Congratulations LCFC

[jerry]

5 hours ago, Lineker's Left Foot said:

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.

Believe Ryan Fraser would be a good shout.

[coolhandfox]

1 hour ago, TRAD-DAD said:

But it's not about suitability it's about the money difference. No doubt about it the revenue loss from not getting into the champions league  and our ability to keep players and recruit top players for next season has taken a massive blow.

Have you seen the players we recruited last time we were in the CL.........

 

Some time slow progress is better, keep building!

 

Leeds coming up this year should be a reminder about trying to build to fast and not being self sufficient, They built on the back of CL money and finish 5th one year which sent them into financial meltdown, which has taken 16 years to recover from. 

 

 

[goose2010]

1 hour ago, TRAD-DAD said:

But it's not about suitability it's about the money difference. No doubt about it the revenue loss from not getting into the champions league  and our ability to keep players and recruit top players for next season has taken a massive blow.

There is no revenue loss. They wouldn't have budgeted for Champs league football at the start of the season. All of our key players are on decent contracts so there is no worry about us losing them if they go it will be massive money. The board will see this season as frustrating but as  a massive success. 

[Gerard]

We haven't lost the CL spot yet although you wouldn't believe it if foxestalk was your only source of information.

 

Every chance any win against Man Utd gets us there.

[Gwyn]

20 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

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.

That's sport in general mate and why it's so exciting or excruciating to watch 

[st albans fox]

15 hours ago, goose2010 said:

There is no revenue loss. They wouldn't have budgeted for Champs league football at the start of the season. All of our key players are on decent contracts so there is no worry about us losing them if they go it will be massive money. The board will see this season as frustrating but as  a massive success. 

There is big revenue loss via covid ......CL qualification would have plugged that gap and more. EL won’t. 

[Nick]

Let’s see tomorrow’s results and see where we are.

[mozartfox]

27 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

There is big revenue loss via covid ......CL qualification would have plugged that gap and more. EL won’t. 

I suspect the COVID-19 loss will be covered in a roundabout way by Clubs paying out much lower transfer fees and wages?    And yes if we do sell anybody, we would have to accept a lower fee or not sell.