Welcome to League 1 CONFIRMED

[Raj]

1 minute ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

So he can black up?

Ffs...🙄🙄🙄😁

[FlyingMackem]

7 hours ago, orangecity23 said:

As a Mackem, do you think it's entirely a coincedence that both your clubs and ours have done the back to back double relegation, off the back of horrific recruitment, and we both happen to have employed both Lee Congerton and Martyn Glover as recruitment guys in the run up to that? Were this gruesome twosome just as bad at your place, or was it some other bods more to blame?

Not at all. We had a decent 10 years in the Premier League with our owner Ellis Short, but by the end we ended up on the manager merry-go-round. Short had one more throw of the dice and hired Moyes who he had said publicly was the manager he had always wanted. Moyes brought a defeatist attitude stating we were in a relegation battle after 2 games and the rest of the season was a joke.

 

After this, the owner lost interest and made it clear he would no longer fund the club and we had to find a way to be self sufficient, which is when all of the dog mince signings come in. In the Championship, managers and players were both no concern to the owner and so we free fell into League One. After this, Short decided he wanted rid of Sunderland completely, but the club owed him around £300m. He struggled to find a buyer at that price so wrote the debt off that was owned to himself and two charlatans bought the club using it's own parachute payments. They gambled on a club as big as Sunderland making an instant return to the Championship but couldn't afford to recruit well. Eventually they sold a stake to Kyril Louis-Dreyfus who started to run the club professionally and implement a Brighton like model which so far has been successful. He is now the majority owner and has done wonders in re-connecting the club to the fans and the city. The other two, Stewart Donald and Charlie Methven I believe have gone to Charlton and Oxford and done **** all.

 

Most of this can all be seen first hand in the Netflix documentary Sunderland 'Till I Die.

 

Unfortunately a new owner looks like the only way out of Leicester's mess.

 

If I was Leicester, I would have a look at Kristjaan Speakman. He has recently been let go by Sunderland but he was the bloke that recruited Sunderland's never say die youth that got us promoted back to the PL with very little spent. He was also involved in the recruitment that has seen us survive this season. 4 of his players played (and 3 scored) in the 4-3 defeat to Villa on Sunday. Rigg, O'Nien, Isidor and Hume.

[davieG]

Hello is it L1 your looking for. 

[justfoxes]

[Free Falling Foxes]

24 minutes ago, justfoxes said:

I think the flavour should Roasted Chickens.

[justfoxes]

On 24/04/2026 at 12:31, Free Falling Foxes said:

I think the flavour should Roasted Chickens.

Nah we should release a sour drink & name it  Leicester City piss taking bottlers !

[Wycombe Fox]

When relegation was confirmed, I was fairly indifferent but now I’m finding that I’m getting angrier by the day.

 

After the title win I thought that we’d become an established mid-table Prem team, not flirting with relegation but occasionally flirting with Thursday European Cup football. That is what we should’ve been. No fan expectations as I’m fairly sure that we all know that the title was a one-off that wouldn’t happen again.

 

What an absolute ****-up this club has made of that!

 

The only thing I have left is to hope that Spuds get relegated 🤣

Edited 25 April by Wycombe Fox

[BigGibbo]

Anyone else becoming increasingly concerned that we are just going to redo this season in League One?

 

Top has basically just shrugged his shoulders and flew back home leaving Rudkin to carry on business as usual. 

 

We all now know these people have a talent for learning zero lessons from prior failures and that leads me to believe we won't see any youth or any kind of refresh next season either.

 

I fear they are still rabbits in the headlight terrified of not coming straight back up (exactly as they were this season) and will for that reason only trust senior players that have played at EPL or Championship level previously just as they did this season.

 

The only players of that type we will have left will be those that are on wages so high we can't give them away and free transfer 30 somethings along the lines of Ayew & Bobby.

 

If that is the case i think the odds are 10% we fluke our way back up with another Enzo-style stroke of luck, 40% we finish mid-table, and 50% we get relegated to League Two.

Edited 25 April by BigGibbo
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[DJW1]

Good news! Burton have stayed up, so another local derby 😃

[davieG]

17 hours ago, BigGibbo said:

Anyone else becoming increasingly concerned that we are just going to redo this season in League One?

 

Top has basically just shrugged his shoulders and flew back home leaving Rudkin to carry on business as usual. 

 

We all now know these people have a talent for learning zero lessons from prior failures and that leads me to believe we won't see any youth or any kind of refresh next season either.

 

I fear they are still rabbits in the headlight terrified of not coming straight back up (exactly as they were this season) and will for that reason only trust senior players that have played at EPL or Championship level previously just as they did this season.

 

The only players of that type we will have left will be those that are on wages so high we can't give them away and free transfer 30 somethings along the lines of Ayew & Bobby.

 

If that is the case i think the odds are 10% we fluke our way back up with another Enzo-style stroke of luck, 40% we finish mid-table, and 50% we get relegated to League Two.

It's certainly a big possibility.

 

Can we find buyers for these for a fee the club will accept (historically No!) I can't see how we can afford to keep more than a couple on, hopefully relegated wages

Faes

Okoli

Mavididi

Fatawu

Vieites

Decordova Reid

Souttar

Kristiansen

Choudhury

Skipp

Vestergaard

Thomas

[Merchant_Banker]

47 minutes ago, davieG said:

It's certainly a big possibility.

 

Can we find buyers for these for a fee the club will accept (historically No!) I can't see how we can afford to keep more than a couple on, hopefully relegated wages

Faes

Okoli

Mavididi

Fatawu

Vieites

Decordova Reid

Souttar

Kristiansen

Choudhury

Skipp

Vestergaard

Thomas

The problem is finding clubs willing to pay this lot similar wages to what we have been paying. Obviously some will be willing to take a lower wage in return for a longer contract, but how many will just think f**k it and just sit back and take the money for a year.

[Blue ROI]

18 hours ago, BigGibbo said:

Anyone else becoming increasingly concerned that we are just going to redo this season in League One?

 

Top has basically just shrugged his shoulders and flew back home leaving Rudkin to carry on business as usual. 

 

We all now know these people have a talent for learning zero lessons from prior failures and that leads me to believe we won't see any youth or any kind of refresh next season either.

 

I fear they are still rabbits in the headlight terrified of not coming straight back up (exactly as they were this season) and will for that reason only trust senior players that have played at EPL or Championship level previously just as they did this season.

 

The only players of that type we will have left will be those that are on wages so high we can't give them away and free transfer 30 somethings along the lines of Ayew & Bobby.

 

If that is the case i think the odds are 10% we fluke our way back up with another Enzo-style stroke of luck, 40% we finish mid-table, and 50% we get relegated to League Two.

'Top has basically just shrugged his shoulders and flew back home leaving Rudkin to carry on business as usual.'

 

Thats the problem and the block to any progress right there.

 

Edited 26 April by Blue ROI

[cat lady]

What a bloody mess we're in 

[BigGibbo]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

It's certainly a big possibility.

 

Can we find buyers for these for a fee the club will accept (historically No!) I can't see how we can afford to keep more than a couple on, hopefully relegated wages

Faes

Okoli

Mavididi

Fatawu

Vieites

Decordova Reid

Souttar

Kristiansen

Choudhury

Skipp

Vestergaard

Thomas

It's looking grim. We'll be saddled with at least half of them. Sulking all the way to the bank.

 

I'd be amazed if we actually had League One relegation clauses in place to be honest. It didn't even occur to them as a possibility, just like the EPL relegation. 

[mr k]

3 hours ago, DJW1 said:

Good news! Burton have stayed up, so another local derby 😃

My local team.

Anyone else from around burton 

[Lambert09]

I want to beat Blackburn so that the reason we are relegated is because of the point deduction and therefore fully the clubs own fault. 

[Lambert09]

4 hours ago, DJW1 said:

Good news! Burton have stayed up, so another local derby 😃

There was a thread about when our downfall started… the day we lost that pre-season friendly on penalties to Burton was the moment 😂

[justfoxes]

It’s got so bad even the charity shops are revolting 😂😂😜

[Bazly]

Only 5 times have a professional football team managed back to back relegations. Never has any club managed a triple drop straight off but with this club might just crack it.

[CloudFox]

18 minutes ago, justfoxes said:

It’s got so bad even the charity shops are revolting 😂😂😜

Is this real? 😂

[Bazly]

5 hours ago, davieG said:

It's certainly a big possibility.

 

Can we find buyers for these for a fee the club will accept (historically No!) I can't see how we can afford to keep more than a couple on, hopefully relegated wages

Faes

Okoli

Mavididi

Fatawu

Vieites

Decordova Reid

Souttar

Kristiansen

Choudhury

Skipp

Vestergaard

Thomas

There was speculation in the punter corner that clubs often have wages clauses if relegated but that no one would have the foresight to spec in a double relegation. So LC will be stuck paying high wages to players that either no one wants or they are happy just going through the motions whilst seeing out their time on high wages. Its a Danny Ward someone somehow gave me an extension scenario on steroids.

[Claudio Fannieri]

Just now, Bazly said:

There was speculation in the punter corner that clubs often have wages clauses if relegated but that no one would have the foresight to spec in a double relegation. So LC will be stuck paying high wages to players that either no one wants or they are happy just going through the motions whilst seeing out their time on high wages. Its a Danny Ward someone somehow gave me an extension scenario on steroids.

It depends if it’s a specified relegation such as premier league to Championship is X % and Championship to league one is Y %. It could be that there is a general relegation clause with a specified % each time. 

[Tommy Fresh]

1 hour ago, Bazly said:

Only 5 times have a professional football team managed back to back relegations. Never has any club managed a triple drop straight off but with this club might just crack it.

I think you may mean 5 from the Prem to then drop again the next season

[funkyrobot]

[LCFCJohn]

3 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

I want to beat Blackburn so that the reason we are relegated is because of the point deduction and therefore fully the clubs own fault. 

To be fair, it’s the clubs fault either way and nobody in the right mind can find another explanation. Either it’s their fault for breaking the rules and having the points deduction or it’s their fault for signing awful players with crap attitudes and incompetent managers time after time. Take your pick as to which….

 

I’m thinking it’s better we get hammered by Blackburn for maximum humiliation. We saw last season that picking up some points after an early relegation did us no good as they just assumed we’d dominate the league again and they didn’t need to invest in the squad (even using the loan market wisely if funds were restricted). Maximum humiliation is most likely to force change if anything is going to.