Top Statement

[Vindaloo FOX]

It's more of a complaint letter from Top.

 

He's not happy with us fans 🤣

[Guest Mee-9]

[Kilworthfox]

I think everyone is disappointed. 

I think there has been an immense amount of ineptitude by those he has employed to do a good job for the club.

 

He is ultimately at fault as he pays the bills. However let's not forget he has supported our club (but really his club financially) and he is carrying the financial can here. 

 

We live in a society where publicly making mistakes leads to the sack. For me you cannot be grateful for the ride over the years, winning the league, fa cup and going to Europe and then in the same breath complain at his faults and becoming a championship club. 

 

The only way we all learn is by making mistakes. He will become a better owner because of this, I have no doubt. He is not an idiot. He may not be his father just yet, but we must allow himself the opportunity for redemption, otherwise what kind of fan base are we? 

 

 

 

[don_danbury]

i was hoping he'd tell us why he sacked rodgers a year to late while relegation was staring him in the face. 

[st albans fox]

15 minutes ago, Mee-9 said:

 

I checked in the other thread, in September 2022 I criticised him calling him a poor and awful businessman who's letting his prize assets leave for nothing. Some of you gave me grief for that but I didn't cry or release a statement moaning. I could see this coming. Why couldn't he? 

 

Letting £50m assets and players leave for absolutely nothing is criminal and could have helped secure our financial future.

if we don’t receive a reasonable offer, what do you propose the club do?  It was debated at the time if it was worth accepting £20m, given that it was also assumed selling youri would make us more likely to be relegated . Note that there is no evidence that anyone actually offered £20m - all the info I’ve seen indicates that no offers have ever been received - most likely the players agent indicates to interested parties that he wanted to leave on a free this summer. 

 

Hindsight says he should have been sold after the cup win but the market was depressed by covid and rodgers asked the board not to see

 anyone if at all possible. Off the back of two 5th places we were still chasing the dream 

[Foxdiamond]

2 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Hard to win, people complain there is no statement. Then when one is released pull it a part.

 

Yes without a doubt heads should roll, but hopefully that will come in the following weeks.

 

At the end of the day, their family has given many Leicester city fans the greatest footballing experience of their life’s. 
 

He is a young man, trying to follow in a successful fathers footsteps.

Listening to those his father had in place.
He needs to be cut a bit of slack, certainly not getting abuse. 
 

Hopefully things will look more positive when we have a manager with a long term vision and identity for the club.

You can't expect a statement to publicly slag off individuals at the club.

[Foxin_Mad]

5 minutes ago, Bilo said:

Who's being thrown under the bus then?

Hopefully Rudkin...10 quid each to run the **** over, into the transfer fund! 

[Phenom]

6 minutes ago, desertfox2 said:

Agreed. Completely disrespectful and inappropriate. We are all hurting but sending personal abusive and offensive messages to Top is disgraceful and mindless. We have been on a roller coaster and the memories we have had with him, his Dad and KP were unimaginable before they came in. Yes, things need to be changed with Rudkin out, a new manager within the next week or max 2 ( I would go Pearson who Bristol City fans think has done a fantastic job of sorting out their finances but only has a year left on his contract, and try and get Steve Walsh back as DOF if possible from the US, with Shakespeare staying as assistant) surrounded by good people like them who will tell him the truth we will go back up but the work needs to start right away.

Bootlicker 

[Roosters boots]

Don’t agree with him receiving abuse, idiots! But hopefully he will learn from this season and become more ruthless, like his father when it comes to the crunch. He stuck and showed loyalty to Rodgers but obviously that was the biggest mistake he’s made. Get rid of the idiots running the show and be ambitious enough to get us straight back up.

[SixtiesFox]

Concerning! Top is well intentioned but lacks the ruthlessness of his father. Given the gross mismanagement that has lead to our catastophic decline he must clear out the front office, starting with Rudkin, and bring in a whole new team with the expertise to recreate a winning culture in the championship. Anything less and more worrying times lie ahead! 

[whetstonefox]

It’ll have to do as a holding statement, I’d expect a more ‘this is what we are planning to do now ‘ statement by the end of next week or latest the week after.

 

A lot of good people are about to lose their jobs through no fault of their own.

 

I think this is going to be a rocky ride with an uncertain outcome. 
 

I wouldn’t be surprised if Smith gets a 2 year deal unless they genuinely have formulated a plan for the championship

[glos-fox]

Over the coming days and weeks, we need to reflect on the processes and decisions that have brought us to this point.

 

This blows my mind it was obvious their was good chance we could go down so you would think that a plan was being prepared for that eventuality.

 

Reading the Statement sounds like shuffling the chairs on the titanic 

[nick6666]

No need for a inquest into what went wrong when it's blatant to see to even the most blinkered

 

It's like asking a murderer to act as the judge to his own murder case

 

[Foxin_Mad]

10 minutes ago, frany104 said:

I’ve just re-read it…. I’m not happy with that at all. What a load is shit. 
 

I’ve made up my mind now. Top out. 
 

Sell up. He had a chance to get everybody on board there. Owned up to nothing and blamed the fans for a few words of criticism.

So who the **** is going to buy us? And exactly how are they going to be better? There are some terrible owners out there, absolutely tragic. 

 

No one wants a club in the Midlands, the only history we have happen whilst this lot were in charge.

 

No matter who owns us it's downhill from here. 

Edited 29 May 2023 by Foxin_Mad

[StanSP]

Glad there's been a statement. Don't like that he's been abused, but I don't expect anything less from some of our fanbase.

 

We will be back. And he's right in that this doesn't define us. 

If you expected a statement now singling out individuals then you expect too much. 

[Larry_LCFC]

Talks cheap Top. Whatever way you butter it up, you have massively let us down this season with your lack of decisions.

[frany104]

Just now, Foxin_Mad said:

So who the **** is going to buy us? And exactly how are they going to be better? There are dome terrible owners out there, absolutely tragic. 

 

No one wants a club in the Midlands, the only history we have happen whilst this lot were in charge.

 

No matter who owns us it's downhill from here. 

And how do you know that???? From what I’ve seen the past few years, we can’t be run any worse. 

[foxsake]

 

Time to roll back the years Top

 

[4everfox]

I don't care what you've got to say, Top. Your words mean nothing to me. Just make sure that the Championship title is wrapped up by April 2024, no excuses, no exceptions.

[CosbehFox]

Just to highlight at no point in that statement does he say that the club have made mistakes or take responsibility. 
 

It’s all ‘we’ve given you this’, you are back to where we were. You compare to his Dad ambitiously saying we will be top 6 in the PL. 

[shailen]

The people running the club are to blame not Top. But now he needs to find the right advisor and bring the right people in. 

 

His advisors must have told him to stick with Brendan which was what ultimately cost us and the decision to not invest in the squad, but that was due to circumstances. 

[desertfox2]

Just now, Phenom said:

Bootlicker 

Whatever. Instead of everyone just chucking insults around all that matters is that the changes are made and they are made within the next week or 2. If he does that then he's learnt if he hasn't then he does perhaps need to look at selling but the chances are we will end up being the target of a Mike Ashley or American debt finance purchase that leverages us to the eyeballs and risks the whole club to finance the acquisition.

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

3 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

No matter who owns us it's downhill from here. 

We're doomed, doomed I tell ye.... 

 

🙄

Edited 29 May 2023 by Cadno'r Cymoedd

[CosbehFox]

19 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

No culpability then. Just whinging about nasty words and the fans will fall for it.

He’s just turned the toxic up 

[Fazzer 7]

What an half arsed statement that is.