Buzzell Posted 29 August 2022 Share Posted 29 August 2022 1 minute ago, Area88 said: Are we the next Leeds Utd? Massive over investment in players and then drop out of the Premier League due to spiralling debts and huge wage bills? Behave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhandfox Posted 29 August 2022 Share Posted 29 August 2022 34 games to go. If we are in the bottom 3 at Christmas, thats when to worry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted 29 August 2022 Share Posted 29 August 2022 31 minutes ago, Area88 said: Are we the next Leeds Utd? Massive over investment in players and then drop out of the Premier League due to spiralling debts and huge wage bills? We’re no where near the nuclear meltdown that Leeds United were. They could have gone under, had they not been managed correctly coming out of the other end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted 29 August 2022 Share Posted 29 August 2022 We can’t be as bad as Derby in 07/08 can we? Surely we’ve got another 11 points in us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudgerfox Posted 29 August 2022 Share Posted 29 August 2022 The strongest transfer rumour - I appreciate this isn’t very scientific - is a midfielder. I swear we get relegated if we fail to reinforce the central defence at the very least. If we bring in another midfielder - how many do we need? - and fail to strengthen the defence then I will lose all faith in the current club management….I would say we need two centre backs minimum… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pliskin Posted 29 August 2022 Share Posted 29 August 2022 If we fail to bring three players in between now and the 1st. I predict we will finish comfortably bottom of the league, by some margin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox 4 Life Posted 29 August 2022 Share Posted 29 August 2022 7 hours ago, Number 6 said: Could go WDDLL for the rest of the season and get 34 points. Win % of 20%. Not that wer want it to be so close. Whilst I know we won't win all of these, and we've looked awful so far with good home games, we still have Bournemouth, Forest, Fulham, Everton, Leeds, Palace, Wolves, Villa to play at home. We got a point from Brentford and Southampton at home, I don't think we can assume anything about these games! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Posted 29 August 2022 Share Posted 29 August 2022 (edited) 42 minutes ago, Pliskin said: If we fail to bring three players in between now and the 1st. I predict we will finish comfortably bottom of the league, by some margin. You think they will affect more than a manager swap? Our defence is solved the moment we get someone in who can coach defending. Evans, Castagne, Justin and Soyuncu are more than capable. Once we play more direct we will also score more goals. Edited 29 August 2022 by Chrysalis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soar Fox Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 21 hours ago, Sly said: Okay, some contrast on teams with 1 (or less) point after 4 games during the past 10 seasons. 22/23 Leicester - TBC! 21/22 Norwich, Newcastle, Burnley - 2 relegated. All three changed Manager during the season. 36 points to stay up. 20/21 Fulham, Sheffield U, Burnley, WBA - 3 relegated (all finished bottom 4). Two changed Manager during the season. 29 points to stay up. 19/20 Watford - Relegated Changed Manager 3 times during the season. 35 points to stay up. 18/19 West Ham, Burnley, Newcastle - None relegated None changed Manager. 35 points to stay up. 17/18 Bournemouth and Crystal Palace - None relegated Neither changed Manager. 34 points to stay up. 16/17 Sunderland and Stoke - 1 relegated. Neither changed coach. 35 points to stay up. 15/16 None 38 points to stay up. 14/15 None 36 points to stay up. 13/14 Sunderland - Didn’t get relegated. Changed Manager. 34 points to stay up. 12/13 Southampton and Reading - One relegated. Both changed Manager. 37 points to stay up. Over the 10 years Mean average points to stay up - 34.9 points. So we need another 34 points. That’s 11 wins. So we now need to win 33% of games, or 1 in 3. Didn’t Crystal Palace sack Frank De Boer only a few games in?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deep blue Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 4 hours ago, coolhandfox said: 34 games to go. If we are in the bottom 3 at Christmas, thats when to worry. No, that's when it's more likely to be too late to turn anything around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bptiger Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 I really think this could happen, not sure who to blame but TOP and RODGERS have to take the lions share . It’s disgraceful that we as a club could not even buy one player , and u wonder why players want to leave , when they see no growth in the team . There seems to be a lack of vision at the club , those two years when we finished 5th , we could of finished 4th had we brought 1-2 players in the January window, and the extra money we would have got would have covered the outlay . Now we are going to see us fight to survive, because of a lack of vision Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam1 Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 Called it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieH Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 I think the pandemic has hit King Power big time and they just don't have the money to invest. Have always sold a big name and re invested in squad. Problem now is time is running out and have no margin or error for duff signings with Fofana money. Recent signings have not been good enough so we can't afford anymore errors. Worrying times. Schmeichel obviously had seen this coming and left. I'm sure he wouldn't have gone if all was OK at the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhandfox Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 6 hours ago, deep blue said: No, that's when it's more likely to be too late to turn anything around. Not really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terraloon Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 6 minutes ago, StevieH said: I think the pandemic has hit King Power big time and they just don't have the money to invest. Have always sold a big name and re invested in squad. Problem now is time is running out and have no margin or error for duff signings with Fofana money. Recent signings have not been good enough so we can't afford anymore errors. Worrying times. Schmeichel obviously had seen this coming and left. I'm sure he wouldn't have gone if all was OK at the club. The financial challenges facing King Power are huge. It seems that they are committed to keeping their 11000 employees on full pay even though many of their duty free outlets aren’t open for trading. That must be costing a bomb. As has been stated the share value of King Power has declined significantly added to the fact that the King Power source of loans to Leicester is now probably on hold will only add to the dilemma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Col city fan Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 10 hours ago, coolhandfox said: 34 games to go. If we are in the bottom 3 at Christmas, thats when to worry. No I don’t agree. The teams around us, minus Bournemouth, are investing. If we get too far adrift, too early, we’ll struggle. The prem is a funny old thing. Utd could come to us on Thursday and we turn them over. But it’s not looking likely at the moment. Then we play a very competent Brighton side, at their place. We have to start picking up points soon or this could turn into a VERY hard season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Col city fan Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 19 minutes ago, StevieH said: I think the pandemic has hit King Power big time and they just don't have the money to invest. Have always sold a big name and re invested in squad. Problem now is time is running out and have no margin or error for duff signings with Fofana money. Recent signings have not been good enough so we can't afford anymore errors. Worrying times. Schmeichel obviously had seen this coming and left. I'm sure he wouldn't have gone if all was OK at the club. Schmeichel is a shrewd man. He’s intelligent and I believe he DID get out when he thought it was the right time to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhandfox Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 17 minutes ago, Col city fan said: No I don’t agree. The teams around us, minus Bournemouth, are investing. If we get too far adrift, too early, we’ll struggle. The prem is a funny old thing. Utd could come to us on Thursday and we turn them over. But it’s not looking likely at the moment. Then we play a very competent Brighton side, at their place. We have to start picking up points soon or this could turn into a VERY hard season. It can all change quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deep blue Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 14 minutes ago, coolhandfox said: It can all change quickly. It has done already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan_ross Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 (edited) Maybe the pandemic has affected king powers finances which is reflective of the lack of funds available for new signings, but clearly the business interests of the West Ham owners (whatever they may be) has not been hit as they have just splashed out 50 million on a player, breaking there transfer record in the process. Edited 30 August 2022 by jonathan_ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean2000 Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 30 minutes ago, jonathan_ross said: Maybe the pandemic has affected king powers finances which is reflective of the lack of funds available for new signings, but clearly the business interests of the West Ham owners (whatever they may be) has not been hit as they have just splashed out 50 million on a player, breaking there transfer record in the process. Does anyone buy this? I've no doubt it's true in terms of King Power. But were they previously putting money into the club that they now are not? Given we've been run at a profit over the last 5 years, I wouldn't have thought so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadt Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 I think we'll sell Fofana, get in a replacement for ~ 1/4 of the fee and pay Rodgers off with some of the remainder. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinkman Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 12 hours ago, Pliskin said: If we fail to bring three players in between now and the 1st. I predict we will finish comfortably bottom of the league, by some margin. Didn't know that Bournemouth had been kicked out the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 Everyone on here seems so confident that we’re down, how many have actually put money on it? We’re obviously not going down, just another thing to add to the list for people to moan about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakemoore Posted 30 August 2022 Share Posted 30 August 2022 The links that are coming out are starting to make relegation look even more possible. Why don’t we seem to have a clear plan for how we’re going to spend the Fofanna money?! Surely we have/had 2 or 3 CBs lined up and ready to go? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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