King Power Out

[Stuntman_Mike]

14 hours ago, Tuna said:

 

This could be posted about us as well more or less.

What I find crazy is, we'll have fans that understand why their fans are so pissed off, but when it comes to their own clubs issues will just shrug it off and not see it as a problem. Like how? 

 

That's despite our drop off being significantly worse and it being their own ****ing club that they supposedly care about. 

[Stadt]

Probably deserves a thread in its own right but summer 2026 is going to be a blood bath. We have 8 players leaving this summer as their contracts expire, including the 2 'strikers' we have at the club. Then we're likely to lose Fatawu AND Monga (and take years to receive compensation?). BEK obviously goes.

 

So before we even get to the threadbare midfield we probably need 2 strikers and 2 wingers.

We'll need a proper AM.

A proper DM and a box-to box CM (James isn't staying)

A left back that isn't shit

I expect at least two of Faes, Okoli and Souttar will be off, possibly Nelson. So potentially 3 x CB.

Coulibably will go, a senior RB is necessary 

 

 

 

We're probably looking at at least 12 players with very few leaving. The most amount of players we've ever signed in a summer window is 9 under this regime and that was when we got related last time.

 

Now we'll have no money and the possibility of starting with another deduction. We can have 5 loans in the squad but given we've not even gotten close to maxing out the allocation this season we're in a hole.

[Rubbersoul]

8 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Probably deserves a thread in its own right but summer 2026 is going to be a blood bath. We have 8 players leaving this summer as their contracts expire, including the 2 'strikers' we have at the club. Then we're likely to lose Fatawu AND Monga (and take years to receive compensation?). BEK obviously goes.

 

So before we even get to the threadbare midfield we probably need 2 strikers and 2 wingers.

We'll need a proper AM.

A proper DM and a box-to box CM (James isn't staying)

A left back that isn't shit

I expect at least two of Faes, Okoli and Souttar will be off, possibly Nelson. So potentially 3 x CB.

Coulibably will go, a senior RB is necessary 

 

 

 

We're probably looking at at least 12 players with very few leaving. The most amount of players we've ever signed in a summer window is 9 under this regime and that was when we got related last time.

 

Now we'll have no money and the possibility of starting with another deduction. We can have 5 loans in the squad but given we've not even gotten close to maxing out the allocation this season we're in a hole.

This is why I bang on about using the academy and getting youngsters valuable game time. 
 

If we’ve got no money to spend and all those players leaving.

 

free agents, loans & the academy looks like our future 

[coolhandfox]

22 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Probably deserves a thread in its own right but summer 2026 is going to be a blood bath. We have 8 players leaving this summer as their contracts expire, including the 2 'strikers' we have at the club. Then we're likely to lose Fatawu AND Monga (and take years to receive compensation?). BEK obviously goes.

 

So before we even get to the threadbare midfield we probably need 2 strikers and 2 wingers.

We'll need a proper AM.

A proper DM and a box-to box CM (James isn't staying)

A left back that isn't shit

I expect at least two of Faes, Okoli and Souttar will be off, possibly Nelson. So potentially 3 x CB.

Coulibably will go, a senior RB is necessary 

 

 

 

We're probably looking at at least 12 players with very few leaving. The most amount of players we've ever signed in a summer window is 9 under this regime and that was when we got related last time.

 

Now we'll have no money and the possibility of starting with another deduction. We can have 5 loans in the squad but given we've not even gotten close to maxing out the allocation this season we're in a hole.

I think it probably forces the reset we have need for years, off loading all but the last of the higher earners. 

 

I'd be surprised if we had no money after selling BEK, Fatawu, Monga and stripping the wage bill and having transfer amortisation down to roughly 17m per annum. 

 

It's hard reset we should have carried out in 23/24. 

 

Which is why the recruitment new technical director role is so important. 

 

We really need to do some work this winter window to get a head start. 

 

We really need 4 or 5 of Braybrooke, Alves, Page, Evans, Aluko, Wilson Brown, Cartwight or Joseph to become proper championship level footballers. 

 

Pray we can hold on to Nelson and Monga too. 

Edited 7 January by coolhandfox

[Stadt]

5 minutes ago, Rubbersoul said:

This is why I bang on about using the academy and getting youngsters valuable game time. 
 

If we’ve got no money to spend and all those players leaving.

 

free agents, loans & the academy looks like our future 

Cartwright is getting limited minutes at Falkirk, I don't he get any fewer if we recalled him. At worst it's some depth with a motivated local lad who is physically ready.

 

Evans should have had at least 10 sub appearances, especially in games where we've already lost because there is nothing to lose at all.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

3 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Cartwright is getting limited minutes at Falkirk, I don't he get any fewer if we recalled him. At worst it's some depth with a motivated local lad who is physically ready.

 

Evans should have had at least 10 sub appearances, especially in games where we've already lost because there is nothing to lose at all.

Odd that, we kept putting Carranza on the bench and not using him when Evans should of been utilised. 

[Stadt]

36 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

I think it probably forces the reset we have need for years, off loading all but the last of the higher earners. 

 

I'd be surprised if we had no money after selling BEK, Fatawu, Monga and stripping the wage bill and having transfer amortisation down to roughly 17m per annum. 

 

It's hard reset we should have carried out in 23/24. 

 

Which is why the recruitment new technical director role is so important. 

 

We really need to do some work this winter window to get a head start. 

 

We really need 4 or 5 of Braybrooke, Alves, Page, Evans, Aluko, Wilson Brown, Cartwight or Joseph to become proper championship level footballers. 

 

Pray we can hold on to Nelson and Monga too. 

I think between BEK + Fatawu + various other outs we get to £50-60m. 

 

We probably have a £35m wage bill when the high earners leave but we'll need to replace 10-12 players at let's 10k p/w - which is about £5m. So it'll put as 40m, other operating costs are 40m too (not really checked). Given we have the 23/24 loss on our PSR record still I don't think we can do much, last summer was a needless net spend splurge too.

 

I guess it depends on what we have to pay Macquarie too. I think we'll have about £10m to replace 10-12 players! We need to integrate as many young players as we can now to bulk out the depth. All of the loanees that have played any league football just might have be depth, i.e Cover, Opoku, Cartwright, TWB, JJ

 

 

[Tuna]

Top's horse just won the feature race at Kempton, 12-1 outsider.

Edited 7 January by Tuna

[AyewJoking]

3 hours ago, Stadt said:

Probably deserves a thread in its own right but summer 2026 is going to be a blood bath. We have 8 players leaving this summer as their contracts expire, including the 2 'strikers' we have at the club. Then we're likely to lose Fatawu AND Monga (and take years to receive compensation?). BEK obviously goes.

 

So before we even get to the threadbare midfield we probably need 2 strikers and 2 wingers.

We'll need a proper AM.

A proper DM and a box-to box CM (James isn't staying)

A left back that isn't shit

I expect at least two of Faes, Okoli and Souttar will be off, possibly Nelson. So potentially 3 x CB.

Coulibably will go, a senior RB is necessary 

 

 

 

We're probably looking at at least 12 players with very few leaving. The most amount of players we've ever signed in a summer window is 9 under this regime and that was when we got related last time.

 

Now we'll have no money and the possibility of starting with another deduction. We can have 5 loans in the squad but given we've not even gotten close to maxing out the allocation this season we're in a hole.

The true reset.

 

if we get relegated this season we could be league 2 by the end of next season

[Out Foxed]

45 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Top's horse just won the feature race at Kempton, 12-1 outsider.

january signings on the way

[Spanner73]

5 hours ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

What I find crazy is, we'll have fans that understand why their fans are so pissed off, but when it comes to their own clubs issues will just shrug it off and not see it as a problem. Like how? 

 

That's despite our drop off being significantly worse and it being their own ****ing club that they supposedly care about. 

It sounds very familiar !!!!!! 

[sharpylcfc]

1 hour ago, Tuna said:

Top's horse just won the feature race at Kempton, 12-1 outsider.

All he cares about these days. 

[1972 Fox]

1 hour ago, Tuna said:

Top's horse just won the feature race at Kempton, 12-1 outsider.

Another promotion for Rudkin.

[reynard]

1 hour ago, Tuna said:

Top's horse just won the feature race at Kempton, 12-1 outsider.

Suppose that's saved it being fed to the stewards next match.

[DJ Barry Hammond]

On 04/01/2026 at 16:33, Stadt said:

Football was different then, there wasn’t the established top 6 that won almost all the titles. There was greater parity as finances were less important.

 

To win the Premier League was like winning the lottery, squandering the millions isn’t ok because we used to have nothing. We’ve had over £1,000,000,000 in income under Top’s tenure and we’ve lost about £400m.

 

Sp many unforced errors because he’s just not bothered or he’s thick. Either way he’s not cut out to run the club.

You make it sound so easy - but it wasn’t then and still isn’t now.

 

To extend you analogy, if you win the lottery, but buy things your underlying income cannot support (big house, fast car etc)… you will still find yourself in a hole very, very quickly.

 

And that’s the underlying thing this club has struggled with… even before King Power - it’s income streams are not strong enough to support a top 10 top flight position.

 

This is not to absolve King Power and those in charge of the mistakes made… but equally I think some fans massive overstate the opportunity there was to become an “established big club”.

 

Note when we won the league Newcastle and Villa were just re-emerging from their fall from grace and began to become major players for the league positions we wanted to occupy.

 

Look at West Ham, who are going through similar to us - and even Stoke, who punched above their status for years before dropping off.

 

Wigan and Blackburn are further examples to show that beating the odds against the monopoly clubs is very rarely sustainable.

 

Perhaps the only club that has managed to survive above their original station in recent years is Manchester City - and that in itself says a lot.

[sharpylcfc]

Think we'll be in administration soon. 

[Heathrow fox]

7 minutes ago, DJ Barry Hammond said:

You make it sound so easy - but it wasn’t then and still isn’t now.

 

To extend you analogy, if you win the lottery, but buy things your underlying income cannot support (big house, fast car etc)… you will still find yourself in a hole very, very quickly.

 

And that’s the underlying thing this club has struggled with… even before King Power - it’s income streams are not strong enough to support a top 10 top flight position.

 

This is not to absolve King Power and those in charge of the mistakes made… but equally I think some fans massive overstate the opportunity there was to become an “established big club”.

 

Note when we won the league Newcastle and Villa were just re-emerging from their fall from grace and began to become major players for the league positions we wanted to occupy.

 

Look at West Ham, who are going through similar to us - and even Stoke, who punched above their status for years before dropping off.

 

Wigan and Blackburn are further examples to show that beating the odds against the monopoly clubs is very rarely sustainable.

 

Perhaps the only club that has managed to survive above their original station in recent years is Manchester City - and that in itself says a lot.

 It took one bad transfer window and a season ending injury to Fofana for the whole thing to come crashing down.The big clubs can write off 70M on one flop player.They can sit out of European competition or at least down grade for a season or two and re-group.

If Leicester maximised every possible revenue steam they still wouldn’t come close to being able to compete long term.All you end up with is a spiralling wage bill and rapid decline.when a few decision’s go wrong.

[Stadt]

51 minutes ago, DJ Barry Hammond said:

You make it sound so easy - but it wasn’t then and still isn’t now.

 

To extend you analogy, if you win the lottery, but buy things your underlying income cannot support (big house, fast car etc)… you will still find yourself in a hole very, very quickly.

 

And that’s the underlying thing this club has struggled with… even before King Power - it’s income streams are not strong enough to support a top 10 top flight position.

 

This is not to absolve King Power and those in charge of the mistakes made… but equally I think some fans massive overstate the opportunity there was to become an “established big club”.

 

Note when we won the league Newcastle and Villa were just re-emerging from their fall from grace and began to become major players for the league positions we wanted to occupy.

 

Look at West Ham, who are going through similar to us - and even Stoke, who punched above their status for years before dropping off.

 

Wigan and Blackburn are further examples to show that beating the odds against the monopoly clubs is very rarely sustainable.

 

Perhaps the only club that has managed to survive above their original station in recent years is Manchester City - and that in itself says a lot.

It was easy - not to sustain top 6 finishes forever but sacking Rodgers was the One Simple Trick Not To Get Relegated. We finished 8th the season before when we were firmly in stupid mode.

 

Nobody expected us to become an established big club but regularly could have been the best of the rest and besides - at any given time 2 of the big 6 seem to **** it anyway. Being the Atalanta/Villarreal of England was an option if Top and Rudkin were only ‘ok’.

[MattFox]

1 hour ago, DJ Barry Hammond said:

You make it sound so easy - but it wasn’t then and still isn’t now.

 

To extend you analogy, if you win the lottery, but buy things your underlying income cannot support (big house, fast car etc)… you will still find yourself in a hole very, very quickly.

 

And that’s the underlying thing this club has struggled with… even before King Power - it’s income streams are not strong enough to support a top 10 top flight position.

 

This is not to absolve King Power and those in charge of the mistakes made… but equally I think some fans massive overstate the opportunity there was to become an “established big club”.

 

Note when we won the league Newcastle and Villa were just re-emerging from their fall from grace and began to become major players for the league positions we wanted to occupy.

 

Look at West Ham, who are going through similar to us - and even Stoke, who punched above their status for years before dropping off.

 

Wigan and Blackburn are further examples to show that beating the odds against the monopoly clubs is very rarely sustainable.

 

Perhaps the only club that has managed to survive above their original station in recent years is Manchester City - and that in itself says a lot.

Villa and Newcastle both got relegated the season we won the league ? Hardly remerging

 

Newcastle didn’t get taken over till 2021 and Villa were on par with us until they sacked gerrard in October 2022

[teblin]

29 minutes ago, MattFox said:

Villa and Newcastle both got relegated the season we won the league ? Hardly remerging

 

Newcastle didn’t get taken over till 2021 and Villa were on par with us until they sacked gerrard in October 2022

Villa should gone down 2020 really. Dodgy goal line tech and Covid break probably saved them.

[Corky]

Another year of being nowhere near the level of Brentford or Fulham. But at least our owners aren't like Sheffield Wednesday's.

[foxfanazer]

These pricks are still here then?

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

6 hours ago, Stadt said:

Probably deserves a thread in its own right but summer 2026 is going to be a blood bath. We have 8 players leaving this summer as their contracts expire, including the 2 'strikers' we have at the club. Then we're likely to lose Fatawu AND Monga (and take years to receive compensation?). BEK obviously goes.

 

So before we even get to the threadbare midfield we probably need 2 strikers and 2 wingers.

We'll need a proper AM.

A proper DM and a box-to box CM (James isn't staying)

A left back that isn't shit

I expect at least two of Faes, Okoli and Souttar will be off, possibly Nelson. So potentially 3 x CB.

Coulibably will go, a senior RB is necessary 

 

 

 

We're probably looking at at least 12 players with very few leaving. The most amount of players we've ever signed in a summer window is 9 under this regime and that was when we got related last time.

 

Now we'll have no money and the possibility of starting with another deduction. We can have 5 loans in the squad but given we've not even gotten close to maxing out the allocation this season we're in a hole.

It’s this sort of thing that the happy clappers don’t appreciate or probably don’t even think about. 

[Dan]

13 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

In fairness, on the general type football pages on FB for example, among the entitled comments (of which there seem less) I noticed a number of supporters of other clubs asking what has happened at our club to cause this fall. I think most of the entitled comments are from rival fans, general idiots or trolls.

 

Unfortunately, there were fans of ours giving context and explanations about it and then you get the KP lot jumping on it telling other fans that we are happy with things and it’s a small amount of our fanbase being entitled and thinking we should be in Europe and winning trophies every year. 
 

This is why I can’t stand KPFC fans. The outright lies. The pulling down of our club. The propaganda they operate on behalf of Aiyawatt. Who literally expects us to be winning trophies and competing in Europe every season? What we do expect is not to be bottom of the distance covered and sprinting stats (I.e basic effort) in the second tier. 
 

It’s embarrassing and you can’t blame other fans if they get that impression when some of our own so called supporters are spreading this misinformation.

I can't think of another fanbase who plays down the size of their own club as much as ours. I just cannot picture anybody of a comparable size arguing for it to that level. Absolute madness, what has caused it?

[Dan]

11 hours ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

What I find crazy is, we'll have fans that understand why their fans are so pissed off, but when it comes to their own clubs issues will just shrug it off and not see it as a problem. Like how? 

 

That's despite our drop off being significantly worse and it being their own ****ing club that they supposedly care about. 

There will be fans of ours who applauded the Sheffield Wednesday protest but will act high and mighty when we're in League One. Total cuck mentality.