Championship 2025/26 Season

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Unabomber said:

Agree but maybe £5m a year 

Agree, but Rudkin says £10m a year

[UniFox21]

Athletic article saying we'll need to sell Mads and Bhilal and then move on all high earners 

Wonderful 

[fox_favourite]

10 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Athletic article saying we'll need to sell Mads and Bhilal and then move on all high earners 

Wonderful 

I don't see that as a surprise it's something we all thought would be the case.

[Noahfence]

Stolarczyk 

Nelson 

Thomas 

Mavididi 

Fatawu 

Skipp

 

 

They’re surely the current lock ins for next season? 

[LCFCCKEANO]

2 hours ago, Noahfence said:

Stolarczyk 

Nelson 

Thomas 

Mavididi 

Fatawu 

Skipp

 

 

They’re surely the current lock ins for next season? 

Probably can throw Alves and Coulibaly on too

[Bluearmyfox28]

4 hours ago, Noahfence said:

Stolarczyk 

Nelson 

Thomas 

Mavididi 

Fatawu 

Skipp

 

 

They’re surely the current lock ins for next season? 

Stolarczyk

 

JJ (No one will want him)

Ricky P (Too injury prone to get a move)

Coulibaly

Nelson

Thomas 

 

Wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t invest in left back with 4 fullbacks and 2 capable of playing on the left.

 

Skipp

 

Mavididi

Fatawu

Alves

Monga

 

Evans 

 

Based of what I would class as locks we are looking good down the flanks for a championship team, but would need 1x goalie, 3x centre backs, 3x centre mids & 2x strikers. 

[LCFCJohn]

I actually don’t necessarily think we need a lot of work to have a strong 11 next season. This summer is more about shifting the expensive deadwood. Then the signings need to be targeted, starters in the positions we need. Both of these tasks are of course too much to expect from our board.

 

 Stolarcryk

Ricardo/Justin/Coulibaly

Okoli/Souttar

Nelson

Thomas

 

Skipp

New

 

Fatawu

Bilal

Mavididi

 

New

 

The main ones are a striker and central midfielder. Obviously if anyone (Bilal) leave they need replacing.

 

Centre back maybe as I suspect Souttar is still going to be injured so if Okoli leaves we would need a new starter there. Right back we have enough options when you consider the youth players also.

[JimmyC74]

14 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

I actually don’t necessarily think we need a lot of work to have a strong 11 next season. This summer is more about shifting the expensive deadwood. Then the signings need to be targeted, starters in the positions we need. Both of these tasks are of course too much to expect from our board.

 

 Stolarcryk

Ricardo/Justin/Coulibaly

Okoli/Souttar

Nelson

Thomas

 

Skipp

New

 

Fatawu

Bilal

Mavididi

 

New

 

The main ones are a striker and central midfielder. Obviously if anyone (Bilal) leave they need replacing.

 

Centre back maybe as I suspect Souttar is still going to be injured so if Okoli leaves we would need a new starter there. Right back we have enough options when you consider the youth players also.

The manager will be the most important piece of recruitment but then a striker (one who can hold up the ball, link play and score goals would be 👌 ).

 

 

 

[Pliskin]

11 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

Athletic article saying we'll need to sell Mads and Bhilal and then move on all high earners 

Wonderful 

I do think they will try their best to hold onto Bilal. They won’t want to sell him at a loss, which will be the sticking point. 

[Winstonthedog]

On 29/04/2025 at 14:36, Foxin_Mad said:

He hates Rudkin, they would have fallen out a long time ago. Although Nige has transformed himself and learnt, that's one of his biggest skills, he's willing to develop and change his approach and always learning, he reads a lot, I think he is seems quite happy living life with family so not sure if he'd ever get back into football. I think he could potentially be an excellent DOF. It would also be worth talking to some of the older managers who have tremendous experience and contacts in the game. Rudkin is just a failed PE Teacher, he doesn't have the contacts or quality to be operating where he is. 

If Rudkin was any use as DOF I'm sure other clubs would be after him ... if you look at his track record he is actually a financial liability with no vision or qualities that would attract the right kind of manager or players that the club needs 

Edited 5 May 2025 by Winstonthedog
Spelling error

[LCFCJohn]

43 minutes ago, JimmyC74 said:

The manager will be the most important piece of recruitment but then a striker (one who can hold up the ball, link play and score goals would be 👌 ).

 

 

 

Of course, 100%. And I suppose that will dictate business to an extent. Such as the type of striker we have for example.

[Winstonthedog]

1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:

I actually don’t necessarily think we need a lot of work to have a strong 11 next season. This summer is more about shifting the expensive deadwood. Then the signings need to be targeted, starters in the positions we need. Both of these tasks are of course too much to expect from our board.

 

 Stolarcryk

Ricardo/Justin/Coulibaly

Okoli/Souttar

Nelson

Thomas

 

Skipp

New

 

Fatawu

Bilal

Mavididi

 

New

 

The main ones are a striker and central midfielder. Obviously if anyone (Bilal) leave they need replacing.

 

Centre back maybe as I suspect Souttar is still going to be injured so if Okoli leaves we would need a new starter there. Right back we have enough options when you consider the youth players also.

What we need is people to change the culture within the club ... no players with hangovers of this season being taken into next season... and of this current squad who would you class to be good enough to play in the premiership if we were fortunate enough to gain promotion... not many if any 

[LCFCJohn]

1 minute ago, Winstonthedog said:

What we need is people to change the culture within the club ... no players with hangovers of this season being taken into next season... and of this current squad who would you class to be good enough to play in the premiership if we were fortunate enough to gain promotion... not many if any 

I agree about the culture. But the more I think about it, I think there are a handful of them who have a bad attitude, are lazy or just bas for the team. They are the likes of:

Faes

Vestergaard

Coady

Soumare

Winks

Ward

 

I think players like JJ and Ndidi have had their day here and Daka has just not succeeded at all. But those 6 above, if you could shift them, I think you have a squad left with a number of young players and the more senior ones, say Skipp, Souttar and even Mavididi, are not bad eggs. Get key signings right with the right mindset then I think the majority could recover from this. It would need a new manager of course.

 

In terms of good enough play in the Premier League, maybe some aren’t. But we can’t fix that overnight. I would hope the focus is on the new signings meeting this criteria. This along with shifting as much of the deadwood and bad characters from above would be good work done. Based on what I put above and whether they would be good enough: 

 

Stolarcryk - has already showed his is not out of place

Ricardo/Justin/Coulibaly - hmm. Don’t know, JJ I don’t think so. Ricardo is not getting younger. Coulibaly unknown. We have some youngsters too so keep an eye on this position. 

Okoli/Souttar - maybe, maybe not. I would hope if we could shift Vestergaard, Coady and Faes either this summer or next there would be room to bring a new CB in. Souttar and Okoli are good enough to be in the squad.

 

Nelson - definitely should be PL ready after a full year for us in the Championship.

 

Thomas - I don’t even know anymore. Why not if he has a good year and gets his confidence back but ultimately unknown.

 

Skipp - I don’t think so. But he’s on a long contract. Let’s use him this coming season and hopefully sign better if we return.

 

Fatawu

Bilal

Mavididi

 

I think the above 3 are certainly good enough. Mavididi has not had a good year but he has still scored a few when given a chance 
 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

2 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

I actually don’t necessarily think we need a lot of work to have a strong 11 next season. This summer is more about shifting the expensive deadwood. Then the signings need to be targeted, starters in the positions we need. Both of these tasks are of course too much to expect from our board.

 

 Stolarcryk

Ricardo/Justin/Coulibaly

Okoli/Souttar

Nelson

Thomas

 

Skipp

New

 

Fatawu

Bilal

Mavididi

 

New

 

The main ones are a striker and central midfielder. Obviously if anyone (Bilal) leave they need replacing.

 

Centre back maybe as I suspect Souttar is still going to be injured so if Okoli leaves we would need a new starter there. Right back we have enough options when you consider the youth players also.

I agree with all of this.

 

We don't necessarily need a revolution. We need to shift the twats like Coady, Faes, Vestegaard, Winks that think they're too good for the championship (they've all proven that they aren't), promote what we already have and then make some sensible additions in the right areas.

 

If we had a competent DoF and ownership structure it wouldn't be an impossible task.

[87fox]

Quote

They had a budget of £107million ($142m at current rates) two years ago — £30m more than their rivals — but this time, they will probably be placed under an EFL business plan, which will restrict their budget and force them to sell. But it may not be easy to move on high earners who are unwilling to accept lower wages at other clubs, or even find buyers.

Rob Tanner saying in The Athletic this morning that we are likely to be placed under a business plan by the EFL and forced to sell.

[FoxinNotts]

I think people are under the impression that it is easy to move players on. I think it will be hard to shift the likes of Justin, Vestergaard, Daka, Ayew, BDCR

I do think we’ll move on the likes of Kristiensen, Faes, Coady, Soumare, a lot easier.

[alanf0x]

13 minutes ago, 87fox said:

Rob Tanner saying in The Athletic this morning that we are likely to be placed under a business plan by the EFL and forced to sell.

The club are probably waiting for the EFL business plan rather than drawing up their own!! It might give them some ideas

[Lad1966]

18 minutes ago, 87fox said:

Rob Tanner saying in The Athletic this morning that we are likely to be placed under a business plan by the EFL and forced to sell.

Based on what? 

[K789]

38 minutes ago, Lad1966 said:

Based on what? 

He hasn't got much of a clue

[LVFox]

1 hour ago, 87fox said:

Rob Tanner saying in The Athletic this morning that we are likely to be placed under a business plan by the EFL and forced to sell.

With our owners, probably a good thing for someone else to do our business plan!

[ClaphamFox]

52 minutes ago, Lad1966 said:

Based on what? 

He doesn't say why or even if he expects it to be imposed this summer or later on in the season when we submit our 2025/26 projected accounts. It's maddening - I wish journalists would not just lob in these casual comments without backing them up.

[dannythefox]

On 04/05/2025 at 19:07, UniFox21 said:

Athletic article saying we'll need to sell Mads and Bhilal and then move on all high earners 

Wonderful 

Happy days.

[Parker Pen]

10 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

He doesn't say why or even if he expects it to be imposed this summer or later on in the season when we submit our 2025/26 projected accounts. It's maddening - I wish journalists would not just lob in these casual comments without backing them up.

Exactly! How would they know when nobody in the club’s hierarchy speaks to the press anyway. It’s so annoying when football journalists speculate with stories that have no veracity.

[LVFox]

It's all well and good saying we need to move the high earners on, I imagine that's Ricardo, Vestergaard, Coady, Faes, Soumare, Ndidi, Winks, Ayew, BDCR & Daka, maybe JJ too.

 

Problem is, we will do fantastically well to move half of those on. Even more annoying is that only 4 or 5 of those contracts were on place the last time we got relegated. 

 

I can honestly see a scenario where only Hermansen, Bilal, Soumare and Faes leave, and the latter two could easily only be loans.

[ClaphamFox]

I'd do it personally, even if it meant we had to cough up a year's salary for him to bugger off.

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/centre-back-contract-could-cancelled-10168430