When do you think we'll return to Premier League?

[Collymore]

I think next season play offs with disappointment and then a return 2025 2026.

[HybridFox]

We'll have one year where we stay in the sh** for sure

 

Hopefully that's all it is 

[Haywood_6]

Really hope we bounce back next year but with all of the uncertainty around the manager and what players we'll have... It's difficult to say. I think it will be a 2025/2026 return.

[Ian W LCFC]

Am I being thick here or is there no option for next season?

[Bilo]

There hasn't been much cause for optimism, but money talks and relegated teams tend to do very well in the Championship because of sheer financial muscle.

 

To my knowledge, there hasn't been an instance of all three relegated sides staying down in the ten years since we were promoted and certainly not for some years before. Fulham and Norwich went up and down so often they became a meme. At least one of Southampton, Leeds and us WILL go up. 

 

The money we'll bring in through player sales will be pretty much unprecedented at this level this summer. Most of the players left will be capable performers at this level. We have facilities that anyone bar around four clubs in English football would envy. Everything is in place to go straight back up with the right transfer business and managerial appointment. Frankly, if we don't come straight back up, it's a failure on the part of the club hierarchy. 

 

 

Edited 1 June 2023 by Bilo

[Bilo]

Just now, Ian W LCFC said:

Am I being thick here or is there no option for next season?

2024-2025 is the earliest we can play Premier League football again.

[Tim1974]

1 minute ago, Ian W LCFC said:

Am I being thick here or is there no option for next season?

When Everton are relegated in our place for breaching ffp and falsified accounting.

[Finnegan]

Depends on how we manage the next few weeks. Smartly? We'll go straight back up. We are overwhelmingly well equipped right now. We've been relegated with the best squad that's gone down probably in living memory and we're keeping plenty of them to be far too strong for this level. 

 

But we need to balance finances, fill out a squad that's gone from over full to paper thin and most importantly make an intelligent decision on manager. None of that will be easy. 

 

Get it all wrong? The finances snowball, the cost cutting needs to be rampant, we see a real test of what King Power's actual financial position is because if its poor we could just be the next Boro or Wednesday. 

[beepee1984]

Can I have a clue?

 

For example who are manager or  what are squad will be?

[Sampson]

8 minutes ago, Ian W LCFC said:

Am I being thick here or is there no option for next season?

Not being thick, just interpreting the question differently. The poll means which season will we next play in the PL, whereas I’m guessing you’ve interpreted it to mean which season we’ll get promoted. I guess both are valid interpretations 

[Bilo]

2 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Depends on how we manage the next few weeks. Smartly? We'll go straight back up. We are overwhelmingly well equipped right now. We've been relegated with the best squad that's gone down probably in living memory and we're keeping plenty of them to be far too strong for this level. 

 

But we need to balance finances, fill out a squad that's gone from over full to paper thin and most importantly make an intelligent decision on manager. None of that will be easy. 

 

Get it all wrong? The finances snowball, the cost cutting needs to be rampant, we see a real test of what King Power's actual financial position is because if its poor we could just be the next Boro or Wednesday. 

I think a good way of looking at it is how neutrals perceive it.

 

Pretty much all of them acknowledge we're in a mess, but think we'll dominate the league if we respond in the right way. The issue for me is making sure we have strength in depth; we can afford to sell the big names and high earners, but what happens if Nacho gets injured? He'll score 30 at this level if first choice and he stays fit, but what's Plan B if he does his hammy in September?

[Guest Kopfkino]

Idk but I’m absolutely convinced when we do come back up a points deduction will be waiting for us as it will transpire in the meantime that we broke FFP this year whilst Man City and Everton will still be awaiting punishment

[Les-TA-Jon]

A poll with ranges, rather than specific years would have been better. 

 

At the moment it's impossible to tell. We don't have a manager. Two-thirds of the squad will be different by the time we kickoff in August. 

 

We don't know if there will be a cultural reset in the executive branch of the club or not. 

 

With so many unknowns and so much changing all at once, I wouldn't be surprised if we'd stuck down there for at least 3-5 years. 

[steflcfc]

Think we’re another perfect storm at the moment.

 

No Manager - Going to come into a depleted squad and maybe still some hangers on if we don’t manage to shift any of the deadwood or still holding on to Maddison/Barnes if we’re not getting the right offers as teams will know we need the money.

Also won’t have a huge amount of time to assess what we are left with and identify who they need to bring in - any signings will be made without their agreement? would they even want any signings they haven’t looked over if they are signed before a manager comes in?

 

Also a trip overseas to a tournament we don’t really need with a massive pre season at stake with incomings and outgoings and getting settled in Seagrave.

 

Players will leave who are still under contract - arguments could be made for a vast majority wanting to play Premier League or playing abroad, a good proportion of this side are good enough in the top leagues in France/Italy/Germany (although collectively we haven’t shown it this season)

 

We obviously struggled with money this season in the Premiership and owing Macquarie Bank for the next few years and running costs of Seagrave and reduced Sponsorship and Matchday revenue are certainly going to hit the club with the money being in the Championship brings.

 

Think next season we will struggle around mid table in The Championship to begin and it’s going to take a new manager 3/4 transfer windows to get everything into place to challenge at the top of the league.

That’s just my 2 pence worth of our current situation.

 

Hope to be proved wrong and we come up at the first attempt, and happy to be called out as getting it completely wrong at the end of next season if we are promoted 👍

Edited 1 June 2023 by steflcfc

[StanSP]

Straight away. 

[PAULCFC]

Gone for 26/27....it's going to take a long while to sort this shit show out.

[Ian W LCFC]

20 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Not being thick, just interpreting the question differently. The poll means which season will we next play in the PL, whereas I’m guessing you’ve interpreted it to mean which season we’ll get promoted. I guess both are valid interpretations 

Thanks yeah thats how I interpreted it but that makes sense now  

[foxy boxing]

With s many comings and goings it will be difficult to get a settled side, might take a season or two. Instant return sounds great but will the players still here be up for a fight and a long hard slog of a Championship. 

[Mickey O'Neil]

I struggle to see past a total rebuild. I’m not expecting promotion next year due to the full upheaval required. 
 

I’m hoping some season  ticket holders are as miserable as me and don’t renew so I can have a season ticket again. 

[Fightforever]

We have more chance of being relegated again with the way the board have their heads in the sand about how dire this situation is. 

Edited 2 June 2023 by Fightforever

[Sir Shep]

I'd like to think straight away with the right manager, right recruitment and keeping some of our better players (once they've been to therapy to rid them of their brainwashed Roger ball mentality). 

[urban.spaceman]

We're in absolute dire straits with the squad as we're faced with losing around 10-15 players and having to rebuild with limited funds. So I don't "expect" us to go straight back up but then again, we're Leicester City, we're just as likely to end up winning a ludicrous domestic treble next season as we are to go down.

 

I also don't want us to go straight back up to just come straight back down.

 

But if we were to go up, I'm torn between winning the title (we've won it a joint record 7 times so it would be nice to set that record) or winning the play-offs, which would be an awesome day out.

 

My guess is within the next two years.

[HitchinFox]

My humble take on it is that we're struggle with a complete rebuild over the next two seasons. A tough season ahead, with Rudkin's bad decisions over this summer resulting in a bottom half finish in the Championship next season (2023-24) – finally forcing Top's hand to get rid of Rudkin halfway through it.

 

Spring of 2024 sees the appointment of a new, dynamic, forward-thinking team to take control of footballing decisions. 

 

First stage of the "new Leicester" sees a play off push the season after (2024-25) but no t-shirt. 

By the third season the new leadership team will have had time to embed and install a new, winning mentality and some great signings – accompanied by a new breed of academy talent. We'll win the league in style (2025-26) and be back in the Premier League for the 2026-27 season. 

 

[FosseSpark]

which of our key players do you think we will keep hold of?

I think we will keep:

Iversen Ricardo Justin Souttar Evans Kristiansen Thomas Ndidi KDH Choudhury Mendy Braybrooke Alves Albrighton Vardy

I would keep Iheanacho and Daka as they have the finishing and pace to score heaps in the championship. I think Vardy has a year in the championship in him aswell if handled.

We need to invest a good £50-£60m on 2 centre backs, a winger, attacking midfielder and a physical centre forward for a plan B that we haven't had since Ulloa. A Brereton-Diaz, Gyokeres, Akpom or Piroe type figure who knows the championship. 

 

I think Faes (£20m), Ward (£5m), Smithies, Amartey (£1m) Barnes (£50m),  Maddison (£40m), Praet (£5m), Tielemans Soyuncu, Vestegaard, Bertrand (free) will leave . That should sort us on a reduction of wage bill front for Year 1 and give give us the money needed to reinvest whilst still mitigiating some of the debt we have racked up.

 

Any of that relies on deciding the fate of Whelan and Rudkin, getting a strategy in place and a manager before July so that we can get in the market.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

4 years imo