The worst season in our history

[inckley fox]

On 18/04/2026 at 19:57, String fellow said:

In 1914/15, Leicester Fosse ended 2nd from bottom of England's leagues. Right now,  the club is 50th from the bottom.

In 1939/40, Leicester City gained only 4 points.

The phrase 'worst season in our history' can be interpreted in lots of different ways!

You are right. But in 1914/15 we were also 39th in the overall league placings, which would have had us comfortably safe this season. So yes, there are two ways of looking at everything!

[trabuch]

We're shit and we know we are. Well, some of us do.

Rudkin is the malignancy at the heart of this club. The fact that Top doesn't see it makes him complicit - although my softer side still feels some sympathy for the billionaire nepobaby.. 

Edited 26 April by trabuch

[LCFCJohn]

On 18/04/2026 at 18:57, String fellow said:

In 1914/15, Leicester Fosse ended 2nd from bottom of England's leagues. Right now,  the club is 50th from the bottom.

In 1939/40, Leicester City gained only 4 points.

The phrase 'worst season in our history' can be interpreted in lots of different ways!

You’re correct that Leicester only got 4 points in the 1939/40 season.

 

However, given that was from a season that lasted 3 games before being abandoned when Britain entered WW11, and that first 3 games had resulted in 2 wins and a defeat (2 points for a win of course) and were sat towards the top of the first division, I think we can give that season a pass from the history books if we are looking at lowest points tallies 

[Edingleyfox]

8 hours ago, murphy said:

Yes, Rudkin and Glover managed to unearth the one striker even worse than the Patson Daka and Jordan Temu. 

 

I don't count Carranza as I was just gobsmacked that we thought Feyenoords fourth choice was the man to take on the mantle. Again, it was obvious to anyone but Rudkin

The striker situation is always an afterthought. Remember the Edouard signing he barely got on the pitch. 

[OntarioFox]

9 hours ago, z-layrex said:

I don't think people are understanding the gravity of the financial situation.

 

Everyone's saying "league 1 is a chance to clear out the deadwood and start again. League 1 had some of the best away days etc". The club could very well not exist soon, nevermind finding players who want to wear the shirt, there may not be a shirt to wear.

Was trying to explain this to Dad yesterday who, while the penny has dropped as far as the playing squad goes after two years of blindly 'backing the lads', seems to think this is what will happen.

 

I had to explain to him that no, we can't just spend freely and get a whole new squad in the third tier. We have a £70 MILLION deficit to make up with projected revenues of £2 million - or at the absolute best, around £11 million which I think was based on winning the league and doing well in all three (!!!) cups. 

 

So in a best-case scenario, before we spend a single penny on new players we have to clear out £59 million through transfers and by cutting costs elsewhere, and possibly as high as £68 million. Granted, external revenue will make up a bit of that, but let's be real, companies will hardly be queuing up to throw millions at the exposure third tier football will bring them - not even the dodgiest bitcoin casino known to man would pay what we need.

 

 

Most of our squad have tanked their own value through their pathetic showing this season which, given they are mostly still on stupid wages of £20k a week upwards, makes them a very tough sell.

 

Some of that churn will happen naturally by wastemen like Ayew, Daka, Faes and (sorry) Ricardo seeing their contracts expire, but that still leaves a bunch of others under contract who we'll need to shift to have any prospect of even servicing our deficit, let alone buying replacements. Vestergaard, Mavididi, Fatawu, Choudhury, Okoli, Skipp, even Winks apparently had a one year extension triggered at some point.

 

If even ONE of the high earners stays that's our league revenue for the year chewed up by them alone - £40k a week comes out to £2.08m in a year. Realistically, even with serious trimming of the fat in the squad our wage bill will continue to be astronomical compared to our income. The chances of making up for it with big transfer fees are highly unlikely - at a push, Fatawu and maybe Monga may attract £10m plus each, but even that's now questionable when you remember that A) our players are now a punchline who were outplayed by the likes of Oxford and Charlton and unlikely to be in high demand and B) as we saw in the recent past when Spurs bought Maddison, relegation usually wipes value off what you can demand for players.

 

So yeah, folks expecting a big rebuild in League One are delusional. We are almost certainly going to see the rump of the team made up of the unsellable remains of our senior squad, with more of the youth promoted out of necessity. I'm not against that at all for the record, if anything it's a year too late, but it won't solve our financial difficulties or be the wholesale bonfire a lot of us want. We will be very lucky to see, for example, a striker come in on anything more than a loan from a Prem's academy, which makes building a long-term spine far harder.

Edited 26 April by OntarioFox