League One 2026/2027

[filthyfox]

1 hour ago, Twitcher said:

What, with an admin. points deduction very much on the cards?

If by some miracle we avoid that, we'll have inexperience going up against physical seasoned pro's.

I hope you get what you want, but I've a feeling you won't, and the current things we know about support that. 

If we dont have an admin points deductuon, then yes...

 

If we do have an admin deductiom, at least we will be rid of Flop and Dudkin

[MC Prussian]

Bromley promoted as League Two champions.

MK Dons and Cambridge coming up, too.

 

Take your pick from Salford, Notts, Chesterfield or Grimsby.

 

Luton (shithole) and Plymouth remain in League One. Plymouth away, ouch. That's one for the very dedicated ones.

[Vacamion]

 

Gotta be Notts, hasn't it?   

[Richard]

Growing up in Burton and now in Bromley, got a couple of aways to look forward to at least

[Jattdogg]

So excited for this upcoming season.

I have to download another app just to see the scores as my  current one stops at the championship

 

[David Hankey]

Can't get over excited with this lot.

[Fish]

On 22/04/2026 at 10:41, martyn said:

Id take Lascelles for reasonable wages. He looked unfit and overweight, but we will need some experience and leadership. Appreciate he didnt necessarily lead by example fron what we saw, but the character references from previous clubs are positive enough. I'd be hopeful with a proper pre season he'd be a positive asset.

Are you Ruskin in disguise ! Listen to yourself ffs . Exactly the sort of lame donkey to avoid man .

[LCFCJohn]

Looks like Sheffield Wednesday are now going to start on 0 points rather than any further deduction. Plus new owners in and they will be able to put a squad together.

 

This doesn’t bode well for us whatever our ambitions might be. With 4 relegation spots, the priority has to be avoiding a further relegation. Having another team in disarray and a deduction might have helped.

[LCFCJohn]

@Bausor28, bet you’d have laughed at the idea we would struggle this season as well yeah? 

[Simonb]

I think we could make the play offs next season playing 4 or 5 academy players week in week out.. providing we bring in the right players to play alongside them. Players that want to play and will fight 

 

I think we are stuck with Jannik unless he can find a loan with the majority of wages covered (unlikely) and Skipp! So something along these lines to begin with

 

 

                  Jakub

Aluko Nelson Jannik Thomas

 

          Braybrooke  Skipp

Evans.        New 10.       Alves

                    New CF

 

Should be enough to compete. I think we'll work with a small squad too so will be reliant on fitness. Im assuming there wont be too much interest in Nelson, in my opinion he hasn't done enough this season to make me want to spend if I was running another club. I reckon Monga and Page will go. 

 

But if im really honest. Right at this minute I dont actually care. . Quite looking forward to a disappointment free summer of shite football results... oh wait.. England will be playing 

[Chelmofox]

2 minutes ago, Simonb said:

I think we could make the play offs next season playing 4 or 5 academy players week in week out.. providing we bring in the right players to play alongside them. Players that want to play and will fight 

 

I think we are stuck with Jannik unless he can find a loan with the majority of wages covered (unlikely) and Skipp! So something along these lines to begin with

 

 

                  Jakub

Aluko Nelson Jannik Thomas

 

          Braybrooke  Skipp

Evans.        New 10.       Alves

                    New CF

 

Should be enough to compete. I think we'll work with a small squad too so will be reliant on fitness. Im assuming there wont be too much interest in Nelson, in my opinion he hasn't done enough this season to make me want to spend if I was running another club. I reckon Monga and Page will go. 

 

But if im really honest. Right at this minute I dont actually care. . Quite looking forward to a disappointment free summer of shite football results... oh wait.. England will be playing 

We have to, unquestionably, dump Jannik.  We cannot setup with him leading the back line next year. It doesn't matter what division we are in - the problems are the same. Stands on the ball to slow everything down, no pace, no physicality, mistakes, cant jump and has a terrible attitude. We start with Jannik, we are in the proper sh1t as it proves we cannot move on from whatever systems we have got ourselves addicted to. He would be on about 40-50k a week too - we have to get rid.

[Haywood_6]

To be honest I kind of agree with Piper. I’d be looking to keep Jakub, Souttar (if possible) and Choudhury (unpopular opinion) but they are players who can handle the physicality and toughness of League One and actually do the ugly side of the game

 

Then build around the younger lads like Aluko, Braybrooke, Gray, Silko, Monga, Page and Cartwright, let them develop together and hopefully grow into something.

 

The absolute priority has to be signing a proper striker for this level if there’s any money available at all.

 

Sell or release the rest. Couldn’t give a f*ck about them. They’ve been part of one of the worst Leicester sides in our history. Force them out - I don't care how

 

Top won't sell and Rudkin won't go anywhere either sadly.

 

Manager wise I'm torn - Rowett had 2 wins 8 draws, 4 defeats in 14 games. It's not the best. But personally I don't mind him as I don't think he'll tolerate any bullshit. Also who is out there that's any better? With someone new it could be another disaster like Cifuentes. At some point constantly chopping and changing managers has to stop 

[LCFCJohn]

37 minutes ago, Simonb said:

I think we could make the play offs next season playing 4 or 5 academy players week in week out.. providing we bring in the right players to play alongside them. Players that want to play and will fight 

 

I think we are stuck with Jannik unless he can find a loan with the majority of wages covered (unlikely) and Skipp! So something along these lines to begin with

 

 

                  Jakub

Aluko Nelson Jannik Thomas

 

          Braybrooke  Skipp

Evans.        New 10.       Alves

                    New CF

 

Should be enough to compete. I think we'll work with a small squad too so will be reliant on fitness. Im assuming there wont be too much interest in Nelson, in my opinion he hasn't done enough this season to make me want to spend if I was running another club. I reckon Monga and Page will go. 

 

But if im really honest. Right at this minute I dont actually care. . Quite looking forward to a disappointment free summer of shite football results... oh wait.. England will be playing 

No Page?

 

GK - suspect Stolarcryk will go. Will be cheap for someone.

 

Full backs suspect you are right although would be good if we could move Thomas on.

 

Centre backs - I don’t believe either will be here. I’m quietly confident with a year left, Vestergaard will finally move. His agent will be working on it. And Nelson, I’m unsure where this belief he is staying comes from. He has already proven himself before this season at Championship level, has 1 year left, cheap and young. Clubs would be fools not to pick him up cheaply.

 

Centre midfield is a conundrum. Depends if we play 2 or 3 and on Braybrooke. If 2, what you have out could be right and maybe Page as the 10. If we play 3, with 8’s, Page is the obvious choice on the left. If Braybrooke could be the right hand side, Skipp can sit in the middle if we don’t move him or go for Archie Collins from Peterborough on a free. If Braybrooke sit central, we need someone on the right.

 

Evans once he gets up to speed and Alves as wide forwards looks good. Definitely need a striker but with Hutchinson very much included.

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, Haywood_6 said:

To be honest I kind of agree with Piper. I’d be looking to keep Jakub, Souttar (if possible) and Choudhury (unpopular opinion) but they are players who can handle the physicality and toughness of League One and actually do the ugly side of the game

 

Then build around the younger lads like Aluko, Braybrooke, Gray, Silko, Monga, Page and Cartwright, let them develop together and hopefully grow into something.

 

The absolute priority has to be signing a proper striker for this level if there’s any money available at all.

 

Sell or release the rest. Couldn’t give a f*ck about them. They’ve been part of one of the worst Leicester sides in our history. Force them out - I don't care how

 

Top won't sell and Rudkin won't go anywhere either sadly.

 

Manager wise I'm torn - Rowett had 2 wins 8 draws, 4 defeats in 14 games. It's not the best. But personally I don't mind him as I don't think he'll tolerate any bullshit. Also who is out there that's any better? With someone new it could be another disaster like Cifuentes. At some point constantly chopping and changing managers has to stop 

Just on Rowett, even if you discard the results and ultimately relegation, he has not proven in any way he is the right guy to build around the youth players which we need next season so he definitely has to go for me. And I’m someone who was ok with him coming in and backed him.

Edited 3 May by LCFCJohn

[FoxFossil]

16 hours ago, David Hankey said:

Can't get over excited with this lot.

Five former PL sides, (counting old Div 1 = PL).

At least a couple where we won't be able to sing 'Champions of England - you"ll never sing that.'

BSLB guest Charley, suggests 5 years financial rebuild before return to PL is even a possibility, with administration more likely with current mindset. See Sunderland for how to do it - but first you have to recognise the truely disasterous position we are in, and take drastic action NOW.

[Grebfromgrebland]

28 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Just on Rowett, even if you discard the results and ultimately relegation, he has not proven in any way he is the right guy to build around the youth players which we need next season so he definitely has to go for me. And I’m someone who was ok with him coming in and backed him.

Even though I don't like him we did create a lot of chances with him

[Tomo260]

1 hour ago, Haywood_6 said:

To be honest I kind of agree with Piper. I’d be looking to keep Jakub, Souttar (if possible) and Choudhury (unpopular opinion) but they are players who can handle the physicality and toughness of League One and actually do the ugly side of the game

 

Then build around the younger lads like Aluko, Braybrooke, Gray, Silko, Monga, Page and Cartwright, let them develop together and hopefully grow into something.

 

The absolute priority has to be signing a proper striker for this level if there’s any money available at all.

 

Sell or release the rest. Couldn’t give a f*ck about them. They’ve been part of one of the worst Leicester sides in our history. Force them out - I don't care how

 

Top won't sell and Rudkin won't go anywhere either sadly.

 

Manager wise I'm torn - Rowett had 2 wins 8 draws, 4 defeats in 14 games. It's not the best. But personally I don't mind him as I don't think he'll tolerate any bullshit. Also who is out there that's any better? With someone new it could be another disaster like Cifuentes. At some point constantly chopping and changing managers has to stop 

I completely agree with this, if we manage to a sell, loan, whatever to the rest that will help us massively. Hamza brings the physicality with Souttar, league 1 is a dog eat dog league we need some bullies sprinkled around the academy youths 

[Bluearmyfox28]

On 23/04/2026 at 20:21, Foxin_Mad said:

Found some interesting information on the FFP in League 1 from Cardiff City:

 

 

Financial restrictions in League One

At our AGM on June 19th, I briefly mentioned the different EFL financial restrictions which our club will have to abide by in League 1. So I hope you find this more detailed note useful to understand how different it will be from the restrictions on Championship clubs which applied to us last season.

 In the Championship club annual losses are restricted to an average of £13m a financial year (provided £8m of this is covered by non-refundable cash injections into the club by its owners) over a three year period.

Some adjustments are allowed to the reported loss figure by things like spending on youth and stadium development but this is the “base” figure.Any breach of these limits can lead to transfer embargos or points deductions.

In League 1 and League 2 these profitability restrictions don’t apply. Instead the restriction is based on player wage costs under what is known as Salary Cost Management Protocol (SCMP). League 1 club total player wages costs must not exceed 60% of turnover (55% in League 2). There is no restriction on transfer fees paid, just on wages.

Compliance with the above rules is closely and regularly monitored by the EFL based on projections submitted by the club and if a club looks like it is heading for a breach, then a transfer embargo will be applied until a club becomes compliant again.

The definitions of turnover and player wages are important in the above calculation

1. Turnover would normally just include match day income, commercial sponsorship and TV revenue. It can also include profits from hospitality events as many clubs use their stadium facilities far  more often than on match days.
2. However in League 1 turnover is also allowed to include cash injected by the club owner by way of new non-refundable share capital ( i.e not loans).So an owner can greatly increase the allowable limits of player wages by this method
3. Turnover also will include any profit on player sales, but only when the cash from those sales is actually received – many deals tend to be done on an instalment basis to ease cash flows
4. The wage cost for players loaned out in the season are excluded from the calculation for the period in which they are loaned out.
5. An exclusion from wage costs also applies to players on a professional contract who are  under 21 at the start of a season who  have come through the club`s youth development scheme and have been with the club for three years or more.
6. Cardiff City also have another potential favourable interim wage adjustment as a club that has just been relegated from the Championship. If a player was signed before September 2024 on a contract of over three years then their wage is also excluded. This exception is aimed at protecting relegated clubs from committed longer term contracts entered into before their relegation. I must be honest here and haven’t checked to what extent this will benefit our club, if at all,

I hope this note is useful to understand where we stand as a club on this important issue for next season. Any questions, please raise through the usual Trust channels

Very interesting. So unless I’ve misunderstood clubs could just offer bigger signing on fee’s to reduce the weekly wages and be completely fine?
 

If true Top could seriously show where we / he is at financially as there’s an opportunity to inject a large sum of funds here and might make sense why we are being linked with someone like Dick Schreuder.

[fazzyfox]

Having watched the end of season show seeing a bit of each team (aka "Extensive Research" ), there's a lot of physicality, strength, energy and some wise heads with know how, some good football in terms of through balls, great finishes, good crosses but no-one trying to play like a pound shop Pep Man City wannabe. We have to tear up that model and accept we're not going to rock up and pass our way through these teams like a knife through butter and our youngsters are going to be battered from pillar to post so we will need to blend in some solid lads who know the league and can put it about themselves. However much I love watching flair, we're not going to be able to just out-flair the opposition by being some kind of footballing Harlem Globetrotters, we will need leadership, steel and organisation in there too. 

[HarryDee8]

League 1 is not all that far behind the championship. If we finished bottom of championship then we will be mid table next season of league 1 with this current squad

[Simonb]

11 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

We have to, unquestionably, dump Jannik.  We cannot setup with him leading the back line next year. It doesn't matter what division we are in - the problems are the same. Stands on the ball to slow everything down, no pace, no physicality, mistakes, cant jump and has a terrible attitude. We start with Jannik, we are in the proper sh1t as it proves we cannot move on from whatever systems we have got ourselves addicted to. He would be on about 40-50k a week too - we have to get rid.

Id absolutely love to get rid of Jannik. My issue is in order to get rid of someone, you need someone to be interested.

 

Only realistic way he goes is we stump up a portion of his salary for a year isnt it, and even then someone needs to see somwthing in him 

[Simonb]

10 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

No Page?

 

GK - suspect Stolarcryk will go. Will be cheap for someone.

 

Full backs suspect you are right although would be good if we could move Thomas on.

 

Centre backs - I don’t believe either will be here. I’m quietly confident with a year left, Vestergaard will finally move. His agent will be working on it. And Nelson, I’m unsure where this belief he is staying comes from. He has already proven himself before this season at Championship level, has 1 year left, cheap and young. Clubs would be fools not to pick him up cheaply.

 

Centre midfield is a conundrum. Depends if we play 2 or 3 and on Braybrooke. If 2, what you have out could be right and maybe Page as the 10. If we play 3, with 8’s, Page is the obvious choice on the left. If Braybrooke could be the right hand side, Skipp can sit in the middle if we don’t move him or go for Archie Collins from Peterborough on a free. If Braybrooke sit central, we need someone on the right.

 

Evans once he gets up to speed and Alves as wide forwards looks good. Definitely need a striker but with Hutchinson very much included.

If you read a little further down.. im assuming Page and Monga leave hense not including them .. id like Page to be involved though if he stays 

 

Wouldn't mind Jakub leaving but I think league ones his level. If I was running a championship side I wouldnt want to bring him in

 

Fair point on Nelson, hopefully teams just see what he did last year and he stays but a couple of million in the bank wouldnt be the end of the world as Gray would get a shout. I dont share your confidence on Jannik leaving unless we stump up a portion of his wages.. clubs will be more interested in Lascelles surely? How longs he here for?

 

We have to be stuck with Skipp. Noones shelling out on him. Doesn't he still have 2 years left, so we'd need 10-12m to break even depending on what the actual fee was. 

 

Yes im hoping Hutchinson is a regular from the bench. I think we'll need a Steve Howard type for league one. Physical league and we will get bullied if we are too lightweight. 

 

Id be quite happy to do a Mike Basset and go back to 442 myself

 

But like I said.. I've had enough of it for a few weeks. I'll wait until pre season starts and see the list of names in the squad I dont recognise and just hope for the best .. should be a laugh anyway

[dmayne7]

On 02/05/2026 at 17:47, Richard said:

Growing up in Burton and now in Bromley, got a couple of aways to look forward to at least

Sending thoughts and prayers at this difficult time

[LCFCJohn]

10 hours ago, Simonb said:

If you read a little further down.. im assuming Page and Monga leave hense not including them .. id like Page to be involved though if he stays 

 

Wouldn't mind Jakub leaving but I think league ones his level. If I was running a championship side I wouldnt want to bring him in

 

Fair point on Nelson, hopefully teams just see what he did last year and he stays but a couple of million in the bank wouldnt be the end of the world as Gray would get a shout. I dont share your confidence on Jannik leaving unless we stump up a portion of his wages.. clubs will be more interested in Lascelles surely? How longs he here for?

 

We have to be stuck with Skipp. Noones shelling out on him. Doesn't he still have 2 years left, so we'd need 10-12m to break even depending on what the actual fee was. 

 

Yes im hoping Hutchinson is a regular from the bench. I think we'll need a Steve Howard type for league one. Physical league and we will get bullied if we are too lightweight. 

 

Id be quite happy to do a Mike Basset and go back to 442 myself

 

But like I said.. I've had enough of it for a few weeks. I'll wait until pre season starts and see the list of names in the squad I dont recognise and just hope for the best .. should be a laugh anyway

Ah my bad, missed that about Page! I am hopeful he will stay to be fair. Like you, I assume Monga goes.

 

Jakub like others has had a bad season but someone might see him as cheap back up. He won’t cost much being out of contract next year, £500k maybe? But who knows, he might stay but then it’ll be another out the door for free next year.

 

Nelson similar, professional clubs and scouts will base their views on more factors than had a bad run in a toxic team where everyone was awful so like Monga, I don’t factor Nelson into my thoughts on the squad for next season as he is gone in my view. 
 

Vestergaard and Skipp, it’s easy to assume we’ll be stuck with them and I tend to have a quite negative outlook on this (could call it realism). But agents will be working. Vestergaard might get a 2 year deal in Europe on lower wages but think it is preferable to L1. Skipp more difficult as there is amortisation to consider whereas we could give away Vestergaard for free fee wise. Maybe someone takes Skipp on loan and covers the year amortisation and wages best case? Probably not, at the least we probably subsidise wages. 
 

We definitely need a senior striker. We can’t put that burden on the likes of Hutchinson. Not sure it needs to be 442 if you have wide forwards such as Evans and Alves but I do enjoy the Fryatt/Howard partnership in L1 last time! 

[Merchant_Banker]

1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:

Ah my bad, missed that about Page! I am hopeful he will stay to be fair. Like you, I assume Monga goes.

 

Jakub like others has had a bad season but someone might see him as cheap back up. He won’t cost much being out of contract next year, £500k maybe? But who knows, he might stay but then it’ll be another out the door for free next year.

 

Nelson similar, professional clubs and scouts will base their views on more factors than had a bad run in a toxic team where everyone was awful so like Monga, I don’t factor Nelson into my thoughts on the squad for next season as he is gone in my view. 
 

Vestergaard and Skipp, it’s easy to assume we’ll be stuck with them and I tend to have a quite negative outlook on this (could call it realism). But agents will be working. Vestergaard might get a 2 year deal in Europe on lower wages but think it is preferable to L1. Skipp more difficult as there is amortisation to consider whereas we could give away Vestergaard for free fee wise. Maybe someone takes Skipp on loan and covers the year amortisation and wages best case? Probably not, at the least we probably subsidise wages. 
 

We definitely need a senior striker. We can’t put that burden on the likes of Hutchinson. Not sure it needs to be 442 if you have wide forwards such as Evans and Alves but I do enjoy the Fryatt/Howard partnership in L1 last time! 

Is amortisation an issue in League 1 given the different rules? I know a loss is a loss, but not sure of the impact.