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Will1981

Harry Winks

By Will1981, in Leicester City Forum

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iancognito

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8 hours ago, cropstonfox said:

 

He was a football man who was never liked here because:- He was ex Forest.He had funny eyes.We thought we were better than we were.

 

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Let me correct you on this Coops.

 

No-one could give a shit about your eyes or who you managed. If that was an issue Nottingham-born Pearson and Forest Ledge O'Neill would have lasted  half a season too.

 

You were disliked because your football was appalling, we scraped wins against relegation fodder with 10 men, we were conceding 30 shots a game and you dropped Fatawu, Mavididi and Ricardo in favour of Ayew, Reid and Justin.

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cropstonfox

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18 minutes ago, iancognito said:

Let me correct you on this Coops.

 

No-one could give a shit about your eyes or who you managed. If that was an issue Nottingham-born Pearson and Forest Ledge O'Neill would have lasted  half a season too.

 

You were disliked because your football was appalling, we scraped wins against relegation fodder with 10 men, we were conceding 30 shots a game and you dropped Fatawu, Mavididi and Ricardo in favour of Ayew, Reid and Justin.

 Fatawu Dropped because he was injured 
 
ACL ,full season
so was Ricardo who's injury was being managed .
Nobody liked Coopers face or demeanor He was not trendy enough
O'Neil was also hated. Ask him about the sheff united game reaction
Cooper was Hounded out and replaced by
a useless replacement 
 
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Corky

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Cooper came in unexpectedly too given it was heavily rumoured Potter was virtually in the door. I don't rate him particularly highly but we were gearing up for that only to see another manager appointed.

 

The Nottingham Forest thing is massively overplayed. It wasn't the biggest issue at all.

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Danizen

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14 minutes ago, Corky said:

Cooper came in unexpectedly too given it was heavily rumoured Potter was virtually in the door. I don't rate him particularly highly but we were gearing up for that only to see another manager appointed.

 

The Nottingham Forest thing is massively overplayed. It wasn't the biggest issue at all.

Yeah, that narrative was being desperately peddled by Forest fans to make it in a 'cut your nose off...' situation.

 

The reality is, we saw what happened to Kompany's Burnley and we saw frailties in Maresca's football, when we had our stumble. As a fanbase, we acknowledged the need for a more pragmatic manager and most of us were willing to give Cooper a chance. The football was appalling, the stats told the full story despite being out of the relegation zone. We were only getting worse. It seemed like the players weren't having him either. 

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Gamble92

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41 minutes ago, trooky said:

Have you got any takers? 

Faes, Soumare, Winks etc are very easy to shift. They're leading championship level and always have Prem teams sniffing.  

 

Rudkin is a very good negotiator too apparently.

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Lesterlad

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14 hours ago, nnfox said:

No, Ward was Rodgers.

 

Puel never made a bad signing :wub:

Most of Puel's signings were top notch, (There were some duds) and we could of sold most for a tidy profit, but Mr Rudkin liked to give them away. We could do a lot worse then having Puel has director of football

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CL Fox

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1 minute ago, Lesterlad said:

Puel's signings were top notch, and we could of sold all for a tidy profit, but Mr Rudkin liked to give them away. We could do a lot worse then having Puel has director of football

Yeah Rachid Ghezzal and Diabete were absolutely incredible to be fair.

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Lesterlad

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2 minutes ago, CL Fox said:

Yeah Rachid Ghezzal and Diabete were absolutely incredible to be fair.

I think i may of been slightly blindsided there i will reword it lol  Is that better lol

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Dan

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23 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Acted a twat for two managers who both eventually got him out, results have picked up since he's been out. You'd hope any potential future clubs pick up on these points.

Not until we've got rid lol 

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glenny_fox

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14 hours ago, cropstonfox said:
 Fatawu Dropped because he was injured 
 
ACL ,full season
so was Ricardo who's injury was being managed .
Nobody liked Coopers face or demeanor He was not trendy enough
O'Neil was also hated. Ask him about the sheff united game reaction
Cooper was Hounded out and replaced by
a useless replacement 
 
 

Nobody would have gave a toss about how ugly cooper was if he had done stuff right. the football was absolute turgid, and we were only heading in one direction and we all knew it. During his tenure, we had 115 shots with an xg of 11.74 (3.1 of that was against southampton), and faced 228 shots with an xg of 22.8.

 

Fatawu wasn't injured at the start of the season. he was fully available for the first 11 matches, of which he played the full 90 in 5 of those (1st 2 & last 3 matches). the 6 inbetween he played a total of 129 minutes.

 

if a manager comes in whos tactics are dreadful, battered in nearly every game. signings are woeful (well documented he wanted prem experience), team selections are baffling (fatawu, ricardo, bilal) then i don't think it really matters if his face is a bit mashed up. He's getting sacked either way. just unfortunate that the replacement was also completely inept.

 

 

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Stadt

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£10m and a 3 year deal has quietly gone under the radar as very, very dumb.

 

3 years without an option to extend has left us completely exposed to losing another player on a free (not that Rudkinbana would have sold him anyway).

 

We shouldn’t spend significant sums at all because there’a always about a 50% chance the player leaves on a free. We have a great academy and the occasional gem we sell to fund idiocy.

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teblin

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15 hours ago, cropstonfox said:
 Fatawu Dropped because he was injured 
 
ACL ,full season
so was Ricardo who's injury was being managed .
Nobody liked Coopers face or demeanor He was not trendy enough
O'Neil was also hated. Ask him about the sheff united game reaction
Cooper was Hounded out and replaced by
a useless replacement 
 
 

Cooper was crap, Ruud was Crap. 

 

Adbul and Ricky didn't play before the injuries. Which is why I was frustrated with Cooper. Ruud didn't have the choice, but was terrible with other decisions.

kenny

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7 minutes ago, teblin said:

Cooper was crap, Ruud was Crap. 

 

Adbul and Ricky didn't play before the injuries. Which is why I was frustrated with Cooper. Ruud didn't have the choice, but was terrible with other decisions.

Cooper stated he watched all of our Championship games and knew our best attributes.

 

He then went on to drop the best performers from that season and change the formation entirely.

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tylesta

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15 hours ago, cropstonfox said:
 Fatawu Dropped because he was injured 
 
ACL ,full season
so was Ricardo who's injury was being managed .
Nobody liked Coopers face or demeanor He was not trendy enough
O'Neil was also hated. Ask him about the sheff united game reaction
Cooper was Hounded out and replaced by
a useless replacement 
 
 

He was dropped before he was injured remember him coming on as a sub v Southampton and changing the game 

MPH

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On 14/12/2025 at 07:40, cropstonfox said:

Cooper knew what was wanted and how best to manage it in a desperate situation.

He was a football man who was never liked here because:- He was ex Forest.He had funny eyes.We thought we were better than we were.

When we are promoted next season after the clear out of the long term dross left over from Rogers, we will thank Cooper

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Wes Morgan literally came straight from the Forest team into ours and he was fairly well liked…

5waller5

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16 hours ago, cropstonfox said:
 
O'Neil was also hated. Ask him about the sheff united game reaction
 
 
 


I’m all for bending the truth to prove a point, but this is a ridiculous statement.

 

There was a small amount of negative chants at that game (1 in 8 of the group that I used to go with joined in …. Very briefly, and was never allowed to forget it from the rest of us). 
 

MON did hear those chants and was certainly hurt by them, and didn’t seem to ever forget. 
 

But even at that low point MON was never “hated”

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Sol thewall Bamba

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On 24/08/2025 at 08:46, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Genuinely who is he holding out for? No one is in for you Harry, your agent's little sprinkling of rumours the other week did nothing.

Can't wait for the agent talk to come in the next few days ready for January. Predicting a very optimistic (from his point of view) link to Fulham, a wildcard French/German top division side and "a host of Championship clubs".

 

Nothing will happen and he'll leave on July 1. 

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Pita

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On 15/12/2025 at 18:03, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Can't wait for the agent talk to come in the next few days ready for January. Predicting a very optimistic (from his point of view) link to Fulham, a wildcard French/German top division side and "a host of Championship clubs".

 

Nothing will happen and he'll leave on July 1. 

Spot on 🤣🤣🤣

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