Lillehamring

What? a generalised moan without any particular focus based, it seems, on events since the end of last season. I could joyously pick the OP apart but I've better things to do.

Happy enough with that - team looks confident and up for it. I feel like we're going to see a lot more quick passes into attacking space this season - a front three of fatawu, daka and mavididi has to be one of the fastest in the league.

Couple of great back post clearances from thomas, and some nice attacking progressive passes - don't get the hate on here for him.

seems to be a back three, ricardo and aftawu as wing backs, ndidi and winks in the middle, macateer possibly a 10, but he seems to be drifting right, and daka and mav up forint.

trying to work it out - it's almost 3-2-3-2

fatawu playing wide left...

Jesus, we have some pace up front!

Interesting to see mcateer as a 10 - a lot of people were saying that's a better position for him than on the wing.

Was this one of your spotting hang outs?

My interest in darts seems to have diminished as quickly as it popped up. Everything that was exciting about it seems to have vanished - it's like every player (bar two) have massively dropped off in consistency and quality. Only a year or so ago it was a case of any one from a dozen players winning now it's just po-faced humphries and littler who seem to be winning. It hasn't helped that the PL seems heavily biased towards uk players. Maybe it's not helped that we don't get all the tournaments over here, and we have to listen to the tiresome and not-as-funny-as-he-thinks-he-is wayne mardle every week and the same crap football songs from the crowd, but it's just become really predictable and uninspiring this year.

No, it's a perfectly reasonable response - i'm sure CosbehFox understands my reluctance to take up his offer, i'm surprised he even asked to be honest.

With all due respect - you don't actually give a føkk about my opinion on most things, so i'm not going to take you up on this.

What Question? How many of those 1600 are likely to have gone to see the u21s play a pre-season friendly, had the games not clashed - not many - the u21s are hardly a must see for most fans.

I can't imagine swathes of fans will be rushing to either game, for it to make that much difference.

I haven't researched this but i wouldn't be surprised if we're no different to any other club in this respect. It's also worth considering that they've likely suspended spending any money on the stadium as it is, with a refurb expected as part of the expansion. At the end of the day, owners have traditionally had their names all over clubs and stadia as long as football has existed - it doesn't seem such a big deal to me.

Of course you wouldn't. We'll see how things are when it's time to do stuff - maybe tensions might have subsided by then. for all of the club's issues, there are certain media/marketing elements they seem to do well on.

Maybe so - I think we need to keep in mind though, that this is LCFC - how many deals have we done that have dragged on to the point of bewilderment, only for them to go through without worry, a week after everyone knew it was done?

True, but for that amount we could by at least 3 more sensibly priced players - does feel a bit like putting all our eggs in one basket. That said, if it pays off we're golden - but how likely are the club to make such gambles.

LM seem to think that "Leicester City have ‘agreed’ a €30m fee with Juventus" - if that's to be believed, then the issue is the player preferring to stay in Italy. It just doesn't feel right; such a deal would, i assume, pretty much clear us out budget-wise, with a few positions still to fill (unless we are planning to cash in on Mads). And would we really risk that, beyond the technical issues, on a player who doesn't really want to be here - we've made that mistake before. I can't see much substance to this, not now, maybe at the start, unless we really are being fed all kinds of bullsh!t about him and the fee.

I get your point but that is dreadful - that's the sort of thing we'd have been doing pre-kp. We don't really know what plans they have for the interiors or for that matter the new shop, the fan zone or the pavilion. i'd like to think that they'll liaise with the foxes trust and the supporters groups.

The more i read about this, the more it feels like we're just being used by Juve to force Roma to pay more. I mean, are we really going to spend this much money on such a young unproven player - especially to play in a position that either a) we don't really need (RW), or b) that isn't his natural position (10).

Because they need something to blame Rudkin for?

With equal respect, perhaps you're looking at this from a very narrow perspective - if your basing it on that stint he had replacing Ward. I mean it's not a massive sample size, and we were so bad in possession during that period that any keeper would probably have been poor. I accept, though, that it's far from being a strength of his, but at the same time there aren't masses of keepers, even now, who are decent with their feet, many are simply shot stoppers. It's all moot, anyway, cause he doesn't seem to have a future with us....

It really shouldn't be a surprise - i think we've been brainwashed by the media (and our own lack of empirical understanding) into a conviction that cooper is a 'park the bus/counter attack' devotee - when, digging deeper, he's very much a possession type manager.

Maybe so, but he actually was part of the rodgers squad that had that little run of wins, and he played well in those games - despite not playing in his ideal position. it feels harsh and premature to completely write him off as a PL-standard player. Equally, is it fair to judge Thomas on his performances as a loan player? It's never quite the same in those situations (especially as a defender, where it can often take time to gel) - i'm not saying he's likely to start but he has the potential to be a decent player, unlike certain FBs at the club, he's never been given a fair run of game time. And at least he's a naturally left footed player.... I think as fans we're too quick to judge players on too little reasonable evidence.