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King Power Out

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Oldfox67

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Some speculative AI slop to throw into the mix :ph34r: 

Executive Summary: King Power's Investment in Leicester City

After reviewing the acquisition, shareholder loans, debt write-offs, stadium purchase, infrastructure spending and financial accounts, the most credible estimate is:

King Power and the Srivaddhanaprabha family have committed approximately £500 million to Leicester City since 2010.

The key numbers

  • £39m – purchase of Leicester City (2010)
  • £421m+ – shareholder loans permanently converted into equity (2013, 2023 and 2025)
  • £17m – purchase of the King Power Stadium freehold
  • Additional smaller amounts through community projects, supporter initiatives and ongoing support

Most likely total

Estimate Type Amount
Minimum proven investment £421m+
Proven investment plus club purchase ~£460m
Best overall estimate ~£500m
Plausible upper range ~£525m

What this means

King Power have effectively:

  • Bought the club.
  • Wiped out over £421 million of debt owed to themselves.
  • Purchased the stadium.
  • Supported the construction of one of the best training facilities in Europe.
  • Funded the club through Premier League, Championship and European campaigns.
  • Taken little money back out compared with the sums invested.

The outcome

During their ownership Leicester achieved:

🏆 Premier League Champions (2016)
🏆 FA Cup Winners (2021)
🏆 Community Shield Winners (2021)
🏆 Two Championship titles
🏆 Champions League Quarter-Finalists
🏆 Seagrave Training Centre development

Bottom line

For a club of Leicester City's size, £500 million is an extraordinary level of owner commitment. Few non-state-backed football clubs in Europe have received this level of long-term financial support from a single ownership group.

The uncomfortable reality is that despite half a billion pounds of backing, poor recruitment, rising wage costs, relegation, PSR issues and strategic mistakes have left Leicester in a significantly weaker position than they were at the peak of the Vichai era. However, the scale of King Power's financial support itself is difficult to dispute.

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StanSP

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19 minutes ago, turkish14 said:

Can someone with a good sense of business acumen (with some assumption) work out how much Top would get if he does sell?

 

king power purchased us for 39M I believe, if they sell for say 200M, with the prospective new owners taking on the loans, have king power not then made £161 million?

 

14 minutes ago, turkish14 said:

Hence my question, as I have no idea how much has been put in. I’d be interested to understand from someone on FT who would have an idea. 

Here's how it breaks down:

What King Power paid to get in

£39m in 2010 for the club itself, buying it from Milan Mandarić while Leicester were mid-table Championship.

A further £17m in 2013 to buy back King Power Stadium (which a previous owner had sold off to an American pension fund).

So roughly £56m of initial capital outlay.

What they've put in since

On top of that, the Srivaddhanaprabha family has pumped in an estimated £420m+ over 15 years in loans to cover transfer fees, wages, and operating losses — including £194m written off as an outright gift by 2023, and a further £124m converted from debt into equity in January 2025. Most of that money wasn't "invested" in the sense of buying appreciating assets — it was largely spent covering wage bills and transfer losses, so it isn't sitting there to be recouped.

Would they need to pay off loans before pocketing anything?

Not to themselves — that's already handled. Because the family converted essentially all shareholder loans into equity, there's no debt owed to the owners that would need repaying first; they already hold that value as shares.

What would eat into proceeds is the club's remaining external debt — roughly £103m owed to banks/Macquarie, secured against future broadcast and parachute payment income, plus other liabilities like transfer payables (~£81m, partly offset by £56m owed to the club). In any sale, a buyer typically either assumes this debt (reducing the price they'll pay) or the family has to clear it out of sale proceeds before the rest is "profit."

So, net-net:

Book net asset value (per the June 2025 accounts) is about £114m — that's roughly the equity value the family could realistically expect to walk away with if sold near book value today, after existing external debt is accounted for.

Even at the higher end of a realistic enterprise valuation (accounting for the stadium/training ground being worth more than depreciated book value), you're likely looking at something like £150–250m in proceeds.

Against ~£450–500m of total lifetime investment, that's not really a "profit" story at all — more a partial recovery of a large net loss, even though it's several times the original £56m purchase price. The two relegations have destroyed most of the paper gains they'd built up during the Premier League era.

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Sly

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1 minute ago, Pliskin said:

I’ve heard the firm is based in the UAE….. allegedly. 

Would rule out Turki Alalskeikh if that is the case, who I thought might be the most likely. He’s been looking for an English club since he’d sold Almeria and had looked at Derby. 

fox_up_north

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If Stan's numbers are what KP are up against then jesus christ...if we were still Championship and pushing for promotion I could see them maybe making a bigger dent in that £450 million but a League One club just isn't getting anything like that

Outfox the Fox

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1 hour ago, Pliskin said:

I’ve heard the firm is based in the Abu Dhabi….. allegedly. 

Well, of course, City Football Group are Abu Dhabi owned ..... and where did our Sporting Director work previously?! I can't see CFG looking at us, but perhaps one of their 'spin off' operations?

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ajthefox

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2 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

From deep in the AI slop factory this emerged

I really do not understand making pointless images like this.

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HankMarvin

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6 hours ago, Sly said:

We can spend 50% of our turnover can go on salaries I believe. So player salary, player bonuses, amortisation on transfers, manager, coach and staff salaries.

65%

Manwell Pablo

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4 hours ago, Oldfox67 said:

Some speculative AI slop to throw into the mix :ph34r: 

Executive Summary: King Power's Investment in Leicester City

After reviewing the acquisition, shareholder loans, debt write-offs, stadium purchase, infrastructure spending and financial accounts, the most credible estimate is:

King Power and the Srivaddhanaprabha family have committed approximately £500 million to Leicester City since 2010.

The key numbers

  • £39m – purchase of Leicester City (2010)
  • £421m+ – shareholder loans permanently converted into equity (2013, 2023 and 2025)
  • £17m – purchase of the King Power Stadium freehold
  • Additional smaller amounts through community projects, supporter initiatives and ongoing support

Most likely total

Estimate Type Amount
Minimum proven investment £421m+
Proven investment plus club purchase ~£460m
Best overall estimate ~£500m
Plausible upper range ~£525m

What this means

King Power have effectively:

  • Bought the club.
  • Wiped out over £421 million of debt owed to themselves.
  • Purchased the stadium.
  • Supported the construction of one of the best training facilities in Europe.
  • Funded the club through Premier League, Championship and European campaigns.
  • Taken little money back out compared with the sums invested.

The outcome

During their ownership Leicester achieved:

🏆 Premier League Champions (2016)
🏆 FA Cup Winners (2021)
🏆 Community Shield Winners (2021)
🏆 Two Championship titles
🏆 Champions League Quarter-Finalists
🏆 Seagrave Training Centre development

Bottom line

For a club of Leicester City's size, £500 million is an extraordinary level of owner commitment. Few non-state-backed football clubs in Europe have received this level of long-term financial support from a single ownership group.

The uncomfortable reality is that despite half a billion pounds of backing, poor recruitment, rising wage costs, relegation, PSR issues and strategic mistakes have left Leicester in a significantly weaker position than they were at the peak of the Vichai era. However, the scale of King Power's financial support itself is difficult to dispute.


it’s a fair point, 

 

i have no quarrel with King Power as an organisation or the family in general and i will be grateful for a lot of things they’ve done and things we achieved under them if they are to sell up. 
 

My quarrel is with Top and Rudkin. 

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LCFCJohn

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11 hours ago, Stevosevic said:

It’s not as straight forward as that is it.

 

These maths don’t account for the money they’ve put in to the club post purchase? 

If you are looking at purchase price in 2010, plus everything they have spent, and the debts etc, it is unrealistic to think they would get that much now we are in L1.

 

This might be a rather simplistic example, but it’s like if you buy a house, and do loads of work to it that ultimately means what you have spent goes above the ceiling price for that property. It just comes out of your pocket basically. Fine if it’s your forever home but if you want to sell, you might end up with some of that investment as a loss.

PhillippaT

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PhillippaT

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Nolucklcfc

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1 hour ago, ARM1968 said:

Can’t see anyone offering more than £200 million to be honest. If they truly want £500 million, then we ain’t being sold anytime soon. 

Even they can’t be too stupid enough to want half a billion for a league 1 club. 

PhillippaT

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Chrysalis

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I am not sure how I would value book value of squad, squad has a book value, but it is also a liability in the contracts.  Book value is paper value only, players in my opinion are not a hard asset like the stadium and training ground.

Training ground helps the sale if new owner wants it, its a liability if new owner has no interest and just see's it as bloat on the clubs value.  But I suppose it could be paid for in the latter instance and then sold right after to get that money back.

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