The Doctor

would we continue to have? no. like genuinely, van nistelrooys 8 league games in charge, where do you think Cooper would have picked up points that he hasn't?

Cooper was not working miracles, Mads was working miracles to cover up Cooper's incompetence

thank you! the revisionism going on is insane. We've lost 6 in a row, can guarantee you under Cooper it'd be 11 (we don't win v West ham or come back v Brighton under him). the tactics were dog shit but the luck was off the charts, we should have been bottom 2 under Cooper on underlying stats but he had a near world class goalkeeper than RvN has barely had available. Cooper sank himself by playing victim about refs rather than coaching, and recruiting utter garbage. Ruud has had 2 players that walk straight into this team or really any in the bottom 5 missing (Mads and Fatawu), and, nearly 8 weeks into the job, the board still haven't sorted out his coaching staff coming in. Is it good, no, but people are memory holing how bad it was under Cooper.

Vichai clearly learned from his mistakes though. Making mistakes like Sousa is fine, no one in the world can honestly say they've never made a mistake, so long as you learn from them. Aiyawatt hasn't learnt a single lesson, instead he cried stop being mean and allowed Rudkin and Whelan to investigate themselves and clear themselves, like asking Harold Shipman to head up an investigation into suspicious deaths in the elderly population.

the cult of king power needs to die, this isn't the ownership that saw us rise through the middle part of the 2010s, this is a nepo baby playing pretend at being a businessman like his dad, and absolutely trashing his legacy. Aiyawatt did nothing but ride on Vichais coattails, and it's no surprise that the longer Vichai has been gone, the more we've turned into a laughing stock. If in 2018 the family had decided to sell up, walk away, and new owners had presided over the last 4 years then they'd be hated on a similar level to other chancers like the Oystons at Blackpool or Dai Yongge at Reading. Instead, people defend this incompetent twat because his father was good? in what other position would you ever do that, we're not going out on a manager hunt and going "well, James Pearson's dad was pretty good so shall we give him a go?'

unfortunately if we're honest he is mostly past it and this was obviously gonna be the case back in the summer (remember how much he struggled in 22/23). Sensible recruitment would have been a new striker and have him as an impact sub at most, but we didn't have a sensible recruitment strategy

imagine if we hadn't wasted time and money on Cooper getting to lumber us with Ayew, Skipp and Reid, and instead had a coherent transfer policy rather than putting overpaid garbage back in the squad

absentee owner would be fine if he appointed people who managed it for him properly and he just signed the checks, instead he sticks with his mates no matter how incompetent

two years ago: https://fulltime.thefa.com/statsForPlayer.html?selectedSeasonID=564947475&personID=638948653&selectedStatisticDisplayMode=3&selectedOrgStatRecordingTypeID_ForSort= so actually not that long ago.

infrastructure is excepted from PSR. The owners can pay for it themselves if they want to, it wouldn't count towards the max investment for that.

i mean us, Everton, wolves and Ipswich really are four bald men fighting over a comb.

that last day would be hell, and it's very dependent on Mads coming back asap, once again we're in the position of being a good keeper away from staying up because the defence is shit.

"Probably just going wide" he says with an angle showing it was right down the centre???

YEA! Get ****ed you tree *****

what a shit corner routine

it's the nature of football tbh, unless you implement a serious salary cap and a huge redistribution of TV and sponsorship money, clubs will inevitably lose money and rely on having a moneyman behind them to bail them out

that would make sense. like much as we spunked budget on Skipp and Okoli in the summer, the five year contracts for each mean it's only 7m of psr headroom taken per year for the two of them combined.

Rudkin had to get coke for his office minibar rather than settling for pepsi, didn't he.

not charging us for 23/24 is a statement in itself that we have not breached.

likely TBF. The -90m from 21/22 falls off, but 22/23 was also -92m and that will be the last year on it. from 25/26 we'll be in a much better position with those last two years of Rodgers overspend going off the assessment period. unless our board are stupid enough to do it all over again, but there's no way that could be the case

Ziegler's article includes the PL statement: "no complaint has been brought against Leicester by the league for any breach of the PSRs for the period ending Season 2023-24." that means we did not breach. there's no "can't bring charges until the previous one is resolved", they have to bring the complaint now when evaluating this set of accounts.

they're looking to resolve 22/23, but 23/24 we're not in breach for

The Premier League said in a statement: “Issues as to the jurisdiction of the Premier League over Leicester City Football Club in relation to PSR compliance are currently the subject of confidential arbitration proceedings. “Accordingly, neither the league nor the club will make any further comment at this stage about any aspect of the club’s compliance or otherwise with any of the PSR or related rules, save to say that no complaint has been brought against Leicester by the league for any breach of the PSRs for the period ending Season 2023-24.” It is an ongoing arbitration proceeding, they have appealed the decision around jurisdiction.

that is the consensus, doesn't mean they wouldn't bother to. The appeal of that is the jurisdiction case mentioned in the Ziegler tweet

precisely. The verdict for the period up to 22/23 is not material to whether we've breached in the period up to 23/24. At most it would impact the points deduction (Everton's second was lower last season). The only bit of PSR hanging over our heads is whether the verdict back in September (that the PL did not have jurisdiction) was wrong, which is the subject of an ongoing appeal by the PL.