Les-TA-Jon

New manager bounces only happen about 50% of the time. look at Spurs and West Brom this season

Can we have some sort of coordinated effort to spoil this please? Dujuan Richards as most 'ridiculous' option for both player and young player of the year, surely?

https://www.premierleague.com/en/video/4353677/leicester-city-v-liverpool-2015-16-full-match-replay 1hr 10mins for that awesome tika-taka. Still no reverse angel replay of the non-penalty though - 2nd goal scored from same passage of play eventually.

All season the players have underperformed but the occasional bit of quality from James, Fatawu or someone else got us some wins here and there. The squad's imbalances and the toxicity of the players/everything at the club meant that if we were ever dragged into a relegation battle, we wouldn't have the stomach or mentality for the fight itself. And the deduction put us in a relegation battle we otherwise wouldn't have been in. I think this is what Rowett means. 1.3 ppg before deduction / 0.75 ppg since deduction.

Was he really on £30,000 a week as 3rd choice keeper!?

I didn't assume that. I said "Whatever equity income we have" Whatever can include zero. And yes - EFL did change it - that's the 60% of equity injection I mention. I don't think SCMP save us at all - I said "how well we do that who knows" All I was ever saying was SCMP isn't just "75% of turnover"

That's not the limit. The rule is 'player costs' can't exceed the total of: Player trading income ‘Allowable’ Equity injection income 75% of turnover So we've got 75% of turnover + 60% of whatever equity injection + player sale profit to play with. Obviously, how well we do that who knows, but its not as simple as the 75% of turnover rule.

My breakdown of League 1 spending rules here - it's 75% for the first year, for newly relegated clubs. Equity injection income is counted, but only 'allowable' levels - You can use 100% of the first £500,000; 75% of the next £250,000; 60% of the next £250,000 and 60% of anything else So for example, Top wants to inject £10,000,000 into the club, we can only count £6,237,500 of it as allowable income.

I think my point is that they can achieve the 6 point swing they need, in any 'matchweek' or in the game versus us. Which is what makes it so likely they both finish above us.

5 occasions we won 3 in a row (or more) in 23/24 under Maresca. None since. One instance of back to back wins in 24/25 under Cooper. Two instances this season under Cifuentes. 17 wins total out of last 80 league matches...

It's because Portsmouth and Blackburn have 2-4 points more than Oxford and West Brom and they play us. Portsmouth and Blackburn only need a 6 point swing vs Leicester to finish above us. If Leicester somehow stay up, it'll very likely only be because we've finished above West Brom and Oxford.

I think 2023 and 2026 are quite a bit worse than 2025 - even accounting for that terrible, goalless losing run under RVN. Competing in the PL is hard. It's not in the Championship. Not if you're sensible. Never mind the money/wages we've thrown around. The worse thing about 2025 was that it should have been a year of banking PL money and building for the future; instead we did a halfway house - an expensive, piss poor attempt at staying up which was never likely to work and also lumbered us with the next tranche of dross players, further hamstringing us in the Championship...

This is exactly what this is for We're down!

Blackburn and Portsmouth are only a 6 point swing away from being guaranteed to finish above us. They means if they win a single game, we cannot lose a single game - otherwise they finish above us. And they both play us so they can potentially get their 6 point swing in the fixture against us too. If Blackburn win a single game, and we draw a single game - that's a 5 point swing - and we could only finish above them with maximum points for us, 0 points for them and on goal difference...

Yep. Basically impossible for us to stay up now - and if we do, it'll only be because we somehow finish above West Brom and Oxford Looking at the Points Swing situation, Blackburn and Portsmouth are almost guaranteed to finish above us, since they need only a 6 point swing. I.e they finish above us if we lose a single game and they win a single game.

Somewhat lucky - i.e there was some element of luck to the win. I'm not belittling the win at all. It was fully deserved, a great moment for us and great to finally win it. A worldie goal from Youri worthy of winning any cup. My Dad and Uncle who have been going since the 1960s had seen all the lost finals, the FA cup is a big deal for their generation and sharing that victory with them along with other family - not long after lockdown - is a cherished memory. There was an element of luck to the run and the final win - is all I'm saying.

In general, KP have always been an inconsistent mess - that's been occasionally counter-acted by various managerial appointments Pearson - reset culture, squad, sports science, promotion and great escape Ranieri - accidentally appointed the man for a perfect storm of positivity Puel - rebuild squad for Rodgers Rodgers - top manager who could get some good finishes and (somewhat) lucked his way to the FA cup before he could dismantle everything Maresca - club's mentality was in the toilet, accidentally found someone with strength of character and philosophy to (temporarily) overturn it

The non-sacking happened in the great escape season.

For those talking about League One spending rules... But also note that Leicester would be under PSR upon promotion - so the club effectively have to work to both sets of rules simultaneously, for when/if we get promoted back to Championship.

We can’t get relegated before Hull (H) on Tuesday 21st

75% for first year, for sides relegated from Championship

We were on for a massively poor mid-table/bottom half finish. Problem was the points deduction put us into a relegation battle, which in turn upped the pressure on each game and the players/their contractual situation have no stomach for such a fight.

You've got to wait until Tues 21st at the earliest for official relegation

They can say that, sure - but how will all of the following be achieved in the next 18 days? EFL establish an independent commission IC hears arguments and submissions from all parties IC deliberates and comes to final recommendation Parties have window to form an appeal IC hears arguments and submissions of appeal IC deliberates on appeal and makes final decision Note that Leicester were charged by the PL/EFL 20th May 2025 and got the final decision 5th Feb 2026 (261 days later) and then appealed, which added another 62 days to the overall process

Right and he can only do that in 15 months time