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Brilliant post It joins up the dots and so neatly speaks to what has clearly gone on. Was this inevitable after Vichai’s death? In some ways I’m surprised Top - who bangs on about his father’s legacy etc - has overseen this. The culture at the club was often talked about under Vichai, and how we were the cutting edge of scouting, data analytics, physiotherapist etc. And yet it’s been reported many have left. Perhaps I’m naive to think it can’t be that hard to just keep on the straight and narrow, but this suggests a few power hungry and clueless individuals have seized power, broke the model, stopped innovation and advancement and just got giddy with the purse strings. I don’t see how the current regime can come back from this if I’m brutally honest. There’s also clearly a real lack of self awareness and ownership of this situation - you just have to look at recent statements they’ve put out.

Pure insanity

I’m no accountant, but that sort of suggests that we may now be at a level that is at a sustainable PL level? Oh but yea we’re not in the PL anymore 🤪

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/04/02/leicester-city-psr-premier-league-championship-finances/ I assume this has been posted before, but it’s amazing that the message from the club appears to be ‘you need to let us off because we were so shit last season’. If that’s all we’ve got as way of defence, we’re ****ed.

Training and jumpers for goalposts of Vicky Park. Then we could turn Seagrave into a rehab therapy unit for footballers who’ve signed ridiculous contracts and who aren’t getting game time because they’re either shit, psychologically screwed and or running down contracts. Oh wait…

I listened to this while driving to the Norwich game. A great listen as always and genuinely interesting stuff on fan engagement. One point was made about fostering young first time fans and getting them to meet Filbert Fox etc. That sort of thing was fed back to the club, and they did introduce and announce something earlier this season - though it has caveats like the child already needs to have a ticket (so it’s not a ‘first game package’ type thing) and only a handful available for every game. I also remember years ago when your birthday was coming up they’d invite you for the sit down meal experience with Birch coming over and handing you the team sheet. We clearly need to get better at fan engagement, because we have testing times on the horizon and we’ll need the fan base more than ever.

Two people. For me it’s whoever was negligent in not servicing Vichai’s helicopter, and whoever was the chief instigator in moving away from our ‘buy nuggets and develop/progress them’ model.

There is also the possibility that if we don’t go up the EFL will throw the book at us, and we could end up with a Derby style points deduction and go down to League One…

When Norwich scored on Monday a bloke behind me stood up and shouted something anti Rudkin, which was pleasing. But re Top, he needs to realise he needs to bring in people who know what they’re doing, and get rid of Rudkin et al. It’s almost like they were ‘yes men’ to Vichai, a man of experience, business acumen and strong character. Since his passing the ‘yes men’ have exerted more influence over someone who is less experienced, and it shows. Vichai would have never let it unravel like this. Also pause for a moment… from what I can see Top’s only qualification is that he’s Vichai’s son. We’re being run like some medieval kingdom where an experienced and well liked King dies and the crown passes to the inexperienced son. Bonkers. Vichai’s way clearly isn’t going work as well for Top. There’s no harm in that, but he needs to realise that, make the required changes, or sell up frankly. Him and his family surely are on the verge of using up all the good will that they’ve built up or ,no pun intended, maxing out all their credit.

What I don’t like as well is that in paying some of those duffers top whack - pretty much straight off the bat - you’re removing the space for progression in terms of salary. So no wonder it goes stale because they can’t possibly get any more here, so in a sense psychologically why try and progress? Certainly those of questionable character fell into that trap, but we masterminded our own downfall. Whoever moved us away from the model that served us so successfully (that Brighton get plaudits for now) needs hounding out.

There is more transparency and accountability in the Russian govt right now than in Leicester City, and Rudkin in particular. You can’t announce a review, and then not follow up on what you found. Proper banana republic stuff.

In the words of the Chuckle Brothers (who it looks like have finance directors) - Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear.

Yea potential to shaft that right up

Good for them that they’re winning then! Not so for us. Still an early goal can mess with gameplans, as Norwich found out today.

For some reason I read the “and still have to go to…” bit of your post like circa 1996 Kevin Keegan

I fancy Hull preventing Leeds from winning. Hull are a very good away side and it’s a spicy local derby

Absolutely critical next 3 games. In my mind these 7 are 7 cup finals - either win enough and go up automatically or do a Derby and go down the leagues. Simples. I wouldn’t say sliding doors, but you get my drift.

Nice cock and balls references there

Ah well - we weren’t going to get it all our own way today

Today I felt like it was the first we’ve had the first choice back line and midfield 3 all playing and firing. Doyle was very good, and if we can keep that 6-7 fit for the rest of the season I’m confident based on today.

Fighting this, clearly the logic is “we’ve smashed the threshold, we might as well fight it because we’re going to be royally ****ed either way.” Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if we spiralled down the leagues in the next 5 years. Rudkin will still be running the shop though.

Exactly. And then it makes me think concerns about fitness ring true because everyone looks leggy. This is such a gruelling league in terms of games and He doesn't rotate enough - so perhaps unsurprising people look knackered. Let’s bring players in with something to prove who have that little bit more hunger to hold down a place - Souttar, Coady, Ben Nelson, Yunus etc. Maybe even some wildcards like Alves - what do we have to lose at this stage when we are sinking.

I still haven’t been able to listen since we’ve been dog poo. Actually that doesn’t make sense because I started listening when Rodgers was ballsing it up, and that was good for my wellbeing - so maybe I need to grow a pair

I’ve often wondered this, but the highs and lows are what football is about. We have plenty of both. When we won the PL I thought it might mean an end to yo-yoing and we’d become a steady PL side. What a platform that was, and what an epic failure it’s been.

It is a style that lends itself to being turned on when things aren’t working out, like today and the last 5 or 6 weeks. I do wonder what’s next. He has to be shake it up as a minimum - Coady for Faes as one example, maybe Yunus for KDH. But you can tell this is a rot that is set in - the lethargy, the basic passing etc that is now not being done. Is it fitness as well? If it is this next month will kill us off as there’s loads of games. I still can’t fathom how we were invincible until 6 weeks ago, and now this. But we've had a problem with complacency and bottling going back to contriving to throw away champions league football. If you reason that you don’t want to be part of the cartel then it makes it a little more bearable.