CB Fry

Er - existing player negotiates pay-rise? Not really, no.

Has Les Reed ever persuaded anyone to stay?

This will be the same Sadiq Khan who is classed as "hostile" on that infamous Labour list of who in the party supports the leadership or not. Khan kept Corbyn a million miles away from him during the campaign. London is a Labour city long before Corbyn's leadership and will be once he's shuffled off (ie about September this year). Lastly Goldsmith ran a dreadful campaign and was a terrible candidate.

That sounds like the output of a meeting at the FA where they all agree "let's base the England kit on the St George cross!".

I would think Zlatan will be deciding between signing for us or one of our "natural rivals" Bournemouth and West Brom.

Gordon Brown and Ed Milliband are not and were not "Blairites". Ed especially was voted in on a trade union, old left mandate but is now written off as a "Blairite" by rabid Corbynistas. There's no evidence whatsoever that Corbyn and the Islington set give any "hoot" at all for the electorate, holed up in their 1981 theme-pub bunker rabbiting pointless nothings about CND and Israel and the Falklands. And anyway you kinda want the electorate to "give a hoot" about you, not the other way round. That's, like, the point of political parties and that's how you win power and make changes. You might want Labour to be an insular echo-chamber pressure group but the electorate have and will reject them and this current rabble won't ever get close to power or enacting change.

I must have missed Tony Blair standing at the last election. You seem to be 11 years out of date. Liz Kendall and a new, young Labour team would have delivered a huge swing to Labour yesterday, not the meagre gruel of nothing that idiot Corbyn and cronies are dishing up as some great triumph.

There's a whole world out there I clearly know nothing about.

Annoyingly nowhere near grim enough. Already being spun by rabid Corbynistas as the greatest electoral victory since President Kennedy. Big fan of Jo Cox, Labour MP taking Jeremy apart on BBC this morning. Also, quite fit.

Never ever going to happen.

Never ever going to happen.

Strawlock playing an absolute blinder.

Boring old Leicester City First season back - 14th Second season up - Champions Southampton Football Club - run by the single most driven, determined and focused football chairman the world has ever seen, and powered by the dreams and ambitions of a worshipping fanbase: First season back - 14th Second season - Ninth at point of sniveling defeated walk-out, club then rallies to finish 8th 14th to 9th/8th pretty pathetic now we know what we know now. We're well shot of him.

You can make stuff up that I've said if you like, you're welcome to. The difference is you did say that Bournemouth and West Brom are our natural rivals now.

I remember very clearly you saying back in August how Leicester City's quality of player had a big impact on their ambitions. As you tokd us, Saints, meanwhile had established their place in the pecking order with our "natural rivals" West Brom and Bournemouth.

Nice but should (always) be white socks in my opinion.

Mane and Zlatan is not really a compatible partnership so we'll be better off shot of him.

We haven't been permanently leapfrogged by West Ham and Leicester. Both perfectly capable of finishing bottom half, or bottom three, sometime in the next five years. As are we. Bilic has got a simultaneous second season syndrome and new stadium syndrome to face into next year. That's a lot of syndromes.

I think that is an option available to the board but it won't get to that. We will not let him visibly enter his final year. A simple extension of a one-year rolling will be a compromise to suit everyone. He'll do three seasons and then gone. Personally I think that's fine - I don't think our structure is designed to fit a dynastic long-term managerial reign. Three years and then progress to the next one sounds sensible to me.

Nor sure what Cortese has to do with anything. As a club we've refused to let any player enter the last year of their contract and there's nothing to suggest we wouldn't do something similar with Koeman. Said it a few times now, but I am sure he will sign something this summer to knock out the speculation, but I still think he will complete 3 years and then leave.

Well, it never ever did happen, did it? I was right. Cortese bottled it and quit. Thanks for a totally irrelevant thread from 2013-4 season, fascinating stuff. Not entirely sure what that has to do with anything Leicester City has done, or we have done since the Italian scarpered, or anything about me saying we couldn't ever finish top four, but bless you for digging it out.

Which you've made up.

Good luck finding any of those sentences. You might want to read what I've written instead of what you think I have.

Based on what?

And they've won the league and become part of ne of football's greatest stories. Not really comparable. If Leicester had had just a brilliant season and finished sixth then likely to been a story more similar to ours with some of their stars.