The Most Embarrassing Thing Any Leicester Owners Have Done...

[mozartfox]

1 minute ago, gurru991 said:

General Managers hire specialists to do certain tasks and listen to the advice those specialists offer. 

Ok. So then you let these specialists have a free hand, regardless of whether or not they are making huge mistakes 👍

[Danno]

Use King Power employees to pretend to be Leicester fans 🤢

[CosbehFox]

Administration ripping off a load of small businesses wasnt particularly pretty.
 

Neither was Mandaric using agents to flog unwanted players our way. 

 

The pre payment to secure your season ticket over covid lockdown - which the club had to be lobbied in order to make the £80 refundable or a donation to charity was another low un. 
 

Plenty I can pick at the more aesthetic stuff - but I’ve bored most to tears with that over the last 24 hours 

Edited 23 July 2023 by CosbehFox

[Daggers]

58 minutes ago, Corky said:

No Leicester fans ever complained about the owners before the internet, obviously.

Worse, no one has ever done it on this forum - until now.

[adejo92]

4 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

Ooh team loses a friendly shock!!!!!!

It's not the losing that's a huge issue,  as friendlies are to be taken with a pinch of salt, however, at the same time, we haven't looked convincing in that game, or the win at Northampton. 

 

When your going through such a rebuild, you need to be getting a few games under your belt against teams of a similar quality.

 

What good is playing teams that you won't be coming up against, in climates that you won't be playing in.

 

Feels a bit like we'll be going into the Cov game completely blind but hopefully I'm wrong.

[MattFox]

Removing the legends banner around the stadium and replacing it with King Power branding really annoyed me

 

Also removing all the Kop flags that had been built up 14-17 due to “safety reasons”, the end looked really unique at one point 

 

[SemperEadem]

Casino Jimmy era signings. The ones that in the end just turned out to be bungs and favours.

[SemperEadem]

Just now, MattFox said:

Removing the legends banner around the stadium and replacing it with King Power branding really annoyed me

 

Also removing all the Kop flags that had been built up 14-17 due to “safety reasons”, the end looked really unique at one point 

 

You may have been told safety reasons but 80% up there were made by UFS who pulled them down after some in the support pinched a few. 
Was a shame as I also really liked the colour and creativity it brought.

[mozartfox]

26 minutes ago, Babylon said:

He’s not a scout, it’s got absolutely nothing to do with him. You REALLY want a man who isn’t a scout deciding who we do and don’t sign? 

Perhaps he should pick the team as well, seeing as he’s meant to oversee all football operations.

 

Perhaps he could assess the players injuries as well, you know, considering he’s meant to oversee everything football related.

 

Or…. Perhaps they are left to the people employed to do those exact things eh.

I get it now, you place someone in a position that he is not responsible for questioning his underlings when they seem on course to be making massive errors of judgment costing our Club zillions.   Thanks for clearing that up.  Good night.

[Wymsey]

Selling Chang 'beer'.

One of the worst around, personally.

Edited 23 July 2023 by Wymsey

[Paninistickers]

9 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

You may have been told safety reasons but 80% up there were made by UFS who pulled them down after some in the support pinched a few. 
Was a shame as I also really liked the colour and creativity it brought.

Such a shame. the flags gave a very plain vanilla stadium some character and individuality. I hope those who put them up reconsider and feel that they won't get nicked 

[Paninistickers]

18 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Administration ripping off a load of small businesses wasnt particularly pretty.
 

Neither was Mandaric using agents to flog unwanted players our way. 

 

The pre payment to secure your season ticket over covid lockdown - which the club had to be lobbied in order to make the £80 refundable or a donation to charity was another low un. 
 

Plenty I can pick at the more aesthetic stuff - but I’ve bored most to tears with that over the last 24 hours 

Was their ever a plausible theory as to why Mandaric chose to waste money on picking up players as a favour?

 

Mandaric would never do anything unless it benefitted him.

[Stadt]

The deflective post-relegation statement. “Stop being mean to me, we won the Premier League 7 years ago! ”

[Steve Earle]

I can’t help but be excited for next season with a new manager implementing a new & potentially exciting brand of football.

 

But today’s farce in Bangkok is just the latest in a long line of bafflingly incompetent decisions by the leadership of our club. Just a few examples;

 

- not selling Tielemans in ‘21 when he was worth £50m +
- long term contracts given to biscuits (Ricardo, JJ)

- allowing Rodgers almost total control of the club

- for example, allowing him to sign Vestergaard against the advice of the recruitment team 

- allowing us to go from one of the best days-lost-to-injury records in 15-16 to embarrassingly awful under Rodgers

- failing to either back or sack Rodgers last summer

- failing to sack Rodgers after Brighton away

- total and utter failure to communicate with the fans at any meaningful level since Khun Vichai’s passing

- announcing that two people whose own contribution to our relegation is open to question should lead an investigation into what went wrong. Can you imagine any public company allowing the CEO & another Director lead an ‘independent inquiry’ into what the company’s officers had done wrong? It’s unthinkable.

- and the outcome of that inquiry was?

- sacking Rodgers without a plan, throwing away the chance to take points off Villa & Bournemouth 

- the most ludicrous, stupidly timed pre-season since 2016

- etc, etc

 

Bored now - I could go on and on - and still ferociously angry.

 

I hope Maresca is a sign of forward looking managerial competence, but forgive me for not taking the current leadership on trust!

Edited 23 July 2023 by Steve Earle

[RedSoxUK]

The fraudulent activity...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/apr/11/leicester-city-finances-football-league-financial-fair-play-investigation

[Babylon]

1 hour ago, mozartfox said:

Ok. So then you let these specialists have a free hand, regardless of whether or not they are making huge mistakes 👍

How is he meant to know ffs. That’s not how it works, how does he know the doctor make a wrong diagnosis, or the manager picked the wrong tactics (before the game), or whether a signing is going to be good or not when he’s not a specialist in those areas. 

[Babylon]

56 minutes ago, mozartfox said:

I get it now, you place someone in a position that he is not responsible for questioning his underlings when they seem on course to be making massive errors of judgment costing our Club zillions.   Thanks for clearing that up.  Good night.

Clearly you don’t get it. 

[mozartfox]

7 minutes ago, Babylon said:

Clearly you don’t get it. 

 

7 minutes ago, Babylon said:

Clearly you don’t get it. 

Or may be you don’t?  But of course you are always 👍 correct. 

[Guest Mee-9]

Filming with body cameras our own fans being forced to pick up away tickets. 

 

Refusing entry to children with their parents to away games as they dont have ID. 

 

These two for me are the biscuit. 

[Poznan34]

So many City fans are now just King Power fans first and foremost, any sort of criticism of the club is batted away. It doesn't make you less of fan to call the club out for incompetence. Fans shouldn't be subservient to the club. 

[mozartfox]

12 minutes ago, Babylon said:

How is he meant to know ffs. That’s not how it works, how does he know the doctor make a wrong diagnosis, or the manager picked the wrong tactics (before the game), or whether a signing is going to be good or not when he’s not a specialist in those areas. 

Was he not at the 0-9 game? If not, he needs to change his personal research engines.   I am finished with this tennis match.  Opinions are like ar*e holes,  everyone has one.  Ours differ. Gute nacht - gut Schlafen und auf wienerhoren.

[mozartfox]

1 minute ago, mozartfox said:

Was he not at the 0-9 game? If not, he needs to change his personal research engines.   I am finished with this tennis match.  Opinions are like ar*e holes,  everyone has one.  Ours differ. Gute nacht - gut Schlafen und auf wiederhoren.

 

[Babylon]

1 hour ago, mozartfox said:

 

Or may be you don’t?  But of course you are always 👍 correct. 

On this occasion it’s pretty clear I am. In your scenario he’s the expert on signings, not the actual experts… presumably you’d also be fine with him picking players for the first team the scouting team and manager haven’t wanted then?

[Babylon]

54 minutes ago, mozartfox said:

Was he not at the 0-9 game? If not, he needs to change his personal research engines.   I am finished with this tennis match.  Opinions are like ar*e holes,  everyone has one.  Ours differ. Gute nacht - gut Schlafen und auf wienerhoren.

The 9-0 game whereby we played against 10 men for the majority of it. Other teams have got pummelled before with good players in their teams, individual players aren’t to blame 

[Bezzanator89]

Think the farcical back-to-back permanent managerial appointments of Martin "Mad Dog" Allen, Gary Megson and Ian Holloway was a year-long low point. Cheers for that MM.