If Top *did* sell - who do you think might buy the club?

[Pliskin]

I hate things like this. 
 

You can’t predict because the market is activated when the club is advertised for sale. 
 

 

All I’ll say is, I think someone fairly lucrative would. Our story, is a fantastic poster for any business/consortium, that’s the unique difference between us and anyone else. 

[brookfox]

Knowing our luck it’ll be Rudkin.

[LCFC_Wolf_2026]

Makes me sick that we are in this position

[chuddy8]

13 hours ago, ALC Fox said:

Knowing our luck it'd end up being Kanye West 

An objective visionary who has succeeded massively at everything he has turned his hand to, this is definitely what we need.

[Greg2607]

3 hours ago, Pliskin said:

I hate things like this. 
 

You can’t predict because the market is activated when the club is advertised for sale. 
 

 

All I’ll say is, I think someone fairly lucrative would. Our story, is a fantastic poster for any business/consortium, that’s the unique difference between us and anyone else. 

OR a millstone around their neck.. 

[Sly]

3 hours ago, Pliskin said:

I hate things like this. 
 

You can’t predict because the market is activated when the club is advertised for sale. 
 

 

All I’ll say is, I think someone fairly lucrative would. Our story, is a fantastic poster for any business/consortium, that’s the unique difference between us and anyone else. 

The issue we have is that Elon Bloody Musk could own us. Unfortunately unless we start using Leicester City FC as the sales company for every Tesla sale, then our commercial revenue is that poor, he can’t bank roll us back to the Premier League.

 

For all that everyone talks about us winning the league with such a small spend, we have quite frankly thrown money around to get us out of the Championship previously and we are cooked. 
 

The financial fair play rules have quite frankly killed us as a football club. Throwing money at stuff has masked our issues.

 

Sadly, whilst we may the first being strangled, we might not be the last. 

[Outfox the Fox]

There's a possibility we might be able to get the complete 'package', a Manager and an Owner. Fuchs & David Tepper (the billionaire owner of Charlotte FC - along with a lot of other sports clubs). I think he would bring the money, desire and business acumen we desperately need.

Whether Fuchs CV is good enough yet to do the Manager's job on his own, is a big question mark, but if an experienced hand can come with him, I'd be supportive of that 'package'. I'm sure his background with Tepper, would ease a lot of the problem relationships owner and Manager have had with us, since Vichai's loss.

Edited 23 April by Outfox the Fox

[Jon the Hat]

13 minutes ago, chuddy8 said:

An objective visionary who has succeeded massively at everything he has turned his hand to, this is definitely what we need.

The guy is mentally ill.  We are in enough trouble already.

[AjcW]

It's very farfetched, but I wonder if from a minority investment point of view, we could get something from City group with a view to selling the stake if we got back to the Prem?

 

They seem to like us, we have links... could send 4 or 5 youngsters to a rather good training ground... dunno was just a random thought  

[cityfanlee23]

I'd snap your arm off to become RB Leicester at this point. We don't want KP here anyway so they can call the stadium whatever they like. 
All of those fantastic young players coming straight through Seagrave, a proper managerial and coaching blueprint. 

The pros outweigh the cons imo. 

[Sly]

9 minutes ago, cityfanlee23 said:

I'd snap your arm off to become RB Leicester at this point. We don't want KP here anyway so they can call the stadium whatever they like. 
All of those fantastic young players coming straight through Seagrave, a proper managerial and coaching blueprint. 

The pros outweigh the cons imo. 

Sadly Red Bull have started to invest in Leeds.

 

I’d also take them at this point! 

[cityfanlee23]

3 minutes ago, Sly said:

Sadly Red Bull have started to invest in Leeds.

 

I’d also take them at this point! 

Yeah they own just under 10% which is significant, however when given a chance to buy into a new share issue last year Red Bull declined. So who knows why they didn't, if it's because of whatever Leeds finances look like then we are clearly stuffed, but maybe it was because they wanted more brand awareness for example? Who knows.

The difference here though is that they would be able to buy the entire club, and given the pipeline of profitable talent the Red Bull network produce, they could potentially be a route out of this debt mess. There have been multiple players from RB Salzburg that I have been screaming about us signing when we were in the prem. Amar Dedic, Dorgeles Nene, Oscar Gloukh, Stranhinja Pavlovic, Sesko, Okafor, Seiwald. 

In the last 5 seasons according to Transfermarkt, Salzburg have spent around £140 on players, and sold £378m. And even now, they have players being touted for big moves in the summer, Kerim Alabegovic has just had an unfortunately low £8m buy back clause triggered by Leverkusen, but they signed him for 1 season, made £6m profit, and he's being circled by the likes of Dortmund, Arsenal and Inter. These are the sorts of deals that get us out of this debt mess. ~

I completely get why people are against Red Bull and for example how when they took over Salzburg they came in, changed the kit colour and the crest and the now Austria Salzburg fans setup the new club in protest, completely get that, and we would obviously need to make sure there were legal grounds preventing them from changing the blue brand identity etc. But the way things are going right now, I can't see a more traditional style ownership coming in and doing anything other than loading us with more debt, and American ownership would be even worse. 

It's going to have to be an obscenely wealthy foreign owner from somewhere like Saudi, or it will have to be a "brand". I just cannot see an individual style owner wanting to buy our club with these finances. 

 

[Claudio Fannieri]

Would be great if some local successful businessman were interested even as some sort of consortium - 

John Bloor - Triumph & Bloor Homes 

Will Adderley - Dunelm

David Ross - Carphone Warehouse 

David Wilson - Barrett Developments 

Samsworth Brothers 

[The Doctor]

15 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

The KPFC lot will be hoping it's someone even worse just so they can say we told you so

ah, I see you've seen the replies to UFS...

like does Aiyawatt not belong on there when we're missing paying wages on time and have faced PSR sanctions?

 

[Sly]

13 minutes ago, cityfanlee23 said:

Yeah they own just under 10% which is significant, however when given a chance to buy into a new share issue last year Red Bull declined. So who knows why they didn't, if it's because of whatever Leeds finances look like then we are clearly stuffed, but maybe it was because they wanted more brand awareness for example? Who knows.

The difference here though is that they would be able to buy the entire club, and given the pipeline of profitable talent the Red Bull network produce, they could potentially be a route out of this debt mess. There have been multiple players from RB Salzburg that I have been screaming about us signing when we were in the prem. Amar Dedic, Dorgeles Nene, Oscar Gloukh, Stranhinja Pavlovic, Sesko, Okafor, Seiwald. 

In the last 5 seasons according to Transfermarkt, Salzburg have spent around £140 on players, and sold £378m. And even now, they have players being touted for big moves in the summer, Kerim Alabegovic has just had an unfortunately low £8m buy back clause triggered by Leverkusen, but they signed him for 1 season, made £6m profit, and he's being circled by the likes of Dortmund, Arsenal and Inter. These are the sorts of deals that get us out of this debt mess. ~

I completely get why people are against Red Bull and for example how when they took over Salzburg they came in, changed the kit colour and the crest and the now Austria Salzburg fans setup the new club in protest, completely get that, and we would obviously need to make sure there were legal grounds preventing them from changing the blue brand identity etc. But the way things are going right now, I can't see a more traditional style ownership coming in and doing anything other than loading us with more debt, and American ownership would be even worse. 

It's going to have to be an obscenely wealthy foreign owner from somewhere like Saudi, or it will have to be a "brand". I just cannot see an individual style owner wanting to buy our club with these finances. 

 

I can see it now …. 

 

 

[Manwell Pablo]

Amazing, some people moaning about king powers corporate influence over Leicester City and now we want to get ****ing Red Bull involved 😂.

 

On a serious note it’s a very difficult question to answer as we are extremely unattractive to buy now even if King Power did want to sell which they clearly don’t. 
 

 

[The Doctor]

3 minutes ago, Manwell Pablo said:

Amazing, some people moaning about king powers corporate influence over Leicester City and now we want to get ****ing Red Bull involved 😂.

 

On a serious note it’s a very difficult question to answer as we are extremely unattractive to buy now even if King Power did want to sell which they clearly don’t. 
 

 

genuinely, are we? World class facilities if they were staffed properly, global name recognition after the last 10 years, relatively big fanbase (we were talking about expanding to 40k recently and would sell that in the PL). At the right price I think we'd be quite enticing to anyone mad enough to want to own a football club. The problem is just that right price, because KP won't sell and would quote absurd valuations to put people off

[South Shire Fox]

14 minutes ago, Manwell Pablo said:

Amazing, some people moaning about king powers corporate influence over Leicester City and now we want to get ****ing Red Bull involved 😂.

 

On a serious note it’s a very difficult question to answer as we are extremely unattractive to buy now even if King Power did want to sell which they clearly don’t. 
 

 

We definetley arent. The stadium (with planning permission for extention), training ground, fan base numbers etc are enough to make us an exciting project to a would be buyer. Need new people upstairs and a new squad and we’d be good to go again

[Stadt]

Normal business rules don't apply to purchasing a football club. Most owners don't buy a club with a view to making money.

 

I think a multi-club group would keep a keen eye on us, if you have some alpha (most buyers don't) in successfully running a club then we would be a good pick up. As I've said before we're in this mess not because of a lack of club fundamentals like needing a new stadium, no fans, poor academy or training ground. The clueless owner and executives have caused all this and by purchasing the club you kill/cure the problem instantly. We'd still be a costly purchase because of our debt ceiling but the sticker price, especially if we went into admin, would be fairly low.

 

RedBird Capital own Toulouse and AC Milan (been criticised at the latter but have done well with the former). The reasons they took over Toulouse sort of apply to Leicester, much uglier city though!

Edited 23 April by Stadt

[Greg2607]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

I can see it now …. 

 

 

to be fair... that looks INC-RED-I-Bull!!!! 

Edited 23 April by Greg2607

[CrazyKopCorner]

1 minute ago, Greg2607 said:

to be fair... that looks INCREDI-Bull!!!! 

I thought that and now I'm well up for it. 

 

I've completely had enough of Top as well 

[Greg2607]

2 minutes ago, CrazyKopCorner said:

I thought that and now I'm well up for it. 

 

I've completely had enough of Top as well 

i also can't believe you've missed my exceptionally clever word play... 

[LCFC_Wolf_2026]

2 hours ago, Sly said:

I can see it now …. 

 

 

Tbf that is a nice jersey

[CarolinaFox]

He only sells if he knows he and King Power can't fund a rebuild into the Championship. The club is probably at its lowest valuation point in 12-13 years. No one sells a distressed asset unless they have to or they realize the value will not appreciate anytime soon. He only sells if he can't afford to put the money into the club to get its value back up. I'm of the opinion that he will need to sell a minority share in the club to make it regardless, so I would look for the club to partner with either a private equity group, consortium or wealthy business owner to come in and buy some portion of the club as a minority shareholder this summer. I don't think its a case of if, but when that happens given the financial constraints on the club. 

[CrazyKopCorner]

38 minutes ago, Greg2607 said:

i also can't believe you've missed my exceptionally clever word play... 

I did, I admired it but chose to ignore