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[Rubbersoul]

Glad Coady was there to hear Jordan tell some truths 

[Les-TA-Jon]

On 06/05/2026 at 15:44, Gamble92 said:

I'm as anti King Power as you'll find, but I also think the situation is more manageable than the worst case scenario he was throwing out there. 

 

It's a ridiculously avoidable scenario we have found ourselves in but there are ways round it. Dare I say a few benefits too not having to deal with PSR. We can now sell players just to get the money in. Don't have to worry about the amortisation on Fatawu, Kristansen and Faes. Just get money in. 

 

I think best scenario with training ground is to close it for most the year and go back to Belvoir Drive. 

 

Things have changed really quickly in a short space of time. But that also means they can change the other way pretty quickly too. 

This is true for any seasons in League One - but I don't think it's the get out of jail free card people are describing - if we get promoted back to the Championship, we'll be under PSR again and any losses vs book value that occurred will still 'count'. This rabble haven't been able to follow one set of financial rules. I have little confidence in their ability to managed two!

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, Rubbersoul said:

Glad Coady was there to hear Jordan tell some truths 

Conor's soon changed his tune on the best internal club atmosphere experience hasn't he.

[Mickyblueeyes]

6 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Conor's soon changed his tune on the best internal club atmosphere experience hasn't he.

It’s the “they let me know” line. So many in recent years can’t understand why the fans are so hostile towards them. Whether it be the comments, the swearing the non celebrations etc. why are they so against me/us. They have no idea that earning £100k plus per week and putting out some of those god awful performances is the reason. No idea that when the club is right in the middle of a relegation battle, having a blast in a club with a Enzo I miss you sign is part of the reason. 
 

It’s staggering but gives a feel of what atmosphere Rudkin and Top create for them. You’re great lads, fans are mad. Thank you for being here. 

[Rubbersoul]

39 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Conor's soon changed his tune on the best internal club atmosphere experience hasn't he.

No one felt it more than him you know. Nearly laughed out loud at that 

[smudgerfox]

Can we have a link please?

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Jordan spoke well and all Coady could come out with was asking himself rhetorical questions

 

"Look, did I expect them to go down to league One? No"

 

Thanks Connor great input 

[lfu]

42 minutes ago, smudgerfox said:

Can we have a link please?

1 hour 2 minutes in

 

[lfu]

Felt like the presenter and the three guests they had on had nothing to offer except Conor "unbelievable" Coady saying he didn't expect us to get relegated this season, and the rest of them knew if they spurted out the classic "but your chairman won you the Premier League and FA Cup you ought to be grateful, let him spit in your mouth and be thankful for it" tripe that Jordan would have shut them up quick

Also noticed the youtube channel deleted a comment saying "Conor can't say anything, Leicester's still paying his wages" 🤣

[orangecity23]

Tribute - Ferociously (taking the) P

 

[Intro]
This is the greatest and best club in the world…
…tribute

[Verse 1]
Two weeks ago, Teflon Jon and Herlihy Tone here
They were sauntering down a rainy raw dykes road
All of a sudden, they spied an angry Leicester fan
In the middle of the road
And he said, "Pay the price for your incompetence 
And sack the board" (Zack?)
[Verse 2]
Well, Tony and Jon, they looked at each other
And Tony said, "Watch this"
And he tweeted the first thing that came to his head, just so happened to be
A poorly planned friendly, it was a poorly planned friendly 

[Chorus]
Look at the date and it's easy to see
Kante and Kasper won't come, there'll be no Vardy
And Rhiyad's busy
We won the league once ten years ago
So pay your twenty five quid get a free light show
Bring everyone you know

[Verse 3]
Needless to say, the fan was stunned
We asked "how many tickets mate?" And the fan said "none"
He asked us "Are you piss takers?"
And we said, "Hey, we're Tops right hand men" Rock!
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh-ah-ah
Ohhh, whoah
Ah-whoah-oh

[Chorus]
This is not the team that won the league, no
This is just a tribute
Couldn't remember the details of the team that won the league, no
No, this is a tribute, oh
To the Leicester team that won the league, alright
Half of the team that won the league, alright
Yeah, it was the substitute bench of
The Leicester team that won the league 

[Bridge]
A it's Amartey
Soo-guh-goo-gee-goo-gee
Goo-guh fliggoo giggoo, guh fliggoo, giggoo-buh-dee
Ooh, guh-goo-bee, ooh here's Demarai
Fliggoo giggoo, a-fliguh woo-wa mama Ben Hamer!

[Interlude]
And the peculiar thing is this, my friends
The team we played on that fateful night
It didn't actually look anything like this team 

[Outro]
This is just a tribute, you've gotta believe me
And we really do care, this isn't a distraction 
Ah, ****! Good Top, Top lovin'
I'm so surprised to find you booing him
We got custom t shirt and ten pound dog bandana, aw
Alright
Alright

[Libertine]

@orangecity23 Your best one yet. 

[Muzzy_no7]

1 hour ago, lfu said:

Felt like the presenter and the three guests they had on had nothing to offer except Conor "unbelievable" Coady saying he didn't expect us to get relegated this season, and the rest of them knew if they spurted out the classic "but your chairman won you the Premier League and FA Cup you ought to be grateful, let him spit in your mouth and be thankful for it" tripe that Jordan would have shut them up quick

Also noticed the youtube channel deleted a comment saying "Conor can't say anything, Leicester's still paying his wages" 🤣

Yeah it will be interesting to see what Coady says after June 30th.

 

Praying he didn’t get an automatic extension like Winks did.

[Gamble92]

How does Coady manage to say so many words and still say nothing? It's quite a skill he's got. 

 

I think reading between the lines it's quite obvious there was almost too much of a buy in to Enzo. I have said a lot about how I didn't like his style of play and some of his decisions and the fact we just employed worse managers and have done abysmal since doesn't vindicate him any more. But no one can deny how he got everyone on side and how vital that was. Similar to how Rodgers was respected so much more than Puel. It was exactly what was needed at the time.

 

But you can't have players that are so invested in one manager and not follow it up with a similar appointment. I don't think Enzo would have kept us up, but what unravelled has been the worst 2 years in our history. 

 

 

[CL Fox]

6 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

How does Coady manage to say so many words and still say nothing? It's quite a skill he's got. 

 

I think reading between the lines it's quite obvious there was almost too much of a buy in to Enzo. I have said a lot about how I didn't like his style of play and some of his decisions and the fact we just employed worse managers and have done abysmal since doesn't vindicate him any more. But no one can deny how he got everyone on side and how vital that was. Similar to how Rodgers was respected so much more than Puel. It was exactly what was needed at the time.

 

But you can't have players that are so invested in one manager and not follow it up with a similar appointment. I don't think Enzo would have kept us up, but what unravelled has been the worst 2 years in our history. 

 

 

Coady was slagging Enzo off to anyone that would listen whilst he was doing comms at the euros. Bloke is an absolute gobshite.

[TheGoldenGod]

1 hour ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Yeah it will be interesting to see what Coady says after June 30th.

 

Praying he didn’t get an automatic extension like Winks did.

Have I missed something? We sold him to Wrexham last Summer.

Edited 12 May by TheGoldenGod

[Gamble92]

1 hour ago, CL Fox said:

Coady was slagging Enzo off to anyone that would listen whilst he was doing comms at the euros. Bloke is an absolute gobshite.

What was he saying?

[TheGoldenGod]

1 hour ago, Gamble92 said:

How does Coady manage to say so many words and still say nothing? It's quite a skill he's got. 

 

I think reading between the lines it's quite obvious there was almost too much of a buy in to Enzo. I have said a lot about how I didn't like his style of play and some of his decisions and the fact we just employed worse managers and have done abysmal since doesn't vindicate him any more. But no one can deny how he got everyone on side and how vital that was. Similar to how Rodgers was respected so much more than Puel. It was exactly what was needed at the time.

 

But you can't have players that are so invested in one manager and not follow it up with a similar appointment. I don't think Enzo would have kept us up, but what unravelled has been the worst 2 years in our history. 

 

 

I struggle to criticise a manager that has delivers such a successful philosophy so clearly to a group of players, both at Leicester and now Chelsea to the point everyone is ALL IN. That's what everyone dreams of...a gaffer everyone can get behind regardless of what people think about the style itself. Proves he knows what he's talking about. Not a surprise at all that since he left both clubs, they've gone to the dogs!

Edited 12 May by TheGoldenGod

[Gamble92]

9 minutes ago, TheGoldenGod said:

I struggle to criticise a manager that has delivers such a successful philosophy so clearly to a group of players, both at Leicester and now Chelsea to the point everyone is ALL IN. That's what everyone dreams of...a gaffer everyone can get behind regardless of what people think about the style itself. Proves he knows what he's talking about. Not a surprise at all that since he left both clubs, they've gone to the dogs!

The way they bought in to what he did because he clearly had their respect was the best thing about him. But that squad did what it should have. Obviously we have had awful managers since and I'm not knocking that because we've proved it's easy to **** it up.

 

But he went rewrite a lot of that season because we won it in the end. The team were found out in the end and teams were beating us. We had relegation form for the last part of the season and it was only when we ditched that style that we got results to get us over the line. 

 

Again at Chelsea, they appointed Rosenoir after which is a joke. He was near the sack for a while until a strong end to the season at Chelsea. The fans didn't like the style at all.

[TheGoldenGod]

1 minute ago, Gamble92 said:

The way they bought in to what he did because he clearly had their respect was the best thing about him. But that squad did what it should have. Obviously we have had awful managers since and I'm not knocking that because we've proved it's easy to **** it up.

 

But he went rewrite a lot of that season because we won it in the end. The team were found out in the end and teams were beating us. We had relegation form for the last part of the season and it was only when we ditched that style that we got results to get us over the line. 

 

Again at Chelsea, they appointed Rosenoir after which is a joke. He was near the sack for a while until a strong end to the season at Chelsea. The fans didn't like the style at all.

I hear what you're saying, at times it was frustrating....but we won. Chelsea the same. You can look at the competitions but can only win what you're in! They did batter PSG in the CWC. I look at Chelsea's dodgy yank owners and he clearly didn't like the parameters he had to work in, and saw it coming for us too!

[Gamble92]

4 minutes ago, TheGoldenGod said:

I hear what you're saying, at times it was frustrating....but we won. Chelsea the same. You can look at the competitions but can only win what you're in! They did batter PSG in the CWC. I look at Chelsea's dodgy yank owners and he clearly didn't like the parameters he had to work in, and saw it coming for us too!

It was embarrassing how much he had at his disposal that season though and he actually had players turning on him towards the end. In comparison to what's followed he obviously looks great. 

 

He's benefitted by being replaced by awful managers at both clubs. I don't think 4th at Chelsea is anything amazing considering what they have available. Same as when I hear how Man United are constantly in transition. The amounts they spend should mean a title challenge every season. 

[TheGoldenGod]

Just now, Gamble92 said:

It was embarrassing how much he had at his disposal that season though and he actually had players turning on him towards the end. In comparison to what's followed he obviously looks great. 

 

He's benefitted by being replaced by awful managers at both clubs. I don't think 4th at Chelsea is anything amazing considering what they have available. Same as when I hear how Man United are constantly in transition. The amounts they spend should mean a title challenge every season. 

It doesn't work like that mate, its not about how much you spend, its about how you spend it. Chelsea's approach is scattergun. Buy any world prospect and throw them on an 8 year deal. Their recruitment since BlueCo have come in has been about 80% misses. Enzo had navigated that quite well and is clearly strong on his decision making with the "bomb squad" he exiled early on. I'm a bit bored of having to defend what he did for us as well tbh...look at where we are now

[Gamble92]

25 minutes ago, TheGoldenGod said:

It doesn't work like that mate, its not about how much you spend, its about how you spend it. Chelsea's approach is scattergun. Buy any world prospect and throw them on an 8 year deal. Their recruitment since BlueCo have come in has been about 80% misses. Enzo had navigated that quite well and is clearly strong on his decision making with the "bomb squad" he exiled early on. I'm a bit bored of having to defend what he did for us as well tbh...look at where we are now

Things are more nuanced than look where we are now so he must have been great. Do you rate Cooper, Ruud or Marti? 

 

I'm not knocking the fact he got us up but I don't just overlook the massive issues that we still had under him with a squad that absolutely should have won the league anyway. 

 

The jury is out on him for me. If he does well at Man City or whatever then fairplay. 

[TheGoldenGod]

18 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

Things are more nuanced than look where we are now so he must have been great. Do you rate Cooper, Ruud or Marti? 

 

I'm not knocking the fact he got us up but I don't just overlook the massive issues that we still had under him with a squad that absolutely should have won the league anyway. 

 

The jury is out on him for me. If he does well at Man City or whatever then fairplay. 

No didn't rate any of them, especially after comparing it to the football we were playing. Scored 89 goals in 23/24 and won lots of games, would bite your arm off for that now!

 

It's interesting you say you'd give him the respect if he does well at Man City considering they'll have the best/2nd best squad in the league if he took over next season but won't give him that credence because we had the strongest squad in the championship.

[lfu]

1 hour ago, TheGoldenGod said:

Have I missed something? We sold him to Wrexham last Summer.

We're apparently still paying a portion of his wages until his contract with us would've run out

Unless we agreed to a lump sum

[CL Fox]

2 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

What was he saying?

Enzo's head went in Jan after he didn't get the players in. He could only play one way with no plan b. He should have played Coady more as his record was better with him in it.

 

I dont think any of that is untrue but it wasn't exactly glowing in reference.