BarringtonHayles

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.

A shame, he's basically the only pro Leicester voice in a sea of pundits who only care about the big six. Pretty sad that people are willing to turn on him for his fairly tame political views. He's a generic centrist dad who tweeted a few times asking people to stop using dehumanising language about immigrants, he's not reading the Communist Manifesto or singing Bella Ciao on BBC1 ffs.

Don't get your hopes up, I doubt Rudkin even knows that managers like Schmidt, Conceição or Fischer exist. We won't have a shortlist of replacements ready, we'll just take the first manager that applies that has premier league experience and is prepared to give Top a verbal blowjob every time they get asked about the ownership.

Cooper clearly needs to go but he's just a symptom of the rot that has set in at the club, not the cause. He shouldn't have been given the job in the first place. Are we ever going to reach a point where enough people start challenging the cult of personality around Top/King Power rather than focusing the anger at the manager and board? There isn't a single aspect of the club working well and that is down to the ownership. We could appoint the second coming of Alex Ferguson, they will still be operating under the same constraints as Cooper. We have extortionate ticket costs, pricing out new fans in a struggling working class city. For most games, you need to buy a membership to even give you the opportunity to buy a single ticket due to their weird resistance to general sale. They charged £25 for a physical season ticket to force people to move to mobile and had to be shamed into donating it to charity instead. The stadium expansion is on hold indefinitely with no updates from the club, it clearly isn't getting built any time soon, if ever. The concourse is full of poor options, overpriced and slow. The club actively resist any attempts to improve the atmosphere. We continue to sign dodgy crypto and forex traders as sponsors. We invited a bus full of influencers to pretend to care about Leicester for a day so Top and Co can show off back home, only for them to go back to supporting Liverpool and United the second they got back to Heathrow. Rodgers was rightfully sacked for 2022/2023 but the people who allowed the embarrassment to happen are still here after the 'review'. We were a team challenging for top 4 reduced to winning legal battles on technicalities due to the poor financial management. Maybe the club will surprise us and pick an exciting replacement when they finally act. More than likely it will be someone just as tactically inept with 'Premier League Experience' like Lampard reading the same script we give every new signing, praising the great and benevolent Khun Top. Nothing will change while King Power continue to reward loyalty more than competence.

Why should we accept poor management now because we used to get relegated a lot in the past? In 3 years we went from a Europa League level squad competing for the European places to probably the most embarrassing relegation in Premier League history. We had a chance to establish ourself at a higher level than a yo-yo team and we pissed it up the wall. The people responsible for allowing it to happen are still in charge, we're allowed to be annoyed about it. Football isn't static, clubs rise and establish themselves at a higher level all the time, previous history doesn't define what a clubs present or future should be. Brentford, Brighton and Fulham have all historically played at a lower level, if they employed a poor manager that was clearly going to get them relegated it wouldn't be 'entitled' for them to want him sacked because they were in League 1 once either.

I don't really blame Cooper, it's not his fault he's out of his depth and he must have been delighted that we were stupid enough to offer him the job in the first place after how it ended at Forest. The fault lies with the board/ownership and their inability to look outside of the UK. We seem to have an obsession with 'Premier League Experience' and 'knowing the league' for players and managers even if that experience is largely shit or average at best. Too many fans buy in to the little old Leicester, who would want the job attitude. We're a wealthy team in the biggest and most popular league in the world. We could attract so many young, promising managers in other leagues who would jump at the chance to manage in England. All it takes is a decent spell of games with a clear tactical plan and you're linked with the biggest clubs in the world, there's not one manager that would back themselves and take the risk, Cooper is the best we can get? Instead, we have a board that could barely be arsed to look past the midlands for 2 of the last 3 appointments.

There's a chance Kanye might get West Ham confused with a certain team from the north of London, better not.

Struggling to get into a save this year, seems to be far too easy if you start at a decent level. Won 2. Bundesliga with St Pauli by 17 points first season, now joint top of the Bundesliga after 7 games, beating Bayern, Leipzig and Leverkusen already. Started a new save with Fiorentina, top of the league after 10 games now as well. Using a 5-3-2 very similar to Finnegan's Leicester formation and avoiding the obviously broken corner tactics, but still only lost 2 games across both saves. Going to give Deportivo, Kaiserslautern or Palermo a go and see how it goes.

I’m sure if Youri were still at Monaco, and had the tournament that he just had, some of you wouldn’t want to sign him either. How he plays for Italy is irrelevant, it’s a completely different style of play to club football. He’s clearly a fantastic player at club level.