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How did it go so wrong for Leicester?

mikemanc said:
To be fair you could have said the same about Burnley this time last year who then sold Pope and McNeil for decent fees and reinvested. Could easily see Leicester doing similar with Maddison, Barnes and a few others. Tieleman and Evans out of contract so losing a couple of big wages there. With Vardy's age his contract looks more and more like a mistake financially but he may still do alright in the Championship.

He went to Everton, didn't last very long at that basket case of a club. Leicester replaced him with Lee Congerton so should we just shut down this line of questioning there? ;)
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Burnley's masterstroke was appointing Kompany. It was a risk that paid off hamdsomely. I'm not sure Leicester will either appoint anyone as competent or have the capability in recruitment to emulate them. Paradoxically, to me, Southampton look best placed to bounce back.
 
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gatopreto said:
They'll not fancy the championship. The king power will be extremely toxic. They've seen their finest hour and they know they'll spend the rest of their days as fans being in a state of anticlimax.
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They've dropped to League One after winning the league cup twice. They'll be back in the Prem within the next three seasons I reckon.
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
Burnley's masterstroke was appointing Kompany. It was a risk that paid off hamdsomely. I'm not sure Leicester will either appoint anyone as competent or have the capability in recruitment to emulate them. Paradoxically, to me, Southampton look best placed to bounce back.
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Yeah, as ever it's how you spend it. I'm not as sold on them being in financial ruin but it all depends on being able to get rid of the chaff.
 
It’s very hard to sustain that kind of success. They couldn’t keep hold of their best players. Europe is a bit of poisoned chalice unless it’s the Champions League.
 
Walter H. White said:
Was it just their heads being turned or are the likes of Tielemans, Soyuncu and Maddison really overrated?

I’ve never been overly impressed by them. Not to the extent they get bigged up anyways.

Harvey Barnes is probably the only player who can hold his head up this season.
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They should have sold Tielmans and Soyuncu last summer. Players usually go shite when they are thinking about leaving so may as well ahve cashed out on them whilst they could. Even if they didn't get what they wanted they've lost them for free now and they've been shite also season. They reminded me of some of the shite we had who wanted out - Kone etc.

Think Madison is decent enough, he was on fire before the World Cup but then didn't do nowt for a month and didn't get his form back. He'll do well elsewhere as will Barnes.

I thought Vestergaard was gonna be a good signing for them but he's been a disaster really and they've ended up with Amartey still playing.
 
EFC said:
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.
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Yes the fans have played a huge part by setting off firecrackers outside the away players hotel. I find that arrogant I cannot speak for others on this forum but entitlement also comes to mind this puts a bad taste in other club supporters around the country.
 
A little success for an unfashionable (not the so called top 6) and the Big boys come along and buy the best players, often leave them on the bench or loan them out. Often ruining there careers(not the money side obviously)
 
mikemanc said:
To be fair you could have said the same about Burnley this time last year who then sold Pope and McNeil for decent fees and reinvested. Could easily see Leicester doing similar with Maddison, Barnes and a few others. Tieleman and Evans out of contract so losing a couple of big wages there. With Vardy's age his contract looks more and more like a mistake financially but he may still do alright in the Championship.

He went to Everton, didn't last very long at that basket case of a club. Leicester replaced him with Lee Congerton so should we just shut down this line of questioning there? ;)
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He was clueless and completely out of his depth. I think he got lucky at LCFC
 
Chatty83 said:
They should have sold Tielmans and Soyuncu last summer. Players usually go shite when they are thinking about leaving so may as well ahve cashed out on them whilst they could. Even if they didn't get what they wanted they've lost them for free now and they've been shite also season. They reminded me of some of the shite we had who wanted out - Kone etc.
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It's pure fúcking greed. They had Praet on a long loan at Torino. Torino offered a fair amount to make it permanent and Leicester started asking for something like 20-25m, basically money that the smaller Serie A clubs don't have especially for just a bog standard centre mid. Just fúcking get rid! Then in January they're pissing around taking out loans against TV deals just to get some cash flow in so they can buy Sideshow Bob and Souttar when they could have just been a bit less greedy in the transfer market
 
Is a cycle. They still had Vardy 6 years after his glory period. They failed to replace on many levels and fell short by the odd point.

What became of that Japanese fella they had,?
 
Something was clearly not right at the start of the season when Schmeical was allowed to leave with no replacement brought in. It seems there has been a bad attitude syndrome stinking the place out with want-away players putting in half-arsed performances most of the year. Similar to our last premier league campaign actually.
 
martin_s_buckley said:
Something was clearly not right at the start of the season when Schmeical was allowed to leave with no replacement brought in. It seems there has been a bad attitude syndrome stinking the place out with want-away players putting in half-arsed performances most of the year. Similar to our last premier league campaign actually.
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£50 million for Paterson in January would have saved them 🥵
 
Thai owners money dried up due to COVID travel restrictions (airport duty free stores)
The money that was allocated to transfers was not spent very well as they bought mainly duds,
Rodgers should have been replaced earlier
 
Lost Schmeichel and replaced them with shoit is why they’ve gone down but never got close to replacing Vardy is why they’ve been declining more broadly the last few years
 
Just shows how hard it is to permanently shift your status without massive spending over an extended period.

If winning the league isn't enough for you to be considered a big club or make yourself a rich club, then it really is impossible to do without an extreme amount of outside money over an extended period. You can only grow so far "organically l".

Even after winning the league they had to sell their best players because those players still thought other clubs were much bigger and could pay them a load more money.

I doubt a transformational shift is even possible these days whilst remaining FFP compliant - Chelsea and Man City only transformed their perception through massive spending of the type that is now prohibited (there was no FFP when Abramovic came in at Chelsea, and none initially at City and they are charged with breaching it later).
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
Burnley's masterstroke was appointing Kompany. It was a risk that paid off hamdsomely. I'm not sure Leicester will either appoint anyone as competent or have the capability in recruitment to emulate them. Paradoxically, to me, Southampton look best placed to bounce back.
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“ Paradoxically, to me, Southampton look best placed to bounce back”

Hmmm!? You have to question the wisdom and quality of a board that thought Nathan Jones was the answer.
 
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