Congratulations LCFC

[Gwyn]

At the beginning of the season if you were offered top 6 we all would have taken it, if they also said you would play some sublime football and break a record for most goals scored in a game you would have taken it. For Brendan to come in and complete his long term project in 1 year and even before the season has ended is a feat worth applauding.  We went toe to toe with Liverpool and Man city before the difference in available transfer money shone to light, which is out of our hands really. 

We have been without our player of the year and the best right back in the league for a while now, add madderz the creative spark, cags, chilli....

 

I'd just like to come at this with a different angle and say congratulations to Top,Brendan,the team and all at LCFC for a brilliant and exciting season. 

 

We are still a young squad learning together and can only get better together. 

 

Edited 20 July 2020 by Gwyn

[Vestan Pance]

I doubt whether they'll read this, you'll need a print out, and an envelope addressed to Filbert Way

[AKCJ]

It's a big summer for us now.

 

We can either sulk until the squad gets rid of the best manager we've had in ages (like Spurs did this year) or we can take a good look in the mirror and come back stronger next season (like we did after the Deeney goal).

 

You'd like to think the squad would be absolutely raging with the way the second half of the season has gone.

 

Everyone will be a year older and a little wiser. Players like Maddison, Chilwell, Iheanacho, Ndidi, Tielemans, Barnes, Gray and Soyuncu are all young but they're approaching the age where they ought to be producing each week. We need to do our best to keep this core of players and build it up. Slightly adding to it and building some depth. Wolves may have gone as far as they have but their injury record is just ridiculous. We can't rely on the same sort of luck and we need to build up the squad.

 

We need to get some wingers in ideally. A new centre half (perhaps a younger one) to add to depth. I would also really like a very experienced midfielder that can sit in and dictate. A Cambiasso would be ideal for us right now.

 

We as supporters (and we as a club) can sit here and sulk about how things haven't gone right for us but we've got to remember where we've come from and what we have achieved. The final quarter of the season has been a disaster and Covid has royally ****ed us over as a City and as a football club.

 

[Gwyn]

Vestian prince

 

 

I will make a banner with the above on it when I watch them play in a lovely European town somewhere .

 

Dilly ding dilly dong

Edited 20 July 2020 by Gwyn

[TRAD-DAD]

Well i suppose hope springs eternal. But it's no good trying to hide the fact we bottled it from a seemingly great chance of playing champions league again. no amount of spin will change that.

[Hales]

I agree, there is lots to be positive about. I will be desperately disappointed if we don't make CL given the fantastic start to the season and our points cushion but European football be it CL or Europa is fantastic.  If you had said top 6 at the beginning this would have been an achievement so 4th or 5th is again great. The lack of squad depth is clear for all to see and project restart and the 5 sub rule was always going to punish smaller clubs. Manchester clubs, Liverpool and Chelsea can pretty much field 2 teams and get the cheque book out whenever is needed. We have lost Ndidi, Vardy, Maddison, Ricardo, Chilwell and Cags over this season which is the majority of our team and it has understandably effected the balance and form of the team as we have few replacements of their quality. I am positive for the future as we have a talented young team, who maybe a little erratic in form at the moment but they are diamonds in the rough and another seasons under their belts will improve them no end plus the disappointment they will have felt at the moment will hopefully build strength and character.  Let's build on this young team, clear out unnecessary and unused squad members and keep building. We are on a journey and have a fantastic new training ground and stadium expansion and the future looks very bright.  Let's hope for a positive transfer window and a good pre season and I look forward to a new positive season. They look jaded at the moment and we need this season over now so everything can settle down and the team can get back with the coaches and maybe a sports psychologist to help the youngsters. Onwards and upwards! The future is bright!

Edited 20 July 2020 by Hales

[Spudulike]

We're not going to get much of a pre-season as it seems the restart will be 2nd week of September - less than two months away! We'll be going into it with players still injured or recovering having hardly any time to clear heads and restore confidence levels. The coaching staff will have their work cut out to make sure we don't carry over this poor run of form and make a disastrous start that will have a knock-on effect for the remainder of the season. 

[Aus Fox]

13 minutes ago, TRAD-DAD said:

Well i suppose hope springs eternal. But it's no good trying to hide the fact we bottled it from a seemingly great chance of playing champions league again. no amount of spin will change that.

Just depends on how you chose to see this and the season as a whole. 
Some chose to see it as a success some chose to see it as a failure. 
Technically we haven’t bottled anything as we are still in a Champions League spot.

[Gwyn]

We have already qualified for some sort of European football with a game to spare, flipping well done boys 👏👏👏👏👏

 

Lets hope Top gives Brendan some spending money 🤞🤞

[Fox92]

20 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

It's a big summer for us now.

 

We can either sulk until the squad gets rid of the best manager we've had in ages (like Spurs did this year) or we can take a good look in the mirror and come back stronger next season (like we did after the Deeney goal).

 

You'd like to think the squad would be absolutely raging with the way the second half of the season has gone.

 

Everyone will be a year older and a little wiser. Players like Maddison, Chilwell, Iheanacho, Ndidi, Tielemans, Barnes, Gray and Soyuncu are all young but they're approaching the age where they ought to be producing each week. We need to do our best to keep this core of players and build it up. Slightly adding to it and building some depth. Wolves may have gone as far as they have but their injury record is just ridiculous. We can't rely on the same sort of luck and we need to build up the squad.

 

We need to get some wingers in ideally. A new centre half (perhaps a younger one) to add to depth. I would also really like a very experienced midfielder that can sit in and dictate. A Cambiasso would be ideal for us right now.

 

We as supporters (and we as a club) can sit here and sulk about how things haven't gone right for us but we've got to remember where we've come from and what we have achieved. The final quarter of the season has been a disaster and Covid has royally ****ed us over as a City and as a football club.

 

I do argue just the last part, I think it's more than the last quarter and Covid as I think it's the last half.

 

Agree with the rest though; good post. 

 

Not sure why but I'm worried about the transfer period. We do need a quality winger, and agree about a good centre half (we've seen now with one Caglar/Evans out that the depth at the back isn't good enough), I'd also argue we need another half decent forward. Vardy, though still scoring, is gonna be 34..

 

We need to get it right.

[AKCJ]

2 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

I do argue just the last part, I think it's more than the last quarter and Covid as I think it's the last half.

 

Agree with the rest though; good post. 

 

Not sure why but I'm worried about the transfer period. We do need a quality winger, and agree about a good centre half (we've seen now with one Caglar/Evans out that the depth at the back isn't good enough), I'd also argue we need another half decent forward. Vardy, though still scoring, is gonna be 34..

 

We need to get it right.

I think we'd have turned that mini-slump around. I felt like the Villa game was massive.

 

Following that the 5 sub rule coupled with our small squad and the fact half of it got injured because we were playing every 3 days. It was always going to favour United and Chelsea while it hamstrung us.

[Lineker's Left Foot]

39 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

It's a big summer for us now.

 

We can either sulk until the squad gets rid of the best manager we've had in ages (like Spurs did this year) or we can take a good look in the mirror and come back stronger next season (like we did after the Deeney goal).

 

You'd like to think the squad would be absolutely raging with the way the second half of the season has gone.

 

Everyone will be a year older and a little wiser. Players like Maddison, Chilwell, Iheanacho, Ndidi, Tielemans, Barnes, Gray and Soyuncu are all young but they're approaching the age where they ought to be producing each week. We need to do our best to keep this core of players and build it up. Slightly adding to it and building some depth. Wolves may have gone as far as they have but their injury record is just ridiculous. We can't rely on the same sort of luck and we need to build up the squad.

 

We need to get some wingers in ideally. A new centre half (perhaps a younger one) to add to depth. I would also really like a very experienced midfielder that can sit in and dictate. A Cambiasso would be ideal for us right now.

 

We as supporters (and we as a club) can sit here and sulk about how things haven't gone right for us but we've got to remember where we've come from and what we have achieved. The final quarter of the season has been a disaster and Covid has royally ****ed us over as a City and as a football club.

 

Great post.  I am Leicester born and bred so am proud that this is the football team representing my team.  Can’t think of another club including 2016 who has broken the top six, but WE have again.  We haven’t been great since the beginning of the year but that is due to squad depth and the unlucky injury to Ricardo.  It’s annoying we potentially won’t attain CL now, but we need to embrace the Europa but balance it without struggling in the league next year so investment is a MUST.  Not on ones for the future, but NOW.  Wouldn’t say no to Ryan Fraser or Ismaila Sarr if either of their respective clubs go down.

 

We are going in the right direction with the academy, stadium and leisure village expansion but we have to enjoy a ‘rollercoaster ride’ again I’m afraid.  It would be so boring being a Man City or Chelski fan etc that win all of the time, although lovely, but our wins must feel so much better.  Someone who was close to the club that I know reckons we have the backing of the Thai Royal Family as well so we are anything but skint - don’t know how true it is though - so we just have to ‘sit and back and enjoy the ride with bitten fingernails’ !!  Sounds jealous but I hope the Saudi takeover of Newcastle doesn’t occur as it will make it harder to compete so let’s get some perspective and enjoy the season for what it has brought so far, yet could still deliver.

Edited 20 July 2020 by Lineker's Left Foot

[sdb]

My concern is renewing contracts for Caglar, Ricky P, Maddison et al. They all seemed to be going fine mid season when CL qualification looked likely, then it went quiet. All 3 have had to watch from the sidelines as their inferior team mates struggle to compete against Bournemouth, Norwich and co. I'm not optimistic they'll be as keen to stay now, with top European sides circling and contracts winding down. If we don't sort these, and buy the 2-3 essential players we all know we need, then the season (however successful on the face of it) could end up being the start of a mass exodus. I know that sounds overly catastrophic, but I really do think the next 5 years will be hugely determined by our success (or failure) to make top 4 this year. Yes, it was never expected at the start, but with the position we've had for 90% of the season, it should have been secured a long time ago.

[volpeazzurro]

23 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

Just depends on how you chose to see this and the season as a whole. 
Some chose to see it as a success some chose to see it as a failure. 
Technically we haven’t bottled anything as we are still in a Champions League spot.

Personally, I don't think it's anything to do with bottle anyway. 

[TMELcfc]

From the position we were in, this is a failure. You can dress it up and be positive all you like... but for me, it’s a failure... and no matter what dross players and managers might come out with in press conferences, they’ll be thinking exactly the same thing... failure. 

[jonthefox]

I'm happy with the end result. Also, i can't help but think that the Europa league is better suited to us right now. 

[Dahnsouff]

8 minutes ago, lcfceaves said:

From the position we were in, this is a failure. You can dress it up and be positive all you like... but for me, it’s a failure... and no matter what dross players and managers might come out with in press conferences, they’ll be thinking exactly the same thing... failure. 

At the start of the season this would be regarded as success. We approach the end of the season having already achieved that aim. The resetting of expectations is on you.

[TMELcfc]

2 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

At the start of the season this would be regarded as success. We approach the end of the season having already achieved that aim. The resetting of expectations is on you.

You really think the players are thinking that way? 

[Dahnsouff]

Just now, lcfceaves said:

You really think the players are thinking that way? 

Yes

[jonthefox]

14 minutes ago, lcfceaves said:

From the position we were in, this is a failure. You can dress it up and be positive all you like... but for me, it’s a failure... and no matter what dross players and managers might come out with in press conferences, they’ll be thinking exactly the same thing... failure. 

You won't be saying that on the plane to Gdansk next summer. 

[Lesta2014]

A huge summer coming up! Finishing 5th is great but ultimately disappointing for the position we were in at Christmas! 
 

we need a good window, if we get it wrong we will be lucky to finish mid table. This sequence of fixtures has highlighted our lack of back up quality and the games come thick and fast in the Europa and prem and add in the league cup should we have another run in that! 5/6 quality signings would be lovely 

[urban.spaceman]

2 hours ago, Gwyn said:

At the beginning of the season if you were offered top 6 we all would have taken it, if they also said you would play some sublime football and break a record for most goals scored in a game you would have taken it. For Brendan to come in and complete his long term project in 1 year and even before the season has ended is a feat worth applauding.  We went toe to toe with Liverpool and Man city before the difference in available transfer money shone to light, which is out of our hands really. 

We have been without our player of the year and the best right back in the league for a while now, add madderz the creative spark, cags, chilli....

 

I'd just like to come at this with a different angle and say congratulations to Top,Brendan,the team and all at LCFC for a brilliant and exciting season. 

 

We are still a young squad learning together and can only get better together. 

 

Mods there’s some positivity on FoxesTalk and I don’t know how to handle it. 

[Nick]

I’m holding out until Weds night before I write off CL football.

Edited 20 July 2020 by Nick

[TMELcfc]

2 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Yes

Well that’s your opinion, but I think they’ll be thinking negatively about it. Cannot see how they can regard what has happened since January, a success. Certainly someone like Kasper, he will regard what has happened recently as a failure I’m sure of it. 

[Ric Flair]

2 hours ago, Gwyn said:

At the beginning of the season if you were offered top 6 we all would have taken it, if they also said you would play some sublime football and break a record for most goals scored in a game you would have taken it. For Brendan to come in and complete his long term project in 1 year and even before the season has ended is a feat worth applauding.  We went toe to toe with Liverpool and Man city before the difference in available transfer money shone to light, which is out of our hands really. 

We have been without our player of the year and the best right back in the league for a while now, add madderz the creative spark, cags, chilli....

 

I'd just like to come at this with a different angle and say congratulations to Top,Brendan,the team and all at LCFC for a brilliant and exciting season. 

 

We are still a young squad learning together and can only get better together. 

 

I think this has to be how the club view it for the long term health of this club, otherwise the capitulation will overshadow the players, management and club and we will implode.

 

In golfing terms this is the equivalent of a 9 handicapper playing in their home club championship, the most prestigious tournament of the entire season where the course is set up at it's most challenging and if they were offered shooting 1 under their handicap they'd snap your hand off. They then proceed to be 3 under gross after 9 holes, it's absolutely astonishing golf and far better club players are trailing them. Are the club witnessing the coming of age of a new amateur golfer? The said player then comes home 11 over par and finishes 1 under their handicap, they are distraught at what could have been. Everyone around them applauds them for the opening 9 holes and that they still finished under their handicap, but deep down it's a bottle job and they've fallen apart.