Relegation Post Mortem 2025 Starts Here.

[splinterdream]

For those that were worried about lack of sky coverage regards plane banner, they needn't have worried, this looks very damning

[fox_favourite]

2 hours ago, splinterdream said:

For those that were worried about lack of sky coverage regards plane banner, they needn't have worried, this looks very damning

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/leicester-city-relegation-game-stopped-caring-3651098

[Winstonthedog]

The transfer policy stinks of desperation... we are purchasing in the cast offs department and pay Harrods prices for charity shop goods .... if King power run their other businesses like they do this football club .... their future is bleak ..... very very bleak 

[AKCJ]

18 hours ago, lcfc_forever said:

 

Also Fatawu (we know that he will have that league on toast) has only just turned 21.

[UniFox21]

1 minute ago, AKCJ said:

Also Fatawu (we know that he will have that league on toast) has only just turned 21.

Ben Nelson is also 21 and doing very well in Oxford 

[deep blue]

Just now, splinterdream said:

For those that were worried about lack of sky coverage regards plane banner, they needn't have worried, this looks very damning

Wow.  This nails it so accurately.  Surely the club will start to see the light 

[Iwebema]

7 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/leicester-city-relegation-game-stopped-caring-3651098

This is spot on, it kind of goes in hand with what opposition fans say.

 

"You achieved more than 95% of clubs will ever achieve in their modern history, so you can't complain"

 

This mentality has taken hold of the board and their supporters, we should just accept whatever happens because of a small period of success. 

 

What I would say is this forum, the protests, the re structure of the Foxes Trust, tells me that people do care and I believe there is a movement growing, it might not go as fast or as hard as some would like, but it is happening.

[Ric Flair]

We've absolutely fcuked it is the long and short of it. Yes, the gulf between thr Championship and the PL seems to be too vast right now but we also shouldn't ever have been in this position in the first place. We were a newly promoted team but only on a technicality and shouldn't have been in terms of mentality, recent hardened experience with a nucleus of players more than capable of competing and even succeeding at this level.

 

But off the field we have so many problems that I just don't know how we rectify. The damage is done. During our successful era, all the highly regarded staff on the football side have been headhunted, three only one in power or influence is Jon Rudkin and been responsible for the appointments of the current hierarchy, as well as the negotiations for the fees we've paid for substandard players, the inability to sell players due to the wages we've offered and a wage bill that is probably still higher than at least a third of the Premier League.

 

If nothing changes off the field then we haven't got a hope of long term sustainability (a buzz word our current owners and board often use) and people caulking at the criticism of Top and co because of the past success are completely missing the awareness of what is required to get ourselves back to even just an efficient outfit let alone be the envy of the country. It is not pot luck or a fluke, we'd built an extremely innovative and successful model courtesy of a number of influential staff that are long gone.

 

Those in power that remain have shown absolutely no desire or understanding of what is needed to rebuild and that's why this is so desperate.

 

Top has a massive summer ahead. The culture he has fostered with the playing squad is a problem when there's a malaise and deep routed issues. The loyalty shown to a select few which shows either a lack of trust in football or also a lack of knowledge himself. We seem to be at the mercy of a couple of agents and to shift from that just seems an unrealistic expectation and is why many of us think the only viable solution is King Power to sell up.

 

We need a team around an ownership that understand football and bring fresh ideas that many clubs who were nowhere near us in the last 5-10 years but badly wanted to be us have implemented and overtaken us. We might never win another major honour again, I don't care. That is not what this is about. It's about a base level of respect, pride and a blue print that allows our fan base to identify with as their club.

 

So the current custodians of our football club need to take a long hard look in the mirror. Finally communicate with us, take action and if not sell up ideally.

 

What a waste of a lifetime opportunity this has been. We had a platform to build a solid base for decades at the highest level and we've absolutely fcuked it.

[J. James]

It seems to me that there are two different and diametrically opposed visions here, we as supporters want our club to be run in a professional, efficient and successful manner and for those who fail in their roles to be replaced, no matter who they are.

This is how we as ordinary working people experience life, if you are poor at your job or negligent you are replaced, businesses that keep sub standard employees fail.

 

But the owner doesn't appear to see it this way.

For him Leicester City is a plaything and in my opinion the most important things for him are playing with his friends and not upsetting them.

 

There will be no replacements at board level and if RVN wants to stay in the playroom, then the rich boy will let him.

 

If his wealth were dependent on LCFC being run efficiently then things would have to change but it isnt, so they won't.

 

No amount of protests or even a mass boycott of games will work, he has no respect for supporters opinions only his director friends.

He will sell only when he tires of his toy, and the decline will continue until that time.

Sadly l can only see a downward spiral now.

[5waller5]

21 hours ago, cityfanlee23 said:

What would be required for Top to get the fans or at least me back on board (minimum):

- Full public apology from Top on the club website and social media
- Full public and published review of how this happened, and a promise to address it
- Pay Ralf Rangnick or someone of his calibre as DOF and pay him whatever he wants to oversee this club, given full control over all footballing decisions
- Move Rudkin somewhere else if he won't sack him, let him oversee King Power across us and Leuven
- Bring in a young, hungry manager who has a clear identity 
- Set out clear club rules that set the standards for what it means to be a Leicester City player, with significant punishments for players who do not comply
- Sign 3-4 LEADERS on the pitch who do not allow any sort of deviation away from the clubs standards
- Ship out the dead wood on 70k+ per week, and replace them with an approach to young, hungry, often lesser known players on cheaper wages who actually want to fight for 3 points on a saturday, return us to the transfer approach of Nige, Shakey and Walsh plus Claude Puel, give youth a clear path to the first team.
- Fix the general culture around the club, learn to read the room (talking to you social media team) 
 

Scrub the apologies, for me, I’m not interested in the hollow words…. The rest of this list is absolutely spot on, especially when the third item is promoted to the top of the list! 

[AjcW]

8 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/leicester-city-relegation-game-stopped-caring-3651098

What a line this is  

 

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It is no surprise the fan zone is not quite booming. First trialled three days before Christmas last year, supporters haven’t seen their side score a league goal at home since its construction.

 

[davieG]

40 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

We might never win another major honour again, I don't care. That is not what this is about. It's about a base level of respect, pride and a blue print that allows our fan base to identify with as their club.

Exactly this! This is why so many fans have supported this club or any club for that matter for so many years.

 

 

[RumbleFox]

They genuinely must just be laughing at us. In no world should Rudkin or Ruud still have their jobs. They don’t give a fvck. No point even caring anymore. 

[cityfanlee23]

1 hour ago, 5waller5 said:

Scrub the apologies, for me, I’m not interested in the hollow words…. The rest of this list is absolutely spot on, especially when the third item is promoted to the top of the list! 

Yep, to be honest i'm not really one for apologies either, I just want to see them have to gulp and swallow their pride, embarrass them a little bit for the sheer lack of care they've shown for the best part of 5 years. 

[davieG]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/leicester-city

'It doesn't feel like there is a clear strategy' - why fans are frustrated

 

BBC Radio Leicester's Owynn Palmer-Atkin says a lot of what has been happening at King Power Stadium "hasn't really made sense".

Explaining why it has been a disappointing and "frustrating" season for Foxes fans, Palmer-Atkin told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club: "It is from top to bottom, and it is all around strategy and their alignment now compared with what they have had before.

"The recruitment is patchy and hasn't really made sense, and the managerial appointments don't really add up either. Alongside all of that, there is quite a deafening silence from the board, who haven't spoken for a great deal of time.

"If you add all of those things together with the performances this season and relegation, it makes for a frustrated fanbase.

"They are also escaping Profit and Sustainability Rules by the skin of their teeth, so it is not good. It doesn't look like they have a plan.

"I saw the logic of hiring Enzo Maresca. They understood the way he wanted to play and they backed him. It was a risk that paid off. But when he left they brought in Steve Cooper, who is not really the same sort of manager.

"Maresca to Cooper to Ruud van Nistlerooy doesn't feel very joined up.

"Paired with poor recruitment, it doesn't feel like there is a clear strategy that links all of the club together."

Watch Monday Night Club on BBC iPlayer or 

[cityfanlee23]

I still think we can be promoted next season. 
This squad under the right manager with 3-4 proper Leaders signed can get promoted. We need a big exodus of players, but I don't think we need 7-8 new signings to have a good go at promotion. 

[Tazfox]

What makes you think Golding is going to be in the squad, hasn't he been AWOL this half of the season? 

[David Hankey]

2 minutes ago, davieG said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/leicester-city

'It doesn't feel like there is a clear strategy' - why fans are frustrated

 

BBC Radio Leicester's Owynn Palmer-Atkin says a lot of what has been happening at King Power Stadium "hasn't really made sense".

Explaining why it has been a disappointing and "frustrating" season for Foxes fans, Palmer-Atkin told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club: "It is from top to bottom, and it is all around strategy and their alignment now compared with what they have had before.

"The recruitment is patchy and hasn't really made sense, and the managerial appointments don't really add up either. Alongside all of that, there is quite a deafening silence from the board, who haven't spoken for a great deal of time.

"If you add all of those things together with the performances this season and relegation, it makes for a frustrated fanbase.

"They are also escaping Profit and Sustainability Rules by the skin of their teeth, so it is not good. It doesn't look like they have a plan.

"I saw the logic of hiring Enzo Maresca. They understood the way he wanted to play and they backed him. It was a risk that paid off. But when he left they brought in Steve Cooper, who is not really the same sort of manager.

"Maresca to Cooper to Ruud van Nistlerooy doesn't feel very joined up.

"Paired with poor recruitment, it doesn't feel like there is a clear strategy that links all of the club together."

Watch Monday Night Club on BBC iPlayer or 

Well, it really doesn't take Einstein to come to the conclusion in O P-A's first sentence.

 

Supporters know the Club, in it's decision making, have been senseless, hopeless hapless and pretty useless and because of this we had become relegation candidates for months.

[J. James]

Those people who feel so beholden to the present owner because of his fathers skill and success should maybe consider this - if, after the tragedy Top had decided to sell, and the new owners had presided over the mess we have now, would they offer the same level of support?

 

I think we can guess the answer.

 

Sadly for us, Top is not his father, he doesn't have the same skill, vision or business acumen and perhaps most importantly he doesn't have the same ambition for us, l think he has also demonstrated that we come some way down his priorities list too.

 

That picture of him and Rudkin laughing together sums it up for me, like cracking jokes at the graveside of a supposedly dear friend's funeral - it clearly meant little or nothing to him.

 

I think the best we can hope for is that he gets bored with us and sells, but l see a lot more frustration and disappointment for us supporters before this happens.

 

[AKCJ]

4 hours ago, cityfanlee23 said:

I still think we can be promoted next season. 
This squad under the right manager with 3-4 proper Leaders signed can get promoted. We need a big exodus of players, but I don't think we need 7-8 new signings to have a good go at promotion. 

As much as I'd like us to, we're not getting rid of Ayew, BDCR, Vardy, Coady, Vestergaard, Faes, Winks, Kristiansen, Soumare and Ndidi.

 

From that lot I genuinely think we'll sell/release maybe 2.

[AKCJ]

The most important thing is to sign a proper striker.

[joachim1965]

6 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

 

 

What a waste of a lifetime opportunity this has been. We had a platform to build a solid base for decades at the highest level and we've absolutely fcuked it.

It's this for me.

We had the best chance , a once in a lifetime chance after winning the league, to kick on and attract some top players and establish ourselves as a solid and regular top 6 side.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

6 hours ago, Tazfox said:

What makes you think Golding is going to be in the squad, hasn't he been AWOL this half of the season? 

Yeah he was a PSR fiddle. Will never make an appearance for us.