The King's reign seems over.

[Buzzell]

We’ve moved forward as a club and have had better options for years. He should of moved on years ago but is still here. He is a legend yes but that doesn’t mean he should stick around until he retires. We want to improve as a club.

[Monsell1976]

23 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Even if Puel prefers or trusts James more which is understandable it doesn't make sense to omit King and name James as one of the 25 when the latter is currently injured.

 Just written a little long post, what’s the point in James, he cannot stay fit, wouldn’t keep either, but would keep king who is fit most of the time, over James who is never fit, if I had to make the numbers up.

[Fox92]

2 minutes ago, Monsell1976 said:

 Just written a little long post, what’s the point in James, he cannot stay fit, wouldn’t keep either, but would keep king who is fit most of the time, over James who is never fit, if I had to make the numbers up.

Yeah I agree tbh. King is more reliable. Still can't get my head around giving James a four year contract / extension or whatever it was.

[Monsell1976]

3 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Yeah I agree tbh. King is more reliable. Still can't get my head around giving James a four year contract / extension or whatever it was.

 No I can’t, what was he out for about 2 years, comes back, gets injury after injury, and new contract.

 

 For me he would have had to have an injury free season, and proved his worth before I gave him a contract.

 

 Let’s be honest, the injury he had ends quite a few careers, his legs are gone, and can see him having to end his career early.

 

 

 

[Jaspa]

Difficult to process really. I think Kingys accepted times up here going off that message when he'd joined Swansea on loan which was clearly waving goodbye, plus his number is now Maddison's.

 

Could he do a job in the squad? He's comparible to Adrien Silva really, it's one or the other and I think the bonus of having Silva is helping us attract players like Ricardo. Performance wise you've gotta remember he still put enough performances in to earn a 15/16 medal and scored some crucial and beautiful goals.

 

Club legend and all that definitely. The only use I can think of him for is if it does go tits up and the team spirit nosedives ect. he'd be the one guaranteed to be putting everything in to keep us up & going, we look a long way off impending doom at the mo thankfully.

 

 

Long Live The King . . .

Edited 3 September 2018 by Jaspa

[Spicer]

Give him a testimonial

[danny.]

Crazy decision. He’s the best gurner in the squad by a mile. 

[Monsell1976]

6 minutes ago, Spicer said:

Give him a testimonial

Made my feeling clear on king, but long serving players should be given testimonials.

 The old days, it was like they last pay off, as the money wasn’t great then, if I remember right, they got all or a percentage of the profit off the gates receipts.

 These millionaire footballers could have a final goodbye, and give to a charity of their choice, but yes he should have one, preferably before he leaves, which could be January.

[red5]

Lets not forget what the great man himself once said.

 

 "Andy is our King"

[AKCJ]

Fans cry out for loyalty yet they want King to **** off, those suggesting he's a waste of space or whatever here need to do one.

 

Undoubtedly an all time great. He should get everything he asks for.

 

Edited 4 September 2018 by AKCJ

[The whole world smiles]

1 hour ago, Monsell1976 said:

 No I can’t, what was he out for about 2 years, comes back, gets injury after injury, and new contract.

 

 For me he would have had to have an injury free season, and proved his worth before I gave him a contract.

 

 Let’s be honest, the injury he had ends quite a few careers, his legs are gone, and can see him having to end his career early.

 

 

 

He played 19 consecutive 90 minute games for Barnsley. He then played every game in our pre season. And started the season for us. I think by most people's standards he had proved his fitness. If we didn't give him a new contract he was going to go elsewhere on the cheap and the club was going to lose out. 

 

Obviously with hindsight it was the wrong desicion but at the time it made sense all round. 

[Strokes]

Love Andy, he has seen it all here and lived every emotion with us.

Ok he hasn’t been an integral part of the first team for a couple of years but his contributions to our most successful decade ever will never be forgotten. I’d never let him leave.

[The whole world smiles]

1 hour ago, Jaspa said:

Difficult to process really. I think Kingys accepted times up here going off that message when he'd joined Swansea on loan which was clearly waving goodbye, plus his number is now Maddison's.

 

Could he do a job in the squad? He's comparible to Adrien Silva really, it's one or the other and I think the bonus of having Silva is helping us attract players like Ricardo. Performance wise you've gotta remember he still put enough performances in to earn a 15/16 medal and scored some crucial and beautiful goals.

 

Club legend and all that definitely. The only use I can think of him for is if it does go tits up and the team spirit nosedives ect. he'd be the one guaranteed to be putting everything in to keep us up & going, we look a long way off impending doom at the mo thankfully.

 

 

Long Live The King . . .

King did far more than just earn a medal in 15/16. Gokhan inler, Amartey and Gray scraped a medal. King played in 26 leauge games starting 10 of them and scored or assisted 4 goals. A pretty big contribution in my opinion. In fact apart from the recognised immortal 11 only Ulloa and Schlupp could make an arguement for being more important to the achievement.

[Oxfordfox83]

53 minutes ago, The whole world smiles said:

King did far more than just earn a medal in 15/16. Gokhan inler, Amartey and Gray scraped a medal. King played in 26 leauge games starting 10 of them and scored or assisted 4 goals. A pretty big contribution in my opinion. In fact apart from the recognised immortal 11 only Ulloa and Schlupp could make an arguement for being more important to the achievement.

There’s a large Polish gentleman outside to see you sir. He appears to be wearing his scuffling elbows...

[An Away Move]

Puel is doing really great work IMO. Look at the size of his task. Get Leicester to transition to a more sustainable style; against some resistance at first I'm sure from the old guard. Bring youth in and develop it. Finish higher than you did last season. Do what is needed and unsentimental by transitioning out players in the way of better players. Even if you're Andy King. This is professional sport folks. And being a model professional that he is Andy King will accept it. 

And, he's not exactly been made homeless people. He'll either move on to play regular football and still be paid well, or he'll stay and not play football and be paid even more. Hope he gets a testimonial though. He deserves it for his service. Even though he's only 29!

Edited 3 September 2018 by SydenhamFox

[Jattdogg]

Well guess thats its for king. Loyal servant to the club. Hope he can find a new club in January (loan) and then re-evaluate his future in the summer.  Always will be a legend.

 

Best of luck Andy. Keep training hard and maybe we will see him in some cup games.

Edited 4 September 2018 by Jattdogg

[The whole world smiles]

5 hours ago, Oxfordfox83 said:

There’s a large Polish gentleman outside to see you sir. He appears to be wearing his scuffling elbows...

Haha 4 premier league appearances not enough for an official medal although he was absolutely immense against Everton away when covering a huth suspension. Not on the level of the others mentioned sadly.

 

Although I would never say that to his face

[wokinghamfox]

Am I right in saying that because he hasnt been named in either squads that officially he cant play any football at LCFC at all this season?.

Can anybody clarify please.

[Guest ttfn]

9 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

Yes indeed, happy enough to be a bit part player as we improved, and that says he didn't have the drive to reach the very top.

He won a Premier League title with the club he’d been at since he was 16. I’m sure virtually anybody would have taken that, and the opportunity to participate in that wild ride, rather than start every week for some mid-table fodder to demonstrate his “drive”. 

 

I think he’s unfairly maligned on here but I doubt he had the ability to reach anywhere near “the very top” anyway. 

[Finnegan]

There's nothing disgraceful about how he's treated, you don't pick squad because they're nice you pick it to win. Otherwise he'd still be starting in our midfield alongside Matty James, behind a striker partnership of Shinji and Nugent. 

 

He's been an absolute hero, part cult, part legitimate. The Premiership was always a bit of a stretch but you should still always remember where you came from and how you got here and King was a big part of lifting us from our lowest ever ebb. He'll always deserve our love for that. 

 

Props to him. 

Edited 4 September 2018 by Finnegan

[MC Prussian]

Jeebus, all I was saying is that King deserved a bit of a better and more tasteful goodbye.

 

Finners' Matty James partnership joke is obviously tongue-in-cheek, as James is constantly injured and still out. Nothing to do with them coming across as "nice". If the club were consequential, and this may come across as rather harsh, James' contract should've been cancelled as well - if you go with the "new broom sweep well" argument and "no room for sentiment", that is.

 

King has been immense for us in his early days, then faded because of competition, then due to managerial preferences.

 

All in all, he'll cope. After all he's achieved and the money he's earned, he'll do well for the rest of his career. Doesn't strike me as the sort of guy who's prone to a major downfall once his playing days are over.

Wish him well wherever he goes, a true hero. Loyal to the club and the cause and the source of many a happy football memory in the past ten, eleven years or so.

[FLAN]

11 hours ago, HitchinFox said:

To be honest, I'm astonished that he's only 29. He's been at the club forever and the one constant since we got relegated to League One – what a journey for him and the club the past 11 years has been. 

While he generally tends to be underrated, he could still do a job in the Premier League – just not for a club that is looking to push itself into the top 10 in my opinion. The Swansea fans loved him when he went there at the end of last season – and many said he was their best midfielder over the 15 games or so that he was there. Proof that he could do it elsewhere and that he hasn't been a single club man simply because of money etc.

Looking at our squad at the moment, however, I can't see a role for him beyond a backup.

 

A truly hardworking footballer who has, as far as I know, always been a credit to both himself and our club. Hope we do a little something for him when his time comes to leave. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He didn’t even get on the pitch in their final game until 72 mins or complete 90 in the previous 2. Odd for their best midfielder at the time 

Edited 4 September 2018 by F1_AN

[Simoken]

No offence but this is so 2016, Can we just get a bronze statue of him sitting on a bench already.

[foxinsocks]

11 hours ago, Golden Fox said:

They may well have let him go on a free, but that would still depend on another club paying his wages.

 

I'm sure with his contract, even if he is not in the 25 man squad, he will still get paid by the club a Premier League wage!

 

Without being ITK, wouldn't have a clue whether he was given a choice of wage cut and moving or keeping his wage and not playing - but money will play a role in this decision somewhere along the line.

KingX says he is on 40 k p/w - that doesn't seem huge - for a club to pay f there is no transfer fee - over say  4 years it would be 8 Million less any transfer fee if theysold him before that... so I am surprised that he couldn't fined a club...maybe he just likes living here.

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

11 hours ago, Stadt said:

Even if Puel prefers or trusts James more which is understandable it doesn't make sense to omit King and name James as one of the 25 when the latter is currently injured.

Yeah this is weird. King and James are so close in ability there's basically no difference between them at this level, yet we name James who is consistently injured over someone who I can't remember being injured once in 11 years.