The definitive list of King Power / John Rudkin c**k ups.

[honeybradger]

2 hours ago, Noahfence said:

Knowing us we’d reject their bids for them  

I've reacted with a laughing emote but in reality im crying inside because im almost certain that the club would reject reasonable or even generous bids for Justin and Faes if they came in this summer.

[The Year Of The Fox]

11 hours ago, Noahfence said:

I remember being utterly speechless at the 14 seconds fiasco. I just assumed it was someone on the wind up and it had all gone through fine. 
 

He should’ve gone after that

 

Typical Leicester fans too though. 
 

Got their knickers in a twist over someone who turned out to be shite 

Edited 1 March by The Year Of The Fox

[iancognito]

10 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Typical Leicester fans too though. 
 

Got their knickers in a twist over someone who turned out to be shite 

Harsh tbf

 

He barely played and when he did Puel was bringing him on as a sub for Matty James. Another one who was decent everywhere but here.

[Dmitry]

21 hours ago, Bob666 said:

Enough said 

Which one's Rudkin?

[honeybradger]

 

I think the ultimate screw up is the board room led transition from our dynamic, hardworking, quick transition football style to ponderous possession football. As stated in the thread we used to focus on scouting players who were quick on transition, had high stamina, high ball recovery who could keep a high level up to the end of the 90 minutes, which is when we were most dominant in our title winning side. Now we have a front 3 with a combined age of 100, including Ayew who gets gassed after 40 minutes and sideways pass specialists in midfield in Winks and Soumare who barely cover any ground. 

 

I keep hearing how possession football is the modern way and 'boot it and run' is outdated, on the contrary the way the club targeted a specific style that could perform at a high level on a low budget was the most forward thinking the club has ever and will ever be. We will likely never win the league again but that shouldnt stop us from looking back at what worked and try to emulate that.

[TheGoldenGod]

On 28/02/2025 at 16:49, splinterdream said:

Uh? Everyone saying he only got 6 months, that's weird.

 

He should be starting then because we need to incorporate these players for next season now

If not already posted- https://www.lcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/new-leicester-city-deal-for-kasey-mcateer. 

Thought it was common knowledge he'd signed a deal. The issue isn't the fact people thought he had 6 months, it's the fact he's pony and we could have got £10m (if Sunderland got promoted I believe) which is still a deal worth taking because he's nowhere near the squad at PL level, injuries or not. The experience in the championship was a no-brainer.

Edited 6 March by TheGoldenGod

[Fox92]

3 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

 

I think the ultimate screw up is the board room led transition from our dynamic, hardworking, quick transition football style to ponderous possession football. As stated in the thread we used to focus on scouting players who were quick on transition, had high stamina, high ball recovery who could keep a high level up to the end of the 90 minutes, which is when we were most dominant in our title winning side. Now we have a front 3 with a combined age of 100, including Ayew who gets gassed after 40 minutes and sideways pass specialists in midfield in Winks and Soumare who barely cover any ground. 

 

I keep hearing how possession football is the modern way and 'boot it and run' is outdated, on the contrary the way the club targeted a specific style that could perform at a high level on a low budget was the most forward thinking the club has ever and will ever be. We will likely never win the league again but that shouldnt stop us from looking back at what worked and try to emulate that.

Don't want to put a downer on anything but we had one good season like that. It's not like we were playing like that and being successful years before 2016, title win was out of nowhere and for one season we were superb.

 

If we talk about a sustained successful period for the club then it should be the Rodgers era because his first three seasons we're 5th, 5th, 8th and a with a major trophy won too. It wasn't just a one off like 15/16 was.

[Aus Fox]

On 02/03/2025 at 08:54, Dmitry said:

Which one's Rudkin?

The one who’s drink is about to leave on a free…

[AKCJ]

Just gone to edit this but I can't so pretty much everything after the first page and a half needs to be added  

[Sol thewall Bamba]

6 minutes ago, TheGoldenGod said:

If not already posted- https://www.lcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/new-leicester-city-deal-for-kasey-mcateer. 

Thought it was common knowledge he'd signed a deal. The issue isn't the fact people thought he had 6 months, it's the fact he's pony and we could have got £10m (if Sunderland got promoted I believe) which is still a deal worth taking because he's nowhere near the squad at PL level, injuries or not. The experience in the championship was a no-brainer.

Turning down that offer for him, and then him not making the bench since would be headline news at a competent club. 

 

Here's it's the joke of the day and is then forgotten as soon as the next **** up comes along.

[honeybradger]

3 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Don't want to put a downer on anything but we had one good season like that. It's not like we were playing like that and being successful years before 2016, title win was out of nowhere and for one season we were superb.

 

If we talk about a sustained successful period for the club then it should be the Rodgers era because his first three seasons we're 5th, 5th, 8th and a with a major trophy won too. It wasn't just a one off like 15/16 was.

You remember that period differently from myself. The way i remember it we were in lower midtable/borderline relegation form for over half of his first season and the third season was the beginning of a collapse that led to our relegation. There was very little that was sustainable about that side, we would look invincible for 10 games and hopeless for the next 15, it was about highly talented individuals turning up on the day to win us games rather than a team fighting for points like the title winning side.

 

The only reason we were able to attract talent like Maddison, Tielemans, Ricardo etc is because of the title win but that side was not well assembled and was never equal or better than the sum of its parts for a whole season.

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, honeybradger said:

You remember that period differently from myself. The way i remember it we were in lower midtable/borderline relegation form for over half of his first season and the third season was the beginning of a collapse that led to our relegation. There was very little that was sustainable about that side, we would look invincible for 10 games and hopeless for the next 15, it was about highly talented individuals turning up on the day to win us games rather than a team fighting for points like the title winning side.

 

The only reason we were able to attract talent like Maddison, Tielemans, Ricardo etc is because of the title win but that side was not well assembled and was never equal or better than the sum of its parts for a whole season.

I'm not remembering that era differently, which is why I mentioned just the three seasons. We were hit and miss but prior to Christmas 19/20 we played the best football I've ever seen us play. We used to hammer teams, I'm sure we put 5 past Newcastle two seasons running, going into home games so confident. But what I meant is that style of play was different from 15/16 and was successful for a longer period. 15/16 was just one season.

 

The title win obviously did make us more attractable but we were attractive to players anyway. We took Maddison from the Championship, if we hadn't had won the league we would have still been attractable to him, for example. 

[Dan]

On 28/02/2025 at 18:32, moore_94 said:

The list I did previously in the Rudkin thread

 

 

17/18

Adrien Silva - 14 seconds late

 

18/19

Danny Ward - £12m on a backup keeper

 

19/20

Ryan Bennett - only signing in January on deadline day whilst fighting for Champions League

 

20/21

Islam Slimani left for free (cost £28m)

Adrien Silva released by mutual consent (cost 22m)

 

21/22

Jannick Vestergaard

Ryan Bertrand

We genuinely signed half of the defence we stuck 9 past previously

Filip Benkovic released by mutual consent (cost £13m)

 

22/23

Sold Kasper

Fofana dragged on until the end of the window

Only signed Wout Faes

Unable to sign Lookman

1 permanent first team signing and 0 loans in

Finally decided to spend in January and spent it on shite and a fake Brazilian

Rodgers in charge for WAY too long

 

23/24

£107m worth of players left for free

Tielemans left for free (cost £40m)

Soyuncu left for free (cost £19m)

Amartey left for free (cost £5m)

Perez left for free (cost £30m)

Mendy left for free (cost £13m)

Had to sell Maddison and Barnes under their value

Conor Coady 3 year contract

 

24/25

Hired Steve Cooper

Had to sell KDH who didn't want to leave

Iheanacho left for free (cost £25m)

Praet left for free (cost £18m)

De-Cordova Reid - 3 year contract

Jordan Ayew - 2 year contract + £5m

Oliver Skipp - £20m - bench player

Caleb Okoli - £13m - bench player that might leave already

Odsonne Edouard - loan with no option to terminate and apparently expensive loan fee/wages covered

As of 2nd February whilst under serious threat of relegation again we have only signed 1 player - a back up right back for £2m

I think this season is the worst of the lot. They've had all the warnings you could possibly want, cheated death and they've served up this utter shambles.

 

It's the sort of thing that makes me think you know what, it can't truly be that hard to make it in the game. Because I honestly think I could've done no worse than this.

[Dan]

On 28/02/2025 at 19:48, ashbyj said:

Demari Grey is always my first thought..

Thought Gray was actually quite a good signing despite him not working out for us. £4mil or something for a young English winger was a bargain.

 

If the Bournemouth bid was legit though they need their heads checking. That's another £15-20mil just burnt.

[Dan]

On 01/03/2025 at 14:41, Mickyblueeyes said:

I’m 4 years they have taken a side in the top 6 of the PL with multiple million pound sales, a marketing ploy you couldn’t buy, a squad packed with assets and flipped them to such extent nearest rivals who were at one time or the other in the relegation zone in the 2nd tier are both about to surpass them. 
 

If someone told any fan, not just Leicester but any fan, including a happy clappy cuckold **** like Ginetta 4 years ago that we will potentially be below Cov and ****ing Forest, they’d laugh at you. 
 

 

What would happen if you put Chansiri in charge of Aston Villa tomorrow? Where would they be in four years?

 

I'm not even convinced they'd fall as far as this.

[lcfc278]

Looking squarely at the King Power side of this but;

 

 - the dithering about the ground expansion and the lack of communication in general is ridiculous.

 - Lack of general sale ticket opportunities, apart from the odd game here and there to tick a few boxes.

 - Sacking of the long-standing ground announcer guy because of the parade/vardy incident. All hush hush though like we're in North Korea and he's been marched off and beheaded, never to be spoken of again.

 - Removal and then a general lack of any real history around the ground apart from a few nods to silverware brought in in the last 12 months.

 - No offence meant at all as obviously he oversaw our greatest ever achievement, but the Vichai statue front, right and centre of the stadium always irks me a little bit given the great players who we have had over our 140+ year history and not one has a statue or proper commemoration around the ground.

 - Seagrave being a massive white elephant and not properly utilised or mostly used for show and for pampering the players.

 - Ticket prices ridiculous.

 - Kit prices scandalous.

 - Memberships are a joke, everyone who wants to go to a game needs one, whether it's a one-off or not.

 - No communication at all and no clue about the direction or long term goals of the club.

 

Finally, for me, King Power has caused and oversaw the club disconnecting from a whole generation of current fans as well as blocking out generations of new, proper fans from Leicester and Leicestershire in arguably our greatest ever period of opportunity to attract even more, all for the benefit of the £ or the tourist fan. 

[john ridley]

51 minutes ago, Dan said:

I think this season is the worst of the lot. They've had all the warnings you could possibly want, cheated death and they've served up this utter shambles.

 

It's the sort of thing that makes me think you know what, it can't truly be that hard to make it in the game. Because I honestly think I could've done no worse than this.

Don't forget  Vestergaard's 3yr  deal  and Choudrys extension also

Edited 6 March by john ridley

[CosbehFox]

25 minutes ago, lcfc278 said:

Looking squarely at the King Power side of this but;

 

 - the dithering about the ground expansion and the lack of communication in general is ridiculous.

 - Lack of general sale ticket opportunities, apart from the odd game here and there to tick a few boxes.

 - Sacking of the long-standing ground announcer guy because of the parade/vardy incident. All hush hush though like we're in North Korea and he's been marched off and beheaded, never to be spoken of again.

 - Removal and then a general lack of any real history around the ground apart from a few nods to silverware brought in in the last 12 months.

 - No offence meant at all as obviously he oversaw our greatest ever achievement, but the Vichai statue front, right and centre of the stadium always irks me a little bit given the great players who we have had over our 140+ year history and not one has a statue or proper commemoration around the ground.

 - Seagrave being a massive white elephant and not properly utilised or mostly used for show and for pampering the players.

 - Ticket prices ridiculous.

 - Kit prices scandalous.

 - Memberships are a joke, everyone who wants to go to a game needs one, whether it's a one-off or not.

 - No communication at all and no clue about the direction or long term goals of the club.

 

Finally, for me, King Power has caused and oversaw the club disconnecting from a whole generation of current fans as well as blocking out generations of new, proper fans from Leicester and Leicestershire in arguably our greatest ever period of opportunity to attract even more, all for the benefit of the £ or the tourist fan. 

One of their largest legacies is to gatekeeper a generation of fan from watching their local team 

[Stadt]

2 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

One of their largest legacies is to gatekeeper a generation of fan from watching their local team 

At exactly the time demand was highest too. A lot of the footballing **** ups would be more tolerable if we were in a 40k ground, with a safe standing end, local beer on tap with reasonable matchday pricing.

 

I'm glad Whelan has finally gotten heat this season because the treatment of fans has been shot for years an that's not Rudkin's fault.

[Chrysalis]

22 hours ago, Fox92 said:

I'm not remembering that era differently, which is why I mentioned just the three seasons. We were hit and miss but prior to Christmas 19/20 we played the best football I've ever seen us play. We used to hammer teams, I'm sure we put 5 past Newcastle two seasons running, going into home games so confident. But what I meant is that style of play was different from 15/16 and was successful for a longer period. 15/16 was just one season.

 

The title win obviously did make us more attractable but we were attractive to players anyway. We took Maddison from the Championship, if we hadn't had won the league we would have still been attractable to him, for example. 

You dont win anything for coming 5th, and winning a league title is over an entire course of the season, far harder than winning the FA cup.  Also agree with honeybradger that the side as a whole had a lot more resilience and character to it.  Rodgers we would start on fire, but he couldnt sustain it over a season.  He could never figure out as well with how to deal with us getting closed down.  The counter attacks of our EPL title season were breath taking to watch.

Away to man city at their own ground at 3-0 down they were penned back playing two banks of four, was amazing what we had them resorted to, they got a consolation goal only due to their striker been one of the best ever in the EPL.

Edited 7 March by Chrysalis

[Sol thewall Bamba]

On 28/02/2025 at 15:41, AKCJ said:

I'm sure I'm not the only person who gets asked what has actually gone so badly wrong at the club and it's difficult to be able to provide a good answer so I propose we club together to put all of our reasons of our downfall into one succinct post.

 

I'll add a few off the top of my head to get the ball rolling but otherwise fire away and I'll add to the list.

 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

• Sold our best player and thought we could replace him before the window shut. Missed the deadline to sign Adrien Silva by 14 seconds.
• Went from Rodgers to Smith to Maresca to Cooper to Van Nistelrooy with each manager being completely different to the last.
• Refused to pay the £14m fee for Ademola Lookman. One year later he's nominated for the Balon d'Or.
• Promised a review of the failings that resulted in our relegation in 2023 yet no outcome is shared with the fans.
• £25 million pounds for Oliver Skipp.
• No transfer funds made available despite being in 18th position.
• Invited the entire nation of Thailand to celebrate winning a division we shouldn't have been in with actual fans shafted.
• Over £130m worth of players in Tielemans, Soyuncu, Amartey, Evans and Perez being left to walk for free.
• Allowed Schmeichel to leave in the summer of 2022 and did not replace him, basically relegating us that season.
• Arranged for a pre-season friendly against Spurs in monsoon season in Thailand. The game was inevitably rained off, and Spurs couldn't reschedule so a behind-closed-doors friendly against a Thai team (Port FC) had to hastily be arranged.
• Iheanacho missed a vital Europa League game against Warsaw (that we ended up losing) because the club couldn't correctly organise his passport.
• Banning a large number of supporters for little to no reason.
• Putting multiple obstacles in UFS's path despite the fact their only objective is to support the team.
• £25 tax on supporters who want a physical season card as opposed to an e-ticket.
• The scandal with BC Game and the fact the board are doubling down on their decision to take their money.
• The out of control wage bills crippling the club. Examples like £100k a week for Connor Coady.
• We all watched as Jannik Vestergaard wasn't anywhere near good enough in the Premier League only to give him a deal that will keep him here until he's 35.
• Turning down a "substantial offer" for Kasey McAteer from Sunderland when he's out of favour and would represent 'pure profit' in terms of PSR.
• Rejecting an offer for Daniel Iversen in 2023 from Crystal Palace for £4m. He's played 0 times for us since then and will leave for nothing in the summer.
• Failed to agree a break cause in January for Odsonne Edouard's loan from Palace, despite the fact that we previously loaned out Luke Thomas to a Prem club (Sheff United) and let them have a clause to terminate in January, so were perfectly aware that it was a thing and might be a good idea.

Will you be updating this with posts from others and as they happen moving forward? Been thinking all this stuff needs documenting properly for quick reference. 

[AKCJ]

1 minute ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Will you be updating this with posts from others and as they happen moving forward? Been thinking all this stuff needs documenting properly for quick reference. 

I can't. I've only got about a page and a bit worth's of this thread in there and it won't let me edit the post any further.

 

The idea was to keep updating it but I suppose there's a limit on the number of times you can edit a post or that you can't edit after a certain amount of time.

[hebangsthedrums]

20 hours ago, lcfc278 said:

.Sacking of the long-standing ground announcer guy because of the parade/vardy incident. All hush hush though like we're in North Korea and he's been marched off and beheaded, never to be spoken of again.

 

What happened here? I didn't realise he was sacked because of something to do with the parade...

[Sol thewall Bamba]

12 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

I can't. I've only got about a page and a bit worth's of this thread in there and it won't let me edit the post any further.

 

The idea was to keep updating it but I suppose there's a limit on the number of times you can edit a post or that you can't edit after a certain amount of time.

Sort it out @mods! 

[AKCJ]

16 minutes ago, hebangsthedrums said:

What happened here? I didn't realise he was sacked because of something to do with the parade...

IIRC Brad (the former stadium announcer) asked Vardy on stage if he was going to stay for another year and Vardy responded to say "you'll have to ask John Rudkin" and the crowd booed. 

 

Rudkin didn't like it so went and whinged to Aiyawatt.