A Call for Change: A Footballing Reset at Leicester City Football Club

[Lesta Legend]

Potter a manager whom we’re led to believe was on the verge of taking over but wanted his own DOF. Changes West Ham are making are what we would be seeing now and yes that snivelling cretin protected himself but if Top had anything about him, he’d have jumped at this and overseen needed changes. 

[dmayne7]

 

 

11 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

I wonder if they will go crawling back to others who wanted the role but had to leave

And it's exactly why we need a change of ownership, or at least sweeping changes at board level to ensure that non of the current decision makers still have those roles. Then Top is an actual conventional chairman, rather than a football chairman.

 

Removing Rudkin will do very little.

[Finnegan]

20 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Top would be absolutely clueless when it comes to replacing Rudkin. Rudkin is supposedly the football 'brain' and we still had to use a recruitment firm to pick up Glover.

 

If the penny hasn't dropped for the just sack Rudkin brigade that Top is a moron - it never will.

 

I can't really get my head around the mentality really. 

 

If I had the money to buy a football club, I'm pretty sure the first thing I'd be doing is doing my research and shopping around. 

 

Talk to other owners and former owners, look at the clubs that do well around Europe, look at how they work and what they're doing well. 

 

You're a billionaire, you can probably reach out and have a conversation with most people on the planet if you want to. I'm sure Michael Zorc or Hans-Joachim Watzke would take a free dinner if you wanted to bend their ear for a couple of hours on how they turned Dortmund from the brink of administration in to a modern power house. 

 

It's hard to poach and buy the best footballers in the world, they cost tens of millions, but it's probably a lot easier to go and poach quality staff and pay them handsomely to come rebuild your club. We had the right idea with Enzo, hire a top coach who's currently stuck in his progression because he can't be promoted internally while the manager is there. 

 

Well what young, brilliant analysts are working with Txiki Begeristain have no upward mobility in their role because he's there and are ready to step out on their own as a head of recruitment or a sporting director? 

 

We paid hundreds of millions to build world class facilities that can legitimately compete with Man City, Real Madrid et all. It would cost a fraction of that to then go and staff it with equally capable bodies but we just seem to never have done so. 

 

I just don't get it. 

 

It shouldn't be as complex as it is but we don't even appear to try. 

 

[AKCJ]

43 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Having a conversation about this at work, literally no one else has the slightest clue nor can they understand why we are angry. The main one being “you’re mad at the same board who won you the league and the FA cup”…. And then when you try to explain why, they just aren’t interested and just hear winging………

 

 

"I'd give my right arm for my club to win the Premier League and FA Cup".

 

Heard that one a lot.

[CosbehFox]

3 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

"I'd give my right arm for my club to win the Premier League and FA Cup".

 

Heard that one a lot.

The question I would often rephrase in reply to this sort of thing is. 

 

If Man U won the league & cup and then ended up relegated twice in three years, would you expect the fans to be annoyed?

If Villa did the same, would you expect their fans to be annoyed? 

So why should Leicester fans accept similar? Just accept that we are by default a smaller club who shouldn't show ambition or use the success to stabilise themselves? 

 

It's the punching down nonsense prevalent in British society 

[Stadt]

8 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

I can't really get my head around the mentality really. 

 

If I had the money to buy a football club, I'm pretty sure the first thing I'd be doing is doing my research and shopping around. 

 

Talk to other owners and former owners, look at the clubs that do well around Europe, look at how they work and what they're doing well. 

 

You're a billionaire, you can probably reach out and have a conversation with most people on the planet if you want to. I'm sure Michael Zorc or Hans-Joachim Watzke would take a free dinner if you wanted to bend their ear for a couple of hours on how they turned Dortmund from the brink of administration in to a modern power house. 

 

It's hard to poach and buy the best footballers in the world, they cost tens of millions, but it's probably a lot easier to go and poach quality staff and pay them handsomely to come rebuild your club. We had the right idea with Enzo, hire a top coach who's currently stuck in his progression because he can't be promoted internally while the manager is there. 

 

Well what young, brilliant analysts are working with Txiki Begeristain have no upward mobility in their role because he's there and are ready to step out on their own as a head of recruitment or a sporting director? 

 

We paid hundreds of millions to build world class facilities that can legitimately compete with Man City, Real Madrid et all. It would cost a fraction of that to then go and staff it with equally capable bodies but we just seem to never have done so. 

 

I just don't get it. 

 

It shouldn't be as complex as it is but we don't even appear to try. 

 

Completely agree.. You could just pay Ted Knutsen (statsbomb founder, exited recently) about £100k in consultancy fees and he'd appoint a top 5 analysis team in the world - probably what we pay Ward in wages each year.

 

Football isn't that difficult, even this bunch of f ucking morons had us in the top 5 twice.

Top is some combination of being stupid, lazy and negligent. If he was lazy or negligent, just appoint a better DOF and it makes your life easier!

 

The Leicester job in some ways would be amazing for the right DoF, you have so much autonomy (probably too much), you could run the club how you want. Instead we have a crap/lazy owner and a crap/lazy DoF, what a doozy.

Edited 20 January 2025 by Stadt

[Number 6]

48 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Having a conversation about this at work, literally no one else has the slightest clue nor can they understand why we are angry. The main one being “you’re mad at the same board who won you the league and the FA cup”…. And then when you try to explain why, they just aren’t interested and just hear winging………

 

 

To be fair there's not been tons of media coverage on it and most neutrals probably think this is our level. Along with KP doing the donuts, beers to keep good PR. 

 

It works the other way too, I don't have the same understanding of inner workings to know why Spurs are protesting Levy for instance. We're all going to be much closer to goings on at our own clubs. 

 

This is why a protest could be effective though. The perception of how we're run is very different outside Leicester to inside.

[jayfox26]

52 minutes ago, dnewty said:

 

Finally some sense. This has perfectly described the feeling amongst out fan base. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

On 18/01/2025 at 18:31, OntarioFox said:

Anyone got some paint, posts and stakes? Could bang a banner up outside the training ground entrance in the middle of the night.

I know a farmer with a few pitchforks if that helps?

[The boy Linacre]

26 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Who gives a shit about what anyone else thinks

In May 2005 Malcolm Glazer took ownership of 75% Manure.

5 titles till 2013, 1 European Cup, 1

Europa League, 2 FA & League Cups since Alex went. 

 

Owners still mess it up and its upsetting

Edited 20 January 2025 by The boy Linacre

[FLAN]

50 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Good way to increase the numbers of the protest 

Can’t work out if you are dogging me out for putting people off, or pointing out joining will mean you don’t have to witness the debacle on the pitch 

[aklaxon]

Here's some context you can share with those casual football fans, or football fans that have never noticed Leicester were in the Premier League.

 

2015-2022 7 years, not just a blip, not just a fluke or a miracle, 7 years when Leicester were a top side. That included:

 

Only 1 season where they finished in the bottom half.

That season was the season played in the Champions League.

2 fifth-place finishes.

1 season where they spent the most time in first place (before Liverpool eventually won it)

1 year in the Europa League

1 year in the Conference League, with a semi-final finish

1 Community Sheild

1 FA Cup

1 Premier League title

 

With all of that success, the club never capitalised commercially or organisationally, leading to, between 2021-2023 the club losing over £210million, when the Premier League rules only permit £105mil over the same period.

Relegation to the Championship followed an 8th placed finish, and the year in Conference League.

And now Leicester are headed for an eternity in the EFL fighting court cases, transfer embargoes and points deductions.

We're not "entitled" as a fan base, we actually were a "top side", we've won trophies more recently than some other "top sides". 

 

We are entitled to a voice. Let's use it. 

[AKCJ]

9 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

The question I would often rephrase in reply to this sort of thing is. 

 

If Man U won the league & cup and then ended up relegated twice in three years, would you expect the fans to be annoyed?

If Villa did the same, would you expect their fans to be annoyed? 

So why should Leicester fans accept similar? Just accept that we are by default a smaller club who shouldn't show ambition or use the success to stabilise themselves? 

 

It's the punching down nonsense prevalent in British society 

100% agree with you.

 

But there's a Stoke fan in my office that reckons he'd be perfectly fine with it. You can't reason with him because it will only ever be a fantasy in his head.

 

 

 

[CosbehFox]

3 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

100% agree with you.

 

But there's a Stoke fan in my office that reckons he'd be perfectly fine with it. You can't reason with him because it will only ever be a fantasy in his head.

 

 

 

He must not support Stoke actively because they are the perfect example of just giving up on something they had and their fanbase is very much divided like ours currently (ironic given I’ve been speaking to Stoke fan this lunch) 

[Paninistickers]

1 hour ago, Stadt said:

Football isn't that difficult, even this bunch of f ucking morons had us in the top 5 twice.

Absolutely spot on. 

 

 

[AKCJ]

9 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

He must not support Stoke actively because they are the perfect example of just giving up on something they had and their fanbase is very much divided like ours currently (ironic given I’ve been speaking to Stoke fan this lunch) 

Yeah but they didn't actually do anything. 

 

They came up, pissed off Wenger for a few years and then got relegated.

[Finnaldo]

2 hours ago, dnewty said:

 

There’s no guarantee he’d want to (or that his employers would allow him to) but could be a lot worse than trying to get Jason in as a spokesperson. Well known locally through his time at RL, good communication links and media network and clearly aligned to the thinking on this issue. Would offer a great platform to organise off of and any attempt to silence him as they do with the common rabble either on here or via stadium bans would be massively amplified and showcase the despotic nature that’s kept out the mainstream eye.  

[dnewty]

Notice how Stringers gone very quiet ….

[Nolucklcfc]

2 minutes ago, dnewty said:

Notice how Stringers gone very quiet ….

Absolutely loves Top. 

Edited 20 January 2025 by Nolucklcfc

[ozvaldo]

Hi all,
I've started another thread that could nicely coincide with this initiative.

I'm trying to raise donations to have a mobile digital billboard drive up and down around the ground before the next home game.  The billboard will share a range of appropriate but hard-hitting messages towards the board.

If people would like to donate, the link is here: https://gofund.me/f8001aad

If you'd like to submit a message to feature on the van, please share one on Twitter making sure you use the hashtag: #LCFCbillboard and we'll collate them from there.

 

Please share with other city fans.

 

Cheers.

 

[RoboFox]

3 minutes ago, dnewty said:

Notice how Stringers gone very quiet ….

He's no more connected to the club than you or I these days. 

[TheGoldenGod]

Only around a week ago I said if the ownership don't come out and communicate with us that it'll reach boiling point with the fanbase...to which I got a couple replies saying something like"it won't reach boiling point because FT is not indictive of the wider fanbase or match going fans.

 

Funny how quickly it seems to have changed and I wonder if those same posters have realised it really wasn't that far away at all! 

 

Hopefully we can all unite!

[RonnieTodger]

49 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

He's no more connected to the club than you or I these days. 

He was absolutely clueless anyway. I remember him tweeting “from what I’ve heard, don’t be surprised if Leicester go for Benitez”. We appointed Rodgers the following day. 

[Trekerz]

Top is currently in Spain at the fun fair by the way🤣.  No wonder he had to leave after the first half on Saturday 

[VictorFox]

2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

I can't really get my head around the mentality really. 

 

If I had the money to buy a football club, I'm pretty sure the first thing I'd be doing is doing my research and shopping around. 

 

Talk to other owners and former owners, look at the clubs that do well around Europe, look at how they work and what they're doing well. 

 

You're a billionaire, you can probably reach out and have a conversation with most people on the planet if you want to. I'm sure Michael Zorc or Hans-Joachim Watzke would take a free dinner if you wanted to bend their ear for a couple of hours on how they turned Dortmund from the brink of administration in to a modern power house. 

 

It's hard to poach and buy the best footballers in the world, they cost tens of millions, but it's probably a lot easier to go and poach quality staff and pay them handsomely to come rebuild your club. We had the right idea with Enzo, hire a top coach who's currently stuck in his progression because he can't be promoted internally while the manager is there. 

 

Well what young, brilliant analysts are working with Txiki Begeristain have no upward mobility in their role because he's there and are ready to step out on their own as a head of recruitment or a sporting director? 

 

We paid hundreds of millions to build world class facilities that can legitimately compete with Man City, Real Madrid et all. It would cost a fraction of that to then go and staff it with equally capable bodies but we just seem to never have done so. 

 

I just don't get it. 

 

It shouldn't be as complex as it is but we don't even appear to try. 

 

We genuinely do have the foundations to be a really successful football club, but we 100% need the right people running it and that probably won’t happen unless we get new ownership