King Power IN or OUT

[Daggers]

2 minutes ago, ramaiya2 said:

Voted No, Top has had a rough few years with his Dad passing, King Power business over Covid. we could end up a Mike Ashley or remember the Oyston ownership at Blackpool.

 

Over the KP ownership, we have had more up's then downs. Yes Top took the piss getting rid of BR, overall thier ownership has not been bad. They have donated to LOROS, Leicester Royal Infirmary, paid for season tickets for some fans, free frinks at some games. etc etc

 

How many other owners do that

I think some people’s views are going to change a tad when the financial implications of relegation make themselves felt.

[Daggers]

1 minute ago, Master Fox said:

It’s true. 

Take your free cake and beer and keep on clapping the clappers. 
 

Best owners in the league 

 

I’ve been boycotting for almost two seasons. The only clappers I’m clapping are sexual - and I’m not even sure that makes any sense.

[Tuna]

The camera panning to Top with Rudkin sitting next to him was a worrying site.

 

Unless the club wises up to the reasons for relegation, I'm nervous about the future with KP.

[MPH]

9 hours ago, eblair said:

Top 7 clubs all owned by countries or Americans with desire to spend as little as possible

 

Sure some other rich clubs in prem. But look at how many clubs in financial ruin in division we are going to, how anyone thinks new owners now is a good thing is baffling

 

I wouldn’t say that about Man city, Newcastle or Liverpool.  With Newcastle it’s going to take a couple of years to build their income up to  make it possible to spend bigger because of the FFP rules..

[Onions]

53% want them to sell….. 

 

To who? Do people think there are unlimited billionaires lining up to buy football clubs? 😳

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Just now, MPH said:

 

I wouldn’t say that about Man city, Newcastle or Liverpool.  With Newcastle it’s going to take a couple of years to build their income up to  make it possible to spend bigger because of the FFP rules..

Surely they'll just follow the Man City blueprint and find some loopholes to get round FFP. And if they get pulled up on it they'll just appeal to CAS and get off.

[Le Renard]

Two seasons ago they were the best owners ever, some fans crowed about how our owners were second to none, and they were the only club to vote against the pay-per-view cash crab during covid.   Susan Whelan won CEO of the Year in 2021 and we'd just won the FA Cup and it was onwards and upwards.  The media talked about our ownership model and how other clubs should follow suit.  Now it goes wrong, we have s**t owners and the club need to be sold to some middle eastern country. 

 

It is obvious Kingpower's minds have been elsewhere with their duty-free business due to the Covid fallout.  A good vibrant King power, in the long run, is good for Leicester, they have wiped out the debt, and they were going to do the stadium rebuild, which for obvious reasons is now on the back burner.  If Top et al can learn from this season, and realise that you can't take your eye off the ball with a Premier League club, then maybe the club will come back wiser and not rest on its laurels. 

Edited 16 May 2023 by Le Renard

[Speedwell 🦊]

12 hours ago, Matt_Lcfc said:

Completely. I would welcome a new ownership tomorrow. I hate this argument of “be careful what you wish for.” It’s stupid, what we have now is utterly dreadful.

 

Khun Top has destroyed his Dad’s legacy and I hope him and his family sell the club and come nowhere near us ever again. 
 

I would also welcome it on the basis that it would upset some of our idiotic fans. I’ve said this for ages (and been laughed at) but elements of our support back King Power over the club. It’s tragic. The club is far more important than a duty free conman.

Agree.I said last season that Tops heart wasn’t in it like his Dads was.If they sold the club I wouldn’t be surprised and it wouldn’t bother me.

[CountesthorpeFox1]

I voted to not sell. We’re all emotional right now. They’ve made some poor choices over the last 24 months but that’s business, it happens. How Top learns from them is what counts. I don’t think we would be in this position if Vichai was still around but again I think that’s business experience. 
 

without KP, we would never have won the Prem and all the other accolades and none of us would have witnessed our club in a champions league quarter final. 
 

football fans are fickle, we are still in (even with relegation and the financial blow that will come with it) a far superior place as a club than we were when they took over. If you asked any of us 10 years ago to go the ride we’ve been on and be back where we started at the end of the decade each and every single last one is would have bit your hand off.

[ARTY_FOX]

I've put no more in hope top can emulate his father and learn from this.

[ramaiya2]

Who do people who voted Yes to sell think are new owners are going to be? UAE, The Saudi's, perhaps Roman  Abramovich.

 

F****** get real.

 

Look at what KP Group have done for our club and City.

 

If they had not taken over, we would either be still in the Championship or at best a yo yo club.

 

You could have forgotten the Premiership champions, FA Cup, New training ground, righting off debt.

 

KP have been a Godsend.

[MPH]

13 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Surely they'll just follow the Man City blueprint and find some loopholes to get round FFP. And if they get pulled up on it they'll just appeal to CAS and get off.

 

with every club that does it,  more loopholes are closed…that’s why less clubs are getting away with it… besides.. Man City are not out of the woods yet, they are under some serious investigations…

[MPH]

10 minutes ago, ramaiya2 said:

Who do people who voted Yes to sell think are new owners are going to be? UAE, The Saudi's, perhaps Roman  Abramovich.

 

F****** get real.

 

Look at what KP Group have done for our club and City.

 

If they had not taken over, we would either be still in the Championship or at best a yo yo club.

 

You could have forgotten the Premiership champions, FA Cup, New training ground, righting off debt.

 

KP have been a Godsend.

people often say that a boxer is only as good as his last fight.. and so, a club is only as good as it’s last season. Not really any good have a nice shiny training ground  in the championship…

Edited 16 May 2023 by MPH

[st albans fox]

I’ve looked at the list of people likely to buy out club and I can tell you that KP are in a different league (there isn’t a list btw - there probably isn’t anyone ) 

 

Unless KP are so desperate that they are prepared to take a bath on the valuation (I think they have written off £350m over the years on share conversion) then any new owner will not have much money at all to invest in the squad. 
 

I don’t see KP bailing out now - they will wait to see how next season pans out as selling a championship club is way different to a PL club. 
 

Just as they believed we would survive this season, they will believe that we will bounce back. 

[RobHawk]

I'm not happy with how the club is being run at present and relegation is going to come from that. But **** me, that's football, we aren't the first and won't be the last. But do I want KP out? Not at all, they have credit in the bank after the premier League and fa cup win. At best we've been a yo-yo club all my life, so this is just the status quo returning

[filbertway]

Vichai made a lot of mistakes, however he learned from them and corrected them quickly. Top does not have this same quality that his father had. That is the main thing that separates the pair for me.

 

Giving Top credit for the work his Dad did is insane. He really needs to show he's learned from this season and start making the necessary changes. If he sticks with the same set up despite seeing the results of the mismanagement,  then he's really not cut out for the gig.

 

It may be that he's spreading himself too thinly. I don't really care what the reasons are though. He's either good enough or he isn't, if he can't be good enough for us, regardless of the reason then he needs to do the right thing for himself and our club and look to move on.

 

I said I'd give him the summer before passing judgement and will continue to do that. I need to see some evidence he's learning and wants to improve as a leader though.

[Walkerfox]

10 minutes ago, ramaiya2 said:

Who do people who voted Yes to sell think are new owners are going to be? UAE, The Saudi's, perhaps Roman  Abramovich.

 

F****** get real.

 

Look at what KP Group have done for our club and City.

 

If they had not taken over, we would either be still in the Championship or at best a yo yo club.

 

You could have forgotten the Premiership champions, FA Cup, New training ground, righting off debt.

 

KP have been a Godsend.

This is the problem. It’s all “Look at what they’ve done”. I would say look at what they are DOING. The title win was 7 years ago. The company that ran our club back then is not the same now. 
 

They’ve ruined the club. Financially, we are ****ed. A lot of people are going to be surprised next season when it becomes apparent how skint we are. We’re in trouble and it’s all to do with how the club has been ran.

 

I don’t care who king power might sell to. Could they be worse? Yep. Could they be better? Also yep. They might even ruin the club financially. Oh wait, that’s already happened.

[eblair]

26 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

I wouldn’t say that about Man city, Newcastle or Liverpool.  With Newcastle it’s going to take a couple of years to build their income up to  make it possible to spend bigger because of the FFP rules..

It’s not. City took piss and still are out of FFP. Just need Saudi state to set up some fictitious gambling companies (lololol) and pay Newcastle for advertising. It’s really easy and City set precedent of beating uefa already and will do same to prem

[eblair]

19 minutes ago, ramaiya2 said:

Who do people who voted Yes to sell think are new owners are going to be? UAE, The Saudi's, perhaps Roman  Abramovich.

 

F****** get real.

 

Look at what KP Group have done for our club and City.

 

If they had not taken over, we would either be still in the Championship or at best a yo yo club.

 

You could have forgotten the Premiership champions, FA Cup, New training ground, righting off debt.

 

KP have been a Godsend.

People lost their heads. This a hundred times over. People have forgotten the MOF haven’t they

 

Crappy people buy football clubs, especially ones our size

[Braunstone Support!]

At the very least, Top/KP deserves a chance to learn from this and come back fighting.

 

Don't sell.

Edited 16 May 2023 by Braunstone Support!
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[ramaiya2]

19 minutes ago, Walkerfox said:

This is the problem. It’s all “Look at what they’ve done”. I would say look at what they are DOING. The title win was 7 years ago. The company that ran our club back then is not the same now. 
 

They’ve ruined the club. Financially, we are ****ed. A lot of people are going to be surprised next season when it becomes apparent how skint we are. We’re in trouble and it’s all to do with how the club has been ran.

 

I don’t care who king power might sell to. Could they be worse? Yep. Could they be better? Also yep. They might even ruin the club financially. Oh wait, that’s already happened.

Yes and the FA Cup was just 2 years ago, Yes we are skint, however, The KP business is picking up as flights are now allowed to fly into Thailand airport.  Once they become financially more stable I am sure that Top will continue to pour money back into the club.  KP have NOT ruined the club, Covid has f****** us financially. We are NOT a ruined the club, We may get relegated and that is football. Are Southampton ruined? What about Burnley, Watford and Norwich last year. are they ruined?

[FoxesWalk]

54 minutes ago, Onions said:

53% want them to sell….. 

 

To who? Do people think there are unlimited billionaires lining up to buy football clubs? 😳

It would be a very sensible time to buy us in fairness, value just fell significantly and with good decision making we could be back in the prem relatively soon and that value rises again 

[goose2010]

He doesnt need to sell the club just needs to grow some bollocks and sack some people. 

[st albans fox]

The idea that sheikh mansour is making day to day decisions on Man City is laughable. Similarly Stan kroenkhe at arsenal.  Abramovich at Chelsea before boehly etc etc 

 

owners usually only make the very big calls - and they do that under the guidance of those they have installed to run the clubs for them. People that they trust.  Our problem is that either our owner refused to follow the advice he was given or that advice was sh1t. I doubt we’ll ever know for sure which it was.  

[Larry_LCFC]

1 hour ago, Gevans_97 said:

Gradual decline involving 2/3 of the club’s best ever finishes and our first ever FA cup win? 

Or two or the clubs worst ever end of season collapses. We have developed a horrendously weak mentality and a totally blameless culture. The football we have served up for the last couple of seasons has been vile and the way the club has been financially run has been awful. We are losing our best assets for free, and we haven't invested into the team apart from a few shambolic signings. You need to remove your head from the sand, ostrich!