Leicester At It Yet Again! (16 Viewers)

[HadjiChippo]

Apparently they are that fed up the away end barely celebrated their equaliser last night

I was watching the highlights and assumed that Sky had messed the audio up, it was odd.

 

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[Sick Boy]

Prob the worst fanbase in the entire football league.

 

[Chris1987]

Don't they lose parachute payments if relegated

No but they've taken loans against them already

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Consider yourself corrected.

I believe that the only way the payments stop early is if they get promoted back, or go into administration.

There is no action if they get relegated again, receive a points sanction or (rather annoyingly) breach PSR rules.

As much as I want to see Leicester punished as severely as possible, it just wouldn't seem fair to remove a clubs parachute payments after getting relegated again, even if that would likely be down to poor self-management. You'd still likely have some players on very high wages that you'd be trying to shift while they'd have even lower income to service that in an even lower league. Seems a good way to ensure clubs go out of business.

Now, whether parachute payments should even be a thing, and whether we need other, fairer, ways to safeguard teams relegated from the ridiculousness that is the PL, is a completely different question. But if you get parachute payments in the Championship, you should still get them in L1 (or even L2) as well.

 

[Legia Sky Blue]

As much as I want to see Leicester punished as severely as possible, it just wouldn't seem fair to remove a clubs parachute payments after getting relegated again, even if that would likely be down to poor self-management. You'd still likely have some players on very high wages that you'd be trying to shift while they'd have even lower income to service that in an even lower league. Seems a good way to ensure clubs go out of business.

Now, whether parachute payments should even be a thing, and whether we need other, fairer, ways to safeguard teams relegated from the ridiculousness that is the PL, is a completely different question. But if you get parachute payments in the Championship, you should still get them in L1 (or even L2) as well.

It looks like the football regulator wants to get his teeth into parachute payments. It would be just our luck to get ourselves into the PL and then get relegated without them, when we've had to compete with so many clubs benefiting from that advantage these last few years.

 

[play_in_skyblue_stripes]

Very strange fans reaction to getting a late equaliser away from home at a team five places higher in the table.
Sure might have wanted a win but a draw away is normally considered OK-ish.

 

[Shannerz]

Very strange fans reaction to getting a late equaliser away from home at a team five places higher in the table.
Sure might have wanted a win but a draw away is normally considered OK-ish.

They won a Premier League, don't you know!

 

[tomreagan84]

They won a Premier League, don't you know!

They don’t like to talk about it though.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

They don’t like to talk about it though.

2bh I would be. They’re one of 6 team to lift the top flight in 33 years and unlike the other 5 didn’t outspend the other 19.

Let’s not pretend it’s nothing

 

[tomreagan84]

2bh I would be. They’re one of 6 team to lift the top flight in 33 years and unlike the other 5 didn’t outspend the other 19.

Let’s not pretend it’s nothing

I was joking, obviously a huge achievement.

 

[Sky Blue Wozza]

I don’t know why don’t make more of the fact we’re effectively joint-winners of the Anglo-Scottish Challenge? Bit wordy for a song maybe?

Wasn’t there some kind of campaign to get the 2nd leg played?

 

[Shannerz]

2bh I would be. They’re one of 6 team to lift the top flight in 33 years and unlike the other 5 didn’t outspend the other 19.

Let’s not pretend it’s nothing

I don't think you have to pretend it's nothing to see how entitled it's made elements of their fanbase, and to mock them for that.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

I don’t know why don’t make more of the fact we’re effectively joint-winners of the Anglo-Scottish Challenge? Bit wordy for a song maybe?

Wasn’t there some kind of campaign to get the 2nd leg played?

Think they mentioned next year 2027, the 40th anniversary

 

[Gleneagles65]

2bh I would be. They’re one of 6 team to lift the top flight in 33 years and unlike the other 5 didn’t outspend the other 19.

Let’s not pretend it’s nothing

They cheated many times, Fcuk em.

 

[MusicDating]

Leicester guy has done an interview with Kieran Maguire. For those of us who CBA to listen to all of it, he's provided a lovely summary...

The TLDR summary of this is ultimately what plenty have already said and know: it all largely comes back to our horrendous mismanagement of the wage bill.

He said the year Rodgers took us down we had the largest discrepancy between our income and our wage bill (£116 spent on wages for every £100 earned) in the history of the Premier League. For context, think he said UEFA recommend no more than 70 for every 100?

He also says that you can be almost certain by analysing our wage bill and the contracts that he's seen as an insider that the contracts we hand out to players are skewed hugely towards paying an up front, guaranteed salary whilst the vast, vast majority of other clubs give a reasonably small basic pay that's supplemented by huge bonuses.

So a player at Leicester will have a massive basic wage with a small bonus for performance if we stay up, whilst a player at say Bournemouth will be on a much lower basic wage but with much larger incentive bonuses for staying in the league or scoring goals, keeping clean sheets etc.

All of which explains why we're stuck in this constant cycle of PSR struggles because we're still in this 4 or 5 year contract cycle after we let Rodgers massively over spend on rubbish and let Rudkin negotiate all their contracts.

It also explains why we can never get rid of players whilst other clubs find it easier to sell, because ours are happily sitting here for years on massive basic pay even if they don't play. And why we've got a squad of players that look like they don't give a shit if we win or lose.

He also amusingly points out that in the first 4 years we were back in the Premier League (the two before and after we won it) we made profit which he says is almost unprecedented. There's two ways you can look at that that's interesting, it's the time Vichai was running the club not his son. It's also the time when the vast majority of the players contracted would have been signed before Rudkin was the DOF.

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

Prob the worst fanbase in the entire football league.

Leicester Fox, Hackney Fox The Silence is deafening.

 

[alexccfc99]

Jordan James set for a month on the sidelines, one of their only decent players

If this deduction comes soon they really are fucked

 

[clint van damme]

Leicester guy has done an interview with Kieran Maguire. For those of us who CBA to listen to all of it, he's provided a lovely summary...

 

[Leicesterfox]

Leicester Fox, Hackney Fox The Silence is deafening.

Yoo hoo

All for it.

 

[David O'Day]

Yoo hoo

All for it.

sorry, can't can't hear you down there

 

[zuni]

So when do the cheating spunk puffins get the chop..
Taking to long ffs

 

[HadjiChippo]

Jordan James set for a month on the sidelines, one of their only decent players

That’s a massive hit, he was carrying their side, wouldn’t mind us taking a look at him in the summer, looks a real prospect. Hopefully they slide closer and closer to relegation, and a points deduction finishes the job.

 

[Leicesterfox]

Final Score says it will be ten points. Loving it!

Two divisions will separate us next season but we still made it three in 2017/18 ⚽️

 

[Danceswithhorses]

Final Score says it will be ten points. Loving it!

Two divisions will separate us next season but we still made it three in 2017/18 ⚽️

who says you won't go down again next season ?

 

[robbiethemole]

admin and another 12 could fuck you up for years ( hopefully )

 

[Lamps]

Final Score says it will be ten points. Loving it!

Two divisions will separate us next season but we still made it three in 2017/18 ⚽️

Continue to live in the past as much as you like. I'm old enough to say I was there in 87. But other than the record books the most important time is the present. Presently we're looking good for promotion and your future isn't looking good.

PUSB and good luck for your future in League 1. Oh how the mighty fall

 

[Nick]

 

[clint van damme]

What's going on?
Are they pretending to show some fight after showing none on the pitch?

 

[MacReady]

The Oxford players all just chilling and looking a bit bemused.

Classless club. And you know they would’ve been boring from the moment the first goal went in.

 

[fatso]

Should be a hefty fine incoming to accompany the points deduction!

The gift that just keeps on giving.

 

[Leicesterfox]

What was better - your post match fracas with Fat Frano against Southampton or our bunch of s against Oxford today?

Just asking for a friend!

 

[Ccfcisparks]

What was better - your post match fracas with Fat Frano against Southampton or our bunch of s against Oxford today?

Just asking for a friend!

Don't really care mate.

All the best.

 

[Flying Fokker]

Continue to live in the past as much as you like. I'm old enough to say I was there in 87. But other than the record books the most important time is the present. Presently we're looking good for promotion and your future isn't looking good.

PUSB and good luck for your future in League 1. Oh how the mighty fall

I’m wondering how teams fair once they end up in the bottom tier?

 

[Flying Fokker]

Why are teams clashing at the end of matches nowadays?

 

[Travs]

If Leicester do actually get more than a 6 point deduction they really could be in a relegation fight.

I fear that they have just a little bit too much quality even then to go down.....