King Power Out

[The Year Of The Fox]

On 29/05/2026 at 19:16, Manley Farrington-Brown said:

Not very, to be honest.

I assume a lot of the people there will be people taking their kids who are too young to remember 2016 or seeing most of the players. No need to ruin the kids' fun.

Who’s ruined the kids fun?

 

The owner or the fans? 

[Gamble92]

On 29/05/2026 at 14:08, AKCJ said:

Not sure I fully agree. We absolutely were well run as a club, even if he himself didn't always make sound football decisions.

 

Vichai did get lucky to an extent but he definitely made things happen to ensure he got lucky. You can't argue that he had a vision and sculpted an identity that saw the club reach heights it hadn't for 20 years. Clubs don't go up and stay up based solely on luck.

 

He also made difficult decisions when he needed to and his ruthlessness has been sorely missed. There's no way he doesn't sack Rogers early. No way does Rudkin get away with failure for this long. No way does the club continually let expensive players walk away for free etc etc.

 

He built a proper culture at the club where respect was a non-negotiable. King Power and Leicester are both much worse off without someone like him leading them.

 

He left the football to other people but made sure that things ran well. If there were snags in the chain then he would notice and act upon it. We don't have this level of authority and responsibility amongst the higher ups at the club now.

We weren't run well when he took over. The level of spending was so close to ruining us on all the same levels of Sheffield Wednesday. Literally identical. 

 

They went back and got Pearson on the advice of people in the club and him and his staff sorted the absolute mess. 

 

Then we got a non sacking of Pearson. Something I'm still yet to see replicated anywhere again. Like who the **** sacks a manager and reinstates him. The fact we went on and did what we did wasn't down to anything amazing at ownership level. 

[Lambert09]

On 29/05/2026 at 09:08, AKCJ said:

Not sure I fully agree. We absolutely were well run as a club, even if he himself didn't always make sound football decisions.

 

Vichai did get lucky to an extent but he definitely made things happen to ensure he got lucky. You can't argue that he had a vision and sculpted an identity that saw the club reach heights it hadn't for 20 years. Clubs don't go up and stay up based solely on luck.

 

He also made difficult decisions when he needed to and his ruthlessness has been sorely missed. There's no way he doesn't sack Rogers early. No way does Rudkin get away with failure for this long. No way does the club continually let expensive players walk away for free etc etc.

 

He built a proper culture at the club where respect was a non-negotiable. King Power and Leicester are both much worse off without someone like him leading them.

 

He left the football to other people but made sure that things ran well. If there were snags in the chain then he would notice and act upon it. We don't have this level of authority and responsibility amongst the higher ups at the club now.

I think we would have eventually slipped with him as well. Rudkin had him just as in his pocket as top. 
 

it would obviously have been better that Top (impossible not to be) but I still think we would have fallen from grace no matter what.  Lots of the problems we have today were around when he was here as well it’s just that we had enough good people at the club who were doing excellent jobs. The transitions would have always been downgrades and I think the PSR rules were always going to hit us in a massive way. If we survived the Brendan season, we very likely went down the following year after a severe points deduction.  It’s hard to say what situation it would be though as in that scenario… we probably made good money on Madison and Barnes rather than the pittance we got. But you’d imagine we wouldn’t have been able to spend much to replace them. 
 

However; I do think it’s unfair to assume that as who knows how he would have handled things. But that is my opinion on where things would have gone but it’s just that an opinion 

Edited Sunday at 18:23 by Lambert09

[LCFCJohn]

44 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

We weren't run well when he took over. The level of spending was so close to ruining us on all the same levels of Sheffield Wednesday. Literally identical. 

 

They went back and got Pearson on the advice of people in the club and him and his staff sorted the absolute mess. 

 

Then we got a non sacking of Pearson. Something I'm still yet to see replicated anywhere again. Like who the **** sacks a manager and reinstates him. The fact we went on and did what we did wasn't down to anything amazing at ownership level. 

Matlock Town did similar with Adam Clayton I think (sack and reinstated). But that’s probably the level we are currently working at so carry on 

[Gamble92]

I'd never say anything bad about Andy King. Adore the man. But reading between the lines on that last paragraph of the statement he's just put out, it's pretty obvious that theres this idea the fans have in part contributed to the downfall. 

 

Which is of course absolute bullshit. Not saying King is directly saying it, but Rebekah Vardy's little rant at us shows Jamie was saying similar. Fatawu mentioned fans leaving at Preston along with Hamza. 

 

I feel like we were gaslit for far too long and the achievements of years ago meant many of us who started to see the cracks earlier stayed silent. Then when it become too obvious and fans rightly aired their anger, the toxic culture amongst the players just shrugged it off as us being entitled. 

[Staff]

What statement?

[LCFCCHRIS]

16 minutes ago, Staff said:

What statement?

I don't think he necessarily blamed the fans. I think it's more aimed at the playing squad. 

[Spanner73]

11 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

I'd never say anything bad about Andy King. Adore the man. But reading between the lines on that last paragraph of the statement he's just put out, it's pretty obvious that theres this idea the fans have in part contributed to the downfall. 

 

Which is of course absolute bullshit. Not saying King is directly saying it, but Rebekah Vardy's little rant at us shows Jamie was saying similar. Fatawu mentioned fans leaving at Preston along with Hamza. 

 

I feel like we were gaslit for far too long and the achievements of years ago meant many of us who started to see the cracks earlier stayed silent. Then when it become too obvious and fans rightly aired their anger, the toxic culture amongst the players just shrugged it off as us being entitled. 

Yeah it’s all our fault (the fans) isn’t it 

Just like it’s PSR’s fault 

Added to its every Manager’s fault we hire 

The man in the moon’s fault 

 

King power/Aiyawatt ???? 
Ring any bells ?? 
 

[teblin]

11 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

I'd never say anything bad about Andy King. Adore the man. But reading between the lines on that last paragraph of the statement he's just put out, it's pretty obvious that theres this idea the fans have in part contributed to the downfall. 

 

Which is of course absolute bullshit. Not saying King is directly saying it, but Rebekah Vardy's little rant at us shows Jamie was saying similar. Fatawu mentioned fans leaving at Preston along with Hamza. 

 

I feel like we were gaslit for far too long and the achievements of years ago meant many of us who started to see the cracks earlier stayed silent. Then when it become too obvious and fans rightly aired their anger, the toxic culture amongst the players just shrugged it off as us being entitled. 

I don't read that aimed at the fans at all. "Demands the highest standards from each other and give everything every day" Thats aimed at players/staff.

 

There is so much negativity its easy to see it when its not there. I might be being naive, but I think if you read the 1st sentence its more taking resposibility.

 

Its not easy to ay too much when you are still employed by the club too.

[adejo92]

6 hours ago, LCFCCHRIS said:

I don't think he necessarily blamed the fans. I think it's more aimed at the playing squad. 

More words without meaning. 

 

Means fvck all now, the damage is done.

 

Perhaps would mean something if you weren't in the ear of every cluster fvck manager this season, whilst being just as bad when you got your own chance.

 

Yawn.

[Rubbersoul]

Players usually return for pre season at the end of June early July don’t they? So 4 weeks to go and absolutely no news.
 

Its incredible. 

[Gamble92]

7 minutes ago, teblin said:

I don't read that aimed at the fans at all. "Demands the highest standards from each other and give everything every day" Thats aimed at players/staff.

 

There is so much negativity its easy to see it when its not there. I might be being naive, but I think if you read the 1st sentence its more taking resposibility.

 

Its not easy to ay too much when you are still employed by the club too.

I think he took responsibility but there's still undertones of we need to all be more supportive. When in reality we were too supportive of this regime for too long and some still are. 

 

 

[teblin]

26 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

I think he took responsibility but there's still undertones of we need to all be more supportive. When in reality we were too supportive of this regime for too long and some still are. 

 

 

I don't see that in the message. But hey, we all read things in different ways.

[filbertway]

49 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

I think he took responsibility but there's still undertones of we need to all be more supportive. When in reality we were too supportive of this regime for too long and some still are. 

 Not to join on the pile on, but I also think you've misread that one to be fair.

 

The last paragraph is following on from his points in the 3rd and feels to be pretty clearly talking about the culture of the players and staff at the club, comparing what it has been recently to what it was in the early-mid 2010's.

 

And this is from someone who doesn't hold King in the god like status that a lot of lads my age do haha.

 

[Officer Doofy]

57 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

I think he took responsibility but there's still undertones of we need to all be more supportive. When in reality we were too supportive of this regime for too long and some still are. 

 

 

He also says demands the highest standards so maybe he actually wants more protests? 

 

 

You can read too much into these meaningless, late, retrospective soundbites. 

 

 

They failed beyond measure and that is on them and them alone. King Power out, anyone remotely responsible for that disgusting season.....out

[Spanner73]

8 hours ago, LCFCCHRIS said:

I don't think he necessarily blamed the fans. I think it's more aimed at the playing squad. 

Let’s face it ! 
We like Kingy but again another one who is completely out of his depth in terms of his position, it’s very common at LCFC 

 

Badges - Working with kids -,1st team coach - 1st team manager (temporary) you couldn’t make it up as it doesn’t happen in real life, but it does at our club 

 

[Gamble92]

38 minutes ago, filbertway said:

 Not to join on the pile on, but I also think you've misread that one to be fair.

 

The last paragraph is following on from his points in the 3rd and feels to be pretty clearly talking about the culture of the players and staff at the club, comparing what it has been recently to what it was in the early-mid 2010's.

 

And this is from someone who doesn't hold King in the god like status that a lot of lads my age do haha.

 

I reiterate I don't think King was saying the fans are this and that, it just echoes that feeling I get from those within the club that we should be doing more as fans. Again, I don't think King is directly saying that but there's been too much of these rallying calls for us to get on side without giving us anything to get behind. 

 

 

[filbertway]

This month we really need a statement from either Top or Rudkin to outline the expectations of the season. Real expectations and an honest overview of the state of the club.

We don't need nitty gritty details or anything that will give our position away (although anyone in football with a brain and a phone probably has a good idea of the score anyway)

 

Ideally high level view of
- Do we need to shift key players?

- Are we able to sign players - if so where are we looking?

- Realistic targets for the next season and then 3, 5 seasons. Should we expect we have to cut our cloth and the aim is stabilise?

- Work being done that can be discussed at a high level

 

Just something to let the fans know where the club stands, what we should expect and what is being done.

 

I'm no comms guy that's for sure, but they have said they want to be transparent. For me that'd start with, as a minimum:

• Laying down the situation as best they can
• What we should realistically expect as fans (we can probably draw our own conclusions from the other points)
• What work is being done.

It feels like we're all speculating with little bits of information we can gather and piece together. It'd be nice for the club to actually give us an insight into the situation so we're all on the same page. 

 

 

 

[squidsworth]

'we promote, we good for the longer term, we get to premier league'. Or just, 'we promote'.

[filbertway]

2 minutes ago, squidsworth said:

'we promote, we good for the longer term, we get to premier league'. Or just, 'we promote'.

Sadly as I was typing that, this is basically what I imagined would happen if a statement was released

 

[OnlyOneCity]

A number of posters have blamed certain fans for all the problems we have…..

[Officer Doofy]

13 hours ago, OnlyOneCity said:

A number of posters have blamed certain fans for all the problems we have…..

Bit random mate you okay? 

[Dames]

I cant believe we still dont have a manager yet. Same mistakes happening again, we really could end up in League Two at this rate. 

[Spanner73]

1 hour ago, Dames said:

I cant believe we still dont have a manager yet. Same mistakes happening again, we really could end up in League Two at this rate. 

Fingers crossed 🤞 

[HybridFox]

No manager, no pre-season fixtures, no signings. The three need to be in tandem. It's a joke at this point