Can Mandaric and Allen bring back the Soul of the club?

[sparky79]

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I'm not getting a feeling that the new regime has brought back/can bring back with it the soul that went missing from the club when O'Neill and the board he worked under left.
Since that time we have had a succession of managers, chairmen and players who have eroded the core of the club, giving the fans little to cheer about and not a great to deal to enjoy watching.

Allen and Mandaric have come in with a lot of bluster, but we've still got NO CHARACTERS, no old stagers, no REAL fans favourites, no real quality, no never say die players to match those from the nineties or those in the other clubs we come up against at present. No one used to have a team spirit like Leicester, but that is all well in the past.
Longest serving player at Leicester? you'd be hard pushed to find one that's been here more than 2-3 years (save for the youth players)
None of the many players linked are capable of redressing this fundamental problem, so the question is: Can Mandaric and Allen bring back the Soul to LCFC?

 

[The Voice From Above]

yes

 

[Spanky Fox]

yes

 

[Hazzman]

Why are people determined on recapturing the spirit of Martin O' Neill?

He's gone and led us to probably our best form ever.

It will not happen for another 30 years at least, you're post has much to do with professional football than anything at Leicester City.

 

[alex]

yes, and Sappleton will be a favourite.

 

[DesertFox]

I think this has been identified as the main problem and I think that's specifically what Mandaric has addressed by appointing Allen.

Whether he has the quality remains to be seen but he certainly has the character and his teams play with passion. We will start to get more fans favourites as we will at least start to see some commitment IMO.

 

[Durham Fox]

yes, and Sappleton will be a favourite.

Will Sappleton even start Alex. Correct me if I am worng but he never mad a start for QPR, whay is he suddenly our best player?

 

[newtonfox]

yes

 

[lazzer]

When i saw the title i thought you meant re-release "underneath the arches "

 

[Jeff]

It will not happen for another 30 years at least

How can you make a statement like that?

Anything is possible, if you'd witnessed the 90-91 season you'd probably have also thought it would be a long time before we saw success again, but things changed very quickly. That's football, it's a funny old game.

 

[Matt_B]

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I'm not getting a feeling that the new regime has brought back/can bring back with it the soul that went missing from the club when O'Neill and the board he worked under left.
Since that time we have had a succession of managers, chairmen and players who have eroded the core of the club, giving the fans little to cheer about and not a great to deal to enjoy watching.

Allen and Mandaric have come in with a lot of bluster, but we've still got NO CHARACTERS, no old stagers, no REAL fans favourites, no real quality, no never say die players to match those from the nineties or those in the other clubs we come up against at present. No one used to have a team spirit like Leicester, but that is all well in the past.
Longest serving player at Leicester? you'd be hard pushed to find one that's been here more than 2-3 years (save for the youth players)
None of the many players linked are capable of redressing this fundamental problem, so the question is: Can Mandaric and Allen bring back the Soul to LCFC?

Just mentioned in another thread we will not see the likes of players like Walsh again any time soon, there is too much money and they players coming through, that in 5 or 6 years time will be the "old heads" will have grown up just doing it for the money.

I dread 10 years time.

 

[Hazzman]

How can you make a statement like that?

Anything is possible, if you'd witnessed the 90-91 season you'd probably have also thought it would be a long time before we saw success again, but things changed very quickly. That's football, it's a funny old game.

My estimation was on the basis that O'Neill took us to our greatest heights. Before O'Neill, it was possibly Bloomfield who achieved the most and then Matt Gilles in the earlier sixites. They were the times we were pushing our weight in the top flight, picking up the odd trophy.

The statement was on the basis of Football's current climate and the domination of money in the top flight.

The season you mentioned Jeff is not near in achievement to what O'Neill, Bloomfield and Gilles done. O'Neill's legacy is incredible for a club our size.

So my statement should of probably really been

'It will take us 30 years before we start to be in the top half of the top flight and win silverware'

So, can we please stop harking back to O'Neill for comparison, the achievements of Little would be more what we should be comparing to now.

 

[sparky79]

I disagree with the 'there is too much money these days' reasoning for not having any limited but committed fans favourites. Other clubs in the Championship operated as much on the breadline as Leicester did, and had players playing above themselves to churn out results. This is all you can ask of every player, that they find just that little bit extra more often than not.
Leicester have virtually NONE of these players, which has been the problem that succesive regimes have failed to address. I'm struggling to see the current regime achieving it. I think Allen is an honest bluffer and Mandaric is, to a certian extent, all fur coat and no kecks. Remember it was Gaydamark's money that got Portsmouth out of the deepest of sh*t (D'Allesandro, Fernandes, Davis, Mendes. Benjani, Campbell, Johnson and James didn't come out of Milan's pocket)

 

[Hazzman]

Just mentioned in another thread we will not see the likes of players like Walsh again any time soon, there is too much money and they players coming through, that in 5 or 6 years time will be the "old heads" will have grown up just doing it for the money.

I dread 10 years time.

Exactly beighton. To expect characters and servants to the club in the current footballing climate is naive.

 

[sparky79]

I agree that we need the equivalent of Little. Little had us keeping the ball, pushed limited players as far as he could. Identified players with a bit of passion. And importantly made us a nasty f*cking team to play against.

 

[Jeff]

The season you mentioned Jeff is not near in achievement to what O'Neill, Bloomfield and Gilles done. O'Neill's legacy is incredible for a club our size.

No, the season I mentioned was when we almost got relegated to the third division :icon_roll

But within ten years we'd been to Wembley seven times, played in Europe twice, and had a good spell in the Premiership.

So if we can make that sort of turnaround in a few years, why can't we do it again?

 

[Hazzman]

No, the season I mentioned was when we almost got relegated to the third division :icon_roll

But within ten years we'd been to Wembley seven times, played in Europe twice, and had a good spell in the Premiership.

So if we can make that sort of turnaround in a few years, why can't we do it again?

I thought you was referring to the turnaround of nearly being relegated in 90-91 to being in the playoff final 91-92. Not the whole picture of a decade.

I just feel that leap is unrealistic for people to refer to, in the today's climate.

 

[sparky79]

it's not unrealistic for the right man. The right manager should be able to rally the core of a good team around him. Particularly if, in the context of the division, rather than the context of football as a whole, he is likely to be operating above the level of investment of all but a few clubs.

 

[Portugeezer]

Yeah, why not :icon_bigg

 

[Durham Fox]

Id be interested to hear the reasosn of those that voted 'no - MM is only in it for the short term gain'.....

What short erm gain is there unless the club is successful under Allen and MM?