João Miguel da Cunha

Nathan Jones, God willing.

One that sticks out the most is QPR away in the Watford redemption season. Direct from a goal kick, Nuge wins the flick, Vardy’ first touch with his chest completely retired Richard Dunne, bang! Like an arrow across goal, straight to the corner flag to have it off with the home fans. We’ll never see us again soak up pressure for him to run off the shoulder and bag, I can’t speak.

That Friday night game against Wrexham in August without him is going to be nigh on interminable. Getting over Fryatt was hard enough. Cba.

Fingers crossed my man. Can’t be having the ‘Norfolk Cafu’ manage us, can we?

Thorup out at Norwich. Wonder what flavour of the month out of work manager goes in..

Going to watch Lowestoft Town take on Leiston tomorrow. -103 GD for Lowestoft and counting… really tough to see how Lowestoft want to progress in the years to come, they’ve fielded a lot of young players through a partnership with the local college which in theory was a neat idea but they haven’t half struggled with the step up.

Reid & Ayew, absolutely, contractually negligible and naive that in 2025 signings like that are being ratified. With Enzo gone and Cooper now unfortunately in place, I’ve watched enough football at the highest level and going down the pyramid to know that Steve Cooper is not going to even attempt to maintain and develop that style of play a level higher. Hence why the players are stuck attempting what they knew under Enzo whilst trying to attempt whatever Cooper did with them in pre-season (look how pre-season) went. The writing was on the wall a million miles away. Enzo somewhat built a relationship because ultimately he won enough games to ensure what we all, expected, there’s that awful word. If some fans didn’t like how Enzo played or found it boring, then guess what, don’t go? You can’t sit and tell me despite how Enzo played, fans ‘expected’ more exciting and attacking football. As supporters we’re not ‘entitled’ to a certain brand of football, you can only hope the people employed to make decisions directly linked to football operations get it right, more often than not. Over time I think you could argue ours have. The owner of a football club mid-season or a director of football isn’t going to come out publicly and say ‘yeah got that wrong sorry’ then now with the power of hindsight, again come out and say ‘we got it wrong again, but even worse x1000’ sorry hehe with regards to RvN. As much as we all want players like Jordan Ayew to run around pretending to care about the badge that he represents, have you watched Jordan Ayew play for the last 13/14 years? I appreciate I’ve probably come at this at an obtuse angle mentioning entitlement and how I perceive certain sections of the fanbase or sections of the media’s vague interpretation of where we currently are as a football club, but not caring is still caring, somewhat, and I get annoyed that what’s going on with us annoys me. Ultimately I’m powerless to make any difference unless just accepting what a poor job is being done, with the hope that they get something right in the next few years. New season starts tomorrow, hopefully.

@Sol thewall Bamba Hi mate, genuine question, when Cooper was appointed, his recruitment, the financial restraints of PSR, potential points deduction, the sale of KDH, the obvious year upon year improvement of even the most ‘average’ of PL sides, what were your expecting, if anything? You can dangle a carrot of having the worst top flight season in the clubs history, fair! Come August not a single person will care, inside or outside the ground about these arbitrary things the media throws out to create headlines and steer narratives this way or that. Football moves on.

I wish I had the intelligence and vernacular to go with you all the way but I flip so easily from annoyance to apathy to revisionism, I’m all over the place when it comes to Leicester. Comparing success to the likes of all the clubs you’ve mentioned above is the problem.

Okay so, 100% on being an embarrassment this season, nobody in their right mind can disagree. You mention teams like Fulham & Brentford, striding ahead, striding ahead to what? Merely existing in a closed shop operating outside the ‘top six’ We mixed it with the big boys, the club tried to sustain that by pushing the envelope, not once but twice breaking into the top four, and as a result we’re paying the price for that now, but if the barometer of success these days is to just compete with the likes of Brentford & Fulham, then Christ we may as well all sack it off. We’re the lucky ones, not them.

Fair enough chap. Merely trying to pass the time until another season in the SkyBet, I hope I haven’t offended you.

I go home and away with Charlton and as much as what you’ve described sounds angelic to an actual Charlton fan the club would struggle massively if they did go up automatically, or be it through the play-offs this season. They can beat anyone on their day at this level which they’ve proven however a step up and I think they’d **** the bed a little.. If they missed out this year I’d put a lot of money I don’t have on going up automatically under NJ next season.

Admittedly I’m too young to remember the Peter Taylor era, administration and subsequent Football League horror stuff with Holloway & Martin Allen et al but surely the club is an absolute million miles away from ever being in such situations again?

As another season supporting Leicester City comes to a close, I can’t help but not start to question my own expectation level for what ‘success’ means for me following an institution that was created in the late 1800’ that has ultimately given me some of the best days of my life in such a short period of time… And without wanting to come across as reactionary and ‘divisive’ I can’t help but think as a fan base we’re a little bit spoilt by our recent success.. and before getting absolute leathered that’s not excusing the failings of the last 18 months on and off the field. I’m just a bit at odds with the future of Leicester City and footballing fandom in general. In my opinion, I think at times despite how abhorrent we are on the pitch, do we need to give our heads a wobble, step back and think, could be worse… shiny new training ground, recent history of winning actual trophies with genuine history and pedigree, pathway for young players representing the first-team etc etc (I’m not Guy Branston, and I’m certainly not employed by King Power, or Leicester City) Honest.

As first senior loan moves go this is Dane Bowers type stuff. Will learn more about the level and more importantly what he can do in a much better system for next season.. About as much kudos as I’m willing to give this club at the moment. Going to be a big pre-season for the lad.