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3 play-off semis across the county on Saturday Aylestone Park v Eynesbury Rovers Heather St Johns v Coton Green Leicester St Andrews v Bradley Town

All dependent on the Southern Premier South playoffs - some rumblings that Merthyr might be the unlucky ones but if Gloucester win the playoffs, the league has an easy answer. Generally speaking the travelling is about the same due to Torquay, Truro, Weymouth.

Both the Wolves and Bournemouth fan who I work with say stay clear

Which makes sense on paper (and I'm sure you agree with this) but it requires a DoF with a proper vision for what they want the club to look like and the wider strategy. So when manager decides he wants to pick one of his favourites or an agents suggestion, someone says 'not good for LCFC'

There's a gap between your thinking and my thinking - my argument isn't anything to do with the chasing of success etc. My PoV isn't on the basis of the have or have nots or wanting a perfect owner from the city - I am not naive, its on the view of the erosion of the clubs heritage, history and links to the community over promoting Thailand (which occurred on Sunday). As that erosion continues, it's no longer my club I fell in love with and it's a club with a decreasing attachment to Leicester as a city - rather the city plays host to a football team every two weeks between August and May. The passing on from a Thai millionaire to another suggests the priority is keeping Thailand at the top table rather than Leicester at the top table. Hence forms the gap for a fan-led club which is a celebration of city and community. You can respectfully be a multi-millionaire but aware of a clubs importance a link to the city and its community. Someone like Bill Foley has fostered that at three sporting clubs he's invested in (Vegas, Bournemouth & Auckland). Or the guys at Wrexham for example.

Employers would crap themselves at another bank holiday over this period.

Cynically did no-one sign up for Reid & Ayew and now they've picked two players who have a bit more popularity (by all accounts McAteer is apparently a very good egg off the pitch).

We will see. But if this club is effectively going to be used as a sport washing arm of Thailand, then I'll be off. The names speculated are bigger money but again their fortune is from beneficial agreements with the Thai government. Given the stadium has been on more than one occasions used as a place of political meetings, I can see some truth in it.

Be an interesting summer for FFP - potentially the next Leicester if they can't shift anyone. It's where the Asensio and Rashford signings were a risk but at least calculated, by being loans.

PSR isn't the problem on the gap. All three promoted clubs spent serious money in the summer including ourselves with our PSR concerns. Ipswich dropped £120m. It's for me clubs spend the money so scattergun and terribly that their squads are polluted with poor players. The key to PL survival is getting your keeper and centre back pairing right. Look at us in 2015 or Wolves this season, both in January.

Would love to see our fanbase in Kappa and Macron's sizing

See King Power out thread

If these rumours about a new Thai ownership come to fruition, I think we might see an argument for a fans club appear in the pyramid.

I watched the Commitments on Saturday - its firmly there as one of those films which really shouldnt' have won as many awards as it did but its still a very enjoyable, joyous watch.

Yep six. Better than any other winger this season for Leicester

Better than expected. Mind is blown that Keane went for so much. Some equally though aren't that impressive profits - Gray, Cornet and Collins for example.

In the 20/21 and 21/22 seasons, we had our second and third highest revenues in the clubs history.

He isn’t exactly what the club need because his squad building means he doesn’t have the ability to improve a player to the point they make a substantial profit. He has a poor track record of developing youngsters

Which is more of an us issue. I read we are the only club to ever spent more on wages collectively in the Premier League than our revenues. That’s including a whopping revenue increased due to good performance

He’s our best player post 2016

But there’s a decent argument to say their team was promoted off four months good form and then their signings last summer were hardly top Championship quality. Players like Kaminski, Chong, Andersen, Brown were all mid table Championship. Nakamba one of the few with a PL record. Giles who had done well in the championship was sold in January.

Naaa. Not enough consistent footfall and not big enough

Fulham wanted to renew his deal for two years but he wanted more contract length.

A lot of clubs have taken to doing video updates or briefings on the how and why of their decision making. I’ll try to find an example. EDIT: https://strettynews.com/2024/01/15/sir-jim-ratcliffe-holds-first-meeting-with-manchester-united-fan-group/amp/ Ratcliffe at Man U met with MUST back on January 2024, albeit I suspect that’s soured Equally even someone like Leicester Tigers are having a Q & A session with their board in the next couple of weeks

Can only happen if people step forward to be on the board. We are apathetic as a fan base on so many levels. Btw I know have skin in the game on this. But I think there’s a very awkward question that LCFC fans have to ask themselves and I include those who are angry now and angry before. Have we really done enough to mobilise as a fanbase in terms of getting fans opinions heard? For me, we haven’t because we’ve been blinded by the success where the club began to inch away at the various areas they could monetise. So I find the finger pointing at various of the fanbase or groups or whatever, basically hollow.