sheffield_fox
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Right now I will probably get called a whole lot of derogatory names for making this post, but before I start I want to ensure that you understand that I am not attacking anyone elses opinion, simply giving mine.
I am of the opinion Adams should stay. Why? Here are my reasons:
Firstly Leicester are not in as bad a position as everyone thinks. We are mid-table in the Championship with just a quarter of the season gone. I know we have had some bad results at home but lets not forget the good ones as well, like a hard-fought 2-1 win at Derby, a comfortable win away at Gillingham (not an easy place to go, Leeds will vouch for that) and a few other wins. Yes we have had poor results, but we are not going to go up as easily as we did last time like a lot of Leicester fans seem to think.
Looking through Adams' history as Leicester manager. His first full season, he inherited a team rock bottom on confidence having just gone down with very few points. We had no money and were under a transfer embargo. We also were entering a new stadium which is usually a kiss of death for many teams. We started the season brightly only for a former player's agent to push us over the dark financial line and into adminstration. However, it takes a good manager and motivator to keep the players focussed on the job in hand and so we did and kept winning. Around Christmas time was a celebration as we heard we would finally be coming out of administration. It was then realised that the fact that we had kept our excellent form going through these terrible times was a job well done and a testament to the whole club, manager, staff and players. As everyone knows, we went on to achieve promotion in probably the most difficult season off the field in the club's history. Micky Adams at this point was considered to be one of the club's best ever managers.
So up to the Premiership we go. Now name me one single realist who expected us to go up to one of the best divisions in europe, with next to no money to spend and expect us to stay up in a division that is made of money? I certainly didn't. Lets not forget that Micky actually brought in a wealth of good players to give it a good shot, the likes of Bent, Ferdinand, Dabizas, no-one of which was complaining at the time about those signings. What other transfer tactic could Micky adopt than bring in as many players as possible and get rid of the bad ones? Risks had to be taken, some of those paid off, some did not.
We ended up what I believe giving it a damn good shot in that division. We had the potential to go down with the fewest points ever having gone up with no money. The teams who came up with us did have money to spend and spent it. Portsmouth successfully managed to stay up with the players they bought, Wolves spent about £8m more than us yet we matched them. Surely they should have been moaning more than us? But no, we apparently have a god given right to be better than them and the fact that they had spent about 10 times more than us bore no resemblence on the fact that our season was a disaster.
So down we go, again Micky has no choice but to change the squad around getting rid of players who are on too high wages or don't want to play nationwide football. So he brought in some excellent division one players, the likes of Gareth Williams, Dion Dublin and David Connolly could only inspire confidence and the Leicester fans were overall pretty damn pleased with them. However, a quarter of the season has passed and we have only shown glimpses about what we are capable of (Gillingham, Rotherham & Sheff Utd), but we are still in a fairly respectable position in the league when you put it into perspective with the likes of Wolves. Wolves who went down on the same points as us, but with a hell of a lot more money to spend this season. They are 20th, we are mid-table. Count your lucky stars you aren't a wolves fan.
Are we really in a crisis? I believe not. Get behind them and things will get better.
I am of the opinion Adams should stay. Why? Here are my reasons:
Firstly Leicester are not in as bad a position as everyone thinks. We are mid-table in the Championship with just a quarter of the season gone. I know we have had some bad results at home but lets not forget the good ones as well, like a hard-fought 2-1 win at Derby, a comfortable win away at Gillingham (not an easy place to go, Leeds will vouch for that) and a few other wins. Yes we have had poor results, but we are not going to go up as easily as we did last time like a lot of Leicester fans seem to think.
Looking through Adams' history as Leicester manager. His first full season, he inherited a team rock bottom on confidence having just gone down with very few points. We had no money and were under a transfer embargo. We also were entering a new stadium which is usually a kiss of death for many teams. We started the season brightly only for a former player's agent to push us over the dark financial line and into adminstration. However, it takes a good manager and motivator to keep the players focussed on the job in hand and so we did and kept winning. Around Christmas time was a celebration as we heard we would finally be coming out of administration. It was then realised that the fact that we had kept our excellent form going through these terrible times was a job well done and a testament to the whole club, manager, staff and players. As everyone knows, we went on to achieve promotion in probably the most difficult season off the field in the club's history. Micky Adams at this point was considered to be one of the club's best ever managers.
So up to the Premiership we go. Now name me one single realist who expected us to go up to one of the best divisions in europe, with next to no money to spend and expect us to stay up in a division that is made of money? I certainly didn't. Lets not forget that Micky actually brought in a wealth of good players to give it a good shot, the likes of Bent, Ferdinand, Dabizas, no-one of which was complaining at the time about those signings. What other transfer tactic could Micky adopt than bring in as many players as possible and get rid of the bad ones? Risks had to be taken, some of those paid off, some did not.
We ended up what I believe giving it a damn good shot in that division. We had the potential to go down with the fewest points ever having gone up with no money. The teams who came up with us did have money to spend and spent it. Portsmouth successfully managed to stay up with the players they bought, Wolves spent about £8m more than us yet we matched them. Surely they should have been moaning more than us? But no, we apparently have a god given right to be better than them and the fact that they had spent about 10 times more than us bore no resemblence on the fact that our season was a disaster.
So down we go, again Micky has no choice but to change the squad around getting rid of players who are on too high wages or don't want to play nationwide football. So he brought in some excellent division one players, the likes of Gareth Williams, Dion Dublin and David Connolly could only inspire confidence and the Leicester fans were overall pretty damn pleased with them. However, a quarter of the season has passed and we have only shown glimpses about what we are capable of (Gillingham, Rotherham & Sheff Utd), but we are still in a fairly respectable position in the league when you put it into perspective with the likes of Wolves. Wolves who went down on the same points as us, but with a hell of a lot more money to spend this season. They are 20th, we are mid-table. Count your lucky stars you aren't a wolves fan.
Are we really in a crisis? I believe not. Get behind them and things will get better.
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