Dan

Sensible bit of business again.

Between Russia and Alaska there are two islands separated by a few miles, with a 21 hour time difference.

You do if he's fucked and not contributing.

As do I. I think he's ultimately a victim of circumstance. Kane is a better striker and more suited to the system we play. I do however think that it was farcical keeping Kane on at all costs when he was clearly fucked by the end.

To be fair to him, he was no worse than Rashford.

I think that as well. While obviously Kane is first choice I do think we under-used Vardy in both tournaments we took him to. He's a genuinely very decent striker. I think the general under-use has played a part in his decision.

waaaah waaaah stop wumming everyone

It's a shame but it's never really worked out for him for England and I don't think there's anything to suggest it's going to in future. He hasn't been poor but he hasn't ever really held down a place either and he isn't going to when Kane's in such form. I do think he's still our second best centre forward though.

He probably is the best midfielder. He's the automatic pick for everyone when they pick our midfield. Does help that he's naturally the most defensive, he's a bit of insurance. It's very easy to forget he's only 21. He's not flawless and I would like to see him improve his passing somewhat and I was very surprised he didn't get a single goal last season in the league, but he's a really decent prospect, seemingly very likeable character and will only get better. A sensible bit of business tying him down for the long term. A positive move all round.

By the sounds of it you outplayed Stoke. That's no mean feat given the squad they have.

Get the fuck in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and don't worry about Mepham. We're signing Filip Benkovic (Dinamo Zagreb) and Caglar Soyuncu (Freiburg) so I think you're safe from us.

I backed Cardiff last year. This year, I've backed Brentford. Don't let me down.

I've had the odd bit of criticism recently for certain things on the footballing side but I don't think anyone can question our owners ambition at all. I know you often see comments like it but people at my work who've had something to do with this were told that they think this'll be one of the best facilities in Europe.

I saw someone describe us as Chelsea-lite a few months ago because there are some quite strange similarities in the way both clubs operate. It seems like, similar to Chelsea, we've got this policy where if something goes wrong it has to be because of the manager and everyone else survives. I still think we've only backed Puel because Benitez shunned us. You seem to have a similar kind of issue. I'm regularly updated by a Chelsea fan I talk to on what's going on there and it seems almost baffling from the outside. It's frustrating as hell when you see so many people calling for managers heads but letting everyone else off. Clubs need to act quicker this summer. We've not got the time. Especially with the World Cup as well. I wonder if you're going to have a year like 2015/16. You've probably got too much talent to bail you out of it but you seem almost stagnant to me with very obvious problems.

We're signing Maddison anyway. Wasn't sure where we'd fit both in.

Can't be arsed right now as it's too late but I can explain why I think the owners have been fortunate, why Rudkin still being in a job is laughable and why Puel can be argued the toss either way. There were murmurings that he was in trouble in the last few weeks. If they're making their judgement on his future based on 4 pretty meaningless games then it speaks volumes about our know-how, or lack of it. We'll be relegated in the next three years if we aren't careful.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/04/26/claude-puel-fighting-save-job-leicester-city-club-plans-big/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's going to be booted. If it happens then hopefully it's before the end of the season as that'll pocket me £330 The director of football has got to go. This is surely the end.

I'm not totally sold on Puel, but I'm getting very worried that we've got a player power problem. It needs fixing. If Puel can't do it, he has to go. We will never build a side better than this if we allow players like Wes Morgan and Danny Simpson to run the team. Players who achieved the unthinkable, but ability wise are very dispensable now. Morgan coming in for Dragovic sums it up for me. Dragovic outperformed him, barely did a thing wrong, and has been dropped - now apparently no longer fancies joining permanently. There in a nutshell is our problem. Genuinely now buying into the theory that some players are a problem.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/04/08/claude-puels-methods-create-strained-atmosphere-within-leicester/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw Here we go again.

The atmosphere in our ground isn't that good anymore, certainly not in the home end, I get the whole point that we're sort of in a hangover period as a fanbase as we're still coming off the back of the ultimate high, but it's a bit depressing there at the minute to be honest. L1 used to be a respectable block but it's shocking these days, that's from people actually in it. I'm in SK1 at the back, if the away fans are in the North East corner, I'm in the South East corner. I joined the atmosphere group that formed nearly five years ago and I think while it can be good up there, we'd rather have grown in numbers more now than we actually have. It doesn't help though when we've been selling out nearly every game and the likes of Huddersfield started when their ground was half full. Expansion I'd imagine will take us to 42k-ish. I really hope we do it just to get slightly above Villa's capacity as it'd make us the biggest ground in the Midlands. I've criticised our ground layout a few times and think that mistakes were made initially when designing it that haven't helped the atmosphere. There was a point when it was good but I still think having clappers makes it a bit artificial, and it doesn't actually sound that good.

Fantastic news. This has been rumoured for ages and it's great to hear it's true. While it's been a relatively drab season compared with recent, we're making some big strides off the pitch. This and the new training facility are both big news for us.

It's a shame we blew so much of that money on panic buys. We're a classic example of my theory that having a lot of money can breed a complacency and that's definitely happened with a lot of clubs in this country. It was like we abandoned everything that had made us successful overnight. I still don't think it's entirely been rectified either. You look at this summer's business and so far I think Maguire looks the only decent pound for pound signing. Iheanacho's been pretty awful in all honesty, Iborra's not bad but he's fairly old and doesn't appear to be fancied by the manager, Silva after all that waiting hasn't yet got above Matty James in the pecking order, then you've got Jakupovic who is somehow behind Ben Hamer in the pecking order. We've got a real recurring issue at this club that new signings seem to make little to no impact. Are they not that good, or is the player power talk actually true? I think as amazing as 2015/16 was, we'll always look back on summer 2016 with some regret. The one window in our history where we had the ability to attract real quality to the club and not one of the signings remains at the club. A summer we paid £16mil for Musa and a newly promoted Leipzig signed Timo Werner for £8.5mil. However, a massive however, is the new training facility. A state of the art facility costing us around £80mil was announced a few weeks ago and that's exactly the kind of investment we should be making. Even if we bodged it with the playing personnel we've at least got that to show for it and it'll definitely strengthen our position in future.

My money's been on negligence from the get go. I'd be amazed if this came out as being terrorism.