Saint Albert

After hearing all the rumours last season about the players threatening to leave if Puel stayed, along with the stories of Fonte and Bertrand falling out with Puel, I’ll be interested to see how the Leicester squad react to him over the season.

If it is then I must be a very cruel person.

Quite true. Reminds me of General Melchett:

...and Lovren gets subbed for Oxlade-Chamberlain...in the 31st minute.

It’s also interesting how stories of difficult inter-personal relations have made it into the media over the last few weeks concerning Koeman and Everton staff. Only interested in the first team, they say. Friendly one day, a stranger the next. Sound familiar?

He won’t get an ounce of sympathy from me if they sack him.

Yesterday we played well against a team set to sit back and defend. There were several goal scoring opportunities. We have some difficult fixtures ahead, but this thread is an enormous over-reaction following a win.

...and for the 2-0 goal...damn... Lovren. A “Croatian catastrophe” according to the commentators.

Lovren’s positioning was awful for Spurs / Kane’s 1-0 goal.

FWIW the commentators in the NBC studio did not think there was enough contact to warrant a penalty. We’ve seen them given for less, I suppose.

Things are not looking too good for Ronald. The grass is not always greener...

Depends which one you mean - for Tadic it looked like he made a meal of light contact on his thigh from Foster. There was a good shout for handball against Rondon right before Romeu’s missed close-range chance, which the ref probably missed, but also Tadic was lucky not give away a penalty for handball on a W.Brom free-kick.

No I don’t. I thought that he showed enough coming on against Stoke to merit replacing Redmond in the starting 11. Perhaps the manager doesn’t fancy playing both Boufal and Tadic in the same line up? Anyway, I’m just watching the game back on the PVR this morning. Saints look decent in the first half. With some better finishing from Tadic, Romeu and Long we could have been 3 up against a team that looks set to defend for a 0-0 draw. Bertrand was a bit unluckily to hit the post on his free kick as well.

Yes I do. Many times. I was offline for much of Saturday so re-emerging this afternoon with this beauty waiting for me, was fantastic. I’m a little torn by his celebration. I appreciate his passion and he probably does not understand why the manager is not putting him in the starting lineup, but I can’t say I liked it. He must start the next game, surely?

“Do these shoes make me look taller?”

Austin’s also a natural goal scorer. Too bad Pellegrino does not seem to rate him.

Considering his background as Ranieri’s no. 2, perhaps he’d consider being a Black replacement?

I see that Leicester have pulled the trigger and sacked Shakespeare.

That is unfortunate, but probably true.

Bertrand to City rumours are doing the rounds again in the press: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4982118/Southampton-star-Ryan-Bertand-open-Manchester-City-move.html

This. Should have done it in the summer, IMHO.

That was my impression of VVD today, too. He looked a little slow on the first Newcastle goal, though.

This one made me laugh... https://mobile.twitter.com/piesportsbooze/status/919606941948801026

But he’s already said quite recently that he is enjoying his life too much right now to return to a front line position.

This is the problem with the get rid of Pellegrino argument as it was with the Puel out movement. Is there anybody available out there who could improve things for the club?