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At the back end of last season I mentioned to Ian Bason on here that the Foxes Trust was set up to avoid this sort of situation happening again. They were supposed to have representation within the club's meetings, to put pressure on those in charge of the club to be transparent and to ensure that we weren't relegated because of incompetence in the board room rather than on the pitch and was told "many of our members believed we were doing relatively well on the pitch so no change was required" When the FT then attended the last meeting with the club and selected fans a few months ago they asked for explanations and they got no answer and (to my knowledge) still haven't from the board members who conducted their own review into (their / the club's) failings. At no point since this group was formed have they done anything to ensure strong governance at the club and rather than keep an eye on the people running it, they got drunk on our success and failed to hold anyone at any level to account. They're as toothless as the utility regulators who watch energy bills rise & fall with no sense of control over them, and yet somehow demand a fee for joining so that you can not only sit idly by as the clubs runs itself into the ground, you can also pay to do so. They're just another supporters club and just as pointless. You may as well sign up to Only Fans as much as the Foxes Trust, and at least you'll get some enjoyment out of that subscription.

Wasn't that what the lawyers sorted out the other week when they made the EFL admit we weren't under their governance and didn't need a business plan? Effectively all they could then do was put us under an embargo, it was the only punishment left open to them. The lawsuits against them last week basically ensure that the proceedings will go to some sort of tribunal and nothing can now happen until those hearings take place after the summer. Everyone knew we'd post a loss. The scale of it is the surprise but relegation and loss of revenue would have made a minus figure inevitable. The thing we have to look out for is the double whammy. If we go up and get a deduction we then go back down and the EFL hit us in two seasons time.

Basically yes. They would have had these figures pencilled in since last summer. You look at the squad we had left and think shit or bust. If we stay down we're going to make multi million losses for every year without TV money. So you go out and buy several million pounds worth of talent. Mavididi, Coady, Winks, Hermansen, Cannon etc. and handing out deals to the likes of Wanya and Hamza to keep up their value. All the time knowing if you get up you may have to pay a fine to the EFL (again) but at least we won't be losing as many millions and if we don't get up we have assets to sell. Then the PL committee starts handing out ACTUAL points deductions not fines and you shit yourself.

The Leeds wage bill will be far far lower because they only had 2 or 3 seasons back in the top flight and at no point were they ever pushing on for European places or competing with top half clubs for players, we spent 10 years giving everyone at the club incremental increases in wages and ridiculous signing on fees with their new deals. They also never wrote off £190m in players given away on free transfers. They'll have losses but nothing like the catastrophic figures we put out.

That's horrendous, no other words for it. Whoever made the financial and strategic decisions that got us here should resign. Immediately. Don't hide behind the relegation excuse, just resign.

We'd have gone into the season with Vardy, Nacho and Daka. One nearly left in August, 2 were going to AFCON leaving us with one 37yo striker for January. As it happened Vardy and Nacho were injured in December anyway. Other clubs were interested in Cannon and if we'd wanted him later on he'd have cost more than getting him from Everton's u23s. It could be that by July he's our ONLY striker and the 6m or whatever we paid will be good business.

Think he probably had more touches than Patson today. Came on like he had a point to prove after Friday.

If this is what happens when these players "Can't be arsed" "Looking for a move" And "Aren't playing for him" Then long may their terrible attitude continue

Booing? Not a bit of it. I've heard Nacho booed onto the pitch about 3 years back but Leicester fans have given this guy an easy ride considering his poor return. In 3 years he really hasn't made the grade. There's only so many chances you can give a guy. He's clearly popular in the group and seems a nice guy but that's not the point. Needs a fresh start elsewhere IMO

Not desperate to put him down at all. For a couple of games in December I thought he was finally going to hit a streak but since AFCON he's been AWOL again. I'd rather have Jamie out there missing 3 or 4 chances than him out there contributing nothing because at least Vardy is getting in a position to score. Like I said, I have issues with Nacho too but at least he drops deep to get involved in the build up. People say it wasn't his type of game but I don't know what his type of game actually is, in 3 years he's been in tight games, open games been a starter and been a sub and his contribution is poor, no other word for it.

Wandered round like a fart in the wind, only downside of a decent display today, absolute passenger since AFCON. I have issues with Nacho but at least he gets involved in the play.

That's what happens when you bury your chances. Must use this as a springboard now, push on and finish with as many wins as possible 💪🏻

It's just his final ball TBF just picks the wrong option sometimes but poor is harsh.

You didn't say donkeys others did, to be clear. All the best

Oh! You thought we'd score 4 goals every game and finish on 120pts? Confirmed, you've never seen Championship football before and have totally unrealistic expectations.

Interesting to see if they carry that on against Baggies and Brum

Its not an irrelevance though. And if Vardy sticks a couple of those chances away on Friday this thread doesn't even exist. Teams have bad runs, it happens.

Oh well. If sticking 13 goals past Hudds, Stoke and Plymouth doesn't work for you, you can't be helped. I'm happy winning and accept that sometimes we don't.

This thread is an incredible read about how one club can screw itself into the ground. I know stadium construction isn't included in losses but they are in a world of trouble.

T-shirts projected limply from a mis-firing cannon is all you'll get in the stands. Having had a month off from Statler and Waldorf behind me I'm not looking forward to their jibber jabber on Monday. Early goal required because the longer it goes on the earlier the grumbling will start.

It isn't 1992 anymore 😆 And if we didn't get promotion I doubt anyone on this forum would be happy with "good old-fashioned emotive entertainment" I'm sure Luton fans are enjoying their emotive entertainment but offer them a title and a few games against Real, Bayern and Inter at "the Kenny" and they'll be more than happy with the anti-football you're not enjoying. BTW when anti-football had us clear at the top with one defeat in 17 were you unhappy or are you here on the back of a few defeats?

We don't need that sort of sensible talk in this thread. Unless you've got some doom to add to the gloom you'll struggle to fit in here.

Pre-match threads are as toxic as the match threads, some proper over-reactions as normal In other news, did we only give Norwich 2000 tickets or is that all they're bringing? Thought they normally had a bigger following than that.

Refute what? We're in bad form, we all know that. We're not in the top 2 we all know that. What other facts do you want me to refute? What I do know is that certain people on this forum have been carping all season and certain sections of our fanbase do this EVERY time the side has a bad run. They - and you - can't accept that all teams have bad runs. Sometimes without doing massive amounts wrong, sometimes because players under perform. That is just football. People screaming about sacking Enzo and calling players donkeys are everything that's wrong with modern football. You say I was talking tosh. Okay well dispute these facts. Leeds were all over the place until December. Ipswich won 1 league game between 16th December and 10th February. Including a 4-0 battering by Leeds and losing to Maidstone. Not a single one of either team's fans asked for the manager to be sacked. None of them questioned tactics or lost faith in the philosophy. Facts. We've won 1 game in 6 and rather than get behind the players that got us to the top the genius element of our fan base would rather say they saw this coming all along and we should "sack him" - completely ignoring the absolutely abysmal situation we've got ourselves into with finances, sanctions and legal issues. Enzo is not going to be sacked with 8 games left. But you'd rather carry on moaning than actually getting behind him and the squad. Really productive of you