Some thoughts on whether fans are right to panic... https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-dont-panic-eve-of-the-premier-league

Rather than starting a new thread, just going to briefly nip into this thread as friends of the great @Ric Flair to give a quick plug to our free weekly LCFC news round-up email and the site as a whole if you're not familiar with TFW. The email is called Fosse Friday, we're 13 issues in now and you can see previous editions including today's here: https://thefosseway.substack.com/ Sign up here to receive it into your inbox every Friday at 11am UK time: https://thefosseway.substack.com/subscribe We're also still running the main The Fosse Way site which, although it's been quieter for the past month or so, will be back to normal for the new season shortly - match reports every week, regular articles etc: https://www.thefosseway.net/

Please enjoy the Alternative LCFC Awards 2023/24 https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-alternative-awards-2023-24

https://www.thefosseway.net/gallery/leicester-city-champions-lifting-trophy-2024

https://www.thefosseway.net/gallery/leicester-city-champions-deepdale-2024

Some more from Albrighton here from when he was in the talkSPORT office, with Charlie who works for talkSPORT and also contributes to TFW: https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-marc-albrighton-interview

“Accountability keeps standards high.” It’s February 2017, and I find myself trotting this line out repeatedly as I try to explain to fans of other clubs on Twitter why the sacking of Claudio Ranieri is the right call. This bizarre notion, peddled by some of the biggest pundits in the country, that Ranieri had earned the right to take us to a level lower than that at which he’d picked us up in, seemed to be getting traction. Fast forward seven years, and where has the accountability gone at Leicester City Football Club? As a financial bombshell has blown off the fragile mask that fooled the majority of the country into believing Leicester were a ‘well-run club’, it’s high time we saw some accountability return. Read the full article: https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-finances-accountability-kuhn-top-jon-rudkin-susan-whelan

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If anyone fancies a break from the financial shenanigans, we’ve done an interview with the man, the myth, the legend @Ric Flair as part of the This Leicester Life series speaking to Leicester fans with an interesting story to share: https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-2023-this-leicester-life-ric-flair