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The balance is the very significant cost cutting since this snapshot in June 25, the new management set up and let’s be honest, the owners putting the club up for sale!

Maguire picks out the negative facts and ignores the positive facts within the spreadsheets for a start. Accentuates the bad and not the positive aspects and that’s understandable because that’s more interactions for him. The loss of wages of ALL of our highest earners Winks, Daka, Ricardo, Vestergaard are facts that should be considered against accounts that end in June 2025 to ensure people are aware that costs have been cut significantly since the June25 snapshot as should transfer sales that have been reported extensively as being £45m with more sales expected. They aren’t just pissing in the wind guesses. Maguire uses contacts off the record often and this is the same off the record chat that means transfer fees aren’t just guesses. That balance could be added, but it isn’t.

Exactly my point. So when Leicester City fans read it and declare the end of the club as we know it and opposition fans get ready to dance on our grave, let’s all take a moment and realise that whilst it’s bad and we are clearly in a bad place, that we should have a more balanced reaction knowing what KM’s true motives are.

He can very easily get wage estimates and transfer amounts have been well publicised if not confirmed for every outgoing player this pre season. It’s very clear that wages have been massively reduced, that transfer fees well above 28m have been received and there’ll be no future player debts on the horizon as we haven’t spent any money since Skipp. This gives some balance. Speculating about this would not get him in court but it would also reduce the interactions. Maguire’s main aim is to earn money, to maximise hits and direct traffic through his social media and he does this by picking out the controversial parts of year old accounts that get the most reactions.

The very significant reductions in wages, the significant sales well above and beyond the £28m outstanding transfer debt. The quality/value of the youth players. Maguire lights the touch paper and allows uninformed non accountants without up to date information to declare the worse case scenario. Which is what if going on in this thread. We know the club has been ran badly, we also know the club have put better structures in place to prevent some of the failures in the past and we know the club is also up for sale and despite the pessimism on here, it’s probably the best time to buy a club of this stature.

This is a snapshot of where we were a year ago and I do think Maguire highlights the negatives for clicks, likes and maximum exposure of those clubs that will push more traffic to maximise his income through social media/podcast/interview work. He focuses on the negatives and when he does have to explain positive changes he will always counter with a negative. He continually lights the touch paper and stands back without ever giving quite the full picture and without ever fully understanding an up to date position. It’s good that he highlights club mismanagement but remembering why he posts this stuff is useful. He offers little in the way of additional comments when fans, pessimistic fans or gleeful opposition fans speculate on the future of the club.

Probably not best suited to Russell-Ball tbh. He’s looked a bit cumbersome since he’s been back. If he wants to go and we can get 7-10m I’d let him go. If Nelson wants to leave, let him go too. Same with Okoli and Faes. Just invest some of the money on centre backs that can defend and play out from the back at this level and who actually want to be at the club. Then if/when we get promoted, upgrade again

Don’t remember much of that. There were complaints about his attitude following his ‘strike’ but not much about his ability. For the majority of LCFC fans, he was the most skilful player we’ve ever seen playing in a Leicester shirt. From a footballing ability for me Mahrez is the best player to play for the club in my lifetime. Fatawu had some great moments but equally he’s had some bad moments and is not near the level of Mahrez so his loss isn’t near the level of Mahrez’s either.

Commentary from BBC’s Owynn!

He’s rightly talked about Man City with glowing terms as he joins them (ignoring the 115 charges obvs😉but I’ve not seen a quote yet thanking the club he’s been at since he was 9. Have I just missed it?

Watching Leicester’s wingers in the past two seasons has been a truly miserable experience tbh.

That’s clearly not true. Rowett was worse statistically and visibly too. Remember he also effectively relegated Oxford in the same season. Top and Rudkin gave us less chance of staying up when Rowett was appointed.

He would’ve been aware he wasn’t staying. I certainly don’t have much sympathy for a manager who failed spectacularly in his quest to avoid relegation. His team earned significantly less PPG than the guy he replaced and he ultimately relegated two clubs from The Championship in one season. After that was he was doing punditry on the Championship playoffs as if his catastrophic season had never happened.

Facts mate. If the club is successful this season, there won’t be many season tickets available next season. The only way there’ll be opportunities to get season tickets is if the club has another rubbish season and more pre existing season ticket holders give up.

Those that have cancelled their season tickets need the club to continue to fail to enable them to get season tickets again in the near future tbf. If the club are successful next season then there’ll be very few season tickets available for the following season.

People make the usual mistake that social media reflects the majority of opinion, when online we all shout into an echo chamber - a bit like this thread!

It’s taken him this long and numerous attempts to (finally) successfully hit the post button on Instagram.

That’s Leeds Utd away

I think LOROS do a fabulous job providing hospice care. It’s a bit harsh to shun such a good local charity because they once decided that your mates mate’s album wasn’t financially worth doing anything with!

Now this World Class opposition has been announced, ticket sales will go through the roof. I thought they’d go for obvious class prem players from the era like Cambiasso, Maybe a Gerrard, Ozil, Lukaku etc but no these guys set themselves a bigger target and have only gone and pulled it off. What a fkin list of the absolute crème de La crème of elite ex premier league footballers. I’m particularly excited to watch a midfield built 100% on tricks and skills - The holy trinity of Gosling, Whelan and Houlihan are finally together and the football they will produce will be worth the entrance fee alone and hopefully some fabulous all stars merch 🥰

Yeh agreed. In those last 5 games he went from looking like a competition winner who had never kicked a ball in his life to a competition winner who had once had a 10 minute kick around at school at play time to make up the numbers but had never been asked again. Truly astonishing turnaround

Historic moment - we need to retire Ayew’s unique cement boots and put them in a sturdy display case at the KP.

Historic moment. We need to retire Patson’s unique 50p toed boots and put them in a display case at the KP in memory of those fabulous wayward finishes. Credit also needs to go to his 50p forehead.

The touch of a trampoline

I doubt he’ll go to Cov, otherwise that will be 3 seasons in English football and 3 relegations for JJ.