orangecity23

If the club is so hard up for income, perhaps a better idea might have been trying to avoid getting relegated and losing their biggest income, Prem TV money, instead of sitting around doing nothing for all of last season to "not fail FFP" - then failing it anyway.

He was trying to go to Portman Road, but he just took a couple of deflections on the way

So, season tickets are up 5% - but if you factor in the extra £25 for the card that makes the percentage increase almost double that in some parts of the ground - e.g., Kop ticket, 5% increase + £25 means its gone from £435 to £483 for the season on renewal - almost 11% increase.

They spend a lot of time mucking about with balls around the back, and never keep a clean sheet, what do you expect?

The club is so so paranoid about pitch invasions, I wouldn't be surprised if given the choice between staying down and financial oblivion and going up with a pitch invasion, they'd go for staying down instead

Granby Street was doomed the moment that Gamestation got turned into a Game and then shut down. In fact all retail was doomed at that point. Give me back my window full of old consoles and 4 for £20 on Dreamcast games damn it.

Since he's under 21, would we get some compensation? So hopefully not a complete write off, unlike Mendy, Youri, Soyuncu, Perez etc etc etc. Although was that dependent on having offered him a new deal? Good job we aren't under an embargo that would prevent us doing that.....oh.

Michael Thomas This is what door opening is all about, 85 passes before anyone gets to the handle. This team gets better and better #CoachesVoice #GuillemBallague #Elite #Rotation #Keepthatdoorshutlongerthere'sadraft

Nothing bad was said. It was just that someone locked the door, and it took the squad several hours of walking sideways in front of the door before they could put the key into the lock.

The annoying thing is, I don't think his general "style" of play is fundamentally broken or anything like that. I think it probably is entirely possible to keep this style, but introduce variations or tweaks that remedy some of the most pressing problems, namely getting Faes caught out of position high up the pitch, and an inability to break down a massed defence when chasing a game. But Enzo isn't looking to tweak or experiment at all, even when the games are nearly lost and there's nothing to lose by having a go. I'm fine with him starting with KDH and Ndidi as no 8s, but there's definitely ways to use the bench better when chasing, rather than just shrugging your shoulders, claiming a lack of options in attacking midfield and giving up with a couple of like for like changes. I think that there could be some mileage to be had out of taking some of our excess strikers and using them at one of the 8 positions, or our wingers, when needing to break down a deep block. Yes, that wouldn't be suitable for the bulk of the game, but for 10-20 minutes at the end when camped in the opposition half, I see no reason why Nacho or Cannon couldn't play in Ndidi's position. Then if the make underlapping runs beyond the winger, there's perhaps more chance of getting a shot off, or if a cross comes in from the other wing, given they are strikers there is more chance they might more agreessively pounce on a loose ball, or make a dangerous back post run or something. Even Albrighton as a right sided 8 could offer something - if they are supposed to underlap Abdul and cross from the byline, he would be perfectly capable of doing that, plus in situations where Abdul has gone towards the corner, drawn in 2-3 defenders and had to recycle the ball backwards, recycling it to Albrighton yields the possibility of a deeper right footed cross from a slightly infield position to the back post. Maybe Mavididi could move to right sided 8 at some point in a match as Yunus or Wanya comes on at Left wing - having the opposition left back suddenly have to deal with Stephy and Abdul in the same area of the pitch could pose all sorts of problems that weren't there previously. There were some hints of bits and bobs like this earlier in the season, but they've all gone now. He doesn't even bother to swap around whether Ricardo inverts from Right or Left Back anymore, at one stage he would do it to let Justin handle a tricky left winger, and I do recall at least one goal coming from a Justin cross at Right back. It adds more possibilites and unpredictble elements for the opposition to handle at the end, with the added bonus that to fans it at least looks like you've thrown on more attacking players and gone for it, even if the underlying gameplan is broadly similar.

With Ndidi and Praet out of contract as well, if kdh goes we are looking at needing to get 3 new centre mids in at a minimum. That money won't stretch so far when there's that many signings needed unless we get some bosmans in. Of course, if we stay down we will need 3 new centre mids but have a transfer embargo as well, so we will be extra stuffed

A botel that costs more than Harry Maguire. Sold to their own holding company. Meanwhile, if King Power paid "too much" to sponsor us, that wouldn't be allowed, as it isn't fair play. One set of rules for the big 6, a completely different set for everyone else.

Akshully, I think you'll find Farke is clearly the manager of the season....

That team got better and better over the course of the season, and became more and more attacking by the end of the season. Wild that we started out with 5 at the back with Zak Whitbread playing, then by the end of the season it was Wasyl and Wes at CB, De Laet and Schlupp at fullback and 2 out of Knockaert, Mahrez and Dyer on the wings. Based on how the current team keeps losing the ball high up th pitch on it's right hand side, and baring in mind that Nige's team would be counter attacking that flank with Jeff, Lloyd and young Vardy attacking that empty space ... oof. Bloodbath. No matter how many times it happened though, you know Faes would carry on charging into no mans land, losing it then ambling back without ever learning his bloody lesson though.

This assumes someone in charge who is willing to make decisions, be decisive, and get a new manager in quickly before it's too late. We have Jon Rudkin and Top on the case. You get whoever this year's equivalent of Adam Saddler is (Willy Caballero perhaps) in charge for 3 of those games as caretaker playing the same players in the same tactics, because the people at the top of the tree are completely oblivious to everything going to shit around them. It's a nice fantasy, but you know it's never happening in a million years. We're going to be properly Rudkinned and there's nothing we can do to stop them from doing it.

I don't think changing a manager would sort anything really, look at the state of what happened last year. Weeks of caretakers ballsing it up then Dean Smith brought in weeks too late, and it still made barely any difference. I think there is a fundamental lack of care that surrounds everything at the club, from the top down to the players, that means that whoever is in charge, the result will be the same. The place just stinks of complacency and carelessness in everything they do. Nigel is the man who put this place into the right mindset for its ascent to the top of the mountain, but even he's not sorting out this barrel of rotten apples inside a few weeks. We either get lucky, the players manage to get their fingers out their backsides and drag out a few more wins and we roll our bloated corpse over the finishing line, or Leeds and Ipswich do the job, we fail the playoffs and descend into an ungodly hellworld of points deductions, embargos and off the pitch upheaval next season that results in us trapped inside the Championship (or maybe lower if things really hit the fan). Based on everything we've seen of how the club has operated over the last 2 years, I think it only comes down to lucky fluke or oblivion, and given half a chance LCFC will steer straight towards oblivion and stick their foot on the accelerator without even realising they are doing it. Nothing can stop the runaway train now, it's past the point of no return.

Fold the club. Owners don't care, Board doesn't care, Rudkin and Whelan don't care, manager doesn't give a toss and the players are all a bunch of lazy twats half arsing their way through life waiting for a free transfer to somewhere "better". Everything about the club is done in the least professional, careless, slipshod manner possible, and they seem to be hellbent on destroying every single aspect of the club until it goe skint anyway, so we might as well stop wasting everybody's time and pack it all in now. Shut it, close the effing thing down and let us all move on to do something better with our lives instead of watching this bunch of ****ing clowns setting themselves on fire continuously for the last 3 years.

Daka went to the Timo Werner school of finishing. Start run a yard offside - flawless finish. Onside - toblerone feet

This graph is the crux of the whole problem for me. It clearly shows just how imbalanced the whole league is. Man United last won the league years before we did. Tottenham last won it season after Bunley did. In the 1960s. Yet their broadcast revenue alone is more than our entire income. They get 4 times as much broadcast revenue as Fulham get. Then on top of that, their commercial revenue alone, is more than our entire turnover AGAIN. Tottenham's position is almost entirely based around the fact they are from London and promoted disproportionately heavily by the London based media. The big 6 clubs essentially get a monopoly on media coverage, as they are treated like the only show in town, which creates a feedback loop where stupid companies like Nivea, Cadburys, TeamViewer and Chevrolet fall over themselves to funnel more hundreds of millions into the gaping maw of the big 6 in an attempt to market themselves to the brainddead sofa fans who "Support" whoever Sky Sports tells them are the BIGGEST BESTEST TEAM, beause actually following a proper club is too much for these glory seeking losers. There is no financial fair play, or level playing field. The whole of football is balanced on a massive incline above a pit, and every other club in the country is being shoved into the abyss by the greedy 6 sitting at the top of the pile taking an ever bigger slice of all the pies they can get their grubby little mitts on. So, in the spirit of improving football - I would like to present my modest proposal to save football. I call it "The Standard Oil Solution" Those who know a bit about American history will know about Standard Oil. They were the biggest, most successful oil company in the world, when lamp oil became the go to product to light people's homes. They engaged in many dodgy business practices to run their competitors out of business. They had price fixing agreements with Railways to transport their products at a low price, whilst guranteeing to charge competitors more to ship their oil. At the height of their powers, they controlled 91% of the oil production market in the United States, and they made John Rockefeller the richest man on the planet. However, the US Government took them to court for breaking the Sherman Anti-Trust act, a piece of legislation designed to "prohibit anticompetitive agreements and unilateral conduct that monopolizes or attempts to monopolize the relevant market." They won, and forced Standard Oil to seperate into 34 different companies, that went on to become companies like Exxon Mobil and Esso (ESS - OH, aka S.O. - Standard Oil) today. So my solution, is that a anti-trust type measure should be inflicted upon the big 6. They are definitely responsible for anti-competitive agreements and attempts to monoplize the market. So - they should get the Standard Oil treatment. Namely: 1) Manchester United will be broken up into many different teams, based in the primary locations of their fanbase. There will be a Manchester United of Ireland, a Manchester United of Wales, a Manchester United of China and so on. 2) These teams will be forced to start off in the lowest tier of the leagues of the countries they are based in. 3) Manchester United of Manchester will be allowed to remain in Manchester, starting in the lowest amateur league in England. Old Trafford will be knocked down (or just wait for it to fall down on its own). 4) Manchester United of Manchester will be a club only viewable for people who live in the Manchester area, and there will be "Catchment areas" for other clubs in the area (Bolton, Oldham etc) where if people live within them, they are barred from buying a ticket or entering a ground to watch Manchester United. 5) Manchester United of Manchester will be completely banned from all television stations in the UK and worldwide. A 20 second highlight video of tehir games may be aired on whatever their equivalent is of East Milands Today, but may only be shown after the highlights of Bolton, Oldham, etc etc and must be edited to be of a length shorter than all other local results shown. 6) Any trophies previously won by Manchester United are no longer recognised as valid, as they were the result of an illegal monoply, thus no images of English or European football trophies may be used in promotional materials or advertising 7) Singing that shit 20 times song, or "You've only come to see YANITED", or chanting "YANITED" in a performatively fake mancunian accent will be classed as a public order offence, liable for several weeks imprisonment, during which time the guilty party will receive a re-education course on how to follow a real football team and not a fake plastic brand for ego tossers. 8) "Manchester United" to become a censored phrase on social media 9) The Above rules will also be applied to Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal 10) All the Above rules except for 6) will be applied to Tottenham Hotspur, as it is believed that no actual images outside of Cave Paintings actually exist showing Tottenham winning a trophy. 11) None of the above is an unfair, or unwarranted set of legislature, and is in no way motivated by having attended School in the 1990s and having to grow up around insufferable little turds who 'support' Manchester United and never attended a game in the entire lives. Honest.

It's worse than the clip shows, it was Faes's botched intercepted pass that started the breakaway in the first place. Made practically exactly the same error that got Doyle sent off vs Chelsea.

I swear at one point in the first half, Faes was competing for a header, got shoved by the Millwall striker, ended up handling the ball... and the ref just played on. You'd have thought someone would get a free kick, but he found a different, even more incorrect third option.

Ignores blatant push by Obafemi to win the ball, then books Winks after Obafemi dives. Usual standard of refereeing over the past few weeks. Nothing suspicious going on, honest....

Looks like their Thyme in the Championship is over.

Late to the party on this, but as a counter to the "but Leeds lost 11 first team starters from last season" argument: GK Ward and Iversen LB Thomas and Kristiansen CB Evans, Soyuncu and Amartey RB Castagne LW Barnes RW Perez CM Tielemans and Soumare AM Maddison 13 regular starters from last season who haven't featured at all for Leicester this season due to being sold, leaving on a free, loaned out or because they are Danny Ward and thus shit.

Failed to retain another data analyst? Well we couldn't possibly blame Rudkin for this, we don't know what he does, other people, chain of command, answers to board etc etc Oh, wait.