League One

[Pliskin]

6 hours ago, Tom12345 said:

Luke Thomas is not a bad player for the Champiomship.

 

Hamza though would fit right into League One.

Luke Thomas is one of the worst footballers I’ve ever seen. If he wasn’t on our books, he wouldn’t be playing professional football.

[Bourbon Fox]

6 hours ago, Tom12345 said:

Luke Thomas is not a bad player for the Champiomship.

 

Hamza though would fit right into League One.

Luke Thomas has been directly at fault for many, many goals not just this season but for years

[WigstonWanderer]

14 hours ago, WigstonWanderer said:

Do we still get the EPL 2nd year parachute payments in L1? Do they exist or did I dream it?

Answering my own question:

 

I googled “do clubs get second year parachute payments after relegation to league 1” and got this in the reply:

• Relegation to League One: If a team is relegated to League One while still in their 3-year "parachute" period, they lose the remaining Premier League parachute payments, as those payments are intended to aid clubs in the Championship.

I’d guess this has already been discussed somewhere. If true it surely has devastating consequences for the club?

[Broof]

16 minutes ago, WigstonWanderer said:

Answering my own question:

 

I googled “do clubs get second year parachute payments after relegation to league 1” and got this in the reply:

 

• Relegation to League One: If a team is relegated to League One while still in their 3-year "parachute" period, they lose the remaining Premier League parachute payments, as those payments are intended to aid clubs in the Championship.

I’d guess this has already been discussed somewhere. If true it surely has devastating consequences for the club?

You can't trust AI for questions like this. It's completely wrong. 

[WigstonWanderer]

1 hour ago, Broof said:

You can't trust AI for questions like this. It's completely wrong. 

Quite possibly.

[funkyrobot]

1 hour ago, WigstonWanderer said:

Answering my own question:

 

I googled “do clubs get second year parachute payments after relegation to league 1” and got this in the reply:

 

• Relegation to League One: If a team is relegated to League One while still in their 3-year "parachute" period, they lose the remaining Premier League parachute payments, as those payments are intended to aid clubs in the Championship.

I’d guess this has already been discussed somewhere. If true it surely has devastating consequences for the club?

We get one more season of parachute payments irrespective of if we are in The Championship or League 1. It doesn’t make any difference anyway as we’ve already taken it as a loan so all monies from it will got to that Australian ‘vampire bank’ Macquarie. The only potential spend will come from fire sales of players like Fatawu 😢and err ..Luke Thomas🥴

Edited 13 February by funkyrobot

[Bourbon Fox]

14 hours ago, funkyrobot said:

We get one more season of parachute payments irrespective of if we are in The Championship or League 1. It doesn’t make any difference anyway as we’ve already taken it as a loan so all monies from it will got to that Australian ‘vampire bank’ Macquarie. The only potential spend will come from fire sales of players like Fatawu 😢and err ..Luke Thomas🥴

We'll get £30 million from Quorn for Thomas 

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

I wonder what Top is up to today. 

[Blue ROI]

4 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

I wonder what Top is up to today. 

Some toga party back home.

 

What a night! 

[Tuna]

We'd be closing in on the relegation zone even without the deduction.

[fox_favourite]

I can't see what players would still be here next season. We have loads out of contract, lots of players will be sold, we will have to start again more or less. Clubs will come in for players for knock down value. The quality of the squad will take an utter nose dive. 

 

What if we can't enough that we need? What if top stops the money completely? 

 

Some slightly joked that seeing Sheffield Wednesday go the way they have was our future, well that future could be next season.

 

What an utter incompetent mess we find ourselves in. All because a business brain-dead bloke and his sidekick rat can't run a football club. 

 

Welcome to league 1 and god knows what else. Maybe bankruptcy. 

[LCFCJohn]

9 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

I can't see what players would still be here next season. We have loads out of contract, lots of players will be sold, we will have to start again more or less. Clubs will come in for players for knock down value. The quality of the squad will take an utter nose dive. 

 

What if we can't enough that we need? What if top stops the money completely? 

 

Some slightly joked that seeing Sheffield Wednesday go the way they have was our future, well that future could be next season.

 

What an utter incompetent mess we find ourselves in. All because a business brain-dead bloke and his sidekick rat can't run a football club. 

 

Welcome to league 1 and god knows what else. Maybe bankruptcy. 

It’s a valid point.

 

People say we will be stuck with these players but even once the out of contract lot go, relegation to L1 is a different scenario to from the PL to Championship. Many of these players seem useless to us but there will be movement. Players like Faes will return to the continent. Vestergaard as well probably. 
 

We then have the perfect storm that our kids are actually quite good. Monga will go, Nelson too. We might be able to keep Page, Aluko, Evans, Alves and Braybrooke. That’s a core group there. But there would need to be a lot coming in and can we do it? I could see us being quite mismatched and Sheffield Wednesday like.

 

If we do keep them, Aluko and Braybrooke are the first 2 on the team sheet in terms of obvious positions. It might be a struggle if you had a midfield 2 for it to be Braybrooke and Page so it either needs to be a manager who does the 2 8’s system with Page and another either side of Braybrooke. Or if it’s a 10 system, Page further forward but that would push Alves further wide. Evans if he doesn’t become a regular for a struggling Northampton side before the end of this season might be a bench option.

 

               GK

Aluko - CB - CB - LB

  Braybrooke - CM

  RW - Page - Alves

              ST

or

 

                 GK

Aluko - CB - CB - LB

RCM - Braybrooke - Page

       RW - ST - Alves

Problem is we’d need some experience with a positive attitude around these youngsters. I see Bruno Berner and Christian Fuchs for example as similar players (albeit different levels) in different successful eras for us. A Berner type at left back would be a positive.

 

But yeah, under this ownership it’ll likely be a complete shambles.

[SK3Blue]

Can’t see this lot staying up, we go down weaker than we did in 2008, Fryatt, Howard, Oakley, King, Berner for example.

 

If you consider some of these current players to be both weak mentally and physically, wait till they get roughed up in League One. 
 

The young players are crying out for leadership, nothing on or off the pitch now, the club is a joke. 

 

 

[MC Prussian]

10 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

I can't see what players would still be here next season. We have loads out of contract, lots of players will be sold, we will have to start again more or less. Clubs will come in for players for knock down value. The quality of the squad will take an utter nose dive. 

 

What if we can't enough that we need? What if top stops the money completely? 

 

Some slightly joked that seeing Sheffield Wednesday go the way they have was our future, well that future could be next season.

 

What an utter incompetent mess we find ourselves in. All because a business brain-dead bloke and his sidekick rat can't run a football club. 

 

Welcome to league 1 and god knows what else. Maybe bankruptcy. 

As opposed to the "quality" we have right now?

 

We're 22nd in the Championship, 19th without the points deduction. There's your answer as to our "quality".

 

It's about darn time we get rid of all these overpaid, lazy players who are just sitting out their fat contracts.

Whether that'll be in Championship or League One, at this point, I frankly don't care.

They all need a reality check. Sadly, most of them live in a land of illusion, in a bubble that is the modern pro footballer's life.

And the club management is responsible for this situation.

[joeybside]

19 hours ago, Bourbon Fox said:

We'll get £30 million from Quorn for Thomas 

We don’t want him. He wouldn’t get in over Deen Master anyway

[desertfox2]

On 13/02/2026 at 14:58, Pliskin said:

Luke Thomas is one of the worst footballers I’ve ever seen. If he wasn’t on our books, he wouldn’t be playing professional football.

He started in the FA Cup final and didn't put a foot wrong at 19 years old. I don't disagree with you at all, he has been terrible, but how has our coaching been over the last few years for a player with that much talent to go backwards so much? 

[LCFCJohn]

28 minutes ago, SK3Blue said:

Can’t see this lot staying up, we go down weaker than we did in 2008, Fryatt, Howard, Oakley, King, Berner for example.

 

If you consider some of these current players to be both weak mentally and physically, wait till they get roughed up in League One. 
 

The young players are crying out for leadership, nothing on or off the pitch now, the club is a joke. 

 

 

Hobbs, Mark Davies, Cleverley, Lloyd Dyer, Max Gradel. And of course Pearson in charge.

 

You’ll struggle to see a better side grace the 3rd tier. We are certain to set a new lowest ever finish in the pyramid by the end of next season.

[fox_favourite]

20 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

As opposed to the "quality" we have right now?

 

We're 22nd in the Championship, 19th without the points deduction. There's your answer as to our "quality".

 

It's about darn time we get rid of all these overpaid, lazy players who are just sitting out their fat contracts.

Whether that'll be in Championship or League One, at this point, I frankly don't care.

They all need a reality check. Sadly, most of them live in a land of illusion, in a bubble that is the modern pro footballer's life.

And the club management is responsible for this situation.

While I agree with you, and this 'team' is the most horrid one I've ever seen, I mean the individual quality. We won't have a player that can have a moment of utter brilliance. We'll be scrapping for bottom end championship rejects and league 1 players. That is if we can afford to. We won't have a Jordan James level of player. We'll probably be loaning players from Wrexham which is a depressing thought. 

 

We have a better chance to rebuild in the championship. If we were mid table with no prospects if promotion, I'd be optimistic with the right manager we could become stable again and build a half decent squad. 

 

But league 1, it will be financially impossible to build a strong squad for the future

[MC Prussian]

32 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

While I agree with you, and this 'team' is the most horrid one I've ever seen, I mean the individual quality. We won't have a player that can have a moment of utter brilliance. We'll be scrapping for bottom end championship rejects and league 1 players. That is if we can afford to. We won't have a Jordan James level of player. We'll probably be loaning players from Wrexham which is a depressing thought. 

 

We have a better chance to rebuild in the championship. If we were mid table with no prospects if promotion, I'd be optimistic with the right manager we could become stable again and build a half decent squad. 

 

But league 1, it will be financially impossible to build a strong squad for the future

We managed in 2008/2009. And the rest is history.

 

Obviously, we ought to hold onto the most talented players (without getting held ransom by outrageous demands) no matter what league we're in.

 

The first to go are the ones out of contract and some of the most lazy, ineffective and frustrating players.

Daka, Ayew, Faes, WInks, Okoli, Ricardo (shame to see him leave as the last member of the title-winning team, but he's had a mare of a season so far). Mavididi has been a letdown this season.

 

Skipp is costing us dearly in terms of contracts, too. But maybe we can build a team around him, Fatawu (provided we can keep him) and James (please buy the lad, he's the natural-born leader). That'd be our spine in midfield.

Keep Lascelles fit.

 

Our scouting network has seen better days. We need to recover there. too, and finally have more luck finding real gems, such as Vardy, Mahrez, Kanté and bargains such as Morgan, Albrighton or Huth.

All of that, of course, under the guidance of a competent manager.

 

So many parallel construction sites, though.

[Happy Fox]

We will be in the League One doldrums for a long time, I cannot see us getting promoted at the first time of asking.

[trooky]

1 hour ago, MC Prussian said:

As opposed to the "quality" we have right now?

 

We're 22nd in the Championship, 19th without the points deduction. There's your answer as to our "quality".

 

It's about darn time we get rid of all these overpaid, lazy players who are just sitting out their fat contracts.

Whether that'll be in Championship or League One, at this point, I frankly don't care.

They all need a reality check. Sadly, most of them live in a land of illusion, in a bubble that is the modern pro footballer's life.

And the club management is responsible for this situation.

We don't want any of these players next year, regardless of the league. 

 

Hamza, Vesty, Skipp, Thomas VK, Souttar, Reid Okoli are among the highest paid in the championship no way can we afford to pay any of these wages in league 1, they're all earning more than 25k a week and the first 3 £50k.

 

According to capology we're paying Golding £8500 a week, nearly as much as Mavididi and Fatawu or JJ who are around £10k per week. 

Edited 15 February by trooky

[Sol thewall Bamba]

6 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

We will be in the League One doldrums for a long time, I cannot see us getting promoted at the first time of asking.

We won't though. We'll get instantly promoted back or we'll go bust.

[UniFox21]

Finding it very weird the amount of people I'm seeing on Reddit that would find it funny us going down/bust 

[LCFCJohn]

5 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

We managed in 2008/2009. And the rest is history.

 

Obviously, we ought to hold onto the most talented players (without getting held ransom by outrageous demands) no matter what league we're in.

 

The first to go are the ones out of contract and some of the most lazy, ineffective and frustrating players.

Daka, Ayew, Faes, WInks, Okoli, Ricardo (shame to see him leave as the last member of the title-winning team, but he's had a mare of a season so far). Mavididi has been a letdown this season.

 

Skipp is costing us dearly in terms of contracts, too. But maybe we can build a team around him, Fatawu (provided we can keep him) and James (please buy the lad, he's the natural-born leader). That'd be our spine in midfield.

Keep Lascelles fit.

 

Our scouting network has seen better days. We need to recover there. too, and finally have more luck finding real gems, such as Vardy, Mahrez, Kanté and bargains such as Morgan, Albrighton or Huth.

All of that, of course, under the guidance of a competent manager.

 

So many parallel construction sites, though.

We were a much better run club then and not falling apart financially. It made it easier to handle. And Pearson and co of course. No chance are we in a promotion picture even in L1 next season.

 

Ricardo was not part of the title winning team. 
 

Fatawu, James and Lascelles will not be staying, well maybe Lascelles if we stayed up but none of them in L1.

 

Otherwise spot on 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

22 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Finding it very weird the amount of people I'm seeing on Reddit that would find it funny us going down/bust 

In 2016 everyone claimed they wanted us to win it but deep down fans of basically every team would have been hugely hugely jealous of us. It's just a hangover from that.