Promotion

[Leicesterpool]

Just a curious question for supporters with the team sitting quite high in the championship and yes still very early days with Marti Cifuentes certainly doing satisfactory job at the moment. Do supporters actually want to see Leicester go up? some may think this as stupid question but with the current problems above with Rudkin, Whelan and Top running the show is their any point getting promoted to the premier league knowing most likely we will come straight back down with them three making the decisions. Would many feel it would be better for foxes to spend a couple of seasons in the championship and look to really develop squad for years to come, giving us a better chance of long term survival in the top flight.

 

Of course it would be great if the club got promoted and then the club got bought and right people got brought in to make the right decisions.

 

Many of the start of the season would have said a top ten finish would have been good season for the foxes.

[Bezzanator89]

No, we shouldn't go up. And we shouldn't have gone up last time, we all saw what happened there and rightfully choose to pretend it never happened. It was the season of nightmares, caused by incompetence across the club and a very premature promotion.

 

If we somehow get promoted, this side would get absolutely annihilated, and there are no guarantees about investment in the squad. A couple of seasons in the Championship wilderness, is sadly what this club needs.

[Levi Port]

I do as it gives us our best chance of keeping our best players. Fatawu won’t be here next season if we don’t go up, he probably will if we do. Monga won’t stick around down here forever either. 
 

I understand why people think we need to build, but the longer you’re down here, the more pressure you are under to sell your best, and the harder it is to attract decent players. 
 

You can build whilst getting promoted, look at Sunderland, that team wasn’t ready for the prem. But one good window has them competitive and if they’re relegated, their squad value is much higher and will give them a good shot at bouncing back. It’s changed their trajectory, we can’t fall behind. 

[Dahnsouff]

More likely to sell in the Prem than in the Championship surely?

[Nolucklcfc]

Yes. 

[foxfan92]

Yes of course we go up if we can. We aim to win every match. And that's not just important as a mentality the players should have, and for the fans who should always want the team to do as well as it can, its important for our financial future, (even with the muppets in charge of the purse strings) and important for us leaving this division again. The longer we go without promotion the harder it'll be to go up at all. Being in the Premier League lets us attract better players. So we should be in a better position to bounce back even if we go down again. (Last season was an exception because we had PSR issues looming over our spending and we still spent a lot, just very badly (Skipp anyone?)

 

No one is more used to being a yo yo club than us. But its better to be that club that's too good for the Championship but not quite there in the Premier League than be the club that's just bang average in the Championship. We wouldn't have seen the recent success, our Premier League title, the FA Cup, stretches in Europe etc if we'd just been a mid Championship team all these seasons. And we wouldn't have attracted the King Power in the first place, which, in spite of recent times, has still proven to be instrumental in what we've achieved.

[LCFCJohn]

Better to rebuild from the PL. Going up wasn’t the problem, buying the likes of Ayew, Skipp and Reid was the problem. And Cooper and RVN as managers. 
 

We will come back down regardless as there is too much work to do to make a credible PL team. But if we could do it whilst making forward thinking signings and not in an embarrassing fashion, that would be ok.

 

Anything but promotion is now a failure given the lack of forward planning with team selections.

[urban.spaceman]

I want us to go up. Get "financially" stable. Bring through the young'uns, sue the Premier League and EFL into oblivion, build the stadium expansion and get back into Europe. 

 

I mainly want us to get to the play off final and score a screamer in the last minute for old times sake, but also to have Rick Parry crying as he hands over the trophy. 

[Leicesterpool]

Just shows how damaging the recruitment was in the summer of 2024 was. Comparing it to the summer window of 2014 when we first got promoted even though we did bring a lot of experience in that window, we didn't actually spent that lot of money. Once again we had the great Steve Walsh working hard behind the scenes doing great deals back then. 

 

Annoying thing is if we get promoted, Top will praise Rudkin for another promotion even though we shouldn't be in this league.

Edited 28 September 2025 by Leicesterpool

[Pita]

27 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

More likely to sell in the Prem than in the Championship surely?

Don’t think Top will sell. Because of his dad 

[MattFox]

Sunderland and Leeds to a lesser extent blowing the whole “closed shop” narrative that seems beloved by some within our club up 

[Dahnsouff]

Just now, Pita said:

Don’t think Top will sell. Because of his dad 

Maybe you are right, just figured the numbers involved in the Prem would be more appealing at least.

[Dahnsouff]

1 minute ago, MattFox said:

Sunderland and Leeds to a lesser extent blowing the whole “closed shop” narrative that seems beloved by some within our club up 

Rushing to the finish line are we? Come back in May.

[Gamble92]

35 minutes ago, Levi Port said:

I do as it gives us our best chance of keeping our best players. Fatawu won’t be here next season if we don’t go up, he probably will if we do. Monga won’t stick around down here forever either. 
 

I understand why people think we need to build, but the longer you’re down here, the more pressure you are under to sell your best, and the harder it is to attract decent players. 
 

You can build whilst getting promoted, look at Sunderland, that team wasn’t ready for the prem. But one good window has them competitive and if they’re relegated, their squad value is much higher and will give them a good shot at bouncing back. It’s changed their trajectory, we can’t fall behind. 

Nailed it.

 

I don't know where anyone gets this idea that you can stay at this level and slowly build a team. 

 

If we spend 2-3 years at this level we won't have a team with Nelson, Monga, Page and Aluko.

 

It will have been picked off by Premier League teams for anyone with any value or potential and we'll have our sub standard youth players and Championship journeymen as we languish in the bottom half. 

[davieG]

Doesn't matter if you want to or not you can't say with any certainty if the opportunity will ever come again so you have to take it. Besides even going up and coming down will, or should strengthen the financial status of the club where as missing out will weaken it.

 

If it happens you just have to grab it with both hands.

[Stadt]

6 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Rushing to the finish line are we? Come back in May.

Sunderland have 44% of our points total from 24-25, 16% of the way into the season.

[Pita]

8 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Maybe you are right, just figured the numbers involved in the Prem would be more appealing at least.

The figures would be much more appealing in the premiership but the loss of his dad is a big pull 

[Gamble92]

1 minute ago, Stadt said:

Sunderland have 44% of our points total from 24-25, 16% of the way into the season.

We need Sunderland and Leeds to dispell this myth that no one can ever compete when going up again. 

 

Pundit were pretending to be bothered by it but it was a perfect scenario playing out for team Super League. Glad it looks like new teams will go down this time. Hopefully the red scum.  

[Dahnsouff]

1 minute ago, Stadt said:

Sunderland have 44% of our points total from 24-25, 16% of the way into the season.

Hope they can provide a blueprint for others, but it’s still very early days. Maybe they have injuries and collapse, or maybe they massively succeed and get Champions League, who knows.

[Stadt]

3 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Hope they can provide a blueprint for others, but it’s still very early days. Maybe they have injuries and collapse, or maybe they massively succeed and get Champions League, who knows.

Amazing what happens when you sign good upwardly mobile players from Europe rather “Skipp” and “Ayew”

[Dahnsouff]

Just now, Stadt said:

Amazing what happens when you sign good upwardly mobile players from Europe rather “Skipp” and “Ayew”

Turning up with a plan that goes beyond tomorrow generally helps too!

[Lad1966]

We also had the threat of points deductions to deal with. No one wanted to come to us, that said we still made some horrendous signings

[Pliskin]

1 hour ago, Bezzanator89 said:

No, we shouldn't go up. And we shouldn't have gone up last time, we all saw what happened there and rightfully choose to pretend it never happened. It was the season of nightmares, caused by incompetence across the club and a very premature promotion.

 

If we somehow get promoted, this side would get absolutely annihilated, and there are no guarantees about investment in the squad. A couple of seasons in the Championship wilderness, is sadly what this club needs.

There is such thing as a transfer window you know….

[Mickyblueeyes]

Promotion, success, finishing on a high is always the target. Saying it’s a season just for building it’s what you say on the second last game when 7th is the highest you can finish. 
 

There is literally no team I fear in this league. Not one. There isn’t a game you go into and think we can’t win. That’s not being disrespectful, it’s where our squad is. We are the biggest scalp in this division. Saints may come close but beating Leicester is a great day for many teams. Why when we are held in that regard would anything less than promotion not be on the agenda.

 

Actively build the side - with the numpties in power we are dependent on the manager having his head screwed on. Last time we went up we had the unprecedented circumstance where our successful manager got hired by one of the biggest clubs in the league. That won’t happen every time. If you’re promoted, however so, you’re going up with a successful manager (unless that manager is Russell Martin who is a ****ing idiot). 

Edited 28 September 2025 by Mickyblueeyes

[em9999]

If we go up and show some ambition to stay up and invest in the team , fair  enough 

 

If not 

 

No thanks