Fez of Mahrez Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 According to Football Rumours.co.uk... Wait don't tell me... the fifth dentist caved and now they're all recommending Trident?
Finnegan Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 Ho ho ho. No, it's much bigger than that. Keep guessing.
Manwell Pablo Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 Ho ho ho. No, it's much bigger than that. Keep guessing. Milan Mandaric is taking over the club.....
Jon the Hat Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 Milan Mandaric is taking over the club..... Don't be ridiculous, I've never heard such rubbish! You'll get no sort of thread going with tosh like that.
Master Fox Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 According to Football Rumours.co.uk... What's it say then Sobs? Post us a link or something please??
davieG Posted 26 September 2006 Author Posted 26 September 2006 My God you are deluded. Why have Chelsea become the dominating force in the Premiership - because they have plenty of money. As a chairman you have to have faith in your manager, you cannot tell him what to do. We do not have a decent team as we don't have a single player in our midfield with a bit of quality. It is sad but in football, you can buy success How about all the clubs where a so called financial benefactor arrived and where decent money has been spent and not brought success. Wolves, Brum, Derby, Forest, Cov etc.
Manwell Pablo Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 How about all the clubs where a so called financial benefactor arrived and where decent money has been spent and not brought success. Wolves, Brum, Derby, Forest, Cov etc. With the exception of Forest they are all doing better than us, Which is the point . Brum have only just dropped out of the prem, and its still very early days for Cov and Derby, Wolves are just jinksed. Money doesn't gurantee anything at all, certainly not over night. Your alot more likely to sucead with it however.
Daggers Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 Rushden and Diamonds ~ with money came success, without it again and they have the best looking ground in the GM. I'm not sure if this supports my belief that Mandaric coming would be a good thing or not
Fez of Mahrez Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 Rushden and Diamonds ~ with money came success, without it again and they have the best looking ground in the GM. I'm not sure if this supports my belief that Mandaric coming would be a good thing or not Moral of the story: don't let Mandaric sell the club to the Foxes Trust!!
Master Fox Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 Moral of the story: don't let Mandaric sell the club to the Foxes Trust!!
davieG Posted 26 September 2006 Author Posted 26 September 2006 Moral of the story: don't let Mandaric sell the club to the Foxes Trust!! I guess it's don't let them take you above your natural level and then leave.
davieG Posted 26 September 2006 Author Posted 26 September 2006 With the exception of Forest they are all doing better than us, Which is the point . Brum have only just dropped out of the prem, and its still very early days for Cov and Derby, Wolves are just jinksed. Money doesn't gurantee anything at all, certainly not over night. Your alot more likely to sucead with it however. Which was my point.
Daggers Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 I guess it's don't let them take you above your natural level and then leave. There's a good argument to say we are currently at ours
Manwell Pablo Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 Which was my point. Fair do's. Still better to have it than not have it.
davieG Posted 26 September 2006 Author Posted 26 September 2006 Fair do's. Still better to have it than not have it. Success or it, Ah I guess you would say both
Manwell Pablo Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 Success or it, Ah I guess you would say both I guess you could
Master Fox Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 Milan Mandaric has played down reports of a takeover bid for Leicester following his exit from Portsmouth. Mandaric, who had been non-executive chairman at Pompey since selling his share in the club, stepped down from that job after Monday's loss to Bolton. He told BBC Sport: "I'm a football man and love the game so am not ruling out that one day I will participate somewhere else. "I'm not thinking about it now. I need a rest and will see what I want to do." He added: "Right now, I just want to live with my very rich memories of Portsmouth." From The BBC Webite
Finnegan Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 I was taking the mick. I don't ACTUALLY know what Football Rumours has to say on the issue.
Daggers Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 It's funny, but I don't get any link between his statement and playing down a connection to us. He doesn't mention LCFC once!
gatesheadfox Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 even though birmingham have just been relegated the money that have had has improved them massively over the years, seeing as in 1995 (correct me if I am wrong) they were quite happy to have won the LDV vans trophy, now they are disappointed to have been relegated......quite a step up i think
Master Fox Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 It's funny, but I don't get any link between his statement and playing down a connection to us. He doesn't mention LCFC once! What link? He said he was interested in talking to Tim on the moan in last night.
Daggers Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 What link? Exactly! There is no link to us here
Ric Flair Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 If Milan Mandaric was a foreigner with a longtime passion for Leicester City and tales to tell about the best and worst games he'd watched here, I might be more impressed but to me he's just a foreign speculator, sometime who would buy Leicester City in the same way he'd buy any underperforming businesses to flatter his ego and boost his bank balance. Nothing wrong with that from his point of view but what I want to ask is am I the only one who thinks it utterly distasteful that our football club should be treated like the chips on a roulette table? Am I the only one who feels there's no merit whatsoever in saying that if we want a good football team the answer is simply to go out and buy one. Am I the only one who believes that building a football team is where the joy lies. Spotting potential in people and bringing that potential to fruition in the form of a group of people who emerge as a team worth watching? That is not to say there might not be lasting weaknesses in such a side and that the only way of eradicating those weaknesses would be to buy someone tailor made. But to me it is not only obscene to go out and pay ridiculous amounts of money for a small army of footballing mercenaries but also equally obscene to deny football the services of so many of those mercenaries by leaving them on a bench come Saturday afternoon. Personally I care nothing for football's razzamattaz as such. If Chelsea are on television I've not the slightest interest in watching them although I am always inclined to watch United because I love their style and couldn't give a toss if they are top of the League or in the middle. With Leicester I loved the days when we topped the old First Division and beat the likes of Law, Best, Charlton 6-0 or squeezed a 2-1 win over Liverpool's best ever football team. Matches like 8-4 against Sunderland are etched in the memory but the city players were familiar. They hadn'tbeen bankrolled for millions. Shilts went to school in Braunstone, Davie Gibson moved from Hibernian but lived near Leicester most of his adult life, Howard Riley is still to be seen at the club today. Crossy played cricket for the county as well as football for the City. Leicester today has an arguably unique situation in that its junior ranks are demonstrably stronger than probably ever before and certainly in recent history. Logan, Sterman, Sheehan, Wesolowski, Porter and O'Grady have all pulled on a first team shirt. And yet there still seems to be resentment in some quarters. Are there really so few people who appreciate what we've got here and who have an interest in seeing those top of their League players actually pushing through and topping or challenging at every subsequent grade, as they can do? Do they really want it all thrown away on the whim of a calculating gambler?. Just when the smoke is clearing from the tunnel of despair if only we realised it. What you say does hold some significance, but Thracian we have a board of directors who are clueless and un-ambitious and a manager who is vastly in-experienced. We can't build anything here because we don't have the resources or the brains in doing so. You might be able to dream up plans of what we should do, but they are as outrageous as us getting a multi millionaire in to take us back to the promise land. We have some good youngsters, but they haven't improved our results one iota. Infact we are worse this season than we were without the youngsters that have been given a chance if you look at the results, etc. I'm all for the youngsters being given a go if they are good enough and some of them are, but even they can't help us get out of the mess we are in. We need an ambitious board, a good manager and a good set of players who will give their all for the club and on a consistent basis. For us to get that then the only way we will is if we get some serious investment in to this club and if Milan Mandaric wants to buy us then that's good news in my opinion. He's got a great track record in football, as good as a club like Leicester could wish for. He'll be able to bring us a better manager, better players and hopefully better results. We will not get that with the current set up unless every other club in the football leagues fold and even then we'd probably lose to ourselves.
Thracian Posted 26 September 2006 Posted 26 September 2006 What you say does hold some significance, but Thracian we have a board of directors who are clueless and un-ambitious and a manager who is vastly in-experienced. We can't build anything here because we don't have the resources or the brains in doing so. You might be able to dream up plans of what we should do, but they are as outrageous as us getting a multi millionaire in to take us back to the promise land. We have some good youngsters, but they haven't improved our results one iota. Infact we are worse this season than we were without the youngsters that have been given a chance if you look at the results, etc. I'm all for the youngsters being given a go if they are good enough and some of them are, but even they can't help us get out of the mess we are in. We need an ambitious board, a good manager and a good set of players who will give their all for the club and on a consistent basis. For us to get that then the only way we will is if we get some serious investment in to this club and if Milan Mandaric wants to buy us then that's good news in my opinion. He's got a great track record in football, as good as a club like Leicester could wish for. He'll be able to bring us a better manager, better players and hopefully better results. We will not get that with the current set up unless every other club in the football leagues fold and even then we'd probably lose to ourselves. We are worse this season because the boss still refuses to ditch the constant underperformers - there is so much internal politics I actually doubt he will ever pick his strongest team. It doesn't help that Kelly has signed McAuley, Kenton, Low and Johnson. He's got four extra players to keep happy but none of the four have done anything to significantly improve our team (they have simply added to competition or given us cover) yet collectively they have added to the wage bill and made it harder for anyone else to come through.
gatesheadfox Posted 27 September 2006 Posted 27 September 2006 Mandaric plays down link to Foxes Milan Mandaric has played down reports of a takeover bid for Leicester following his exit from Portsmouth. Mandaric, who had been non-executive chairman at Pompey since selling his share in the club, stepped down from that job after Monday's loss to Bolton. He told BBC Sport: "I'm a football man and love the game so am not ruling out that one day I will participate somewhere else. "I'm not thinking about it now. I need a rest and will see what I want to do." He added: "Right now, I just want to live with my very rich memories of Portsmouth." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/5381432.stm hope his memories last a few days and he buys us next monday
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