So now we know: it was all down to Mandaric...

[LanguedocFox]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this: http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/sheff-weds/sheffield-wednesday-admiring-milan-s-tribute-to-his-old-friend-turned-foe-1-6533293.*

 

"I’m happy for Leicester,†he told The Star. “I started the project while I was there and I’m delighted for them and the owners. They are good people and are supported properly.

“Nigel is a good friend of mine and was my manager at Leicester. I’m very happy for him. He’s done an unbelievable job. It looks like they will cross the line as they all deserve.â€

 

Beggars belief.

 

*Actually I feel like screaming something obscene at the arrogant twat.

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

I think that is a bit harsh, I think Mandaric did help us on our way. We were in an awful situation when he took over and even though we got relegated the first year he did offer financial support to try to prevent that from happening and then financial support to get us back up. He also then found us our incredible owners we currently have. 

[mitchofox]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this: http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/sheff-weds/sheffield-wednesday-admiring-milan-s-tribute-to-his-old-friend-turned-foe-1-6533293.*

"I’m happy for Leicester,†he told The Star. “I started the project while I was there and I’m delighted for them and the owners. They are good people and are supported properly.

“Nigel is a good friend of mine and was my manager at Leicester. I’m very happy for him. He’s done an unbelievable job. It looks like they will cross the line as they all deserve.â€

Beggars belief.

*Actually I feel like screaming something obscene at the arrogant twat.

Mad Mandy is something else didn't he let Pearson leave ? Employ Sousa and then employ Sven ?

[AKCJ]

I think that is a bit harsh, I think Mandaric did help us on our way. We were in an awful situation when he took over and even though we got relegated the first year he did offer financial support to try to prevent that from happening and then financial support to get us back up. He also then found us our incredible owners we currently have. 

 

 

and sacked Nigel to try and sweeten the deal.

 

 

He couldn't wait to get paid and **** off.

[Riyad_Suarez]

_{What a hero.}

 

_{Didn't make a penny out of being such a good owner either.}

 

 

 

 

_{At least he got ONE managerial appointment right}  

[AndWhat?]

What an absolute jeb end  

[Riyad_Suarez]

Great friends with Big Nige he was.

 

 

 

 

Just preferred Paulo Sousa's company in the directors box during the home leg of the Play Off Semi Final v Cardiff.......  

[Legend_in_blue]

It's possible that he has been misquoted. This is The Star we're talking about.

Something tells me that he hasn't though.

This is the same man who also thought we'd have won promotion if Megson had stayed.

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

Well I appreciate him helping us out after a time where we pinned our hopes of success on a strike force of Elvis Hammond and Mark De Vries. I don't mind if I'm the only one who does.

[Vindaloo FOX]

Mandaric bought this club when we really needed someone to come in and help us out. Then he introduced us to NP and the Thai lot, NP has been the best manager we have had since MON and the Thai's are one of the best owners in English football imo . 

 

i know some people will say he also got rid of NP but if he never bought him in we would have never been lucky enough to see how good he is . 

 

cheers Mandaric  .

[Nick]

Milan Mandaric - he's in it for the community.

[Collo73]

Well I appreciate him helping us out after a time where we pinned our hopes of success on a strike force of Elvis Hammond and Mark De Vries. I don't mind if I'm the only one who does.

I'm with you pal.. Like him or not he was key to us moving in the right direction again. Yes he may have messed up at the end of his spell but he deffo started this upward surge without a doubt

[inckley fox]

When Mandaric announced he was interested in buying City we'd been just two years out of the top flight, we'd never been in the third tier of football and we were a mid-table outfit under Rob Kelly.

 

Within eighteen months he'd worked his way through four managers, one of which lasted four games, another of which lasted six weeks, and got us relegated to League One. Yes he appointed the guy who got us out of League One - and who will return us to the Premier League after a ten year absence - but he also let him go and appointed one of the most financially wasteful managers in our history in his place.

 

We shouldn't give him too much credit for getting us where we are today.

[MPH]

It's possible that he has been misquoted. This is The Star we're talking about.

Something tells me that he hasn't though.

This is the same man who also thought we'd have won promotion if Megson had stayed.

And by misquoted you mean that he actually said Nigel is a boblet instead of Nigel is a good friend and was my manager?

[Dan]

The project he started

 

That is Mandaric to a tee. Ridiculously up himself.

 

Is it worth noting that we were actually in a lower position when Mandaric departed than when he arrived?

[Libertine Dream]

When Mandaric announced he was interested in buying City we'd been just two years out of the top flight, we'd never been in the third tier of football and we were a mid-table outfit under Rob Kelly.

 

Within eighteen months he'd worked his way through four managers, one of which lasted four games, another of which lasted six weeks, and got us relegated to League One. Yes he appointed the guy who got us out of League One - and who will return us to the Premier League after a ten year absence - but he also let him go and appointed one of the most financially wasteful managers in our history in his place.

 

We shouldn't give him too much credit for getting us where we are today.

You say that but that drop really helped us out in my opinion. We were a bottom half team going absolutely nowhere season after season. Dropping a division got us NP, had an enjoyable season along the way with momentum for our return. We then came back up and started making an impression on the second tier which attracted the Thais. I don't know who was responsible for NP leaving though It honk Lee Hoos was a big part of it, and yes losing him was a big mistake.

I dislike Mandaric but he had some part to play in this, though he did try his best to **** it all up

[Kitchandro]

You say that but that drop really helped us out in my opinion. We were a bottom half team going absolutely nowhere season after season. Dropping a division got us NP, had an enjoyable season along the way with momentum for our return. We then came back up and started making an impression on the second tier which attracted the Thais. I don't know who was responsible for NP leaving though It honk Lee Hoos was a big part of it, and yes losing him was a big mistake.

I dislike Mandaric but he had some part to play in this, though he did try his best to **** it all up

 

The drop didn't help us, getting a good manager did. If he'd have got NP on board instead of the fvckwits he employed before we went down we'd have probably been fine.

 

Getting relegated is no positive thing, it hasn't helped most other clubs who have gone down to the 3rd. It's not helped Coventry, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, etc.

 

I could accept it if we shot up 2 leagues like Norwich and Southampton, but we didn't, we still had to go through 2 shitty midtable seasons and 5 more years of Championship football.

[Corky]

Project you started? You took over a side that didn't get relegated (with no money spent and truly appalling players) and managed, somehow, to get it relegated through a series of managerial appointments that failed and awful signings.

 

The one thing you got right in three years and six managerial appointments was Nigel Pearson, without him and his hard work you'd have no-one praising you for anything, mate.

[Langston]

Milan "trust me" Mandaric.

[Nalis]

It's possible that he has been misquoted. This is The Star we're talking about.

Something tells me that he hasn't though.

This is the same man who also thought we'd have won promotion if Megson had stayed.

Completely forgot Megson was in charge at one point, fvck me we were awful back then...

[THEBIGJOHNSTEADER;]

I think that is a bit harsh, I think Mandaric did help us on our way. We were in an awful situation when he took over and even though we got relegated the first year he did offer financial support to try to prevent that from happening and then financial support to get us back up. He also then found us our incredible owners we currently have.

Kentaro group found the owners

They also found the Venky's though!

[kyleolly]

Wiil anybody be joining me in an appreciative chant in the 14th minute of Fridays game "Milan is a Leicester fan"

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

I will join you as, no matter what anyone says, I still think without him coming into the club we would have Rab Douglas still in goal.

[Freeman's Wharfer]

I think that is a bit harsh, I think Mandaric did help us on our way. We were in an awful situation when he took over and even though we got relegated the first year he did offer financial support to try to prevent that from happening and then financial support to get us back up. He also then found us our incredible owners we currently have. 

 

By this do you mean he decided he wanted to cut his losses/re-coup his money and paid an agent to find a buyer?!

 

Mandaric was certainly not out in the Far East knocking on doors trying to flog Leicester City!

 

The one thing that sticks in my mind with Mandaric is that he was trying to engineer the sale of the training ground and have us borrowing facilities at Loughborough University. Unfit for purpose he said, better facilities that our club is deserving of at the Uni he said. In come The Thais, a paint job here and a bit of touching up there and everyone still talks of the top class facilities at Belvior Drive.

 

The guy was ready to sell the land for property and fill his pockets. Crucial part of the project that would have been!

[inckley fox]

You say that but that drop really helped us out in my opinion. We were a bottom half team going absolutely nowhere season after season. Dropping a division got us NP, had an enjoyable season along the way with momentum for our return. We then came back up and started making an impression on the second tier which attracted the Thais. I don't know who was responsible for NP leaving though It honk Lee Hoos was a big part of it, and yes losing him was a big mistake.

I dislike Mandaric but he had some part to play in this, though he did try his best to **** it all up

 

We'd only been two seasons outside the top flight! It's ten now, isn't it? And we went from being a bottom half Championship side to being a third tier side - and when he left as chairman we were bottom in the Championship, weren't we?

 

I agree that these matters aren't so black and white - yes, he kept us ticking over for a few more years, yes, he brought in Nigel Pearson, yes, by chance he sold us to an apparently respectable set of owners. However those who say that back in 2006/7 we needed rescuing from our own boardroom should remember that he bought the club off the same people who had saved us in 2002 and stabilized us. And there were those, the chairman among them, who were very reluctant to allow Mandaric to buy them out.

 

He didn't pull the plug on the club or leave us for dead. He didn't get everything wrong. But his own interventions led directly to the worst moment in our history (and you may be right about League One doing us good - but we can hardly call that part of the masterplan!), and his final intervention stalled a very promising promotion push for four more years. He played a part, I grant you, just not a very good one.