• beanieheaddd@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Right when gambling became legal in my state over the summer, I put $200 on leicester to win the league at +500 (sorry American odds). Feeling good about that bet lol

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        1 year ago

        Leicester at least are probably the strong team to get relegated in years - so can absolutely see them coming back up

        • -sodapop@alien.topB
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          1 year ago

          I think there’s an argument for the best team to ever get relegated honestly.

          • distilledwill@alien.topB
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            1 year ago

            Brendan exiled Soyuncu and Vestergaard (who, to be fair, was pretty widely mocked by fans).

            He insisted on playing Danny Ward in goal when he was absolutely gash.

            He didn’t give Iheanacho enough of a shot up front.

            Couple that with the fact that we basically unable to sign players for two windows. We signed average players onto long contracts when the going was good assuming that we’d have european football to pay for them. Then we goofed european qualification three years in a row (first to the CL, then the Europa, then to the Conference), so now we’ve got these terrible players (Daniel Amartey, Perez etc etc) on these big contracts and not the bucks to back them up, so there’s no space in the wage budget to bring anyone in.

            Couple that with injuries and the Brendan exiles and suddenly we’re playing Ndidi in central defense (when Maresca is basically playing him as an attacking midfielder).

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              1 year ago

              Vestergaard is revisionism. He was horrible, at least whenever I watched him. And as you said, not a single Leicester fan liked him