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5 hours ago, bellab said:

Fair play to Hannah for ploughing on after everything came out. Not sure if she's still with him but deffo was for a good while. Be interesting to see where she goes next.

 

Just to pick up some previous comments on 'culture', can whole heartedly agree that this really needs to change and improve throughout the whole club. Personal experience of having a daughter involved with the academy recently clearly shows that this filters down to that level too. They have 'released' the whole squad of one of the age groups. Awful communications. Senior members of staff critising other staff openly to parents. Girls being favoured for reasons not necessarily linked to ability. They really don't care about developing players but just want to find one or two stand out players while putting on a front of being amazing with all the facilities, when in all honesty the coaching and the way they operate is really not all that. I'd be thinking very carefully of wanting to put a child into that set up particularly now with all the uncertainty about funding. And i think that many talented girls will be looking elsewhere because of all this.

 

As has been mentioned even their academy graduates that were thought so highly of were shipped out elsewhere. Would have been more beneficial for Nelly to have stayed and played more this season to get the exposure at that level. Wonder who is making these decisions?!

Interesting to know, particularly considering their girls trials are this weekend.

1 hour ago, davieG said:

We can confirm that LCFC Women trio Hannah Cain, Chantelle Swaby and Rosella Ayane will leave the Football Club upon the expiration of their contracts in June.

 

Hannah Cain set to leave LCFC Women after six seasons
Chantelle Swaby leaves the Football Club after two campaigns
Rosella Ayane departs following one season at King Power Stadium
Extension options activated with Olivia Clark and Celeste Boureille
Forward Cain departs LCFC Women after six years at King Power Stadium, and having made 89 appearances in City colours since joining from Everton in the summer of 2020.
A key figure in our recent history, Hannah played an important role in securing the Championship title and promotion to the Barclays Women’s Super League in 2021, before helping us compete across five consecutive seasons in the women’s top flight.
Swaby leaves the Football Club having made 31 appearances in two years on Filbert Way following a move from French Première Ligue side FC Fleury 91 in June 2024.
Ayane, meanwhile, will also leave us upon the expiration of her contract. The striker made 14 appearances in 25/26 having joined us as a free-agent last summer.
We are pleased to confirm that extension options have been activated on the contracts of goalkeeper Olivia Clark and defender Celeste Boureille to extend their LCFC Women stay for at least another year.
The Club remains in negotiations with talented youngster Denny Draper with a contract offer issued to the 19- year-old.
We would like to place on record our sincere appreciation to Hannah, Chantelle and Rosella as they leave the Football Club this summer and wish them the very best for the next chapter of their careers.

Shame to see Hannah go, I dont think she's been very effective at all in the WSL, but she clearly has it in her locker a bit as she shines for Wales quite often. It was optimistic to think we could keep her, but she could have been great in the WSL2.

Not bothered about Ayanne and Swaby though...

1 hour ago, Jimmy said:

Swaby was hardly ever fit, so its no real loss

Never looked like she enjoyed being with or connected with the club too.

If you're not arsed, cya!

7 hours ago, SK3Blue said:

Swaby announces she’s leaving. 
 

Would have looked at Neve Herron at Birmingham to replace her but she’s now a league above!! 

Can't say I'm too upset about that. At times looked solid, but mostly just slow and lumbering.

2 hours ago, Gazza3 said:

Oh dear an embarrassing 8-2 defeat .

 

Was going to watch it as well, glad I didn't bother make the effort.

From what I can tell on the highlights for both the LCL games and even Chelsea, we were competitive. Though Chelsea have just got so much class, it's almost impossible to outdo them.

Is Passmoor managing during this tournament? Genuine question... 

5 hours ago, The Fosse Way said:

We’ve posted a three-part review of the season over the past three days - the final part is here:

 

https://thefosseway.net/2026/05/28/the-big-leicester-city-women-2025-26-season-review-part-3-looking-to-the-future/

 

It’s interesting covering both the men’s and women’s teams. The numbers are pretty small in terms of interest in the women’s side but even running the site, it’s been tough to find the enthusiasm to watch the games or read the contributors’ match reports sometimes when it’s another chunk of the weekend dedicated to watching a Leicester defeat.

 

We’re going to try to keep it going next season though, as outside of this thread there’s very little critical thinking about LCFC Women out there, even when it seems like a parallel of the kind of lazy approach to scouting and strategy that’s affected the men’s side.

It's a shame that hopefully there will be more positives to write about next season (for the women's at least), but there's probably not going to be the eyes to see it as only the slightly more hardcore fans that are going to stick around.

14 hours ago, Jimmy said:

Denny Draper in the England U20s squad

Really great news considering the past 2 seasons she's had!

5 hours ago, SK3Blue said:

Purely down to King Power wanting their name in lights I’d say. No other reason to enter it. 
 

Leitzig won’t be here next season, I’m told Lehmann will be. 
 

Unfortunately none of them are too good for the WSL2 right now, when they find a manager that can re-install confidence then maybe so, but most of these are on the way down, the future is Las. Sherwood, Keane, Mouchon, but most of what’s left will only move sideways if they leave. 

If that is true, then you would like to think a new manager would bounce us back up. We've not got a good enough squad to be mid-table in the WSL, but we definitely have to finish at the top of WSL2.

Surely Rick has to be gone... I could not be more certain... But I am continuously proven wrong.

4 hours ago, SK3Blue said:

Contract List 

Very organised! You should work for the club! Seem to be more on it than them!

Does anyone else find this 7's tournament really weird?

I mean I don't think it's a bad idea necessarily, but the timing of it is...

We've just finished the season and we're playing players that will highly unlikely be with us next season...

Mayling, Lehmann, Leitzig, Thibaud, Ale (probably too good for the WSL2), Cain, Ayanne, Rantala. Maybe also add Mouchon to that list.

Hope we do well, just finding it very odd.

Just now, Ian Nacho said:

Isn't this a decent result for the club? Means they don't have to finance it. 

For the finance team, yes. For the fans, no.

It's so disappointing, really thought we'd come away with this okay. But just another poor game.

Unfortunately though we, really deserve relegation and Charlton really deserved the promotion.

We've been abysmal almost all season, but since Christmas especially so. We've shown nothing and offered nothing.

Honestly, similarly to the mens team, this has to be used as a reset to drain the swamp and re-build and bounce back. It's gutting, but it might be nice to see something other than batterings every week from next season...

47 minutes ago, Poznan34 said:

How much of a following do we reckon we'll have tomorrow?

Few hundred I'd say.

Probably similar as to what we got at the Tottenham FA cup semi.

1 hour ago, bart said:

Going to be an interesting team selection tomorrow.

 

Given we should be able to compete a bit better in this one surely it has to be more attacking line up for a change.

 

Think I'll despair if its five at the back with three defensively minded midfielders again.

Agreed, we should be the ones on the front foot for a change.

Man for man, we have more quality on the pitch, Charlton are out of form and will be gutted to have finished 3rd in a 1 horse race.

But... we've not scored 2 goals in 1 game all season and often look like rabbits caught in headlights when under pressure.

I can see us easily winning, but also capitulating like we did again Palace in the league cup...

Hopefully there being a decent away support will give them a bit of a boost.

21 hours ago, LCFC1996 said:

Should mean the other teams are all missing their best players...be a laugh when we score more in this than the whole season

It's optimistic to think we will even have 7 players to our name by then!

Everyone may be out of contract...

44 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

she's young and inexperienced as we've seen with Las this season she may as well not exist to Passmoor

Unfortunately with Las, she's not really fared any better on loan, pretty much just limited to substitution appearances for a really poor Ipswich side. If she can't get in the starting 11 there, I'm worried...

17 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

Get Draper on for 15mins we might need her next week 

Might need her next season, let along next week.

Haven't been able to watch the 2nd half, but disappointing to concede last minute. Hopefully our performance didn't jump off a cliff in the 2nd half?

Not a bad first half, we have a bit more going forward and looking positive.

We are a bit obvious in what we are trying to do on each attack, it's always route one to the wings, need to change it up.

We do just lack a bit of control and muscle in the middle of the field.

21 hours ago, TheLittleBigMan said:

Allocation - 2,000 (incl 3 wheelchair spaces). Wow, really pushed the disability boat out. 

[Joke about there already being 11 disabled people on the pitch]

Surely playoff tickets are released or we're at least given a release date today?

Extremely frustrating that there is another 2 week long wait without a league game and it's not even a international break.

I know the game against Everton won't mean anything aside from maybe giving us a bit of momentum, but the way the league is run is like it's Sunday League.

We can't be surprised and/or could not forsee Lehmann being fans player of the season regardless as to how she played, surely?

She's got a million x more followers on her socials than the football club has fans, I am sure.

Not saying it's right, but it was always happening.

47 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

You would have thought the club would be pushing sales of tickets for the relegation play off game.

I expect that they come out before the end of the week.

Hoping for free coach travel too...

38 minutes ago, SK3Blue said:

I thought Van Egmond let James get her shot away far too easily for the 2nd goal. 
 

Katie Keane did well, the defence in front of her let her down first half, quite how Neville escaped with a yellow is beyond me, borderline assault. 

I agree with you on Katie Keane, she gave a really good account of herself today. She made some great stops, but she did have a couple of butter finger moments that she has to be really careful of.

I think you're dammed if you do, dammed if you don't with Lauren James. You get close and she skips around you... you stay away, she whips in a worldie.

Having watched the highlights, the freekick was a freekick, but again, there's nothing anyone could do about the strike.