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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2021 19:53:54 GMT
"Trying to penny pinch"? Are you taking the piss? Ambition my friend, we were sweet talking rafa at one stage even had him down the training ground numerous times, then we don't have the money or balls to give him what he wants. Go big or go Home in football, stand still and you go stale. Exactly as we did. One thing our owners cannot be accused of is penny pinching mate. They've spunked millions up the wall over the last few years the useless fuckers
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Post by simple on May 15, 2021 19:56:40 GMT
Well done,but why are our so called fans bashing our club because of there success.LCFC cleared all there debts by going into administration twice,costing local companies thousands,and job losses.At least our owner have not let us go into administration.So well done and the present owners seem ok,but remember they did not clear any debt off before they brought the club.
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Post by TinkerT on May 15, 2021 19:58:28 GMT
Ambition my friend, we were sweet talking rafa at one stage even had him down the training ground numerous times, then we don't have the money or balls to give him what he wants. Go big or go Home in football, stand still and you go stale. Exactly as we did. One thing our owners cannot be accused of is penny pinching mate. They've spunked millions up the wall over the last few years the useless fuckers They do in terms of bringing managers in. Apart from rowett we've always gone for the cheap option. Even when we went rowett we could have got rafa if we paid him well. He's always had a soft spot for us
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2021 19:58:47 GMT
Well done,but why are our so called fans bashing our club because of there success.LCFC cleared all there debts by going into administration twice,costing local companies thousands,and job losses.At least our owner have not let us go into administration.So well done and the present owners seem ok,but remember they did not clear any debt off before they brought the club. Why are our fans bashing our club? You been living in a cave for 5 years mate?
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Post by lordb on May 15, 2021 19:59:10 GMT
One thing our owners cannot be accused of is penny pinching mate. They've spunked millions up the wall over the last few years the useless fuckers They do in terms of bringing managers in. Apart from rowett we've always gone for the cheap option. Even when we went rowett we could have got rafa if we paid him well. He's always had a soft spot for us In the Championship? Give over
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2021 19:59:23 GMT
One thing our owners cannot be accused of is penny pinching mate. They've spunked millions up the wall over the last few years the useless fuckers They do in terms of bringing managers in. Apart from rowett we've always gone for the cheap option. Even when we went rowett we could have got rafa if we paid him well. He's always had a soft spot for us With all due respect mate..... That's laughable bollocks.
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Post by mickstupp on May 15, 2021 20:00:26 GMT
One thing our owners cannot be accused of is penny pinching mate. They've spunked millions up the wall over the last few years the useless fuckers They do in terms of bringing managers in. Apart from rowett we've always gone for the cheap option. Even when we went rowett we could have got rafa if we paid him well. He's always had a soft spot for us I don’t think we would have ever got Benitez. What makes you say he’s got a soft spot for us?
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Post by AlliG on May 15, 2021 20:25:11 GMT
The great thing with Leicester winning is that you could tell that it really meant something special to both the players and the fans.
When the usual suspects win, the celebrations always seem a bit half hearted and going through the motions.
I was quite surprised to see how many of the 1963 and 1969 teams are still around to see their team lift the Cup. It's just a shame that the likes of Banksie and Frank Worthington weren't around to see it.
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Post by boskampsflaps on May 15, 2021 20:46:52 GMT
One thing our owners cannot be accused of is penny pinching mate. They've spunked millions up the wall over the last few years the useless fuckers They do in terms of bringing managers in. Apart from rowett we've always gone for the cheap option. Even when we went rowett we could have got rafa if we paid him well. He's always had a soft spot for us MON is meant to be on 1.5mil a year, I'd hardly call that penny pinching given our situation, it's a lot closer to over spending in reality.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on May 15, 2021 20:51:44 GMT
One thing our owners cannot be accused of is penny pinching mate. They've spunked millions up the wall over the last few years the useless fuckers They do in terms of bringing managers in. Apart from rowett we've always gone for the cheap option. Even when we went rowett we could have got rafa if we paid him well. He's always had a soft spot for us That’s nonsense, come on.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2021 20:52:00 GMT
Great to see hardly any fans wearing masks as well. People are caring less every single day. Great or disturbing........ just asking......... Great.
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Post by spitthedog on May 15, 2021 21:05:08 GMT
They do in terms of bringing managers in. Apart from rowett we've always gone for the cheap option. Even when we went rowett we could have got rafa if we paid him well. He's always had a soft spot for us I don’t think we would have ever got Benitez. What makes you say he’s got a soft spot for us? He likes a couple of oatcakes with his Paella?
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Post by numpty40 on May 15, 2021 21:13:05 GMT
Well done Leicester, most enjoyable cup final I've watched in a few years and refreshing to see the genuine joy of the players and supporters. Fofana was immense for Leicester, he's only 20 and shows what an excellent scouting team Leicester have. In January 2016 Leicester signed Ndidi for £17m, we signed Imbula for £18m. In August 2018 Leicester signed Soyuncu for £18m, we signed Wimmer for a similar fee. The two Leicester players are probably now worth in excess of £50m and we couldn't get a pack of rizlas for our two.
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Post by kidcrewbob on May 15, 2021 21:15:41 GMT
Having the balls to appoint Ranieri was the obvious turning point, and they then built on that and were able to get Rodgers, having said that when we appointed Brian Little that was seen as something ambitious, and for a short time it was... I said same to a life-long Leicester fan the other week but he didn’t quite agree - he said that whilst Ranieri did a great job he really didn’t do anything radical and just enabled a team built largely under Nigel Pearson to realise their potential without too much interference. Interesting observation - maybe if we’d gone for a decent foreign coach to take the Hughes squad “to the next level” when although we’d peaked, we were still a decent mid table side instead of letting it get to abject crisis we’d have perhaps seen a different outcome.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on May 15, 2021 21:20:15 GMT
Having the balls to appoint Ranieri was the obvious turning point, and they then built on that and were able to get Rodgers, having said that when we appointed Brian Little that was seen as something ambitious, and for a short time it was... I said same to a life-long Leicester fan the other week but he didn’t quite agree - he said that whilst Ranieri did a great job he really didn’t do anything radical and just enabled a team built largely under Nigel Pearson to realise their potential without too much interference. Interesting observation - maybe if we’d gone for a decent foreign coach to take the Hughes squad “to the next level” when although we’d peaked, we were still a decent mid table side instead of letting it get to abject crisis we’d have perhaps seen a different outcome. They did make 3-4 absolutely key signings that summer post-Pearson though. Not sure if it’s Walsh or Ranieri who gets credit for that, presumably a bit of both.
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Post by a on May 15, 2021 21:29:36 GMT
Classic smash and grab.
Get over it.
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Post by fullmetaljacket on May 15, 2021 21:29:47 GMT
Fair play to them. At least we went out to the winners
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Post by kidcrewbob on May 15, 2021 21:31:17 GMT
Ambition my friend, we were sweet talking rafa at one stage even had him down the training ground numerous times, then we don't have the money or balls to give him what he wants. Go big or go Home in football, stand still and you go stale. Exactly as we did. One thing our owners cannot be accused of is penny pinching mate. They've spunked millions up the wall over the last few years the useless fuckers Spot on - we have been profligate (insanely so in some cases) yet lacking in conviction (or downright refusal?) to break out from the straightjacket of “tradition” and embrace a Leicester-style approach to transitioning from the beer and sandwiches of yesteryear to becoming a modern professionally run business. If we do get another bite of the Prem cherry then there needs to be radical change to give us the very best chance of not only survival but to be genuinely competitive - we had our moments for sure (and for that I remain eternally grateful but it was always going to end in relegation.
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Post by Davef on May 15, 2021 21:32:25 GMT
There are fans of 20 odd clubs who'll be thinking that they could/should be in the position that Leicester currently find themselves in, and there are at least half a dozen of them who are much bigger clubs than we are.
What makes us so special?
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Post by kidcrewbob on May 15, 2021 21:36:04 GMT
There are fans of 20 odd clubs who'll be thinking that they could/should be in the position that Leicester currently find themselves in, and there are at least half a dozen of them who are much bigger clubs than we are. What makes us so special? Insanely wealthy owners who love the bones of our club - or maybe that’s the problem, too much heart and not enough head ?
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on May 15, 2021 22:45:09 GMT
There are fans of 20 odd clubs who'll be thinking that they could/should be in the position that Leicester currently find themselves in, and there are at least half a dozen of them who are much bigger clubs than we are. What makes us so special? Because we were a short while ago in a better position on field with even greater resources off it only 30 clubs in the world had bigger income and diabolical repeated mismanagement at every level in our case , sees them win the two biggest domestic trophies and come out stronger from catastrophic loss of owner while we lose 80% of our income teeter on the brink of FFP and reside in the bottom half of the championship . We had every opportunity very very few had the scale the resources and the top 10 position and established status we threw away
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Post by spitthedog on May 15, 2021 23:01:22 GMT
I said same to a life-long Leicester fan the other week but he didn’t quite agree - he said that whilst Ranieri did a great job he really didn’t do anything radical and just enabled a team built largely under Nigel Pearson to realise their potential without too much interference. Interesting observation - maybe if we’d gone for a decent foreign coach to take the Hughes squad “to the next level” when although we’d peaked, we were still a decent mid table side instead of letting it get to abject crisis we’d have perhaps seen a different outcome. They did make 3-4 absolutely key signings that summer post-Pearson though. Not sure if it’s Walsh or Ranieri who gets credit for that, presumably a bit of both. I think you have to give huge credit to any manager who can guide a team like Leicester City to a Premiership title. Whatever Pearson put in place, did that make it a cakewalk to achieve a Premiership title?.....I really can't buy that for one second! One thing is to build a team, another is to get it to out perform everyone else over 38 games, against some of the strongest teams in the world. Kante came in under Ranieri as well which made a big difference, that was mostly down to Steve Walsh. Okazaki also came in under Ranieri who also quite an influential player that season
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Post by swinny on May 16, 2021 7:15:25 GMT
There are fans of 20 odd clubs who'll be thinking that they could/should be in the position that Leicester currently find themselves in, and there are at least half a dozen of them who are much bigger clubs than we are. What makes us so special? Given it's fairly recent history, it's not an unfair comparison. It's not even a hindsight issue. People saw the writing on the wall long before Hughes was sacked. As far as the game was concerned, it's the first time in well over a year that I've been properly emotionally invested in a game of football and the merits of competition - rather than performing in an empty stadium where the stakes feel void. Having fans in showed how important we are to the game. More so than fucking VAR.
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Post by lawrieleslie on May 16, 2021 8:25:26 GMT
Many congratulations Leicester. How to run a club properly. One word and Arnie summed it up, AMBITION. Not just our owners though, the whole of Stoke run down the city and class us as little Old Stoke. In after match interview of Rodgers yesterday he was asked about the clubs recent and sustained success. Rodgers thought for a moment and then said along the lines of "it’s all about the club's owners, staff, players and fans all work in harmony". For me that answers the question of why aren’t we achieving what Leicester have given our financial backing.
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Post by zerps on May 16, 2021 8:29:22 GMT
One word and Arnie summed it up, AMBITION. Not just our owners though, the whole of Stoke run down the city and class us as little Old Stoke. In after match interview of Rodgers yesterday he was asked about the clubs recent and sustained success. Rodgers thought for a moment and then said along the lines of "it’s all about the club's owners, staff, players and fans all work in harmony". For me that answers the question of why aren’t we achieving what Leicester have given our financial backing. Exactly - we all hate the players, manager, board and most of our other fans.
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Post by mickstupp on May 16, 2021 8:51:41 GMT
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Post by TinkerT on May 16, 2021 9:08:08 GMT
In after match interview of Rodgers yesterday he was asked about the clubs recent and sustained success. Rodgers thought for a moment and then said along the lines of "it’s all about the club's owners, staff, players and fans all work in harmony". For me that answers the question of why aren’t we achieving what Leicester have given our financial backing. Exactly - we all hate the players, manager, board and most of our other fans. To be fair, in our first season down a few first half home games I thought we played ok went in level and they were bood off by the majority of "supporters" I just thought WTF. When they were down on confidence and needed us get behind them, again, they were bood off. Some performances were terrible and deserved it but others it's almost like our fans don't even know the game. It's the same when we used pass it around and fans would boo. Then a few seasons earlier were raving about stokalona.
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Post by zerps on May 16, 2021 9:12:54 GMT
Exactly - we all hate the players, manager, board and most of our other fans. To be fair, in our first season down a few first half home games I thought we played ok went in level and they were bood off by the majority of "supporters" I just thought WTF. When they were down on confidence and needed us get behind them, again, they were bood off. Some performances were terrible and deserved it but others it's almost like our fans don't even know the game. It's the same when we used pass it around and fans would boo. Then a few seasons earlier were raving about stokalona. We needed booing this season. Mon was very lucky. It was absolutely abysmal football.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2021 10:20:44 GMT
Exactly - we all hate the players, manager, board and most of our other fans. To be fair, in our first season down a few first half home games I thought we played ok went in level and they were bood off by the majority of "supporters" I just thought WTF. When they were down on confidence and needed us get behind them, again, they were bood off. Some performances were terrible and deserved it but others it's almost like our fans don't even know the game. It's the same when we used pass it around and fans would boo. Then a few seasons earlier were raving about stokalona. On this point- when we do get back to the football in hopefully, August - if you're the type of bell-end to boo your own team - stay away and continue doing whatever it is you've been filling your time with. There's a difference between "not cheering" a Sam Vokes slicer from 3 yards, to actually booing it. Sit there quiet by all means, moan to your mates, whatever. But if you're going to buy a ticket to boo your own side - don't bother. We have an opportunity (having missed 'live' football for over a year) to breathe some life back into the matchday experience.
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Post by TinkerT on May 16, 2021 11:48:20 GMT
To be fair, in our first season down a few first half home games I thought we played ok went in level and they were bood off by the majority of "supporters" I just thought WTF. When they were down on confidence and needed us get behind them, again, they were bood off. Some performances were terrible and deserved it but others it's almost like our fans don't even know the game. It's the same when we used pass it around and fans would boo. Then a few seasons earlier were raving about stokalona. On this point- when we do get back to the football in hopefully, August - if you're the type of bell-end to boo your own team - stay away and continue doing whatever it is you've been filling your time with. There's a difference between "not cheering" a Sam Vokes slicer from 3 yards, to actually booing it. Sit there quiet by all means, moan to your mates, whatever. But if you're going to buy a ticket to boo your own side - don't bother. We have an opportunity (having missed 'live' football for over a year) to breathe some life back into the matchday experience. They will be back mate. Don't know whats its about as it never happened in the prem
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