Tom12345

Albrighton is still better than most players we have in the squad.

Yes, they were not better than us at all. Last game: he should have won comfortably but of course our mentality and set up was shot and we drew in the end! What remains truly unbelievable is how the hell could we have ended up in relegation!

Apart from Ipswich, we were better than these other teams. Mind you, we finished above Ipswich last season. But we regressed so much because we kept conceding goals we shouldn’t have and when we are down we have no fight. Our mentality was brittle and negative. When we play, we always wait until the other team has settled into shape before we try to slowly attack. We had a decent squad but we always have a few players that are played that constantly disrupts play. We should never have been relegated, just like that first relegation when we had the likes of Maddison, Tielemans, Barnes, Vardy and so on but it was the same story back then. I wonder what has been the constant that has repeated itself through the years. It all started with Rodgers but his negativity has kept on going and that relegation he was directly involved in has started a chain reaction that the club could not afford after spending hundreds of millions in the squad. The contracting work by Rudkin was atrocious meaning that we were stuck with players like Hamza (50k), Vesty (70k), Faes (50k), Daka (75k) at extraordinary wages when they were very far from the level that deserved that (and hence no one took them off us). When we played against Hull last game, we were decent and better than them (but again we drew in the end). Hull is going to the PL while we head to League One.

Why did the club let him down. We took a chance on him and gave him the massive break that he needed. He dumped us the first moment he could, at the beginning of our season back in PL, and caused massive chaos for us that ultimately led us to a season of not knowing our identity, the players in revote, disrupting preparations etc. If anything, he owed us. However, I consider him taking KDB from us as his way of saying thanks by giving us the millions the club needed at the time, though in hindsight that might have been all for himself before he saw the depth of the Chelsea squad (as he never really used KDB in the end).

Good one. Guardiola once said Kompany was going to be the best manager before his success at Bayern Munich. He played at Man City, was captain, and proven success at the highest level. Kompany would seem to be their preferred choice.

At least he recognized that our team (after promotion) did not have enough talent to play free flowing football throughout the whole pitch. His strategy was ugly, which is that he bet on one side of the pitch and devote players to that side while simply defending the other side - that may not have been a bad idea. RVN wanted us to play like Man United, but he was so rigid he didn’t see that we didn’t have the quality throughout the squad to play that across the whole pitch. I think that has been our downfall this season too. In the last few seasons, we had players that were just not good enough at any level playing positive football (like Hamza, Ndidi (the time for a destroyer without any ball control skill was gone), Thomas) and they constantly give the ball away / back pass / wait for opponents to settle / etc that made us so easy to play against. Yet, these players continued to be in the team, earning bigger wages than they should. Maresca was smart enough to see that and played players according to their attributes (this is why Ndidi was played up front; to be a destroyer up front where losing the ball is not such a big deal), but he would have needed new players in the PL.

Last season, we started mid table when RVN took over. Both Ipswich and Southampton were struggling in relegation zone. We hired RVN and we went straight back down, but still above Ipswich and Southampton. This season, Ipswich has been confirmed as going up together with Coventry. Southampton going to Wembley. Leicester relegated. Incredible failure on the managerial and club management side.

We need someone who thinks he is better than the third tier but is here because we pay well and Leicester is a big club that does not belong here. We need arrogance and confidence in our manager who can then wipe out the loser mentality that runs deep in the squad.

This is a critical appointment. It needs to be the right person. Once he is selected, we all need to get behind him as he will need to oversee a massive overhaul of players, style and mentality. When you look back over the past five years, it is clear that own downfall began with, in my view, three seeds: (1) the club allowing Tielemans to run down his contract (this broke the financial discipline the club had but it was also a gamble to win things); (2) Rodgers instilling a loser mentality that year later we still see it in players (instead of qualifying for the ECL, we massively choked two seasons in a row when we were comfortably sitting in the top 4); (3) certain players who were just not good enough and had the loser mentality instilled by Rodgers given long term contracts on massive wages or were otherwise the manager kept playing (I won’t name names here as it can be controversial and I have a view on who they are). The seeds were there since Rodgers. He sowed the seed for our first relegation, when it was a shock to the entire football community that a team with so many good players (Tielemans; Maddison; Barnes; Vardy; Ricardo; etc to name a few) can go down. Our first season back: controversial I know, but Coopers was keeping the club mid table but after his sacking we replaced him with someone who had no idea (RVN) and took us down. This season: Repeat. We were underperforming yes, but then we hired a manager whose experience was to fight relegation in the second tier. We hired the wrong manager and our record was atrocious. For a club like ours to be relegated in the second tier is unforgivable. Bucks stop with the club management for choosing the wrong managers. They better get this next one right.

I think first and foremost any decent manager would not have relegated this team. A striker would have been good, but that was not the issue. We signed a manager who failed at QPR! And then Rowett! Enough said.

Rowett is atrocious. How the fuxk can any manager manage 2 wins out of 14 in the second tier with the squad we had. He should not have even been considered, and once appointed, he should have been sacked 5 games in. We still played like a top team in the Championship but just kept losing. It was partly a mental thing and partly organisation. We should have just played a fast pace counter attack football rather than the slow build up which we just don’t have the players for. We have quality players which could do better in a faster pace style. We also did not know how to set up defensively. Admittedly, we miss a big guy presence like Souttar. He is what we missed all season - especially with his headers. Vesty can’t head the ball despite his height. The Newcastle CB was solid but he was not used enough. This is entirely our club’s fault for appointing a loser for our relegation fight. If they had spent the money and got Maresca back or any other manager with a good track record, we would have been safe.

Pass pass pass. Hamza. Backward pass. Move fails. Under pressure. Goes all the way back to the keeper. What’s the point?

What is clear is that when we went for winners, like Enzo, even if he was relatively new to management, we do well. I rather a manager who is untested, but a player winner. This group needs a reset in mentality more than anything else. We need to start with a winning mentality from a winner. Look what Lampard has done at Coventry. He is naturally a winner and this has shone through in Conventry’s style.

This has been a catastrophic failure on the part of the club management. However, how much is this due to the so called financial “fair” play rules? The rules are designed to protect the top clubs, but punish those who tried to catch them. Leicester City tried to catch up to them, and that involved spending a lot of money, but in order to have any chance, the club needed to spend way more than they earned. The club is responsible for the poor decisions they made in that regard too, but the rules effectively makes it impossible for any club to catch up unless you are absolutely sure you will get there. No matter how good any club management is though, it is always a gamble. In our case the gamble failed. Yet, when the gamble failed, the club not only suffered from the natural consequences of that, but the FSR punish you even further via years of restrictions, points deductions and other penalties. Yes, the club made poor decisions, but the club was not allowed by the rules to rectify them as we we were so restricted and the rules punished us further by the 6 point deduction. So, how much of our downfall was due to the financial “unfair” rules?

He did not mean to be arrogant. It is a good thing that he is a winner and winners do not think they would go down. He just underestimated how crap the rest of the team was.

In a way, this is similar to Cooper. When Cooper was sacked, we were around mid-table. Since RVN was appointed, we went straight for relegation. Cooper was doing better than fans gave him credit for and it was also the fans that made his position untenable.

I also think had Maresca stayed for one more season, things might have turned up more permanently, but unfortunately Chelsea ruined us.

I would have thought that once the manager changes that would change, but time has proven that is not the case. I think we have to wait until all those soft players on high wages are gone: the likes of Hamza (who is absolutely stealing a living on 50k a week or something for never being a good League 1 player) and Thomas is out of the team. Thomas is good defensively, but he still has that hesitation Rodgers instilled in him.

WBA. Agree it definitely started with Rodgers. From a top 6 Premier League side, to relegation with a squad worthy of top 6, then to suffer relegation again after promotion at first attempt, to now this absolutely unbelievable demotion to League 1 with the most expensive squad ever in history of the Championship. All started with weak mentality. When in doubt, pass back or hoof it up. Wait for opposition to settle back into shape instead of trying for a quick transition. Miles away from our EPL winning team when Schmeichel famously said why make five passes when you can just make the one (or something like that). We became a bunch of puxxies from that point. Amazing the team never recovered from that.

Doesn’t matter. Not going to be relevant to me as I won’t be going.

Meanwhile in terms of salary related stats: https://www.capology.com/club/leicester/salaries/ AI summary: Leicester City Salary Overview (2025-2026 Season) Total Wage Bill: Reports indicate a yearly wage bill of approximately £42.77 million, with another source citing a slightly higher figure near £49 million. This is reported to be the highest in the Championship. Highest Earners: Harry Winks is listed as the highest-paid player at around £90,000 per week. Key Salary Figures: Other top earners include Boubakary Soumaré and Ricardo Pereira, both reportedly on high wages, with top earners potentially being offloaded to provide financial relief. Reddit +5 Coventry City Salary Overview (2025-2026 Season) Total Wage Bill: Reported at roughly £15.6 million, which is less than half of Leicester's total, placing them lower in the championship wage rankings despite their high position in the league. Wage Structure: Coventry is discussing a £50,000-a-week benchmark for players, aiming for a more sustainable structure than top-tier earners. Facebook +2 Comparison Leicester City's expenditure is heavily skewed towards high-salary players inherited from Premier League times. Coventry operates on a more modest budget, and as of February 2026, players like Liam Kitching are estimated in the £17,500-a-week range, significantly lower than Leicester's top-tier earners. OneFootball +2

Haha. It is appalling isn’t it that we are joking that I have a good chance of success. Our managerial choices have been poor and it seems we keep looking down towards those without much pedigree, so yes you might well be right that I would have a chance! However, I feel more content to stay where I am.

True. Mav has been poor this season, but when I considered who could stay, he was one candidate - his performance this year won’t get him many suitors. But he can be good as we have seen in the past. For League One, we would struggle to get someone better than him. Come on guys. Be realistic. I already factored into account we need to do with not so good players. Who do you think we can get that are better than Mav and Ayew for League 1?

I have and he wasn’t bad when he was on in my humble opinion. For League 1, more than good enough, and he is experienced. We need some link back to the PL if we want to have a chance of a quick promotion back up to the Championship. Otherwise it will take years to rebuild.

haha. no thank you