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Nearly half way through the season and what a breath of fresh air to see Leicester City top of the premier league.

What a year they have had with their finish to last season and their start to this.

This has surely got to be great for the neutral and the premier league.

My question is how many of us would like to see Leicester finish in top 4.

Does it give added hope to teams like us or does it just create another rival and make it harder for us to finish in the congested coverted positions.

 

Don't give a **** where Leicester finish to be quite honest. They can finish top or they can finish 10th and it would't make a blind bit of difference to me. I certainly haven't joined the "let's all love Leicester" bandwagon.

 

They'll get my vote, if by May we are out of it emoticon-0114-dull and they are still in with a shout.

 

Mr Angry is back

 

Nope, I'm just bored of the media constantly talking about Leicester. It's understandable of course, but I'm personally bored of it.

 

I would love to see Leicester stay in the top 4. There are results happening at the moment which a year or two back you would have been considered insane to even dream of. Stoke beating City at the Etihad 2 years running? Bournemouth beating Chelsea at the Bridge? And both of those teams playing better football than the teams they beat? Come on, you're having a laugh, surely? And Leicester are kind of the icing on the cake. Anything which breaks the stranglehold of the "traditional" top 4 can only be a good thing for football generally, and if it helps Southampton by causing disruption and conflict to those teams it's a very good thing.

The Leicester board can also do us Southampton fans a service by showing it is possible to resist the big clubs just snapping their fingers and making off with their best players. If Leicester get a European place and keep hold of Vardy and Mahrez I'll be amazed, but very pleased.

 

At least Leicester will get ripped apart worst then us at the end of the season...

 

Not going to happen.

 

Which bit? Keeping Vardy and Mahrez? I did say I'd be amazed.

 

Both. I can see Leicester finishing 6th. Then Kante,Vardy and Mahrez going at least.

 

The problem with football as of now is the players have no loyalty anymore. Even if Leicester win the title and get into the Champions League I'm sure there will be a mass exodus. In that sense it doesn't matter to us in the slightest where they finish. I really think it's impossible to break through and become a regular top six team, unless the owner is willing to go crazy and, to be blunt , waste their money paying absolutely ludicrous wages to keep players. The only way to finish top four is to be a one season wonder. We had our chance last year and blew it. Leicester have a chance this year. Signing players for cheap that are great players, a great manager, form a group of players that will play as a true team together, get lucky with injuries..this is the only way to steal Champions League football away from the big clubs with big money. It's just sad that that such a team will always get ripped to shreds at the end of the season, no matter how successful it is. Look at what happened to us and we only managed to finish 7th.

 

I'd love to see them win it and keep all of their players.

Sadly neither of these things will likely happen.

 

I DO want them to do well. Why wouldn't anyone? I have no negative feelings towards them in any way. They play exciting football and have excellent support, mostly from Leicester. What's to dislike? The teams they might dislodge are no friends of mine and represent the things that are wrong with football.

It's churlish not to wish Leicester well.

Vin

 

Thanks for your kind words Saints fans (well, some of you anyway )

To be honest, I can't see anybody leaving in January.
We are on a hell of a ride, we don't need to sell anybody, and I'm sure everyone would like to, at the very least, see this season through (wherever it may take us...)

I actually can't see Vardy leaving us at all.
Let's be honest, these 'links' to Barcelona and Real are just laughable!
Where would he go? He's fantastic for us, and the style we play, but I don't think he'd do nearly as well at any other Premier League club.
He's the main man here and he's absolutely loving it... I can't see him requesting a big money move to just sit on the bench elsewhere...

Mahrez is a totally different kettle of fish, amazing player who will, most likely, leave in the summer, almost regardless of where we finish.

But the thing for me is, we have amazing owners, who also happen to be unbelievably wealthy... For the first time in my lifetime, Leicester don't need to sell to balance the books...

Let's not forget this article from last year (oh how everybody laughed at the time!)... Our owners mean business...

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27387616

 

Vardy will leave in the summer. A lot of big name clubs need a goalscorer: Man United, Chelsea to name two.

 

If I was a really nice person I would want Leicester to carry on doing well and get in the Champions' League.....if...

 

I'm not so sure pal, he wouldn't fit the style of either.

Vardy will also not do well for England, but that's for 2 reasons:

A) Woy is an idiot who'll never drop Rooney, so Vardy will just be chucked out wide on the left

B) Leicester play direct, attacking football... We don't "do" possession... Completely the opposite of England and United et al

 

But can you offer Vardy 100k a week because that's the main reason he will leave if you can't.

 

It won't be anything like the summer we lost Shaw etc

 

But will Utd or Chelsea offer the money that Leicester would want for a 29 year old who has had one and a half seasons of goal scoring in a top division?