The LOLeicester City appreciation thread

[CSA96]

Gary Rowett going in there as manager, contract until June initially apparently - John Percy reporting in the last hour

[Chez]

55 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

Gary Rowett going in there as manager, contract until June initially apparently - John Percy reporting in the last hour

Good choice. We need them to do just enough to send the skates down.

[Midfield_General]

Gary Rowett. Most recent managerial record - sacked by Oxford United after 1 win in 10 games. 

He'll probably do enough to keep them up by the skin of their teeth but christ, how the mighty have fallen.

Edited February 16 by Midfield_General

[coalman]

He's just keeping the seat warm so Martin can join in the summer after his honeymoon.

[Gloucester Saint]

12 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

Gary Rowett. Most recent managerial record - sacked by Oxford United after 1 win in 10 games. 

He'll probably do enough to keep them up by the skin of their teeth but christ, how the mighty have fallen.

Popular ex-player there so their fans will be a bit more patient, emphasis on the bit given their league position.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

On 17/02/2026 at 07:39, coalman said:

He's just keeping the seat warm so Martin can join in the summer after his honeymoon.

There's a logic to that. If you know it takes time to bed in a new philosophy, waiting until the close season makes sense. 🙂

[Saint NL]

So the PL want more sanctions on Leicester? Am I reading that right?

[Matthew Le God]

9 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

So the PL want more sanctions on Leicester? Am I reading that right?

Yes

[Tamesaint]

39 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

So the PL want more sanctions on Leicester? Am I reading that right?

.... And Leicester are appealing against the "harshness" of the punishment. 

[Hatch]

I would give them the points back and 10 extra points if it means Pompey get relegated

[HarvSFC]

Does it work the same way as appealing red cards? Get a stronger punishment, rather than the initial one?

Just looking at the forwards they had two years ago - Vardy, Mavididi, Iheanacho, Fatawu, Daka and they still had room to bring in Tom Cannon for £7.5m. That's a lot on the books, while they also had an experienced midfield and defence also.

They gambled on breaking the rules to get back up instantly, similar to how Forest gambled in the Premier League, but it hasn't worked out for Leicester.

[bpsaint]

Surprised by the audacity of Leicester, suppose they’ve not got nothing to lose though. They should have been happy with 6 points considering how high a deduction the Premier League were trying to get.

Imagine they win the appeal but the Prem wins theirs too and they end up in a worse position.

Edited February 19 by bpsaint

[Midfield_General]

4 hours ago, Tamesaint said:

.... And Leicester are appealing against the "harshness" of the punishment. 

Absolutely priceless. 

There is a scenario here where if they just accepted the 6 point deduction (that was generally thought, not least by their own fans, to be pretty lenient) they could stay up at the end of the season.  But now they are appealing, they could lose the appeal, the deduction could get increased and they could get relegated as a direct consequence of not just shutting up and taking the original soft punishment. 

Appealing it is such a mad, high-risk, high-stakes gamble. If it was any other club I'd think that they've probably got something in their back pocket which means they are confident of winning the appeal, but with them, I think it's more likely just to be a fit of pique from their nepo baby owner who's never been stood up to by anyone in his life and simply can't handle it. 

Then separately, the Premier League have also now said they're not happy that the six point deduction was sufficient, and they want at least one more point taken off. So they are appealing as well. 

Popcorn at the ready, this is going to be interesting 

 

Edited February 19 by Midfield_General

[franniesTache]

Personally i'm entirely behind their appeal and i think it should not just be overturned but Charlton, Blackburn and West Brom should all be given an additional six points for the mental stress this has caused.

[Saint86]

On 14/02/2026 at 07:48, Saint86 said:

Blackburn have just appointed former Northern Ireland manager, Michael O'Neil. I know they're a pretty poor squad, but think that's a very good appointment for them. Certainly has the caliber to make a difference in the relegation fight. 

2 wins from 2.... 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, Saint86 said:

2 wins from 2.... 

Some of these managers are so lucky. This guy's nearly as flukey as Clement at Norwich. Turning up just as the players start to win. 🙂

[kitch]

Going through a big board reshuffle, apparently. Jon Rudkin (one of the guys the fans really don't like) has been promoted...

[BarberSaint]

On 19/02/2026 at 11:22, Hatch said:

I would give them the points back and 10 extra points if it means Pompey get relegated

No.

The games against the lot down the road are ones to look out for. Who cares about Leicester apart from their local rivals?

[Midfield_General]

Amazingly, bringing in Gary Rowett and signing Aribo in January didn’t keep them up. 

Edited yesterday at 21:11 by Midfield_General

[Willo of Whiteley]

Couldn’t have happened to a more entitled set of fans

[CSA96]

Still can't embed tweets here for some reason, so sharing this from football finance expert Kieran Maguire

The biggest concern for Leicester is that they have already cashed in on future instalments from Premier League parachute payments and player sale instalments by selling those sums to MacQuarie bank.

Borrowed a net £85m in the last two seasons, and wage bill of over £100m in the Championship last time they were there.

At end of 2017/18 Leicester had accumulated profits of £25 million, by end of 2024/25 that had turned into an accumulated loss of £375 million.

Edited 23 hours ago by CSA96

[Sheaf Saint]

7 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Couldn’t have happened to a more entitled set of fans

Really? I can think of plenty of clubs with much more entitled fans than them.

I think of Leicester as very similar to us really. Proper provincial club with no expectation on them to achieve anything who have punched above their weight for many years.

They might have a small amount of fans who just jumped on the bandwagon in the last ten years, but I feel sorry for the majority of them who have stuck with the club through thick and thin and are facing the very real possibility of them being wound up and no longer having a team to support because of gross mismanagement from the owners. 

[badgerx16]

League1 income on top of massive losses, and some players like Vestergaard still on close to PL salaries.

 

Admin looming ?

Edited 16 hours ago by badgerx16

[AlexLaw76]

18 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Really? I can think of plenty of clubs with much more entitled fans than them.

I think of Leicester as very similar to us really. Proper provincial club with no expectation on them to achieve anything who have punched above their weight for many years.

They might have a small amount of fans who just jumped on the bandwagon in the last ten years, but I feel sorry for the majority of them who have stuck with the club through thick and thin and are facing the very real possibility of them being wound up and no longer having a team to support because of gross mismanagement from the owners. 

What do you mean by provincial club?

 

[CB Fry]

23 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Really? I can think of plenty of clubs with much more entitled fans than them.

I think of Leicester as very similar to us really. Proper provincial club with no expectation on them to achieve anything who have punched above their weight for many years.

They might have a small amount of fans who just jumped on the bandwagon in the last ten years, but I feel sorry for the majority of them who have stuck with the club through thick and thin and are facing the very real possibility of them being wound up and no longer having a team to support because of gross mismanagement from the owners. 

Indeed, they are an incredibly close match to us. Same kind of city, same kind of history.

Ridiculous to complain about their "entitled" fans when you think about how this forum was after we finished sixth, once. Utter twats furious we weren't charging into the Champions League the following season.

Edited 16 hours ago by CB Fry

[AlexLaw76]

3 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Indeed, they are an incredibly close match to us. Same kind of city, same kind of history.

Ridiculous to complain about their "entitled" fans when you think about how this forum was after we finished sixth, once. Utter twats furious we weren't charging into the Champions League the following season.

When Adkins won promotion to the premier league, someone here suggested we were the best club outside of the Top 4

🤣

[Sheaf Saint]

8 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

What do you mean by provincial club?

 

I mean a club from a relatively small city who will only attract fans from its own local area, rather than a London or Manchester based club with thousands of 'fans' who have never even visited the city, let alone been to a home game.

[EssEffCee]

24 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Indeed, they are an incredibly close match to us. Same kind of city, same kind of history.

Ridiculous to complain about their "entitled" fans when you think about how this forum was after we finished sixth, once. Utter twats furious we weren't charging into the Champions League the following season.

Yeah we've got a very similar fanbase, they had fans clapping them off last night which I reckon would happen if it was us too.

The clubs are pretty similar too, they're just more successful.

[benjii]

1 hour ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Really? I can think of plenty of clubs with much more entitled fans than them.

I think of Leicester as very similar to us really. Proper provincial club with no expectation on them to achieve anything who have punched above their weight for many years.

They might have a small amount of fans who just jumped on the bandwagon in the last ten years, but I feel sorry for the majority of them who have stuck with the club through thick and thin and are facing the very real possibility of them being wound up and no longer having a team to support because of gross mismanagement from the owners. 

Most of their success was built on cheating (like Man City), so fuck 'em.

[Sheaf Saint]

5 minutes ago, benjii said:

Most of their success was built on cheating (like Man City), so fuck 'em.

Not true though is it. When they won the PL in 2016, they had a lower wage bill than even we did for that season, and a net transfer spend of zero.

[benjii]

2 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Not true though is it. When they won the PL in 2016, they had a lower wage bill than even we did for that season, and a net transfer spend of zero.

That season they cheated on the pitch with that rat cunt Vardy, and two cloggers committing weekly assaults at centre back which, for some reason, the referees seemed to ignore.

But they were only in the PL after financially cheating their way out of the Championship. 

They have a long history of financial shenanigans and I'm glad they are getting some pay-back.

[Miltonaggro]

Always been an odd club as long as I can remember, and on our shirt tails until the remarkable title win under Ranieri. At that time a nudge that a provincial club still might be able to ‘do it’ in the mould of Derby or Forest in 70s and 80s. Since the title win they’ve become incredibly unlikeable in terms of fan entitlement and bullshit and i wouldn’t mind betting they have a difficult time in League 1. As a club I don’t see much similarity to us in terms of ethos and sentience, apart from same identikit stadium and relative size.  Not sorry to see them slump, they fully deserve a spell in the wilderness! 

Edited 14 hours ago by Miltonaggro

[Turkish]

2 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

When Adkins won promotion to the premier league, someone here suggested we were the best club outside of the Top 4

🤣

mate that was in League One!!! I will never forget it, we are are the most attractive team for a player outside of the Premier league top 4!! This was around the time of people also posting that no player would ever leave us as they'd want to play for Saints in the champions league with the mates they started in the academy with and of course, the famous we can make the champions league they once said man would never walk on the moon 😂

[Turkish]

58 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Not true though is it. When they won the PL in 2016, they had a lower wage bill than even we did for that season, and a net transfer spend of zero.

Yep some of the starts of that team cost next to nothing. Vardy cost 750k i think Mahrez 500k, Wes Morgan 1m, Roberth Huth 3m, Kasper Schmicheal, Danny Drinkwater and Ben Chillwell also cost zip all. They had Dean Hammond and Nathan Dyer in their squad!! Nathan Dyer has a premier league winners medal!!

[kitch]

14 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Couldn’t have happened to a more entitled set of fans

Ipswich?

[OldNick]

No doubt their fans who sung 'we want 9' this season when they were 3up are getting some payback. Sadly its not the players who played in the 9-0 that are hurt.

In recent memory they have been bloody annoying and their fans are entitled since their success, but there are other clubs Id prefer to get this hurt. No its not Pompey 

[Lord Duckhunter]

Soon there won’t be one club left playing in England whose  supporters have not been called “entitled” on here. Every club that’s mentioned, somebody will post it

 

I’m waiting for next season, when those entitled Lincoln twats turn up in the championship. 

[Doctoroncall]

4 hours ago, benjii said:

That season they cheated on the pitch with that rat cunt Vardy, and two cloggers committing weekly assaults at centre back which, for some reason, the referees seemed to ignore.

But they were only in the PL after financially cheating their way out of the Championship. 

They have a long history of financial shenanigans and I'm glad they are getting some pay-back.

Administration in October 2002, bought for £5m, wiping out £50 million debt, inc £16000 to the East Midlands Ambulance Service, £4000 to St John Ambulance and £6m to HMRC. No points deduction and proceeded to gain promotion that season. 

In 13/14 promotion season, an £11m increase in sponsorship through an intermediary with the same sponsor as before, helped them comply with FFP rules, while other clubs reduced spending on players to comply with the rules. 
 

In 1919, Leicester could not meet the financial requirements of the league, and the club was reformed. 

Including the recent episode, that’s four financial misdemeanours. Only the last had a consequence of a penalty. 

[markr27]

13 hours ago, benjii said:

That season they cheated on the pitch with that rat cunt Vardy, and two cloggers committing weekly assaults at centre back which, for some reason, the referees seemed to ignore.

But they were only in the PL after financially cheating their way out of the Championship. 

They have a long history of financial shenanigans and I'm glad they are getting some pay-back.

Was this the same season that Vardy took out VvD, ruling him out for the remainder and beyond with a horrible tackle?