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Mickyblueeyes

King Power Out

By Mickyblueeyes, in Leicester City Forum

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AjcW

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4 minutes ago, Ryy said:

My bad if this version has already been post 

To coin a wonderful phrase once written on here. Dorsett thoroughly "tongue punching his fart box"....

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Ian Nacho

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3 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

None of this is a surprise.

 

He wishes he could find what’s gone wrong, but is incapable of doing so … mainly because it’s his;  naivety,  inexperience, lack of authority, lack of understanding, critical analysis skills, effort levels, general incompetence, lack of planning, lack of availability, understanding, self awareness, absence of recruiting the lacking skills. Etc etc.

 

His business’ performance is accurately tracking his talents.

 

We’ll continue on this trajectory for as long as he leads.

It's giving this...

 

 

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LCFCJohn

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What disrespectful, arrogant sh*t! 
 

This is seriously worrying….

 

This is now about whether we following the Sheff Weds trajectory, continue to spiral quickly and go bang and he is forced to leave or the Blackburn one that is just drawn out and miserable. I would rather the former, even if it results in administration.

 

People literally need to get the idea out of their heads that we will ever play in the PL again under this ownership.

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lcfc278

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Probably 4 or 5 years of questioning myself as to why we've managed to fail so badly as a club in pretty much every area we can.

 

5/10 minutes of this interview and it's literally a 'oh, ok that's why' reaction.

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Foxin_Mad

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5 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

It's giving this...

 

That's basically the football operations since Rudkin has been in power.

 

How this muppet can back Rudkin and say he is the reason we wont the title, is he ****. We won the title in spite of that nobody, then he proceeded to destroy everything. I can not stand the absolute weasel. 

 

He is the reason we will drop through divisions, wedded to this pathetic gutless tippy tappy style, signing the biggest bunch of gutless nobodies as players, signed absolute clowns as managers. The guy has NO CLUE

 

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16 minutes ago, Katy said:

This is absolutely terrifying. The hubris of the man 😖
 

All that’s left is administration because if he won’t sell then that’s where we’re headed. I’ll tell you what though, this has just strengthend my resolve that there needs to be protests at every game in whatever format is the most effective. If you’re not already don’t spend anything at the ground. We really need to rally on this because if we don’t we won’t have a club left to support. 

Need for protest is greater now then ever

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Mickyblueeyes

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What I created at the time - winning the Premier League and the FA Cup - that element has gone.
 

Our ****ing chairman - this piece shit contributed the square root of **** all to our success. But he believes it’s all him. 
 

HOUND HIM OUT!!

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3 minutes ago, StanSP said:

https://archive.ph/2026.01.27-080246/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/01/27/leicester-owner-interview-selling-club-not-an-option/

 

Hearing him say "I still don't understand why we went down" is horrific. 

 

It's fine for the media to say "wow, how the hell did that happen" but for the owner who was supposed to "learn the lessons", several years later, to still be acting like it's a mystery is ****ing absurd. 

 

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brookfox

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When Top doesn’t talk: It’s a disgrace, we need to hear more.

When Top does talk: It’s a disgrace, he’s saying the wrong things.

 

On balance I think quiet Top is probably best 😆

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StanSP

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Just now, Finnegan said:

 

Hearing him say "I still don't understand why we went down" is horrific. 

 

It's fine for the media to say "wow, how the hell did that happen" but for the owner who was supposed to "learn the lessons", several years later, to still be acting like it's a mystery is ****ing absurd. 

 

The internal review was so successful lol

 

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Philkeavo

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This is the Percy Interview from The Daily Telegraph. Apologies if it has been already posted.

 

It is almost 10 years since Leicester City captured the nation by winning that Premier League title, so it feels like a perfect time for the club’s owner, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, to finally open up.

This is the first public interview with a senior Leicester official since 2016 and, to put it lightly, quite a lot has happened in the life of the 40-year-old Thai businessman known at the club as “Top”.

“It’s like a movie, like a super drama on Netflix or something,” he says. For many Leicester fans, however, the past few years have seemed more like a horror film.

After the glorious highs of winning the title as 5,000-1 shots to rampaging around Europe in the Champions League, plus a maiden FA Cup win, there have been two relegations, one promotion and nine different managers.

Vichai (centre right) and son Top (below, centre left) celebrate with Leicester players after the club won the Premier League title in 2016.

Srivaddhanaprabha also endured the unimaginable grief of losing his father, Vichai, in a helicopter accident in 2018 at the club’s King Power Stadium which claimed the lives of four other people.

There is much for Top to reflect on from the past decade, although most Leicester fans are only concerned about the here and now.

“The Leicester story is that we tried to create the underdog story,” he says. “We tried everything and we did a lot of things to make sure that the Premier League, even football in the UK, looked very interesting.

“When we won the league, no one believed or thought we could win. We set the standard and everything is possible anyway.

“A lot of players have left, a lot of new players came in, we tried to create new things. We won the FA Cup, we were in Europe, and then we go down. It’s too many dramatic things [that have] happened at the club.

“It’s not easy for Leicester anymore because the size of the club does not match what we tried to achieve.”

Once a beacon for similarly sized clubs, utilising strong recruitment and sensible mid to long-term planning, Leicester are now regarded as a club who dared to dream and paid the price.

Currently 14th in the Championship, Marti Cifuentes was sacked as manager on Sunday and many fans are in open revolt.

Issues over mismanagement, legal rows with the Premier League and the presence of Jon Rudkin, director of football, loom large at the King Power Stadium. On Saturday, as the team lost at home to Oxford United, there were chants of “sack the board”.

 

Defeat by Oxford last time out leaves Leicester in 14th place in the Championship.

“I feel the pain of the supporters. I feel their pain and the frustration of the whole club. I used to be a football fan and when my team lost, I felt so bad,” Srivaddhanaprabha says.

“Even when I am away in Thailand I am watching every game. If it is 8pm here it is 3am in Thailand and I am watching until 5am. When we have lost it is not nice to be awake and feel stressed.

“We know it is always tough in the Championship with many games, midweek games in the cold. It’s not an excuse that a team like Leicester is in this position. It is not nice and not what we expect at all.

“I told the directors and other people that we used to be a very small club in the Midlands and then we grew bigger and bigger and we forgot what we were before.”

Srivaddhanaprabha points to the financial damage inflicted on King Power, a travel retail company based in Bangkok, by the Covid-19 pandemic as a major reason behind the club’s decline.

He also highlights the departure of Enzo Maresca to Chelsea in June 2024, weeks after Leicester’s promotion to the Premier League, as a bitter disappointment.

Enzo Maresca won the Championship title but joined Chelsea shortly afterwards.

‘I still do not understand why we went down’

The most common theory for Leicester’s struggles goes back to the summer of 2021. With former manager Brendan Rodgers threatening to unsettle the big clubs and Leicester regularly challenging in Europe, the decision was made to back him.

That summer they spent about £50m on Patson Daka, Jannik Vestergaard and Boubakary Soumaré and, crucially, made the decision not to sell any first-team players.

Leicester’s model was always to accept the departure of a star every year – with the likes of Harry Maguire, Riyad Mahrez, Danny Drinkwater and Ben Chilwell bringing in well over £200m – but that summer the decision was made to keep the squad together.

It ensured the pressure was on to continue progressing and stay in Europe, but Leicester missed out and were relegated the following season.

“If you ask me about that time, I still do not understand why we go down. I have no idea,” Srivaddhanaprabha says. “I think the main problem was we had no experience of a relegation fight. We were so relaxed that we were going to be OK.

“I could not play so I tried to help in every single aspect. The Premier League is difficult, but we shouldn’t have been in that position. It was like everything turned against us.”

Relegation in 2023 was clearly a pivotal moment. Record losses of £92.5m were announced and Susan Whelan, the club’s former chief executive, warned that the consequences “will be felt for some time”.

‘Jon is seen like a bad cop, but we won Premier League because of him’

During this turbulent period in Leicester history, Rudkin has emerged as the No 1 target for supporters.

Leicester’s former academy director, Rudkin was promoted to director of football in 2014 and Srivaddhanaprabha’s support has been unwavering.

That support has remained despite many fans regarding Rudkin as chiefly responsible for poor recruitment, overspending, allowing too many players to leave for nothing and the disintegration of the club’s culture.

When asked about Rudkin’s position, the response from Top is unlikely to cheer up those fans calling for change.

“Jon is [seen as] like a bad cop. When we won the Premier League, it was because of Jon too, but nobody talks about that anymore. We are trying to find a black spot in a white sheet all the time, which is normal, I do the same.

Srivaddhanaprabha has stuck by Jon Rudkin despite fierce criticism of the director of football from Leicester fans.

“Many clubs make mistakes. No club buys the right players all the time. We used to be very good. We have to be clear so that people, the scouting team, can work towards the system we’re going to play.

“It’s not about Jon choosing players alone, so blame him. I never blame anyone. Everyone has to share the responsibility, all four of us.

“I think he needs support and that is why I’ve come to my decision to change the structure to make sure that everything is the right way going forward.”

Srivaddhanapraha insists he is working hard to improve the club’s set-up. The appointment of the club’s first ever technical director, who will report directly to Rudkin, is close, while a new chief executive and commercial director will be appointed soon.

A new manager is now on the agenda after Cifuentes was dismissed on Sunday afternoon, a few hours after Top’s sit-down with a gathering of journalists.

Marti Cifuentes’ sacking means Leicester have gone through nine managers since they won the Premier League in 2016.

Another bugbear for fans has been a perceived absence of accountability and communication, so this interview is certainly a positive step forward.

“We have to get back to the identity of Leicester, what type of football we should play and what players we should bring,” Srivaddhanaprabha says. “When changing the manager a lot of times, it’s not nice. I’m not a fan of that. But the life of a manager is results-based, so we have to be ready to improve.

“I think it was so clear when we got Enzo [Maresca] on board, what football we should play, and the type of player we should bring in. We are really focused on how to improve for the club. But with the limitations, because of PSR [profitability and sustainability rules] and the markets are not the same.”

‘We’re living with the past haunting the present’

Leicester expect to hear the outcome of their legal row with the Premier League for alleged breaches of PSR soon. Their case was heard in November and a range of punishments are possible, including a points deduction, transfer ban or fine.

“Every year we try to comply with the rules and that is super difficult. We can’t breathe,” says Top, putting both hands around his throat. “We did not plan to go down, and it’s impacted a lot of financials. PSR is a challenge. It’s testing every club now and Leicester are the same. In the past, nobody knew what would happen, but we’re living with the past haunting the present.”

With such tough restrictions, Leicester can only recruit loan signings before the transfer deadline.

Their current plight has increased calls for Srivaddhanaprabha to sell the club, but he insists there are no plans to move aside.

“I think on the first day I came in with my father [in August 2012] and we built plans, we loved football and we loved the club. I still feel every bit the same. I’m very passionate about football and I said in my first interview, when I was 25, that I wanted to be in this for the long term. Selling the club is not the way to exit anyway.

“Leicester is like my son to look after, so I have to do it right. Of course, a son can be naughty, or a son can fail the exam, and you [have] a pain in your head.

“The son can be top of the class, and graduated, and have a bad girlfriend or good wife. You never know. The first thing for me is to identify the problem and fix it. I’m planning a lot to make sure that we are in a good direction first.”

Thoughts of his late father are never far from Srivaddhanaprabha’s mind. Khun Vichai was an inspiration to all at Leicester and the driving force behind their remarkable rise.

There is a statue of him outside the stadium, and photographs adorn the walls inside the offices. “When he left, and when we won the FA Cup, I think I did a lot of things for him,” Top says.

It should not be forgotten that Vichai and Top have won four trophies during King Power’s ownership.

“Of course it was not going to be enough, but I know he loved the club. I know what his plan was, so I want to keep doing the same.

“I have to make sure that I complete everything that I did here before I want to leave. Now I need to make sure the club is in a good place. I still love it here, I want to make sure the club is being successful again.”


There is so much to unpick from this interview. He gives off creepy vibes with “the club is my son” reference to “I blame no one”. Yeah, no shit Aiyawatt!  

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These interviews have only cemented my hatred for him.

 

He either has to go or stop pretending that he knows what is going on and get some serious staff in and around him.

 

He has to realise that Rudkin is stringing him along.

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Mickyblueeyes

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Fifteen years ago, Leicester could lose to the team at the bottom of the league and it is OK.
 

WHEN ? When have we walked away from a game and been, ah lost to Rotherham, that’s ok. 
 

This is ridiculous

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Highlights from the Percy article, ‘we were a very small club in the midlands’ before King Power took over. We won the premier league because of Rudkin. He doesn’t understand how we went down in 22/23 season.

 

He is ridiculous.

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