New Ownership

[Foxin_Mad]

4 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

 

 

It’s all about respect / reputation / being seen to be valued Thai royal family friends… and that money may be well spent to keep the monopoly going… but it’s terrible training for how to run a business in an advanced capitalist country

This is spot on. I wish people would stop with the 'ruining his dads legacy' stuff. Let's get it straight King Power have never known what they are doing, they have always come with clingons. They got rich by corruption and got lucky with the structure set up by Pearson, Walsh and Shakey. They were given a brief refresh by Puel and Macia and now they haven't a clue. 

 

They need someone who knows to run a business and someone who understands football, preferably someone who understands sports science, fitness, developing young players, raw players etc, players cast off with something to prove, good scouting and obscure talents from overseas, not all these wannabes we seem to get now. 

[dmayne7]

6 minutes ago, ARTY_FOX said:

He might learn though. His dad did, so can only hope really. 

He absolutely won't and it's madness you think he will. Vichai made some early mistakes then had loads of successes. Top was around for that so should have picked up on it. Top has made mistakes after mistake, overseeing a catastrophic demise of not only the club, but his/KP's financial investment in the club. And what changes has he made at absolute crisis with so many clear issues? Absolutely none.

 

He doesn't care about the football club anymore and he's got 0 desire to correct things. I understand why people would initially hold this hope when we went down, as I did (though that was more in hope than expectation) but to still believe that at this point? It's essential for the long term future of this club that he sells up ASAP.

[Guppys Love Child]

12 hours ago, Happy Fox said:

Sell the club , or get rid of Rudkin / Whelan and restructure the board if he doesn’t do the latter he has to do the former.

I think it needs both.

 

New owner(s) to inject.capital, but more importantly to bring  in new life and Ideas into the club.

The KP way is just not working at present, it's gone stale, and Top is too weak or just not interested enough anymore to change it.

Rudkin, Whelan and Co desperately need to go, and under new owners I'd like to think that would happen.

I'd also like to think our premiership win shows we have potential, we have best in class training facilities, and the KP isn't a shabby 15000 capacity stadium. Chuck in the already acquired  surrounding land and on hold expansion plans  that could still go ahead and we do show a bit of a future.

 

We do have a product worth buying 

 

A new ethos, a need board and a bit of a refresh at pitch level and the good times may come back.

 

But it needs new owners to kick start the process off..

[MonarchFox]

26 minutes ago, Guppys Love Child said:

I think it needs both.

 

New owner(s) to inject.capital, but more importantly to bring  in new life and Ideas into the club.

The KP way is just not working at present, it's gone stale, and Top is too weak or just not interested enough anymore to change it.

Rudkin, Whelan and Co desperately need to go, and under new owners I'd like to think that would happen.

I'd also like to think our premiership win shows we have potential, we have best in class training facilities, and the KP isn't a shabby 15000 capacity stadium. Chuck in the already acquired  surrounding land and on hold expansion plans  that could still go ahead and we do show a bit of a future.

 

We do have a product worth buying 

 

A new ethos, a need board and a bit of a refresh at pitch level and the good times may come back.

 

But it needs new owners to kick start the process off..

Genuine question.  How do new owners inject capital with PSR constraints.

 

I can't see how they can, Newcastle can't spend and they have billions.

 

We will be in the same mess whoever comes in

[J. James]

2 hours ago, Bilo said:

I'd just call him a nonce every day on every bit of social media I could lay my hands on.

Lol.. Ahh but free speech doesn't stretch to criticising Elon Goebbels or his boss the new fuhrer, all that sort of comment is false and will be banned on national security grounds.

[The Doctor]

28 minutes ago, MonarchFox said:

Genuine question.  How do new owners inject capital with PSR constraints.

 

I can't see how they can, Newcastle can't spend and they have billions.

 

We will be in the same mess whoever comes in

depends if the PL are closing up the selling to yourself loophole that Chelsea use.

[Guppys Love Child]

27 minutes ago, MonarchFox said:

Genuine question.  How do new owners inject capital with PSR constraints.

 

I can't see how they can, Newcastle can't spend and they have billions.

 

We will be in the same mess whoever comes in

That my friend is as very good and valid point.  I have no Idea.

 

I don't think the lack of money is our problem under the KP owners. It's as you correctly stated the PSR constraints in spending it. 

 

The biggest crime is the gross misconduct and incompetence of how the respective members of the hierarchy have conducted our business with the money, poor player acquisition,  inflated fee's, stupid contacts, duff managers etc. the failures are all well documented on his forum.

 

If done correctly I think we would have been a bit more comfortable from a PSR standpoint, and probably not in the current mess, and this thread wouldn't have been created.

 

But unfortunately we are in the situation.

 

Do we think Top has the guts to clear out the multiple culprits who caused this debacle...No IMO,  and if going by his solo track record as owner so far would you trust him to the replacements right?  Again No IMO.

 

He's let this cr@p run on for far to long. and is suffering from Pearson's Ostrich Syndrome..

 

Hence my view on a change of ownership to give us a chance at getting it right.

 

[Dahnsouff]

25 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

depends if the PL are closing up the selling to yourself loophole that Chelsea use.

You could imagine the PL closing that, but can they stop the massive variation in player sale prices between clubs? Feels a bit more difficult

[Mickyblueeyes]

We are not spending this window because in the summer we spunked our highest net spend. The issue here is that where the clubs money is being spent, it’s being done carelessly. From Seagrave to player investment. The actual investment from the owner is secondary to the underlined issue.

[Bilo]

1 hour ago, Guppys Love Child said:

I think it needs both.

 

New owner(s) to inject.capital, but more importantly to bring  in new life and Ideas into the club.

The KP way is just not working at present, it's gone stale, and Top is too weak or just not interested enough anymore to change it.

Rudkin, Whelan and Co desperately need to go, and under new owners I'd like to think that would happen.

I'd also like to think our premiership win shows we have potential, we have best in class training facilities, and the KP isn't a shabby 15000 capacity stadium. Chuck in the already acquired  surrounding land and on hold expansion plans  that could still go ahead and we do show a bit of a future.

 

We do have a product worth buying 

 

A new ethos, a need board and a bit of a refresh at pitch level and the good times may come back.

 

But it needs new owners to kick start the process off..

On this point, I think foreign investors without the emotional attachment would look at our performances between 2018 and 2021 to see that the 2016 title win wasn't a fluke. We were well run, competitive, ambitious and looked set to be a club punching above its weight for years to come. And we did it without spending vast sums.

 

The 2018 transfer window involved a decent young Championship midfielder from Norwich, a 22-year-old Turkish centre-back from a midtable Bundesliga club and a bit-part right-back from Porto who'd spent two years on loan at Nice. Not the most ambitious transfer window on paper, but they formed the core of a team that would threaten the top six and play some of the best football in Europe at times.

 

And since then, we've built world-class training facilities with solid investment in youth. Plus we're a one club county with a genuinely huge catchment area of almost 750,000 people. 

 

If Top wanted to sell, he wouldn't be short of buyers. 

[justfoxes]

2 hours ago, dmayne7 said:

He's not going to change though is he? Hell continually pick the wrong people and get his priorities wrong. He's out of his depth.

 

Changing Rudkin needs to happen, but only with Top going. It's pointless otherwise because he'll just bring in somebody crap

I don’t think Top will do anything about Rudkin because he has the 3 roles for KP, why doesn’t he just move Rudkin Sidewards if he still wants to stay mates with him as that’s the trouble he sees Rudkin as his knowledge of the football club and I’m wondering if VICHAI would have put up with his failings for so long?

 

So time for Top to bite the Bullet and Remove the useless Rudkin and co get in people who actually know what they are doing to run a football club successfully if he hasn’t got the love for this challenge anymore then Top needs to think about selling the club before they send it into oblivion !

[Leicester_Loyal]

Top is a problem, just like Rudkin is. 
 

We need to remove both, not just one. Top needs to stop being put on this invisible platform like he’s some sort of great owner or smart businessman, he hasn’t been for us. 

[MattFox]

If Top was astute or smart he’d have binned Rudkin in 2023 when most would have given him the benefit of the doubt

 

This time the heat will be on him too

[bosnianfox1884]

Can we get Qataris in? They wanted to buy Leeds  

[Bilo]

17 hours ago, cityfanlee23 said:

RB Leicester, I really don't care anymore. 

I would be advocating for an FC Leicester Fosse to enter the Leicestershire Senior League and playing at the Saff Stadium. 

[Iwebema]

2 minutes ago, Bilo said:

I would be advocating for an FC Leicester Fosse to enter the Leicestershire Senior League and playing at the Saff Stadium. 

Can we do that anyway 😅

[Bilo]

2 minutes ago, Iwebema said:

Can we do that anyway 😅

Local derbies against Friar Lane & Epworth? Sod it, I'm game.

[Bilo]

15 minutes ago, bosnianfox1884 said:

Can we get Qataris in? They wanted to buy Leeds  

Interesting. Especially in light of the chatter about Amanda Staveley earlier in the thread. I'm amazed that QSI haven't thought to buy into English football yet, especially given that they have basically been able to buy a de facto monopoly in French football with PSG.

[Iwebema]

4 minutes ago, Bilo said:

Local derbies against Friar Lane & Epworth? Sod it, I'm game.

Excellent, I'm already excited about the fan arguments "Be careful what you wish for, we used to be in the Leicestershire Senior League"

[Bilo]

2 minutes ago, Iwebema said:

Excellent, I'm already excited about the fan arguments "Be careful what you wish for, we used to be in the Leicestershire Senior League"

"Westerby Group Challenge Cup Winners, you'll never sing that."

[Iwebema]

1 minute ago, Bilo said:

"Westerby Group Challenge Cup Winners, you'll never sing that."

Bilo had a dream...

[Bilo]

3 minutes ago, Iwebema said:

Bilo had a dream...

Came from Wigston and now he's one of our own 

We play on the Saff

We piss in the bath

That boy Jon Rudkin 

We think he's a twat

[Lesta Legend]

17 minutes ago, Bilo said:

Interesting. Especially in light of the chatter about Amanda Staveley earlier in the thread. I'm amazed that QSI haven't thought to buy into English football yet, especially given that they have basically been able to buy a de facto monopoly in French football with PSG.

Might be down to the human rights abuses of its evil regime. Much publicised but we’d be ok to sell our souls for these. No thanks. 

[Bilo]

Just now, Lesta Legend said:

Might be down to the human rights abuses of its evil regime. Much publicised but we’d be ok to sell our souls for these. No thanks. 

Saudi Arabia is hardly the Norwegian Labour Party but still managed to invest, and you've more chance of successfully completing a DBS check for Ian Huntley than you are of finding an ethical billionaire. 

 

QSI and the Middle East aren't going away in world football and buying into a club that's famous for the most miraculous title win in the most watched league on Earth would appeal if it's for sale.

[The Doctor]

2 hours ago, Dahnsouff said:

You could imagine the PL closing that, but can they stop the massive variation in player sale prices between clubs? Feels a bit more difficult

yea, there doesn't seem to be a viable route to fixing that but also, we don't really have much good youth to sell at the sort of value we'd need to for a proper injection, the only man stupid enough to pay 7 figure sums for Hamza, Thomas and McAteer, even as a PSR fiddle, is already at the club