An Open Letter to Top and the Board

[Happy Fox]

P.S I didn't right this letter just copied and pasted from the link so I do not deserve the rep points

http://www.thisislei...ail/story.html?

Dear Top

No one can question you or your fathers commitment to Leicester City FC since you bought the team.

You have pumped millions of pounds into rebuilding the club from the foundations and with your commitment to the things like the training facilities you show that you have the future of the club at heart. You turn for for as many games as you can and are not afraid to make decisions.

One of your biggest decisions was to do everything you could to get this club into the Premier League as quick as you could. But because of other decisions you have since made this may not happen as quickly as you yourself wanted. Are you attempting to get this club to run before it can walk? A rebuilding job that was started under Milan Mandaric was passed onto yourself but unlike another cash rich club in QPR who took their time to get things right you seemed to go at this like a bull in a China shop.

Your first decision was to remove Paulo Sousa from his position as LCFC manager a decision which, at the time, seemed the right thing to do, but we will never know had he stayed if he would have turned things around. But the masterstroke in bringing in a manager of Sven Goran Eriksson's stature removed any questions we may have had re the early sacking of Sousa.

You could question Sven's potential to manage at the lower level's of the game and the fact that he would turn up at the opening of an envelope if he was paid enough, to get an ex England Manager into our club meant you were walking on water as far as the fans were concerned.

So where has it gone wrong? The sacking of Sven had divided our club like no other decision I can remember in my 40+ years of following the club. It was, most people seem to agree, a decision made too early in the season and one that was seemed to be made in haste rather than serious judgement by yourself and the board.

To replace a manager you have to be seen to do so with someone bigger and better or a manager that is viewed as up and coming.

Neither has been the case. The up and coming berth which would have been filled by Lee Clarke from Huddersfield never materialised and how do you get someone bigger than Sven? It appeared to me that you sacked Sven with no idea of a replacement. Would you do that in any of your other business's?

Rumours went round for what seemed like ages that Martin O'Neill was to return by so called big names such as Mark Hughes & Carlo Anchelotti again fell by the wayside and we went 'back to the future' with the appointment of Nigel Pearson. A decision that delayed the progress of the club whist you and your counterpart at Hull wrangled over compensation.

It never ceases to amaze me that clubs like ours are willing to pay over £5m for a what has turned out to be an average Championship player but don't want to pay out quickly to get the new manager in.

All these decision's lead to your picture being booed at the Leeds game when it was flashed up on the big screen.

Since he has arrived Pearson has, in most peoples eyes, NOT improved our lot in life at all. In fact if anything we have gone backwards now being in a worse position than when you sacked Sven.

Nigel blames Sven and the players he was left with. I'm sorry but that is a lame excuse. If he has the same players why is he doing worse? The standard of the individual players Nigel has at his disposal is of a far greater standard than when he left, but he seems unable to take advantage of this. He lets Gelson Fernandes end his loan spell early only for us to see him go to a team 3rd in Seri A. Good enough for them and not for us?

It is so easy to blame your predecessor for your faults but it is one that loses my respect for a man. The saying is that you are only as good as the tools you have to work with. Well with the money you spent on so called 'top' players 9no pun intended) to be fair Pearson has some dam good tools with which to play!

Sven was sacked after a dismal performance against bottom 3 side Millwall. What then is Nigel's future after losing to league whipping boys Doncaster and his team putting in a performance against Barnsley that the fans only rated as 3/10. The LOWEST rating given by the fans for any performance this season.

We seem to be taking 3 steps back for every 1 forward.

Other teams and players do not see the current Leicester City side as a threat or an attractive proposition.

How many 'home' fans turned up to watch us play Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup? You probably know that less than 2,000 of their fans are coming to see the replay. It is a FA Cup local derby but their fans obviously don't see us as an attractive proposition to watch and it can't be blamed for being shown live on TV. It is a game that in years gone by would have filled the stadium.

It appears that Billy Sharp has turned down a move to Leicester City or is certainly taking his time over the decision. He should be biting our hand off to join a club that is as cash rich as we are. A player prefers to stay at a club of the likes of Doncaster Rovers rather than come to Leicester City, what does that say about the club at the moment?

It may be over money? So with the wages we must be paying the likes of Mills and co is a top goal scorer not worth pushing the boat out for? Only you can answer that.

Less than 6 months ago with Sven in charge I have a feeling Sharpe would have walked barefoot over broken glass to sign for us. I ask would the likes of Nugent, Schmeichel, Mills etc have signed for Leicester City in our current position?

As one fan put it "Under Sven we were linked with the likes of David Beckham, now we can not even get a striker from Doncaster Rovers."

Another one wrote "Another season ends in January"

I am & I remain a great supporter of Nigel Pearson, but a season that looked to promise so much looks to be ending in turmoil. 15 days into the January Transfer market and not so much as a loan singing for a manager who is complaining about the standard & depth of his squad.

Fans are demanding action & answers.

A situation you have brought onto yourself by setting such high goals (maybe higehr goals is the answer to our scoring problem?).

I don't expect that you will answer this letter but I hope it at least gives you some food for thought.

Chris Forryan

[I am Rod Hull]

That`ll sort it..

[Happy Fox]

The writer in question means well, but whether the Thais will give this letter any thought remains to be seen.

[Milton Keynes Fox]

My favourite and most emphasised bit

"15 days into the January Transfer market and not so much as a loan singing for a manager who is complaining about the standard & depth of his squad."

[FuriousFox46]

This won't ever be opened by any senior figure at Leicester.

Shame really, can't say I disagree with any of it.

[sdb]

I don't see how something like that helps. The club are trying. They're not doing very well but fans getting on their high horses and moaning all the bloody time aint gonna make things better.

The disgruntled fans should find something better to do with their time, give NP 6 months and then moan if it's warranted.

[davieG]

What is he actually asking for that I'm sure they aren't already trying to do as he is seemingly not asking for Pearson to be sacked. Going over the past with some speculative assumptions of what happened is not very helpful either.

Pearson certainly needs to up the ante in both his management of the current players and improving the squad perhaps he would have been better off writing to him.

[s3cTioN782]

I don't see how something like that helps. The club are trying. They're not doing very well but fans getting on their high horses and moaning all the bloody time aint gonna make things better.

The disgruntled fans should find something better to do with their time, give NP 6 months and then moan if it's warranted.

To be fair we are unhappy and want to give the club the utmost support but we want honesty and transparency. Pearsons excuses are an insult to the intelligence of all fans. Stand up be counted I'd have more respect for him if he said " I f£&@ed up" and we were just not good enough rather than the lame stuff he has come out with.

I must admit it is not the first time I have heard players moaning about fans getting on their backs as well. If they perform we don't have any problem that's why they get big bucks , to perform. It's alright being more than happy to take all the accolades when it's good but they have to take criticism when it's bad.

I remember watching us when we were terrible in the days of Tony James and Gary Coatsworth at least the players then showed some real passion.

By the way giving NP 6 months is no problem IF he improved things. At this rate it will be league 1 in 6 months!

[Narborough_fox]

Who the hell is Carlo Anchelotti!? When were they booed at the Leeds game because I certainly don't remember that.

[Webbo]

Now does everybody know what Nige meant by delusions of grandeur?

[dave the caveman]

What is he actually asking for

Nothing, it's just a description of our current problems without any hint of a solution.

Does he think the thai's are oblivious to the problems or something? What a waste of time. Embarrassing that this has actually been published.

[wellyfox]

I don't see how something like that helps. The club are trying. They're not doing very well but fans getting on their high horses and moaning all the bloody time aint gonna make things better.

The disgruntled fans should find something better to do with their time, give NP 6 months and then moan if it's warranted.

All the bollox when NP came in.

He will sort this squad he won't take no shite they will play better under him.

Oh and he will get them oranised. Really will he and when?

Give him the 6months you ask for we will be back where we was the first time round.

I have never felt like this about a manager before. As I have said I don't do the going back thing.

I don't want to remember him for being sacked.

But sorry get fvcking rid now. Get in a manager with a spine thats not called Wellens.

[cc_star]

Hughes, Ancelotti & MoN... In the frame for 2nd tier team who hadn't won 2 games in a row since Feb?

Jeesh, you've really got it bad... The delusion levels are ridiculous

Embarrassing

[dave the caveman]

The saying is that you are only as good as the tools you have to work with.

I'm going to have to take issue with this as well. This simply isn't a saying. I've never even heard it said before. It has never been a saying and probably never will be.

[davieG]

I'm going to have to take issue with this as well. This simply isn't a saying. I've never even heard it said before. It has never been a saying and probably never will be.

Agree the saying is "A bad workman always blames his tools".

[MrBojangly]

I'm sure the writer is a passionate supporter who has every right to make the points he does.

However, he should learn to punctuate, construct sentences or even use a spell checker before this is read. I realise English isn't the owners' first language, but why should they take seriously the opinions of someone who appears ill educated or lazy?

[Guest ttfn]

http://www.thisislei...ail/story.html?

Dear Top

No one can question you or your fathers commitment to Leicester City FC since you bought the team.

You have pumped millions of pounds into rebuilding the club from the foundations and with your commitment to the things like the training facilities you show that you have the future of the club at heart. You turn for for as many games as you can and are not afraid to make decisions.

One of your biggest decisions was to do everything you could to get this club into the Premier League as quick as you could. But because of other decisions you have since made this may not happen as quickly as you yourself wanted. Are you attempting to get this club to run before it can walk? A rebuilding job that was started under Milan Mandaric was passed onto yourself but unlike another cash rich club in QPR who took their time to get things right you seemed to go at this like a bull in a China shop.

Your first decision was to remove Paulo Sousa from his position as LCFC manager a decision which, at the time, seemed the right thing to do, but we will never know had he stayed if he would have turned things around. But the masterstroke in bringing in a manager of Sven Goran Eriksson's stature removed any questions we may have had re the early sacking of Sousa.

You could question Sven's potential to manage at the lower level's of the game and the fact that he would turn up at the opening of an envelope if he was paid enough, to get an ex England Manager into our club meant you were walking on water as far as the fans were concerned.

So where has it gone wrong? The sacking of Sven had divided our club like no other decision I can remember in my 40+ years of following the club. It was, most people seem to agree, a decision made too early in the season and one that was seemed to be made in haste rather than serious judgement by yourself and the board.

To replace a manager you have to be seen to do so with someone bigger and better or a manager that is viewed as up and coming.

Neither has been the case. The up and coming berth which would have been filled by Lee Clarke from Huddersfield never materialised and how do you get someone bigger than Sven? It appeared to me that you sacked Sven with no idea of a replacement. Would you do that in any of your other business's?

Rumours went round for what seemed like ages that Martin O'Neill was to return by so called big names such as Mark Hughes & Carlo Anchelotti again fell by the wayside and we went 'back to the future' with the appointment of Nigel Pearson. A decision that delayed the progress of the club whist you and your counterpart at Hull wrangled over compensation.

It never ceases to amaze me that clubs like ours are willing to pay over £5m for a what has turned out to be an average Championship player but don't want to pay out quickly to get the new manager in.

All these decision's lead to your picture being booed at the Leeds game when it was flashed up on the big screen.

Since he has arrived Pearson has, in most peoples eyes, NOT improved our lot in life at all. In fact if anything we have gone backwards now being in a worse position than when you sacked Sven.

Nigel blames Sven and the players he was left with. I'm sorry but that is a lame excuse. If he has the same players why is he doing worse? The standard of the individual players Nigel has at his disposal is of a far greater standard than when he left, but he seems unable to take advantage of this. He lets Gelson Fernandes end his loan spell early only for us to see him go to a team 3rd in Seri A. Good enough for them and not for us?

It is so easy to blame your predecessor for your faults but it is one that loses my respect for a man. The saying is that you are only as good as the tools you have to work with. Well with the money you spent on so called 'top' players 9no pun intended) to be fair Pearson has some dam good tools with which to play!

Sven was sacked after a dismal performance against bottom 3 side Millwall. What then is Nigel's future after losing to league whipping boys Doncaster and his team putting in a performance against Barnsley that the fans only rated as 3/10. The LOWEST rating given by the fans for any performance this season.

We seem to be taking 3 steps back for every 1 forward.

Other teams and players do not see the current Leicester City side as a threat or an attractive proposition.

How many 'home' fans turned up to watch us play Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup? You probably know that less than 2,000 of their fans are coming to see the replay. It is a FA Cup local derby but their fans obviously don't see us as an attractive proposition to watch and it can't be blamed for being shown live on TV. It is a game that in years gone by would have filled the stadium.

It appears that Billy Sharp has turned down a move to Leicester City or is certainly taking his time over the decision. He should be biting our hand off to join a club that is as cash rich as we are. A player prefers to stay at a club of the likes of Doncaster Rovers rather than come to Leicester City, what does that say about the club at the moment?

It may be over money? So with the wages we must be paying the likes of Mills and co is a top goal scorer not worth pushing the boat out for? Only you can answer that.

Less than 6 months ago with Sven in charge I have a feeling Sharpe would have walked barefoot over broken glass to sign for us. I ask would the likes of Nugent, Schmeichel, Mills etc have signed for Leicester City in our current position?

As one fan put it "Under Sven we were linked with the likes of David Beckham, now we can not even get a striker from Doncaster Rovers."

Another one wrote "Another season ends in January"

I am & I remain a great supporter of Nigel Pearson, but a season that looked to promise so much looks to be ending in turmoil. 15 days into the January Transfer market and not so much as a loan singing for a manager who is complaining about the standard & depth of his squad.

Fans are demanding action & answers.

A situation you have brought onto yourself by setting such high goals (maybe higehr goals is the answer to our scoring problem?).

I don't expect that you will answer this letter but I hope it at least gives you some food for thought.

Chris Forryan

The sentiment's spot on, even if the spelling's not.

I don't think he's asking for NP to be sacked, just outlining the dismay in the fanbase at the moment.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Let us keep it simple. Sven was sacked, twe points off the play offs. Pearson has now dragged us sven points adrift in no time at all.

SACK HIM NOW.

[Happy Fox]

Let us keep it simple. Sven was sacked, twe points off the play offs. Pearson has now dragged us sven points adrift in no time at all.

SACK HIM NOW.

If we sack him now how will the situation improve? the like of Wellens the c**t will still be on the books I rather sack of the deadwood first before NP,

[funkyrobot]

http://www.thisislei...ail/story.html?

Dear Top

No one can question you or your fathers commitment to Leicester City FC since you bought the team.

You have pumped millions of pounds into rebuilding the club from the foundations and with your commitment to the things like the training facilities you show that you have the future of the club at heart. You turn for for as many games as you can and are not afraid to make decisions.

One of your biggest decisions was to do everything you could to get this club into the Premier League as quick as you could. But because of other decisions you have since made this may not happen as quickly as you yourself wanted. Are you attempting to get this club to run before it can walk? A rebuilding job that was started under Milan Mandaric was passed onto yourself but unlike another cash rich club in QPR who took their time to get things right you seemed to go at this like a bull in a China shop.

Your first decision was to remove Paulo Sousa from his position as LCFC manager a decision which, at the time, seemed the right thing to do, but we will never know had he stayed if he would have turned things around. But the masterstroke in bringing in a manager of Sven Goran Eriksson's stature removed any questions we may have had re the early sacking of Sousa.

You could question Sven's potential to manage at the lower level's of the game and the fact that he would turn up at the opening of an envelope if he was paid enough, to get an ex England Manager into our club meant you were walking on water as far as the fans were concerned.

So where has it gone wrong? The sacking of Sven had divided our club like no other decision I can remember in my 40+ years of following the club. It was, most people seem to agree, a decision made too early in the season and one that was seemed to be made in haste rather than serious judgement by yourself and the board.

To replace a manager you have to be seen to do so with someone bigger and better or a manager that is viewed as up and coming.

Neither has been the case. The up and coming berth which would have been filled by Lee Clarke from Huddersfield never materialised and how do you get someone bigger than Sven? It appeared to me that you sacked Sven with no idea of a replacement. Would you do that in any of your other business's?

Rumours went round for what seemed like ages that Martin O'Neill was to return by so called big names such as Mark Hughes & Carlo Anchelotti again fell by the wayside and we went 'back to the future' with the appointment of Nigel Pearson. A decision that delayed the progress of the club whist you and your counterpart at Hull wrangled over compensation.

It never ceases to amaze me that clubs like ours are willing to pay over £5m for a what has turned out to be an average Championship player but don't want to pay out quickly to get the new manager in.

All these decision's lead to your picture being booed at the Leeds game when it was flashed up on the big screen.

Since he has arrived Pearson has, in most peoples eyes, NOT improved our lot in life at all. In fact if anything we have gone backwards now being in a worse position than when you sacked Sven.

Nigel blames Sven and the players he was left with. I'm sorry but that is a lame excuse. If he has the same players why is he doing worse? The standard of the individual players Nigel has at his disposal is of a far greater standard than when he left, but he seems unable to take advantage of this. He lets Gelson Fernandes end his loan spell early only for us to see him go to a team 3rd in Seri A. Good enough for them and not for us?

It is so easy to blame your predecessor for your faults but it is one that loses my respect for a man. The saying is that you are only as good as the tools you have to work with. Well with the money you spent on so called 'top' players 9no pun intended) to be fair Pearson has some dam good tools with which to play!

Sven was sacked after a dismal performance against bottom 3 side Millwall. What then is Nigel's future after losing to league whipping boys Doncaster and his team putting in a performance against Barnsley that the fans only rated as 3/10. The LOWEST rating given by the fans for any performance this season.

We seem to be taking 3 steps back for every 1 forward.

Other teams and players do not see the current Leicester City side as a threat or an attractive proposition.

How many 'home' fans turned up to watch us play Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup? You probably know that less than 2,000 of their fans are coming to see the replay. It is a FA Cup local derby but their fans obviously don't see us as an attractive proposition to watch and it can't be blamed for being shown live on TV. It is a game that in years gone by would have filled the stadium.

It appears that Billy Sharp has turned down a move to Leicester City or is certainly taking his time over the decision. He should be biting our hand off to join a club that is as cash rich as we are. A player prefers to stay at a club of the likes of Doncaster Rovers rather than come to Leicester City, what does that say about the club at the moment?

It may be over money? So with the wages we must be paying the likes of Mills and co is a top goal scorer not worth pushing the boat out for? Only you can answer that.

Less than 6 months ago with Sven in charge I have a feeling Sharpe would have walked barefoot over broken glass to sign for us. I ask would the likes of Nugent, Schmeichel, Mills etc have signed for Leicester City in our current position?

As one fan put it "Under Sven we were linked with the likes of David Beckham, now we can not even get a striker from Doncaster Rovers."

Another one wrote "Another season ends in January"

I am & I remain a great supporter of Nigel Pearson, but a season that looked to promise so much looks to be ending in turmoil. 15 days into the January Transfer market and not so much as a loan singing for a manager who is complaining about the standard & depth of his squad.

Fans are demanding action & answers.

A situation you have brought onto yourself by setting such high goals (maybe higehr goals is the answer to our scoring problem?).

I don't expect that you will answer this letter but I hope it at least gives you some food for thought.

Chris Forryan

Sorry Chris, I'm a city fan and this doesn't represent mine or others views. Sven was the big mistake. The fact that we were being linked with beckham shows how clueless his management was. Top was right to admit a mistake was made and get rid of Sven.

[nuttyhead]

I toetally agrea withe MrBojangly !

[C.J]

Could of checked it for errors first!

[Guest ttfn]

Could of checked it for errors first!

Wow. Irony central.

[C.J]

Wow. Irony central.

Damn, well spotted.

[Callabinho]

I hope that the owners don't read this, if they see this as us turning against them, then everything will come crashing down, and very fast. We simply cannot afford to loose Top and co, because if we do, it could well be the end of Leicester City football club as we know it.