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Given that it was Top's idea to stop selling players when they had a value and push for Europe instead I'd say he's well up for taking a risk or two. But I can't see this moving on at all until we have a few points in the board or even look like being safe. They missed the boat when we were a top half Prem side so now any expenditure is a risk.

I do. If you're that talented then back yourself. If we're a big enough job now then we were back then. He's got his plus points but I'm sceptical of any manager that's previously rejected us because of our situation then because our situation in 2 months could be worse. Imagine we start on -8 or without two or three star names, I want a guy who relishes the challenge not someone who uses us as a placeholder and keeps checking his phone for the latest news on the Spurs/United job front. Take the job or don't, we need to start our preparation now not wait for this guy to flip a coin.

Obviously but the King Power has never really been rocking aside from a handful of games pre-2016. The move to the new ground was followed by a fair few years of stagnation, half full stands in the Levein and Kelly abyss and obviously relegation. It took a long while to get atmosphere going until the winning & promotion momentum Pearson built up. I get what you're saying about Puel but you're talking about a hangover after winning the league and that's the same issue. It's not just the style of football it's the anti-climax after winning the league. I've sat in front of people last season who were saying the exact same thing, the buzz isn't the same, the title was great, Ranieri blah blah. One guy was even saying the mate he borrowed the ticket from had barely been down since 2018 because he felt nothing would top winning the league. There's going to be a good few people like that. You could have had Klopp, a second coming of O'Neill or even 5 years of Ranieri but winning the league completed football for them.

TBF They had massive injury issues last season. On top of selling McAllister and Caicedo they lost Mitoma and March to injury and they were the main supply line to their (fairly novice) strikers. It just takes time to get new players blooded in and playing the way they did the season before. On a plus for Potter I'm more than happy to have a guy who builds from a strong defence and he'd have plenty to start with going forward having Abdul, Mavididi, Vardy etc but if he's still delaying coming here then sack him off and go for option 2.

Myth. 2016 was great for obvious reasons and 2017 had some great Euro nights. There's been all too few of those times since. Last season was abysmal and thank God for Union FS doing SOMETHING.

Have you missed 18 months? Chelsea fired a coach that won them the UCL and Super Cup, appointed Frank Lampard to steady the ship, spent half a billion pounds on 8 year contracted players and misfits and then fired Potter after a few months because the only side they could score past was us with Danny Ward in goal. Potter hasnt worked since. His work at Brighton was eye-catching but let's not pretend we're getting a hot talent here. Cooper gets stick because his body of work is less impressive and " cuz hE's ForRriSt" but he did turn round a Forest side that spent decades in the doldrums and managed to do enough with a cast of 40 unproven or ungelled players to keep them up too. And let's not forget we're not the most attractive bridesmaid right now.

Paddy Power drove a hearse round King Power the day after we sacked Ranieri, they aren't necessarily the sensible head in this discussion.

It's there so we have a chance of getting a fee for him but even so a 2 year deal should have been the absolute max

I defended this guy for about 12 games last season but bloody hell that's Soccer Aid standard.

No-one's suspending or shortening those odds on Potter because he's already turned down two jobs after having talks. He may be the club's favourite but he's clearly waiting for another top 6 job or something that rebuilds his reputation. Taking on a club with incoming points deductions and limited funds doesn't do much for his stock market value unless he does a similar job to Dyche or O'Neil

Never better than Rod Stewart

The club's problem is wanting to stick with this mysterious "vision" that's been mentioned in statements but also needing to scrap enough points to stay up. The two things, certainly managerially, don't match up. You can look at names like Robins and Edwards and they might do enough to keep you there but their football style doesn't equate to the club's long term strategy of wanting to be in the top half playing attractive keep-ball. But the names that do play that style might not have the ability to slog it out. Getting Potter in, the question has to be whether he can make us solid enough to win ugly whilst sticking with the plan of being nice on the eye.

These are the sorts of players that are the DNA of a club. They're at the heartbeat of all of the good stuff behind the scenes and clubs that struggle are usually the ones missing their character and attitude. You can always find yourself another shot stopper, another winger, even another goalscorer but players like Schmeichel, Albrighton and Vardy set the standards. Finding people with the right attitude is far harder than just finding people with the right skills. He'll be a big miss.

If you think about it even Conor Coady couldn't split up our regular pairing for most of the season but there were 2 or 3 games when Vestergaard was out that he went straight to Nelson instead of Coady. Not sure there's much else Nelson coulkd have done to have got more minutes when they were solid for the first 2/3 of the year. Probably would have been the same for Alves, he'd have been in that perma-bench group with Praet, Yunus and McAteer.

He's currently putting up decent numbers for a medium pace bowler too. Spends his summers playing for Tynemouth CC so if we split the deal with Leics we can get better value out of him He splits opinion in their fanbase, some love the fact he's a local lad chipping in a few goals, others talk about him like the Geordie Soumare. I haven't seen enough of him to decide either way but it's difficult to be praising Jamie and Marc for their workrate and attitude and then be critical of a player that offers...... workrate and attitude.

The owner sacked him for uninspiring football. Came on Talksport to confirm his reasons a day or two afterwards. If we're looking at managers who didn't even reach the play offs we really are scraping barrels. The names mentioned aren't particularly uplifting. Cooper is safe hands and builds a squad, Potter will last a season before taking a bigger job, RVN who knows?Has to get a break somewhere.

Weren't we ratified as a PL club the other day (hence the Vardy and Vesty contracts now being subject to PL approval) and so are now in that pre-season window?

This kid could end up getting poached by a top club without barely playing any football for us. His showreel is pretty decent already.

https://www.lcfc.com/news/4034808/albrighton-among-players-to-depart-leicester-city?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3F5ojVekDRubAbiIcdlU4dlh_-p6joTqRk-5NlDTrGsG001CYmLKaAb64_aem_AbJo6gomRqIrsyB79APJNLmcnC_jNio_6tYnvWarg7pxVqLeRzh51lBo9qu96yQei4VrgxZ4xOfwR0Lwg6RFzAb_&lang=en Discussions ongoing with Wilf

How do you know they're "better"? That's just your guess. As many managers from abroad fail as turn out to be another Klopp or Wenger. Also not one of those better options would want to be starting on minus points. Same reason Potter wants nothing to do with us.

If your reasons for disliking Cooper are a) that he's ex-Forest and b) he struggled in the Prem then a) grow up and b) remember Maranakis bought him about 40 players and told him to get on with it (Martin Allen and Mandaric style) It's 30 years back when Martin O'Neill was being hounded by idiots who thought he was deliberately sabotaging our promotion bid. I assume if Cooper brought Wes Morgan in as a coach that you wouldn't want him in either? Can really do without another season where people spend 9 months grumbling because they wanted someone else.

Thought this was hilarious, after all the kick off about it, Forest voted to keep it 😆

If you didn't know the cartoon you'd think it was a cartoon of him

Erm, can I introduce you to this man.....

Why hopefully? He's done what any coach or for that matter any one of us would have done. Bigger club, bigger wages, better players etc etc All that AND a guaranteed payoff at the end. He could have stayed here and been sacked in 6 months