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11 hours ago, SafewayFox said:

How about the crazy agent fees paid, yet we didn’t spend a single penny on transfer fees?

Dont the last agent fee stats refer to PL season? 

"Using agencies to do our business as we are too lazy to do any real scouting."

is there any evidence for this? It's an accusation that's often thrown around - but surely if this was the case you'd see a pattern in our signings (Southampton is the only one I can see). 
 

i had a look when Jake on BSLB (maybe a year ago) mentioned that  an insider told him we have a scouting department but it's often ignored in favour of a couple of agents. I looked up some of the most inexplicable signings and could find no common thread (though not all agent info is made public)...

I'm a retired journalist and happy to follow up any credible leads on this.. 

29 minutes ago, steveb said:

I already see hate from the same old knuckle dragging Reform voting spite and hate brigade here for the new manager.

Unreal he can`t possibly have done anything to deserve it, he hasn`t even started the job ffs.

same old toxic twats.

So yes, i agree with the poster, the fans are 15% to blame, hopefully those 15% of scumbags will pee off and support some other unfortunate club by spreding their hate there.

It's you who has misread the room matey...

Scepticism about RM is not prejudiced or irrational - it is consistent with a fair reading of his record to date. He has achieved very little in his career thus far. Mid table MK Dons and Swansea, promotion (via the play offs) with Southampton (incidentally smashed twice by Enzos team), a farcically poor performance in the PL (remarkably worse than us under 

Cooper and RVN) , and a disaster at Rangers. His teams concede ON AVERAGE, 1.4 goals a game. 
 

A manager with that record sorting out the wreckage that LCFC currently is, is rightfully a cause for serious concern..

35 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

I really think some of our supporters are failing to understand how much we dwarf everyone in the division and I include Wednesday in that. 

 

Our perceived strength is in reality our greatest weakness. We will be every club's Cup Final next season and we already know how we react when highly motivated opponents rough us up a bit. We'll be playing to a dreamy philosophy while our opponents will be snapping at our ankles to get a result. That was last season, this will be worse. How many times have we heard about our "talented" line-up as they lose to the likes of Oxford, Charlton, Portsmouth? 

Charlie Methven on latest edition of Wheres the Money Gone podcast on Russell Martin 

“he would be the last manager I would ever appoint,. Because ...the game of professional football is to win matches, and to do the best you possibly can as a club to win."

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wheres-the-money-gone/id1700607219

Kasper

Kamaark

Huth

Morgan 

Fuchs

Ndidi

Lennon

Fatawu

Okizaki

Mahrez

Vardy

From The Fosse Way 

New coach, same style?

Alarmingly, among the favourites to be the next Leicester manager is Russell Martin, one of these modern coaches who come with a very modern philosophy.

His style first caught the eye when, in 2021, his Milton Keynes Dons team strung together a record 56 passes before scoring against Gillingham.

What is rarely mentioned is that MK Dons lost the game 3-2 and finished 13th in League One that season.
lAnd since then his teams have largely been famous for the huge number of goals they concede.

Which chimes with Gary Rowett’s recent comment that his Leicester side seemed more interested in scoring the “perfect goal” than in securing three points.

So will a second successive relegation finally shake the club out of its style delusion?

A few weeks before the end of the season, Jordan Blackwell published a piece on Leicestershire Live indicating that the club would not retain Rowett even if he kept us in the Championship.

The thrust of the piece was that our new Sporting Director, James McCarron, after five years in the Manchester City set-up would want to appoint a manager who favoured possession football.

Blackwell isn’t prone to idle speculation and the piece, while undiplomatically timed, carried the ring of truth.

Meanwhile, West Bromwich Albion are preparing for another season in the Championship after looking odds-on for relegation under two managers with a philosophy. Their third, a club insider with no managerial experience, switched the formation to 4-4-2.

His team racked up 18 points in 11 games and secured survival. And there’s not a Baggie in the land who cares about his possession stats.

Manchester City no longer seem invincible and as Big Strong Leicester Boys podcaster Jordan Halford observed recently: “Even Man City don’t play like Man City these days.”

And for us? We prepare to drive our Formula One car on another shopping trip. But not to Morrisons. We’re off to Lidl.

Full Article on the history of the style delusion..

https://thefosseway.net/2026/05/07/the-mclaren-in-morrisons-car-park-why-leicester-city-must-ditch-the-style-delusion/

Can we have a link please?

47 minutes ago, Sly said:

We massively overpaid for him. Panic buy in reality due to the Fofana injury. 

Thats a comforting explanation but the reality is that BR spent twelve months trying to get him to join. Replacing Fofana with Vestergaard is like trading a Ferrari for a Fiat 500...

Southampton signed Vesty in 2018 against the advice of manager Mark Hughes and assistant Mark Bowen.

Theres a video somewhere of Bowen recounting the club owner showing them a video of Vesty in action.

Bowen said they watched it and concluded: "He can't run, he can't turn, he's okay at set pieces but not very good at that. "

Eight years ago!

1 hour ago, john ridley said:

New manager tells him he won't play much ,not part of his plans .Might be in his interests  to find a move away 🤞

New manager incoming ...clutching the ubiquitous "clean slate" borrowed from Cooper, passed on to RVN, gifted to Cifuentes,  grabbed by King and lent to Rowett..

On 19/04/2026 at 20:10, Haywood_6 said:

Top had a dream,

He wrecked our football team,

He came from Thailand and now he's never around

We're shit at the back and crap in attack

League one of England,

you made us sing that....

That works - just add Khun to the first line and it scans better, Khun Top had a dream

8 hours ago, ian__marshall said:

This line cracked me up... "Jon’s knowledge of the Club, its football culture and the wider football landscape is extensive". 

 

So extensive that literally every deal goes through one agency because his little black book only has their phone number in it, and they can't get enough of him because he takes all the dross they can't shift off their hands and pays out a fortune for the privilege. 

 

Says everything you need to know. 

Serious question- which agency and which players? ...something ive been wanting to write about but cant find the evidence..

19 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

I was referencing goals and assists 

Winks is a tempo cdm but he has problems defensively which means he can’t be a single pivot unless a team is going to hold 65%+ possession 

 

Well then I think we can agree. Aperol 'Arry is not brilliant at anything vital but reasonably competent at a less important skillset and needs the team to be set up with perfectly complementary players to be anything like his best...

2 hours ago, st albans fox said:

How was Neil Lennon’s record ?  Marty james?  Wilf when he played there ? Hamza? 
not a fair metric for his position 

The players you cite are all pretty much one trick ponies (James the exception). They are to a greater or lesser degree excellent tacklers  and blockers. They are in the team to perform that role to a high degree of excellence and other players were brought in to complement them. Winning the ball back from the opposition is a vital skill in any team and Lennon and NDidi  are/were top class at it. 
What Winks does is not vital. Integral to a particular style of play maybe, but not in any way match-winning on a regular basis. Easily combatted, last season surely proved that you need more in centre mid. 
 

Think of what he doesn't have: a killer pass; a killer shot; a knack for arriving late in the box; a killer tackle; a box-to-box engine. 
 

Given all that, I think people who see HW as an EPL class centre midfielder, are simply kidding themselves...
 

1 hour ago, funkyrobot said:

and with the undoubted ability he has, 

I think this is the mistake you're making. His ability is very much doubted..

Remind us all of his goal and goal assist record ...

3 minutes ago, nnfox said:

Marti needs to go.  Rudkin needs to go.  Top needs to sell up and go ASAP.

 

As a fanbase, we need to focus on one thing.  This emotional "We played badly and lost so the manager has to go" might actually be counter productive.  Think about it... Getting rid of Marti is better for Top and co than the club.  Make no mistake, 23 games without a clean sheet is unacceptable, fitness levels are unacceptable, players' effort is unacceptable, tactics are atrocious and performances are getting worse with no sign of improvement.  I'm firmly Marti Out but there are bigger issues with the club.

 

Here's how it goes...

 

Marti gets booted.  Fans are appeased and go into a frenzy over who the next guy might be.  Two weeks pass and a new manager is announced, a bargain basement, unproven gamble.  Some fans are ok with it, others aren't but c'est la vie, everyone is a bit more upbeat and willing to give the new guy a chance.  Another 4 or 5 games go by, maybe a win or two, but the same situation starts to play out with a lack of effort from players, tactical inefficiencies, a lack of goals (because we still won't possess a goal scoring striker) and bad goals being conceded.  By then, the end of the season is in sight so let's reset in the summer.  All of this time goes by Top is nowhere to be seen and is out of the firing line.

 

Rinse and repeat.

 

Nothing changes until Top is gone.  The club has been a trainwreck since winning the FA Cup through half a dozen managers.

 

If anyone seriously believes that the fortunes of the club take a serious upturn by the current leadership appointing another manager, then frankly, you are deluded.

New manager - clean slate - we've seen it all before...

27 minutes ago, kingfox said:

What concerns me the most though is how vulnerable we look on transitions. When you’re asking Jordan James to push forward like a 8/10, once you turn the ball over, a massive space is then vacated. We’ve seen in recent games Bobby Reid dropping into this space to give Oli Skipp a bit of support. On transition, we leave far too much space for the opposition to exploit, leaving Oli Skipp to try and defend situations by himself, as much as he’s improved, it’s glaringly obvious he needs better help in there

I agree with this and I think it's one of the many fundamentals that can be traced back to the Brendan era.

Even under Enzo we were desperately vulnerable to counter attacks. You often see opposition wingers in yards and yards of space - the nearest blue shirt 20 even 30 yards away. Decent players can ruthlessly exploit that kind of space. But it happens time and time again. It has a bit to fo with the inverted full back  - yes we have an extra man in midfield- but we have no defender guarding the right flank ..an open invitation to the opposition left sided wide man ...

On 19/12/2025 at 06:56, Sly said:

I could see him popping up somewhere like West Ham, Fulham or Brentford.

 

Brentford have a recruitment policy - "no dickheads" - that pretty much rules out that one...

They're getting plenty of player interviews but they're stunningly unrevealing 

What we need to know is...when was the Christmas party ? Thursday?