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uk66fastback said:
Fast Bug said:
I can see Vardy staying at Leicester
I think he will as well. Maddison will go of course. As will Tielemanns. Harvey Barnes too, maybe. We’ll lose about 12 players, gonna be a right mess next season.
GloverMart said:
P. ONeill said:
One less club to sing about victims, tories, murderers, sign on etc.
F**k of Jamie Vardy.
You’re going down.
What a strange thing to say about one of the least offensive clubs to have played in the Premier League. F**k of Jamie Vardy.
You’re going down.
On the plus side, at least we all know now what the P stands for in your user name!
Sad times, but it’s been on the cards all season. Time to regroup (with a bunch of stars gone), rebuild and return.
Leicester Loyal said:
We’ll lose about 12 players, gonna be a right mess next season.
Appreciate it's no consolation whatsoever but I expect we (Leeds) will lose a similar number from our first team squad over the summer and, unless something happens very quickly to resolve our ownership and managerial situation, I fear we'll also be in a real mess next season......Far from vilifying Vardy surely this is a second chance for him. It was clear that the end of his Premier League career was nigh, and I thank him for his fabulous contribution to the club's past success, but surely there is now a chance for him to contribute at a lower level now. He can be effective in the Championship.
lowdrag said:
Far from vilifying Vardy surely this is a second chance for him. It was clear that the end of his Premier League career was nigh, and I thank him for his fabulous contribution to the club's past success, but surely there is now a chance for him to contribute at a lower level now. He can be effective in the Championship.
Indeed. As a Canary I think he'll slice through our defence like it's butter. Too old for the PL but still got a lot to offer.Maddison is good enough for any of the top 6 teams.
nicanary said:
lowdrag said:
Far from vilifying Vardy surely this is a second chance for him. It was clear that the end of his Premier League career was nigh, and I thank him for his fabulous contribution to the club's past success, but surely there is now a chance for him to contribute at a lower level now. He can be effective in the Championship.
Indeed. As a Canary I think he'll slice through our defence like it's butter. Too old for the PL but still got a lot to offer.Maddison is good enough for any of the top 6 teams.
Maddison needs to build some consistency (and avoid injuries), I'm not sure he'll get that opportunity in a top six side.
JNW1 said:
Appreciate it's no consolation whatsoever but I expect we (Leeds) will lose a similar number from our first team squad over the summer and, unless something happens very quickly to resolve our ownership and managerial situation, I fear we'll also be in a real mess next season......
I think we'll both be messes, Southampton will be top 6 IMO. Got their manager in early and can sort out their transfer business early.EDIT: Just saw they're getting Russell Martin from Swansea, I don't rate him at all!
nicanary said:
Indeed. As a Canary I think he'll slice through our defence like it's butter. Too old for the PL but still got a lot to offer.
Maddison is good enough for any of the top 6 teams.
I think Vardy is about finished but 1 more season in the Championship will be ok for him,Maddison is good enough for any of the top 6 teams.
Maddison is quality on his day, but his day hasn't been since before the WC. He had his head turned at the WC, just like every other player we have that goes away with England. He was playing much worse and has thrown his toys out the pram once Rodgers was sacked. He's only interested in brand Maddison, talks the talk, yet spends his weekends in town living it up (not a problem with that but he's doing it on a regular basis, can only be effecting his performance). His tweet a couple of months back calling out a journalist that dared to criticise him was laughable, basically saying the journo knows nothing and we'll be fine, well how's that looking now...
I also don't think he has the mentality for a major club (United, Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal), he'll end up at Spurs or Newcastle IMO. We'll see but I'm not convinced by him.
Pathetic statement by the chairman today, still no plan in place, no idea of who the manager is going to be, it needs sorting quick, we're already wasting valuable time.
Edited by Leicester Loyal on Monday 29th May 15:41
andyA700 said:
Well, as a neutral (Bolton supporter) I hope Leicester get back next season, because I cheered them on to their Premiership title. You can look back at the past few years with pride.
100%. Don't think many clubs would change their past decade for ours!G-wiz said:
Don't sell all your best players, and I think you'll return to Premier Land at t'first attempt.
We simply have to, our wages to turnover is the highest or the 2nd highest in the Prem, so it'll be huge now in the Championship.We need to sell Maddison as he only has a year left on his contract, we need to sell Barnes as he only has 2, we can't afford for these lads to walk away on frees like Cags and Tielemans have done, we'd have got 80m for that pairing 18-24 months ago.
Leicester Loyal said:
andyA700 said:
Well, as a neutral (Bolton supporter) I hope Leicester get back next season, because I cheered them on to their Premiership title. You can look back at the past few years with pride.
100%. Don't think many clubs would change their past decade for ours!G-wiz said:
Don't sell all your best players, and I think you'll return to Premier Land at t'first attempt.
We simply have to, our wages to turnover is the highest or the 2nd highest in the Prem, so it'll be huge now in the Championship.We need to sell Maddison as he only has a year left on his contract, we need to sell Barnes as he only has 2, we can't afford for these lads to walk away on frees like Cags and Tielemans have done, we'd have got 80m for that pairing 18-24 months ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ovard
andyA700 said:
I think Leicester could do a lot worse than scouring the non league clubs in order to find another Jamie Vardy. When I was in my twenties, I watched a series (three games) of cup ties between Gillingham and Maidstone Utd. Maidstone had a player called Frank Ovard and in those games he was far and away the best player on the pitch, definitely second division class at least, possibly first division, but he was wasted. There are gems, diamonds in the rough hiding in non league football, they just need discovering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ovard
We must be of a similar age then as I remember Frank visiting my team Yeovil every season with Maidstone. And you're right, there were a group of strikers back then that I guess didn't want to make the step up as they had good part time jobs that paid reasonably. There used to be a striker at Barrow called Colin Cowperthwaite, a unit of a striker, who always seemed to score goals; Trevor Senior at Dorchester; Billy Kellock and Roy Clayton at Kettering.... any of them could (and some of them did) make a career at lower league level at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ovard
Edited by GloverMart on Tuesday 30th May 19:29
Fast Bug said:
Notts County have the striker that scored 42 league goals last season, none of them from the spot either. Surely he could do a decent job in the championship, and maybe more?
That is exactly what I was thinking. Back in the day, when I was going to Bolton games at Burnden Park, they had Francis Lee playing for them. Sadly, Man City snapped him up and he scored 112 goals in 249 games for them. The same happened at Luton when they sold Malcolm Macdonald to Newcastle - 95 goals in 187 games including a debut hat-trick against Liverpool.As Vardy proved, class strikers can score in any league. I never get tired of watching this goal.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&a...
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