CB Fry

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.

This. I've said it several times but I like saying it. If we sell three players to Champions League clubs for £15-30m every single summer, then every single season I'd have us comfortably top half or better.

Absolutely no clue whatsoever what you're going on about here. But yeah, it's me with the nuances. Christ.

Ranieri gave a load of quotes only a few weeks ago about how he won't stand in any players way if they want to leave. Specifically it was about Mahrez going to a bigger club.

He always seemed to be the second choice at the time. Such lovely hair.

Funnily enough I've just cracked one out to celebrate and, yeah, I earned that mother.

Only if we build a 50,000 stadium now now now.

There's no nuance in my position on amything - in fact I'd I get grief from people on it tends to be because I am too unequivocal and don't accept nuance. So well done on giving me feedback diametrically opposed to what everyone else usually says. You'll never, ever find a post saying we can never win the league or finish top four. We could do. You will find lots of me saying "it's unlikely but possible in a season when everything falls into place, we have a heap of luck and at least one big club has a nightmare". Loads of times, usually on any long-ish thread about the topic. If we'd had this season Leicester's injury record last season then we'd have been fourth. Said that before too. No nuance, just clarity. Bang on the money.

What points? Net spend as has been proven this season, and previous seasons, is not a particularly important metric. There are plenty of other metrics. That's one single, consistent point. No flailing, no evasion, no deflection. One single, consistent point. And I'm right. Accept it and move on.

If there was any mocking going on it was against the dins demanding we "invest in the squad/break the bank/speculate to accumulate/etc etc" to the tune of why can't wah wah wah wah why can't that German woman let us do a Man City. Leicester's achievement by doing none of that, none of it, has smashed those moronic demands into the dust. It's great to be proved right.

I'll just repeat my final phrase from the last post. It's called perspective. Thanks for supporting comments from others here. We're done.

Laughable. Your "average" is a pretty pointless metric when Spurs (net spend zero) have improved exponentially season-on-season while Man City (+£100m) and Man United (+£43m) have, kinda, not - weird really when it's the Manchester clubs with all the quality in the side, right? Let's not talk about the stunning advances made by Stoke (I wish we were Stoke), Everton (I wish I wish we were Everton), Newcastle (I wish I wish I wish we were Newcastle), Watford (I wish I wish I wish I wish we were Watford), West Brom (you get the idea) and Sunderland (celebrating five glorious consecutive years of net spend growth - they must be top six now, right?) and Palace (THEY BOUGHT CABAYE WHY CAN'T WE BUY CABAYE) It's almost like it is a metric with no great value at all, aint it? Well done Ralph, Les and Ronald and the team on building and growing yet again.

Let a summer of wild misinterpretation of what Leicester have achieved and how they achieved it commence.

What have accountants, risk averse or otherwise, got to do with this dream then? No one is stopping anyone dreaming about winning the league, but your mention of accountants suggests that financial investment is expected. What many people seem to "dream" about, and your post suggests you are one of them, is us seen to be spending more money than others. As Leicester have proved this season, this isn't the right dream. Let your accountants know.

Why would "risk averse accountants" object to that? Last summer Leicester signed a full back on a free, Stoke's third choice centre back and, gosh, the only player in their squad they've spent eight whole million quid on. Wes Morgan and Mark Albrighton's wage bill won't be anything to worry about. I think we can definitely stretch to do what Leicester did in the summer and snap up some nice cheap, low wage bargains. We've got loads of players we paid £8m or more for so probably covered in that department already. Because that's what you want us to do, right?

I think what marks you out as a deluded, m***g f**wit on here is drivelling on about net spend being the most important factor for the success of a football club. Like, well, you.

This is football. When your team needs to win all their matches and you still need a whole sweep of fixtures for multiple clubs across multiple weeks to all happen then you are in the realms of "obviously not going to happen". You can furiously chalk on your blackboard a billion and one little formulas like Good Will Hunting if you like but only one of us was dumb enough to think that all the teams 3-5 in L2 were all simultaneously going to collapse in form to miraculously let Pompey stroll to promotion. All of them. And you were dumb enough. Obviously wasn't going to happen and didn't. It's called perspective.