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Postecoglu wouldn't even look at us. There are far better options for him than the Championship, plus we need a younger, hungrier manager anyway.

Pay no attention to him. He is from Nottingham after all.. 😄

Folk on here act as if Winks is the first City player to give priority to his family rather than the club.🙄 How many times has a certain senior player developed an "injury" or worse still, got himself suspended in order to spend more time (usually over Christmas) with his other half and their ever-expanding brood? This has happened under a number of managers, not just RVN. Is it any wonder team spirit is so low when the hierarchy treats some players with kid gloves and others with an iron fist?

This of course is the same Cooper whose side conceded EIGHT times in two hidings against RVN, and made him seem like Martin O'Neill at his peak. This happened less than six months ago. There should be no excuse for forgetting it. Just because RVN is a pitifully inadequate manager doesn't mean Cooper wasn't or isn't.

Which is because, outside the S*n-reading, GB News-watching, echo-chamber-dwelling section of the fanbase, most Foxes know that without King Power, there would have probably no return to Premier League football, let alone a title, an FA Cup and several seasons of European football. Aiyawatt's also covered losses in recent seasons (and is still doing so now), the scale of which would have seen previous owners look seriously at calling in liquidators. Maybe he needs to look a little more closely at how and why those losses occurred. Indulging a weak manager (Rodgers), reliance on a woefully over-promoted academy coach (Rudkin) and a talented but fragile squad, together with building a mega-expensive vanity project at Seagrave, certainly didn't help. But the idea of him walking away any time soon, after 15 years in charge and everything that's happened during that time, is pure jingoist fantasy.

And replace them with...whom? In case you'd forgotten, Leicestershire isn't exactly flush with football-mad billionaires..

Here are a few other City strikers who didn't improve while playing with Vardy: Harry Kane - record England goalscorer. Chris Wood - veteran PL striker, likely to be in the Champions League next year. 😟 Andrej Kramaric - World Cup finalist. Islam Slimani - AFCON winner. Ayoze Pérez - Euro24 winner. It needed a strong character to knock him off his perch, which Daka wasn't (and isn't). However he was somewhat undermined by a pledge made by Rodgers to keep Vardy at the club as long as he (Rodgers) was here. Daka is a modern-day version of Mark Bright from the 1980s - vilified by fans here (and not just for football reasons), but very capable of rebuilding his career at a decent level elsewhere.

A lot of folk wanting EM back will have been among those calling for his head (70% of voters at the time) after that horror week of defeats last season at Millwall and Plymouth. Fickle much? Or just genuinely forgetful?

Disagree. Chelsea may well be as good as it gets for Maresca. With the squad at his disposal, there should be no excuse for him struggling, as he has been this season, against the likes of Bournemouth. Brighton, Fulham and Forest. When his club fall out of the top five, and thus miss out on the Champions League again, Maresca will meet the same fate as many of his predecessors in the Stamford Bridge hot seat. His next stop will probably be a mid-ranking club in La Liga or Serie A.

King Power's arrival wasn't just "coincidental" with City's rise, much as the Pearson cultists may wish to claim otherwise. It was actually a crucial component of it. Although Vichai scaled back slightly on the transfer spending that was a feature of his early years in charge, he still provided the funding for NP to sign Morgan, Drinkwater, James, Knockaert, Mahrez, Vardy and Wood among others - all players who were key to our 2014 Championship success (and, in several cases, that which followed later) Vichai also deserves massive credit for fighting our corner at a time when many other EFL clubs - including QPR, Forest and even Bournemouth - were showing open contempt for so-called "financial fair play" rules. It's easy to forget just how much of a dogfight the Championship was in those days (even more so than it is now) and while King Power's accounting methods did not receive universal acclaim, they reflected our owners' ambition to do whatever it took to reach the promised land - and stay there. It's also often overlooked on here how long our success continued after Aiyawatt took charge, with FOUR successive top 10 finishes, several cup runs and a long-awaited FA Cup triumph. Although the record during that time could and should have been better, we still regularly outperformed many clubs with far greater resources and fanbases than ours, including Spurs, Villa, West Ham. Everton, Newcastle and Leeds. Unfortunately, complacency set in and Aiyawatt persisted with key individuals (Brendan Rodgers and Jon Rudkin in particular) long after both should have been moved on, as their limitations, which eventually turned the club into a toxic mess, became apparent. Had the owner displayed the same ruthlessness towards them that his father did towards Pearson, Ranieri and others, we may well have been spared the current malaise. Instead, though, he seems hell-bent on repeating past grievous errors rather than learning from them. But for all the fine words about the club "belonging to its fans", reality, together with the records at Companies House, suggests otherwise. It may take several more years of Aiyawatt pouring money into a financial black hole before he decides his time at the club has finally run it's course.

This post brings to the surface some of the undercurrents that have been swirling around for months. And they're not pleasant. If King Power really HAD run the club badly since 2010, we would never have reached the Premier League, let alone won it. After Pearson's departure, we moved onwards and upwards. He didn't. He's been a "specialist in failure" (© Jose Mourinho) ever since. Rodgers developed the squad assembled by Puel and took it back to the top 6 before his ego caused him to become restless. The reality is, as most outside this forum recognise, that Vichai and Aiyawatt have invested more in Leicester City than EVERY other owner combined in the club's history. In Vichai's case, he also made the ultimate sacrifice, a fact many on this thread seem happy to overlook. That statue stands outside the stadium for a reason. It would be an act of unbelievable disrespect to take it down. A section of the fanbase have never taken to the club being in Asian hands. They can club together for token gestures if they wish, but 200 folk (max) will never be seen - by the media or anyone else - as speaking for a fanbase of 30k+.

At the end of the Cooper error we were NOT creating chances. In his last game we didn't have a shot on target until the 95th minute. The only reason he kept us out of the drop zone was due to a quirk in the fixture list which saw us play Southampton and Ipswich in quick succession. And even then, it was only those two sides pressing the self-destruct button which allowed us to take 4 points from those games. As for RVN overplaying Vardy, maybe he heard about what happens to managers who dare to take him off too early..

This team has managed just FOUR goals in the last 14 league games. Vardy is the captain and the attacking spearhead of the team. Such a shameful record is primarily on him and him alone. Not Daka. Not Ayew. Not Édouard. Even Robbie Savage - captain of THAT Derby side from 2008 - feels able to look down on him. Let that sink in. 😟😟😟 The cult worshippers (who sadly appear to include Aiyawatt and Rudkin) will have to face facts sooner or later. The highest-paid player in our club's history is no longer fit for purpose. Let him retire (or at least move on) at the end of the season with as much dignity as he can still muster.

On his day, levels above any of those individuals. But yesterday he showcased four years' worth of training at Seagrave in all its glory. Has that white elephant, which will straitjacket us in debt for years, improved the game of ANY outfield City player privileged enough to use it?

Except he'll be at AfCON for much of next season.. 😟

Let's see Borthwick try to play that type of rugby against a team other than Italy. Sadly, it's more likely that Wales will finally bring their run of losses to an end next week..

Incredibly harsh. Thomas may have failed to develop as a player in the last five years (blame Rudkin, Rodgers and others for that). But he's never plumbed the depths we used to see from the likes of Josh Low, Wayne Brown and others from that era who have thankfully been wiped from memory.

If folk on here can give King Power grief after the club's achievements of the last 15 years, there's absolutely zero reason whatsoever why any player should receive immunity. Especially a player who - without Vichai writing the cheque - would never have become a City player in the first place. Don't blame Vardy for wanting to ride the gravy train for as long as possible. But the reality is, these days, he is way short - as both a player and captain - of the standard needed to compete at Premier League level. A competent director of football would have told him this months ago. There's always the hope that he may somehow be able to rekindle past glories, as he did for one glorious moment at Spurs. But it's far more likely that he'll ghost through today's game, just as he did at West Ham, Everton, Newcastle and many other places.

Derby away has always been a decent day out, with cracking pubs and (generally) vibes to match. Loved going into the Brunswick pub near the train station and hearing locals talk pre-match of how the sheep were absolutely guaranteed to give us a doing. Needless to say, Foxes - whether under Little, MON or even Taylor (😯) - would often have other ideas. It was pure bliss to go back into the pub after such victories and see those fans licking their wounds and drowning their sorrows. In particular, the 4-0 win in 1998 - when we demolished them in the first 15 minutes, and in front of Sky cameras too - retains a prominent place in this Fox's list of all-time favourite away days.

Each to their own, but personally I'd prefer to see the scum playing at Barnet rather than Barcelona. You clearly never visited the swamp and heard the A-block spew racist bile at us for decades. They sank even lower on the night of Clive Clarke's heart attack and accused him of faking it to get the game abandoned. I could never wish those creatures well. It sickens me to think that they will be representing our region, and our country, in Europe next season. 😟

Best bet is the Courtfield Tavern opposite Earls Court tube station.

In Rodgers' world, nothing is ever his fault. Not bottling a two-leg cup semi against a pitifully weak and depleted Villa side. Not blowing a FOURTEEN-point lead over Man Utd to miss out on the Champions League. Not blowing another double-digit lead the season afterwards - this time over Liverpool - to miss out on the Champions League again. Not rushing players back too quickly from injuries (Ndidi, Söyüncü, Ricardo to name but three), causing them fitness issues that still affect them to this day. And certainly not sending an unfit, unprepared, understrength side to Forest for one of the most abject "defences" of the FA Cup in living memory. There should indeed have been a "reset" after that appalling afternoon, but one which took in the management as well as the players. The toxicity that has wrecked the club in recent seasons was already starting to take hold. Leaders in the dressing room like Morgan, Schmeichel and Evans were leaving and not being replaced. Rodgers only ever saw City as a stepping stone on his way back into the big 6. Rudkin managed to keep him sweet for a while with an exorbitant new deal, but in time he became restless again, then sulked when the offer he craved (especially from Chelsea) never came. The team's mentality was always fragile throughout his time with us, and it's notable that Celtic still have similar issues (as seen in Europe) now he's returned there.

This isn't a Championship club - at least not yet.. But Southgate's likely to be looking for a package well above what Rudkin's now on. And after our experiences with Taylor and SGE, we should probably give ex-England bosses a swerve anyway.

Steve is a sound bloke, and a more influential figure in our club's history than many realise. Unlike some City players of more recent vintage, he remembers - and respects - his roots. Although his time in the limelight lasted barely 18 months, he accomplished more in that time than many top flight stalwarts did (and do) in a decade. Like others on here, I remember the silence as he struck THAT shot at Wembley, followed by the eruption that followed as it dipped under the bar. But there were many further adventures to follow the following season, including memorable goals at Liverpool, Newcastle, Spurs and Blackburn, plus the League Cup winner against Middlesbrough. The goals dried up in 97-98 though, and he ended up moving to Pompey and then Wolves as his powers started to desert him and others (primarily Marshall and Cottee) overtook him in the Filbert Street pecking order. Even so, his time with us coincided with a certain young Thai student taking an active interest in English football. Without his efforts, and those of his team-mates, Leicester City may well never have featured on King Power's radar..

It's been happening there since the 1980s at least. One of the reasons why I head for the Salmon when I'm in that part of town.