Ric Flair Posted 8 March 2005 Posted 8 March 2005 Pinched this off another forum I sometimes read and I think this chap somes things up brilliantly. Let's chill out abit and get behind CL, we are in great danger of becoming so pessimistic and suicidal as we were under bum chin Adams earlier this season. We are in the process of changing things, start of a revolution and all that. Feast -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have to say I'm amazed at some of the rubbish that has been written and spoken about Craig Levein and our currently situaiton. Several folk on saturday were wanting Adams back with quite a few commenting on "not seeing much change". I think it's time people look at how big a mess Leicester City was and is in, and I don't just mean the first team. The club has been drifting for the last 4-5 years since O'Neill left and even under him, problems were being created. Something has been very wrong with the entire structure of the club since the mid-ninities. We haven't produced a single decent youth player in the last 10 years except for Heskey. There has been lots of promise, Piper being the most, but none of our current lot or those from the last few years have ever been talked about as potential transfer targets. Talk about clubs coming in for any of our players and paying money has been practically non-existant for several seasons- a real rariety for City. I think Levein has recognised these problems and has tried to correct the way the academy is being run. It can't be due to facitilites- they are first rate, so it must be done to the people running it. Getting the base of the club is so crucial and Levein recognises this. The first team squad was full of over paid 30+ journey men who were taking the club nowhere. Again, Levein hs done an admiral job in removing these players from the wage bill and is trying to bring in young, hungry and ambitious players. The sort of player who becomes part of a team for several years. An intersting statistic is too look at the number of appearances players have made for the club and look at how have made more than 100? Exactly, only Walker springs to mind and again this speaks volumes for why we are where we are. This club will take a long time to get back to where it should be and was under Martin George. Levein has started this process and it may take a trip to division 3 before we start climbing back up again. What can be certain is what ever division we are in next season, we will have a team to watch who want to wear a Leicester shirt and will try to play the game in the correct fashion, which is a lot more than can be said of the side over the last few seasons. More importanly, we will have greater finanical stability as the silly money that has been paid out will have stopped. It will be a difficult road ahead for us but I genuinely believe that this club is slowly heading in the right direction and under Levein, this will continue to happen.
Simon Posted 8 March 2005 Posted 8 March 2005 Pinched this off another forum I sometimes read and I think this chap somes things up brilliantly. Let's chill out abit and get behind CL, we are in great danger of becoming so pessimistic and suicidal as we were under bum chin Adams earlier this season. We are in the process of changing things, start of a revolution and all that.Feast -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have to say I'm amazed at some of the rubbish that has been written and spoken about Craig Levein and our currently situaiton. Several folk on saturday were wanting Adams back with quite a few commenting on "not seeing much change". I think it's time people look at how big a mess Leicester City was and is in, and I don't just mean the first team. The club has been drifting for the last 4-5 years since O'Neill left and even under him, problems were being created. Something has been very wrong with the entire structure of the club since the mid-ninities. We haven't produced a single decent youth player in the last 10 years except for Heskey. There has been lots of promise, Piper being the most, but none of our current lot or those from the last few years have ever been talked about as potential transfer targets. Talk about clubs coming in for any of our players and paying money has been practically non-existant for several seasons- a real rariety for City. I think Levein has recognised these problems and has tried to correct the way the academy is being run. It can't be due to facitilites- they are first rate, so it must be done to the people running it. Getting the base of the club is so crucial and Levein recognises this. The first team squad was full of over paid 30+ journey men who were taking the club nowhere. Again, Levein hs done an admiral job in removing these players from the wage bill and is trying to bring in young, hungry and ambitious players. The sort of player who becomes part of a team for several years. An intersting statistic is too look at the number of appearances players have made for the club and look at how have made more than 100? Exactly, only Walker springs to mind and again this speaks volumes for why we are where we are. This club will take a long time to get back to where it should be and was under Martin George. Levein has started this process and it may take a trip to division 3 before we start climbing back up again. What can be certain is what ever division we are in next season, we will have a team to watch who want to wear a Leicester shirt and will try to play the game in the correct fashion, which is a lot more than can be said of the side over the last few seasons. More importanly, we will have greater finanical stability as the silly money that has been paid out will have stopped. It will be a difficult road ahead for us but I genuinely believe that this club is slowly heading in the right direction and under Levein, this will continue to happen. 76076[/snapback] Excellent article. Sums everything up nicely...
Ricey Posted 8 March 2005 Posted 8 March 2005 Very nicely put and I totally agree. There is no need to panic, I know Levein is the man to take us forward.
Fox in a Box Posted 8 March 2005 Posted 8 March 2005 I think this is possibly the best article I have read so far on FOXESTALK! I'd rather 30 - 40K is spent on getting Alan Hill back, or getting more assistance to the backroom staff nurtering the youngsters. We used to be tagged as a club for whom your top 6 Prem teams would scour for players in the 80's and 90's MON then set a trend for getting in hungry so called failed players, LENNON<IZZET<ELLIOTT<SAV and he bought in some talent no one was interested in COTTEE is just one. Peter Taylor lost the plot and spent £23m or whatever on average players on high wages. Lets get back to the good old days of seeing real talent coming through, take a leaf out of MON book and also get some so called failed players not journey men in. Neil Mellor hes the kind of player. But I'm hearing Dawson,Dodds, and Chambers are the best of a average crop.
Nationwider Posted 8 March 2005 Posted 8 March 2005 I agree totally - particularly the comments about the lack of quality coming through (or being given the chance to come through) from the youth set-up. There'll always be a minority of whingers who just don't get that these things take time - maybe even seasons rather than a few months. I like Levein - let's see how far he's brought us come May 2006.....
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