Ricey

Sounds about right. At one point we seemed to be keen on replicating the Red Bull model, now it’s City Group. Copying the bigger boys homework always works out well.

It is, especially without a new man in charge that everyone can get behind. A squandered chance for a fresh start, new foundations that can support us for the next five plus years, in favour of more of the same. More short term-ism, more predictable decisions.

…but we aspire to be and we aspire to stay in it.

There is a world of managers out there and we go for yet another Southampton cast off. A man with a deeply dull, frustrating style of play that is proven to fail miserably in the Premier League.

He will be a disaster here, no matter how well the players take to him. He’s already too unpopular. A poster boy for King Power’s incompetence and refusal to learn any lessons. He’ll be determined to prove everyone wrong, but his style is just too unpalatable for so many. His style is slower and less direct than even Enzo’s, plus it feels like in the last 12 months the tide has really turned within this country against possession football. He’s a really bad fit.

You mean they put up a photo that wasn’t of Michael Golding? I don’t believe you.

A classless and rudderless football club.

No, but I'm sure Martin said in his interview with Lineker that it's important he goes to club next who will be receptive to his style of play. He is probably totally unaware of the flak Puel, Maresca and to a certain degree Rodgers took for playing slow, death-by-passing football.

Still, it gives the fans the chance to make themselves heard on Sunday.

Here's an idea, why not bin Ruud as soon as you realised he wasn't going to be here next season and then avoid this weird "out of respect" wasting of weeks.

Still, good news about the chocolate oranges…

One crumb of hope is that the Mail article wasn't by Tom Collomosse, who usually has the inside on us.

Just like this season, it will be going into the new season with a manager that a large percentage of the crowd don't like. A lot of people will be waiting for him to fail, waiting for us to pass it around at the back needlessly and then groan. We don't need that negativity, we need something that everyone can unite behind.

It's going to be so toxic (or empty) at the King Power next season when we are on minus points and witnessing Vestergaard and Faes pass their way to a 1-0 defeat to Millwall.

If it's true that we have spoken to Martin and Dyche, there is no greater evidence that our football club has absolutely zero strategy or vision, despite what they sometimes tell us. You could not get two polar opposite styles of play.

It's so on brand. Unfortunately for us that brand is horrific, short-sighted, reactionary football decisions that are so far detached from reality. We need to be building a new foundation, with the aim of re-establishing the club in the Premier League. Southampton this season provides no greater proof that Russell Martin is incapable of that. For that reason he shouldn't have even been on the shortlist. This obsession with Southampton is weird, but this obsession with possession football is weirder. The world is starting to turn against it and we are doubling down. Have they not heard the frustration in the crowd? It's been there since Puel, on-and-off, when the team is too slow, too ponderous, too timid and too sideways. It just doesn't go down well with the majority of Leicester fans. I can only assume it's pure stubbornness at this stage.

This is how I understand it. The PL now have the jurisdiction to review and charge us, even though we spent the final season of the three year period in the EFL. They can charge, pass on to the IC and they will determine a punishment. The fact the club aren’t fighting this one suggests either they know they can’t win, as the PL can pass the punishment over to the EFL, or the they know the PL will have to apply it this season.

Probably for us to lose less than £105m over a three year period and not spaff millions on the likes of Soumare, Daka, Vestergaard and countless huge contracts.

There is no additional punishment. We avoided a punishment for 22/23 because we claimed they had no jurisdiction, but the tribunal have confirmed that they do have jurisdiction for 23/24, which we also breached. We’ve punished ourselves for fighting back, as that has now delayed things to such an extent that the deduction will be applied next season. We can all get angry at the PL, EFL, independent panels, tribunals, Chelsea, Man City and whoever else, but this is the clubs mess…and an easily avoidable one at that.

The challenge we made and appeal we won was for a different season to the season we failed to submit our accounts I believe. I think the three charges are all for 23/24, so the ‘win’ we had over the PL doesn’t come into it.

Yes, the tribunal actually sided with the PL and agreed that they should have been able to charge us with 22/23, but it didn’t reach the requisite high threshold to overturn.

Simply not true. They lost one case (even though the panel actually agreed it was the wrong decision) and won the other. Both cases were ultimately due to the club arguing that the PL didn’t have jurisdiction for either years. They haven’t ripped up their own rule book. Yes, there was a loophole due to bad wording, which we exploited for the 22/23 charge and has now been closed, but the fact is we breached for both seasons…of course they are going to go after us! The Man City case is a whole other ball game and all the delaying tactics have been on City’s side. The stuff around Chelsea and selling assets to themselves is infuriating, but those rules were voted through by the PL clubs. They had a chance to close that loophole recently via a vote and the PL clubs voted against it! The PL and EFL have proven that they are shoddy with the details, but when a club breaches, they are going to charge them. That’s the rules and the club is fully aware of them.

Confirmation here on The Athletic article that the club were fighting both jurisdiction cases (that the PL had no right to rule on 22/23 AND 23/24). That's why there was the delay. If we hadn't fought the second case, we would have had the points deduction this season. "But because Leicester refused to submit their 2023-24 accounts to the Premier League by December 31 2024, and then proceeded to fight these two jurisdiction battles, there is no chance of the Premier League being able to prosecute the club this season." Great work everyone.

Yes, but at what cost? We’ve won one battle only to have bigger losses in the next. I also wouldn’t be surprised if the EFL pick up the 22/23 charge. From what I can tell the commission has only ruled that the PL weren’t in their right to punish us.

Both, if we hadn’t pushed back on the PL’s original charge there would be no delay at all. The PL were always going to appeal it.