King Power Out

[Aus Fox]

2021 - we win the FA Cup and finish 5th in the Premier league.

At this point, we’re a high profile club - competing in Europe and a real chance to kick on and become and established top half club. We’ve got the top training facilities and plans are established to increase the stadium capacity to beyond 40,000 with further investments in the surrounding areas.

Since that point, there has been no investment in the stadium, and comparative to top teams no real investment in the playing squad - from memory in that time we’ve spent £20 million + on four occasions- Daka, Soumare, Skipp and BEK.

Whilst several players have been moved on for bigger fees - Maddison and Barnes cover the big fees spent here. Without knowing the exact figures, we’d have to be net profit on transfers over that time.

We’ve also averaged more than a manager a season since - with these managers style of play seemingly having nothing in common - Rodgers to Smith to Maresca to Cooper to Van Nistlerooy to Cifuentes…

 

All this time the same problems have been evident from the same personnel.

 

We are in a cycle of new manager, early on nothing changes, we call for managers head, sacked and repeat.

 

All this time zero accountability from the top - and the person who is ultimately responsible for hiring managers and negotiating player arrivals and departures. 
 

Rudkin is still comfortable, the board is still the same minus Whelan (who’s departure juts before the sponsor who shan’t be named is confirmed - can’t be a coincidence)

 

We are in a massive downward spiral and unless everything changes, nothing changes.

 

For those calling for the head of Cifuentes, whilst I agree it’s not been great - we know nothing will change unless we remove the board, the DoF and some of the massive dead wood who put in effortless performances every week and are clearly not wanting to be here.

[Jacob7839]

People have been saying Rudkin out since 2017 and in that time we've done very little against him to be honest. Norwich are doing things we should be doing like protesting outside the stadium I would love to see that from Leicester but I doubt it will ever happen 

[Vlad the Fox]

People need to stop obsessing over those who still support the ownership and carry on making their voices heard. As seen on here and heard in the ground more and more are turning against the ownership, it’s a process and you have to let people go through it instead of name calling and creating a divide, an us and them mentality. 
 

Also comparing us to other clubs is pointless, none of them have had the success we have had over recent years so you have to expect it will take some people more time to turn on an ownership that has delivered success many could only dream of, it’s why some only turn on rudkin (part of the process) while others will defend the owners to the end. 

[Sly]

I can accept that we were punching about our weight.

 

I can maybe get on board with us being relegated and we are back to being a yoyo club.

 

What I can’t accept is us being relegated to League One against at Top is about as effective as Nero, watching Rome burn. 

[KlaaZ]

On 09/11/2025 at 01:45, Aus Fox said:

2021 - we win the FA Cup and finish 5th in the Premier league.

At this point, we’re a high profile club - competing in Europe and a real chance to kick on and become and established top half club. We’ve got the top training facilities and plans are established to increase the stadium capacity to beyond 40,000 with further investments in the surrounding areas.

Since that point, there has been no investment in the stadium, and comparative to top teams no real investment in the playing squad - from memory in that time we’ve spent £20 million + on four occasions- Daka, Soumare, Skipp and BEK.

Whilst several players have been moved on for bigger fees - Maddison and Barnes cover the big fees spent here. Without knowing the exact figures, we’d have to be net profit on transfers over that time.

 

63M net transfer loss in 21-22, 32M net transfer profit in 22-23, 60M net transfer profit in 23-24, 44M net transfer loss in 24-25. You can do the mat.

[funkyrobot]

5 minutes ago, KlaaZ said:

63M net transfer loss in 21-22, 32M net transfer profit in 22-23, 60M net transfer profit in 23-24, 44M net transfer loss in 24-25. You can do the mat.

Add 50m net transfer profit 25-26. Now do the maths. 

[KlaaZ]

3 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

Add 50m net transfer profit 25-26. Now do the maths. 

Do you think you're going to be running a profit in the Championship without outgoing transfers? 

His point was literally that there had been no investments since this summer and he couldn't imagine there being no net transfer profit to bring in the money to do so. He was wrong, you're only in the green when you count this summer. Not to mention the fact that you probably function at a structural operational loss and need to cover that loss as well.

[sylofox]

What was sung on Saturday?

[DJ Barry Hammond]

On 09/11/2025 at 00:45, Aus Fox said:

2021 - we win the FA Cup and finish 5th in the Premier league.

 

At this point, we’re a high profile club - competing in Europe and a real chance to kick on and become and established top half club.

 

We’ve got the top training facilities and plans are established to increase the stadium capacity to beyond 40,000 with further investments in the surrounding areas.

Since that point, there has been no investment in the stadium, and comparative to top teams no real investment in the playing squad - from memory in that time we’ve spent £20 million + on four occasions- Daka, Soumare, Skipp and BEK.

 

Whilst several players have been moved on for bigger fees - Maddison and Barnes cover the big fees spent here. Without knowing the exact figures, we’d have to be net profit on transfers over that time.

 

One key area your comments miss on the finances side is the wage to turnover % - which has been 90%+ even before the title winning contracts were granted.

 

I therefore think the idea we had a chance to become an established top half Premier League club is vastly overstated - we just didn’t have the revenue base.

 

Additionally, our watermark days were before Newcastle and Villa started to become serious players for those top 6/8 spots; clubs that have much better revenue bases to sustain that sort of charge… and yet even they are having to do PSR juggles and have not seen a smooth trajectory in terms of league performance year on year. 
 

For us - a club that gain’s a significant portion of it’s turnover outside of TV revenue from gate receipts - the Covid period and that lost income will have hit hard and the fact this period coincided with a move away from selling a significant player asset each season with a view to competing at the top level heightens the impact of that lost revenue.

 

With building costs also spiralling at that time and the owners underlying business suffering from the pandemic too - it should perhaps be understandable that plans for stadium redevelopment that would require serious additional financial underwriting have effectively been shelved.

That covid period and the differences between finishing 5th rather than 4th all then contribute to the PSR spiral the club still finds itself in; which gives you a clear reason why investment in the squad has been limited - there is no room in the calculations to do more, therefore a new owner can’t do much more on this front without first finding significant and instant revenue streams.

 

This is not to say mistakes haven’t been made since that FA Cup win - but the navigable course to becoming an established top level club was nowhere near as easy as many on here seem to believe and was never a likely outcome in the long run given the significant structural deficiencies that were there at the time (i.e we simply don’t make enough income as a club to be at that level).

 

Now for me, the saddest thing about this period is how I the whole situation became much more of a problem through Rodgers downing tools; had we done what Celtic recently did maybe things would have been different, but our call on whether to sack Brendan or not was a lot harder than there’s.

 

It’s also frustrating that we lost Enzo when we did, because with one more season (or even half of one) I can’t imagine we’d be in the Championship now.

 

[HankMarvin]

1 hour ago, sylofox said:

What was sung on Saturday?

Something along the lines of John rudkin doesn’t like apple pie 

[sylofox]

3 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

Something along the lines of John rudkin doesn’t like apple pie 

Glad you cleared it up i though he needed an apple pie.

[Dan]

On 09/11/2025 at 20:10, Sly said:

I can accept that we were punching about our weight.

 

I can maybe get on board with us being relegated and we are back to being a yoyo club.

 

What I can’t accept is us being relegated to League One against at Top is about as effective as Nero, watching Rome burn. 

I can't personally accept unaccountability from the club. Aiyawatt bodged it big time in 2022/23 but even worse than that was he let those responsible just continue. If I'd seen evidence of a proper shake-up I don't think I'd be as against him as I am as I'd at least see he was trying to fix things. Even Mandaric, as much as he bodged it up made necessary changes and actually left us in a better place than he found us in. Aiyawatt's odds of doing that are about as likely as consecutive lottery wins. Their MO just seems to be continue in the face of absolutely everything regardless of the collateral damage and a sizeable chunk of our fanbase have no issue with this. It's as damaging a set of circumstances in the long run imaginable.

[foxfanazer]

On 09/11/2025 at 00:45, Aus Fox said:

2021 - we win the FA Cup and finish 5th in the Premier league.

At this point, we’re a high profile club - competing in Europe and a real chance to kick on and become and established top half club. We’ve got the top training facilities and plans are established to increase the stadium capacity to beyond 40,000 with further investments in the surrounding areas.

Since that point, there has been no investment in the stadium, and comparative to top teams no real investment in the playing squad - from memory in that time we’ve spent £20 million + on four occasions- Daka, Soumare, Skipp and BEK.

Whilst several players have been moved on for bigger fees - Maddison and Barnes cover the big fees spent here. Without knowing the exact figures, we’d have to be net profit on transfers over that time.

We’ve also averaged more than a manager a season since - with these managers style of play seemingly having nothing in common - Rodgers to Smith to Maresca to Cooper to Van Nistlerooy to Cifuentes…

 

All this time the same problems have been evident from the same personnel.

 

We are in a cycle of new manager, early on nothing changes, we call for managers head, sacked and repeat.

 

All this time zero accountability from the top - and the person who is ultimately responsible for hiring managers and negotiating player arrivals and departures. 
 

Rudkin is still comfortable, the board is still the same minus Whelan (who’s departure juts before the sponsor who shan’t be named is confirmed - can’t be a coincidence)

 

We are in a massive downward spiral and unless everything changes, nothing changes.

 

For those calling for the head of Cifuentes, whilst I agree it’s not been great - we know nothing will change unless we remove the board, the DoF and some of the massive dead wood who put in effortless performances every week and are clearly not wanting to be here.

Nail on the head mate

[foxfanazer]

9 hours ago, sylofox said:

What was sung on Saturday?

Die Rudkin die

 

It's German for thee Rudkin thee

 

Edited 10 November 2025 by foxfanazer

[Voll Blau]

27 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Die Rudkin die

 

It's German for thee Rudkin thee

 

Edit: good work if you get that reference 

Were the chants in the concourse the entire score of the HMS Pinafore?

[Blue ROI]

3 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Were the chants in the concourse the entire score of the HMS Pinafore?

Bake him away toys

[GrobyLCFC31]

I don’t think they’re going anyway anytime soon, 

 

Rudkin needs King Power and King Power need Rudkin,

 

No other established club of our size appoints JR in this and his current position so he knows he’s got it good here. 

 

Top/King Power also need JR as the man to take the fan & media pressure off them so I’d be surprised if they binned him anytime soon.  

 

If any other club had the fall off that we’ve had in the last few seasons they would’ve had a lot more pressure/questioning from the media and pressure from the stands aimed at the ownership than we’ve had at the moment 

 

Rudkin’s incompetent, but Aiyawatt employs him and should be holding him to account  

Edited 10 November 2025 by GrobyLCFC31

[Foxin_Mad]

2 minutes ago, GrobyLCFC31 said:

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Top/King Power also need JR as the man to take the fan/media pressure off them so I’d be surprised if they binned him anytime soon.  

 

If any other club had the fall off that we’ve had in the last few seasons they would’ve had a lot more pressure/questioning from the media 

I think Top getting rid of Rudkin would actually relieve a bit of pressure on them. Keeping the band of brothers together keeps the spotlight on

[Blue ROI]

7 minutes ago, GrobyLCFC31 said:

I don’t think they’re going anyway anytime soon, 

 

Rudkin needs King Power and King Power need Rudkin,

 

No other established club of our size appoints JR in this and his current position so he knows he’s got it good here. 

 

Top/King Power also need JR as the man to take the fan & media pressure off them so I’d be surprised if they binned him anytime soon.  

 

If any other club had the fall off that we’ve had in the last few seasons they would’ve had a lot more pressure/questioning from the media and pressure from the stands aimed at the ownership than we’ve had at the moment 

 

Rudkin’s incompetent, but Aiyawatt employs him and should be holding him to account  

I'd say the low attendance at Middlesbrough was where the tide has started to turn against them

 

They've messed up massively with the 'statement'. They need a combination of results and rudkin dealt with or it's going to get much much worse.

[GrobyLCFC31]

40 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

I think Top getting rid of Rudkin would actually relieve a bit of pressure on them. Keeping the band of brothers together keeps the spotlight on

I agree but I also think then it removes the only person they can shunt the blame onto, currently JR is the person who’s names getting chanted from the stands, who’s name gets brought up on social media etc, 

If they get rid of him and nothing changes then the spotlight falls solely on them 

[GrobyLCFC31]

34 minutes ago, Blue ROI said:

I'd say the low attendance at Middlesbrough was where the tide has started to turn against them

 

They've messed up massively with the 'statement'. They need a combination of results and rudkin dealt with or it's going to get much much worse.

🤞🏻 we all want a club as supporters that we can recognise, feel proud of when supporting and ultimately feel like the club values the supporters and makes decisions with their best interests at heart 

 

Currently 0/3 

[funkyrobot]

21 hours ago, KlaaZ said:

Do you think you're going to be running a profit in the Championship without outgoing transfers? 

His point was literally that there had been no investments since this summer and he couldn't imagine there being no net transfer profit to bring in the money to do so. He was wrong, you're only in the green when you count this summer. Not to mention the fact that you probably function at a structural operational loss and need to cover that loss as well.

The fact remains, including this summer we are in transfer net profit  - and that was to get in line with PSR. The reason we now aren’t buying is also because of PSR. 

[mazarron fox]

Top the useless chairman lives in the clouds

His father built a football team that made us very proud

 

Now we are a disgrace as everybody knows

Top the useless chairman should just F..k off and go.

 

 

to puff the magic dragon

[AjcW]

8 minutes ago, mazarron fox said:

Top the useless chairman lives in the clouds

His father built a football team that made us very proud

 

Now we are a disgrace as everybody knows

Top the useless chairman should just F..k off and go.

 

 

to puff the magic dragon

Nice, my four year old will love that

[mazarron fox]

5 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Nice, my four year old will love that

That’s the spirit get the youngsters on board early 😂