BarringtonHayles

Nice to see news about a pub opening rather than closing but I can’t see it lasting very long. As someone who used to live in Woodgate/Frog Island, the area simply doesn’t have the demographics to support a local pub and I can’t see it being nice enough to be worth venturing out from town for most people.

No one is going to be abuse you for buying the new shirt, a lot of people just don't understand why fans rush out and buy the new one every year. The quality will be crap, the sponsor will be bordering on illegal again, it will be yet another generic design, incredibly overpriced as always and will represent one of our lowest points in history. Completely understand that fans want to wear a shirt to the game but could you not wear a retro shirt from the 90's for instance? Great shirts, great teams, local sponsor. Surely you'll have more pride wearing that paying £80 for the honour of advertising BC Game?

Beer doesn't normally make you sound like a LinkedIn post from an American CEO. You've very clearly used AI, your post includes literally every single tell.

Sadly, we've allowed an almost Soviet level cult of personality to develop around Vichai since his death where myths have been repeated so many times they've become fact, myths that now apply to Aiyawatt as well. Far too much of the fanbase think that critisism of Aiywatt or King Power is critisism of Vichai as well, which isn't allowed. They never 'made us sing that' or 'allowed us to dream' as is so often repeated. The entire reason 15/16 is the greatest story in football history is that we did it without spending a massive amount, even Mike Ashley would have been willing to spend the 23m it took to build the starting 11 that year. Pearson, Shakespeare and Walsh built that team, a trio that were here before King Power. He gets far too much individual credit. Vichai didn't pick the tactics or select the team, he didn't score 2 at the Etihad or score 11 in a row. People rightfully point out the absurd bus of Thai influencers when we won the championship, but the way they made 15/16 about them was disgusting as well. We would still be taking the piss out of Man City now if Sheikh Mansour was on the pitch after that QPR game, taking the trophy from Aguero and Mancini and waving a portrait of a UAE prince at the crowd. Vichai holding the trophy is the first picture next to the home dressing room in the tunnel, not a picture of the team that actually won the thing. The donations, while appreciated, are nowhere near the level to still be hearing about them 10 years later. Ignore the fact he was gifted a monopoly due to his connections to the Thai king, I'm sure it's nothing. The love for Vichai effects the way people talk about Aiyawatt. Vichai is the greatest owner of all time, the dear leader can't possibly have an incompetent son. It must be the Premier League or the Football League's fault Aiywatt can't run a club instead. They talk about how he ruined 'his fathers club'. It was never his club, they are just the current custodians of a club that existed for 120+ years before they took over. The club is dying because most of the fanbase were happy for a once proud club to become a shrine to a retail group.

I never understood why so many people seemed to enjoy the helicopter landing on the pitch before the crash. Let's face it, if it was an owner/chairman that nobody likes like the Glazers, Boehly or Chansiri doing it, it would be seen as an out of touch billionaire showing off when they could just get driven to the nearest airport. It was a tragic accident that should never have happened and nobody saw coming, and it could have just as easily happened taking off from Leicester Airport of course, but I never liked it.

Really tired of the little old Leicester, anyone decent wouldn’t want to come here stuff as a defence for Cifuentes staying. People still underestimate how big we are as a club and how big English football in general is nowadays. It all comes back to Rudkin and the board being incompetent as always. We could realistically attract any manager in every other 2nd division and the majority of managers in most top divisions as well, the top 5 leagues aside. We’ve got a 32k stadium, a ridiculous training ground, a squad with holes but one that is still better than most in the league and we pay wages beyond what most clubs our size do. We just need a DOF and board that will actually research up and coming managers rather than going for the same tired names recommended by agents. The Cifuentes replacement is probably going to be crap as well, but that’s not a reason to keep him. He’s never going to be good enough.

So braindead yet again. Boring, tedious football and he’s not even a particularly good championship manager. If he does miraculously get us promoted we already know he’s an utter dogshit Premier League manager, and we’ll be in the exact same situation as this year yet again, panicking and looking for a new manager after 10 games.

So bored of people mentioning Man City. Man City didn’t force us to continuously spend big fees on players that offer nothing, they didn’t force us to offer ridiculous wages to players who would be lucky to get half what we pay at any other club. It’s not Man City’s fault that we continue to let players go on a free, it’s not their fault that we continue to be run by absolute amateurs. Yes, Man City should obviously be punished but that’s got nothing to do with us. Why do we continue to give the PL/EFL the opportunity to charge us in the first place. The rules are shit but we still have to follow them.

Using your analogy, the headteacher (Top) has had a shit teacher (Rudkin) for years and refuses to make the necessary change. At this point the anger needs to be aimed at the headteacher, he has clearly shown that he can’t run a school.

It’s one of many reasons to dislike the ownership. It’s a culture that has been allowed to set in and it comes from the ‘Top’, either he or the board condones it or they don’t know what is happening at the club they run. Just a completely moronic way of running a football club. After they ban any dissenting voices, while pricing out any new fans, who’s left? Genuinely think the club would be happier with 20k in the stadium and a ‘family club’ industry award. Nice and safe, no criticism.

Cooper also had Hermansen, Ricardo, Ndidi and Fatawu available as well for a lot of his games. I don’t rate Ruud but he’s clearly operating with a much weaker squad than Cooper and is only doing marginally worse.

Rudkin helped to set fire to the building in the first place. Forgive me for not giving him any credit for helping to put it out. We still spent 35/40m on Skipp and Okoli, rotational players that we will never make a profit on. Once Hermansen is sold, what assets does he have left to sell to paper over the cracks?

Even if you remove the footballing side of things which the owners are clearly not going to change, for supposed 'retail experts' every other aspect of the club is being ran poorly as well. Too much of the fanbase (not on FoxesTalk admittedly) buy into the weird King Power 'Great to see you Khun Top!' nonsense every time he deigns to show up. The defence of King Power is purely emotional at this point, it's not based on logic, they have been failing as owners for years now. We are nothing more than numbers on a spreadsheet to him, he is not and will never be your friend, no amount of high fives and free Changs will change that. The common defence is we won the league and be careful what you wish for. The league win is approaching a decade old at this point. If we get relegated, which looks likely, we will be left with an overpaid and poor quality squad in the championship with few players worth selling, with extortionate ticket pricing and awaiting a big punishment from the Football League. How much worse can it get under new owners? King Power out.

He's utter shite but the same anger today needs to be aimed much higher. He should have left years ago but he's not going to reject the ridiculous contract extensions we give out is he. It's entirely the fault of Rudkin or Whelan that he is still here but we just don't have enough of the fanbase willing to call them and King Power out sadly. The ownership and board have been taking the piss for years and coasting on an achievement approaching a decade old at this point.

Yet another example of poor recruitment and why buying from other Premier League clubs isn't worth it most of the time. Limited budget and we decided to spend a fair portion of it on a player that doesn't seem to have any strengths, he's just bang average at best at everything.