It is absolutely not of advantage to the club for supporters to sit back, put their heads in the sand and pretend we are not already a relegation favourite.
Real supporters can also demand action and voice their dissatisfaction loud enough for owners to hear. We should not allow the position of Leicester as a Premiership club to trickle away because of bad decision making. We did not add quality to our squad in the close season and this was a major error.
We are a Championship level team trying to compete in an elite League with a squad devoid of Premiership quality and our results will continue to mirror this. Not one player yesterday or indeed in recent matches has had the skill or ability to influence results and the players themselves are already looking devoid of ideas and aware of their own limitations.
To be honest one of the most significant signs of our lack of ambition on the playing side was the news that we gave King a four year contract last week. He is a Championship player at the most and sends me the signal that the club has limited horizons
Recently on another thread someone posted that it was right that we didn’t sign McCarthur “as he was similar to what we have". This is a 25 year old with more than 60 Premiership appearances whereas our current midfields lack of Premiership ability is apparent
If the owners do not grasp the nettle and demand and finance significant changes at January this club will be relegated .
At least Burnley we straightforward and confirmed they were treating their stay in Premier League as an income stream to help build the club for the future and have budgeted to go back down –but Leicester City are achieving this by default.
The Ostrich Philosophy
posted on 2/11/14
Nice to see no one is blaming Deleat this time.
Only one place we are lacking is the ability to break down a defence consisting of 11 players.
We can only do this by playing our most attacking football on the break.
We have the players to do this, Vardy in particular but it doesn't seem to work playing him wide.
King in my opinion plays a forward roll that can be beneficial in attacking on the break.
King was unfortunate with his header, he does however have the knack of ghosting into these positions that others like nugent dont.
posted on 2/11/14
comment by johngee (U5021)
posted 39 minutes ago
Cambiasso did not appear on the pitch at all in 4 of our 10 matches.
He was on the bench in 3 and contributed 45 mins,11 mins and 22 mins respectively.
In the 3 matches he started he completed one -that was yesterday and achieved 71 and 64 mins in the others.
A massive contribution !
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Surely you don't measure a players contribution solely by the number of minutes they play? Chris Wood has played about 20 minutes combined but made a huge contribution in the Everton game.
I watched the Stoke game in full and would say that Cambiasso was the reason we came away with 3 points - he was everywhere when he came on, intercepting and breaking up a lot of Stokes attacks.
He made an impressive contribution against United taking his goal well and directing the team from the bench when he was substituted (I watched him do this from my seat at the KP)
I understand the knives are out for him already, thats what happens with a major signing when the team aren't performing, but lets not shoot down a technically gifted player who is the biggest signing of this clubs recent history until he's played a few more games
posted on 2/11/14
I have to say that I am a bit concerned that of the summer signings only Cambiasso and Ulloa have played major parts and Cambiasso's not been regular choice. Apart from them we go with our championship team who at the moment seem to be finding it difficult to cope with the rigours of week in week out premiership football.
posted on 2/11/14
Somebody -agreed, its hardly the fault of Cambiasso or Ulloa for the abysmal performance against Swansea for e.g.
What frustrates me about Pearson is that he is still sticking with under performing players and not using Cambiasso more or Powell, Lawrence etc.
posted on 2/11/14
John, I think you are being very disrespectful to ostriches here. We are somewhat unwieldy but we never bury our heads in the sand, merely prefer to look away until the danger has passed. We are very supportive of our youngsters and can also run very fast to avoid the enemy. When we are cornered we can use our legs and feet as weapons. So beware! Ostriches unite.
On a more serious note you must have seen as many City ups & downs as I & we both knew this was going to be our hardest ever season. My biggest concern is our lack of goals & if the manager can solve that I think we will be ok.
posted on 2/11/14
The point is that it was very clear pre-season that we were short of quality for Premiership football and I posted to this effect in July.
This was against background of the owners announcing publicly their financial commitment to support signings to protect our status
This did not happen and we seemed to adopt a view that our squad would be sufficient
We will be relegated with current level
posted on 2/11/14
It was never fully known how our squad would adapt to life in the Premiership. Even now, we don't really know. Certainly we've seen some struggling to impose themselves in this league and some will fall by the way side, but many players are facing their first season here and are still feeling their way in. Take Drinkwater for example - he had an excellent season last year but is struggling with the pace of the play in this league. He'll have to learn to adapt, and the fact that he hasn't done it yet in the first 10 games doesn't mean that he won't do it in the future.
I really don't want us to chuck desperate money around in January buying expensive trash - we've done that before and it crippled us for a decade. Patience is very much a virtue here.
posted on 2/11/14
JG
'The point is that it was very clear pre-season that we were short of quality for Premiership football and I posted to this effect in July.
This was against background of the owners announcing publicly their financial commitment to support signings to protect our status'.
- That was a really naïve announcement by our owners, which is almost certainly one of the reasons we failed to get all our targets.
'This did not happen and we seemed to adopt a view that our squad would be sufficient'.
- Nige has always publicly espoused his squad - what else would you expect him to do? It doesn't mean he wasn't looking to add quality to the squad, indeed he has indicated they were doing this from May.
'We will be relegated with current level'.
- Are you getting confused between doing well in the Premiership (ie mid-table) or staying up (3 teams worse than us)? At the moment I'm hopeful that we'll be ahead of Burnley, probably QPR, possibly Sunderland, Palace or Villa. We'll see. In any event, we need to concentrate on doing better now with the current squad rather than wait and hope for any January saviour, or we'll be adrift with less than half the season left.
Cambiasso looks class, but I would not have been upset to see McArthur join us.
posted on 2/11/14
I agree - not enough prem quality, just created my own article saying a similar thing. We are weak in every area I feel. I would take 17th place this season but I think this is a tough ask as teams who don't score go down...
posted on 3/11/14
To be fair to JG he's hardly jumping on the negative bandwagon as he has posted several times this season including when he we have been doing well.
I actually agree with most of his points in his post and with Nev's later comment.
We have played nearly every game this season with Championship players (every player in Saturday's starting 11 was in the Championship last year except Cambiasso). Yes, they did great against Man Utd and Arsenal but these were like cup games with nothing to lose when we raised our game and threw everything at teams who themselves were prepared to venture forward and leave gaps at the back.
it has been a thoroughly sobering experience against the bread and butter Premiership teams who work hard not to lose and have that little bit more guile to open up our defence.
If you play a team of Championship players in the Premier League then more often than not you will be playing in the Championship next season.
We are playing the price for a desperately poor transfer window in the summer; why it was so poor I have no idea.
Pearson's determination to stick with his current squad? The club's failure to identify suitable targets? The alleged wage cap restricting the choice of player's available? Players doubts about joining a newly promoted team?
Could be any of these reasons and more but the fact is we didn't really strengthen the squad with much Premier League experience and at the moment it appears that the figurative chickens are back home roosting in the King Power rafters.
Personally though, I do not want Pearson out and would definitely give him until the end of the season. For me has earnt that much at least.