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Scott Parker would be a shout.

We need a real salesman to get rid of the players still under contract on huge wages.

The maximum we can spend in League 1 will be 60% of revenue which for us, top end, will be £22M. So 60% of that say £13M - £250k per week.

Winks (£61k), Vestergaard, (60k), Choudhury (£56k)

Skipp (50k), BDCR (£48k),  Faes (£36k), Thomas (£35k). 7 players we could play without and who are on a combined £346k per week - those alone put us way above the limit. 

Copilot reckons we will have a revised wage bill of £650k per week after contracts expire but before any relegation clauses kick in. Lets call it £600k per week. We need to cut our wage bill by at least a whopping £350k per week  McCarron might be able to identify younger talent that could help regenerate our squad but what about the high earners? Who is going to shift £350k of wages? Rudkin?

Not that I really expected it but Rudkin is going nowhere is he? He isn't going to dramatically improve in his job after 10 years. The only hope for KP is that McCarron is decent at his job and that he won't be overruled or c○ckblocked by Rudkin.

Absolute shambles of a double substitution that perfectly encapsulate this season and this era. We only employ coward yes men looking for an easy payout.  

I think that all contracts handed out were made in relation to Vardy's wage which was 125k i believe. So Winks for example was given 90k as in, he is worth 72% of Vardy's salary. For a simpleton like Rudkin and those who sign the cheques, that would be a reasonable approach. It obviously falls down when you realise that a) the market for Winks would have been 50k tops and b) we could not even afford £50k in the championship with the wage bill at the time, nevermind £90k when we were on the brink of a PSR breach. I bet they have never done any basic wage benchmarking for any signing or staff. Just an awful way to run any business.

8 hours ago, Patrick said:

The Khunt has already ****ed off home...

 

I think we can only assume by him leaving now is that Rudkin is going absolutely nowhere. The club will continue to rot and head towards financial meltdown. I cannot believe what is happening. Any kind of decent owner would stay here and personally oversee the massive cuts in wages we require and rebuild. He has left it to John again, the same strategy that has taken us to the brink of ruin and an international laughing stock. 

10 minutes ago, Twitcher said:

Wrong. I want him gone! However, now more than ever I want people to know I support Leicester, as I have done since '74. To pretend we don't exist until we're good again adds weight to those who think our support is made up of 2016 bandwaggon jumpers. The club is bigger than Top  Rudkin, you and I.

If you have supported the club since 74 then you must be fond of gardening so try this. If you had some Japanese Knotwood growing in your garden, would you prune it each year and douse it in fertiliser or would you try and remove it by the root? Putting money into their pockets is giving them a big thumbs up to carry on this $hitte$t of $hit shows.

That pre-match montage still being played after being relegated to League 1 is embarrassing. It's precisely this self-congratulation and lazy arrogance which has accelerated the rot. 

It was all in on Carranza being the answer and clearly he was no better than what we had. Our recruitment has been awful since we appointed Rodgers but the loan business this year has been bizarre. Carranza, Aribo, Richards, Ramsey all massive misses. James and Mukasa have been good but 2 out of 6 with the money we paid out is not good enough. The striker loan has killed us though.

Just now, fox_favourite said:

Top is scared. He's relied on him too much and if he sacks him he won't know what to do. 

 

Look when he talked to Steve after the Hull game, he's scared boy that doesn't know what to do as he's put his depth, and it could be that Rudkin knows that. 

 

If Rudkin feels too scared to walk around Leicester, then for his sanity and if he feels that way his family's sake, it's better for him to quit. I would put them first if it was me. 

If Top is scared and doesn't know what to do next, he should pay for the most independent, respected person in the game or small group of people to conduct an immediate investigation into exactly where things have gone wrong and to suggest a list of remedial action to restore us.  

He has put all his faith in Rudkin and it has cost him £300 million of his money and an embarrassing dropping of 2 leagues. 

Even by our dysfunctional standards, would be remarkable for him to carry on in post after the shambolic leadership of the footballing operations. 

I thought the revamp was a vieled acknowledgement that it was not working and Rudders needed to be making less key decisions - a promotion on paper but a lessening of influence. This relegation

though has made that decision look even more ridiculous and his presence at the club is completely untenable. 

34 minutes ago, Officer Doofy said:

Has he pulled out yet? 

I wish Rudkin's dad had.

I almost admire his ability to cling on and be indifferent to criticism. He knows he is bad at his job but keeps on drawing that big wage. He is the cockroach in a nuclear apocalypse.

The FT really is the best way of putting the club under legitimate, organised pressure and the bigger the membership the greater the pressure they can exert on these charlatans. I appreciate the work you guys are putting in on behalf of the fanbase.

More AI-based crap which is quite frankly insulting. There has been too many words said without being backed up by meaningful action for this to have any affect other than to rile the discontented. Maybe the KPFC cultists take it at face value and maybe that is who it is aimed at. 

I would have preferred no statement and instead woke ip this morning to read reports that Rudkin, Rowett & Glover are to step down. That would be real leadership.

11 minutes ago, Rubbersoul said:

Any other club in the country or even world football would have binned him off by now. How many failures is it? 
 

It clearly isn’t about football. There’s something about the man we’re not aware of. Why does he hold so much power?

 

release the files 

It is more than football. Rudkin has become a kind of human grief blanket to Top since Vichai died. Also they are kindred spirits: talentless failures who are both too arrogant to learn and adapt. It's unfortunate for us.

9 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

There’s a chance naturally. But Top has to sack Rudkin as a starter for ten, which he simply won’t do. 

It's the only way Top can retain the club and probably the only way we avoid administration. Rudkin is the architect of this palace of $hit.

1 minute ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

I think horse bolted a while ago personally when it comes to last chance saloon.

I think moving Rudkin on would be a statement of intent in wanting to put things right. Hopefully he is thinking of cutting his losses and selling up.

KP are in the last chance saloon here. The only thing that saves them is getting rid of Rudkin. Golden handshake, a Rolex and pi$$ off Jon. Bring in a proper football man with connections and a winning mentality to oversee a complete rebuild. Will it happen? Probably not.

45 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

He let Kasper go too soon and now it seems like the same in regards to Vardy, 1.4m on wages has cost us 10's of millions with this relegation.

Another bad decision with no viable back up. I am if you lined up all of Rudkins decisions, it's a 20% success rate at best. Top will die on Rudkin Hill. What a loser to tether yourself to.

10 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

1) Everybody who's KP Out should be in the Foxes Trust already. No-brainer.

 

2) Needs people to stick their hands up and start being the public-facing organisers.

 

3) Fine on a personal level but the numbers will never be big enough for this to seriously force change.

 

4) No point. Too much of the protest movement to this point obsesses to the point of fixation on vocal pro-KP gobshites (clown emoji man, for example), taking the focus away from the actual issue. It's immensely frustrating to see. If people don't see it now, they never will.

 

5) ?

 

 

Right now, it feels like people are basically expecting UFS to save their club and front the movement. That's fine, in my opinion, but it only works if people actually start rallying around them in real life. If they don't, we're doomed.

Quite a dismissive reply but thanks for taking the time. There is a lot of post-mortem and reflective posts on this forum and a lack of ideas on how we can fight against the regime.

After a restless nights sleep, I have been thinking of ways to remove the ownership or Rudkin at least. These are ranked in no particular order:

1) Grow the Foxes Trust membership - the trust will hold the club to account and do it through legitimate channels, so a large membership could increase pressure. I think it is 1k at the minute - 5k could make the club uncomfortable, 10k could demand change.

2) Consistent protest: same meet time (1 hr before KO) every game taking the same route. 

3) Boycott: a lot on here, including myself, are not giving them any more money to waste and bring in hateful players. Without paying customers, all businesses eventually fold or sell.

4) Engage a co-ordinated but respectful and persuasive social media campaign against Pro-KP fans with the intention of educating and influencing them into changing their minds about the ownership. Will need to be creative.

5) Maybe somebody could write a book about Jon R - comparing him to some of the most divisive and incompetent people in history. 

Any more? These are a bit desperate but that's how I feel at this terrible moment in our club's history.

7 hours ago, The Doctor said:

enough has gone on now that no one can reasonably say we just need rudkin gone, very clear that he does not go until the nepo baby does

If Top had appointed - by accident - a genius DoF and gave him complete control of operations and Top just signed the cheques, we would be a Premier league team and nobody would be saying King Power out.

That said, I absolutely want to see the back of the family and everybody involved in the set up.

4 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

I don't think @wurmer is correct here. 

 

I've followed the Macquirie finance for the last 6/7 years we've used them..

 

They are due the parachute money, KDH instalments Barnes Hermansen instalments etc. So that amount of debt we owe them is basically a guarantee. The money is on its way to Macquirie. 

 

Any other debt is to KP - which was converted to equity..

 

The problem is cashflow. Unless we shift 50m or so this summer (I don't think we will) or KP lend us the 50m (I don't think they can) we are out. Gone. Game over. 

 

KP will cling onto the stadium and Seagrave and attempt to use them as leverage for an administrator or newly formed club 

Thank you. I looked into it after I posted that and it seems the loans total 10's of millions and the rest KP loans which assuming they will right off but won't be in a position to do that moving forward. I don't think we have £50 million of playing assets in the squad. 

It looks very bad doesn't it.