Just been confirmed that Abdul Fatawu is out for the rest of the season with an ACL injury. Truly horrific news for him.
He wasn't at his best (mainly I think thanks to Steve Cooper stripping him of his flair) but he was still one of our best performers and, at his peak, still our best player. This is a huge loss for us. Still, I guess it gives Cooper the prime excuse to get Ayew back into the first team again....
In other news, our highly respected, obviously completely legit sponsor BC.Game has reportedly gone bust. Whoever could have predicted that a dodgy crypto-gaming platform that paid a fortune for engagement on Elon Musk's hellsite would turn out to be bad at business?
What an absolute shower we are. 2024-25 is quickly shaping up to be one of the worst and most demoralising seasons in Leicester City's history.
Fatawu out for the season
posted 7 hours, 46 minutes ago
We’re going down. Even if we get Potter I think we’re going down. And when we do the EFL are ready and waiting for us with all sorts of penalties.
I keep saying it - it’s going to get a whole lot worse if Top doesn’t walk away and look for new owners. Even if he did that now he would be handing over a mess that will take some time to fix. The longer the King Power group stay here, the more the financial and football situation will spiral
Dark days to be a Leicester fan and you can see the apathy on these boards. The optimists and King Power backers have long left 606 leaving miserable gits like us to chat about how rubbish it is!
posted 7 hours, 22 minutes ago
Oh, we are definitely going down. Other than that weird period where we were winning games that we didn't deserve to, I don't think I have ever thought anything other than that relegation was nailed on. The only thing that might save us is if three teams somehow end up worse than us and we stay up on 25 points or some nonsense tally like that.
Honestly, when I heard the news, my main feeling was sadness for Fatawu rather than the club. I feel sorry for him, it's a big injury for a player still so young and, as we have seen in the past, there's no guarantee he returns from it as the player he was. It's a huge shame for him. I don't really care what it means for the club.
I think the general apathy is what makes this season feel so disconnected. 2 years ago, we were having a worse season, but at least the anger with Rodgers and the board was fuelling our passion. I don't think we have that now, it's just a malaise with a general understanding that we are likely to go down this season and that the club is in freefall, entirely of it's own making.
We have an owner who is out of his depth, accompanied by an inner circle who are completely useless, and who has taken away the cuddly, friendly, fan focussed ethos that his father had developed, turning us into another faceless, uncaring corporation that cares nothing about the fans or community. We have the worst manager in the league and a group of players who have some talent and potential but are being let down. We have a fancy new training ground which seems to have provided no benefit to the club, whilst the stadium is now over 20 years old and showing signs of decay with no significant improvements and planned work seemingly being mothballed. And we have a fanbase that is aging, apathetic and many of the match going fans seem content with this period of managed decline, as long as they get their freebies once every few months.
There's just nothing to this club anymore - it feels dead. We had two golden chances to establish ourselves as a club that could sustainably achieve top 6-8 status, and we blew it on both occasions. A real shame, but that's where we are now.
posted 7 hours, 16 minutes ago
Never mind, we've still got BCR to fall back on .
Really terrible news, probably snuffs out the last chance we had of staying up, although with Cooper's strange selection policy who knows how much he would have played?
In regard to Ayew, I thought he was injured too? I hate these international breaks, three since August - ridiculous!
We'll all get a boost on Saturday with three points against Chelsea. Stupid o'clock kick off though.
posted 7 hours, 6 minutes ago
Interesting Foxello, would you prefer to have Martin in charge? I'd also be unsure about O'Neil.
posted 6 hours, 52 minutes ago
comment by Nuneaton_fox (U7936)
posted 12 minutes ago
Interesting Foxello, would you prefer to have Martin in charge? I'd also be unsure about O'Neil.
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On balance, I think I'd prefer Martin Allen to Cooper, nevermind Martin O'Neill....
posted 5 hours, 31 minutes ago
comment by Foxello - "a miserable Rodgers obsessed weirdo" (U6985)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
comment by Nuneaton_fox (U7936)
posted 12 minutes ago
Interesting Foxello, would you prefer to have Martin in charge? I'd also be unsure about O'Neil.
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On balance, I think I'd prefer Martin Allen to Cooper, nevermind Martin O'Neill....
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😂😂😂 Bring back Mad Dog Allen!!
posted 4 hours, 16 minutes ago
comment by 98 Problems (and promotion ain’t one) (U12353)
posted 53 minutes ago
comment by Foxello - "a miserable Rodgers obsessed weirdo" (U6985)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
comment by Nuneaton_fox (U7936)
posted 12 minutes ago
Interesting Foxello, would you prefer to have Martin in charge? I'd also be unsure about O'Neil.
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On balance, I think I'd prefer Martin Allen to Cooper, nevermind Martin O'Neill....
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😂😂😂 Bring back Mad Dog Allen!!
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I take it from the response to my comments that neither of the current EPL managers mentioned would find particular favour.
It would have been interesting to see where we'd have finished up that season if MDA hadn't fallen out with Milan.
posted 4 hours, 1 minute ago
Sorry Nuneaton, I completely misread your post and that you were referring to MON For the record, I would take MON over Cooper, though I suspect he is happily retired now.
I would definitely take Gary O'Neil over Cooper. He did a better job, on more limited resources, at Bournemouth after promotion than Cooper did at Forest, and his first season at Wolves was reasonable up until the final third when it went downhill. He has struggled this season but I think he has a higher ceiling than Cooper. I could see him as a mid-table manager in a way I just don't see Cooper ever managing.
I would say Martin is marginally better than Cooper, though it is close. He is very wedded to his ideology, similar to Maresca last season, and we would face all the same issues that we would have hypothetically had under Maresca this season (though I think we would be faring better than we are under Cooper if Enzo had stayed). Southampton are the worst team in the league, so I am not sure whether you can gauge his ability on this season alone, but I think with the same team he would achieve a slightly higher level of performances and results than Cooper will. Maybe he will be our manager for next season's promotion push
posted 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
I’d argue Southampton are the worst team in the league because they’re playing Enzoball and have been rigidly stuck to that philosophy when it blatantly doesn’t work if you’re not Chelsea for eg. I reckon Corberan would be doing better with them.