Leicester City For Sale (Ongoing Thread)

[MPH]

14 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I am finding that Percy article very difficult to take seriously. I'm very surprised by some of what he has willingly written.

My take on events recently is that  someone is releasing untrue stories to try and create an atmosphere that would either discourage other buyers or reduce the asking price and the club are using their connection with Percy to ‘fight back’. He’s probably added the part about promotion being desperately needed, but that’s obvious really..

Edited 5 hours ago by MPH

[ClaphamFox]

26 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I am finding that Percy article very difficult to take seriously. I'm very surprised by some of what he has willingly written.

Which bits?

[les-tah]

47 minutes ago, trooky said:

It's not an ideal scenario for finding a buyer when the media is speculating we're heading for administration. 

 

The club is over priced for league 1, the  sale value is based on an immediate return to the championship.

 

We have a shit manager and are  currently sitting in mid-table making administration a more likely scenario than immediate promotion. 

 

 

 

I dont think any billionaire in the world with half a brain cell is being put off by no bodies in the uk media.

[Chrysalis]

On 15/09/2026 at 23:12, foxile5 said:

Whilst I'm not sure the TalkSport Journo is 100% accurate he's still a journalist and his career is dependent on not peddling absolute tripe.

 

He won't have said that without some inkling that it's on the cards. It's telling that his has come out in tandem with the owners converting yet more debt into equity. 

They more likely to fire him for having no stories, than concern its accurate, there is no way Top is giving some random nobody journalist the heads up

[Chrysalis]

I am expecting one of two things.

 

Either full buy up of assets, and then its leveraged.  

Or buy up of minimum possible, probably no Seagrave (which I hinted at months ago) but also possibly no stadium.  Stadium given its worth less money and is actually needed, is less likely to be removed from the purchase, Seagrave is mostly just a marquee, the clu already owns another training ground, so that could be stripped out without a big affect on the viability of running the club, then KP can sell that separately to a property developer or something.

 

In the latter option, basically buyout would be to pay off exiting loans to KP family, and a token £1 on top of that, get the stadium, squad, club, but also take on the 3rd party debt.

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[Outfox the Fox]

1 hour ago, justfoxes said:

 AS IF !!!

Of course, Boehly used to work for (and is still connected to) Citbank, who are handling our sale.

[AKCJ]

Have I missed something with Boehly or is this just adding 1 and 1 together and getting 3?

[teblin]

4 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

Have I missed something with Boehly or is this just adding 1 and 1 together and getting 3?

There were some Chelsea fan mentioning it when the Boehly share sale thing was first mentioned. I think thats about it?

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[Tommy G]

1 minute ago, AKCJ said:

Have I missed something with Boehly or is this just adding 1 and 1 together and getting 3?

Correct. Give it another few hours and it's a done deal!

 

My take is that we're likely too small scale for him. Having built his career as a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker, he's now in his early 50s, it's hard to imagine him taking on the operational drag of a third-tier football club.

 

He is far better positioned to target a Premier League or top end Championship club, it requires a larger upfront cheque, but it offers a much more turnkey operation than what we have to offer.

[ClaphamFox]

8 minutes ago, teblin said:

There were some Chelsea fan mentioning it when the Boehly share sale thing was first mentioned. I think thats about it?

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And even that was just somebody having a joke.

[Chrysalis]

The Percy article I feel has added further credibility that Seagrave has been a problem, he is a respected journalist, so someone from within the club circle has told him they have recognised issues, with Martin having a remit to try and address them without a relocation.

[HankMarvin]

3 minutes ago, Chrysalis said:

The Percy article I feel has added further credibility that Seagrave has been a problem, he is a respected journalist, so someone from within the club circle has told him they have recognised issues, with Martin having a remit to try and address them without a relocation.

Or the fact that we have slipped 2 divisions, despite having one of the best training facilities at the time in the country. You don’t exactly need inside information to see it’s been a problem. Previous reports of players turning up with dogs, confrontations with staff multiple times being reported.

Dismal history setting runs in the Prem, then longs runs in the championship without winning. 

[StanSP]

19 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Correct. Give it another few hours and it's a done deal!

Will we have to wait for Romano to give it the Here We Go treatment? 

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, ClaphamFox said:

Which bits?

Every bit

[Tommy G]

35 minutes ago, Chrysalis said:

The Percy article I feel has added further credibility that Seagrave has been a problem, he is a respected journalist, so someone from within the club circle has told him they have recognised issues, with Martin having a remit to try and address them without a relocation.

 

26 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Or the fact that we have slipped 2 divisions, despite having one of the best training facilities at the time in the country. You don’t exactly need inside information to see it’s been a problem. Previous reports of players turning up with dogs, confrontations with staff multiple times being reported.

Dismal history setting runs in the Prem, then longs runs in the championship without winning. 

I think you are getting the facility itself confused with the culture and leadership at the club. 

[Phube]

3 hours ago, StanSP said:

Why would an ex CEO from another club know anything about the sale of our club? 

From what I saw yesterday he now runs a finance (possibly acquisitions) company so probably has fingers in pies.

[Jattdogg]

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

 

I think you are getting the facility itself confused with the culture and leadership at the club. 

Definitely is the culture.

[Phenom]

3 hours ago, Pliskin said:

I do think Todd is a shout. US investment is the most likely and the timings seem to make sense thus far. We will see…… but American’s would certainly be more into our recent history and restoring us…… they love a Cinderella story, and we would be Cinderella 2.

Nobody in the US would follow the club just because Boehly is the owner. In fact, it might have the opposite effect.i would certainly hate it.

[HankMarvin]

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

 

I think you are getting the facility itself confused with the culture and leadership at the club. 

No I was responding to the person that said Percy must be getting information and someone has recognised issues from within the club. 

 

You don’t need to be a detective to see a correlation 3 relegations in under 5 years, plus all the associated noise.

[Pita]

4 hours ago, AKCJ said:

Not sure he's the right man for us. Seems a bit too chaotic.

He’s not afraid to get rid of managers will sort Rudkin and co 

[Foxin_Mad]

5 minutes ago, Pita said:

He’s not afraid to get rid of managers will sort Rudkin and co 

He loves tippy tappy sideways football so they might get on bearing in mind his managers were Enzo, Potter, Lampard, Rosenior got rid of the better managers Tuchel and Poch

[lcfcbluearmy]

20 hours ago, moore_94 said:

I think it might be somewhere around €20-30m looking at other club sales

 

The Leicester women's side is potentially around the same as well, although might be a bit more because of their own training ground compared to other womens teams? (cba to look who else has one haha)

 

I expect it makes a potential sale longer to work on because of their being 3 seperate clubs potentially involved

 

But yeah the £200m price tag for Leicester City is rather disingenuous

Yes really its 30 m for leuven 20 million for lcfc women 50 m for lcfc and 100 million for seagrave with the package coming to around 200 million.

 

When you break it down like that it didn't look as rediculous a price

 

Still a bit high maybe

 

I wouldn't be surprised to see Leuven sold separately and not as a package in the end

[Broof]

2 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Correct. Give it another few hours and it's a done deal!

 

My take is that we're likely too small scale for him. Having built his career as a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker, he's now in his early 50s, it's hard to imagine him taking on the operational drag of a third-tier football club.

 

He is far better positioned to target a Premier League or top end Championship club, it requires a larger upfront cheque, but it offers a much more turnkey operation than what we have to offer.

I'm finding this pretty funny. Early 50s is young when it comes to football club ownership. 

 

Zero chance he would buy a premier league team because where's the profit? It'd be break the top 6 or lose a load of money. Championship maybe, but as many have said most clubs have shit infrastructure which would need to be sorted before big moves up the leagues.

 

We are hardly a normal third tier club, and that's the biggest draw. If he fails to crack the top 6 with us he'll still probably 5x his investment just getting to the premier league. 

[davieG]

Chelsea chairman leaves club after selling ownership stake

 

Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly will leave his role after agreeing to sell his stake in the football club to co-owners Clearlake Capital.

The Premier League club announced the transition on Wednesday, with the US private equity firm acquiring "full control of the club".

 

He added: "I have valued my partnership with Clearlake and the wider ownership group, and the collective decisions and investment we have made to support the immediate and long-term success of the club. I am confident that Chelsea is well positioned for continued success under Clearlake's leadership."

Mark Walter, another of the club's co-owners, has also sold his stake to Clearlake. Last month, he sold NBA franchise the Los Angeles Lakers for a record-breaking $12.5bn (£9.25bn).

Mr Boehly, Mr Walter and Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss - who the club said will remain an "important stakeholder and partner in the ownership group" - each had a 12.8% stake following their joint takeover of Chelsea four years ago, with Clearlake previously owning 61.5% as part of the deal.

 

Following the acquisition of the club from former owner Roman Abramovich, who was forced to sell after being sanctioned by the UK, Mr Boehly became the public face of the club, overseeing a period of intense activity in the transfer market that saw Chelsea spend more than £1bn.

In July, Chelsea broke the record for the most expensive transfer for a British player when they signed England international Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa for £117m.

Behdad Eghbali and Jose E Feliciano, co-founders of Clearlake, said Mr Boehly had been "an important partner throughout our ownership", and insisted the 52-year-old "will always be a part of the Chelsea story and family".

Chelsea, who appointed Xabi Alonso as manager this summer and are currently sixth in the Premier League, said there will be "no changes to day-to-day operations, leadership or strategy at the club".

[Jimmy]

I don't get the commuting issue, didn't Schmeichel, Drinkwater, James, Simpson et all all used to commute from the north west and it was never a problem?