The Now-Irrelevant 2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)

[Drico]

Ruud turning out to be the Dutch Lampard... Tactically clueless and living off his player reputation

And fanstastically predictable.

None of this should have been a surprise to anybody who was paying attention. He got the job, as you say, on the basis of his association with Manchester United. And he wasn't even good enough for them when the time came to dump Ten Hag. Leicester stepped on a ladder there - one the rest of us could see.

 

[Drico]

I'm just glad that after today's defeat* we will still be well clear.

*Over the last half-decade and more, we always find a way to give United a comfy win. Always.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Leicester should have kept Cooper. Absolutely ridiculous decision to get rid of him. I said at the time I was made up they punted him because their squad is rubbish and he had them competitive in every game but their stupid hipster fans couldn’t see past his Forest ties and wanted entertainment rather than draws. This is what you get. How many times does the lesson need to be learned that bottom half squads cannot play wide open free flowing attacking football, they always end up just leaking goals and being ran through by any competent Pl team.

 

[bluenorthwarrior]

Wout Faes at CB gets you relegated, no matter who is the manager.

He must be one of those great lads in the changing rooms who leaves it all out there in training because he does nothing in a match other than assisting the opposition.

I'd imagine Dyche has blocked the Leicester chairman. Enjoy the break, do a bit of punditry and wait for Burnley or Leeds to come calling in December

Absolutely spot on re Dyche, he would have to be absolutely desperate for a gig to go to leicester, and he isn't.

Best thing for him is wait for an early struggler next season and take a job at the bottom with 25 games to go. Much better chance of grinding enough in that scenario than with Leicester now with only wolves to aim at (who look like they have more than Leicester currently).

 

[barneygumble]

Wout Faes at CB gets you relegated, no matter who is the manager.

He must be one of those great lads in the changing rooms who leaves it all out there in training because he does nothing in a match other than assisting the opposition.

I'd imagine Dyche has blocked the Leicester chairman. Enjoy the break, do a bit of punditry and wait for Burnley or Leeds to come calling in December

In reality, the only response which is 100% correct.

The questions stem then to  HOW they've watched him play football, and not replaced him.

its why I was always confident we'd not go down. There were 3-4 worse teams than us, even under the darkest period of Dyche.

 

[Paulie]

Have you ever considered they sing that to you because so many of you seem to be frothing socialists, and it will wind you up?

No just that they spend their time singing about Scousers etc more than support their own team.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

I genuinely don’t wish relegation battles on anyone

They’re awful

I have honestly lost sleep over it in recent seasons

It’s miserable

Hopefully we stay clear of those worries going forwards and can actually have some optimism

I'd argue that it's much worse for us simply because we've never been relegated from the Prem before. It isn't as bad for the likes of Leicester, Southampton, Wolves, West Ham, Brentford etc. as they've all been in the lower leagues in modern times.

 

[MikeH72]

He'll do it.

Watch now as Leicester give him a call.

*3 months later*

*Leicester relegated on 21 points*

: ffs what do you expect him to do with that midden of a team?

 

[MikeH72]

I'm just glad that after today's defeat* we will still be well clear.

*Over the last half-decade and more, we always find a way to give United a comfy win. Always.

Hmmmmmm yeah. I wonder why.

April 2022 we beat them under Lampard. The last time we gained even a point against them. In the reverse fixture that season the fat kopite got a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.

Then Sean Dyche took over.

 

[Zed Car]

Just noticed we are the same points difference from 5th place as we are from the bottom 3.

Spring has sprung finally

 

[NathDogg]

No we weren’t. You’ve tried to cry it in for years. It didn’t happen then, it wasn’t happening this season. We’d probably be sat about 5 or 6 points above the relegation zone now if Dyche had stayed and we’d end up double figures away from it.

Leicester have lost 10 in 11, not scored a home goal in 6 games whilst losing all of them. Ipswich are on 17 points now (the total Dyche left us on) and have put on the total of 2 points since Dyche left.

Every predictive model you have involves an imaginary world where we lose neatly every game under Dyche and Ipswich and Leicester find form that has eluded them for 2/3 of a season. Could have happened, extremely unlikely to. Most probable was we continued at somewhere near a point per game and ended up safe easily.

I love how you can spit out this like it’s absolutely gospel.

Did you not see how we were playing under Dyche, the total lack of belief and faith from the players, the mind numbing hoof ball and the demoralising defeats….we were headed one way and that was down, thank god the new owners didn’t wait to see it out with the fraud.

Insane that he gets the credit for other teams being gash, when you see the difference moyes has made and the points we’ve picked up.

Moyes turning us around has directly affected both Everton and the other teams around us, if we were still in the mess under Dyche, which we absolutely would be, who knows how they would have performed.

 

[knowing your history]

Leicester cant afford dyche also with the mess when going down of a potential transfer ban. Adding to an already poor squad whole club just looks a mess, when i look at them i think could have been us if we went down.

I can see them being stuck in the championship until they change ownership. Last time they went down they had better quality like Dewsbury-Hall and more motivation. Now the whole club looks dead with a toxic atmosphere at all the home games.

 

[knowing your history]

Dyche at Leicester won't help them. It would be like Allardyce to Leeds a couple of years back. It would be a bad move for Leicester and an even worse move for Dyche.

Who else is giving him a prem job though in next six months? Leicester would be a free hit so he can quickly assess the squad and then rebuild over the summer.

Or he just hangs on until December/January and then someone like Leeds might give him a call. I can't see Sunderland being interested in him if they come up as they've got one of the youngest squads in the country so would be a terrible fit.

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

Popped in to get a breath of fresh air. In Moyes we trust!

 

[Tony’s Carp]

If the season was ten games longer we would get Europe and United would go down.