Your Summary of Leicester's 2020?

[AKCJ]

Generally speaking we've been good to watch, especially for the neutral.

 

Still able of producing absolutely minging football and losing to some absolutely atrocious sides.

 

We've not hit out best often enough though.

 

I would rate us at a 6.5/10 which seems ridiculous considering we've been in the top 4 for all but 2 weeks but we're 9th in the annual League table.

 

 

[Steve Earle]

Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow 

[winteriscoming]

Far too inconsistent. When we’re good we look on a par with the best in the league. When we’re bad we look awful and devoid of any idea. 
Should’ve got to a cup final and got in the champions league. 
As pleased as I am with where we are atm I still worry that the same thing will happen this season as what happened last season. Brendan says we’ve learned from last season. I certainly hope so. 

[Hollyfox]

Really pleased with the progress the club has made on and off the pitch. 

CL failure was an obvious disappointment but, with our injuries, Europa has probably given us more chance of continued progress. 

Seagrave and a very good league position, all is looking good. 

 

Apart from the Kop and Family stand being swapped 

[Matt]

I was saying in another thread, in terms of style of play I think we've improved in the way we can mix it up, not play in this one trick pony, constant possession style, All. The. Time.

 

That's all I asked last season.

 

However, I think we've become even more inconsistent results wise.

 

We were too easy to play against last season but that was because we made a mistake it led to goal (But I believe that is the case with most/all poessession based side - they're are all too easy to play against and mistakes are the downfall but what do you expect playing generally infront of your own box).

 

We are still too easy to play against, its a simple ball splits us, every time, but if thats the cost for playing forward, exciting, attacking, aggressive football then i'll accept that rather than it being sideways, backwards, slow and a **** up costing us.

 

It's also frustrating how we're too slow alter things and teams find it so easy to combat us but that was the issue last season even more so really and why I was calling for us to try and mix it up, not just the same or incessant possession for possession sake, keep ball without going anywhere.

 

Ultimately not alot has changed in terms of the glaring issues but atleast we can and have mixed our style up abit since this season has started.

 

Edited 28 December 2020 by Matt

[Vazman]

Proud to be a Foxes Fan! With lots too look forward too!

[The Quick Brown Fox]

If we continue to improve year on year we will be in the title race next year (again). Maybe in 2 years we will be taken seriously as a title contender too. 

 

But I doubt it. 

[rachhere]

We have consistently out performed clubs with much bigger budgets, despite having significant injury problems to key players throughout. Best is yet to come once we are back to a full strength squad. 

[PAULCFC]

Could Do Better.

[UniFox21]

On a development point of view, look at how Justin, Barnes, Soyuncu, Tielemans, even Ndidi have improved over the past year. We've had Thomas break through as well. 

 

We've really grown as a side and most of our young players have really kicked on. Maddison seems to have stalled a tad, maybe through his injuries.

[baldeagle]

Brilliant .... I don’t mean all the performances or decisions made as some have been terrible. We finished last season 5th our second highest Premier league finish and qualified for Europe even with a few injuries and a stop start season because of covid .Then this season we got some cracking players in and  have managed to stay in the top 4 pretty much all season, topped our group in Europe all with a congested programme of games,  covid and loads of injuries that would cripple most teams .Add to this our new £100 million training ground has just opened the future is looking pretty bright . 

Edited 28 December 2020 by baldeagle

[Sunbury Fox]

We've hardly been able to play our best 5 players together once in 2020. As a result we've been very inconsistent. But to end the year in the top 4 again is a great achievement. 

Edited 28 December 2020 by Sunbury Fox

[Simonb]

Basically been a mid table team all year.. Hoping we have half a season in the beginning 2021 like we had at the end of 2019

[baldeagle]

9 minutes ago, Simonb said:

Basically been a mid table team all year.. Hoping we have half a season in the beginning 2021 like we had at the end of 2019

Mid table team ... complete nonsense  we we’ve been in the top 4 most the season . 

[Simonb]

2 minutes ago, baldeagle said:

Mid table team ... complete nonsense  we we’ve been in the top 4 most the season . 

We've take 49 points from 34 games in 2020... That's mid table form mate... Its a review of 2020 and that's our form

 

You're right regarding the position but that's based on where we were end of 2019

 

Just stating facts.. Not slating them

[casablancas]

So we finally beat the arse away, dicked the ONE and only City and done Spurs and made aunts Jose look a diick all whilst genuinely having 3 world class players sidelined. We have a mighty European tour (well sorta) and seen a meteoric rise of JJ. 
 

then we have the other side of LCFC ... loosing to teams we’d expect to beat. But that’s so Leicester city. I can’t fault the lads or Brends, with the fixtures, covid and no real training we are Fcuking exceptionally placed, needs backing in January though if the board can squeeze some Bah from somewhere. 
 

On a personal note as a nurse I have Fcuking hated this year. However, in the last 2 weeks I have a new job and just proposed to the mrs, who sadly said yes   So it’s ending well and fingers crossed 21 will bring a better year to you all. 

Edited 29 December 2020 by casablancas

[Xen]

A year of missed opportunities in difficult circumstances.

 

 

That being said, we're no worse off than we started the year (arguably better with some new acquisitions, EL football, and the training ground), and given the events of the last 12 months, just treading water is a pretty good accomplishment.

 

Hopefully we've positioned ourself well enough to be able to continue in much the same way into the new year, and carry on our progress as a top club.

 

[Alan Frost]

I would say 2020 was very good. My opinion is we have a good manager who is a good fit for the club which I think is more important than any players ,a wonderful new training facility,  and a growing reputation as a top 6 team even if not all the media recognise it yet. I don't know much about the new ownership but all I hear and read is good. The signings we have made all seem good value to me at this stage and between them I hope and think Fofana, Soyuncu, Under, Castaigne,Thielemans ,along with the development of Justin and Barnes mean the squad overall is a lot stronger despite losing Mahrez, Chilwell, Kante and McGuire . Madison is already good and probably could be developed to excellent which he already often achieves, altho not yet consistently.

 

I'm more interested in what 2021 will bring. I don't think we should be under time pressure to replace Jamie Vardy (which usually means paying more). JV seems to be aging well for a forward and Barnes is already  proving that probably we're not going to be desperate and altho we'd miss him as a wide player, Justin,Thomas,Castaigne, Under are all pretty effective as wide players .Ndidi, Albrighton ,Mendy,Perez have all proved they are capable of good to very good performances in the premier league. Kasper is generally rated as among the best premiership goalies. From what i've seen Kasper ,JV, Barnes and hopefully Justin seem to have a real commitment to the club ,only 4 but more than most clubs have and there are probably others I have n't noticed. Perhaps I have rose tinted specs and I'm a dreamer, but I think that lot in total is something most managers would look on as well  above average potential. There must be some football pundits who know a bit and they all thought the Leicester job was a good one . From here we should make being  a junior member of the top six "club" as there's always one who has a bad year.

 

 I only see MOTD and of late Amazon Prime plus of course the club highlights so I have n't seen enough of those I have n't mentioned but Evans I saw 90 minutes of on Amazon and I was impressed watching him play his second 90 minutes in 48 hours.,despite some Forum predictions. Pereira for instance also seems well rated by the Forum which must mean I'd guess that he's excellent.

 

Sticking my neck out I think we should consider Ozil who might be glad to be at a club with two other Turkish players and a reasonable salary to extend his career. He would also help out JV as a scorer and provided Brendan thought he'd fit might give us four or five useful seasons, He certainly has n't been wearing his legs out recently and he might not be too costly for what he could add as a playmaker, along with Thielemans. Of course we'll lose some of those but practically everyone I've mentioned are worth more now than at the start of the year and should be replaceable at a profit.

[Vardinio'sCat]

all over the shop, but in a good way.

[deanolegend1989]

Some fantastic signings that have made us stronger. Our first 11 is as good as anything. Ndidi Tielemens and Barnes have all improved incredibly into top top players. Castange And Fofana have been incredible purchases that have improved us massively. Justin has also really progressed into better than just ‘cover for Ricardo’.

Negatives are for me that Madders hasn’t kicked on how we’d of all hoped and obviously how many points weve thrown away stupidly.

 

BR has done an ok job on paper being 3rd etc but in general think he’s made a hell of a lot of ‘obvious’ mistakes due to his tactical and selection choices , which has made it pretty obvious at the start of every game if we’re going to struggle or not which nearly always has been proven right.

 

A season so far of what if. Our first 11 could win the league, but the players behind unfortunately are poor as proven by dropping points vs A palace team that were laying down waiting to be bent over all that first half.

Our first 11 are 2-0 up at least at half time and game over.

 

We are potentially able to achieve something special this year(top 4 or a cup) , even winning it would be possible(although think we may of dropped too many stupid points now) but we need to try and keep our best 11 in a majority of the game. Rotation will equal dropping points and a 9th place finish.

[Heskey2011]

Schadenfreude

[coolhandfox]

29 minutes ago, deanolegend1989 said:

BR has done an ok job on paper being 3rd

3rd for LCFC is not doing an OK job....

[Simonb]

On 29/12/2020 at 09:33, casablancas said:

So we finally beat the arse away, dicked the ONE and only City and done Spurs and made aunts Jose look a diick all whilst genuinely having 3 world class players sidelined. We have a mighty European tour (well sorta) and seen a meteoric rise of JJ. 
 

then we have the other side of LCFC ... loosing to teams we’d expect to beat. But that’s so Leicester city. I can’t fault the lads or Brends, with the fixtures, covid and no real training we are Fcuking exceptionally placed, needs backing in January though if the board can squeeze some Bah from somewhere. 
 

On a personal note as a nurse I have Fcuking hated this year. However, in the last 2 weeks I have a new job and just proposed to the mrs, who sadly said yes   So it’s ending well and fingers crossed 21 will bring a better year to you all. 

Congratulations on the engagement lad

[deanolegend1989]

7 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

3rd for LCFC is not doing an OK job....

On paper? No. In reality it’s not a great job. Our squad is a lot better than people give it credit for, he’s not ‘punching well above our weight’ because he’s this amazing manager with little Leicester.

Hes doing an ok job but we could be a lot better. We arnt 3rd in the same way as we were last season blowing people away and clearly he got a good balance. This year he’s been poor in so many games.

Spurs he finally put a system and personnel that was correct and strong and didn’t fiddle and we win.

Utd he started correctly we’re doing fine, then at 1-1 around 55 mins Ole brings in Cavani and Pogba taking off James and went more central. I was screaming to match it with Praet in for Madders to help our middle. BR didn’t react, it was so obvious I was screaming for about 15 mins . We conceded and it was all on BR because it was coming.

We comeback with a bit of luck but we were managed very poorly.

Then what he set up with at Palace was asking for dropped points. We deserved to lose . 2nd half we never looked like scoring until Barnes bailed him out with a bit of world class ability. We wernt fluid and that’s a rabbit out of the hat from a player with huge quality.

 

As I said initially, our squad and ability of some of our first team are as good as anyone in this league, our manager is not. He’s an overrated media darling whose done an ok job with a very good set of players.

[norwichfox]

On 29/12/2020 at 09:33, casablancas said:

So we finally beat the arse away, dicked the ONE and only City and done Spurs and made aunts Jose look a diick all whilst genuinely having 3 world class players sidelined. We have a mighty European tour (well sorta) and seen a meteoric rise of JJ. 
 

then we have the other side of LCFC ... loosing to teams we’d expect to beat. But that’s so Leicester city. I can’t fault the lads or Brends, with the fixtures, covid and no real training we are Fcuking exceptionally placed, needs backing in January though if the board can squeeze some Bah from somewhere. 
 

On a personal note as a nurse I have Fcuking hated this year. However, in the last 2 weeks I have a new job and just proposed to the mrs, who sadly said yes   So it’s ending well and fingers crossed 21 will bring a better year to you all. 

Many congratulations Casablacas, both for the job and your engagement, may your good luck continue.