Leicester PL champions
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I hear what you're saying, but how could finishing top 6 next season be an even greater achievement than winning it this? Have you been at the sherry again LP?
Its been a fabulous achievement.
Like everyone else I'm delighted to see a team not owned by a billionaire who flouts the FFP rules win the league ......
Anyway if we should take anything from this its that we can win the league if we get our signings right and get some luck along the way.
In the last two years Leicester spent roughly what we did on Lovren and Lallana.
Like everyone else I'm delighted to see a team not owned by a billionaire who flouts the FFP rules win the league ......
Anyway if we should take anything from this its that we can win the league if we get our signings right and get some luck along the way.
In the last two years Leicester spent roughly what we did on Lovren and Lallana.
My fave stat so far is that Man Utd have spent more on players in the past two years than Leicester have in their entire 132 year history.
But yeah, galling that they spotted players like Mahrez and Kante while we buy some of the useless shite we do.
The FFP rules are pretty garbage anyway. Designed to keep the big clubs in the Champions League, and the smaller clubs small.
It seems hypocritical to endorse FFP considering the Pools money give us a significant advantage over our rivals during our most successful years.
Delighted for them. Well done.
Sick of it already though.
Sick of it already though.
According to Leicester's owners not a single player will be sold this Summer.
Though they'd obv struggle next Sesson I am not going to write them off for a top 4/6 just yet.
Though they'd obv struggle next Sesson I am not going to write them off for a top 4/6 just yet.
I'd be very surprised - and impressed - if they keep Kante, Vardy and Mahrez. But even if they do, as most Champions know, you always need to improve the team and bring in the right additions. As Champions, that should be theoretically easier - but creates its own problems and issues, as they might end up having access to exactly the wrong sort of players now.
If that makes sense.
I wouldn't write them off to be somewhat dragged into a relegation battle either. So yeah, I have honestly no idea what to make of them come next season.
Obviously winning the title is the more glorious achievement (as I said in my post) but if they finished in the top 6 next season given the extra pressure they'll be under, the demands of Europe and the possibility that some of the heroes of this season may be off in the summer, I think top 6 would be as great. As champions other sides will be out to beat them perhaps more than was previously the case. The combined pressure of expectation from the supporters and to prove to everyone else this was no fluke will be enormous. Ranieri also has a job on his hands to keep the players grounded.
Next season is going to be a really difficult one for Leicester and top 6 would be a fantastic achievement.
The player most likely to leave will be Kante I presume. Mahrez seems a bit more settled and will probably want to experience CL football with Leicester. There were a few stories in the media that he had told his agent he was staying next season.
I have my doubts that Vardy will have another season like this.
I have my doubts that Vardy will have another season like this.
That does make perfect sense.
They really need not to be tempted in the market as a whole new breed of players will be available to them and instead continue their current clever strategy with well-scouted signings that doesn't necessarily have a house-hold name in England (or anywhere else).
From my knowledge, their new signing in January, Daniel Armatey is exactly such player, completely unknown to most but with a great potential - if he can continue his developments he could become a top Premiership midfielder. A bit in the same mold a Obi Mikel just a better, stronger version - with goals.
It'll be more tricky going into the Summer market.
As do many, given he's 29 years old and last season scored 5. He's also a player that relies almost entirely in his pace, stamina and work rate. Not attributes that get better with age.
He's also signed a big new contract.
It's pretty surprising we're not in for him given all those warning signs.
*Looks to place £100 on Newcastle UTD to win the title next Season*
They also lost their main scout to Arsenal earlier in the year.
Ha. Well, if he replicated this season for the next two or three I wouldn't complain.
But imagine what he would cost
The very definition of 'buying at the top of the market'
Championship?
They will avoid the drop.. Sunderland and Norwich will fall.. Newcastle will pull a Great Escape..
New manager at the helm out to prove a point, players out to prove a point..
Counter attacking football..
*Looks for nearest bookies*
I cannot believe looking at the position Leicester where at last season, they have gone and won the title.. Simply an amazing story..
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They were in the bottom three for possession and only West Bromwich Albion had a lower pass completion rate.
Mad.
Mad.
I'm no Toon fan but I'd luv it, really luv it, if Rafa sends Fat Sam down. So would Rafa, I expect.
But next season is our season. .
I bet Brendan Rodgers is totally bewildered that you can win a title by actually winning games, rather than just the amount of possession you have.
I imagine him staring forlornly at a whiteboard with the words "Death By Football" written at the top, and the rest of it a series of scrawled question marks and sad faces
IMO they would never won the PL if the PL used more than one ball. Now teams have more time to organize the defense and you will almost always be up against an organized defense. Very difficult now to make a quick counter attack thanks to that teams kick away the ball and it takes a lot of time to get it back.
So, it is nod mad. Ranieri knew how to use it to his advantage.
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