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Story of Leicester · Follow 14h · Leicester Central Railway Station, circa 1925. Credit: Leicester & Leicestershire Record Office. When it first opened in 1898, Leicester's Central Railway Station was the largest single building in Leicester with an impressive clocktower and gateway. From 1899 to 1966 it linked passengers from the city with the largest market in the world, London. The new station was part of a 136 miles long line extension, which ran from Annesley in Nottinghamshire to the new Marylebone Station in London... Learn more at: https://storyofleicester.info/.../leicester-central.../ #StoryofLeicester

Hopefully Carsley has a look at me for England - Justin https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/cn4yjw534pxo Video on BBC not listened to it.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-defy-219m-estimation-9579489 Leicester City defy £219m estimation as Man Utd have £714m shocker Latest Leicester City news from LeicestershireLive as their squad value is compared to their Premier League position ByJames Pallatt 07:52, 25 SEP 2024 Leicester City boss Steve Cooper is getting more out of his squad than most other Premier League managers, according to a new report. The Foxes are currently in 15th place in the table after the opening five matches of the new season. They are yet to win a league match, but have claimed three draws to earn three points. According to Transfermarkt, City are overperforming and are doing better than their squad value suggests they should be. Transfermarkt have compared the valuation of each Premier League team’s squad with their current spot in the table to see which sides are getting the most out of their resources. Leicester have the 19th most expensive squad but are four places better off in the actual table. Cooper’s squad is valued by Transfermarkt at €263.9m (£219m) after the summer transfer window. When it comes to underperforming based on squad value, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester United are bottom of the pile. Both have a difference of -6 between squad value ranking and actual league position. Transfermarkt’s market value v league position table Market value position | club | squad value | league position | difference 17th | Fulham | €342m (£284m) | 9th | +8 8th | Aston Villa | €595.45m (£495m) | 3rd | +5 12th | Nottingham Forest | €414m (£344m) | 8th | +4 19th | Leicester City | €263.9m (£219m) | 15th | +4 20th | Ipswich Town | €161.1m (£134m) | 17th | +3 9th | Brighton and Hove Albion | €543.1m (£452m) | 7th | +2 15th | Bournemouth | €349.85m (£291m) | 13th | +2 4th | Liverpool | €923m (£768m) | 2nd | +2 13th | Brentford | €395.03m (£329m) | 12th | +1 7th | Newcastle United | €651.65m (£542m) | 6th | +1 18th | Southampton | €273.20m (£227m) | 18th | 0 1st | Manchester City | €1.26bn (£1bn) | 1st | 0 3rd | Chelsea | €948.20m (£789m) | 5th | -2 2nd | Arsenal | €1.17bn (£974m) | 4th | -2 16th | Everton | €349.1m (£290m) | 19th | -3 6th | Tottenham Hotspur | €768.3m (£639m) | 10th | -4 10th | West Ham United | €483.5m (£402m) | 14th | -4 11th | Crystal Palace | €430.18m (£358m) | 16th - 5 5th | Manchester United | €857.35m (£714m) | 11th | -6 14th | Wolverhampton Wanderers | €370.5m (£308m) | 20th | -6

I’m glad he’s not brought Alves on to this shower of shit. Would be insulting.

Pussies in Boots

Name the pantomime?

I always visualise him in ads for Mogadon as Super hero Mogadon Man.

The only reason for Soumare is to keep his fitness and value up so we can get shot of him in January.

it must be de ja vu for him, 3 year contract I hope he's enjoying the money.

He's hardly a barrel of laughs.

True, I'm sure there are a number of reasons I was trying not to go on too long, It's a complex subject.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/what-leicester-city-getting-right-9576224 What Leicester City are getting right in search of first win – and what they're getting wrong An evaluation of the season so far, reflecting on the first five Premier League matches of the campaign, as Steve Cooper's City remain on the lookout for their first victory ByJordan Blackwell 07:00, 24 SEP 2024 Five games in and Leicester City are without a win this season, their first back in the Premier League after a relegation and a title triumph. It’s not an ideal situation, but then neither has it been disastrous. After all, City are 15th in the Premier League table, having drawn more games than they've lost. There are positives and negatives to take, and the balance of those will depend on your viewpoint concerning the season so far. But to evaluate the first five Premier League games, we’ve picked out five positives and five negatives that sum up City’s campaign as far as it goes... POSITIVES Competitive in every game The win that everybody of City persuasion craves has not yet arrived, but neither has it felt too far away. In all of their five matches, City have been competitive. Perhaps apart from Fulham, a victory has felt possible in all of them. They are yet to be totally outclassed. That may sound like faint praise, but it’s important, particularly for a side battling to stay in the division. It was true of Nigel Pearson’s team 10 years ago too. If a squad feels like they’re well in every game they play, it’s easier to keep up morale and belief, strengthening the possibility of results down the line. Second-half comebacks at home City have trailing at half-time in all three of their home matches, the only club in the division for which that is true. But in all three of those games, they’ve come out and been the stronger side after the break. They’ve not folded in matches where they have trailed. They’ve shown spirit and resilience to fight back and found weaknesses to exploit and threaten the opposition. Right now, no side has a better record in the second half of home matches than City. That’s a big positive for Steve Cooper, not least because it seems the players are responding to his half-time team talks. Committed defending City have probably done more defending than they would like, and they have still conceded a good number of chances. But the opportunities they have given up have not emerged from a lack of effort in the back-line. After five games, City have produced the most blocks in the division. The defence, and particularly Wout Faes, are reading the game well and showing a commitment to the cause to close down the opposition and throw their bodies in the way. Still, the idea will be for them to need to do it less often in the future. Strong goalkeeping Those qualities in defending mean City have only conceded 25 shots on target so far, the same number as Chelsea and Crystal Palace and fewer than seven other sides in the division. When the shots have made it to goal, Mads Hermansen has done well to keep them out. It should help confidence flow through the team knowing they have a capable, reliable goalkeeper between the sticks. The post-shot expected goals stat shows the quality of the finishes a goalkeeper has faced and their performance against the average goalkeeper. By that metric, Hermansen so far ranks as the seventh-best-performing number one in the division. Set-piece attacking Five games in and City have already scored from two corners. They have looked a much greater threat from them too, with plenty of signs of preparation over how to best exploit whichever opponent they’re facing, and a few signs of inventiveness too. NEGATIVES Yet to produce a complete performance The results that City have earned so far have come via a solid half-hour here, or a good 20 minutes there. There’s not yet been a 90-minute display. It may be that a complete performance is not required to earn three points, but it does mean there’s yet to be a display that City can look to as their shining light. It also means that, in all of their five games, it’s been difficult to say they deserved to win any, even if they have remained competitive throughout. Slow starts Part of the reason City haven’t been able to produce a 90-minute showing has been their slow starts. Bar the draw at Crystal Palace, City have been second-best in the early stages in every game, needing time to get up to speed. With one goal scored and four conceded, they have the second-worst record in the opening half-hour of matches, after West Ham. Lack of open-play chances City have scored in every game they’ve played, which is a promising sign. But they’ve done so thanks to decent finishing rather than by creating a glut of chances. In all of the key attacking stats – shots, expected goals, touches in the opposition box – they rank 19th in the division, only ahead of Ipswich. They need to get those creative juices flowing. Caution over substitutions Only two clubs have used a fewer number of substitutions than City so far. Only once, against Aston Villa, has Cooper used his full allowance. That’s not necessarily a negative, but it does feel like there’s been opportunities to be more adventurous and forward-thinking with changes, and those haven’t been taken. Particularly against Aston Villa and Everton, it felt like there were opportunities to attack weak points on the wings, or chances to bring fresher attacking players on earlier. Against Palace, defensive changes were made that negatively impacted the balance of the team. Game-plan occasionally unclear City do have a game-plan under Cooper. The structure of the side was clear early into pre-season, as was the broad tactical idea, which meshes some of the good work done under Enzo Maresca with a more direct approach, including more counter-attacks and balls over the top. It is less strict than last season's approach and gives players more freedom. The issue has been that the idea has not always been evident in competitive matches. During difficult moments last season, it seemed that City were sticking too rigidly to the game-plan. Now, the issue is that there appears to be, at least from the stands, periods where there’s a lack of clarity over what City are trying to do, and that’s perhaps affecting their flow at the top end.

Same here, I've become very apolitical so it's just an observation of what I believe I've seen over the years. I dislike party politics and wish everyone could be independent but seemingly human nature drives people into wanting to belong to a 'club'. That's why I nearly always vote for an independent candidate provided they are not at the extremes of the political spectrum.

Sport By Jordan Blackwell 16:23, 23 SEP 2024 It’s the first time in the history of the English top flight that as many as six teams have gone through the first five games without a victory. For City, they’ve still got a way to go until it’s their longest wait for a win though. Two years ago, when they were relegated from the Premier League, they failed to win any of their first seven games. In 1983-84, they didn’t win any of their first 10.

Is it ever it seems to start as soon as the previous one is finished. It's the same here from day one it's all about winning the next election, start harshly, ease it down and butter it up towards the end. Provided there's not too many scandals or national catastrophes it only works for 1or 2 maybe 3 at a push elections.

Yeah but I'm not talking time wasting.

Bit rich Pep saying his team are honest they're as bad as Arsenal with their tactical/cynical fouls just doing enough to disrupt play without getting a yellow and getting yellow instead of a red for stopping counter attacks.

Born and Raised in Leicester 9 May 2020 · What a great photograph.. Leicester lads preparing for Bonfire night in 1937

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-door-open-alves-9574145 Leicester City door open for Will Alves as Steve Cooper makes admission The 19-year-old attacking midfielder will be hoping for second appearance of the season when City head across the Midlands to Walsall for the Carabao Cup third round ByJordan Blackwell 11:21, 23 SEP 2024 The door is open for Will Alves to play his way to Leicester City game-time as the teenage starlet bids to be involved at Walsall on Tuesday night (7.45m kick-off). Attacking midfielder Alves, one of the best prospects coming through City’s academy, made his first senior appearance in more than 18 months in the last round of the Carabao Cup, coming on for the final 20 minutes in the 4-0 win over Tranmere. As City head to the West Midlands for the third round, he will hope to get another outing. He’s more than capable of earning himself an opportunity, Steve Cooper has said, even with Facundo Buonanotte, Bilal El Khannouss, Jordan Ayew, and others to choose from in the number 10 slot. The manager insists that performances in training will see the 19-year-old get a chance, just as is the case with every other player in his first-team squad. That’s especially because Alves did not go out on loan. While many of his peers, like Ben Nelson, Sammy Braybrooke, and Chris Popov, headed out for senior experience, Alves stayed put, with Cooper suggesting City were not willing to let him go to the wrong club. “He’s part of what we’re doing,” Cooper said. “It’s on everybody to play their way into the right side of decisions. We really like Will. He’s a good young player. "We have a strong programme for him. It might have included a loan for him, but if it did, it had to be right for him. I’d rather him stay with us than go on a loan that I didn’t think would be right for him. We’ll continue to work with him, and he can work himself into the right side of decisions. It’s the same for everybody.” If Alves does feature, or if Luke Thomas, Hamza Choudhury, Kasey McAteer or any other academy graduate gets onto the pitch, it will restart the run that City gave up last time out. After 147 straight games of at least one City academy player featuring, a run of nearly three years, none played in the 1-1 draw with Everton at the weekend. Choudhury was on the bench though. That means City have included at least one academy player in their matchday squad for all of their last 286 games.

These 2 teams have a lot of captains

Leicester City haven't kept a clean sheet in any of their last 16 home games in the Premier League and only once in their history have the Foxes had a longer run of top-flight home games without one (22 in February 1955).

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