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Did you say the same thing in May '23?

I still haven't forgiven Denmark for giving us Daniel Amartey

True. I am quite optimistic. Looking forward to seeing the back of this season, blooding some youth next year and bringing home our ninth title.

True. Wolves could put their feet up and not play another game. We won't get 20 points let alone 26.

We lack quality everywhere. Your assertion that we tend to focus on bringing in defenders over forwards doesn't seem to bear scrutiny either (unless I'm missing some). We're just not very good at it. Summer 23 and 24 incomings: Defensive Forward Neither Coady Cannon Winks Doyle (loan) Mavididi Caseidei (loan) Okoli Ayew Skipp BDCR Edouard (loan) BEK Bounanotte (loan) Fatawu

When people say we lack quality they mean everywhere. Also we bought or loaned many more forward players than defenders on the summer.

I can help here. It's the football. Definitely the football.

This really isn't a good time. Could you call back in 2035?

Cambiasso for Argentina

Hmmm... who shall we put for Algeria?

I resent this thread. I'm a Leicester fan and I'm f***ing ace!

I wonder if 'Vesty' will have another redemption arc next season when fans forget about his heinous performances this season and believe that he has suddenly turned good again whilst failing to appreciate the huge drop off in quality of the opposition?

If that's true, they are in for a world of pain next year.

That's a terrible idea. How are we going to get promoted by loaning out our best players?

Don't forget Everton Carr. Of the three Leicester Carrs, he was the fourth best.

It is likely that the bottom 3 will become the worst bottom 3 in Premier League history with a combined points total of 43 points and needing more than half that again from the last ten games to beat last year's record low of 66 points. @The Bear I think you owe us all a pint.

And yet he got sent home early from a loan to relegation fodder Sheff Utd and wasn't wanted by Championship Boro after his loan there.

I think people are taking it for granted that PL clubs are going to want any of our players. Has Bilal done enough to attract any interest. We would need £21m just to break even. He has 2 goals and 1 assist. I don't see many clubs queuing up for him. Similarly, mads started the season really well but was out for a good portion of it. I'm not sure we can assume a top club is going to want him. I hope we can get actual money for the likes of Faes and Soumare. Obviously it won't be fortunes but hopefully we can scrape together a few quid selling off the dross rather than the family silver.

I never thought I'd say this, but thank god for Spurs. Without Spurs this would be 12 defeats in a row! Twelve!!!

I think we need to temper our expectations a bit. Scoring a goal is too ambitious and unrealistic. Goals are for other teams. We should aim a bit lower and celebrate throw ins. Maybe an occasional corner. Let's not try to run before we can walk.

Tough call. I bet you agonised over that decision.

A chance to make history. No other top flight side has lost six consecutive top flight games without scoring, let alone seven. Come on Leicester, you can do it!

The reputational damage has been colossal. After the title we were worldwide news. If you wore a City shirt anywhere in the world you would likely be stopped in the street and congratulated and for almost a decade we carefully grew our reputation. Now, if your only clean shirt was a Leicester City shirt, you'd probably stay home that day.

Well BBC give us an xg of 0.07 , so with that logic, it should take about 14 games. edit - There are only ten games left

I think a player needs to be exceptional to go straight into the first team as a young teenager. Shilton comes to mind and Heskey who had the advantage of being a brick shithouse even as a kid. That said, Thomas and Barnes were 19 when they made their first team debuts and Chilwell 20. KDH older but some players will be later developers. I think you have to be careful not to rush it if it can be detrimental. I remember when Barnes was pulling up trees for West Brom and came back into Puel's first team. He looked a bit lost at first and hence the point of sending players out on loan at lower levels. Development is not about making one massive step up, it is a series of steps. Perhaps the only advantage of going down to the Championship next year is the fact that we could blood players like Alves, Nelson ourselves. Maybe Cartwright and Braybrooke if they're good enough and I would like to see us build our team around academy graduates. I would also be telling Evans and Monga (still schoolboys remember) that they will be involved as much as possible and spelling out their pathway if they stayed.