No prospect of Rodgers being dismissed according to the rumour mill. There is a belief that it’s been a bad season all round because of the financial situation and general empathy from the board towards him.
If this is true then (and the fact he’s not been sacked yet suggests it is) then there can be no argument from Mersey or TB anymore that Top, Rudkin and Whelan are doing a good job leading this club. I won’t hear another nonsense post from Mersey telling us all how brilliant Whelan is as we’re about to post bigger losses than Manchester United and face the very real prospect of administration in the next 2-3 years without PL revenue
The situation if Leicester get relegated will be even worse than the 2001/02 financial debacle. On top of losing around £120m a season (excluding parachute payments), we face the prospect of FFP sanctions and Top is going to have to find money he seemingly doesn’t have to counter the mounting losses the club is racking up
A reluctance to act has left Top and the board snookered. Even if they were to sack Rodgers - who would they realistically get to change things in the next 13 games? Rafa? Lampard?!! Hassenhuttal? The alternatives don’t look pretty
Our predicament comes down to the one thing TB and Mersey refuse to face - we are being mismanaged as a club. Making mistakes is one thing - not learning from them and making more I’m afraid is inexcusable
Rodgers set to stay
posted on 5/3/23
after watching Forrest and Everton this afternoon they both had a bit of fight in them which is missing from us
posted on 6/3/23
An interest thought experiment to consider:
Imagine a scenario where, in late 2018-early 2019 following Vichai's death, Top/King Power decided to sell the club to an American businessman. That said businessman then;
- went on to become an absentee owner, leaving the day-to-day running of the club in the hands of Rudkin and Whelan
- runs up eye-watering debts that leave the club unable to compete in the transfer market;
- leaves the club with the 8th highest wage bill in the country;
- lets contracts of several star players run down, making them worth nothing;
- oversees a slide from 5th to relegation battle in the space of two years and, perhaps most crucially;
- refuses to take action against a chronically underperforming and unpopular manager who has trashed the reputation of the club in the media.
How would we judge this new owner - favourably or unfavourably? Because that is essentially what Top's ownership has caused.
It's understandable that, after everything we have gone through together, fans want to give Top the benefit of the doubt - I completely get that. But his ownership is starting to look less and less like a continuation of Vichai's legacy and more like an unintended trashing of it through negligence and incompetence.
posted on 6/3/23
Difficult to argue against that. I've never been a great fan of Rudkin in particular.
To be fair to Top, due to the unfortunate and sad demise of Vichai, I believe he was thrust into a role he was not ready for. I'm hoping he is on a steep learning curve and will come good in time, hopefully before the club is completely trashed.
I reckon this is the best scenario, if he can't see the damage which appears to be being done by Rodgers, there is little chance of him realising that he needs to sell up to move the club forward.
Oh btw Foxello, you have missed out one of the most hurtful actions, overseeing a slide in two years such that we are no longer the top East Midlands club - something that most would have thought inconceivable a couple of years ago!
posted on 6/3/23
comment by Foxello (U6985)
posted 44 minutes ago
An interest thought experiment to consider:
Imagine a scenario where, in late 2018-early 2019 following Vichai's death, Top/King Power decided to sell the club to an American businessman. That said businessman then;
- went on to become an absentee owner, leaving the day-to-day running of the club in the hands of Rudkin and Whelan
- runs up eye-watering debts that leave the club unable to compete in the transfer market;
- leaves the club with the 8th highest wage bill in the country;
- lets contracts of several star players run down, making them worth nothing;
- oversees a slide from 5th to relegation battle in the space of two years and, perhaps most crucially;
- refuses to take action against a chronically underperforming and unpopular manager who has trashed the reputation of the club in the media.
How would we judge this new owner - favourably or unfavourably? Because that is essentially what Top's ownership has caused.
It's understandable that, after everything we have gone through together, fans want to give Top the benefit of the doubt - I completely get that. But his ownership is starting to look less and less like a continuation of Vichai's legacy and more like an unintended trashing of it through negligence and incompetence.
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This is a great post and just impossible to argue against.
posted on 6/3/23
comment by 99 Problems (Top - invest in the squad and sack Rodgers) (U12353)
posted 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
comment by Foxello (U6985)
posted 44 minutes ago
An interest thought experiment to consider:
Imagine a scenario where, in late 2018-early 2019 following Vichai's death, Top/King Power decided to sell the club to an American businessman. That said businessman then;
- went on to become an absentee owner, leaving the day-to-day running of the club in the hands of Rudkin and Whelan
- runs up eye-watering debts that leave the club unable to compete in the transfer market;
- leaves the club with the 8th highest wage bill in the country;
- lets contracts of several star players run down, making them worth nothing;
- oversees a slide from 5th to relegation battle in the space of two years and, perhaps most crucially;
- refuses to take action against a chronically underperforming and unpopular manager who has trashed the reputation of the club in the media.
How would we judge this new owner - favourably or unfavourably? Because that is essentially what Top's ownership has caused.
It's understandable that, after everything we have gone through together, fans want to give Top the benefit of the doubt - I completely get that. But his ownership is starting to look less and less like a continuation of Vichai's legacy and more like an unintended trashing of it through negligence and incompetence.
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This is a great post and just impossible to argue against.
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This American business owner needs our backing and he needs to get Rodgers out quick snap 😉
posted on 6/3/23
Yeah that’s right let’s give Top our backing and show we’ve got every faith in his leadership. That will force him to make the changes we really need
posted on 6/3/23
comment by 99 Problems (Top - invest in the squad and sack Rodgers) (U12353)
posted 2 hours, 48 minutes ago
Yeah that’s right let’s give Top our backing and show we’ve got every faith in his leadership. That will force him to make the changes we really need
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What’s Top go to do with this? I’m still livid at our American owners!
posted on 7/3/23
😂😂😂
posted on 7/3/23
There’s also a few fans convinced we’ll go through another run of decent games where we suddenly pick up points. This time I think the injuries will prevent that happening. Maddison is 1 game away from being out for 4 weeks again, no Barnes, no Tielemans - we’re in trouble
posted on 7/3/23
According to what I've heard recently, apparently some fans may be getting worried that we're in a relegation fight!
Seriously? We've been in a relegation fight all season, anybody who doesn't think that is deluded. Brendan's gone on enough losing streaks this year to get fired 3 or 4 times from Watford!