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Reply | Morsy to Derby,...
at 10:07 13 Jul 2025
Every club in the championship would sign him given the chance. Derby being “interested” which is all that has been reported means nothing. |
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Reply | Cajuste
at 18:46 27 May 2025
It would be a great signing for us. A lot had been made of his ability to play a 46 game season but if he played 70 minutes in 30 games he’d still be great value. I’m not convinced our budget will be that limited and if it is I’d much prefer £10m on Cajuste than the £15m+ that Downes would apparently cost. I’d pick Cajuste over Downs even if Downes was half the cost of Cajuste. |
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Reply | Jack Clarke
at 19:42 25 May 2025
No we didn’t. The overall combined value of the players we signed last summer is more than their transfers fees . |
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Reply | This season - disaster?
at 16:07 19 May 2025
I called it a disaster in a thread earlier. You’re right, I could have picked my words more carefully. Disaster is a bit of an over-statement.
It’s been very disappointing and below expectation. Not relegation but the manner of it. There’s no way players would have joined and McKenna would have signed a new contract if they thought we wouldn’t even be competitive and make a fight of staying up. One home win, relegated well before the end of the season, nearly 20 points from safety and so on are surely well below what those that were making the decisions that mattered expected.
I think we’ll recover well and in the long term this season will hopefully be a blip but it’s difficult pulling out many real on-field positives from it. The expectations from the realists was fairly low but the team haven’t even got close to meeting them. It’s been a very poor and disappointing season. |
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Reply | Tactical fouls
at 14:36 19 May 2025
In isolation I agree with you. It was worth a yellow card to stop them building an attack that ended up in a goal within seconds of them being gifted the ball. The trouble is, we give the ball away several times a game and we look vulnerable every time. We’d end up with 8 players every game if we did it every time a team breaks. The real issue is how often and how cheaply we give the ball away. [Post edited 19 May 14:37]
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Thread | It can be dressed up any way you want…
at 08:20 19 May 2025
…One step back to take two forward, we’re ahead of plan, the gap was always going to be too big, impossible for a newly promoted club to stay up nowadays etc and I’d probably agree with you. I’d also argue that McKenna remains the best young manager in the country and is the best thing to happen to our club for a generation but let’s be honest, this season has been a disaster. We’ll bounce back and learn from it but there’s no way that McKenna, the owners, directors, players or supporters envisaged a season this poor when there was such momentum and investment in the summer. Relegation isn’t a surprise, maybe it was almost inevitable but we’ve not even made a fight of it. |
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Reply | Jamie Vardy
at 08:54 17 May 2025
So do I, i meant more after the game. |
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Thread | Jamie Vardy
at 08:33 17 May 2025
I’m sure he couldn’t care less but I’d like to see our fans show him some respect tomorrow.
Under-rated as a footballer, loyal to Leicester, an inspiration for those who don’t make it as professionals in their teens, part of the greatest story of the Premier League era and a down to earth bloke. In an era where there are so few “characters” he stands out. As for the song about his wife, it was mildly amusing the first time I heard it a few years ago but is now tedious and unoriginal. |
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Reply | We’ve won 4 in 36, 1 in 18 at home , can we drop the arrogance?
at 19:55 10 May 2025
If we have this squad minus Delap, Cajuste and Omari but with decent replacements for them and have KM in charge all season then I think we’ll go up. I don’t think it’s fear mongering to say that we could lose 6 or 7 of our better players and potentially our manager. If that happens then it’s going to be tough. |
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Reply | We’ve won 4 in 36, 1 in 18 at home , can we drop the arrogance?
at 19:46 10 May 2025
I agree but sometimes clubs underachieve just as sometimes they overachieve as we did last season. It happens but is only really an issue if players, owners, boards of directors, sponsors etc are fickle. Our club are in the best place we’ve been in for decades, it would be a huge shame if it unravelled if we don’t get off to a great start next season or if the season ends with us still in the championship. |
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Thread | We’ve won 4 in 36, 1 in 18 at home , can we drop the arrogance?
at 19:36 10 May 2025
The Championship is going to be tough. Our squad is a lot stronger than it was a year ago, financially the club are very well placed, the stadium has been upgraded and we’ve got an exceptional young manager. These are all massive points in our favour but despite them next season will be testing. Too many supporters are talking as if all we have to do is turn up and we’ll be promoted as champions with 100 points and 100 goals. It could happen , I’d love it to but I have my doubts.
A big overhaul in the squad this summer seems inevitable, despite Kieran saying he’ll be here, things can change and as we know very well, the championship is a hard league. We found league one challenging for 4 years, we didn’t even make the play offs for the first 3 before eventually getting promoted by the skin of our teeth.
This will be the 5th time I’ve seen us relegated (4 times from the top division, once from the Championship). Not once have we bounced straight back. The chances of us doing so next season are better than at any time in the past but it’s not guaranteed.
This isn’t intended as a negative post, just a reality check. My concern is that if a significant proportion of the fanbase think next season will be a walk in the park and we then get off to a bad start, the atmosphere will become quite toxic, quite early.
It’s going to be a long, hard season and it’s not going to be plain sailing. There will be plenty of upheaval over the summer. The players will have 3 weeks less off than the majority of teams in the league who are already on holiday. We’ve got a very good chance of bouncing back and I wouldn’t bet against us doing it but those of you expecting, maybe even demanding promotion would do well to remember where we were 3 years ago. [Post edited 10 May 19:37]
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Reply | Palmer
at 13:46 21 Apr 2025
I agree. He’s been a decent signing. |
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Reply | Palmer
at 12:08 21 Apr 2025
A genuinely premier league quality keeper would have probably saved it, just as premier league quality defenders would have prevented it from being a shot that needed to be saved.
Palmer has done well since he came in, a big improvement on Muric and probably at least as well as well as Walton would have done. He’s not in the top 17 or 18 keepers in the division but is likely to rank in the top 5 in the championship. You could say the same about almost every member of our squad in their positions.
The simple fact is, individually and collectively the players/team are not good enough to compete consistently in this league. |
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Reply | Could there be a one year exemption from relegation from the Premier League?
at 10:11 21 Apr 2025
If any club goes into a new season knowing they can’t be relegated the competition is significantly devalued. The premier league properly applying their own rules would help - the Man City situation is a farce.
My suggestion is that a maximum of 2 promoted clubs can be relegated in their first season. Just think how much life it would breathe into the end of a dead premier league season like this one - us v Leicester would be huge. West Ham, Spurs and Man U would be right in it. [Post edited 21 Apr 10:12]
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Reply | I’ve watched about a thousand games at Portman Road
at 09:22 21 Apr 2025
I can’t recall the details but remember the game (and the spectacular Dixon own goal).
I can name several games over the years where I would describe the performance as pathetic, yesterday wasn’t one of them. I’ve seen us play worse than we did yesterday many times but I don’t recall ever having seen us completely outclassed from start to finish. We didn’t even have a spell of pressure, at no point was there any momentum or a feeling that we could cause them any problems. They were totally dominant and all we could do was try to contain them, which in large spells and with some good fortune we did fairly well. Without the team having togetherness and some backbone it would have been double figures. |
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Thread | I’ve watched about a thousand games at Portman Road
at 20:23 20 Apr 2025
and that is the most comfortably I’ve ever seen us get beaten at home. We had just 4 shots, none of them on target and we didn’t even get a corner. Totally outplayed by an excellent team from the first kick to the last. I’m not complaining and I’m not annoyed, I’m just saying it as I saw it. |
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Reply | I wonder how KM feels right now
at 17:40 6 Apr 2025
He’s a better manager for the experience of this season but his stock is probably lower in some ways. Not for any sensible board who can see his quality but I imagine that trying to sell him to say Spurs fans this summer would be tougher than it would have been a year ago. A few bad results at a new club and the fans would be on his back.
I can’t remember exactly what he said but I remember listening to him being interviewed on the pitch after the Huddersfield game at the end of last season and got the impression he was on his way. I think he let his heart rule his head with his decision to stay and if he was completely honest may now view it as a mistake. I hope I’m wrong. I still think he’s a great manager and I want him to be be for a long time yet. [Post edited 6 Apr 17:40]
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