Not felt as angry after a match for a long time as today.It felt worse than a defeat because we blew it away.
Yes the ref was bad, but we are used to that, the incompetance and dishonesty of our refs never ceases to amaze me,but we still blew it today thanks to yet another display of bad management by Sven.
We should have been out of sight by half time, but yet again our finishing was woeful. However it appears that our team has no real shape or understanding, and Sven has no plan B.
He admitted that he knew that Nugent could not last the game as he had a knock in training, yet he had neither Howard or Waghorn on the bench,so we had no holding player or target man.He decides to bring on Gallagher who shows a distinct lack of pace and effort and brings little to the team at all.
Sven is just continuing as he has done before with both Man city and England. Starts well then loses his way tactically and has his favourites who he plays even though they let him down.
I feel he is now letting us down, and am rapidly losing confidence in the man.He talks a good game, promises a lot , but ultimately fails to deliver.
He has not bought well, and still does not seem to know his best team.
Quite simply if we do not beat both Bury and Southampton then i hope he goes,as he really does not seem as good as his hype.
When he joined us last season we were 8 points off the play offs.
At the end of the season we were 8 points off they play offs.
Not progress and not good enough.
He is not in my opinion the solution.
Sven -problem or solution ?
posted on 20/8/11
"But the point still stands, there is nothing there that should make Leicester out and out title favourites. You've signed a host of decent-to-good players."
Your right. What gets you promoted is all your players playing together as a team rather than talented individuals who are just that - 'individual' which is what we had last season. You could argue that all three teams who went up last season had a host of decent-to-good players but they were a team and hence succeeded.
posted on 20/8/11
as long as we are together I can't see an issue to be honest
posted on 20/8/11
Toaster - don't forget we are in the Championship, so buying good Championship players rather than Premier League players on the way down with no experience is a good and commendable strategy. Your club, infact, has a speciality of building good championship teams and adapting them for the PL, which hardly did you harm (to a point, obviously).
posted on 20/8/11
Absolutely right Greatness,
And considering the number of personel that Leicester have drafted in, this make take time to gel. Heaping this amount of pressure on Sven isn't fair and that's exactly what the media are causing - and what some of the Foxes fans need to be wary of.
I think the OP has been reading and believing too much of this hype. Leicester definately have to quality to go up, but they wont run away with it.
The problem we have in the Championship this season is that there are an unbelieveable number of teams with decent-to-good players who, like you said, if they can make a team will achieve promotion.
posted on 20/8/11
FanDanns,
"Toaster - don't forget we are in the Championship, so buying good Championship players rather than Premier League players on the way down with no experience is a good and commendable strategy."
Absolutely correct, and you'll find that there are a lot of clubs who have done this - it's just Leicester are more noticeable because they have paid a premium for most of theirs and the manager is Sven Goran Eriksson.
Another case are your opponents today, Nottingham Forest. Installed Steve MacClaren in charge and signed some decent-to-good players. Instantly placed amongst the top five in the division.
posted on 20/8/11
Cry your little bin robbing hearts out.
We will see you at Greasy Crisps Stadium later this season and I expect to hear the same amount of complaining and excuse making after that one too.
posted on 21/8/11
I think Sven made good signings, probably too many CM's though.
We were very good first half against a very poor forest outfit, however they made changes and I think the tide was turning before the penalty incident ! We can't stamp our authority on a game no matter how much we spend.
Take a look at the Brighton team , apart from goalie and CMS, I don't see any household names, but they are a team on the up !! This firmly suggests it's how players are managed, to get best out of them, which is exactly what some managers can do and perhaps Sven can't ? A certain Mr O'Neill did it for us didn't he ( A cohesive team on a low budget ). I want Sven to succeed , but i'm not too confident he will.
posted on 21/8/11
It's only been 4 GAMES!
posted on 21/8/11
Sven will be gone by Christmas.
posted on 21/8/11
Sven won't be gone by Christmas - I also tend to agree with Emilio (A first) that when Nugent reired injured, the game changed. Gallagher offers nothing in that central role, far too lightweight. This situation would have been ideal for Steve Howard - bought a few free kicks, held the ball up, helped out in defence (alas he appears to have no part to play). This is why we need (in my opinion) 3 more strikers (a decent winger) and two more front men. I would Beckford and Kebe + one other (Maynard would be good, bit there is no way we would get all three)