King Power Out

[Chrysalis]

4 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Car crash of an interview.

 

And there's still people on here saying 'if he can just get the right people in around him', wake the **** up.

Yeah he thinks very highly of Rudkin as well.

[Dan]

18 hours ago, OriginalRobboFOX said:

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

Absolutely preposterous. I don't even know why Pearson would come and help this lot anyway.

[CL Fox]

It's pretty obvious what's happened.

 

Now whelan has left theres no one to cover him. Rudkin convinced Top it was all down to him which meant everyone else has been sidelined.

 

In the internal review a few years back, Rudkin said theres nothing that could have been done differently by the football department and blamed it on every other department for not earning enough money.

 

Rudkin still looms large. Protests against him have gone very quiet and lots of our fans think he's been sacked. Hes still hugely influential. Hes destroyed this club as much as Top.

[beepee1984]

You only have to look at the Managers appointed since Top took over to see that the club has no direction or forethought since Vichai died.

 

If we assume that Brendan Rodgers appointment was part of a contingency plan that was in place when Vichai was alive and you view Puel & Rodgers as the last of the "Vichai-era" strategy (established, structural building) then everything since Rodgers' decline looks less like a plan and more likes a series of identity crises

 

The Evidence for a "Revolving Door" without a Plan

 

If we breakdown appointments since the 22/23 season, then the lack of cohesive thought pattern emerges

 

Dean Smith (The Panic Button): After sticking with Rodgers too long, we pivot to a "fireman" with a completely different, simplified approach. A 2-month gamble that both failed and showed no long-term vision

 

Enzo Maresca (The Total Reset) :  We then swung 180 degrees back to a rigid, dogmatic "process" coach. It worked for the championship, but as soon as he left we didn't look for a "Maresca 2.0" to keep the system going

 

Steve Cooper (Pragmatic Pivot) : Moving from Maresca to Copper was a complete tactical U-turn. Copper is a collaborater and pragmatic and not a system driven coach like Maresca. It suggested that the club did not believe in the "Enzo-ball" identity they appointed just 12 months earlier. Add in that Cooper was never going to go down with the fans, it appeared to be doomed to fail from the beginning

 

Ruud Van Nistelrooy / Marti Cifuentes (The Thoughtless and The Toothless) : After sacking Cooper, we simply turned to a name... a manager that offered nothing and was probably only considered based on a couple of caretaker games at Man United. The delayed sacking off Ruud reduced our options for the next manager. Marti was brought in without a preseason and unable to bring his own players in and again with no obvious game plan

 

5 Managers in, none were brought into build on the previous plan... simply because except Enzo - they never had one

 

The Problem with "Top's Tenure vs. Vichai's

 

Under Vichai, the club felt like it had a North Star - something pointing out the direction.

Even when managers changed, there was a sense of "The Leicester Way" - aggressive recruitment of undervalued gems and a clear underdog spirit

 

Under Top, the "logic" seems to have fractured into three competing (and contradictory) goals when appointing a manager

 

1. Chasing the Big Six - Trying to play big team possession football.

 

2. Financial Desperation -  Making managerial choices based on who can survive with an ever-thinning squad and PSR restraints

 

3. Experimental Hires: - Taking punts on random managers without the scouting infrastructure to support them - (this lack of infrasctrure also is why our player recruitment has been so poor)

 

Is there a sustainable plan?

 

The data suggests NO. A sustainable plan requires a board who picks a manager to fit a pre-existing squad. At Leicester, the squad and system has been rebuilt many times to suit wildly different managerial philsopheries (from a high-pressing 4-2-3-1 of Rodgers, to the inverted fullback & double 8 system of Maresca, back to the pragmatism of Cooper and the following clueless two)

 

This "revolving door" is expensive and has lead to a bloated, disjointed squad which is exactly what has caused the recent instability both on and off the field

 

Not a single fan thinks the club have a plan on who to appoint next and simply have no clue at what direction we are even planning and whilst the person picking the managers and overseeing the financial mess then nothing changes.

 

King Power has to go 

 

 

 

 

[The Year Of The Fox]

We’ve got ourselves into such a state that losing /selling players without replacing them is actually strengthening us 

[Grebfromgrebland]

On 27/01/2026 at 10:38, NeilLCFC said:

This. He could have said something to the effect of ‘we were so close to finishing top 4 which would have taken us to the next level. I believed in the manager so I backed him but in the process gave him too much control.’

 

 

Which is what happened

[Stadt]

I’ve been KP out for maybe 3 years at this point and now I’m excited as it feels tangible for the first time 

 

[C.J]

Lord Top is blessing us with another appearance today. Two games on the trot! 

[Claudio Fannieri]

1 hour ago, C.J said:

Lord Top is blessing us with another appearance today. Two games on the trot! 

There should be 3 chants all the way through today’s match …. 
 

Andy King 

We want Pearson back 

We want Rudkin out 

[1884HF]

50 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

There should be 3 chants all the way through today’s match …. 
 

Andy King 

We want Pearson back 

We want Rudkin out 

Sack the board will make an appearance after we go 1-0 down I’m pretty sure

[1972 Fox]

I hope the heat on King Power with chants against Top and Rudkin doesn't drop just because of the managerial change.

 

I understand that the crowd will want to get behind Andy King/the team but the pressure on the hierarchy needs ramping up.

[Stevosevic]

Looks like he’s flown back in for the game 

[The Year Of The Fox]

Thought Top flew home?

[LcFc_Smiv]

The Talksport commentator, Andrew Bridge? Was laying into the club at the start of the game. Mentioning Top was present for the 2nd consecutive week running, having only attended twice this season previously. Described us as rudderless, no CEO, commercial director, sporting director, and manager and clearly no strategy. When they they discussed playing squad he said Leicester fans wince at the sight of Ayew leading the line and then went on to mention his dreadful scoring record, then mentioned Daka as an alternative who offers next to nothing. Seemingly the heat is being turned on to Top.

[Blue ROI]

Could be worse. We could be Sheffield Wednesday.

 

Happy clapper logic.

[Muzzy_no7]

Bromley away Ole Oleeeee

[beepee1984]

Just now, Blue ROI said:

Could be worse. We could be Sheffield Wednesday.

 

Happy clapper logic.

We are the next Sheffield Wednesday... just how they were 9 months ago

[Spanner73]

1 minute ago, beepee1984 said:

We are the next Sheffield Wednesday... just how they were 9 months ago

Hopefully !! 

[Blue ROI]

2 minutes ago, beepee1984 said:

We are the next Sheffield Wednesday... just how they were 9 months ago

A 4-0 loss in April is my guess..

Edited 31 January by Blue ROI

[Muzzy_no7]

Is Bottom here? 

[Rubbersoul]

League one is now a very big possibility. Some way to honour your father’s memory that. 

[Spanner73]

Just now, Rubbersoul said:

League one is now a very big possibility. Some way to honour your father’s memory that. 

Yes Hopefully ! 

But we don’t really know how we got here 

No accountability whatsoever so we deserve all we get ! 

[Swarles Barkley]

Du du du

I hope the cvnt goes bankrupt 

[fox_up_north]

Yeah. Time to either sell up or admit you fuched it and need to bring it proper people. 

[Rubbersoul]

“We promote next season” yeah hopefully from league one you horrible little nepo baby bastard