Mannie Barton

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Leicester City
20 Jul 2031
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254 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

9 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings9 Jun 2031

Abdul Fatawu beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market9 Jun 2031

Agustín Requena has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leicester City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets9 Jun 2031

Leicester City make their move for Thimothée Lo-Tutala

$2.5M on the table at Sheffield Wednesday. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market9 Jun 2031

Mannie Barton puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Leicester City, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets9 Jun 2031

Leicester City rebuffed over Kion Etete

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Coventry City have kept their man, and Leicester City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings9 Jun 2031

A defender's goal wins it for Leicester City — 7.67

1 for Bradley Ibrahim, marked 7.67, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Match7 Jun 2031

The wait goes on for Leicester City

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad9 Jun 2031

Tempers go at Leicester City

Tyler Dibling was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad9 Jun 2031

Words at Leicester City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdul Fatawu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

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252 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

26 May 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match24 May 2031

Chastening afternoon for Leicester City

A 0‑3 beating by Cardiff City was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad26 May 2031

A fracture rules Matthew Scott out for 15 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Leicester City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings26 May 2031

Nobody could get near Abdul Fatawu

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market26 May 2031

Only the photograph left for Rafael Coutinho

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rafael Coutinho will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leicester City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad26 May 2031

A falling-out at Leicester City

Tyler Dibling and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad26 May 2031

A row about effort at Leicester City

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdul Fatawu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad26 May 2031

Yasin Ayari makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Boardroom26 May 2031

Doors closed at Leicester City

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout26 May 2031

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

225 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

18 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings18 Nov 2030

A brace, and Tyler Dibling takes the afternoon — 8.16

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Tyler Dibling provided it, and the 8.16 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market18 Nov 2030

Gianfranco Trasante has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leicester City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad18 Nov 2030

Tyler Dibling in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leicester City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad18 Nov 2030

A row about effort at Leicester City

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdul Fatawu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match16 Nov 2030

Tyler Dibling sends Leicester City past Peterborough United

It finished 2‑1, and it was Tyler Dibling’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leicester City.

Squad18 Nov 2030

Mannie Barton signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mannie Barton commits to Leicester City for another 4 years.

Squad18 Nov 2030

Rafael Coutinho wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Leicester City can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout18 Nov 2030

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Interim Coach, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout18 Nov 2030

No hiding place for Franco Déboli

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Franco Déboli, and the manager let it.

In brief

211 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

12 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings12 Aug 2030

Abdul Fatawu was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 35. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market12 Aug 2030

Patricio Gregorio asks to leave Leicester City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad12 Aug 2030

A falling-out at Leicester City

Tyler Dibling and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Zinadine Zidane Bedoya is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad12 Aug 2030

A row about effort at Leicester City

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Victor Kristiansen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom12 Aug 2030

Still nobody in the Leicester City dugout

11 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Transfer targets12 Aug 2030

Manchester City tell Leicester City: Keane Lewis-Potter is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match10 Aug 2030

Leicester City find a way past Stoke City

Stoke City made Leicester City work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market12 Aug 2030

Zinadine Zidane Bedoya wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

In brief