The "do they mean us?" thread pt 4

[Muzzy_no7]

1 hour ago, LCFCCKEANO said:

Agree with the majority but can promise Nelson will not leave for £2m

Maybe 2.5m

[Jon the Hat]

14 hours ago, MPH said:

I hope you guys understand what you’re saying.. signing 2 cbs and using youth back up is basically admitting to a second season in division 1. If those ‘ youth backup ’ players were any good, they would have played this season. The fact they couldn’t get near van awful team should at least tell you something. You can’t expect 2 cbs to last the season, especially with all the extra cup games.

What I'm saying is literally anyone we get an offer for needs to leave.  We cannot have second string players on 40-60k a week.  If you are not the first name on the team sheet, anything over 10-20k is not sustainable.

[Sky Blues]

 

 

1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

What I'm saying is literally anyone we get an offer for needs to leave.  We cannot have second string players on 40-60k a week.  If you are not the first name on the team sheet, anything over 10-20k is not sustainable.

It's worse than that. 

 

10k a week per player is a few million more than the average for L1 over the season. TV rights just 2m. So if you just have 4 players averaging just 40k a week that's half the budget gone. 

 

Add to this the running costs of the club itself. It's quite substantial ATM. Then a lot of your supporters are going to stay away (I'm in agreement) in protest to what's happening with your club. 10k a week isn't sustainable in the current climate. 

[Jon the Hat]

31 minutes ago, Sky Blues said:

It's worse than that. 

 

10k a week per player is a few million more than the average for L1 over the season. TV rights just 2m. So if you just have 4 players averaging just 40k a week that's half the budget gone. 

 

Add to this the running costs of the club itself. It's quite substantial ATM. Then a lot of your supporters are going to stay away (I'm in agreement) in protest to what's happening with your club. 10k a week isn't sustainable in the current climate. 

Yes, although we will still record the parachute payments as income, and some of the owner funding can be spent on wages.  The point being anyone out the door is good at this point.  literally anyone.

[CornwallFox]

3 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

Yes, although we will still record the parachute payments as income, and some of the owner funding can be spent on wages.  The point being anyone out the door is good at this point.  literally anyone.

There's a large number of players out of contract and another large number that won't want to play in league 1. There's a large chunk of money set aside for us by king power. Between these three things hopefully we'll be okay.

[Danizen]

1 hour ago, CornwallFox said:

There's a large chunk of money set aside for us by king power.

Is there? I'm not saying you're wrong because I don't know but all I've heard about KP for the past 6 years is doom and gloom.

[CornwallFox]

3 hours ago, Danizen said:

Is there? I'm not saying you're wrong because I don't know but all I've heard about KP for the past 6 years is doom and gloom.

In the accounts it talked about something like £120m that the club hasn't drawn down from KP, available should it be needed. 

[lcfc_forever]

A must read about the title win by Jonathan Northcroft

 

https://www.thetimes.com/article/15cfaf9b-9461-4aff-b0ff-b06929c2a38f?shareToken=608642177f477d14a7a24eb6a4a6f862

[davieG]

2 hours ago, lcfc_forever said:

A must read about the title win by Jonathan Northcroft

 

https://www.thetimes.com/article/15cfaf9b-9461-4aff-b0ff-b06929c2a38f?shareToken=608642177f477d14a7a24eb6a4a6f862

Interesting

After retiring as a player in 2019 he returned to his native Germany but missed the UK and came back to live in Cheshire, complete a master’s in sports directorship, and rejoin Leicester as loans manager. He left again last year. Why? “Being back at Leicester was great but it just sort of confirmed how much I don’t like football,” Huth says. “Playing it is so much more fun than behind the scenes. And I just struggled to connect with the younger players.”

[davieG]

They were the earthquake. But their club? Someone please sort out the rubble.

[davieG]

[Spudulike]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

Last club to win the League Cup at the original Wembley, even if it wasn't in the 90's!

[davieG]

For the first time in 13 years, Leicester City Football Club season tickets are on general sale.

You can select your seats and buy online via the website. Prices from £457 for adults. Prices for children start from £47 (under 8s) staggered age-wise to £184 (under 18s). It offers good savings on match by match tickets if you're planning to go to a few games.

[splinterdream]

On 30/04/2026 at 20:02, Muzzy_no7 said:

Maybe 2.5m

Nelson has 1 year left, he's played in a poor defensive line. I'm listening to pubcast and they reckon we wont sell him, it would be crazy not to sell him if he wont sign a new contract. I reckon it will hurt when we see the fee 

[CornwallFox]

Just saw some sky adverts. Ten years ago today we lifted the premier League trophy. 

[davieG]

What situation is that Marti?

[orangecity23]

51 minutes ago, davieG said:

 

What situation is that Marti?

The club is, err, how you say in English? Los bin fuego.

[LCFCCHRIS]

The club have released a season review for the first team's 2025-2026 campaign 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 11 May by LCFCCHRIS

[davieG]

19 hours ago, davieG said:

What situation is that Marti?

Marti Cifuentes opens up on 'very difficult' Leicester City problem as he reacts to relegation
Story by Jordan Blackwell 

 

Marti Cifuentes
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Marti Cifuentes felt Leicester City were “on the right path” under his management amid the financial difficulties the club were facing.

Cifuentes was sacked in January after just six months in charge of City, with the club in the bottom half of the Championship.

City were nine points above the bottom three at the time of the Spaniard’s departure, but received their six-point sanction shortly afterwards. With results deteriorating under Andy King and then Gary Rowett, City fell into League One for just the second time in their history.

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While the underlying data suggesting City were struggling badly, Cifuentes said he felt the club were heading in the right direction on his watch as they tried to change the culture at the King Power Stadium.

He also pointed to the difficulties of making those changes while the club were restricted in the transfer market, with no money available to spend.

Under Cifuentes, three loan signings and two free agent goalkeepers arrived. Then four players were brought in during the winter market, just after Cifuentes left, again without a transfer fee paid.

“I cannot say I am extremely happy about the way it ended but at the same time I feel quite proud and calm with the way we tried to handle the whole situation of the club,” Cifuentes told BBC Radio 5 Live.

“It was a good experience in terms of managing a great club with a lot of great people. I really wish them well.

“Since we left, things didn’t get much better. I would say the opposite. It was a challenging moment for the club and definitely an intense period for us.

“This (the culture of the club) is one of the main things. It was one of the main conversations we had before arriving there, it was about giving us the time to change this.

“We spoke about top managers having a lot of resources. But in our case financially it was very difficult. We had to sell a lot of players and we couldn’t invest a penny. It was not easy to make this transition.

“We felt we were on the right path to make this transition over the season. We were closer to the play-off positions when we left. It didn’t go much better.

“Any successful club has to start with a clear philosophy and how you want to do things. In football you can achieve success in many different ways, but the culture must be high performance, it must be with clear high demands and high standards, and that’s something that I know there are a lot of good people there and they are looking at improving that.”

[Guest Mickyblueeyes]

Another ex manager talking about the importance of culture and/or wanting high performance. But then you look at the choices in his time here. It took Winks falling flat on his face v Sheff U to drop him. Mavididi starting regularly. Vestegaard being called a “leader”. Faes being part of “it” until someone finally took him. Very little use of what are talented youngsters. 
 

There’s something influencing style, player picks, formation etc. that something is a tiny man idolised by some weirdos.

[Fox92]

7 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Another ex manager talking about the importance of culture and/or wanting high performance. But then you look at the choices in his time here. It took Winks falling flat on his face v Sheff U to drop him. Mavididi starting regularly. Vestegaard being called a “leader”. Faes being part of “it” until someone finally took him. Very little use of what are talented youngsters. 
 

There’s something influencing style, player picks, formation etc. that something is a tiny man idolised by some weirdos.

He picked the same players time and time again. Took half a season before Nelson started, not saying he was brilliant but Vestergaard and Faes were awful long before they were changed.

 

Pointing out difficulties about being restricted in the transfer market, yet would have known all this before taking the job.

 

Rubbish manager, end of.

Edited 11 May by Fox92

[indierich06]

I think we're seeing that it's very easy to talk a good game from the outside looking in. It's very easy to talk about the need for high standards and for the importance of culture - but then you get these people through the door, that all seems to go out the window. They revert to the same old problem of picking established pros in the belief that that will somehow get us out of the problems that we're in, when any of the fans can see that it's their attitudes and lack of interest that are the real issue. We've had two managers now who have not had the courage to sideline 'big' names and focus on talented young prospects, all in the pursuit of getting results, even when it's shown not to work. How can Monga be any worse than Mavididi? How can Page be any worse than Skipp or Winks? How can Evans be any worse than Ayew or Daka? How can Aluko be any worse than Thomas or Kristiansen? 

[Tommy Fresh]

Marti was shit, then imagine him when we were missing James

[coolhandfox]

It the managers job to lead the culture and create a high performance environment.

 

 

[Jon the Hat]

4 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

It the managers job to lead the culture and create a high performance environment.

It the director of football's job to lead the culture and create a high-performance environment.