Chester Dontlie Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 3 hours ago, UPinCarolina said: No Shinji? Sad. He loves a match against Man City. Out for 2 weeks apparently! https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/striker-injury-leaves-leicester-city-1187091 In light of this, I change my prediction to mehrez city 2 laister 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthfieldsFox Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 Any Boozer near the ground ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, MCFC said: Hoping for a good game on Saturday, may the best City win. I hope not. Edited 8 February 2018 by Gerard 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, HighPeakFox said: Your analogy between a marriage and a contract of employment is patently absurd - that is my point. To address your other point, he's not begging. He's being diplomatic. Which is far from embarrassing, which is what you called it. Agreed, you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Edited 8 February 2018 by Gerard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StriderHiryu Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 With Shinji out we might play the same starting lineup as last week, however I feel Nacho will be too stationary. Shinji will be a big miss because his energy to press their back line has caused them many problems in the past. I think we might see Ndidi, Silva and James all start as a result with Albrighton, Vardy and Gray up top. Diabate looked OK last week but putting him up against the league leaders seems risky. Expect a loss but I feel like we’ve been competitive against them every time we play them though recently their quality (eg not striking a penalty with their wrong foot!) shines through in the end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callabinho Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 What would big Nive have done in this situation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue ROI Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 (edited) Get a win here and Vichai should throw a party with the money from Mahrez' fine. Edited 8 February 2018 by Blue ROI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchsntf Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 3 hours ago, winteriscoming said: I agree with what your saying and have no problem with man City being interested in mahrez. But like you say it gave us no time to get a replacement in which the media don't seem to understand. Clearly how mahrez is acting atm is going to put clubs off him in the summer imo. FFS...why oh fking why,should a buying Club,be concerned If the selling Club has time to find a replacement...what a load of imature nonsense..Trash and absolute bunkum!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vardinio'sCat Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 (edited) On 2/7/2018 at 14:32, MCFC said: For what? Maybe Pep doesn't see the benefit of throwing someone who won't play onto the bench. Tokenism isn't necessarily helpful. RE Mahrez; In my opinion if he comes back soon then I can understand why you refused to sell. If he stays AWOL for the rest of the season then that's a different matter. But to suggest Pep's throwing a 'hissy fit' about it, or to say he's being 'petulant'... In my opinion people want to hate Pep, similarly to Sterling, but he's not actually done anything to suggest that these negative character traits exist at all. The media have created them with sensationalist headlines. Very few people who've actually met Pep have a bad word to say about him, and yet half the population of Britain is convinced that he's some arrogant narcissist? Very odd. The point is, why make a bid that is a smidge more than you paid for Laporte. By all means come and buy our best creative player at the last minute in the Jan window, but how would you justify the piteous offer made. Even your Manc journo was stumped by that on the Radio Leicester football forum, he had no comeback whatsoever. What about you? £8 million more than a (very) promising young CB? Your blessed Pep is taking the piss, and the fact you can't see that says everything we need to know. This is a grudge match now, things could get heated, and you have brought it on yourselves. Edited 8 February 2018 by Vardinio'sCat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakeyfox Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 1 hour ago, NorthfieldsFox said: Any Boozer near the ground ? Sadly not much near the ground for us. Piccadilly gardens area probs the best bet. Easy onto the tram or 30 mins walk to the ground from there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtmcfly Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 3 hours ago, HighPeakFox said: Your analogy between a marriage and a contract of employment is patently absurd - that is my point. Don't go in too hard dude. I get the feeling his wife just left him. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 3 hours ago, Bert said: Harsh on Albrighton, would have him in instead of Diabete. And perhaps Simpson for Amartey. But the biggest thing for me is that central midfield. All over it. Very harsh on Albrighton however he's been poor in 2018 compared to his form before Xmas and it's all about pace from the front three and the creativity and calmness from Iborra and Silva. I've really took to Amartey, think he's a class act. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyrobot Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 6 minutes ago, Vardinio'sCat said: The point is, why make a bid that is a smidge more than you paid for Laporte. By all means come and by our best creative player at the last minute in the Jan window, but how would you justify the piteous offer made. Even your Manc journo was stumped by that on the Radio Leicester football forum, he had no comeback whatsoever. What about you? £8 million more than a (very) promising young CB? Your blessed Pep is taking the piss, and the fact you can't see that says everything we need to know. This is a grudge match now, things could get heated, and you have brought it on yourselves. Yeh but pep has already covered off the grudge match aspect by going on about how his players are continually fouled by the opposition and by putting only 6 on the bench in his last match. Any hard tackles by us will result in cards and we’ll probably be down to 10 men! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 To be fair the lowballing bastards deserve to have a couple of wingers taken out till the rest of the season! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vardinio'sCat Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 41 minutes ago, funkyrobot said: Yeh but pep has already covered off the grudge match aspect by going on about how his players are continually fouled by the opposition and by putting only 6 on the bench in his last match. Any hard tackles by us will result in cards and we’ll probably be down to 10 men! Yeah, that is true, he was putting pressure on the refs, he is like the new Ferguson. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurru991 Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 20 minutes ago, Vardinio'sCat said: Yeah, that is true, he was putting pressure on the refs, he is like the new Ferguson. I agree, very clever his behalf. Getting just a little bit into the refs head can only help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwichfox Posted 8 February 2018 Share Posted 8 February 2018 1 hour ago, Callabinho said: What would big Nive have done in this situation? Put K up front and cut into them..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLittleBigMan Posted 9 February 2018 Share Posted 9 February 2018 Big game for Ndidi. Silva and James with him would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastAnglianFox Posted 9 February 2018 Share Posted 9 February 2018 (edited) Interesting Edited 9 February 2018 by EastAnglianFox 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlloverthefloorYesNdidi Posted 9 February 2018 Share Posted 9 February 2018 6 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said: Interesting I love you again Mahrez 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozleicester Posted 9 February 2018 Share Posted 9 February 2018 Riyad to come on in 70th minute....and score two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds Fox Posted 9 February 2018 Share Posted 9 February 2018 Maybe, dispite his disappointment in not being able to leave, it’s his time to show them he’s worth more than what they offered for him. Come on Riyad, get the fans who love(d) you back on side and earn yourself that huge summer move! Ill advised and very petulant but I don’t think he’s a bad lad at heart. Bar the two transfer windows and the very average 2016/17 season (shackled by poor management more than anything), he’s always been humble. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted 9 February 2018 Share Posted 9 February 2018 Nice of him to turn up. Hopefully he isn't in the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 9 February 2018 Share Posted 9 February 2018 Wouldn’t it be good to start him against Man City, he would like to prove his worth to Pep so would surely put in a top performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC Posted 9 February 2018 Share Posted 9 February 2018 10 hours ago, Vardinio'sCat said: The point is, why make a bid that is a smidge more than you paid for Laporte. By all means come and buy our best creative player at the last minute in the Jan window, but how would you justify the piteous offer made. Even your Manc journo was stumped by that on the Radio Leicester football forum, he had no comeback whatsoever. What about you? £8 million more than a (very) promising young CB? Your blessed Pep is taking the piss, and the fact you can't see that says everything we need to know. This is a grudge match now, things could get heated, and you have brought it on yourselves. We do have a transfer budget. It's a lot bigger than most teams but there is a limit to what we can spend, and maybe we didn't have the funds for £75m+ for Mahrez on top of £57m for Laporte (which was his release clause- I'm sure we'd have wanted a lower price if possible) and around £45m set aside for Fred, who's probably coming in the summer. Alternatively, and the Sanchez saga backs this up, we've decided we're no longer willing to pay above what we value a player at- we could've got Sanchez for £30m on January 1st but decided it wouldn't be worth the money, which further suggests that we have a smaller budget for this month than usual. Mahrez at £65m is certainly below what he's worth- compared to Coutinho at over twice that price- but maybe we decided to wait until the summer when there were more funds available. That's just my theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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