League One

[LCFCCKEANO]

If it means the ownership is gutted I will gladly take relegation- the only way out is for Top to go

[Leicester_Loyal]

Will we have those ID checks in League 1? 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Just now, Leicester_Loyal said:

Will we have those ID checks in League 1? 

It's for our safety!

[jimsmallman]

18 hours ago, Thefox81 said:

Wriiten in the stars. 2nd May 2016 Leicester City confirmed premier league champions. Fast forward 10 years 2nd May 2026 Leicester City relegated to league 1 at Blackburn.

When this happens it’s further proof that we just live in a horrible simulation. 
 

It is absolutely destined to happen. Nailed on. 

[ARM1968]

On 07/02/2026 at 17:16, Stuntman_Mike said:

I refuse to believe you could see us struggling so badly after failing to get CL football, but don't think we'll get relegated this season.

Well believe it 

[Blue ROI]

21 hours ago, BrianBeane said:

I think we will be confirmed as relegated before the 2nd May at this rate!

"Our position in League 1 is now confirmed for 2026/27"

 

Facebook: Clap Clap Clap. Boo Covid

[Cropwellfox]

We are in sooooo much shit next season when we go down. 

[Quorndon_Fox]

On 08/02/2026 at 19:48, Sky Blues said:

That's the thing. You just don't know what your next owner will be like. We are lucky with our latest owner. Not a billionaire but he has a few quid. A businessman who runs us like a business. We're about cash neutral in the transfer market but he covers our losses. We now own our own ground for the first time in 25 years. We don't sell any player we want to keep since selling Gyokeres and Hamer and get a good price for those we do sell. 

 

The fit and proper test for owners is a joke.

Key point there is having an owner that runs you like a business. Ours has inherited a business, never built one.

[Sky Blues]

11 minutes ago, Quorndon_Fox said:

Key point there is having an owner that runs you like a business. Ours has inherited a business, never built one.

Exactly and I've been saying the same thing on here. You have an owner that got put in charge of a football club by default. He also got put in charge of a highly profitable company by default. 

 

Do we blame Covid for what's gone wrong, is Top useless at everything he does or is it a bit of both? It really comes down to your POV. To me there's much worse owners out there because of their intentions, but when considering business acumen Top is bottom. 

[Quorndon_Fox]

Just now, Sky Blues said:

Exactly and I've been saying the same thing on here. You have an owner that got put in charge of a football club by default. He also got put in charge of a highly profitable company by default. 

 

Do we blame Covid for what's gone wrong, is Top useless at everything he does or is it a bit of both? It really comes down to your POV. To me there's much worse owners out there because of their intentions, but when considering business acumen Top is bottom. 

If he understood anything about business he’d have reacted to Covid… a lot of companies owners did.

[LCFCJohn]

7 hours ago, Sky Blues said:

Exactly and I've been saying the same thing on here. You have an owner that got put in charge of a football club by default. He also got put in charge of a highly profitable company by default. 

 

Do we blame Covid for what's gone wrong, is Top useless at everything he does or is it a bit of both? It really comes down to your POV. To me there's much worse owners out there because of their intentions, but when considering business acumen Top is bottom. 

Right, this needs to be addressed. Why then hell is Covid being used as an excuse for our situation (not aimed at you by the way but the nepo baby uses it as an excuse and his disciples fall for it).

 

Our problem is PSR. The owners company has no impact upon this. The only way Covid affected the football clubs finances was lack of fans and that was every club. 
 

Covid don’t make us make shit signings on huge wages so they can’t be shifted. Covid didn’t make us renew contracts of the likes of Vestergaard and Thomas. Covid didn’t allow hundreds of millions worth of talent walk on free transfers. 
 

Aiyawatt is just useless full stop. I don’t think you can say he has good or bad intentions as he is too clueless to know what he wants. With Chansiri out the way, he is the worst owner in English football now along with the Venky’s. Does it really matter if his intentions were good? Hardly relevant when he’s tanking us towards financial oblivion anyway! 
 

I’m 100% convinced that by the end of next season, we will have finished in our lowest ever position in our clubs history. But yeah, Covid did that….

[Loxm]

It’s gone from “we’ll turn this around” to “may god protect us”…

Yeah we are absolutely cooked. 

[Sky Blues]

36 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Right, this needs to be addressed. Why then hell is Covid being used as an excuse for our situation (not aimed at you by the way but the nepo baby uses it as an excuse and his disciples fall for it).

 

Our problem is PSR. The owners company has no impact upon this. The only way Covid affected the football clubs finances was lack of fans and that was every club. 
 

Covid don’t make us make shit signings on huge wages so they can’t be shifted. Covid didn’t make us renew contracts of the likes of Vestergaard and Thomas. Covid didn’t allow hundreds of millions worth of talent walk on free transfers. 
 

Aiyawatt is just useless full stop. I don’t think you can say he has good or bad intentions as he is too clueless to know what he wants. With Chansiri out the way, he is the worst owner in English football now along with the Venky’s. Does it really matter if his intentions were good? Hardly relevant when he’s tanking us towards financial oblivion anyway! 
 

I’m 100% convinced that by the end of next season, we will have finished in our lowest ever position in our clubs history. But yeah, Covid did that….

I have seen Covid being blamed for the group as a whole, so because of this Top hasn't been able to put hundreds of millions into your club instead of both mortgaging your future and for not bringing in better players.

 

It could be a coping mechanism for some, used in an attempt to win what they see as an argument or they just don't understand the financial implications of what has happened. 

[LCFCJohn]

6 minutes ago, Sky Blues said:

I have seen Covid being blamed for the group as a whole, so because of this Top hasn't been able to put hundreds of millions into your club instead of both mortgaging your future and for not bringing in better players.

 

It could be a coping mechanism for some, used in an attempt to win what they see as an argument or they just don't understand the financial implications of what has happened. 

Look, I can accept you being a Coventry fan. We all have our faults right and we can’t help failings with how we were raised 

 

But if you’re sympathising with Aiyawatt even a little bit, this is a line that shouldn’t be crossed and you should leave this forum with immediate effect 

 

It’s an excuse and like you say, maybe a coping mechanism or justification but it’s easier to accept for some than the truth. No doubt the King Power Group was affected.

of course it was. But it doesn’t matter if he didn’t put hundreds of millions in. That doesn’t cover PSR. They never have put their own money in, even under Vichai. It was always sell to reinvest. It’s a cold hard fact that the problem is PSR and that is caused by the stupid wages we have handed out, inflated fees on players not worth it whilst letting loads walk on frees. Nothing to do with Covid.

 

And I’m sure they can’t be the only owners whose money comes from industries heavily affected by Covid either…

Edited 12 February by LCFCJohn

[koop.]

1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:

Right, this needs to be addressed. Why then hell is Covid being used as an excuse for our situation (not aimed at you by the way but the nepo baby uses it as an excuse and his disciples fall for it).

 

Our problem is PSR. The owners company has no impact upon this. The only way Covid affected the football clubs finances was lack of fans and that was every club. 
 

Covid don’t make us make shit signings on huge wages so they can’t be shifted. Covid didn’t make us renew contracts of the likes of Vestergaard and Thomas. Covid didn’t allow hundreds of millions worth of talent walk on free transfers. 
 

Aiyawatt is just useless full stop. I don’t think you can say he has good or bad intentions as he is too clueless to know what he wants. With Chansiri out the way, he is the worst owner in English football now along with the Venky’s. Does it really matter if his intentions were good? Hardly relevant when he’s tanking us towards financial oblivion anyway! 
 

I’m 100% convinced that by the end of next season, we will have finished in our lowest ever position in our clubs history. But yeah, Covid did that….

This is true, and you make valid points, but it also wiped billions off their wealth and spread Top very thin in trying to deal with multiple plates when he would have struggled just with the one.

 

Either way, youre right, but it didnt help.

[lestuhfox]

1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:

Right, this needs to be addressed. Why then hell is Covid being used as an excuse for our situation (not aimed at you by the way but the nepo baby uses it as an excuse and his disciples fall for it).

 

Our problem is PSR. The owners company has no impact upon this. The only way Covid affected the football clubs finances was lack of fans and that was every club. 
 

Covid don’t make us make shit signings on huge wages so they can’t be shifted. Covid didn’t make us renew contracts of the likes of Vestergaard and Thomas. Covid didn’t allow hundreds of millions worth of talent walk on free transfers. 
 

Aiyawatt is just useless full stop. I don’t think you can say he has good or bad intentions as he is too clueless to know what he wants. With Chansiri out the way, he is the worst owner in English football now along with the Venky’s. Does it really matter if his intentions were good? Hardly relevant when he’s tanking us towards financial oblivion anyway! 
 

I’m 100% convinced that by the end of next season, we will have finished in our lowest ever position in our clubs history. But yeah, Covid did that….

Spot on

[Sky Blues]

9 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Look, I can accept you being a Coventry fan. We all have our faults right and we can’t help failings with how we were raised 

 

But if you’re sympathising with Aiyawatt even a little bit, this is a line that shouldn’t be crossed and you should leave this forum with immediate effect 

 

It’s an excuse and like you say, maybe a coping mechanism or justification but it’s easier to accept for some than the truth. No doubt the King Power Group was affected.

of course it was. But it doesn’t matter if he didn’t put hundreds of millions in. That doesn’t cover PSR. They never have put their own money in, even under Vichai. It was always sell to reinvest. It’s a cold hard fact that the problem is PSR and that is caused by the stupid wages we have handed out, inflated fees on players not worth it whilst letting loads walk on frees. Nothing to do with Covid.

 

And I’m sure they can’t be the only owners whose money comes from industries heavily affected by Covid either…

And here was me thinking the Leicester side of my family were those with the problems 😂

 

There's no need for your head to get even bigger but you're clearly one of the better informed on here 😉 The thing is I find it hard to believe that so many can’t see the real truth and try to blame everyone and everything except for the real truth. Average players at best signed for big fees on big wages has drained the resources and continues to do so. 

 

You can't blame the players for not being good enough. But are they really putting in full effort every game? They don't even seem to be fit enough. Players like Thomas have gone backwards in his time with you. 

[Tommy G]

1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:

Right, this needs to be addressed. Why then hell is Covid being used as an excuse for our situation (not aimed at you by the way but the nepo baby uses it as an excuse and his disciples fall for it).

 

Our problem is PSR. The owners company has no impact upon this. The only way Covid affected the football clubs finances was lack of fans and that was every club. 
 

Covid don’t make us make shit signings on huge wages so they can’t be shifted. Covid didn’t make us renew contracts of the likes of Vestergaard and Thomas. Covid didn’t allow hundreds of millions worth of talent walk on free transfers. 
 

Aiyawatt is just useless full stop. I don’t think you can say he has good or bad intentions as he is too clueless to know what he wants. With Chansiri out the way, he is the worst owner in English football now along with the Venky’s. Does it really matter if his intentions were good? Hardly relevant when he’s tanking us towards financial oblivion anyway! 
 

I’m 100% convinced that by the end of next season, we will have finished in our lowest ever position in our clubs history. But yeah, Covid did that….

I am sick of hearing him use Covid as an excuse to hide behind. 
 

Our business halved overnight due to Covid and we lost money for one year, we cut costs, renegotiated funding following a covenant breach and the following year broke even. Will make £10m profit this year a few years on. 
 

Bad people running a business always make an excuse but don’t fix the fundamentals because they don’t have the understanding how to do so, it’s easier to hide behind something else. 

[Sky Blues]

14 minutes ago, koop. said:

This is true, and you make valid points, but it also wiped billions off their wealth and spread Top very thin in trying to deal with multiple plates when he would have struggled just with the one.

 

Either way, youre right, but it didnt help.

This is the point though. In which way didn't it help? The financial rules have been constantly broken for several years, so having more hundreds of millions to waste wouldn't have changed anything except made the punishment worse. A 6 point deduction should have been just an inconvenience in the Championship for a side that cost so much with the biggest wage bill by far. But you've been run so badly it could have dire consequences. Even if you survive in the Championship this season you will be lucky to become an average Championship side. There's no excuse for this. 

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, koop. said:

This is true, and you make valid points, but it also wiped billions off their wealth and spread Top very thin in trying to deal with multiple plates when he would have struggled just with the one.

 

Either way, youre right, but it didnt help.

I just don’t buy the wealth one in the context of what we know the failings are at the club. With the amount that has come into the club from PL/TV money, large transfer fees in, the club could and should have been run sustainably in a way that the position we are in now, didn’t happen, regardless of owner wealth.

 

I get the spread thin argument. But this is the guy who was removed from his role within KP and spends all his time playing with horses as @Katyvery eloquently put it on TalkSport. If there were any signs he’d be trying fair enough. But it comes back to the argument, put competent people looking after the club and you don’t need to be massively involved if other things are taking time up.

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, Sky Blues said:

And here was me thinking the Leicester side of my family were those with the problems 😂

 

There's no need for your head to get even bigger but you're clearly one of the better informed on here 😉 The thing is I find it hard to believe that so many can’t see the real truth and try to blame everyone and everything except for the real truth. Average players at best signed for big fees on big wages has drained the resources and continues to do so. 

 

You can't blame the players for not being good enough. But are they really putting in full effort every game? They don't even seem to be fit enough. Players like Thomas have gone backwards in his time with you. 

I don’t even class myself as well informed. Just able to see the obvious. It’s more that much of our fanbase is massively uninformed and/or sucked into the cult of KP. 
 

Of course it is average/poor players signed on too higher wages and fees. But so many can’t get their head around who is responsible for that. 
 

And yes, the fitness issue you raise. A lot of these issues could be solved by sorting the fitness and having a sport psychologist again. But everything Pearson built has been ripped apart. And in terms of whether the players are trying or not, no they aren’t. For so many years we have signed players that just don’t have a strong mentality. Even those who have been excellent players (Maddison/Tielemans come to mind) were piss poor mentally with us. We don’t have the characters like Wes Morgan, Kasper Schmeichel, Rob Huth, Christian Fuchs, Marc Albrighton etc any more. 

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

I am sick of hearing him use Covid as an excuse to hide behind. 
 

Our business halved overnight due to Covid and we lost money for one year, we cut costs, renegotiated funding following a covenant breach and the following year broke even. Will make £10m profit this year a few years on. 
 

Bad people running a business always make an excuse but don’t fix the fundamentals because they don’t have the understanding how to do so, it’s easier to hide behind something else. 

Exactly. The world has bounced back. Why haven’t we? 
 

I can’t think of which other clubs owners would have had businesses that we affected but their must have been others. Yet we are the only club that has collapsed. Ultimately it is the money going in and out of the club that makes the club run, not owners wealth.

[foxfanazer]

Does anybody know of we'd be National League North or South if/when we get there? 

 

I live in King's Lynn who are in the National league North so might get a local game soon

[HP1]

1 hour ago, Loxm said:

It’s gone from “we’ll turn this around” to “may god protect us”…

Yeah we are absolutely cooked. 

Embarrassing and pathetic

[STEVIE B]

14 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Does anybody know of we'd be National League North or South if/when we get there? 

 

I live in King's Lynn who are in the National league North so might get a local game soon

Harborough Town (south of Leicester), will go into NL north, hopefully next season . So looking forward to a local Leicestershire derby in 2/3 seasons !