HankMarvin

Playing against a make shift defence, can we muster an xg of 1 goal by half time. Currently 0.4

The definition of one dimensional,RVN 7 defeats barely any goals scored more of the same, just different players.

2 goals scored in 11.25 hours come halftime

Faes is wank and so are we

Gets paid out more for getting sacked than quitting

Premier League clubs After Leicester had subsided to defeat against Crystal Palace on January 15, a few senior players had seen enough. With the rest of the team back in the dressing room at the King Power Stadium, it was explained to them in forceful terms that the Foxes were sleepwalking towards the drop. Keep doing this and we are going down again, went the general message. Though boss Ruud van Nistelrooy added his thoughts, this inquest was player-led. The trigger is thought to have been Palace's second goal, where Marc Guehi had ambled forward unnoticed to volley home at the far post. Why had the shouts from the bench - 'Pick up the six!' (Guehi's shirt number) - not been heeded? Why was young winger Kasey McAteer tasked with marking Guehi, a far stronger player? It was the last straw. Unfortunately, the chat made not a shred of difference. Four days later, Leicester were even worse as they lost 2-0 at home to Fulham, a seventh straight defeat under Van Nistelrooy. This time the fans' patience snapped as director of football Jon Rudkin, along with other board members and Van Nistelrooy, felt the full force of their fury. As Mail Sport revealed on Friday, matters reached boiling point again in the changing room after the 2-0 home defeat by Fulham as Van Nistelrooy turned on Facundo Buonanotte, who had performed sloppily as a second-half substitute. The duo are said to have had a fractious exchange in Spanish, which Van Nistelrooy speaks fluently after playing for Real Madrid and Malaga. Indeed, in recent times Van Nistelrooy's mood is said to have darkened, particularly at the lack of transfer activity this month, with some even fearing he is considering quitting – as he did at PSV Eindhoven two years ago. Though this may be a dramatic take on matters, Sunday's match at Tottenham could be decisive in many ways. Van Nistelrooy is a symptom of this malaise, not the cause. The Foxes hired the Dutchman in November after Graham Potter and David Moyes had made it clear they would not be interested in succeeding Steve Cooper. It was a puzzling call: Van Nistelrooy's only experience of managing in a top-five league was a four-game stint in caretaker charge of Manchester United, after the sacking of Erik ten Hag and before the appointment of Ruben Amorim. That spell included two wins over Leicester, but surely those results alone could not have been the basis for appointing him. Could they? Players are said to appreciate Van Nistelrooy's clear communication in tactical meetings, which are short and to the point. Despite an outstanding playing career, Van Nistelrooy is believed to be relatively quiet and reserved around the club's £95million training centre and behaves more like a traditional manager than a natural training-ground coach. Four points from nine games is a grim haul yet like managers before him, Van Nistelrooy is working under tricky circumstances. The only member of staff he has brought with him is goalkeeping coach Jelle ten Rouwelaar. First-team coach Brian Barry-Murphy, who has worked under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, was appointed by the club, rather than recommended specifically by Van Nistelrooy. First-team coach Ben Dawson, Danny Alcock – another goalkeeping coach – and set-piece specialist Andy Hughes all joined Leicester during Cooper's five-month tenure. Instead of one group of staff promoting a particular idea, as was the case when Enzo Maresca led Leicester to the Championship title last season, there is no single principle uniting the coaching team. When Van Nistelrooy was hired, he made it clear he needed a full-back, a left-sided centre-back, a winger and a forward. But with financial restrictions in the background, and with the slow-moving Rudkin in charge of transfers, progress has been painfully slow, with only full-back Woyo Coulibaly signed in a £2m deal from Italian club Parma. Rudkin's desire to earn the best deal for Leicester is admirable yet his haggling can be counter-productive. At the start of the window Sheffield United wanted Hamza Choudhury on loan with an option to buy. Leicester would agree only to a loan with an obligation – for a player on a hefty contract who is unwanted by the current manager. On Friday, Leicester agreed to a loan with option after all. Valuable time lost over a single issue, in a month when speed and flexibility are vital. Crucial under Cooper, Buonanotte has started only three of Van Nistelrooy's nine league games and Mail Sportunderstands Brighton have discussed the possibility of cancelling the season-long loan deal, with the 20-year-old unhappy at his lack of game time even before last Saturday's clash with his manager. Stephy Mavididi, meanwhile, is thought to have been unsettled by the Foxes' pursuit of another winger and even though Jamie Vardy has seen off plenty of rivals down the years, the news that Van Nistelrooy would like another forward is unlikely to have put a spring in his step. The player to provide competition for Vardy, who turned 38 earlier in January, was supposed to be Odsonne Edouard, but he does not even get on the bench as Leicester are desperate to send him back to Crystal Palace – despite the staggering £5m cost of the season's loan. There are mitigating circumstances. Leicester's objective this season is to stay up and they are only two points below the line. With Southampton virtually adrift, Leicester, Ipswich and Wolves look to be locked in a fight for 17th. The Premier League is looking more and more like a closed shop and even previously consistent performers like Leicester will suffer if they slip up. While the Foxes are not viewed as a typical 'newly-promoted' team because they won the Premier League title in 2016 and the FA Cup five years later, they are still fighting the same forces as other clubs who advance from the Championship. Despite the fears over top flight spending rules, the club is financially secure, but those regulations mean they cannot spend as freely as they might wish this month. Yet many of the problems are of Leicester's own making. Vardy's contract is up at the end of the season, with a further nine players' deals due to expire in summer 2026. Recruitment has been haphazard Ruud van Nistelrooy was encouraged to take job by Chelsea boss The powerful Rudkin is a key ally of chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha but looks like he needs help. Former boss Enzo Maresca was often frustrated by Leicester's laboured approach to recruitment and wanted the club to appoint a specialist sporting director, with greater knowledge of today's market than the current staff. It seems he had a point. It has long appeared that Leicester players are given too much rope. In recent seasons it has become relatively normal for players to take concerns above the manager to club executives – a disastrous trend that can only undermine the boss. While many of the squad live in the Leicester area, some have opted not to move and have long daily commutes, which is hardly conducive to creating a strong team ethic. Most of the squad never took to Cooper from the start and sure enough, others were grumbling about Van Nistelrooy's methods from fairly early in his reign. These are the same guys who thought it wise to travel to Copenhagen for a Christmas party hours after losing to Maresca's Chelsea on November 23 and to pose on the dancefloor near a sign that read 'Enzo I Miss U'. That was the day before Cooper was sacked. The time has come for some of these players to have a look in the mirror, and the same is true of board members. A group of supporters are planning a protest ahead of the home game against Arsenal on February 15. A dithering regime that looks increasingly out of its depth, a manager who is running out of answers and a team who seem to down tools at the first sign of adversity. No wonder Leicester fans have lost hope. It falls to those on the pitch, those in the dugout and – most pertinently – those in the boardroom to restore it.

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Yeah that would be nice, but having lost the last 7 and only won 2 all season it seems unlikely to win the next 2

There was January 11th deadline. this is taken from an article in November before Everton were sold. “The Everton owner has committed to waiving the huge debt on completion of his planned sale to the Friedkin Group, and will convert it to equity if it appears that will not happen before 11 January. From that date shareholder loans will become subject to a fair market value test by the league after last week’s vote on associated party transaction rules to which opposition was led by Manchester City”

What insight could he offer that a fan wasn’t aware of? It was essentially a miracle if there was a blueprint we wouldn’t have been relegated and look like being relegated again.

It’s essentially interest free loans that he has borrowed to help with the funding of the club. It’s quite common. Well it was until November and the Man City case and how the rules are changing.. “Existing loans can be converted into shares, wiping out the borrowing and placing a club beyond the coming scrutiny” “Their outgoing rules have just been found to break competition law, so clubs must be careful not to create a new problem” When you sail close the wind you need all the help you can get with balance sheets. its also makes the club a more attractive selling proposal, Everton had shareholder loans of £450m factored into their selling price and made their deal drag on.

Fake news Italian teams he doesn’t slip and wear the wrong boots, don’t let it put you off

Lecce enquire about Leicester youngster Omobolaji. The Serie A club would offer the 17-year-old winger a first team pathway.

It’s not accumulated debt as such it’s funding provided by the owner from his own resources normally on the basis that the funding will be repaid to him by the company.

I think it more a case of falling in line with new rules set out in November with regards to PL and shareholder loans after City picked it apart

What are shareholder loans? They do exactly what it says on the tin: it is money loaned to a club by their shareholders. They amount to a form of funding, a means for owners to inject cash into the football project without seeking equity in return. Typically these are long-term arrangements, often free of interest payments. And clubs are certainly fond of them. Fourteen of the 20 Premier League teams in the 2022-23 season had shareholder loans recorded in their most recent set of accounts and City’s legal team were only too happy to highlight the extent of their use during this case. It was cited that £1.5billion ($1.96bn) out of £4bn total borrowings across the division — 37 per cent — were through shareholder loans. “The main motivation (behind shareholder loans) is that it’s an easier mechanism for an owner getting their money back,” says Chris Weatherspoon, an accountant and financial analyst at the football website Game State. “If they put in equity, that’s them effectively giving up any right to a return, short of paying out dividends, which hardly any club does or even can do, as most are in a position of accumulated deficits, or making their money back when they sell up. “It’s also more tax efficient. Interest costs on debt — if owners charge them — are tax-deductible for clubs, so reduce the club’s tax burden; dividend payments aren’t. “Another point is that if there’s a need to plug a cash-flow gap quickly, lending money is easier than working through the mechanism of issuing shares.” The Premier League, until this point, had excluded shareholder loans from APT rules, saying they would “encourage investment” in clubs. It also reminded us this week that 19 of the 20 members, City included, had been responsible for voting through the existing APT rules in 2021, with only Newcastle United abstaining. City came hard at the Premier League when launching their legal challenge in June, saying the APT rules in place were “discriminatory and distortive”. They also called their existence “unlawful” and set about picking holes in a set of regulations designed to prevent clubs earning increased revenue through inflated commercial deals.

For a supposed journalist clearly not well informed Nothing to see here

It’s an old article from the media not from LCFC

Last time the 200m cut net interest by a 3rd saving 7m for that season

Article Feb 1, 2023

The last time Their conversion into equity serves to strengthen the Club’s balance sheet, reduce its interest costs, and provide further evidence of King Power International’s commitment to supporting the Club’s long-term sustainability." Srivaddhanaprabha's gesture is the second of its kind since the family took control of the club back in August 2010. It follows the lead of his late father, Vichai, who tragically died in a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of two other passengers and the pilots outside of the King Power Stadium in 2018.

No mate, he was just made to watch some of the last matches

Maybe if it was an incontinence pants brand

Or the fact that they have let a manager dictate to signing previously and wasted about £50m on wages and fees once the manager goes, which seems short lived and inevitable at this club

Maybe this explains the hesitancy behind the scenes in the incoming market, we expect to change managers again with a sacking or Ruud walking.