DJ Barry Hammond

Mukasa has had a truly awful half - so bad, I’d keep on for at least 10-15 minutes in the second period in the thinking he couldn’t possibly be as bad.

Given how much potential Thomas’s long throws have… it’s criminal how poor we are at utilising them.

That line was stupidly high - they gave themselves no chance of winning the initial cross.

My god our players are under such a cloud mentally.

I don’t know - the defensive line seemed very deep too, that in turn makes it harder for a Keeper to come.

Come on @Finnegan! Not only are we going to win today - we’re going to win to Neil! (who’s Neil 🤷🏻‍♂️)

He’s got Daka scoring already!

Why? He’s actually developed a little bit of form lately; no doubt helped by playing regularly in midfield. Add to this that we don’t have another workhorse style central midfielder available in the squad (Hamza injured), why would you move him and create a weakness in a central area?

You could easily add Spurs and Manchester United to that list. There’s also growing fan discontent at Brighton I understand. Turns out, this competitive football at the top level is not as easy as a lot on here make out and that success / progression is very rarely linear.

Ah yes - Gary Rowett - a manager renowned for front foot football. Seriously, what is this post? Are you so desperate to show your King Power Out credentials to the rest of the group that you have to make up any old rubbish to ‘slate’ Rudkin and Top?

Reported turmoil in the Potteries.

Why? It’ll only need to be opened again in 12 weeks time?

They wanted to see how Andy would do.

@Mods - Are we keeping this thread open?

And the reply to you pointed out that parents will pull their kids in favour of other cat 1’s if their good enough. It would have an immediate impact.

We’re struggling to field 2 competent/fit centre halves and so naturally you want to add an extra one in the mix - and completely misplace our 2nd top scorer in the process.

That’s not true though is it - there’s parents that will actively tout their kids across academies within the 90 minute radius… and potentially move house if they need to.

It’s a multi-billion pound business and Top’s family have strong ties to the Thai Royal Family and Thai government. Whilst we’ve seen no business is too big to fail; it’s a significant size and that should ensure it could leverage cash to support the football club at least in the short/medium term if King Power still wishes to do so. If it doesn’t - that gives a clear indication that King Power would be looking for a sale of the club.

My understanding is his group bought Sunderland with the clubs own money and essentially flipped it for profit not that long down the line. He could easily do it with us because the club owns assets - both or either training complexes could fit a lot of houses on them! Other stuff I’ve read suggest he wasn’t very fond of the clubs fans (Sunderland and Charlton) and that this feeling was mutual. I think the suggestions of admin / going out of business are a little far fetched at present; King Power have consistently written off the clubs debt in the past.

Yeah, some of the stuff he was coming out with felt like “foreshadowing” of what he’d do as an owner of the club. I think that’s the big issue with any potential new owner is that we’re ripe for asset stripping (especially in League One). I doubt we’d get a ‘project / sporting ambition’ style owner because we’d be a very difficult club to get there now given all the financial controls in the way; plus, we’ve already achieved the ultimate most unthinkable goal. We’re not like a Bristol City / Wrexham where just reaching the Premier League is an exceptional achievement for those clubs.

I don’t believe either of these statements have any proof behind to say they are 100% true - they are guesses, but wild ones. King Power is a multi billion pound business, so it will have significant leverage available to it. I’ve seen no suggestion that King Power are unwilling to underwrite the club like they have previously. The clubs 2025 accounts are due to be released over the coming months; a better assessment as to the financial position of the club can be made then.

Think Glazers at United. The club owns its ground and two training complexes that have a lot of valuable land attached to it. There are also potentially a lot of valuable player assets coming through the ranks. So it’s conceivable that an investor with little interest in; 1.) Using their own money 2.) developing the club; could leverage those assets to help purchase the club / take value out of it. The one thing you can’t criticise King Power on is putting money into the club. That can’t be guaranteed for any new ownership group. I get the sense Methvan might see an opportunity for himself here - and that talking up the prospect of liquidation/relegation strengthens his hand. There’s no doubt relegation would result in a much reduced valuation of the club - and it’s also clear that continued fan unrest with the owners heightens that possibility/stregenthens his hand towards a potential deal; so I would take his two recent interviews with a huge pinch of salt. If he’s the perspective new owner (or head of it) there’s a serious argument to be had that say’s we’d still be better served by King Power.

It does sound like this Charlie guy has done his due diligence; to the extent you wonder if he’s positioning towards a bid for the club? However - I do get the sense he’d be an asset stripper type of owner.

Yeay - extra football!

King’s got to be a contender for the unluckiest interim manager ever.