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The "do they mean us?" thread pt 2

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Arriba Los Zorros

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Loving Arsenal seeing us as rivals now :) looking down towards us rather than up towards City and Liverpool!

 

We've genuinely left behind the lower half of the Premier League which is a great feat for a team like Leicester.

 

Bring on the bitterness!!!

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7 minutes ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

Loving Arsenal seeing us as rivals now :) looking down towards us rather than up towards City and Liverpool!

 

We've genuinely left behind the lower half of the Premier League which is a great feat for a team like Leicester.

 

Bring on the bitterness!!!

Not yet we haven't. Proof of the pud will always be what happens during the season and the next few seasons and we are yet to see how we perform. It looks good, it looks promising and boy are we all excited, but lets not go all Arsenal or spurs here ........... that would be the pits

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31 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

WE HAVE A MORAL DUTY TO FINISH ABOVE THEM FROM NOW ON. 

Imagine the meltdown in a few years when we have Europe's best training facility, have played in the CL in consecutive seasons, and have a stadium roughly on par with the Emirates. Oh, fun times ahead :crylaugh:

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Arriba Los Zorros

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19 minutes ago, Jacnah said:

Not yet we haven't. Proof of the pud will always be what happens during the season and the next few seasons and we are yet to see how we perform. It looks good, it looks promising and boy are we all excited, but lets not go all Arsenal or spurs here ........... that would be the pits

You're correct - please excuse giddiness!! We will never be that arrogant

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19 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Page 13 of the Tielemans thread on Red Cafe. Basically one bloke saying that Rashford is better than Vards

 

Then everyone saying Vardys clearly better 

 

which he obviously is

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Have you got a link? The thread I found only has 3 pages.

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1 hour ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

You're correct - please excuse giddiness!! We will never be that arrogant

I know, being that arrogant is the Everest of arrogant and I'd never make such an outlandish slur on another FoxesTalk member. Giddiness, on the other hand, is currently at pandemic proportions and  high forgivable  :D

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2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

WE HAVE A MORAL DUTY TO FINISH ABOVE THEM FROM NOW ON. 

Have I missed something? Did Arsenal build another new stadium?

 

I've been to the Emirates a few times and it's aesthetically it's beautiful. Is it a super-mega-ultra stadium though? Is it fvck!

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https://www.football365.com/news/turning-your-nose-up-at-tielemans-youri-fing-joking

 

Turning your nose up at Tielemans? Youri f***ing joking…
Date published: Tuesday 9th July 2019 11:49


Were David Ornstein to tell everyone to jump before he delivered his latest transfer update, Arsenal fans would momentarily stop scrambling around for memes to ask how high. Had James Pearce claimed that the grass at Melwood had spontaneously turned red, Liverpool supporters would nod sagely, accept it as fact and explain that it was simply because This Means More. If John Percy reported that the Midlands was under siege from an alien master race, Aston Villa, Leicester, Nottingham Forest, Stoke and West Brom would unite to fight in his honour. Phil Hay could suggest the Aurora Borealis was visible at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within Elland Road, and Leeds fans would flock from far and wide to witness its glory without a second thought.

Some people engender trust, earning enough faith over time to have others hang on their every word. So when Kristof Terreur comes bearing Belgian gifts, his message can be taken as gospel.

‘Tielemans was offered to Spurs, but they had other priorities,’ he said on Monday evening. ‘There were informal chats between Man United and agent about him as a possible replacement for Paul Pogba, but they never made an offer. No priority either. Leicester were the only one that really went for him.’

And it is that last nugget that forces something of a double take. In a world where transfer fees have become both irrelevant and ridiculous, it seems unfathomable that a 22-year-old with extensive World Cup, Champions League and Europa League experience, a former teenage captain who has taken like a particularly talented duck to typically choppy Premier League waters, could have but one suitor.

Perhaps his heart was set. Maybe Tielemans was so entranced by Brendan Rodgers and his philosophy that he would not have had eyes for anyone else. Five months at the King Power Stadium was enough for the midfielder to realise “something special” was brewing at Leicester, the land where the improbable became possible. If he quite justifiably deemed it “an exciting thing to be a part of”, would everyone else have been wasting their time pursuing someone in a happily arranged marriage?

But it is difficult to comprehend the idea that no team seemed to object to this wedding. Tottenham’s ‘other priorities’ were fair; Tanguy Ndombele was demanded by Mauricio Pochettino and supplied by Daniel Levy. For United’s interest to extend no further than ‘informal chats’ – and for Arsenal to not even enter the race at all – is wilful neglect on their parts. A club that finished three and four places behind them last season, and have genuine aspirations and the ability to close that gap, should not be able to make such ambitious, thrilling and unopposed club-record moves.

Both have other targets: Harry Maguire, Wilfried Zaha and Sean Longstaff among them. Both also have restrictions, either self-imposed like United’s young and British transfer throwback or as enforced as Arsenal’s meagre budget. Yet when both are being linked with the very same underwhelming midfielders in yet another underwhelming week, it feels like the biggest wasted opportunity of the summer so far.

Tielemans could yet flounder as he did at Monaco, his form in the first half of this year the exception to a rule of struggles outside Anderlecht. But if he thrives, expect Ornstein and Terreur to be bombarded with demands for updates as he is pursued for at least twice as much as Leicester signed him.

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4 hours ago, Jacnah said:

Not yet we haven't. Proof of the pud will always be what happens during the season and the next few seasons and we are yet to see how we perform. It looks good, it looks promising and boy are we all excited, but lets not go all Arsenal or spurs here ........... that would be the pits

Yes, think we need to calm down a bit. I do have concerns that the hype and expectation could affect us at some stage. Let the team and manager develop.

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16 hours ago, gw_leics772 said:

Correction, their squad and settled manager finished above us last season. That team, even without blue tinted specs, got their arses handed to them on a plate near the end of the season.

Correct, and we struggled to put away teams that they picked up points against.

 

Regardless of whether we beat them, it's the table that counts in May. There is no guarantee that we will start next season a stronger team. Without Maguire if he goes, nobody can be certain that our defense will be stronger, so there's every chance our starting 11 could be weaker, even with Perez in it.

 

Granted they've lost Ramsey, but theres a big overreaction by a large group of fans on both ends. 

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3 minutes ago, wardyfox86 said:

Correct, and we struggled to put away teams that they picked up points against.

 

Regardless of whether we beat them, it's the table that counts in May. There is no guarantee that we will start next season a stronger team. Without Maguire if he goes, nobody can be certain that our defense will be stronger, so there's every chance our starting 11 could be weaker, even with Perez in it.

 

Granted they've lost Ramsey, but theres a big overreaction by a large group of fans on both ends. 

Nothing you are saying is incorrect but you are using a whole season when our whole season is not what we are rightly judging it on. We are judging it on the massive upturn since we made big changes.

 

By all means, be a realist/pessimist but I'm not joining you. Im on the optimistic bus for this season

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5 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Page 13 of the Tielemans thread on Red Cafe. Basically one bloke saying that Rashford is better than Vards

 

Then everyone saying Vardys clearly better 

 

which he obviously is

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Bissaka on par with Ricardo? No chance. Shaw on par with Chilwell? Must be why he's first choice for England. Harsh on Barnes too. Mad how you could make a genuinely strong claim that our best 11 is better than theirs. Never thought I'd see this day.

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21 minutes ago, 4everfox said:

Bissaka on par with Ricardo? No chance. Shaw on par with Chilwell? Must be why he's first choice for England. Harsh on Barnes too. Mad how you could make a genuinely strong claim that our best 11 is better than theirs. Never thought I'd see this day.

Crazy that our full backs are much better and CBs... I struggle to really want any of those United players in our team bar De Gea. Pogba is too big headed and unsettles the team. So again we actually win midfield and Vardy is better than anyone they can put upfront .. it is actually crazy to be saying this 

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