Sorry Proud but the vast majority of 'armchair fans' will be readily familiar with Falcao ... and Moutinho, Abidal and Carvalho ... Falcao and Moutinho have been linked with moves to our very best clubs for quite some time ... Moutinho was arguably one of the best performers in the last Euros and Falcao has been awesome for a number of years - wasn't it him that put 3 past Chelsea in the European Super Cup after they had won the champions league? ... pretty sure he has only gone to Monaco because of the money behind the club ...
not all. our midfield is not strong, morgan is our most important player.. the attendance was a reflection of the lack of optimism and the 3 at the back looks like a dogs dinner..
WTF? You are having a hissy fit about us being outplayed by a team containing the best players in the world? If it was Yeovil in the league fair enough but Monaco in a friendly? The sad thing is that you aren't the atypical Leicester fan, the majority expect us to win the Champions League every season not realising that we are in the ****ing Championship! Be realistic ffs - our goal this season is 6th place, anything else and you are deluded.
Believe or not, I do (although Morgan/Kasper... not much in it). But I'm not too "concerned". The main thing that concerns me is that young Moore is a better option the highly paid St. Ledger, one of 3/4 players overpaid under-performers we no doubt are desperate to get rid of.
please don't project you preconceived views onto me... I respect your opinions so respect mine.., I expect nothing, especially from this bloke.. having the ambition of mediocrity must be music to nigels ears... best paid manager last season (with an open cheque book) among the best this season.. ..and no pressure from fans.... so beaten down by failure..anything above halfway is a bonus...sad..
I don't know where this "open cheque book" talk keeps coming from. Sven is the only one who ever had that, probably in Leicester history! No pressure from the fans... I guess that's why you and a few others are calling him mediocre because we didn't get promoted.
I haven't described pearson as mediocre.. his remit and the deal he took at a mill a year was promotion... where are we?
If you know the details of his contract then you know more than me. All I know is he signed a deal until 2014, and our owners are honouring that. I'ts unrealistic to demand promotion. You can state it as a target, but a top six finish is a more sensible aim. We achieved that, hence he'll be allowed to see out his contract (short of a disastrous start).
To be fair Nigel has signed plenty of players in both of his tenures as manager and everybody saying ffp has fooked us over - isnt the manager on 20k a week? Bring in performance related pay into football!
I dont think the owners can afford to sack him unless this season is a complete disaster. It they want rid they will now just run down his contract
Again, I have no idea what contract Pearson's on. I personally haven't seen it published anywhere, although the Mercury has speculated on it (he's supposed to get a huge bonus if we get promoted). Pearson has signed young prospects for reasonable fees and on reasonable wages. Sven signed players from the Premiership that were on big money. Chris Wood and Wes Morgan are the only players Pearson has signed that I can imagine being on good money. We still have four high earners at the club signed by Sven.
Last year was not an exceptional Championship - the 3 teams that went up deserved to go up but didn't pull up any trees along the way - you are right that promotion cant' be guaranteed, but promotion was almost certainly the target set (not a play-off place) - a play-off place was the least expected given the cost of players in our squad and the wage bill - and it cuts no mustard with me bleating that they were not Nigel's signings etc - a good manager gets the best out of what's there as well as bringing in his own players - I'll say it again, the inability to 'manage' us out of that run expediently worries me - we crept into a play-off place by reason of a last minute goal and other teams results on the last day of the season - at best that's a mediocre season, at worst, failure ... frankly, from our position just after Christmas I see it as systemic failure - others don't and that's fine - but if it's brown and stinks, it's probably **** ... no amount of pretending it might be chocolate is going to make it taste any different.
... not sure how you work that one out Miami ... there were 2 teams that also finished above us that didn't go up ... we finished 6th (on goal difference) when we were favourites amongst many bookies to go up ... how many points did we finish behind a fairly average Cardiff? ... OK perhaps not a million miles ... just a couple of hundred.
At best, as far as the regular season goes, it's target achieved, no matter how we got there. No-one would have complained if we'd grabbed the last automatic place by the skin of our teeth. And the bad run, as I've said before, has been blown out of proportions by some. It was one win in 13 league matches (not 16/17 as you said in another thread), and that included a heavy win and three or four very good draws. Losing at home to Wednesday, Charlton and Millwall at home were bad results, no doubt, but some act like we were **** for half a season. Stats are there to be manipulated. If those bad results had been spread over the course of the entire season, no-one would be concerned. And I take it when you say last year wasn't an "exceptional Championship", you think this year will be harder. Why do I hear that every season? I prefer the current set of teams to when West Ham and Newcastle were in the mix.
