The "do they mean us?" thread pt 3

[don_danbury]

they also think west ham are likely to go down an kai havertez for golden boot  

[Fear Of The Fox]

7 minutes ago, ian__marshall said:

So the punters think we're the most likely to get relegated yet also have a player who could win the Golden Boot 

These betting companies will always push their agenda for more money my friend. All these tweets/posts are tailored to idiots and their target is to make more and more money from addicted people. 

[AKCJ]

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

Wow. 

 

We do love the underdog status... 

Who are these people putting actual money on Anthony Martial to win the Golden Boot during the cost of living crises? 

Edited 4 August 2022 by AKCJ

[Fear Of The Fox]

5 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

Who are these people putting actual money on Anthony Martial to win the Golden Boot during the cost of living prices?

Would you really believe though that a company like Betfair doesn't manipulate all this? Do you trust them? I'm not. 

[Nalis]

On 02/08/2022 at 00:05, TK95 said:

Haven't signed either so what was the point of this tweet 

 

 

Its describing ambition on bids, I guess we can relate from our championship days as its like us saying we couldnt afford to buy anyone in, say, 2012 whereas now we....

 

Never mind.

[Fox92]

58 minutes ago, ian__marshall said:

So the punters think we're the most likely to get relegated yet also have a player who could win the Golden Boot 

Gambing is what it says on the tin... gambling.

 

People aren't gonna back single bets of favourites such as Bournemouth or Fulham to go down. Minds well bet on an "outsider" with better odds such as us or Wolves.

 

One player's personal achievement's don't make a difference either. Izzet once registered the most assists in a season and we still got relegated.

[ARTY_FOX]

On 01/08/2022 at 11:52, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

With the money and the competition in the premier league if you're not moving forwards you're moving backwards, there can't be much sitting still in this era. 

Didn't Liverpool a couple of years ago before winning the league? 

[davieG]

Julien Laurens doesn't have a positive word to say about us.

 

 

ESPN - https://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-premier-league/story/4707868/premier-league-preview-man-cityliverpool-title-race-again-team-by-team-guidebig-questions-for-2022-23

 

Leicester City

- Transfers in: None
- Transfers out: GK Kasper Schmeichel (Nice)
- Last season: Premier League (8th), FA Cup (fourth round), Carabao Cup (quarterfinals), UEFA Europa League (group stage), UEFA Europa Conference League (semifinals)

Will they be better or worse this season?

Leicester finished eighth last season, and they will finish below that this season. They are the only team in the Premier League to have not yet recruited a player yet this summer (at the time of writing) -- how can you expect to have a better season than the previous one if you don't strengthen a squad which needs strengthening and showed weaknesses, especially defensively?

On top of that, players want to leave. Goalkeeper Schmeichel has joined Nice and he is a huge loss for the club not just as captain, but his experience and also as a connective thread to their title-winning season. Wesley Fofana is pushing for a move; Youri Tielemans is hoping for a big offer from one of the top teams; Newcastle are coming in hard for James Maddison; Boubakary Soumare wants more game time and could move back to France with Monaco.

Leicester have a tough start to the season as well, with trips to Arsenal and Chelsea and the visit of Manchester City within the first five games of the campaign! Jamie Vardy is 35 now and won't always be the saviour, so someone else will have to step up: whether it is Harvey Barnes, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall or Patson Daka remains to be seen. But Brendan Rodgers will feel the pressure and will have to be inspired if this season is to be a successful one.

Key player: Harvey Barnes

At 24, this is the season when Barnes has to get to the next level. Since he broke into the first team in the second half of the 2018-19 Premier League season, we saw a lot of potential talent and progress, too -- from one goal and two assists in 11 starts in 2018-19; to six and eight in 24 starts the following year; nine and four in 22 starts after that; and six and 10 in 24 starts last season. After domestic campaigns with 14, 13 and 16 goal contributions, he has now to get over the 20 mark and really explode. Barnes has the talent to get 10 goals and 10 assists a season in the top flight. He needs to show these numbers and this consistency.

After he made his debut (and only cap so far) with England in 2020, plenty would have thought that he would still be in the England set up now. Instead, others have overtaken him in the pecking order. He needs a top season to bring himself back in.

Will their manager last the season?

Whether Rodgers gets sacked or he leaves by himself, he won't finish the season. The campaign has all the ingredients to be a difficult one and Rodgers already wanted to leave in 2021-22 when the Manchester United job was available. You can easily see that the end of a cycle is approaching at Leicester within the squad, but also on the bench. Rodgers has taken this team as far as he could.

-- Julien Laurens

[Xen]

5 minutes ago, davieG said:

Julien Laurens doesn't have a positive word to say about us.

 

 

ESPN - https://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-premier-league/story/4707868/premier-league-preview-man-cityliverpool-title-race-again-team-by-team-guidebig-questions-for-2022-23

 

Leicester City

- Transfers in: None
- Transfers out: GK Kasper Schmeichel (Nice)
- Last season: Premier League (8th), FA Cup (fourth round), Carabao Cup (quarterfinals), UEFA Europa League (group stage), UEFA Europa Conference League (semifinals)

Will they be better or worse this season?

Leicester finished eighth last season, and they will finish below that this season. They are the only team in the Premier League to have not yet recruited a player yet this summer (at the time of writing) -- how can you expect to have a better season than the previous one if you don't strengthen a squad which needs strengthening and showed weaknesses, especially defensively?

On top of that, players want to leave. Goalkeeper Schmeichel has joined Nice and he is a huge loss for the club not just as captain, but his experience and also as a connective thread to their title-winning season. Wesley Fofana is pushing for a move; Youri Tielemans is hoping for a big offer from one of the top teams; Newcastle are coming in hard for James Maddison; Boubakary Soumare wants more game time and could move back to France with Monaco.

Leicester have a tough start to the season as well, with trips to Arsenal and Chelsea and the visit of Manchester City within the first five games of the campaign! Jamie Vardy is 35 now and won't always be the saviour, so someone else will have to step up: whether it is Harvey Barnes, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall or Patson Daka remains to be seen. But Brendan Rodgers will feel the pressure and will have to be inspired if this season is to be a successful one.

Key player: Harvey Barnes

At 24, this is the season when Barnes has to get to the next level. Since he broke into the first team in the second half of the 2018-19 Premier League season, we saw a lot of potential talent and progress, too -- from one goal and two assists in 11 starts in 2018-19; to six and eight in 24 starts the following year; nine and four in 22 starts after that; and six and 10 in 24 starts last season. After domestic campaigns with 14, 13 and 16 goal contributions, he has now to get over the 20 mark and really explode. Barnes has the talent to get 10 goals and 10 assists a season in the top flight. He needs to show these numbers and this consistency.

After he made his debut (and only cap so far) with England in 2020, plenty would have thought that he would still be in the England set up now. Instead, others have overtaken him in the pecking order. He needs a top season to bring himself back in.

Will their manager last the season?

Whether Rodgers gets sacked or he leaves by himself, he won't finish the season. The campaign has all the ingredients to be a difficult one and Rodgers already wanted to leave in 2021-22 when the Manchester United job was available. You can easily see that the end of a cycle is approaching at Leicester within the squad, but also on the bench. Rodgers has taken this team as far as he could.

-- Julien Laurens

Conveniently forgetting that half of our squad was missing for half of last season, so a summer window without any movement whatsoever would still be 'strengthening' compared to the same point last year. Especially as we're now competing on less fronts and don't have midweek european games to try and manage a squad through.

 

Did we need to sign new players? Probably. Are we still at risk of players moving on? Of course. But at this point in time I wouldn't put us down as measurably worse off than we were when we started last season. Arguably better now that we have Fofana fit and some of the youngsters have more experience and have settled.

 

We also don't have a visit from Man City until late October, so they could do with some fact checking anyway...

[Jimmy]

we played the majority of the season without our entire back 4 and best DM plus Vardy missed 4 months, that's like 6 new signings IMO.

 

And if we'd signed Iversen instead of him being our player already they wouldn't be saying this crap about transfers

[Foxdiamond]

20 minutes ago, Xen said:

Conveniently forgetting that half of our squad was missing for half of last season, so a summer window without any movement whatsoever would still be 'strengthening' compared to the same point last year. Especially as we're now competing on less fronts and don't have midweek european games to try and manage a squad through.

 

Did we need to sign new players? Probably. Are we still at risk of players moving on? Of course. But at this point in time I wouldn't put us down as measurably worse off than we were when we started last season. Arguably better now that we have Fofana fit and some of the youngsters have more experience and have settled.

 

We also don't have a visit from Man City until late October, so they could do with some fact checking anyway...

I think many Leicester supporters are natural pessimists and these so called experts add to our fears. After 2015 16 we should have learnt to ignore the noise. Like you I am hoping fewer injuries and games will help us. Talk is cheap and we will just have to wait and see and hope we hang on to Fofana and Maddison et al.

[The Quick Brown Fox]

Personally I think the players we have will be fine, I just hope with us having fewer games in the season Brendan decides to attack rather than defend and hold the ball. 

Frustrating as it was last season, it was needed with the squad and the games we had. No excuses this year, get the ball and attack. I think we will push the top 6, and that's without signing anyone.

[KFS]

44 minutes ago, davieG said:

Julien Laurens doesn't have a positive word to say about us.

 

 

ESPN - https://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-premier-league/story/4707868/premier-league-preview-man-cityliverpool-title-race-again-team-by-team-guidebig-questions-for-2022-23

 

Leicester City

- Transfers in: None
- Transfers out: GK Kasper Schmeichel (Nice)
- Last season: Premier League (8th), FA Cup (fourth round), Carabao Cup (quarterfinals), UEFA Europa League (group stage), UEFA Europa Conference League (semifinals)

Will they be better or worse this season?

Leicester finished eighth last season, and they will finish below that this season. They are the only team in the Premier League to have not yet recruited a player yet this summer (at the time of writing) -- how can you expect to have a better season than the previous one if you don't strengthen a squad which needs strengthening and showed weaknesses, especially defensively?

On top of that, players want to leave. Goalkeeper Schmeichel has joined Nice and he is a huge loss for the club not just as captain, but his experience and also as a connective thread to their title-winning season. Wesley Fofana is pushing for a move; Youri Tielemans is hoping for a big offer from one of the top teams; Newcastle are coming in hard for James Maddison; Boubakary Soumare wants more game time and could move back to France with Monaco.

Leicester have a tough start to the season as well, with trips to Arsenal and Chelsea and the visit of Manchester City within the first five games of the campaign! Jamie Vardy is 35 now and won't always be the saviour, so someone else will have to step up: whether it is Harvey Barnes, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall or Patson Daka remains to be seen. But Brendan Rodgers will feel the pressure and will have to be inspired if this season is to be a successful one.

Key player: Harvey Barnes

At 24, this is the season when Barnes has to get to the next level. Since he broke into the first team in the second half of the 2018-19 Premier League season, we saw a lot of potential talent and progress, too -- from one goal and two assists in 11 starts in 2018-19; to six and eight in 24 starts the following year; nine and four in 22 starts after that; and six and 10 in 24 starts last season. After domestic campaigns with 14, 13 and 16 goal contributions, he has now to get over the 20 mark and really explode. Barnes has the talent to get 10 goals and 10 assists a season in the top flight. He needs to show these numbers and this consistency.

After he made his debut (and only cap so far) with England in 2020, plenty would have thought that he would still be in the England set up now. Instead, others have overtaken him in the pecking order. He needs a top season to bring himself back in.

Will their manager last the season?

Whether Rodgers gets sacked or he leaves by himself, he won't finish the season. The campaign has all the ingredients to be a difficult one and Rodgers already wanted to leave in 2021-22 when the Manchester United job was available. You can easily see that the end of a cycle is approaching at Leicester within the squad, but also on the bench. Rodgers has taken this team as far as he could.

-- Julien Laurens

This guy chats shit on the PL podcast every week. Knows **** all about football 

[Captain...]

3 hours ago, ian__marshall said:

So the punters think we're the most likely to get relegated yet also have a player who could win the Golden Boot 

No punters think 16-1 is good odds and worth a speculative bet. You can guarantee there is a lot more money placed on Forest, Bournemouth, Fulham etc. It is going to be mainly people chucking £2-£10 on a punt. 

 

We also have a tough start so there's a good chance we'll be bottom half after 5 games odds will shorten so chance for a quick cash out. 

[Hammo]

56 minutes ago, davieG said:

Julien Laurens doesn't have a positive word to say about us.

 

 

ESPN - https://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-premier-league/story/4707868/premier-league-preview-man-cityliverpool-title-race-again-team-by-team-guidebig-questions-for-2022-23

 

Leicester City

- Transfers in: None
- Transfers out: GK Kasper Schmeichel (Nice)
- Last season: Premier League (8th), FA Cup (fourth round), Carabao Cup (quarterfinals), UEFA Europa League (group stage), UEFA Europa Conference League (semifinals)

Will they be better or worse this season?

Leicester finished eighth last season, and they will finish below that this season. They are the only team in the Premier League to have not yet recruited a player yet this summer (at the time of writing) -- how can you expect to have a better season than the previous one if you don't strengthen a squad which needs strengthening and showed weaknesses, especially defensively?

On top of that, players want to leave. Goalkeeper Schmeichel has joined Nice and he is a huge loss for the club not just as captain, but his experience and also as a connective thread to their title-winning season. Wesley Fofana is pushing for a move; Youri Tielemans is hoping for a big offer from one of the top teams; Newcastle are coming in hard for James Maddison; Boubakary Soumare wants more game time and could move back to France with Monaco.

Leicester have a tough start to the season as well, with trips to Arsenal and Chelsea and the visit of Manchester City within the first five games of the campaign! Jamie Vardy is 35 now and won't always be the saviour, so someone else will have to step up: whether it is Harvey Barnes, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall or Patson Daka remains to be seen. But Brendan Rodgers will feel the pressure and will have to be inspired if this season is to be a successful one.

Key player: Harvey Barnes

At 24, this is the season when Barnes has to get to the next level. Since he broke into the first team in the second half of the 2018-19 Premier League season, we saw a lot of potential talent and progress, too -- from one goal and two assists in 11 starts in 2018-19; to six and eight in 24 starts the following year; nine and four in 22 starts after that; and six and 10 in 24 starts last season. After domestic campaigns with 14, 13 and 16 goal contributions, he has now to get over the 20 mark and really explode. Barnes has the talent to get 10 goals and 10 assists a season in the top flight. He needs to show these numbers and this consistency.

After he made his debut (and only cap so far) with England in 2020, plenty would have thought that he would still be in the England set up now. Instead, others have overtaken him in the pecking order. He needs a top season to bring himself back in.

Will their manager last the season?

Whether Rodgers gets sacked or he leaves by himself, he won't finish the season. The campaign has all the ingredients to be a difficult one and Rodgers already wanted to leave in 2021-22 when the Manchester United job was available. You can easily see that the end of a cycle is approaching at Leicester within the squad, but also on the bench. Rodgers has taken this team as far as he could.

-- Julien Laurens

Deary me. Talk about lazy journalism. No mention of last season’s injury list or extra European games. Nothing about Barnes’ serious injury when he was in prime form the season before. Man City visit in first five games? Per-lease!

 

An assessment without any credibility whatsoever. I wonder how much he got paid for this crap.

[st albans fox]

He’s just miffed that we want too much money for wes so his precious psg can’t afford him 

[don_danbury]

49 minutes ago, Hammo said:

Deary me. Talk about lazy journalism. No mention of last season’s injury list or extra European games. Nothing about Barnes’ serious injury when he was in prime form the season before. Man City visit in first five games? Per-lease!

 

An assessment without any credibility whatsoever. I wonder how much he got paid for this crap.

ESPN

[DerbyshireFox]

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/12641229/are-leicester-the-forgotten-team-in-the-premier-league-jones-knows-says-back-them-for-a-top-six-finish
 

Actually an interesting read. Whilst top six I feel is extremely optimistic, makes some interesting points. Certainly more insightful than some of the garbage out there

[coolhandfox]

17 minutes ago, DerbyshireFox said:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/12641229/are-leicester-the-forgotten-team-in-the-premier-league-jones-knows-says-back-them-for-a-top-six-finish
 

Actually an interesting read. Whilst top six I feel is extremely optimistic, makes some interesting points. Certainly more insightful than some of the garbage out there

Unlike some proper research. 

[Filberts lovechild]

If Leicester win their opening fixture and Leeds lose; Leicester move above them in the all time PL table. Moving from 13th to 12th

[HighPeakFox]

2 hours ago, Filberts lovechild said:

If Leicester win their opening fixture and Leeds lose; Leicester move above them in the all time PL table. Moving from 13th to 12th

'.......you'll never sing that!'

[Paninistickers]

9 hours ago, DerbyshireFox said:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/12641229/are-leicester-the-forgotten-team-in-the-premier-league-jones-knows-says-back-them-for-a-top-six-finish
 

Actually an interesting read. Whilst top six I feel is extremely optimistic, makes some interesting points. Certainly more insightful than some of the garbage out there

Written by a betting guy, therefore uses logic (and not emotion)  to direct his thinking 

[CosbehFox]

2 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Written by a betting guy, therefore uses logic (and not emotion)  to direct his thinking 

The Racing Post season preview is always a good read for this sort of stuff. It’s made me a fair bit of money but I forgot to pick up a copy of this years. 

[ParkerPen]

10 hours ago, DerbyshireFox said:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/12641229/are-leicester-the-forgotten-team-in-the-premier-league-jones-knows-says-back-them-for-a-top-six-finish
 

Actually an interesting read. Whilst top six I feel is extremely optimistic, makes some interesting points. Certainly more insightful than some of the garbage out there

Good article that, adds some balance to the negativity flying around !

[stu]

10 hours ago, DerbyshireFox said:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/12641229/are-leicester-the-forgotten-team-in-the-premier-league-jones-knows-says-back-them-for-a-top-six-finish
 

Actually an interesting read. Whilst top six I feel is extremely optimistic, makes some interesting points. Certainly more insightful than some of the garbage out there

Fofana is one of the best in the Premier League at such a task. Only Liam Cooper and Jan Bednarek average more interceptions-per-90 of defenders to have played over 2,000 minutes since the start of last season in the Premier League than Fofana (2.27).