If my Nan had wheels, she’d have been a bike…

[lookwhaticando]

Think about how much absolute crap we signed on Europa money. 
 

Imagine how much more money we could’ve spent signing crap on Champions League money. 

This lot got high on the Europa money and spent more looking for the next big hit. They’d have done the same with the CL money, I’m sure of it. Basically addicts. We’d probably be in even more shit now than we already are. 
 

Also, never trade a trophy. You can keep your money, I want our name on the trophy. 
 

 

 

[Stadt]

We’d have been even more financially irresponsible if we had an extra £50mto spend with CL income.

[PAULCFC]

Managed to go to the FA cup final in 2021.......a few of the people i used to sit with at the KP didn't bother......Getting tested,Going on a bus etc......one of the best thing's i've done regarding LCFC.Once down in London you wouldn't have thought there was a pandemic at all.......it was a kind of release valve,talking to fans about City,a few beers and then the game! Wouldn't have swapped that for a Europen Cup Campaign again.And Leicester City is engraved on the FA cup for all time!

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[Foxdiamond]

22 minutes ago, PAULCFC said:

Managed to go to the FA cup final in 2021.......a few of the people i used to sit with at the KP didn't bother......Getting tested,Going on a bus etc......one of the best thing's i've done regarding LCFC.Once down in London you wouldn't have thought there was a pandemic at all.......it was a kind of release valve,talking to fans about City,a few beers and then the game! Wouldn't have swapped that for a Europen Cup Campaign again.And Leicester City is engraved on the FA cup for all time!

Brilliant 

[Corky]

Even more revenue would have led to greater failure. Rodgers is appalling in Europe, the Champions League (which we should have reached twice) would have been humiliating.

[FoxinNotts]

3 hours ago, Dan said:

We'd have simply lost to West Ham.

Nah. We'd have beaten them 12-0

[The Year Of The Fox]

Thrashing Forest at home in Rodgers’ last season was a big turning point (in the negative) that often gets overlooked. 
 

Aiyawatt had even turned up, many felt to sack him if we lost. 
 

If Rodgers had gone at that point (or several others prior) then we’d not be in this mess

[Foxmeister]

Football fans are, in general, obsessed with the future. Giving up success this season to be in a bigger competition you won’t win the following season is just weird.

[mod hero]

Gino D’Campo is a helmet

[LVFox]

Raheem Sterling doesn’t miss the penalty against Chelsea in the cup. They go on to spank us 6-0.

Chelsea then don’t have any interest in Enzo that summer.

We still get promoted, don’t sell KDH and despite a points deduction Enzo keeps us up. 
Top then gets offered too much money to turn down and the club is sold to new ownership.

 

[foxile5]

Whilst I applaud the concept of this thread I do want to point this out - it's emotional cutting.

 

We've stood in a pile of dogshit and we're looking backwards at a pub where we've not got a shoe coated in filth.

 

For what it's worth, though - not sacking Rodgers after the Forest loss in the cup. That's it for me. if we wanted to change the trajectory of the club I cannot look past that moment. Get him out and Emery in (he absolutely would have come at that point).

[Nalis]

Trophy over 4th all day. Some on here preferred 4th at the time.

 

As mentioned 4th wouldnt have changed much bar a season in the champions league.

 

Newcastle who are a lot more sustainable now than we were at the time. They are on course to finish bottom half after 2 seasons in the past 3 in the champions league.

[Foxmeister]

For a club our size, the EPL will always be a fragile existence. Bournemouth, Brighton, Brentford etc. are all only a couple of poor transfer windows from a similar fate.

[Sly]

Surely the biggest “What If”, is Kante stays for another season to play for us in 16/17? 
 

No signing Mendy or Amartey to fill that void.

[deep blue]

15 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

I think this is nonsense. 

Rodgers did a fantastic job for 2/3 years, then when he wasn't allowed to refresh the squad he threw his toys out the pram which ended in disaster. 

But I'm not a fan of pretending he didn't do a phenomenal job for a couple of years. 

I disagree and I think Finnegan's take is spot on,

 

It's true that Rodgers gave us some fantastic football for a couple of years but with the squad that Puel had built I think we were poised for that level of performance with any less cautious manager in respect of on-field style, and I'm sure there were quite a few managers who could have done as well ... without ruining the club strategy in the process.

 

As for not supporting Rodgers in the later years, our dismal failure to achieve Euro champs league qualification for 2 successive years probably made extra funding out of the question. 

 

[trabuch]

Ranieri won the league with Pearson's squad and Rodgers gradually ****ed us with what Puel had done his best to rebuild from Pearson's squad after everyone left.  (I'm well aware that the problem goes a bit deeper than managers - but Rodgers was a ****)

[The boy Linacre]

On 15/05/2026 at 10:35, AKCJ said:

The obvious one is the Maddison penalty.

 

I think there were a few

1) 1st game of season - Brentford at home 2-0 up, BRodgers deciding not to bring any subs on whe Frank bought 5 on, final result 2-2

2) Winter World Cup, After  beating Everton and West ham in early November wouldn't need to get wait to get battered at home on Boxing by Newcastle

3) Sacking BRodgers BEFORE the March international wiindow, might have got something at Palace

4) Sacking BRodgers BEFORE the March Internaional Window, meaning we had a new manager in place NOT Sadler and Stowell in place for the vital home games against Villa, where Wilf passed to Traore for him to score the winner in the first in ever, and Bournemouth when Madders backpass was the difference in a 1-0 defeat

5) Aforementioned Madders inability to absolutely take the leather of the peno

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[Guy]

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[Guy]

On 15/05/2026 at 10:42, davieG said:

I've waited 60 years to win the FA Cup never even thought about winning the League as I started watching when winning the FA Cup was probably seen as the cream of domestic trophies.

 

My only regret, I wasn't there to witness it.

Another example perhaps as to how Covid really screwed things up, esp. us/King Power in 2020, with it's legacy arguably still being felt now, 6 years on!

[accessory]

3 hours ago, The boy Linacre said:

I think there were a few

1) 1st game of season - Brentford at home 2-0 up, BRodgers deciding not to bring any subs on whe Frank bought 5 on, final result 2-2

2) Winter World Cup, After  beating Everton and West ham in early November wouldn't need to get wait to get battered at home on Boxing by Newcastle

3) Sacking BRodgers BEFORE the March international wiindow, might have got something at Palace

4) Sacking BRodgers BEFORE the March Internaional Window, meaning we had a new manager in place NOT Sadler and Stowell in place for the vital home games against Villa, where Wilf passed to Traore for him to score the winner in the first in ever, and Bournemouth when Madders backpass was the difference in a 1-0 defeat

5) Aforementioned Madders inability to absolutely take the leather of the peno

The winter World Cup really shafted us. We won 4 out of 5 games before that (and Danny Ward kept 4 clean sheets! 😯)

 

This gave BR a stay of execution on his ridiculously expensive contract, awarded him by Rudkin in late 2019 to keep him from going to Arsenal or Spurs.

[Claudio Fannieri]

Last season back in the premier league demonstrated the more revenue generated, the greater the losses and bigger the mistakes we make as a club, our revenue increased by £80m and we managed to lose over £50m more than the season in the championship signing guff like Skipp, BDCR,  Ayew and Eduoard whilst appointing & sacking both Cooper and RvN.

 

Money in the hands of Aiyawatt and crew is a very dangerous thing as there seems to be zero strategy and continue to spend similar levels on inferior players and managers. 

[slymunn]

On 16/05/2026 at 02:28, Sly said:

Surely the biggest “What If”, is Kante stays for another season to play for us in 16/17? 
 

No signing Mendy or Amartey to fill that void.

Or Wilf...Amartey was signed the season we won the league.

[jayfox26]

On 15/05/2026 at 12:28, CornwallFox said:

I think this is nonsense. 

Rodgers did a fantastic job for 2/3 years, then when he wasn't allowed to refresh the squad he threw his toys out the pram which ended in disaster. 

But I'm not a fan of pretending he didn't do a phenomenal job for a couple of years. 

I dont think thats in doubt and we'll always have our name on the fa Cup, but Rodgers is a large reason as to why the club is where it is. He wasn't allowed to refresh the squad as hed already way overspent all budgets (can argue Rudkin shouldn't have allowed this to happen) and by the time he left, ffp failings and future points deductions were inevitable. We changed our whole transfer model for Rodgers and it has cost the club dearly. Nobody can deny he did a good job for a few years but at what cost?

[CornwallFox]

44 minutes ago, jayfox26 said:

I dont think thats in doubt and we'll always have our name on the fa Cup, but Rodgers is a large reason as to why the club is where it is. He wasn't allowed to refresh the squad as hed already way overspent all budgets (can argue Rudkin shouldn't have allowed this to happen) and by the time he left, ffp failings and future points deductions were inevitable. We changed our whole transfer model for Rodgers and it has cost the club dearly. Nobody can deny he did a good job for a few years but at what cost?

I suppose I'm blaming the club not him but the overspending he made a comment around the time he left about the club needing to let players leave rather than keeping them trying to get top dollar. I think that's where our issues lie, continually keeping players like Thomas and Choudhury on big contracts instead of selling when we had the chance. 

[jayfox26]

4 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

I suppose I'm blaming the club not him but the overspending he made a comment around the time he left about the club needing to let players leave rather than keeping them trying to get top dollar. I think that's where our issues lie, continually keeping players like Thomas and Choudhury on big contracts instead of selling when we had the chance. 

Yes thats certainly been a problem and I certainly dont hold Rodgers fully responsible for our demise, Top and Rudkin are the main instigators but Rodgers did play a part as well. Ended in the same way for him at Celtic as well. A cheque book manager that spits his dummy out and downs tools when hes not given a war chest every transfer window.