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Thai tourism could increase by 3000% and we wouldn't have any more money to spend. Newcastle are owned by a country and still have to look at selling Guimares and Gordon.

He was right. The trajectory of this club definitely matches his own career. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/12276031/danny-ward-leicester-city-goalkeepr-signs-new-foxes-deal-to-2025

Did you blame Seagrave when we were in Europe? Winning the league last year? Or is it just convenient when we're losing. It's a baseless argument. Loads of clubs have big training grounds, their players still put the effort in.

This is just a case of played for us and doing well somewhere now. On that basis, if Simon Grayson's smashing it in the Nepalese Premier League in a few weeks we should give him a go too.

You mention all of those players as if they were the Messi-esque centre of their team's victory. Most of them didn't play WITH Vardy for a start, the formations were different, Vardy sometimes pushed wide or they came on as a sub for him or we were just playing one up top. Vardy just doesn't do well in a pairing, the best foils for him were Nugent and Okazaki playing behind him. In the case of Kane, Wood and Slimani (throw in Ulloa too if you like) he just doesn't play well round a big man, anticipating flick ons or running off a guy holding the ball up. The Kramaric story has been done to death. Wrong player wrong time, didn't take his limited chances never fitted our set up. Ranieri did the cruel to be kind thing and binned him off early.

We've seen zero evidence of that in the last 3 years. When he came back from AfCon last season he was on a high and looked totally out of his depth. The misses at Leeds and Plymouth were beyond awful. I mean if you're not doing it at a top of the table game against Leeds OR against flops like Argyle where are you doing it? If he hangs around another 18 months he may get to play in front of no crowds anyway as the last KPFC supporters finally lose their faith.

That's delusion. You cannot look at the reels of footage of him missing sitters and just generally fluffing his lines and call it disappointing. An odd miss is disappointing but to have so many obvious misses, to be physically weak and have such a poor touch is nothing to do with coaching or wrong place wrong time it's just the sign of a player incapable of playing at this level, maybe even the next level down. When you're through on goal or a cross arrives to you in the box that's just straightforward standard finishing. He's just not a top level striker.

Liverpool away this season the same, shanked it

The best you can hope for is that he's realised in the last two weeks how wonderful the training has been without Faes and Ayew and we go the next 9 games not having to see either of them.

Planned on having a stress free afternoon away from the men's team. Bloody hell.

Great play, been all over them since the second goal. Cain's being helped by Brighton apparently not playing full backs today. Another goal and we won't be the lowest scorers in the division.

Apart from a few pundits talking them up like a fallen Real Madrid who think the City Ground has been a packed cauldron of noise for 25 years, they're getting the same level of patronisation we had with the "organised" and "hard to beat" tags that we earned under ONeill. Whilst both things are true, Arsenal would love to have Elanga and Hudson Odoi and Wood in their front line. Such a shame we didn't get NES here.

In a division where all but two teams sat back against us and took 30 games to work out how to not get beat by 3 or 4. The boring games were just trying to find a way through two banks of 5 where there was virtually no jeopardy. Would have been good to see how that style worked for us in this league where there would have been more risks. At least the players had bought into it. They've accepted nothing that Cooper or RvN have tried to do.

Ipswich away, January 1st 1995. Didn't get out of minus figures all game, pitch like a rink, lost 4-1 early McGhee relegation season. Barely a song out of our hungover support. Went there by bus, could easily have used Huskies and a sled packed with supplies.

Probably the same as the topics on this forum This squad is a disgusting mess When did you realise we had bad owners? Would you have Enzo back?

People moaning about Enzoball after this season are very strange. Boring? Sometimes. Predicatable? In the end? But look at some of the goals we weaved together last season. I'd have the beautiful bald bsatrad back in a heartbeat.

Where half the games this season have been on TV anyway and weekend trips to Plymouth and Pompey get moved to Friday nights for a laugh.

Yes for the social aspect more than anything. Although having left before United even finished celebrating their 3rd the other night, I'm no longer committed to staying till the bitter end. I was happy to stop there for the sake of just wanting to boo these utter mercenaries but it makes no difference other than to get me wound up by their attitude.

They would have been accepted the same as Mahrez, Kante, Drinkwater, Maguire and the rest. Everyone knew our policy, we were all comfortable with selling players who had done their best for us for massively inflated fees to idiot top 6 clubs with no scouting network. We may not have made as much from those two in particular but it would have been better than giving Youri away for nothing. It was that shit or bust policy that led to us being unable to spend for three windows running and that led to relegation. We went down because of that change in recruitment policy made by the people at the top. Maybe Top got greedy, maybe Rudkin made a bad call, maybe Rodgers convinced them he could get Europe if we didn't sell, maybe collectively they all just decided it was worth the gamble. But whatever happened, the people running the club made poor decisions that led to relegation.

Pretty much where I am. If Rudkin and/or Whelan are replaced in the summer, there's no reason to lose King Power at all. Certainly don't agree with all their decisions or the creepy on-pitch family circus at the end of every season but a plane banner would be better aimed at the board and Rudkin rather than the family. Odd call to change it after the donations started too.

Then you re-invest like we used to do. Sell one big name, buy 3 more. The lack of investment came about because they decided on a shit or bust strategy. I'm pretty sure Top even mentioned this in either programme notes or wome sort of press release. Since the initial overspend under Sven KP have never bankrolled player transfers at this club. Our net spend since the Pearson promotion has been very low. By not selling Tielemans or even Maddison in 2021/22 and extending the deals of squad players we buggered up our next two or three windows and made relegation come true. Recruitment, strategy and player retention all massively screwed up soon after Vichai's death and Top being handed the reins.

If I throw in some huge benefit of my huge doubts, Vichai had a plan, if not a dream. Get up, stay up, stabilise then build. Seagrave was part one of that and I think had the crash not interrupted everything we'd have had an extension too. Managerially, they've been all over the shop. Sacking Pearson, Sousa, Sven, pissing cash up the wall for him. Even the Shakey/Puel switcheroo was badly handled. And the last two years have been aimless. I credit their investment but they haven't put their own money into transfers, our net spend when you balance each the big sales is pretty low.

It's just a breakaway from the original messages on the van, there's no continuity and it doesn't target or implicate the right person. Given how many have disagreed with the message I'm not so sure it's the most popular option either. King Power themselves aren't making the day to day decisions that have led us here. Big opportunity to target the board is being missed.

Silence throughout the match tbf. KP aren't blameless but we're highlighting the state of the club. Turning it on KP specifically let's the directors off the hook.

Not as keen on the King Power out message, it strays from the point and isn't as catchy. Premier Ambitions, Amateur Decisions was more punchy and about how we've fallen. King Power out completely eliminates Rudkin’s culpability and won't bring people onside. Shame if it goes that way.