Paninistickers

If charity was ever the real point. In reality, it's more likely a combination of things - all far from any noble charitable urge A cack handed reaction to some criticism that the club hadn't marked the occasion. A vanity exercise for the owner, dreamt up by the of feeble, subservient staff And a complete head-in-sand collective and systematic corporate wide delusion to avoid acknowledging a gigantic scale failure.

I'd suggest that's exactly what KP are already doing. The tactic years ago to uncouple the club from any physical assets, was, in business terms, pretty shrewd.

100% this

I get the logic but I still can't see it. A 'local consortium' ain't gonna have 100m knocking about in spare cash. The only way out of this mess is a leveraged buy out. Which would involve KP opening the books. Hmmmmm.... I wouldn't entirely rule out KP choosing administration over opening the books. A Pandora's box if ever there was one.

All the clues and financial data point to the fact that the club needs 100m or so deposited as cash just to stay alive for the next two seasons. Anyone sinking that much in will want equity. If not the entire club. The flip side is, the current owners get nada if that was the deal. It would be KP giving away the club for free and having no return on the hundreds of millions they sunk in between 2012 and 2019. I can't see it. Maybe the only viable deal I could see is performance based; new investors get full control of the club in two years if we flat line in league one, or if KP managed to turn it around, KP keep their shares and the investors remain with a partial stake.

https://theesk.org/2026/04/20/the-analysis-series-leicester-citys-fall-from-grace/#comments Well researched piece by a fella Paul Quinn - a month old, but the finances laid bare.

I walked round town at lunchtime today, first time on an average weekday for years. I was pleasantly surprised. Once the market square is done, it's a very respectable looking very large town. Not a proper city. But it looks kinda charming. Certainly in nice weather What it lacks is a middle class. I'll put my views on Boris wave hyper immigration aside. Take the race out of it. But, it's just so desperately poor. So few people who seem to just want to relax and live a city lifestyle and have some swagger and attitude. the punters, they look, so, defeated. Struggling.

Reading your posts, you seem to try incredibly hard to be calm and rational. You can let go and get angry. There's zero evidence the 'board' (by that you mean the owner plus some executive management yes men) have ever learnt anything. Action,.maybe that's unfair..after 9 years of Whelan gleefully and spitefully refusing to sell tickets to supporters, the club appears to have learned that occasional younger supporters might be necessary after all..

Not going, or protesting, doesn't stop you being a supporter. In fact,.I'd argue it makes you more of a supporter. The real world equivalent is kids asking parents for chocolate and Macdonald's every day. You could 'support' that or, you can choose to put your foot down and say no. For the long term good. Tough love. There isn't, in my view,.an excuse. If you attend these things and passively ignore/endure the status quo, you are damaging the club that's in your blood. Life is more nuanced than just blindly showing up.

Not that different to those who stand outside Sandringham chapel on Christmas morning in a plastic union jack hat, to be derided by Princess Anne or Andrew. I'm sure the 2016 players would be as bemused as the royals as to why anyone would want to go.

Theorising. Just joining the dots. Edit; I'm not a mechanic, but when the warning lights are blinking on the dashboard, the noise from the engine is screeching, the exhaust fumes are acrid black....you know the car is in trouble.

That team ran on autopilot for 5 months from Taylor's appointment. No retrospect, I remember at the time Rowett felt like an outsider. Frank, Taggs, Elliott, Guppy, Impey all had a swagger. Rowett always looked like he was just about holding his head above water until the tide dropped. Not sure if Elliott and Taggs on the club channel have had too much to say about him other than banal basics..wheread they could write a book of anecdotes about the others mentioned above.

The owner can't afford to finance us. It's not about sustaining losses. It's about putting (real) money in the bank to pay wages, the electric and the mow the grass. He can't do it. He won't do it. He's gambling on selling 50 odd million in the transfer market and racing down to.Macquirie with the invoices.. We'll be out of business within months

Dean Smith 'got' the club far more than this fool. And conducted himself better He was a failure as a player with us, an instrumental part of Taylor's clique. Overwhelmed by better, self assured players who'd been and done it all in the upper reaches of the PL. Fast forward 25 years later, his lack of confidence was, for me, glaring in his role as manager. He tried to blag it and bluster it. But just like birds in a nightclub can sense the single and desperate a mile off (not matter how much bravado), you could smell the inferiority on him.

White on the shorts!

Gotta be a parody account, surely?

I don't celebrate his exit as much as I would Bob and Thomas. Ayew is light years ahead of me (or any Sunday parks level) as a footballer. Immensely stronger, lightspeed faster and can kick it miles harder than I ever could Bob and Thomas. Nope. And I flat refuse to pay to watch players no better than me. Basta.

They will be happy. They can concentrate now on cheering on their beloved red filth for European success.

Totally agree. Part of the job of the DoF is to whelm and deal.. A.seaskn into Daka's spell, an honest and open dialogue between manager and DoF could've identified he was sub par. So, you polish the turd. Make out he's unable to settle. Prefers the Germanic lifestyle. Better suited to the structured coaching there and less media pressure. Loan out to a club that you think might grab goals in. And sell.. In shirt, the club has zero business acumen. None. The whole strategy is 'something will turn up'

What a great post. Takes an outsider sometimes to state the obvious

So refreshing just to see us have good players and some respect and so many likeable players. There's lots of echos to the 90s team of that underdog spirit

What happened to Weatherald?

I mean, you say that in jest but it's actually very salient.. Several examples already on this thread of 'it's a chance to meet up with some friends' ....I understand it, but I think the posters should at least be honest and admit that it's slightly selfish. A little self discipline and a concept of delayed gratification is needed - but nope, they choose to prefer the continued malaise in exchange for some banal small talk with the bloke on the row behind. As for the 300 quid saving the club from financial ruin..It won't.. The irony of course is that there will be no club, no bloke on the row behind for them to have banal small talk with in the next few months. That said, to counter my own points, it'll be incredibly healthy if the empty seats mean a new generation can now attend. The club has purposefully excluded a whole generation of supporters (unbelievably when we had the most interest ever in that period) ....there's 24 year old lads who were 14 at the time if the title win who the club has gleefully locked out.

I think that was season before on a Saturday opening day. Walsh got booed off by our own fans such was the violence of that offence. The 6900 I'd guess was season or two after, midweek game

...the lowest ebb. Crowd of 6900 beleaguered fans under Pleat.. Tonight, 40 years later,.we've plumbed that same depth. The ebb so low, I think even Stockton Rush would be cautious Edit may have been Hamilton actually