10wks To Define The Club

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Edited 23 June 2023 by Union FS

[Chrysalis]

On 13/06/2023 at 21:06, Daggers said:

You can get 50/1

Seems very tight given ball hasnt been kicked yet and we favourites to go up.

[Molson Canadian]

21 days until our first friendly match.

[foxile5]

3 hours ago, Molson Canadian said:

21 days until our first friendly match.

Three weeks and there doesn’t seem to be any movement inwards and we’ve not sorted out those leaving.

 

**** me we’re honking at present, aren’t we?

[gurru991]

10 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

I don't think you'll find anyone more critical of Rudkin and Top than i have been, but you can't say just because transfers haven't been signed off that nothing has gone on.

 

I think they've proved they're a little bit more switched on than they come across with the Maresca appointment. They waited and got their man. It wasn't the worst case scenario we all thought. So we shouldn't keep on expecting the worst.

 

I don't think Maresca would have taken this job without assurances of funds and a clear vision.

Well Said !!

The voice of reason in a sea of negativity !!

I would rather they take some time and get it right than rush in and make a mess.

Obviously Enzo had some demands met before agreeing to join the club and I'm sure he has a certain type of player in mind.

I am quietly confident in the process !!

[Royston.]

Just buy the shirts, invest in a season ticket and kick back while Rudkin ruins the show.

Top will sit quietly and Enzo will stroke his chin tentatively on the touchline, wondering where his life turned to shīt

 

[HeskeyForever]

Don't mind that there's not immediate activity. 

 

I feel like for a brand new manager to come in and assess what needs to be done, a good week of work before making rash decisions will likely help us in the long run. 

 

I think we have to be more patient that expecting us to be ****ed because we haven't moved in the transfer market - it's open for a long time yet and it's a very long season ahead. We've made so so many rash transfers since winning the league and ended up much worse off because of it. 

 

We've got to trust Enzo and let him do his job before assuming he can't. 

 

 

 

[Daggers]

On 24/06/2023 at 02:53, gurru991 said:

Well Said !!

The voice of reason in a sea of negativity !!I

Let me know how having a go at most other fans works out for you across the season. 

[gurru991]

5 hours ago, Daggers said:

Let me know how having a go at most other fans works out for you across the season. 

Edited 27 June 2023 by gurru991
xxx

[foxsake]

I've been glued to this in the meantime: 

 

 

[Gamble92]

On 24/06/2023 at 04:15, Royston. said:

Just buy the shirts, invest in a season ticket and kick back while Rudkin ruins the show.

Top will sit quietly and Enzo will stroke his chin tentatively on the touchline, wondering where his life turned to shīt

 

Not sure i appreciate your tone Sir

[Chrysalis]

It feels like, lessons not learned, haggling hard on Maddison and no new in before he goes?

 

Personally I think we should have all transfer business done by 4 weeks before kick off.  Time for them to all gel in training and learn whats needed at the club.

[volpeazzurro]

14 minutes ago, Chrysalis said:

It feels like, lessons not learned, haggling hard on Maddison and no new in before he goes?

 

Personally I think we should have all transfer business done by 4 weeks before kick off.  Time for them to all gel in training and learn whats needed at the club.

And I'm sure it does ... in an unreal world.

 

Why wouldn't they haggle hard? Are you aware of how much has been offered yet or whether it's been offered at all. Would you snap their hands off at 25m or say no? You, I and everyone else know absolutely zip that's going on or at what stage it's at. These are multi million pounds complex deals. Surely you don't believe anything you're currently reading in the media do you?

[Ginger_Filbert]

Things seem to be heating up now. 

[Chrysalis]

Progress made, Maddison sold.  Glad its done earlier than usual.

[urban.spaceman]

15 minutes ago, Chrysalis said:

Progress made, Maddison sold.  Glad its done earlier than usual.

We could have eeked out another £10m up front if we could afford to have drawn the saga out but glad it's over and done with, we've got some cash and he's off the books. 

[Daggers]

So there it is.
 

Nine of the ten weeks gone and how have we leapt forward? Poorly. A paltry 4 out of 10.
 

A replacement management team carrying in no history - which could go either way, a couple of signings, an injury, some departures, junk unable to be offloaded, lack of pace and flair signed, and - in true LCFC fashion - an absolute shambles of a preseason with an absence of goals against piss weak opposition. A squad carrying no momentum into the start of the season, just jet lag. 

 

Off the field, zero communication about the review (like we’d expect anything else), a child’s whine from the owner to stop picking on him, a hastily organised fan’s training session to cover up for the fact that the six or seven LCFC fans in Thailand had a PR circus put on for them. But still, at least everyone overseas can save money compared to home fans watching a buffering screen and Marty Fryatt’s exhilarating commentary [Fans? We don’t need fans where we’re going]. Less back to the future and more staying with the past. Woeful. 

 

And we’ve said hello and welcome back to the Rodgers apologists who now have a new ‘stop being negative’ flag to rally around. Back with their resentment of being proved to be so wrong about everything they’re grasping on to hope and hope alone that some kind of miracle is now in the offing - all smug in the knowledge that there’s thousands of them ready with clappers and coconuts in hand. 
 

Maybe we’ll shift the flotsam nobody seems to want and we don’t need, but five will get you ten we’ll say goodbye to our only guarantee of goals in Nacho instead. All of the business we should’ve done - all the business Maresca said himself was best done early - has not taken place. 
 

Maybe the new man really has fired up the squad and reinvigorated those who clearly hated playing football and everything Leicester last season. Maybe - but the signs aren’t there at the moment. 
 

Ultimately, the club appears to be continuing to operate as it has done, with those in charge failing to accept any responsibility, being held accountable or changing - and yet still overcharging for it. 
 

Pfft. 

[Daggers]

On 29/05/2023 at 13:43, Daggers said:

Ten weeks to define the club, Susan. Ten weeks, Top.

 

Pull your collective finger out.

Voiceover: They didn’t. 

[HighPeakFox]

I strongly advise everyone to look after themselves and not invest too much in this entity we have zero control over.

[Nick]

41 minutes ago, Daggers said:

So there it is.
 

Nine of the ten weeks gone and how have we leapt forward? Poorly. A paltry 4 out of 10.
 

A replacement management team carrying in no history - which could go either way, a couple of signings, an injury, some departures, junk unable to be offloaded, lack of pace and flair signed, and - in true LCFC fashion - an absolute shambles of a preseason with an absence of goals against piss weak opposition. A squad carrying no momentum into the start of the season, just jet lag. 

 

Off the field, zero communication about the review (like we’d expect anything else), a child’s whine from the owner to stop picking on him, a hastily organised fan’s training session to cover up for the fact that the six or seven LCFC fans in Thailand had a PR circus put on for them. But still, at least everyone overseas can save money compared to home fans watching a buffering screen and Marty Fryatt’s exhilarating commentary [Fans? We don’t need fans where we’re going]. Less back to the future and more staying with the past. Woeful. 

 

And we’ve said hello and welcome back to the Rodgers apologists who now have a new ‘stop being negative’ flag to rally around. Back with their resentment of being proved to be so wrong about everything they’re grasping on to hope and hope alone that some kind of miracle is now in the offing - all smug in the knowledge that there’s thousands of them ready with clappers and coconuts in hand. 
 

Maybe we’ll shift the flotsam nobody seems to want and we don’t need, but five will get you ten we’ll say goodbye to our only guarantee of goals in Nacho instead. All of the business we should’ve done - all the business Maresca said himself was best done early - has not taken place. 
 

Maybe the new man really has fired up the squad and reinvigorated those who clearly hated playing football and everything Leicester last season. Maybe - but the signs aren’t there at the moment. 
 

Ultimately, the club appears to be continuing to operate as it has done, with those in charge failing to accept any responsibility, being held accountable or changing - and yet still overcharging for it. 
 

Pfft. 

Straight back up then?

[FrankieADZ]

tbf i dont know what you are expecting in 10 weeks, 

 

for the shambles that have been within in the club for years, its going to need longer than 10 weeks to sort the shit out,

it is piss poor the way seem to be so slow with transfers atm and moronic idea to go thailand etc, 

 

*not defending none at the club btw

[5waller5]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

So there it is.
 

Nine of the ten weeks gone and how have we leapt forward? Poorly. A paltry 4 out of 10.
 

A replacement management team carrying in no history - which could go either way, a couple of signings, an injury, some departures, junk unable to be offloaded, lack of pace and flair signed, and - in true LCFC fashion - an absolute shambles of a preseason with an absence of goals against piss weak opposition. A squad carrying no momentum into the start of the season, just jet lag. 

 

Off the field, zero communication about the review (like we’d expect anything else), a child’s whine from the owner to stop picking on him, a hastily organised fan’s training session to cover up for the fact that the six or seven LCFC fans in Thailand had a PR circus put on for them. But still, at least everyone overseas can save money compared to home fans watching a buffering screen and Marty Fryatt’s exhilarating commentary [Fans? We don’t need fans where we’re going]. Less back to the future and more staying with the past. Woeful. 

 

And we’ve said hello and welcome back to the Rodgers apologists who now have a new ‘stop being negative’ flag to rally around. Back with their resentment of being proved to be so wrong about everything they’re grasping on to hope and hope alone that some kind of miracle is now in the offing - all smug in the knowledge that there’s thousands of them ready with clappers and coconuts in hand. 
 

Maybe we’ll shift the flotsam nobody seems to want and we don’t need, but five will get you ten we’ll say goodbye to our only guarantee of goals in Nacho instead. All of the business we should’ve done - all the business Maresca said himself was best done early - has not taken place. 
 

Maybe the new man really has fired up the squad and reinvigorated those who clearly hated playing football and everything Leicester last season. Maybe - but the signs aren’t there at the moment. 
 

Ultimately, the club appears to be continuing to operate as it has done, with those in charge failing to accept any responsibility, being held accountable or changing - and yet still overcharging for it. 
 

Pfft. 

I was about to write much the same… you’ve saved me a job.

 

Seems like a lack of hard graft at board level… more interested in training ground jollies around the globe than burning the midnight oil getting deals done.  
 

We’re far too passive.

[smudgerfox]

2 hours ago, Daggers said:

So there it is.
 

Nine of the ten weeks gone and how have we leapt forward? Poorly. A paltry 4 out of 10.
 

A replacement management team carrying in no history - which could go either way, a couple of signings, an injury, some departures, junk unable to be offloaded, lack of pace and flair signed, and - in true LCFC fashion - an absolute shambles of a preseason with an absence of goals against piss weak opposition. A squad carrying no momentum into the start of the season, just jet lag. 

 

Off the field, zero communication about the review (like we’d expect anything else), a child’s whine from the owner to stop picking on him, a hastily organised fan’s training session to cover up for the fact that the six or seven LCFC fans in Thailand had a PR circus put on for them. But still, at least everyone overseas can save money compared to home fans watching a buffering screen and Marty Fryatt’s exhilarating commentary [Fans? We don’t need fans where we’re going]. Less back to the future and more staying with the past. Woeful. 

 

And we’ve said hello and welcome back to the Rodgers apologists who now have a new ‘stop being negative’ flag to rally around. Back with their resentment of being proved to be so wrong about everything they’re grasping on to hope and hope alone that some kind of miracle is now in the offing - all smug in the knowledge that there’s thousands of them ready with clappers and coconuts in hand. 
 

Maybe we’ll shift the flotsam nobody seems to want and we don’t need, but five will get you ten we’ll say goodbye to our only guarantee of goals in Nacho instead. All of the business we should’ve done - all the business Maresca said himself was best done early - has not taken place. 
 

Maybe the new man really has fired up the squad and reinvigorated those who clearly hated playing football and everything Leicester last season. Maybe - but the signs aren’t there at the moment. 
 

Ultimately, the club appears to be continuing to operate as it has done, with those in charge failing to accept any responsibility, being held accountable or changing - and yet still overcharging for it. 
 

Pfft. 

I hate to be so negative but I have to agree with the bulk of this. The biggest positive seems to be that the players have understood the Enzo way and are enjoying taking it on board and implementing. But will they be implementing said methods come September? Or will Ricardo, Kelechi, Daka, Praet, Castagne, Faes all disappear in a last minute Fofana-style rush for the door? In which case their induction will have been for nothing. And there’ll be a new group to induct. Which will take time. Which we don’t have. 
 

And as an aside, when will this Derby born winger be announced?  He’s been reported as close to signing for well over a fortnight. 
 

The sleepwalk continues……

Edited 29 July 2023 by smudgerfox
To pacify pedant

[Notting your mums forest]

Would that be the sam French winger from Derby? 

[Daggers]

3 minutes ago, smudgerfox said:

The biggest positive seems to be that the players have understood the Enzo way and are enjoying taking it on board and implementing.

Yep.

 

It will all come down to whether he can address their mental fragility.