King Power Out

[JimBobBenFox]

Need to accept the abyss for a few years

[JonnyBoy]

7 hours ago, adam said:

Time for the tennis balls

In all seriousness is there a fan group that can organise this? I’m sure a lot would be interested in getting involved

 

i take it UFS won’t do anything, as they are involved in the club and are concerned that they will come down hard on them like a tonne of bricks.. I can only assume? 

Edited 24 December 2024 by JonnyBoy

[don_danbury]

5 hours ago, RoboFox said:

“But finding a defensively capable manager – David Moyes was and is available – or allowing Van Nistelrooy to bring in his own staff would have been the priority for a serious football club.”

 

Judging by what Shearer said to guest David Moyes on TRIF live podcast episode the other day (which Moyes tellingly didn’t react to), it was insinuated that Moyes turned us down.

 

The official line from the club that he and Potter weren’t in consideration was - and always is - bollocks.

was that before the points deduction fiasco though? or did he turn us down after cooper got sacked?

[Strokes]

11 hours ago, westernpark said:

That’s one of the best articles I’ve read on us.

We need many to read that because it’s so close to reality, it’s harrowing.

We are ****ed.

[Free Falling Foxes]

1 hour ago, Strokes said:

We need many to read that because it’s so close to reality, it’s harrowing.

We are ****ed.

Certainly no punches pulled in that article.

It could be an AI generated piece of all the criticism on FT.

[Roosters boots]

Read a few things on this and a lot of the criticism is fair, regarding Tops loyalty to Rudkin, however they did get it right with Enzo, he left and left us in limbo with a squad he trained to play a specific style. Would Enzo have stayed if we didn’t have the points deduction looming? It’s easy to speculate about behind the scenes but in reality no one knows exactly what happens, I think Top looks at Rudkin as a loyal and trustworthy person who was by his side when his dad died, that probably means a lot more to him than what “Dave” from the saff thinks about him. Personally I think he needs to get rid of Rudkin and appease the fans but to suggest getting rid of Top is a huge gamble. 

[Death by Football]

4 minutes ago, Roosters boots said:

Read a few things on this and a lot of the criticism is fair, regarding Tops loyalty to Rudkin, however they did get it right with Enzo, he left and left us in limbo with a squad he trained to play a specific style. Would Enzo have stayed if we didn’t have the points deduction looming? It’s easy to speculate about behind the scenes but in reality no one knows exactly what happens, I think Top looks at Rudkin as a loyal and trustworthy person who was by his side when his dad died, that probably means a lot more to him than what “Dave” from the saff thinks about him. Personally I think he needs to get rid of Rudkin and appease the fans but to suggest getting rid of Top is a huge gamble. 

Enzo was always going to go as soon as a greedy six club came in for him. The only surprise was how quickly it happened. The points deduction or not had nothing to do with him going. 

[Roosters boots]

2 minutes ago, Death by Football said:

Enzo was always going to go as soon as a greedy six club came in for him. The only surprise was how quickly it happened. The points deduction or not had nothing to do with him going. 

Maybe, but the point is, they appointed him and it was a good choice, you can’t plan for him leaving so quickly though 

[leicesterseddon]

When we got relegated in 22/23 we made near enough £80m from selling Maddison to Spurs and Barnes to Newcastle.

 

If/when we get relegated this year, who would we sell to cushion the blow? 
 

The squad is just so poor now. I seriously think Hermansen is the only one who would even attract offers from PL clubs, maybe Fatawu when he’s fit.

 

And yet, weirdly as well as being crap our players also seem to be arrogant? Like they all believe the Championship is below them when it clearly is not

[robski]

On 22/12/2024 at 17:53, Mickyblueeyes said:

I’ll tell you else pisses me off. The other twat, Apichet. So ****ing useless that despite being the elder brother, Vichai had him reporting into the imbecile Top. Now he’s sat there as vice ****ing chair. 
 

The dickhead who hi-fives them after a goal. Another dickhead,

excellent post 

[RoboFox]

3 hours ago, don_danbury said:

was that before the points deduction fiasco though? or did he turn us down after cooper got sacked?

After Cooper was the gist I got.

 

The journo that appeared on BSLB confirmed the club were talking shit when they put out the info that Moyes and Potter weren’t in the frame for the job.

 

Edited 25 December 2024 by RoboFox

[adejo92]

Literally eat sleep and breath football & Leicester city but I've reached a point where I couldn't really care what happens.

 

Maybe I've matured and realised there's more to life, but most likely I'm just falling out of love with the club & the groups of players we've had these last couple of years.

[Dan]

On 24/12/2024 at 11:39, Bob Weasel Fox said:

****ing hell man

 

of all the hideous things that could happen I fear being the next Stoke is just a step too far . . . . . 

Our fanbase is probably that bit too big for us to be quite Stoke. But then replace them with Sheffield Wednesday I suppose. I don't think we're insulated from this.

[Dan]

On 24/12/2024 at 11:36, Claudio Fannieri said:

Brilliant article and really does capture how badly run we are as a club.
 

Got to be honest I have been holding back on going all in on the club but too be honest the final straw for me was when i completed one of my runs for Prostate Cancer at the KP at the end of October. 

 

Firstly I just want to praise Jay the fan engagement executive who was first class and made it all happen, absolutely great guy and brilliant representative of the club, however after that it was pretty disappointing, initially the club had drawn up a social media post to help draw attention and additional support which was due to be run a couple of days later (Halloween) I even had to confirm back I was happy with the content, only to be notified on the day that it had been dropped by someone above, given the cause, the opportunity to raise awareness of a disease that can impact 75% of our Matchday support and that it was a football related fundraising event with one of their supporters top of the fundraising table was a massive own goal and also a right old kick in the nuts. 
 

The truth is there are some great people at the club real salt of the earth, however the decision makers continue to disconnect the club from its fanbase with moronic decision after moronic decision, whether in my case the above or the sponsorship fiasco, membership and season tickets, or appointing Cooper there is no end to the utter distain the seniors of the club hold us fans.

 

This is another one of those where it seems almost beyond ineptness and feels like purposeful sabotage. They don't even have to do anything here. They find own goals where there isn't even the opportunity for one.

 

I wonder if it's because you've been critical on here. I wonder this sort of thing now given I'm banned from games for something I didn't do. I wonder if the real reason is what I've just put there. Seems too coincidental.

[MattFox]

13 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

Our fanbase is probably that bit too big for us to be quite Stoke. But then replace them with Sheffield Wednesday I suppose. I don't think we're insulated from this.

Nottingham Forest 1999-2021 is the template I think for us

 

Top is is basically Chansiri with better PR though

 

 

Edited 26 December 2024 by MattFox

[FoxesFourLife]

Just replace Rudkin with a competent DoF then most of the problems with recruitment and wages will be resolved.

[chapero82]

On 25/12/2024 at 09:06, adejo92 said:

Literally eat sleep and breath football & Leicester city but I've reached a point where I couldn't really care what happens.

 

Maybe I've matured and realised there's more to life, but most likely I'm just falling out of love with the club & the groups of players we've had these last couple of years.

I’m the same 

[dillonpanthers87]

On 24/12/2024 at 23:24, Roosters boots said:

Maybe, but the point is, they appointed him and it was a good choice, you can’t plan for him leaving so quickly though 

I don't think he would have left if he hadn't been lied to about transfer budgets etc

[Bezzanator89]

On 24/12/2024 at 09:48, davieG said:

Van Nistelrooy is leading Leicester to inevitable relegation - and PSR nightmare

 

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/leicester-ruud-van-nistelrooy-relegation-psr-nightmare-3448741?ITO=newsnow

Can't help but completely agree with this. We are royally screwed with the promotion and PSR ruling only delaying the seemingly-inevitable, but we knew that without even reading this article.

 

I've been a season ticket for 15 years, but for the first time I'm starting to consider my options, especially whilst our financially-incompetant hierarchy bring the club to its knees. The true dark abyss awaits us if relegation happens again.

 

Top, less of the platitudes in the form of Xmas Foxes toys and beers, do your job and sack Rudkin. Or just do us a favour, leave and take him with you.

[Nolucklcfc]

1 hour ago, Dan LCFC said:

This is another one of those where it seems almost beyond ineptness and feels like purposeful sabotage. They don't even have to do anything here. They find own goals where there isn't even the opportunity for one.

 

I wonder if it's because you've been critical on here. I wonder this sort of thing now given I'm banned from games for something I didn't do. I wonder if the real reason is what I've just put there. Seems too coincidental.

It’s like a dictatorship. Absolutely infuriates me that people are banned for voicing their opinions, I mean what the **** man. 

[inckley fox]

On 25/12/2024 at 00:05, Roosters boots said:

Read a few things on this and a lot of the criticism is fair, regarding Tops loyalty to Rudkin, however they did get it right with Enzo, he left and left us in limbo with a squad he trained to play a specific style. Would Enzo have stayed if we didn’t have the points deduction looming? It’s easy to speculate about behind the scenes but in reality no one knows exactly what happens, I think Top looks at Rudkin as a loyal and trustworthy person who was by his side when his dad died, that probably means a lot more to him than what “Dave” from the saff thinks about him. Personally I think he needs to get rid of Rudkin and appease the fans but to suggest getting rid of Top is a huge gamble. 

I don't think they got it right with Enzo.

 

Of course, you could say all sorts of good things about bringing him in. They appointed a very good manager, for a start. One who fairly emphatically achieved his goals while also playing a style of football which embodied what the owners had long wished to see on the pitch.

 

However this is also the reason they got it wrong. There was clearly a not-unreasonable feeling in some quarters that expansive passing football was all very well and good in the second tier, where Ricardo and Winks and Faes and Vestergard could shine, but it may well get you relegated once you're up.

 

How do we know they came to this conclusion? Firstly, because the club have pushed for a transition to a more purist-friendly sort of game for years. Even when Pearson first left in 2010 there were rumours that the switch to Sousa was because of prospective owners' preference for a 'continental-style' game. Next up was Sven too - but our meteoric rise came when we went back to what was working before. That got us up, kept us up, and won the title. When Shakespeare's tenure went wrong they tried again with Puel, a dedicated build-from-the-back, possession-based boss. But it was unpopular, and with Rodgers' arrival came the promise of - initially at least - a 'hybrid' style of football which still appealed to our counter-attacking instincts. Then, players got older, the football became less of a 'hybrid', and we went down with a squad which looked good on paper, but really consisted of a bunch of supposedly oven-ready pros who were made to complement our longer-term stylistic aims, but were in truth a collection of very fashionable and easy-on-the-eye players who were unwanted by clubs who had actually perfected that sort of game. Then we turn to Smith to (nearly) bail us out with something slightly more industrial.

 

All in all, it's a picture of a club never managing to firmly establish its preferred style, and often doing a great deal better when they have second thoughts. You could understand them having doubts.

 

Secondly, Maresca's departure was followed by the arrival of a manager known for more practical, less elegant football (to say the least). The club couldn't have been clearer in acknowledging that something very different would be needed this year. Perhaps, after our sub-promotion form in the second half of last season they could see sides wising up to us. Perhaps, all along, Maresca had been a short-term fix to win promotion and keep the purists at the club happy with a 'let's cross that bridge when we come to it' approach to what happened next.

 

They quite possibly knew they'd have a problem come May, and not merely a financial one. All of which rendered much of our second tier team-building useless, and put Cooper in the unenviable position of trying to convince players brought in to play Pep-esque football that they couldn't do that any longer. But if Maresca had stayed, he would have had to do this, or he would have failed and been replaced by someone who did. At least that's what some felt-  including, you have to suppose, some of the higher-ups at the club.

 

So if Enzo-ball was never something which the club firmly agreed on as a means of re-establishing ourselves in the PL, you have to wonder why we didn't rebuild in a different way in the second tier. Why did it have to wait until Cooper arrived to change direction? Why did we accumulate expensive new players who would be great for what we did in one league, but less so in the next? It smacks of a lack of conviction and a lack of long-term planning. Nothing more than a quick fix.

[Paninistickers]

1 hour ago, FoxesFourLife said:

Just replace Rudkin with a competent DoF then most of the problems with recruitment and wages will be resolved.

Remember our DoF has to look after a horse racing stable too. Something alternative DoFs are plainly unqualified to do.

Edited 26 December 2024 by Paninistickers

[Foxmeister]

9 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Remember our DoF has to look after a horse racing stable too. Something alternative DoFs are plainly unqualified to do.

Probably not the best DoF even in horse racing circles though.

[Paninistickers]

2 minutes ago, Foxmeister said:

Probably not the best DoF even in horse racing circles though.

Even so, nice piece of luck that KP found a Youth team football coach who was also an expert horse whisperer, at the exact same moment they needed a football and horse employee.

 

Like finding an astronaut who's also a qualified plumber, at the exact moment the toilets are blocked up at cape Canaveral

 

[justfoxes]

All this King Power Out lark I understand but  is it not that the One Person to blame and I believe if VICHAI was here this little man would not be, but don’t you think Top is just a businessman who  Can run a business non related to football but has absolutely NO idea how to run a Football club Successfully and that is where he has gone totally wrong by allowing Susan Whelan and John Rudkin to have total reign over the running of our club and that is the sole reason that we are in the mess that we are?

 

By removing both of them especially Rudkin who has far too much to say about the day to day running of the club, signings and contracts feeding Top a large amount of BULL💩and who thinks he knows what he’s doing but clearly hasn’t got a scooby doo, starting by removing Rudkin and Top needs to replace him with someone who actually knows what they are doing ?

 

But I do understand what some are saying but can’t see KP selling as it’s Vichai’s legacy and  you never know who might buy us could be some  dodgy consortium, that will just use us like the Glazers do to Manure KP are decent owners do well at duty Free just not as good at running a football club so really need a bit of a spring clean to get people in who actually know what they are doing get rid of the crap and that’s the only way we can sort this Schitt out currently stinking out the club !