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How did it go so wrong for Leicester?


Apparently none of their players have relegation clauses in their contracts. Quite a few their contracts are expiring but they'll have to shift a fair few to get the wage bill down.

After that premier League success they recruited terribly. The owners tragic passing didn't help. The new owner was probably surrounded by yes men. Far too late to pull the trigger on Rodgers
 
STID1977 said:
Can't agree with that as they were going down under him. The following years with the Premier League run and FA Cup prove for me it was the right decision, even if they have since fallen as do most clubs outside the top six.

Respect and thanks he has from the fans no doubt, and the board at the time of his success but as a business they were hardly going to stand by and lose tens or hundreds of millions of pounds by not taking action.
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Each to their own opinion, but thought that decision showed another terrible example of modern football
 
Kenna said:
From winning the league to relegated in under 10 years.

It seemed like with the right transfers they could have established themselves in the top 6 after winning the league yet it's all just gone tits up for them somehow.
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I think the decline started when they stopped playing to their strengths and started with the tip tap stuff which they were not good at. Vardy became a spectator and was eventually a bench warmer. Then of course there was the helicopter crash which took away their owner, and then covid badly damaged his family's business and there was no money for new players.They lost their keeper and that was a bit of a disaster because the replacement was very poor. Then Rogers seemed to lose the dressing room and they hung on to him for too long. With the players they have they should not have been relegated, but a sad sequence of events (above) took it's toll. Now they will lose all of their best players, many for free, I think they will be lucky to be a force in the championship next season.
 
Of the three teams relegated Leeds are a mess, needing a new manager, director of football, Leicester will lose by transfer and out of contract a large number of players, Southampton might be the best of the three.
 
They had an excellent owner who was fantastic at progressing the club beyond imagination.

When he passed away it looks like its been downhill since.

I've said it before and ill say it again. Outside of the genuine top clubs/artificially enhanced clubs in England, the rest go up and down the leagues in cycles and its incredibly hard to remain in the Premier League long term.

All it needs in one bad manager appointment, a bad summer transfer window on you are quickly gone.
 
King Power (owners familys company) struggled massively since covid with a plunge in duty free sales due to the lockdowns.

That, coupled with the death of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha before then - his son and family have struggled massively without him and no doubt have been stretched between stablising King Power and running the club.
 
At the start of the season Rodgers came out publicly and said the squad wasn’t good enough and needed roughly 6 players, he should of been sacked there and then

We signed nobody last summer, added in Rodgers fell out with Castagne and Soyuncu and had an obsession with playing out of the back even though it blatantly did not suit our team

Rodgers was to stubborn to change, but our Chairman even though the fans could see our decline would not pull the trigger

Where we was good in the transfer market, we started to get it so wrong, we signed Soumare, Vestergaard, Bertrand and Daka, none of them have come off even though it’s early days with Soumare and Daka

Faes is a bomb scare, Souttar looks ok, Tete looked great first game, then showed nothing

Reading this thread I did see a few quotes like back to where we belong, I didn’t realise the prem was a closed shop for the elite, doesn’t matter who you’re are there is no Devine right to being in the prem
 
Another touchy East Midlander. 🤣
The good news for them are relegation clauses of between 35 and 50% written in player’s contracts.
 
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Just an incredible amount of greed, permeates the club

Greed over transfer fees after striking lucky with a desperate Man Utd buying Maguire for so much, led them to believe they would always be able to command big fees. Delusions of grandeur over their place in the food chain led them to believe their key players wouldn't run down contracts and would sign on again, led them to this year where Tielemans has absolutely phoned it in, they could have got a decent sum for him previous but held out for silly amounts. Ndidi was another one gone down the shitpan that they could have sold, and countless others


the model for Leicester has to be sell, bank the cash and then go again with good recruitment. The Thais losing all their money in covid hasn't helped but they haven't helped themselves at times
 
DrewC said:
How does Everton get so luck circling the drain?
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As of now we haven't had luck in relation to staying up the past 2 seasons. We have a very poor squad when injuries take their toll, and they have done over the past 2 seasons and none more so than Calvert Lewin. But those with the power to do something about that sacrificed about 5 games at the start of the season not bringing in a striker when it was announced DCL was injured, and we didn't sign anyone in January.

We stayed up last season thanks to a good run at the end of the season beating Chelsea and Man United at home along the way. And this season we went to Brighton and won 5-1, fought to the end to get a draw in the 99th minute at Wolves and then did what we needed to on Sunday. Wouldn't say that is luck.

Our fans also played a huge part in us staying up. This isn't meant in an arrogant way but relegation terrifies our fanbase in a way that it doesn't with other clubs who are more used to it. It's part of our identity in the last 70 years to be a top flight club and throughout our hsitory and so when it gets really serious towards the end of the season our fans do whatever we can to help the players and it seems to have worked so far. Our passion in these final weeks could only be matched by a hanfdful of clubs and I would say Sunderland are one of them. You didn't see the same atmosphere at the Kingpower for example.

If we are in this situation next season though, we will surely go down. The fans won't be able to save us again.
 
Remember talking to my mate after they won the league and he was saying it would be interesting to see how they get on over the next few years.

They could take the champions league money and recruit the right players and be around that top 6 for a while.

Or they could sign the wrong players on big money, struggle to sustain it once they drop away and be stuck with average players earning more than they'll get elsewhere.

They followed the latter route, backed themselves into a corner with FFP, tried to get rid of some big earners and replace them with academy players and reserves, and of course Brendan Rogers.
 
Kenna said:
From winning the league to relegated in under 10 years.

It seemed like with the right transfers they could have established themselves in the top 6 after winning the league yet it's all just gone tits up for them somehow.
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When you win the league then still lose players to teams finishing below you then you know the whole thing is rigged against the smaller teams
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
Sky have also just said they've borrowed against payments from the PL, and their parachute will have to go on repaying that. They'll be stuck with paying inflated wages and transfers in from whatever they can raise in player sales. They're looking well and truly buggered.
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Mental they are in financial trouble if that's true like.

In the last few years they have sold:

Fonfana 80million
Maguire 80+million
Mahrez 70 million
Drinkwater 40 million
Kante 35 million

All those will have been at massive profit. Also must have made a chunk from Champions League football, European football, winning the league and the FA Cup.

Must be serial mismanagement elsewhere and also tells how how fucked the sport is financially when a team can win the league, go far in the CL, sell several players for hundreds of millions of profit and still be struggling.
 
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