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Marked for Luke Thomas

53 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Aug 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bobby De Cordova-Reid

33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leicester City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

Pressure builds in the Leicester City boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad2 Aug 2027

60 days out for Ricardo Pereira after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Leicester City will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

Leicester City spell it out for Timothy Allen

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Timothy Allen has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Transfer targets2 Aug 2027

Sunderland tell Leicester City: Raúl Rangel 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Luke Thomas: 8 seasons and counting

131 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Leicester City know exactly what they have.

Market2 Aug 2027

Harry Winks 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 targets2 Aug 2027

No thanks: Rodrigo Bentancur rejects the move

Leicester City had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Tottenham, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Oliver Skipp 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.

In brief

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44 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout31 May 2027

Harry Howell 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.

Boardroom31 May 2027

Ryan Donnelly 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.

Market31 May 2027

Nathan Opoku 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.

Squad31 May 2027

Tempers go at Leicester City

Conor Chaplin 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.

Squad31 May 2027

Real improvement from Christian McFarlane at Leicester City

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Christian McFarlane is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad31 May 2027

Fran Vieites 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.

Market31 May 2027

Silko Thomas comes back from a loan that worked

42 appearances and 6 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.

Squad31 May 2027

Leicester City are still strangers to each other

8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Market31 May 2027

Fran Vieites placed on the list

Leicester City have made Fran Vieites available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

32 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match2 Mar 2027

Leicester City strike at the death to beat Oxford United

There were 88 minutes on the clock and Oxford United had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Leicester City did not stop to explain themselves.

Match6 Mar 2027

Leicester City cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Words exchanged at Leicester City

Josh King 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.

Market8 Mar 2027

Only the photograph left for Nathan Opoku

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

Loan watch8 Mar 2027

16 clean sheets on loan for Fran Vieites

36 appearances at Lincoln City and the goals have stopped going in. Leicester City lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Luke Thomas signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luke Thomas and Leicester City agree another 4 years.

Match6 Mar 2027

Conor Chaplin the difference as Leicester City beat Millwall

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Conor Chaplin. 2‑1 against Millwall, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Match2 Mar 2027

Conor Chaplin sends Leicester City past Oxford United

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

The terraces8 Mar 2027

One of their own: Marco Palestra

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief

13 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Jeremy Monga 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.

Market26 Oct 2026

Abdul Fatawu 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Leicester City

Josh King 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

Leicester City come up short against Southampton

Southampton left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words at Leicester City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tommy Watson 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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Timothy Allen left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Stephy Mavididi

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Jake Donohue

“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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Luke Thomas

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

10 Edition

The Leicester City Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Both of them Conor Chaplin's — 8.34

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.34, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A one-man rearguard from Asmir Begović

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Josh King, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.36

A mark of 8.36 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Josh King 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Leicester City and West Bromwich Albion in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Kamari Doyle at Leicester City

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kamari Doyle is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match3 Oct 2026

Leicester City get the job done against West Bromwich Albion

A 4‑2 win over West Bromwich Albion, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Stephy Mavididi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

The terraces5 Oct 2026

Leicester City supporters have found a favourite in Josh King

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Josh King has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief