The Problems facing Leicester City according to MOTD ??

[justfoxes]

Was a bit of a worrying statement from Gary Lineker that after a few whirlwind glorious years that Leicester might be going back to being Leicester again, surely not going to be a yo-yo club back to the championship??

 

Im sorry Gary & Alan I honestly think we’re a stable Premier League club who are still capable of being a top 8 team even if we lose Fofana and what with trying to keep hold of madison vardy etc I honestly can’t see the board or the owners sanction another high profile departure after Fofana ?

Yes Kasper left we didn’t replace him if we get £85-90m for Fofana then that’s the time to replace The Exited players until then maybe we don’t have huge funds to bring in better quality players but when & if we get a nice payday then we can spend on a quality keeper find another Fofana, what really worries me though waiting this long and the transfer window quickly coming to an end is the teams who’s players we get linked with will increase the prices because they know what our spending power is ?

 

I just think this article is an over reaction yes Rodgers doesn’t look or sound happy at the present time but I think we’ll do just fine we need to utilise the players we have better, and all we can as fans is keep going support and cheering on our team show them were behind every player 100% make enough noise to push them on !

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-gary-lineker-transfers-7463484

Edited 15 August 2022 by justfoxes

[FosseSpark]

Momentum is a real thing though and when it's against you it can be super powerful. 

The good thing we have is that this is very much a season of two halves. Like never before - with the winter hiatus for the world cup. This will impact some clubs big-time and make their end of season a nightmare. But we will have maddison, Barnes, kdh, Evans, Vardy, Justin, Ndidi, Nacho, Daka all fit as fleas before and after the WC so should be well positioned to get points when others are in a mess.

[frany104]

23 minutes ago, pmcla26 said:

This is the thing - I don't see an outstanding team from the "the other 14" plus Man United, that will come close to the top 5 this year. For all of our worries and issues, every other club has problems of their own, too. We can very much be a top 8 team this season. 

Where is the your confidence coming from? We have looked very poor. The club is in turmoil. Every game the fans turn more on Rodgers. Honestly I can’t see us finishing top half.

[ALC Fox]

I always think that the other 14 are always going to be closer to each other than they are to the big 6, even if there is the occasional non-big 6 team that finishes in the top 6.

 

We've reached our limit in terms of what we can offer in wages, so we're naturally on the downward side of the curve. It's how we negotiate the selling of our top earners and replacement of them with new talent.

 

Off the pitch is where we make our claim at extending the big 6 into a big 7 or replacing one of those big 6 teams. The club is working on that. We have the training ground. And the stadium expansion and development around the ground will make us look more like a 'serious' contender.

 

But, the big 6 are a moving target. And, as we've seen with the Super League, they'll do anything to maintain the status quo. They'll put pressure on to rewrite the rules and regulations, they'll try to join breakaway competitions, as if they have a divine right to be at the top of the game.

 

Also, behind us, those in 'the other 14' and those that will come up in future seasons have opportunities to grow their clubs and brands to match and overtake us. As an example, we've seen how Forest have come up and found the extra revenue to overhaul their side, including signing players that we've been linked to this summer. Now, obviously they haven't overtaken us, but we only need to look at ourselves, Brighton, Brentford, Palace and West Ham to see how, in different ways and under different circumstances, clubs can reinvent themselves and grow to become successful in this division.

 

We need to take inspiration from the likes of West Ham and Palace in particular, who have successfully negotiated their own downturns to become clubs that look like they have a bright couple of seasons ahead of them at least.

 

Marrying up the on-field and off-field activity is going to be tricky though. We need A LOT more revenue to turn the big 6 into a big 7. We need to capture the imagination of the neutral. Premier League and FA Cup wins will help. The Europa Conference League would've done as well if we were successful. But the media loves to see underdogs come up and do well as much as it likes to see those overachievers come back down to earth with a bump.

 

I just hope that when Soyuncu, Tielemans, Fofana, Maddison, Vardy and Evans do inevitably go in the next couple of seasons or so, we have everything in place to accelerate our growth again, following our own lead but also that of Brighton, Palace, Brentford and West Ham in how they've identified players who will fit in and improve the team regardless of their profile or 'proven Premier League status'.

 

The last thing we want is to turn into another Everton.

Edited 15 August 2022 by ALC Fox

[MrSpaM]

The problem that we've now got is more and more teams in the premier league are being bought out by companies that are much bigger than King Power, it will come to the point sooner or later where we can't compete unless we get outside investment for the club

 

That's not to say King Power are a small company, they're worth 5 billion, but only a fraction of that goes into lcfc

Edited 15 August 2022 by MrSpaM

[st albans fox]

Not sure how mr lineker is ignorant of out financial situation ?  Call yourself a fan gaz !!!!,

[coolhandfox]

1 hour ago, frany104 said:

Where is the your confidence coming from? We have looked very poor. The club is in turmoil. Every game the fans turn more on Rodgers. Honestly I can’t see us finishing top half.

Nothing like an over reaction.

 

 

 

 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

I can see us following the Southampton trajectory. They had a few years of pushing the top 6 before tumbling down the league and becoming relegation avoiders.

 

Our highs were higher than theirs so I don't think we'll be relegation fodder at least not immediately but I can definitely see us settling into life as a lower mid table club and waiting for the 40 pts every year.

[RoboFox]

Nothing that he said was particularly far fetched. I thought it was a pretty honest assessment of our situation by a bloke who is a fan, but also a media commentator and someone who probably has a bit more insight into the inner workings of the club than the average joe.

 

As far as I recall he didn't mention relegation, when he said revert back to being "Leicester City" he was clearly just being a bit glib and I interpreted that to mean "unremarkable."

 

And yes, there is a real possibility that could happen if it hasn't already. 

 

Edited 15 August 2022 by RoboFox

[String fellow]

Gary Lineker's view of City is perhaps tainted by his time with the club. In his time here, he was in the relegation team of 1980-81, then played 2 seasons in the old Div.2, then spent 2 seasons back in the old Div.1, the club struggling both times and finishing 15th twice. Then he cleared off to Everton in 1985. Was his comment about the club's top players being bought by bigger clubs an indirect reference to himself?

Edited 15 August 2022 by String fellow

[Spudulike]

Not sure what going back to being Leicester is anymore, we've moved on. Even at our most unremarkable, it's still far more remarkable than most of the 92. Is this the old mardy Leicester showing through as we so like to run ourselves down?

 

Anyroad, he's right about this.... 

 

 

[Rusko187]

We lose Schemeichel and all of a sudden we are going back to “Old Leicester”? People need to chill, all we need to do is bin off Rodgers and we will be back rocking 🤣

[jayfox26]

3 hours ago, pmcla26 said:

This is the thing - I don't see an outstanding team from the "the other 14" plus Man United, that will come close to the top 5 this year. For all of our worries and issues, every other club has problems of their own, too. We can very much be a top 8 team this season. 

Yeh, be similar to last season where its a bit under whelming but due to the rest of the league being shite we could still finish 8th. The top 5 will be the usual suspects then the rest could finish anywhere. United are garbage but will most likely be 6th or 7th and then it's a toss of a coin for the rest. Newcastle and West Ham will be looking to finish high up but neither of them are that good in my opinion. Wolves and Villa aren't great and the only other dark horse is Brighton. Brentford could do OK  but the rest are dross 

[Father Ted]

The same Gary Lineker that “quit” his lucrative Champions League coverage role to watch Leicester in Europe with his sons yet wasn’t seen until Roma in the semi finals. 
 

Does anybody still take anything he says seriously since he’s become a political do-gooder?

[whoareyaaa]

28 minutes ago, Rusko187 said:

We lose Schemeichel and all of a sudden we are going back to “Old Leicester”? People need to chill, all we need to do is bin off Rodgers and we will be back rocking 🤣

Yup pretty simple

[FoxFossil]

29 minutes ago, Father Ted said:

The same Gary Lineker that “quit” his lucrative Champions League coverage role to watch Leicester in Europe with his sons yet wasn’t seen until Roma in the semi finals. 
 

Does anybody still take anything he says seriously since he’s become a political do-gooder?

Anyone who saw him score zillions of goals in a fairly average team, and saw him win Golden boot at a World Cup  knows he is a God. Can say what he f**ing likes for me.

[goody2028]

Should stick to crisps. 

[sacreblueits442]

22 minutes ago, FoxFossil said:

Anyone who saw him score zillions of goals in a fairly average team, and saw him win Golden boot at a World Cup  knows he is a God. Can say what he f**ing likes for me.

....invested money into the club, along with Heskey, when we were in administration!!!

[splinterdream]

Leicester have always been massive, we’ve developed true legends of football throughout the decades, up till recent times we were one of the rare clubs never to have dipped down to the 3rd tier, the club has broken records, why is our club never regarded with the respect it deserves? I can only see it being the stadium that holds us back.
Lineker - going back to being Leicester again…….I really find this disrespectful 

[Clever Fox]

45 minutes ago, sacreblueits442 said:

....invested money into the club, along with Heskey, when we were in administration!!!

Exactly, He saved us from possible oblivion along with Heskey, That should never be forgotten by Fans.

 

What he said was reasonable debate on where we are as fans looking in.

[SheppyFox]

Just sack Rodger’s and watch the momentum swing back in our favour. IMO He’s lost the lads, they’re downing tools. Our best 11 if kept fit and used properly is a team good enough to be in the mix for Europe consistently. 

[lcfc_forever]

It’s so clear that our wage structure fell apart. 
 

We need to and I’m sure we will go back to buying young talent with something to prove rather than older, more experienced players where we’ve had 3 failures - Perez, Bertrand and Vestergaard. Yep, Soumare didn’t work out but we’ve had far more success with that strategy and likely to get more of our outlay back. 
 

Who’s responsible for contract negotiations - I guess Congleton when he was here and Rudkin? 

[Clever Fox]

It's hard to be critical of the Club on Salaries. They've tried to keep our top players here and happy.

 

Covid was an unforseen financial burden which all Clubs have been treated badly by the PL and Gov.

 

The mistake was in paying fringe players big contracts to sit on the Bench and in signing players on 3 year contracts who clearly had little to offer. 

 

It would have been better to fall back on the Development players even with their lack of experience.

[Grebfromgrebland]

4 hours ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

I can see us following the Southampton trajectory. They had a few years of pushing the top 6 before tumbling down the league and becoming relegation avoiders.

 

Our highs were higher than theirs so I don't think we'll be relegation fodder at least not immediately but I can definitely see us settling into life as a lower mid table club and waiting for the 40 pts every year.

Starting with this year. I can't wait to get to 40 points. 

[Vestan Pance]

Let's be honest with ourselves here, people within the industry get to hear information and stories that the general public don't. GL has direct links to people who work for Leicester City so it's no surprise that he might have a better idea than some as to the state of the internal workings of the club. He'll certainly have the inside track on the sudden exit of Kasper, which is the biggest clue as to the state of the moral within the squad and around manager, if LCFC was a happy ship he'd be retiring with us.