Leicester For The Title?
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Yeh, they're starting to run out of steam it seems, I just desperately hope they can stutter across the finish line.
Okazaki seems to have hit a good bit of form.
Don't Leicester still have the best form in the league? I don't think they're stuttering that badly, it's there's to throw away at this stage.
The fact they're still winning while those two ain't scoring is ace. They'll get back in form soon too.
If we beat Spurs it's over. Leicester only need five wins from eight I reckon, and that's if spurs do well. I mean can you see spurs doing any better than 6 wins, a draw and a defeat (at our place). They've got man u, chelsea, us, stoke away... They're gonna drop points. So Leicester can afford a few bad results now.
If we beat Spurs it's over. Leicester only need five wins from eight I reckon, and that's if spurs do well. I mean can you see spurs doing any better than 6 wins, a draw and a defeat (at our place). They've got man u, chelsea, us, stoke away... They're gonna drop points. So Leicester can afford a few bad results now.
I always enjoy beating Spurs, but I think it will be particularly pleasurable if it strikes the death knell for their title aspirations. One of those 4 or 5 goal beatings we've given them in recent seasons would be lovely.
On a sidenote - the league winner this season might have one of the worst scoring records in the history of the Premier League. Right now, Leicester has scored 53 goals in 30 games, i.e. averaging 1.77 per game. That extrapolates to 67 goals after 38 games. If they win the league with that goals record, then you have to go back to 2008/09 when Man Utd scored 68 to find the last winner that didn't score 70 goals. Arsenal had pulled off that feat (68) about 10 years before that in 1997/98. The current worst record holder is the Mancs again, in the inaugural season (92/93) of the Premier League, when they won the title with 67 goals in a 22-team league back then.
I think they might struggle to get those 5 wins though. All big games now, starting Saturday. Lose at Palace and Spurs are right there.
Last 6 league games its actually us..
According to this, we're joint with West Ham, Leicester and Spurs: http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/matchday/form-guide.html?tableView=total
Anyway, it's much of a muchness, and Leicester are definitely keeping up their form.
I've obviously missed out in my development as a Red somewhere along the line. As long as it's not the Mancs or the blueslime I could not give two shiny sh!tes who wins the title if it isn't LFC.
Yep, they are and thats the most important thing. They've looked very nervous in their last two games though.
Question is, how are they going to perform next season..
Champions League would kill a team like Leicester, without any serious investment..
Will any players coming from overseas take them seriously.. ??
Leicester fucking who ?????
Personally I hope they become the Modern Day Nottingham Forrest.. What a breath of fresh air that would be...
Champions League would kill a team like Leicester, without any serious investment..
Will any players coming from overseas take them seriously.. ??
Leicester fucking who ?????
Personally I hope they become the Modern Day Nottingham Forrest.. What a breath of fresh air that would be...
Nah. Arsenal and Spurs could build on it. It'll just be a laugh if Leicester win.
Red N: can't see that happening. Ranieri's done amazingly well this season but he's no Brian Clough.
They'll treat the tv money (and therefore, spec-fucking-tacular wages) seriously that's for sure....Robinho rocked up at Citeh not even knowing who he was signing for, so not sure players will give a flying fuck where/what/who Leicester are.
Whether you want that kind of wanker coming in to a tight knit group of players is another matter.....
You are probably right..
But it would be amazing if they did..
Though I personally feel they may struggle next season..
Their squad will be raided.. thats for sure..
Though how fucked up is this.. They win the League.. They enter the Champions League SEEDED.. so that may do them a small favour..
What? As if. Robinho rocked up to City because the richest Arabs on the planet were funding a project in which money was no issue, and paid Madrid £33m UP FRONT for him, plus wages of £160,000 a week, and a promise that hundreds of millions more would be invested in the playing squad.
Leicester winning the title isn't going to suddenly ignite a spending spree and mad investment like that.
True, Ranieri seems sober most of the time.
That's quite the understatement. I don't think there's been many managers who have been around as long, and managed so many decent football teams, who have managed to win almost nothing at all. Nothing sums up the gigantic fluke of Leicester better than the fact Ranieri is the manager.
Wrong.
His agent did the deal for the $$$, and they hadnt got any big names to attract him at that point. As admitted to by the player himself:
Robinho: I didn't know who I signed for when Man City beat Chelsea to deadline-day deal
And the wages are already playing a role in players signing for "unfashionable" English clubs - look at Shaqiri money grabbing at Stoke. There is no reason to believe that wont continue, or even accelerate with the money becoming available - dont take my word for it, look at what the footy and finance journos are saying:
"Leicester, then, will be able to outspend any European club except Real Madrid, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and arguably (and only arguably) Bayern Munich. Already, the Premier League's middle class are richer than Serie A's best. Even the most unfashionable teams can attract top European talent." (ESPN in this case)
There's no romance in your heart mate. Stone cold.
I'm confused.
Robinho joined City as the first "marquee" signing to showcase an incredible spending spree by the Arabs at City, with Mansour having personal wealth of almost £20 billion. They then spent £300m in two years, and now have one of the most highly paid and expensively assembled squads in the entire world, with estimated investment of over £700m so far into the playing side alone.
And you think this is going to happen at Leicester? It's a sign of things to come? Hahahahahaha. Behave.
Fucking hilarious.
You're being deliberately obtuse. I didn't say Leicester could/would "do a Man City" I simply said money talks and Leicester wouldn't be short of players willing to go there.
I then refuted your statement that Robinho knew exactly what he was doing and joined Man City for any other reason than £££.
Yeah. And used Robinho as your example. A player whose incredible transfer is widely renowned to be the start of the incredible, venal money train of obscenity at Manchester City, and as such is only of value in that context, and not the one you appear to have been trying to make.
If you're trying to suggest that shit, little clubs like Leicester would use their new found wealth to buy players who beforehand would never have considered them, great. But I think Robinho's agent and Real Madrid were probably quite aware that City's wealth and future investment would make the transfer less outlandish in time.
In any case, if lots of clubs now have the means to spend silly wages and transfer fees, then the clever ones will know which are more sustainable and likely to succeed, or indeed which ones to use as a nice springboard to a genuinely big club who can win trophies.
As for Shaquiri, he wasn't poached from under the noses of any European giant in Germany or Italy. He was bombed out and unwanted by Bayern and then Inter, that's why he's at Stoke.
The idea that all of a sudden Paul Pogba is going to join Leicester is a joke. It will be the mercenary dregs of Europe that no genuine big club wants who will end up playing for the likes of Stoke, Newcastle and Leicester. As it ever was.
You'll see I made that point at the end of my first post...
"...not sure players will give a flying fuck where/what/who Leicester are.
Whether you want that kind of wanker coming in to a tight knit group of players is another matter"
So Leicester will, if they want to, have no problems attracting high calibre (albeit potentially mercenary players) - which was the post I was responding to - "Leicester who?"/ who will go there?
And I'm not sure your point on Shaqiri is correct either - Stoke beat others including Schalke to his signing which brought widespread derision from German commentators on the extent to which money was stacking the deck in English clubs favour (even those in mid-table with no European standing).
"...not sure players will give a flying fuck where/what/who Leicester are.
Whether you want that kind of wanker coming in to a tight knit group of players is another matter"
So Leicester will, if they want to, have no problems attracting high calibre (albeit potentially mercenary players) - which was the post I was responding to - "Leicester who?"/ who will go there?
And I'm not sure your point on Shaqiri is correct either - Stoke beat others including Schalke to his signing which brought widespread derision from German commentators on the extent to which money was stacking the deck in English clubs favour (even those in mid-table with no European standing).
Leicester will always struggle to attract big players. Because they're Leicester.
A cash-rich club will always get in one or two who are only interested in money, but building a quality squad takes more than just an influx of cash that every Premiership club shares to an extent.
So, OK, let's go back to Robinho. You're probably right in that he's such a fucking moron that the club, location, potential etc was secondary to how much he was getting paid.
But while cash can always get you one Robinho, you need a gigantic shitload of oil money and the promise of squad building on a galactic scale to then attract Silva, Toure, Aguero et al.
A cash-rich club will always get in one or two who are only interested in money, but building a quality squad takes more than just an influx of cash that every Premiership club shares to an extent.
So, OK, let's go back to Robinho. You're probably right in that he's such a fucking moron that the club, location, potential etc was secondary to how much he was getting paid.
But while cash can always get you one Robinho, you need a gigantic shitload of oil money and the promise of squad building on a galactic scale to then attract Silva, Toure, Aguero et al.
I think that's probably right, but I guess we'll see when the money rolls in.
It staggers me that 17 of our 20 premier league clubs are in the worlds richest 30; and that's before the mammoth tv moola arrives. Also telling (although it may have also been a cheap shot at Madrids expense) was the Barca president stating he was more worried about the upcoming surge in Premier league money than he was Real.
It staggers me that 17 of our 20 premier league clubs are in the worlds richest 30; and that's before the mammoth tv moola arrives. Also telling (although it may have also been a cheap shot at Madrids expense) was the Barca president stating he was more worried about the upcoming surge in Premier league money than he was Real.
Remaining fixtures :
Leicester: Southampton(H), Sunderland (A), West Ham(H), Swansea (H), Man Utd(A), Everton(H), Chelsea(A)
Spurs: Bournemouth (H), Liverpool(A), Man Utd(H), Stoke (A), West Brom(H), Chelsea (A), Southampton(H), Newcastle (A)
Arsenal: Watford(H), West Ham (A), Palace(H), West Brom(H), Sunderland (A), Norwich (H), Man City (A), Villa (H)
City: Man Utd(H), Bournmouth(A), West Brom(H), Chelsea(A), Newcastle (A), Stoke (H), Southamton (A), Arsenal (H), Swansea(A)
City also have the PSG games before the West Brom and Chelsea games.
Leicester can finish on a maximum of 87 points, Spurs 82, Arsenal 79, Man City 78
Leicester: Southampton(H), Sunderland (A), West Ham(H), Swansea (H), Man Utd(A), Everton(H), Chelsea(A)
Spurs: Bournemouth (H), Liverpool(A), Man Utd(H), Stoke (A), West Brom(H), Chelsea (A), Southampton(H), Newcastle (A)
Arsenal: Watford(H), West Ham (A), Palace(H), West Brom(H), Sunderland (A), Norwich (H), Man City (A), Villa (H)
City: Man Utd(H), Bournmouth(A), West Brom(H), Chelsea(A), Newcastle (A), Stoke (H), Southamton (A), Arsenal (H), Swansea(A)
City also have the PSG games before the West Brom and Chelsea games.
Leicester can finish on a maximum of 87 points, Spurs 82, Arsenal 79, Man City 78
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