I hope we will survive. Right now we could turn it around and climb the league, just about scrape it, or plummet like a stone.

The latter is looking worryingly likely after the last 3 games. Confidence and form has been completely lost. It will take a lot of effort from all tonturn it around.

If we go down or scrape it, I think we should move Ranieri upstairs and bring in an exciting prospect as first team coach. Howe would be might first choice but he may have bigger plans.

If we turn it around, I think a Ranieri will stay.

Whatever happens, our recruitment needs to improve from the last 2 transfer windows. We have not invested well in stepping the club forward. Signings have been expensive, and bar Ndidi, haven't made a dent on the first team yet. That's not good enough and that is an area that must improve.

Move him upstairs? Seems unlikely from either side.

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regardless of what happens with Leicester, but Blackburn for me are still the worst prem champs ever... then last seasons Chelsea.....
when you put it into perspective, mixed with a great 1st time in C.L, i think City have nothing to prove, just enjoy the ride....

Merseysidefox (U4842)

Bang on mate, i'm a Ger's fan and followed the foxes last year like every other football fan and found the challenge and success refreshing but this year like my own clubs recruitment has been a complete disaster.

Why didn't your clubs owners build on success and fame from title triumph?

I think your supporters clubs should hold the owners to account from such a monumental screw up if you ask me. if they do go down- wow!!!

If Leicester go down there can be no debate around worst champions it will be fact.

does any think lesta would of fared better if they hadn't been raped of the top player by moneybags Chelsea

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posted 5 minutes ago
Merseysidefox (U4842)

Bang on mate, i'm a Ger's fan and followed the foxes last year like every other football fan and found the challenge and success refreshing but this year like my own clubs recruitment has been a complete disaster.

Why didn't your clubs owners build on success and fame from title triumph?

I think your supporters clubs should hold the owners to account from such a monumental screw up if you ask me. if they do go down- wow!!!
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It's a difficult one to answer, but there are a couple of theories.

1. As champions, we were suddenly held to ransom on all players and asked to pay over the odds. In some cases we did, but in many others we did not and chose to walk away.

2. We weren't willing to pay the going rate. Our director of football is a joke and after Walsh left in the summer, our negotiations and recruitment went to pot.

3. We just couldn't operate in the new market we were fishing in. We were inexperienced in it and were caught between trying to go big (and getting rejected) and trying to get bargains. What happened was you et the player who should be bargains but cost big (Musa!).

The reality is we just failed in our recruitment policy despite it looking a sensible one. A few decent money boys, a few young free or low fee transfers and a couple of marquee signings.

What most people will admit with hindsight is that the big money buys have been a waste of money, and the low fees haven't cut it.

We also didn't bring in a centreback or replace Kante. Those two things have so far proved to be terminal. What is astonishing is we didn't rectify the centreback problem in Jan (once again we tried but couldn't get deals done).

Ndidi looks class, and we all hope he can do enough of the Kante role to carry us, limping, over the line.

Then we can go back to fishing in the ponds were used to!!

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We just couldn't operate in the new market we were fishing in. We were inexperienced in it and were caught between trying to go big (and getting rejected) and trying to get bargains. What happened was you et the player who should be bargains but cost big (Musa!).

The reality is we just failed in our recruitment policy despite it looking a sensible one. A few decent money boys, a few young free or low fee transfers and a couple of marquee signings.
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This, remember thinking in summer your transfer window was terrible. Tbf you did have some good original targets linked with (that Andre Silva guy at Sporting especially) but it ended an unorganised mess. Musa was your record signing yet similar to Vardy, they can't both play and he doesn't fit 4-4-2 so never gunna start. Slimani, good player but nowhere was your success last season based on a target man, based on pacu counter attacks.

May have seemed harsh at the time but carrying on to rely on players like Albrighton, Danny Simpson, aging Fuchs, Morgan and Huth, even Drinkwater I never rated that highly, never going to end well. Performed out their skins and did well as a team but, and it is sad to say, that was never sustainable, we're going to go back to their usual quality sooner not later. Losing Kante was unlucky, Mahrez very disappointing this season too, but still. Played it all wrong this summer

I actually think it undermines the title win.

When this kind of thing happens, the champions should be stripped of the trophy and it should be given to the long term champions to look after. Everyone knows Man Utd are the long term champions of the Prem and other teams just borrow it when we get bored for a season or two. We are overall of Champions of the Prem, and no one can argue against that.

Get to fack with yourself

''We are overall of Champions of the Prem, and no one can argue against that.''

I think you mean most successful, in Prem History...
and you sound like a Liverpool fan in the 90's.

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I actually think it undermines the title win.
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Haha, why's a Spurs fan commenting on a team that won the League Title?

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Leicester had the help of officials and various teams let them win without challenging them, poor sides just rolled over for them. They only dominated possession in 5 games that whole season, meaning they got outplayed by Sunderland and Norwich at times

All these people are correct. We only won the league last year because other teams were terrible, refs and the FA fixed it in our favour, and El Niño happened to be diverted to ensure the playing temperatures at games suited our style.

Nothing to do with how good a team we were.

I 100% agree that we should be stripped of the title. It should be given to the Premier League Champions of champions, Manchester Utd, and we should build a statue of their team outside our ground.

Winning the league last year makes me so embarrassed to be a Leicester fan. I feel ashamed of making these "big" clubs look silly by letting a rubbish team win. And to think we did it against all the odd.

Or, it was a wonderful achievement that shows what can happen when a team of good players, but not superstars find a magic formula and deliver a dream. It demonstrates what fantastic ownership and governing of a club can do when you get it right.

This year sadly shows what happens when you get it slightly wrong 😳

Slightly wrong Mersey!?

Yes BS - I believe this is a season of many thins going slightly wrong, not 1 big thing going badly wrong.

Not to say they don't all add up to badly wrong!

Reality is it changes little.

Last season many wanted to pretend we were watching some unstoppable force playing great football, we were not, from Xmas onward Leicester were dominated in a majority of games and pretty darn ugly to watch.

They were helped by the complete capitulation of every decent side in the league, something we will never see again.

You have to ask yourself what the norm is? Vardy and Drinky and co have had one genuinely good season in their careers so why is anyone surprised that they have reverted to type? It was an anomaly, simple as that.

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Reality is it changes little.

Last season many wanted to pretend we were watching some unstoppable force playing great football, we were not, from Xmas onward Leicester were dominated in a majority of games and pretty darn ugly to watch.

They were helped by the complete capitulation of every decent side in the league, something we will never see again.

You have to ask yourself what the norm is? Vardy and Drinky and co have had one genuinely good season in their careers so why is anyone surprised that they have reverted to type? It was an anomaly, simple as that.
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All these petals from the Championship seem to have got lost and forgot they're commenting in the Premier League section.

But this group of bang average championship players blew Man City apart this season. How did that happen if they've reverted to type now??