Ignacio Cano

Goalkeeper - Milton Keynes Dons
5 Mar 2034
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ignacio Cano

391 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

23 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Leicester City board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match

No mercy from Leicester City

Chesterfield will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Leicester City were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Both of them José Villalba's — 9.11

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.11, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Transfer targets

Leicester City rebuffed over Ryan McAidoo

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

Market

Only the photograph left for Daniel Watson

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

Market

Terms done: Ignacio Cano is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Bromley waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Leicester City is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

Matheus França due for a Leicester City medical

Everything agreed with Tottenham, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Itumeleng Mahlangu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

A falling-out at Leicester City

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

In brief

Back issues
389 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

9 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Bobby Clark turns down Leicester City

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Hull City keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Market

Stephen Ward 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.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Harry King at 21 — 7.67

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Harry King did not need any: 7.67, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The dugout

Joe Hillary keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Leicester City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets

Leyton Orient tell Leicester City: Dane Scarlett 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.

Market

Leicester City say no — this time

The offer from Bromley for Ignacio Cano was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Anas Roshdy has a hand in both — 7.77

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.77, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Match

Robert Scott among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Robert Scott on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Leicester City and Shrewsbury Town.

Squad

Luke Thomas falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

324 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

11 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Rúben Rendeiro damages knee ligaments — 42 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 42 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Giacomo Fedel is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leicester City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Robert Scott gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Robert Scott has just signed for Leicester City, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom

Giacomo Fedel has agreed to leave Leicester City for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Words exchanged at Leicester City

Conor Chaplin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Leicester City

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

Market

Leicester City buy the years ahead of Ignacio Cano

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Leicester City

West Bromwich Albion top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

Market

The Conor Chaplin question follows Leicester City around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Conor Chaplin’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief