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101 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Emil Riis damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 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

Leicester City turn down Luton Town for Patson Daka

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

The dugout

Alex Palmer: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Leicester City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Max Sanders due for a Leicester City medical

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

Transfer targets

Leicester City make their move for Vladan Kovačević

$1.8M on the table at Norwich City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Anthony Clark 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.

Market

Wout Faes wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Leicester City hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Transfer targets

Birmingham tell Leicester City: Patrick Roberts 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.

Squad

James Tarkowski signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” James Tarkowski and Leicester City agree another 3 years.

In brief

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The Leicester City Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Oliver Skipp says no to Salford City

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Oliver Skipp had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Caleb Okoli’s move to Cheltenham Town falls through

The deal that would have taken Caleb Okoli to Cheltenham Town has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Leicester City with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Player ratings

Harry Howell, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66

A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Transfer targets

Bristol Rovers tell Leicester City: Przemysław Płacheta 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Geovany Quenda

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Leicester City

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

Newcastle United take the points off Leicester City

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Wataru Endo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

One of our own: Thomas Morris joins the Leicester City first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Morris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief