King Power Out

[Pliskin]

3 minutes ago, MattFox said:

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Makes you genuinely angry. Just no idea at all, doesn’t have the capacity to grasp the situation at all. And King Power benefitted from the infrastructure Nigel put in place at the club. They didn’t go out and pick that team that won the PL, they were the beneficiaries of a special group of players. 

[Gamble92]

2 hours ago, dannythefox said:

Thanks for the amazing times over the last few years but this has to be the end. 5000/1 for winning the league I bet it was the same odds for back to back relegation, well done.

 

Times up. 

They didn't win that league by the way

[Mickyblueeyes]

8 minutes ago, MattFox said:

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Vichai would’ve sacked Top 2 seasons ago.

 

Vichai sacked Top when he and Sven went on a spending spree. 
 

Vichai had to buy OH Leuven to try and get the little entitled bastard to understand business basics on a smaller scale.

 

Vichai is Top out Richard. 

[Corky]

43 defeats in 78 league and cup games in the last 18 months.

 

You ungrateful lot.

[Mike Oxlong]

13 minutes ago, MattFox said:

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Richard looks a bit of a Thai brides sort of fella 

[Stadt]

3 minutes ago, Corky said:

43 defeats in 78 league and cup games in the last 18 months.

 

You ungrateful lot.

Come on then Corky, who would buy us?? 

[Gamble92]

14 minutes ago, MattFox said:

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Honestly the way anyone thinks we owe King Power anything 😂

 

I urge everyone who thinks that to watch that dispatches documentary on buying a football club.

 

Basically wealthy people in Asia got together years ago and realised that spending/loaning 30/40 million to get a team from the Championship to the Premier League can turn a business from a 30m one to a 200m one. They all sat round laughing at who was having Cardiff, who would take Birmingham, who would have Leicester. 

 

It's low risk for them. Could have put us into administration, like it did others. But we got lucky. We got Pearson, Walsh and Shakespeare. 

 

Wake the **** up. 

[Dan]

On 12/02/2026 at 11:17, Parafox said:

Do you think we'd be in this mess had the helicopter crash never happened?

No I don't.

 

But I do think we'd have dropped off a bit. How much though is very open to debate.

[accessory]

2 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Honestly the way anyone thinks we owe King Power anything 😂

 

I urge everyone who thinks that to watch that dispatches documentary on buying a football club.

 

Basically wealthy people in Asia got together years ago and realised that spending/loaning 30/40 million to get a team from the Championship to the Premier League can turn a business from a 30m one to a 200m one. They all sat round laughing at who was having Cardiff, who would take Birmingham, who would have Leicester. 

 

It's low risk for them. Could have put us into administration, like it did others. But we got lucky. We got Pearson, Walsh and Shakespeare. 

 

Wake the **** up. 

Cardiff spent two seasons in the Premier League. Birmingham haven't been there since 2011.

 

Vichai originally tried to buy Chelsea from Ken Bates, but was outbid by Abramovich.

 

Pearson, Walsh and Shakespeare were only tempted back from Hull by Vichai.

 

And even so, they would have made an instant return to the Championship in 2015 without Esteban Cambiasso leading the Great Escape.

[daddylonglegs]

It’s difficult with the rules on this site to adequately describe the people that support king power.

 

They are beyond help. They do not get it. They will not get it.

 

It is now up to those of us that understand what Top is doing to this football club to act. No more futile protests, we now need action and we need it in the 000s. 
 

The alternative is significantly worse than what he’s already presided over. 

[Dan]

2 hours ago, MattFox said:

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It makes me so, so self confident that people like this exist.

[Lambert09]

3 hours ago, MattFox said:

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Here’s the thing, winning the league was one of the best moments of my life, one of the best moments in sport…. But if you had asked me if I’d be happy to win the league if we were going to go out of existence 11 years later…. I wouldn’t have taken that.

 

im a Leicester fan and what that means, is I didn’t pick the club because I was desperate to win things. It’s a nice bonus but the fact that this  ownership could be taking us to the brink of existence,  means they are possibly the worst weve ever had and I mean that 

 

They need to take the right steps so that they don’t go down in history as the worst thing to ever happen to Leicester. This is only going to keep letting worse and they’ve lost just about everyone 

Edited 15 February by Lambert09

[inckley fox]

35 minutes ago, accessory said:

Cardiff spent two seasons in the Premier League. Birmingham haven't been there since 2011.

 

Vichai originally tried to buy Chelsea from Ken Bates, but was outbid by Abramovich.

 

Pearson, Walsh and Shakespeare were only tempted back from Hull by Vichai.

 

And even so, they would have made an instant return to the Championship in 2015 without Esteban Cambiasso leading the Great Escape.

Obviously it tickles you to say slightly silly things to wind people up, which is fine by me if that floats your boat. But I don't think Vichai ever tried to buy Chelsea. I think I read once that he was a Chelsea fan, but it was Reading that he tried to buy, unless I'm mistaken. And what you've said about Birmingham and Cardiff only serves to underline the point you're responding to.

 

Anyway, I could be wrong, but I think this was all reported somewhere at some time or other. Another thing that was widely reported at the time, as regards your points about Pearson, was that King Power as potential buyers in summer 2010 favoured a different kind of manager and Pearson jumped before he was pushed. They were shown around the ground just before the play-off semis without going to speak to him, and he knew Sousa was in attendance for the game. So he saw the writing on the wall and left. There was an interview while he was at Hull in which he spoke quite openly about it.

 

Which doesn't quite fit in with the narrative that they kick-started our success by welcoming him back, of course.

 

And, of course, the point about Cambiasso is especially daft, and not something I've ever heard anyone with a great deal of intelligence or knowledge bringing up as evidence. I'm sure you don't believe it either, but it's getting quite hackneyed now, so I think you're going to have to freshen up your material a bit!

[KFS]

Top was at the league cup final supporting his boyhood love Leicester City, actually

[The_77]

3 hours ago, accessory said:

Cardiff spent two seasons in the Premier League. Birmingham haven't been there since 2011.

 

Vichai originally tried to buy Chelsea from Ken Bates, but was outbid by Abramovich.

 

Pearson, Walsh and Shakespeare were only tempted back from Hull by Vichai.

 

And even so, they would have made an instant return to the Championship in 2015 without Esteban Cambiasso leading the Great Escape.

Cambiasso was the type of shrewd signing that we made during the Pearson era. 

He was incredible and played a huge role in our survival.
 

However, it’s ridiculous how one story about Cambiasso looking at our remaining fixtures over lunch and trying to add up where we’d get our points has turned into him masterminding the Great Escape.

 

I haven’t double-checked the stats but I’m fairly certain that only Leicester City and Arsenal completed that Premier League season without losing a league game by more than two goals.

 

We finished the season in 14th place, a fantastic result for that squad. Pearson was an excellent manager and squad-builder for us— even the slightest insinuation that he wasn’t is utterly farcical. 

Edited 15 February by The_77
Changed “under the Pearson era” to “during the Pearson era”

[The_77]

1 minute ago, The_77 said:

Cambiasso was the type of shrewd signing that we made during the Pearson era. 

He was incredible and played a huge role in our survival.
 

However, it’s ridiculous how one story about Cambiasso looking at our remaining fixtures over lunch and trying to add up where we’d get our points has turned into him masterminding the Great Escape.

 

I haven’t double-checked the stats but I’m fairly certain that only Leicester City and Arsenal completed that Premier League season without losing a league game by more than two goals.

 

We finished the season in 14th place, a fantastic result for that squad. Pearson was an excellent manager and squad-builder for us— even the slightest insinuation that he wasn’t is utterly farcical. 

Now’s let’s get back on track and focus on who’s currently running this club into the ground. 

[Katy]

9 hours ago, MattFox said:

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Good lord. Even if you loaded up a frying pan with all that’s wrong with the club and smacked him in the face with it, he still wouldn’t get it. OSTRICH!

[Horibbly Wrong]

6 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

Here’s the thing, winning the league was one of the best moments of my life, one of the best moments in sport…. But if you had asked me if I’d be happy to win the league if we were going to go out of existence 11 years later…. I wouldn’t have taken that.

 

im a Leicester fan and what that means, is I didn’t pick the club because I was desperate to win things. It’s a nice bonus but the fact that this  ownership could be taking us to the brink of existence,  means they are possibly the worst weve ever had and I mean that 

 

They need to take the right steps so that they don’t go down in history as the worst thing to ever happen to Leicester. This is only going to keep letting worse and they’ve lost just about everyone 

I would. I will die happy having seen this miracle. Something that 99% of football fans haven't experienced.

(Don't get me wrong, I don't want the club to be liquidated)

[Katy]

Controversial but if I had to choose between winning the PL and winning the FA Cup, the FAC wins every time for me. The Premier League as a whole means nothing to me, it’s ruined football for the match going fan. Yes, it was a wonderful fairy tale for everyone and obviously I enjoyed it at the time but on reflection it changed the club and not for the better. No need to come at me for it, it’s my opinion. 

[Vestan Pance]

9 minutes ago, Katy said:

Controversial but if I had to choose between winning the PL and winning the FA Cup, the FAC wins every time for me. The Premier League as a whole means nothing to me, it’s ruined football for the match going fan. Yes, it was a wonderful fairy tale for everyone and obviously I enjoyed it at the time but on reflection it changed the club and not for the better. No need to come at me for it, it’s my opinion. 

You don't have to choose, we won both, and it didn't need to ruin the club. The incompetents running it did that. 

[Voll Blau]

17 minutes ago, Horibbly Wrong said:

I would. I will die happy having seen this miracle. Something that 99% of football fans haven't experienced.

(Don't get me wrong, I don't want the club to be liquidated)

Good for you. 100% of future generations in Leicester wouldn't have a local team to support at all - let alone a successful one - if we ceased to exist.

 

This is half the problem. The "I've seen it all as a Leicester fan so whatever happens now doesn't matter" attitude. What about you kids, grandkids? Don't you want to give them the chance of experiencing similar joys in future?

 

[LCFCJohn]

30 minutes ago, Horibbly Wrong said:

I would. I will die happy having seen this miracle. Something that 99% of football fans haven't experienced.

(Don't get me wrong, I don't want the club to be liquidated)

Such a selfish, ‘I’m alright so stuff others’

attitude unfortunately.

[Katy]

18 minutes ago, Vestan Pance said:

You don't have to choose, we won both, and it didn't need to ruin the club. The incompetents running it did that. 

I know, obviously I know. It didn’t need to but it did and they have. I guess it’s all ifs, buts and maybes now. I’m just thinking aloud on a Sunday morning. 

[Horibbly Wrong]

19 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Good for you. 100% of future generations in Leicester wouldn't have a local team to support at all - let alone a successful one - if we ceased to exist.

 

This is half the problem. The "I've seen it all as a Leicester fan so whatever happens now doesn't matter" attitude. What about you kids, grandkids? Don't you want to give them the chance of experiencing similar joys in future?

 

My kids support Man City

[Horibbly Wrong]

11 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Such a selfish, ‘I’m alright so stuff others’

attitude unfortunately.

No, just recognising it was a once in a lifetime event. No need to get silly