The Leicester City Courier
Match25 Aug 2035
No end in sight to Leicester City's wait for a win
19 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leicester City has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Jamie McDonnell breaks a bone — 68 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market27 Aug 2035
Mark O'Mahony hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Leicester City can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Shumaira Mheuka signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Shumaira Mheuka and Leicester City agree another 5 years.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Roméo Lavia 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.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Words at Leicester City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matheus Alves 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.
Match25 Aug 2035
Leicester City leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match25 Aug 2035
Justin Clarke’s goal not enough for Leicester City
Justin Clarke scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Liverpool, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market27 Aug 2035
The Abdul Fatawu question follows Leicester City around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Abdul Fatawu’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Leicester City put Silko Thomas up for sale
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Abdul Fatawu
- Market Stephen Bailey leaves for nothing