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How did it go so wrong for Leicester?

Players have let them down, haven't looked interested for large parts of the season and Rodgers seemed to fell of completely.

Vardy injury prone and past his best. Barnes had a poor season
Defence has been poor
Tielmans checked out
Schmicael replacement didn't work out
Iheahancho and Daka didn't score enough goals (some of that on Roger not dropping Vardy when he was out of form).

Add all together and. Equals relegation. Still though, that squad might not be as good as previous seasons but should really be mid table but they just didn't look like they had fight in them.
 

Chatty83 said:
Players have let them down, haven't looked interested for large parts of the season and Rodgers seemed to fell of completely.

Vardy injury prone and past his best. Barnes had a poor season
Defence has been poor
Tielmans checked out
Schmicael replacement didn't work out
Iheahancho and Daka didn't score enough goals (some of that on Roger not dropping Vardy when he was out of form).

Add all together and. Equals relegation. Still though, that squad might not be as good as previous seasons but should really be mid table but they just didn't look like they had fight in them.
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Schmeichel was the main one, Rodgers letting him go and then persisting with a pub league standard Goalkeeper for almost 30 games when it was obvious after 3 games that he is dreadful.

Persisting with the woeful Daniel Amartey at centre back for the same period and completely freezing out Soyuncu, whilst not a world beater comfortably better than the alternatives. On his way to Atletico Madrid now.

Attach no blame to Iheanacho, he's been criminally underused and always given his best when he's played.

You say Barnes has had a bad season but he's got 13 Premier League goals and put top scorer, he's had some off days but I wish more had off days and produced as much as him.

Maddison superb in the lead up to the World Cup, horrific since then and missed the penalty to put us 3-1 up against Everton a couple of weeks ago. He also set up the Bournemouth winner when they beat us at our place. Be happy to see the back of him more than most.
 
Squirrel said:
You won't get many Leicester fans disagreeing with that. It's been raised to the club various times about the horrific goal music and the clappers.

They finally got rid of the clappers this season but decided to bring them back for the last few games in a misguided superstition as they were first introduced at the start of our great escape in 2015.

We also have t-shirt cannons at half time, thankfully these now seem to have been dropped when everyone started lobbing the shirts back on the pitch. Not to mention 'Fan Cam' with commentary by the PA guy.

The whole club is run like a Butlins camp, the brilliant infrastructure we built up under Pearson has been torn apart by Rodgers and Rudkin and now it's just a massive fun day out for the happy clappers. Behind the scenes, the club once awash with innovation and forward thinking has been replaced by a board full of non-football people brought in to make going to a football match a family fun day

Any sign of descent against the owners or how we're being run is drowned out woth threatening behaviour.

They won't release tickets to General Sale, only able to buy a ticket if you also fork out for a membership. Pricing more people out of going.

No accountability, you hear nothing from anyone and any time there seems to be a bit of questioning they offer a free donut or some near out of date shitty beer and get the media saying how brilliantly we are run.

The fan base has never been more divided. Those that have raised valid concerns about where we were heading in the last 18 months have been drowned out and threatened.

We aren't, we are a mess and I'd be happy to see the back of almost everyone.

I've never felt more disconnected.

Cvnts.
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Nowt compared to our last 7 years
 
Squirrel said:
Schmeichel was the main one, Rodgers letting him go and then persisting with a pub league standard Goalkeeper for almost 30 games when it was obvious after 3 games that he is dreadful.

Persisting with the woeful Daniel Amartey at centre back for the same period and completely freezing out Soyuncu, whilst not a world beater comfortably better than the alternatives. On his way to Atletico Madrid now.

Attach no blame to Iheanacho, he's been criminally underused and always given his best when he's played.

You say Barnes has had a bad season but he's got 13 Premier League goals and put top scorer, he's had some off days but I wish more had off days and produced as much as him.

Maddison superb in the lead up to the World Cup, horrific since then and missed the penalty to put us 3-1 up against Everton a couple of weeks ago. He also set up the Bournemouth winner when they beat us at our place. Be happy to see the back of him more than most.
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I always thought that the fact that Schmeichel was never replaced was huge. Ward was comical in the opening months of the season. Like SAFC with Camp/ Steele
 
Anyway, see you next season.
Squirrel said:
You won't get many Leicester fans disagreeing with that. It's been raised to the club various times about the horrific goal music and the clappers.

They finally got rid of the clappers this season but decided to bring them back for the last few games in a misguided superstition as they were first introduced at the start of our great escape in 2015.

We also have t-shirt cannons at half time, thankfully these now seem to have been dropped when everyone started lobbing the shirts back on the pitch. Not to mention 'Fan Cam' with commentary by the PA guy.

The whole club is run like a Butlins camp, the brilliant infrastructure we built up under Pearson has been torn apart by Rodgers and Rudkin and now it's just a massive fun day out for the happy clappers. Behind the scenes, the club once awash with innovation and forward thinking has been replaced by a board full of non-football people brought in to make going to a football match a family fun day

Any sign of descent against the owners or how we're being run is drowned out woth threatening behaviour.

They won't release tickets to General Sale, only able to buy a ticket if you also fork out for a membership. Pricing more people out of going.

No accountability, you hear nothing from anyone and any time there seems to be a bit of questioning they offer a free donut or some near out of date shitty beer and get the media saying how brilliantly we are run.

The fan base has never been more divided. Those that have raised valid concerns about where we were heading in the last 18 months have been drowned out and threatened.

We aren't, we are a mess and I'd be happy to see the back of almost everyone.

I've never felt more disconnected.

Cvnts.
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I'd just like to add that I meant to put dissent and for some reason typed descent. That's pissed me off even more!
 
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Squirrel said:
Schmeichel was the main one, Rodgers letting him go and then persisting with a pub league standard Goalkeeper for almost 30 games when it was obvious after 3 games that he is dreadful.

Persisting with the woeful Daniel Amartey at centre back for the same period and completely freezing out Soyuncu, whilst not a world beater comfortably better than the alternatives. On his way to Atletico Madrid now.

Attach no blame to Iheanacho, he's been criminally underused and always given his best when he's played.

You say Barnes has had a bad season but he's got 13 Premier League goals and put top scorer, he's had some off days but I wish more had off days and produced as much as him.

Maddison superb in the lead up to the World Cup, horrific since then and missed the penalty to put us 3-1 up against Everton a couple of weeks ago. He also set up the Bournemouth winner when they beat us at our place. Be happy to see the back of him more than most.
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Amartey is one of the worst players I've seen play regularly in the Premier League, he's appalling. I really dunno if it's possible to exaggerate how bad he is.

Agree about Iheanacho as well, a bit wasteful but a classy footballer.
 
Kenna said:
From winning the league to relegated in under 10 years.

It seemed like with the right transfers they could have established themselvtes in the top 6 after winning the league yet it's all just gone tits up for them somehow.
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Happened to Blackburn, winning the PL is a curse we've managed to avoid
 
Both "outsider" or non-elite teams who won the Premier League, Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City, have found themselves relegated later.

Seems if you win the league as a one off without consistent financial resources and backing based purely on one good team arrangement, you can't sustain your success.
 
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Interesting watch that. Draws some parallels with SAFC's transfer strategy. A gentle reminder that we aren't the first club to try to buy small and sell big. The club will always be one or two duff transfers away from the best laid philosophies being abandoned given how much is at stake. You can appreciate how it quickly turns from managed growth into a tailspin of short term focused stick or twist decisions just to stay in the league.
 
Morgan, Huth, Simpson, Drink water. Not typically a bunch of title winning players, but for that one season, they did it. Add Vardy, Schmeical and Kante, plus Ozaki , who for 60 mins I've never seen anyone run themselves into the ground and cause so much trouble as he did against us. Add Mahrez. They had a fully dese4ved premiership win. But it was a full moon aligning, one off season. Many players over achieving. Others moved on. That team was a one off.
 
I've said it before, if youre not one of the sky 6 and probably soon Newcastle, you are just circling the drain waiting your turn to drop. The reality of being even a decent premier league club. Everton surely among the favourites next year to drop
 
Pete the Pirate said:
Both "outsider" or non-elite teams who won the Premier League, Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City, have found themselves relegated later.

Seems if you win the league as a one off without consistent financial resources and backing based purely on one good team arrangement, you can't sustain your success.
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For Leicester it was a perfect storm of 3/4 great players, momentum and the rest of the challengers being absolutely appalling all at the same time. They had some great seasons after that as well but a couple of bad transfer windows will eventually cripple all teams in the league apart from 4 or 5. The same will happen to the likes of Brighton and Brentford in time. See also Southampton over the last few years.
 
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