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Foxedup

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1 minute ago, MrRaspberryJam said:

 

Whats the crack there then? From the outside looking in I'd say he did a decent job overall: FA Cup win, Community Shield and 2x European place finishes, narrowly missing out on CL both times IIRC?

 

That being said, I know how fucking infuriating it is when an outsider tells fans who watch their team on a weekly basis how they should be thinking. Happened every week to us under Bruce from his media pals.

He inherited a wonderful young team full of talent and a 20 goal a season striker. It worked wonderfully to start with, but sadly the club allowed him to get rid of our physios and replace them with his own. Along with then head of recruitment being his choice.

 

That's when the injuries started, he's ruined numerous players through injury and we were missing most of our team for huge chunks of seasons. His signings in the main have been utterly woeful, buying and then casting aside players. So he can moan about money all he wants, he wasted about £220m on utter shit that never troubled those already starting.

 

So things started to go stale within the squad, players started to get unhappy as he was forever throwing them under the bus, or not giving players a chance. We basically entered last season with about 11 players running down contracts and wanting out of the club.

 

Then you have the football, he's inherently negative and is more worried about the opposition than he is focusing on what we are good at. We were absolutely flying to start with, we lost one game and he just bottled it, going negative constantly. The football just got more an more negative as he went along, he couldn't fix any problems... see our set piece issue which went on for several years, until he accepted he couldn't sort it and brought in an outside specialist. 

 

He basically just slowing chipped away at the fabric of the club bit by bit, of course that's on the head of those at the club allowing him to do so. But things started well and they thought he was god. 

 

There is no way we should have been relegated in a million years, ludicrous we were. That's down to his man management, in the summer all he did was slag the club off and set a negative mindset from the off. He could have gone down the route of siege mentality, but just chose to try and save himself and his reputation at every opportunity. How the club didn't sack him last summer I don't know.

 

Anyway, it's so hard to get across without writing a book. Safe to say even before relegation the man was despised by most, which says a lot. 

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Foxedup

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9 minutes ago, Gallowgate Toon said:

Quite a lot made about his lack of take-on success from last season but it seemed to be down a lot from his previous seasons which were closely aligned to the league average. Did Leicester change LBs or something? 

We just slowed down so much, slow ball, no movement. The opposition was well set before he even got the ball, add in lack of confidence... oh and I think he was struggling from the serious knee injury from the season before. 

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2 minutes ago, Foxedup said:

He inherited a wonderful young team full of talent and a 20 goal a season striker. It worked wonderfully to start with, but sadly the club allowed him to get rid of our physios and replace them with his own. Along with then head of recruitment being his choice.

 

That's when the injuries started, he's ruined numerous players through injury and we were missing most of our team for huge chunks of seasons. His signings in the main have been utterly woeful, buying and then casting aside players. So he can moan about money all he wants, he wasted about £220m on utter shit that never troubled those already starting.

 

So things started to go stale within the squad, players started to get unhappy as he was forever throwing them under the bus, or not giving players a chance. We basically entered last season with about 11 players running down contracts and wanting out of the club.

 

Then you have the football, he's inherently negative and is more worried about the opposition than he is focusing on what we are good at. We were absolutely flying to start with, we lost one game and he just bottled it, going negative constantly. The football just got more an more negative as he went along, he couldn't fix any problems... see our set piece issue which went on for several years, until he accepted he couldn't sort it and brought in an outside specialist. 

 

He basically just slowing chipped away at the fabric of the club bit by bit, of course that's on the head of those at the club allowing him to do so. But things started well and they thought he was god. 

 

There is no way we should have been relegated in a million years, ludicrous we were. That's down to his man management, in the summer all he did was slag the club off and set a negative mindset from the off. He could have gone down the route of siege mentality, but just chose to try and save himself and his reputation at every opportunity. How the club didn't sack him last summer I don't know.

 

Anyway, it's so hard to get across without writing a book. Safe to say even before relegation the man was despised by most, which says a lot. 

It's crazy when you think how highly he is rated

 

It's a shame he didn't sign for Spurs, reading that

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4 minutes ago, Ankles Bennett said:

I wonder if Miggy will be the next sacrificial lamb to join the Saudi Pro league Wouldn't be bad if he was replaced by Diaby!!

Can't see us flogging Miggy ahead of a season with so many more demands. You'd struggle to find a harder working winger in world football - making replacing what he brings to the team a nightmare, even if quality wise you could find better for sure

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7 minutes ago, Ankles Bennett said:

I wonder if Miggy will be the next sacrificial lamb to join the Saudi Pro league Wouldn't be bad if he was replaced by Diaby!!

 

Doubt it.

 

He offers far more than what ASM did last season and his defensive work alone is massive for us.

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Toon88

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Almiron will be prime candidate to go next summer. I’d imagine it will be MLS for him. It won’t be the star names, but it will be one reasonable expendable player each summer, from here. Just to keep FFP in check

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10 minutes ago, Toon88 said:

Almiron will be prime candidate to go next summer. I’d imagine it will be MLS for him. It won’t be the star names, but it will be one reasonable expendable player each summer, from here. Just to keep FFP in check

MLS record transfer is around £12m. Miggy has another two years on his contract after this coming season I think. There’s zero chance imo that we would or could sell him there. 

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Toon88

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1 minute ago, relámpago blanco said:

It hink we need another striker.  What do we do if Isak and Wilson get injured..

We don’t have a limitless pot. You back Wilson & Isak. We can’t sign another striker, he’d be third choice. No chance of attracting anyone decent. We got other priorities to focus on. 
 

I’d think we’d be terribly unlucky for them both to be injured for long periods at the same time.

 

 

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12 minutes ago, relámpago blanco said:

It hink we need another striker.  What do we do if Isak and Wilson get injured..

 

I could hunt my old Umbro boots out of the loft, however I can only play the Tuesday Champions League games and I golf on a Sunday so that days out, but I'm sure Eddie could plan around my schedule.

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4 minutes ago, PauloGeordio said:

 

Puts it into perspective very nicely..don't think we know how good he will be with us yet... Esp with what Foxedup said about Rogers for all those years. Think he will go to another level. 

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4 minutes ago, Lish007 said:

Puts it into perspective very nicely..don't think we know how good he will be with us yet... Esp with what Foxedup said about Rogers for all those years. Think he will go to another level. 

So do I, very excited for him and us. Bet Eddie is thrilled too! :indi:

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Kid Icarus

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1 hour ago, Foxedup said:

He inherited a wonderful young team full of talent and a 20 goal a season striker. It worked wonderfully to start with, but sadly the club allowed him to get rid of our physios and replace them with his own. Along with then head of recruitment being his choice.

 

That's when the injuries started, he's ruined numerous players through injury and we were missing most of our team for huge chunks of seasons. His signings in the main have been utterly woeful, buying and then casting aside players. So he can moan about money all he wants, he wasted about £220m on utter shit that never troubled those already starting.

 

So things started to go stale within the squad, players started to get unhappy as he was forever throwing them under the bus, or not giving players a chance. We basically entered last season with about 11 players running down contracts and wanting out of the club.

 

Then you have the football, he's inherently negative and is more worried about the opposition than he is focusing on what we are good at. We were absolutely flying to start with, we lost one game and he just bottled it, going negative constantly. The football just got more an more negative as he went along, he couldn't fix any problems... see our set piece issue which went on for several years, until he accepted he couldn't sort it and brought in an outside specialist. 

 

He basically just slowing chipped away at the fabric of the club bit by bit, of course that's on the head of those at the club allowing him to do so. But things started well and they thought he was god. 

 

There is no way we should have been relegated in a million years, ludicrous we were. That's down to his man management, in the summer all he did was slag the club off and set a negative mindset from the off. He could have gone down the route of siege mentality, but just chose to try and save himself and his reputation at every opportunity. How the club didn't sack him last summer I don't know.

 

Anyway, it's so hard to get across without writing a book. Safe to say even before relegation the man was despised by most, which says a lot. 

A lot of stuff here that's relatable with our previous managers definitely. Infuriating when opposition fans and even some of your own fans don't see it :lol:

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3 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

A lot of stuff here that's relatable with our previous managers definitely. Infuriating when opposition fans and even some of your own fans don't see it :lol:

I was thinking of Pardew all the way through that.

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