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Schadenfreude or not, comments made by two of our ex players today are ****ing excellent.

 

In Tielemans case it most certain is schadenfreude, suck it up.

 

In Maddison's case, it can't really be schadenfreude, he's doing very well, no denying he's a good player, simply didn't want to be here and for that reason i'm over the moon he's gone like many of them, but several of his comments coming out today, talking about himself....there's no wonder he got on with Rodgers so well and it comes as no surprise whatsoever.

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20 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

I can still remember the first season at Everton and @weller54 had claimed he was a far better player than Maddison. Bet me £50 Gray would outperform Madders that season and another £50 Everton would finish above Leicester… still never paid the £100…

It never ceases to amaze me how many can’t see how inconsistent Gray is… we know he’s capable of the 1 in 15 brilliant games or scoring a random worldie, but never had any sort of consistency to his game.

How come he hasn’t paid?

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36 minutes ago, Matt said:

Schadenfreude or not, comments made by two of our ex players today are ****ing excellent.

 

In Tielemans case it most certain is schadenfreude, suck it up.

 

In Maddison's case, it can't really be schadenfreude, he's doing very well, no denying he's a good player, simply didn't want to be here and for that reason i'm over the moon he's gone like many of them, but several of his comments coming out today, talking about himself....there's no wonder he got on with Rodgers so well and it comes as no surprise whatsoever.

Maddison is a prodigious natural talent. No doubt about it, he is potentially one of the best midfielders and out of out number 10s in the league. Despite his claims, he is not however a player that appears to handle pressure or responsibility. This may well change. Despite the fact that there were occasions that he carried the team. historically during his tenure at Leicester, his form was nonetheless erratic for us, not helped by being played out of position and persistent injuries granted, but not yet a 'big occasion' player that my well frequently fluff his lines under the harsh and unforgiving scrutiny and entitlement of the vitriolic Spurs fanbase, and the lens of expectation at the club. I maintain that there were far preferable moves in terms of his development and coaching than the toxicity of Tottenham Hotspur - Newcastle for one. Barnes, a confidence player, will thrive there under the watch of Eddie Howe and the nurturing support of his staff.  

 

What irks me is that even in spite of some of the breathtaking negligence and blunders last season, we had players of a sufficient calibre that were capable of avoiding relegation, but evidently lacked the necessary fortitude and reserves of application or consistency to do so. Many have since jumped ship. I don't begrudge talented players a move to a bigger club and their desire for European competition, but if that's their objective, or even prerogative, then they need to appreciate that there is no room for the unforgivable complacency that consigned us to the Championship at that level in which you have to consistently justify your selection on the team sheet. I think judging by the previous comments, Tielemans for one was under the impression, following the favourable and preferential treatment by Rodgers, that he would be guaranteed a start unchallenged and not have to earn it and Villa wasn't even the illustrious move that he had evidently been assured by his agent and related sycophants, would be handed on a plate. Riyad Mahrez soon discovered that at the level of Man City, no one is undroppable and soon changed his attitude. 

 

I sense that under Maresca, a graduate of the school of Pep, there will be no passengers and no favouritism. 

 

 

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I don't really understand how anyone can have any ill feeling towards Maddison, naff comment about being the main man at a roast dinner or choosing to wear clothes he likes (!) aside  

 

The club had a catalogue of issues last season and Maddison was nowhere near the most pressing, if at all. Over the course of it he was probably one of the few that actually turned up*

 

*And yes, I know about Bournemouth and Everton at home

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2 hours ago, blaaklint said:

tbh i'm convinced youri's body has given up on him. sure, he's only 26 but he's played over 500 games for club and country. many players won't play that much in their entire career

Yep poor guy has been completely overused. Warning signs were there. Hope he recovers because he is a great player on his day and helped write us into the history books.

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https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-old-boy-reveals-8741005

 

 

Leicester City old boy reveals biggest regret after Claudio Ranieri conversation
Defender played a big part in Leicester City's last promotion from the Championship in the 2013/14 season.


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ByAmie WilsonMidlands football writer
20:07, 10 SEP 2023UPDATED07:36, 11 SEP 2023

Former Leicester City defender Liam Moore has said he regrets pushing for a loan move away from the club during his final season at the King Power Stadium.

The academy graduate was a key part of Nigel Pearson’s Championship title-winning team in 2013/14, but struggled to make the step up to the Premier League the following season. He left the club on a permanent basis in the summer of 2016, joining then Championship side Reading.

Now a free agent after leaving the Royals at the end of last season, the 30-year-old has reflected on his rise up through the youth ranks, and his final campaigns with the club, which saw him move to Bristol City on loan for six months while City lifted the Premier League title.

 

“I made my debut one year, played two or three games the next year, I was loaned to Brentford, then I got a change, then I tailed off again,” he told the BallersMindset Podcast "I’m one of them that I just want to play. I look back and I was probably too forceful in wanting to play.


“The year it really clicked for me, out of those 60 odd appearances, probably 35/40 of those were made in the year we got promoted. I played a lot of games, I really found my rhythm. The only games I missed, I think I broke my ribs trying to get on the end of a cross.

“Then the next year, I started in the Premier League, I played the first 11 games, and I wasn’t ready. I was ready in my mind, but looking back I wasn’t ready. Rather than being patient, sitting back and learning from the Wes Morgans and the Robert Huths etc, I wanted to play and I went on loan to Bristol.

“That was the worst timing. A good club, a brilliant club, but the worst possible move at the time. Everything was wrong, my daughter was being born, but she came a month premature so she spent a week in hospital whilst I’d just signed for Bristol, so I was back and forth from there. The manager wanted me to play in a completely different position, and I just knew it was the wrong kind of move for me.

“I came back from there and that’s when the boys were on the best run that the country has ever seen, so trying to get back into that was difficult.”

Asked if the loan move to Bristol City was one of his biggest regrets, he added: “In hindsight, yeah. I think when you do things for the right reasons, it makes it easier to take, I just wanted to play, so I went there.

“I remember a conversation with Claudio Ranieri at the start of that season and he said, ‘I want you to stay as number three/number four and fight for your place'. I had the euros at the back end of that season for England, and I just wanted to play, that came up and it was a case of ‘yeah I’m going to do that. In hindsight, I should have stayed the third choice at the time, played a few times, got a medal, it’s one of those things, I suppose.”

Moore returned to City this pre-season, training with the U21s in order to keep fit as he searches for a new club. He played a total of 67 games for City between 2012 and 2016, scoring once.

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/defender-makes-leicester-city-contract-8741600

 

Defender makes Leicester City contract revelation amid dream of Foxes return
The latest Leicester City news as the academy graduate has spoken about his exit from the club and how he felt when City lifted the title in 2016.

ByAmie WilsonMidlands football writer
07:47, 11 SEP 2023UPDATED07:49, 11 SEP 2023

Former Leicester City defender Liam Moore has revealed how he always planned to return to the club following his exit in 2016, and actually put pen-to-paper on a new contract before sealing a permanent move away.

The now 30-year-old left the King Power Stadium in the summer of 2016, completing a permanent move to then Championship side Reading. The defender went on to become captain of the Royals, but left the club this summer at the end of his contract and remains a free agent.

Moore spent the first half of the 2015/16 season on loan with Bristol City, a move that he has revealed he regrets making. He returned in January and was around the club as they completed the charge for the Premier League title, the defender has described what it was like for him to be around the club but not involved, having made no Premier League appearances that campaign.

 

“The article you might have read is when I said I remember standing on the pitch in tears when they lifted the trophy and there’s a lot of reasons behind that,” he told BallersMindset Podcast . “One, it was amazing to see, I’m a Leicester fan, two, being gutted that I wasn’t involved and I feel that there was an opportunity there, and three, because I knew it was the end of my time there, they were going into the Champions League and I’d just had a failed loan at Bristol, I need to go and establish myself.”


“I remember being gutted a few days after, there was so many things to do, the parade. I was invited to all of it, and I made sure I did it, because it was obviously a once in a lifetime experience .

“You never want to be that sulker, you never want to sit back like ‘I weren’t involved, so I’m not doing it’, but there was a lot of bittersweet moments. We went to Thailand to celebrate it and at times I was like ‘I didn’t do anything here’. I trained with the boys but I didn’t do anything.

“At the same time, people were invited for a reason, I’d obviously been around it for a long time and that was the reason, I worked hard in training but the opportunity never came. So it was obviously nice, I can look back at them memories and the pictures now.”

Just a few months later, Moore moved to Reading, but he has revealed that he was offered, and originally signed, a new contract to stay at City. The defender outlined the plan he had when moving away from the club.

“I signed a contract that didn’t actually go through in the end,” he added. “They wanted me to stay and go out on loan and mature and learn the game but I wanted to have a bit of control over where I went.

“I just didn’t feel entirely comfortable that I had a clear pathway to get back to where I needed to be at Leicester, so eventually we took the contract off the table and it was a case of I’m a Leicester boy, I love the club, I felt like the fans appreciated me, I was at home, the contract was good , but something was missing, I needed to be a man basically.

“I felt like in the environment I was in, I was always going to stay the nearly boy or the nearly kid, so my intention was to always go, play and try and get back, that was always my mentality, I always wanted to try and get back.”

Moore has been back with the club this summer. He spent time at Seagrave during pre-season, where he trained with the club’s U21 team in order to maintain his fitness.

When asked if he would come back to City, he added: “Yeah, of course I would. I think any lad who’s played there over the last five to seven years, especially under this ownership, would go back. Obviously you’ve got your Mahrezs at the top end.

“But any lad who’s left and is playing at that kind of level, it’s always a club you'd go back to.”

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On 09/09/2023 at 10:36, SouthStandUpperTier said:

It's only really Maddison of the players that left that has started well at their new clubs. Tielemans, Barnes and Soyuncu can't even crack the starting lineup, although it's still early days.

Because Maddison was the best player anyway.

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On 09/09/2023 at 23:25, Samilktray said:

He was Portuguese when he played for us wasn’t he?

Yes and it's a really weird one. He's been playing in Israel for 5+ years that it appears he applied for citizenship.

 

I only know because weirdly I read about him the other week.

 

Loved him when we was here.

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7 hours ago, davieG said:

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-old-boy-reveals-8741005

 

 

Leicester City old boy reveals biggest regret after Claudio Ranieri conversation
Defender played a big part in Leicester City's last promotion from the Championship in the 2013/14 season.


SPORT
ByAmie WilsonMidlands football writer
20:07, 10 SEP 2023UPDATED07:36, 11 SEP 2023

Former Leicester City defender Liam Moore has said he regrets pushing for a loan move away from the club during his final season at the King Power Stadium.

The academy graduate was a key part of Nigel Pearson’s Championship title-winning team in 2013/14, but struggled to make the step up to the Premier League the following season. He left the club on a permanent basis in the summer of 2016, joining then Championship side Reading.

Now a free agent after leaving the Royals at the end of last season, the 30-year-old has reflected on his rise up through the youth ranks, and his final campaigns with the club, which saw him move to Bristol City on loan for six months while City lifted the Premier League title.

 

“I made my debut one year, played two or three games the next year, I was loaned to Brentford, then I got a change, then I tailed off again,” he told the BallersMindset Podcast "I’m one of them that I just want to play. I look back and I was probably too forceful in wanting to play.


“The year it really clicked for me, out of those 60 odd appearances, probably 35/40 of those were made in the year we got promoted. I played a lot of games, I really found my rhythm. The only games I missed, I think I broke my ribs trying to get on the end of a cross.

“Then the next year, I started in the Premier League, I played the first 11 games, and I wasn’t ready. I was ready in my mind, but looking back I wasn’t ready. Rather than being patient, sitting back and learning from the Wes Morgans and the Robert Huths etc, I wanted to play and I went on loan to Bristol.

“That was the worst timing. A good club, a brilliant club, but the worst possible move at the time. Everything was wrong, my daughter was being born, but she came a month premature so she spent a week in hospital whilst I’d just signed for Bristol, so I was back and forth from there. The manager wanted me to play in a completely different position, and I just knew it was the wrong kind of move for me.

“I came back from there and that’s when the boys were on the best run that the country has ever seen, so trying to get back into that was difficult.”

Asked if the loan move to Bristol City was one of his biggest regrets, he added: “In hindsight, yeah. I think when you do things for the right reasons, it makes it easier to take, I just wanted to play, so I went there.

“I remember a conversation with Claudio Ranieri at the start of that season and he said, ‘I want you to stay as number three/number four and fight for your place'. I had the euros at the back end of that season for England, and I just wanted to play, that came up and it was a case of ‘yeah I’m going to do that. In hindsight, I should have stayed the third choice at the time, played a few times, got a medal, it’s one of those things, I suppose.”

Moore returned to City this pre-season, training with the U21s in order to keep fit as he searches for a new club. He played a total of 67 games for City between 2012 and 2016, scoring once.

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/defender-makes-leicester-city-contract-8741600

 

Defender makes Leicester City contract revelation amid dream of Foxes return
The latest Leicester City news as the academy graduate has spoken about his exit from the club and how he felt when City lifted the title in 2016.

ByAmie WilsonMidlands football writer
07:47, 11 SEP 2023UPDATED07:49, 11 SEP 2023

Former Leicester City defender Liam Moore has revealed how he always planned to return to the club following his exit in 2016, and actually put pen-to-paper on a new contract before sealing a permanent move away.

The now 30-year-old left the King Power Stadium in the summer of 2016, completing a permanent move to then Championship side Reading. The defender went on to become captain of the Royals, but left the club this summer at the end of his contract and remains a free agent.

Moore spent the first half of the 2015/16 season on loan with Bristol City, a move that he has revealed he regrets making. He returned in January and was around the club as they completed the charge for the Premier League title, the defender has described what it was like for him to be around the club but not involved, having made no Premier League appearances that campaign.

 

“The article you might have read is when I said I remember standing on the pitch in tears when they lifted the trophy and there’s a lot of reasons behind that,” he told BallersMindset Podcast . “One, it was amazing to see, I’m a Leicester fan, two, being gutted that I wasn’t involved and I feel that there was an opportunity there, and three, because I knew it was the end of my time there, they were going into the Champions League and I’d just had a failed loan at Bristol, I need to go and establish myself.”


“I remember being gutted a few days after, there was so many things to do, the parade. I was invited to all of it, and I made sure I did it, because it was obviously a once in a lifetime experience .

“You never want to be that sulker, you never want to sit back like ‘I weren’t involved, so I’m not doing it’, but there was a lot of bittersweet moments. We went to Thailand to celebrate it and at times I was like ‘I didn’t do anything here’. I trained with the boys but I didn’t do anything.

“At the same time, people were invited for a reason, I’d obviously been around it for a long time and that was the reason, I worked hard in training but the opportunity never came. So it was obviously nice, I can look back at them memories and the pictures now.”

Just a few months later, Moore moved to Reading, but he has revealed that he was offered, and originally signed, a new contract to stay at City. The defender outlined the plan he had when moving away from the club.

“I signed a contract that didn’t actually go through in the end,” he added. “They wanted me to stay and go out on loan and mature and learn the game but I wanted to have a bit of control over where I went.

“I just didn’t feel entirely comfortable that I had a clear pathway to get back to where I needed to be at Leicester, so eventually we took the contract off the table and it was a case of I’m a Leicester boy, I love the club, I felt like the fans appreciated me, I was at home, the contract was good , but something was missing, I needed to be a man basically.

“I felt like in the environment I was in, I was always going to stay the nearly boy or the nearly kid, so my intention was to always go, play and try and get back, that was always my mentality, I always wanted to try and get back.”

Moore has been back with the club this summer. He spent time at Seagrave during pre-season, where he trained with the club’s U21 team in order to maintain his fitness.

When asked if he would come back to City, he added: “Yeah, of course I would. I think any lad who’s played there over the last five to seven years, especially under this ownership, would go back. Obviously you’ve got your Mahrezs at the top end.

“But any lad who’s left and is playing at that kind of level, it’s always a club you'd go back to.”

I said in the summer I had a feeling he'd be our first 'given him a trial see how things go' signing, or at least give him a place to train. Obviously that was based more around having a less maverick manager (i say that as a positive)

I know he's definitely not at starting level, but a good lad to have around the place, former captain of teams he's played for, had a horrid injury. Might be interested in doing some badges too. 

 

Hope someone in the champ takes a punt on him, amazed no one has yet.

 

 

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Sorry didn't spot the bit where he trained with U21's
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On 08/09/2023 at 18:40, jonny_wright said:

Have to say I kind of expected this, you don’t down tools for 2 seasons and get right back at it, he hasn’t looked fit in a long time, doesn’t press well at all either…: he’s reaping what he sowed 

Haven’t read previous posts but I can tell you’re talking about Tielemans 

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