6 point deduction - confirmed

[JJD_LCFC]

12 hours ago, OntarioFox said:

If that really was their line of thinking, they probably decided it a month back after looking at our fixtures.

 

"Wrexham, Oxford and Charlton? Surely they'll get a win or two there, won't be in any danger." Three weeks and one point later, we're surviving on goal difference and with the worst strike force we've ever seen at the club. 

Going down despite the EFL trying to be "lenient" would sum this club in 2026 up perfectly, to be honest.  

Amazing how we can overspend and make the team so much worse. 
maybe the EFL being lenient and we still manage to get relegated is not such a long shot after all.

 

will take another 18 months until majority of high earners are out of the club and off the wage bill. Will be a continued struggle until then I fear. 

[Winstonthedog]

4 hours ago, Chrysalis said:

Why is the club trying to drag this out instead of moving on?

Because its a way of not owning any responsibility .... Best way forward is appoint a manager who can motivate but keep Andy King in the fold for now .... win the next 4 games .... Because apparently we have the quality in the team ??? ... Where's it been ??? .... only good results will put this whole sorry crap behind us ... get to the end of the season and have a full clear out and restructure... new and progressive DOF ... and the owner does not have to be the chairman 

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, Terraloon said:

.Bear in mind  those “ good placements “ generated bigger payments so maybe not parachute payments but those good placements were well rewarded

 

 

I thought the parachute payments were based on the average earned over the previous three seasons in the PL prior to relegation. 
I may have misunderstood this back in 2023 

[Manwell Pablo]

19 hours ago, honeybradger said:

If we broke more financial rules then we would just have more Soumares, Dakas, Perezs, Praets, Faes's, Slimanis, Ghezzals etc stinking up the bench or out on loan then leaving for minimal fees.

 

It does matter how much we spend, the club is terrible at recruitment so the only difference would be having expensive crap players or cheaper crap players. We would never have become Champions league regulars.

I didn't mind Perez or Praet 

 

Travesty they both left for free and we paid far too much for them but as far as Rudkin additions go they are two of the better ones. 

 

Guess that says it all about our recruitment really.

 

 

[lcfc278]

34 minutes ago, Manwell Pablo said:

I didn't mind Perez or Praet 

 

Travesty they both left for free and we paid far too much for them but as far as Rudkin additions go they are two of the better ones. 

 

Guess that says it all about our recruitment really.

 

 

Sick note Praet was not one of the better ones. I remember maybe 3 or 4 good performances and that’s about it.

 

If Perez had joined for like £10-12m it maybe wouldn’t have seemed like too big of a mistake but for what we paid and what we got it turned out to be a  joke of a decision.

 

(Although if you’d have said for the money it guaranteed us an FA Cup with his assist pass I’d probably have taken it 😂)

Edited 6 February by lcfc278

[HP1]

Praet was such a nothing player. Barely scored, assisted, dictated play and wasn't physical or one who would win duals. Another £23 million down the drain.

[kenny]

6 hours ago, davieG said:

We don't get any credit for always paying our bills .

 

If the PFA and LMA were proper unions they would come out in support of the club.

 

This should be worth +9 in PSR terms.

[Hamilton Fox]

41 minutes ago, lcfc278 said:

Sick note Praet was not one of the better ones. I remember maybe 3 or 4 good performances and that’s about it.

 

If Perez had joined for like £10-12m it maybe wouldn’t have seemed like too big of a mistake but for what we paid and what we got it turned out to be a  joke of a decision.

 

(Although if you’d have said for the money it guaranteed us an FA Cup with his assist pass I’d probably have taken it 😂)

Whilst he wasn’t amazing he was still a cog in the team that finished 5th and won the cup (still peed off with his miss at the end of the Chelsea game which would have got us 4th) and although he wasn’t worth £30m it’s not mega money for a team at the top end of the table 

[Corky]

4 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

State of Agbonlahor.

I'm sure Alex Crook was criticising our supporters around a year ago for putting pressure on the club and the managers for being crap.

 

Turns out we had a point.

[Bourbon Fox]

On 05/02/2026 at 19:02, foxes4life said:

Only owners to win us the league title and FA cup too but yeah **** that better if they never bought us...

Are you an ostrich? 

[Manwell Pablo]

1 hour ago, lcfc278 said:

Sick note Praet was not one of the better ones. I remember maybe 3 or 4 good performances and that’s about it.

 

If Perez had joined for like £10-12m it maybe wouldn’t have seemed like too big of a mistake but for what we paid and what we got it turned out to be a  joke of a decision.

 

(Although if you’d have said for the money it guaranteed us an FA Cup with his assist pass I’d probably have taken it 😂)

 

He is one of the better ones though isn't he, that's how bad it is. It's all relative....You compare him to Soumare, Daka, etc.

[Twitcher]

6 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

Can you dodge a bullet from a gun that didn't even exist at the time?

Ye, fair enough, but we were the straw, and therefore lucky.

My original point up thread was that for a team, who's almost been there before, it's especially poor to allow it to happen.

[Daggers]

On 05/02/2026 at 17:09, EnderbyFox said:

 

[PhillippaT]

22 hours ago, Salt_muncher said:

What does that stand for 

There I fixed it.  (An alternative to I Fixed It For You ((I)FIFY).)

[Stuntman_Mike]

4 hours ago, Hamilton Fox said:

Whilst he wasn’t amazing he was still a cog in the team that finished 5th and won the cup (still peed off with his miss at the end of the Chelsea game which would have got us 4th) and although he wasn’t worth £30m it’s not mega money for a team at the top end of the table 

As much as I hate Rudkin and our current ownership and set up etc, it's easy to pick at every last signing and saying we overspent, but like all clubs, there will be some players that work out and some that don't. That's not the problem, the problem is the scale of those we've over spent on.. particularly including wages, the ones we've not been able to move on and to those we've not moved on with any money coming back into the pot. 

 

Perez has gone on to do well since he left us, so even if we'd recouped say £10m, that's good business for what we had to show for his time here.

[KFS]

“Pep, Leicester have been charged and deducted 6 points. What could this mean for the 115 charges against Man City?”

 

Pep: 

 

[murphy]

5 hours ago, lcfc278 said:

Sick note Praet was not one of the better ones. I remember maybe 3 or 4 good performances and that’s about it.

 

If Perez had joined for like £10-12m it maybe wouldn’t have seemed like too big of a mistake but for what we paid and what we got it turned out to be a  joke of a decision.

 

(Although if you’d have said for the money it guaranteed us an FA Cup with his assist pass I’d probably have taken it 😂)

Perez was crap, but worse than his fee was the missed opportunity.  That right sided player was the remaining piece of the jigsaw and we (Rodgers) went and blew it on a flyaway no mark like perez (yes, I'm still bitter about it.)

 

As for the FA cup assist pass, that was Luke Thomas, not perez. 

[Patrick]

5 hours ago, HP1 said:

Praet was such a nothing player. Barely scored, assisted, dictated play and wasn't physical or one who would win duals. Another £23 million down the drain.

Another one who downed tools in the (first) relegation season as well. That performance at Fulham away was one of the most pathetic performances I've ever seen.

[Mendi]

Bad news

[Terraloon]

16 hours ago, st albans fox said:

I thought the parachute payments were based on the average earned over the previous three seasons in the PL prior to relegation. 
I may have misunderstood this back in 2023 

The parachute payments are based on a % of the equal share.

 

 

[OnlyOneCity]

I admit to being ignorant of the PSR regulations but notice amongst the various accusations of cheating aimed at us, one is for the 2013/14 Season. Can someone please explain to me what we did wrong for that season?

[fox_favourite]

2 minutes ago, OnlyOneCity said:

I admit to being ignorant of the PSR regulations but notice amongst the various accusations of cheating aimed at us, one is for the 2013/14 Season. Can someone please explain to me what we did wrong for that season?

Shat on the floor of the EFL and then claimed.dot was Burnley 

[Spudulike]

5 hours ago, OnlyOneCity said:

I admit to being ignorant of the PSR regulations but notice amongst the various accusations of cheating aimed at us, one is for the 2013/14 Season. Can someone please explain to me what we did wrong for that season?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43146018.app#:~:text=Leicester City will pay the,loss when they won promotion.

 

[Spudulike]

It's getting towards the situation that we might have to risk an appeal in an attempt to get some of those points back. Could be the difference between relegation or not.

[Spudulike]

It's all gone quiet. The club seemed to be inferring that it wasn't the end of the matter. Must be a deadline for an appeal if that's what the club decides. Could be talks going on behind closed doors unless it's been dropped.