Why Leicester and not Everton?

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We can revisit this in the future because I think there are some signs that this won't go on forever. It isn't like they are battering teams every week. In fact the only times they have done is when the opponent has gotten a first half red card. A lot of narrow wins otherwise. That tends to reverse at some point.

We'll see. Not saying they are going to sweep all away in front of them. But they look a far better organised and effective team.
Sure they will have a bad spell.
 

Ok mate so why have they finished below us the every season since they won the league. 3 years on the bounce. You think luck doesn’t come into football, they you’re not an Everton fan.

Leicester could finish top 4, but they could easily finish 9th if injuries hit their squad and a few var decisions go against them

I'm talking about THIS season as per the Original Post.

To say that luck is a factor in them being much better than us this season is laughable.
 
So Leicester are 3rd having just beaten Southampton away by 9 goals. They, like us, have invested in many young players.

So what makes them better than us?

Why aren't we up there like them?


They built their team around Vardy, and built their team to work to his strengths, pace, directness, counter-attacking. We've just kind of made a Frankenstein of a team, a bit like United, in the sense that we've built with the best players available, but will they compliment each other? Are they actually just cast offs?

We've signed players like Richarlison, Bernard, Iwobi and Walcott, who rely on their pace, but their creativity is Sigurdsson who is slow, uninispiring and holds us back. What we need to do is sign a proper striker and build round him.

I do feel Leicester have fell into a little purple patch, like we had 10-years ago, with cheap, but smart signings like Tielemans, Maddison, Evans and Soyuncu. But they've had players like Barnes and Chilwell come through. I'm not saying Leicester are going to win the league, but look how they approach things, and look how we approach things. When i mentioned Cast Offs before... Maddison, Soyuncu, Ndidi, Praet and Riccardo are all players who were stars for their team, who Leicester took. Digne, Gomes, Mina, Walcott, Schneiderlin and Iwobi? By contrast...
 
What is slightly encouraging is that Leicester were badly average 12 months ago and when the time came to switch managers they got it bang on.

Talent-wise, I think we have a good squad of players, if a little mentally fragile. Hopefully the next manager can get the best out of them (or Silva somehow manages to turn it around).
 

The Leicester bubble bursting is one of the only remaining things I’m looking forward to this season. The other one being which mad Evertonism takes us out of the league cup at the semi final stage.
 
Rodgers is very good, an intelligent coach, always seeking to learn more. Plays his best 11, without titting around to be ‘clever’.

Pace, deliberately, in several key positions.

But they’ve spent their money (also a fortune) wisely. Meaning they don‘t have so much of an unsettling revolving door of players. Just a few transfer duds.

Transfer business done quickly and in more privacy eg the Zaha saga seemed to go on forever splashed across the papers.
 
Better decision making than us. People say we were better without money, that’s the missing the point, it’s the people spending it and making the decisions that’s the problem also.

The mentality isn’t there for us, from personal experience on social media and in person, I’m getting pretty cheesed off with some others for giving petty stick for simply pointing out what is there in front of us. One example is like a repeat of two years ago.

“Concerned about a lack of quality forward replacement for Lukaku and perhaps too many number tens”

Responses “Stop crying. Stop moaning. We will be fine. Everything is fine.”

This summer exactly the same over not replacing Zouma and Jagielka and not getting a quality forward to help the young lads particularly Kean.

Not saying I’m some prophet, some smart fella or anything.I just get frustrated because there are glaring issues time and again, some won’t have it, we end up finishing with no silverware and another mundane league finish or a manager leaves and it’s back to square one whilst others progress and push on leaving us having a tougher time trying to catch up.

I can’t say definitely if Leicester will see more success long term than us, short term who looks the most likely? It’s them isn’t it?

It’s alright saying we are a big club with history , how long is that going to work as each year other clubs achieve and we don’t? It says a lot these days more and more question if we are a big club or relevant club when at one time it wasn’t up for question.

I don’t want these or others becoming another club to look on and say “why isn’t that us”
 
Good decision making from the top basically. We’ve cocked up but the owners and DOF admitted and learnt from their errors.

But when you are clubs like Everton and Leicester, a couple of errors in recruitment or on players can knock you for six for several seasons.

The money and squad quality isn’t there to work around the errors easily. It’s taken several years of transition post title win to come back as we had to replace near enough the whole ageing squad.

We are in a good position now, but if we lost a player and mucked up a replacement, and you picked the right manager and got a top quality centre forward, then suddenly things could look different.

The question is, will the people at the top admit and learn from their errors. Silva looked like one of those appointments based on media reputation than cold hard facts.

Getting in Walsh was a good appointment (don't laugh), making him a DOF wasn’t as he had no experience in that role.

Doesn’t feel like there is much joined up thinking at the top at the moment. The bones of a decent team are there to build on though.

I’d go all out to bring Benitez back.
 

Leicester don’t faff about with managers either.

When the wheels came off for Claudio he was soon gone, nine months after winning the EPL.

They gave Shakespeare the gig and he lasted eight months ( and was our assistant manager a week or two later....go figure :()

They replaced him with Puel and he lasted about 15 months.....and when they fired him they had a proven EPL manager lined up.

By way of contrast, we made a holy show of ourselves in an expensive, relentless pursuit of a nobody and are “reaping” the rewards now.

So those thinking Silva deserves more time and at the same time wonder why we cannot do what Leicester do....think again.

Leicester are where they are precisely because they don’t accept mediocrity.
 
Rodgers is very good, an intelligent coach, always seeking to learn more. Plays his best 11, without titting around to be ‘clever’.

Pace, deliberately, in several key positions.

But they’ve spent their money (also a fortune) wisely. Meaning they don‘t have so much of an unsettling revolving door of players. Just a few transfer duds.

Transfer business done quickly and in more privacy eg the Zaha saga seemed to go on forever splashed across the papers.


See, here’s the thing.

If someone had posted on here in February that we should fire Silva and fetch in Rodgers the Super Bloo Brigade would have been down on him like a ton of bricks,

The same every time someone suggests Rafael.

Now, I don’t know if those two guys are so steeped in the Cult that they would consider coming here.

But if they would, it would be nuts to discount them on the grounds they managed the RS.
 
See, here’s the thing.

If someone had posted on here in February that we should fire Silva and fetch in Rodgers the Super Bloo Brigade would have been down on him like a ton of bricks,

The same every time someone suggests Rafael.

Now, I don’t know if those two guys are so steeped in the Cult that they would consider coming here.

But if they would, it would be nuts to discount them on the grounds they managed the RS.

In your opinion.

In mine I would rather liquidate.

Man gotta have a code, some things just shouldnt happen, call me bitter, call me nuts, but some things just shouldnt be considered.

Come back to me when Rodgers achieves something.
 
So you base this “ being superior at every aspect of being a football club” on the opening 10 games of every season. So it was Wolves last season.
Watford the season before.
Well seeing as they appointed the right man at the back end of last year, backed him in the summer and are now reaping the rewards, yes.
 

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