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The "do they mean us?" thread pt 2

By CosbehFox, in Leicester City Forum

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"That Leicester recruits well is not in question; the braintrust that surrounds Jon Rudkin, the director of football, has developed a reputation not only for thoroughness, but for decisiveness, too, particularly when it comes to young players."

 

The braintrust? The braintrust? Why not call them staff, or scouts, or people?

 

"Jon, Jon - where's your braintrust?", "Get out, get out - come back when you can speak sensible English."

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10 hours ago, Poznan34 said:

Didn't think much to that NYT article...it didn't really say a lot and what it did say was common knowledge anyway. Don't expect them to get the name of the CEO wrong either..."Susan Wheeler" 

You can see typos like that in almost any BBC News article, though maybe a more thorough proof reading by the author would have helped. 

Bear in mind stuff that we regard as common knowledge is almost certainly not as common to a New York audience.

Anything that spreads the awareness of our club further afield can only be a good thing.

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On 28/10/2019 at 08:18, ealingfox said:

Everton are the Nottingham Forest of the top flight.

Harsh! Too harsh! No one deserves that surely?

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11 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=343887.360

 

Liverpool fans talk about us like we talk about them lol just proof that all footballs fans are wired the same....

 

 

The fact they’re talking about Leicester City whilst they’re on the way to winning their first title in a whole generation tells its own story, lovely stuff lads. 
 

Edit: There’s also some pretty complimentary posts there too 

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11 hours ago, Manini said:

Liverpool fans talk about us like we talk about them lol just proof that all footballs fans are wired the same....

 

 

The fact they’re talking about Leicester City whilst they’re on the way to winning their first title in a whole generation tells its own story, lovely stuff lads. 
 

Edit: There’s also some pretty complimentary posts there too 

They are talking about us because they see us as a potential threat,  the longer we hang about the more nervous they will become. 

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I get Rory's argument. If Arsenal or Msn Utd or Chelsea jobs became available in the summer of 2020 and they wanted Rodgers then Rodgers would most likely leave. Leicester are currently better than Arsenal and United in just about every way but those 2 clubs are so much bigger than us. Arsenal may hire Allegri and go from strength to strength and that job wont be available anymore so it would be foolish not to take the job when it does become available.

 

Rory is a Chelsea fan and he does come across as a hig club elitist but I think he is correct with his argument.

 

Its like when Holloway joined us from Plymouth. They sat 5th or 6th and we were near the bottom with a shambolic squad. But clearly we were a much bigger club than Plymouth. Big clubs are still more attractive than smaller ones regardless how bad they currently are.

 

 

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15 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

I've said this in the other thread, and I'll say it again: The Arsenal supporter in this video is seriously cringeworthy. Delusions of grandeur.

Mirror image of what you can see on Arsenal FanTV on a regular basis - these guys need a reality check. Haven't won a league title in 15 years. They ought to build bottom-up, and invest in nurturing more of their own youngsters instead of buying very expensive players from abroad all the time.

 

The mixed raced guy is the Arsenal fan. He's actually talking sense here. The guy you are referring to is a Chelsea fan.

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1 hour ago, Koke said:

I get Rory's argument. If Arsenal or Msn Utd or Chelsea jobs became available in the summer of 2020 and they wanted Rodgers then Rodgers would most likely leave. Leicester are currently better than Arsenal and United in just about every way but those 2 clubs are so much bigger than us. Arsenal may hire Allegri and go from strength to strength and that job wont be available anymore so it would be foolish not to take the job when it does become available.

 

Rory is a Chelsea fan and he does come across as a hig club elitist but I think he is correct with his argument.

 

Its like when Holloway joined us from Plymouth. They sat 5th or 6th and we were near the bottom with a shambolic squad. But clearly we were a much bigger club than Plymouth. Big clubs are still more attractive than smaller ones regardless how bad they currently are.

 

 

Holloway now admits he made a huge mistake coming to Leicester, so it's not always the wise move to take the step "up".

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2 hours ago, Koke said:

Martin Keown has done a good article on Soyuncu on BBC.

 

29 minutes ago, davieG said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50284368

 

Leicester defender Caglar Soyuncu is 'a defender made for the modern game' - Martin Keown analysis

Yep, came in to post about this. Succinct and focuses on Ndidi too and how he's the shield for the defence. Attackers getting the praise but Ndidi is becoming a stellar example for anyone in that position on how to do the dirty, hard work in that midfield. 

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2 hours ago, Koke said:

I get Rory's argument. If Arsenal or Msn Utd or Chelsea jobs became available in the summer of 2020 and they wanted Rodgers then Rodgers would most likely leave. Leicester are currently better than Arsenal and United in just about every way but those 2 clubs are so much bigger than us. Arsenal may hire Allegri and go from strength to strength and that job wont be available anymore so it would be foolish not to take the job when it does become available.

 

Rory is a Chelsea fan and he does come across as a hig club elitist but I think he is correct with his argument.

 

Its like when Holloway joined us from Plymouth. They sat 5th or 6th and we were near the bottom with a shambolic squad. But clearly we were a much bigger club than Plymouth. Big clubs are still more attractive than smaller ones regardless how bad they currently are.

 

 

That's true to an extent - but it's not like Leicester have had one good season and clubs like Arsenal and Man Utd have had one bad season. 

Man Utd have been in decline for almost 10 years. Arsenal longer, and haven't won anything of significance for 10+ years. 

 

It's exactly this idea that they're 'big clubs' for the sake of it that's holding them back. But obviously long may it continue!

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https://www.football365.com/news/this-leicester-can-even-go-again-after-orgasmic-football

 

This Leicester can even go again after orgasmic football…

“There’s no chance of complacency,” said Brendan Rodgers. “We’re very focused on winning, we did that in the week and we take that into our next league game.”

 

Forgive the imagery, but the Leicester manager was practically adorned in little more than a satin robe and full make-up, such was his desire to tempt fate against Crystal Palace. His almost parodical attempt to play down that Southampton shellacking – “there was a period between the 58th minute and the 84th minute where we didn’t score” – betrayed a manager and a team struggling to contain their excitement.

 

Not that elation was unjustified. Leicester are legitimate Champions League contenders, and last week’s was a legitimately impressive, statement-making, record-breaking performance.

 

But such wins can have an adverse effect on mentality, attitude and approach. It is impossible to not get carried away. It is inevitable that the peak of a rollercoaster is followed by a relative decline. It is inescapable that orgasmic football requires something of a recovery period. Give them ten minutes and they will be fine to go again, just with less energy, vigour and penetration.

 

Better teams – not many, granted – have recorded similar victories in England’s top flight before. It was the 16th win by a margin of seven goals or more in Premier League history, the biggest away from home.

 

Yet while there is a genuine human interest in how teams respond to such defeats, there is a basic and incorrect assumption that the victors simply continue on an upward trend. Before Sunday, only six of the 13 teams that had won a Premier League game by seven or more goals won their next league match in the same season. Three drew; four, including Arsenal after 7-0 wins over Everton (2005) and Middlesbrough (2006) lost.

 

Manchester United themselves struggled in the aftermath of hammering Ipswich 9-0 in 1995. They beat Wimbledon three days later, but only through Steve Bruce’s 84th-minute winner. A subsequent draw with Tottenham and defeat to Liverpool eventually cost them their title defence.

 

So this, a 2-0 victory against a Crystal Palace side only Manchester City had beaten at Selhurst Park since early March, is just as excellent and accomplished a result for Leicester as the Southampton thrashing. It was more of a struggle than a stroll, more of a battle than a battering and more of a grind than a series of seamless gear changes, but the gap in quality was still evident.

 

The killer instinct at St Mary’s was replaced with a patience and calm in Croydon. At the time Caglar Soyuncu opened the scoring in the 57th minute, Leicester were already 5-0 up against Southampton and would score twice more within the next 120 seconds. Yet there was no panic. How could there be with Jonny Evans in central defence? There was no agitation. Is that even possible with the tireless Wilfred Ndidi? There was no exasperation. Can there be with the timeless Youri Tielemans on your side?

 

There was restlessness, but only the usual amount from Jamie Vardy, whose late goal concluded a team move of genuine brilliance to keep Leicester within touch of a seemingly unparalleled top two, with the league’s best defence and second most potent attack.

 

Rodgers was right not to doubt them, even if history suggested he certainly could have.

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Leicester star triumphs to land PFA gong
by Ben McAleer at Monday, Nov 4 2019 11:00
Leicester star triumphs to land PFA gong

 

Jamie Vardy has landed the PFA Premier League fan's player of the month award. The Leicester striker was exceptional for the high flying Foxes as he scored four times last month, more than any other Premier League player, as Brendan Rodgers' side ended October in the top four. 

 

While he was unable to hit the back of the net in Leicester's 2-1 loss at Liverpool, Vardy hit form with a key strike in a 2-1 win over Burnley and ended October strongly as he yielded a perfect WhoScored 10 rating in the Foxes' astonishing 9-0 win at Southampton and, with an average WhoScored rating of 7.97, was among our shortlist of players to win the individual accolade. 

 

And the public responded as Vardy won 40% of the fan vote, pipping Wolves' Adama Traore to top spot, with the Spaniard returning a 23% of the final vote share. Christian Pulisic (22%), Jack Grealish (9%), David Silva (5%) and Leicester teammate Ricardo Pereira (1%) make up the remaining vote share for the six-man shortltst. 

 

Leicester star triumphs to land PFA gong

 

Vardy was one of 18 players submitted to the PFA panel by WhoScored.com for consideration as the official ratings partner of the fans award and was one of five Leicester players to make the 18-man longlist following an impressive October by the top-four chasing Foxes. 

 

32-year-old Vardy becomes the third player to win the PFA award this season after Norwich star Teemu Pukki and Liverpool centre-back Joel Matip had been voted winners in August and September, respectively.

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