Leicester promoted as QPR smash Leeds 4-0 with interesting “players only meeting” and “major return” possibilities — Filbertway 27/4/24

Leeds fell to the ground at Loftus Road losing 4-0 to QPR. Ilias Chair scored the first goal after just 8 minutes, and from then on Leeds looked a defeated unit.

Khun Top will of course be pleased with the way Leicester have managed to turn around their fortunes and the result at Loftus Road yesterday, made it possible to celebrate a return to Premier League, two games before the season is finally over.

The results from February until the West Brom game was relegation form. This will of course be a major topic to discuss, when the analysis and results of this season will be evaluated.

According to related sources there was a special players only meeting before the West Brom game, arranged by Jamie Vardy. It certainly worked and explains a number of questions, as we could see a major change in play. Leicester came out more open and direct, had less possession and with a faster counter attacking approach. This was even more present again against Southampton, using all tools in the football toolbox to achieve a wonderful result, more or less based on the DNA of this football clubs major successes.

Enzoball looked very different, as the manager looks to have been sidelined and given orders to understand what has to be done to get this promotion over the line. It looks to have worked 100%. Mads Hermansen looked a much better goalkeeper as he often kicked the ball long distance and did not take the words of Enzo Maresca at all into consideration, being threatened to lose his job if he played the longball.

There will be no move to Barcelona for Enzo Maresca, Xavi will continue at Camp Nou. The link to Sevilla could be one to follow for him, as his life and future at Leicester looks difficult. His relationship with the fans is one issue, another is the clear presence of the owner Khun Top, being at the last two home games, possibly more important than the manager himself, as players and fans have the long term respect for this ownership. This also resulted in two starts for Jamie Vardy, earlier on he has been rested and not played as much as JV would have liked himself.

There will be interesting topics to be discussed going forward, but we feel that this season has been one far from clarity as the highs and lows of this football team is so far out to not really understand how it is possible.

Leicester do have a certain group of very special individuals being part of the clubs recent history. They will most certainly also play a part in the clubs future. Jamie Vardy, Kasper Schmeichel and Wes Morgan in perticular. Schmeichel (37), currently with Anderlecht, will be out of contract in the summer and also possibly playing his last international tournament for Denmark taking part in the Euro 2024 in Germany. Wes Morgan also looks to be in the scenery at the club, occasionally turning up in and around the club.

We strongly believe Jamie Vardy will be with the club long term and be looking for more than a playing role going forward. To let him leave, and not be given a chance to continue would be a major negative. We have of course no confirmation, but we feel that the club will move forward with a view on the past to get the club back at a level we all know will be satisfactory for the future.

There are of course a long list of matters and other aspects, to list them all up might be too much, but we all know how concerned fans are, so here are our short list of notes;

 

Leicester fanbase can turn against the manager and make King Power a very nasty place to be. Fans do have certain expectations and can stop this Enzoball project in seconds as it looks fragile and in conflict with the way football is and should be played.

The talk of Enzo Maresca before the Plymouth game, possibly putting himself under heavy pressure as his talk is far from accurate, winning for the sake of winning, earlier it should be done in a certain way, the Enzo way

Owners have other ideas and will have to deal with transfers in a very different way than in the past

The ratio of free agents and how to replace or renew their deals

No money early on to tie down Abdul Fatawu, who certainly will be a priority, losing him would of course be a problem for the Enzo Maresca project

Fans reaction to the way Enzo Maresca dealt with Hamza Choudhury, and his drinkdriving episode, keeping him as third captain and flashing it into the face of every fan when he continued to play and having the armband despite this incident, as it could have been dealt with in another way, probably showing the respect to fans they deserve and as well kept Hamza more protected

Enzo looked surprised and said he had no clue there were no funds available in January as the Stefano Sensi affair never happened. The transfer itself looked strange as the player has since been injured, had an operation and not played at all

The trust and understanding between Enzo, Rudkin and Khun Top is also one special topic hopefully taken into consideration when going into the next face.

How the games vs. Plymouth and Millwall were lost, game management and planning looked far from good enough, then scrapping Enzoball for the last two home games playing counter attacking without possession

A possible sale of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Wout Faes, potentially also Kasey McAteer, that could see the club back in balance for their next financial statement year.

Never again be pressured by a manager (Brendan Rodgers) to take risks that will be in a potential conflict with FFP and PRS

The last two games will of course give us all more clues of the future, but we certainly hope we will see a team fighting on and give everything to bring home the title and also not have a full rotation and underestimate the value of winning a new trophy.

Well done in the end, we are all happy to see Leicester back up in the Premier League, anything else would have been a catastrophe, losing that major gap that had been built early on.