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Post by devondumpling on May 13, 2014 7:39:43 GMT
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Post by Jimm on May 13, 2014 7:41:25 GMT
QPR mark II
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Post by knuttonj24 on May 13, 2014 7:45:45 GMT
Queue Nigel Pearson being sacked in November when the are rooted to the foot of the table then
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Post by GrahamHyde on May 13, 2014 7:46:59 GMT
Top 5 will require more than 180m for a side like Leicester. First season will be a scrap but they MUST stick by Pearson all season. There's a fine line between ambition and delusion, you need to keep it in check as we have seen this season with Cardiff, Fulham and West Brom.
If they stick with Pearson they'll be fine over the course.
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Post by Pedropotter on May 13, 2014 7:48:05 GMT
"Billionaire Thai chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha outlined the club's next steps to reporters in Bangkok". I think that just about says it all.
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Post by lastoftheldk on May 13, 2014 8:10:06 GMT
Another administration
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Post by partickpotter on May 13, 2014 8:14:25 GMT
Leicester... Simple. Yeah, that fits! |
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Post by maninasuitcase on May 13, 2014 8:14:58 GMT
Vincent Tan mk2
Hope they get relegated deluded fucktards
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Post by AstroTom on May 13, 2014 8:15:29 GMT
You can just see UEFA coming down on them like a ton of bricks.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2014 9:56:02 GMT
very uncomfortable with a thai billionaire when most thais barely have a pot to piss in.
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Post by apb1979 on May 13, 2014 10:05:44 GMT
Why are foreign owners such deluded fools?
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Post by stokiejoe on May 13, 2014 10:11:05 GMT
Great name to have on the back of a shirt
There's only one Srivaddhanaprabha
There's only one.. oh sod it.
It would be a great pity if someone could come in and spend £180M and end up with a top 5 team. Think he is underestimating the money needed. Sadly for their supporters I hope they flop. One thing for sure they will get a good review on MOD because of big ears
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Post by santy on May 13, 2014 10:12:19 GMT
Southampton had a plan to assault the top teams within a time frame and they have made considerable progress. Get the right people in who are focused on what makes footballers tick and getting the most from them may well have success. It just depends which approach they take. Although even with Southampton, their most expensive signings were their flops.
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Post by salopstick on May 13, 2014 10:46:27 GMT
i think it is easier to stay in the prem league than actually get promoted into it. but sometimes you can have too much ambition
after that a bit of investment and some luck and who know what can happen. as from next season the europa league winners get in the champions league that may make some teams take entry into th eeuropa and subsequent euro run a bit more seriously.
As long as it is done properly there is nothing wrong with some slow time ambition. coates knows repeated long term premiership midtable is better than throwing a shit load of money and going too soon too fast
we are doing things the right way, southampton may have surpassed us after two seasons but the downside is their players get noticed and shortly will be targetted by the big boys, where does that leave them? they could struggle in two seasons now their 5 year project has come to an end. i would put money on swansea and southampton getting relegated before us
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Post by malteser68 on May 13, 2014 10:52:38 GMT
Deluded. Hope clubs like these end up going into administration
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Post by stayingupforbigbazza on May 13, 2014 10:52:55 GMT
who's the former owner who's in prison who had no money was it Brum  |
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Post by Ayupshag on May 13, 2014 10:57:41 GMT
who's the former owner who's in prison who had no money was it Brum Certainly was. One Carseun Yeung. (Apologise for the spelling) Hopefully the same will happen to these cunts |
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Post by ohbottom on May 13, 2014 11:04:12 GMT
Well, he's richer than Tony Fernandes, but not quite as rich as Vincent Tan and nowhere near as rich as Katharina Liebherr. I'm sure they won't have any problem breaking into the top 5 Edit: forgot the smiley winky thing  |
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Post by nott1 on May 13, 2014 11:47:58 GMT
No chance, as he won't get players good enough who will be happy to sign for them!
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Post by stokiejoe on May 13, 2014 11:55:38 GMT
Who can we sell him? He could have Shea for £20m or £15m for cash. We have a duty to help him spend his money.  |
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Post by vahl on May 13, 2014 12:29:55 GMT
I can already see the sharks circling King Power from here. How many times are we going to let these chairman do this? Haven't enough clubs been ruined by being allowed to be a play thing for the rich elite? I can imagine the Leicester faithful being excited by it all - they are riding high on the wave of promotion, blinded by the bright lights of Premier League football they've been craving for years etc. Then on top of all the excitement, your chairman has all of these big bold ideas and it's easy to buy into them due to the good feeling around the place. They are fucked.  |
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Post by cheekymatt71 on May 13, 2014 12:42:01 GMT
180 million might just get them to mid table obscurity on a par with us.
They need more like 400 million to get into the top 5 on todays inflated transfer markets. Plus their attendances are not going to place them in top 5.
So in short they wont comply with FFP and stand no chance
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2014 15:28:17 GMT
In fairness, They've said they want to consolidate in 2-3 years and then push on. Their owners are worth £1.5 billion so not mega rich in terms of what other have. Where will £180m get them? No where near top 5 when you consider they need to revamp a championship squad, pay big wages if they want to get better players in, agent fee's, talk of stadium work etc. A lot of their fans understand this. There's a few who totally believe it will happen though:  |
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Post by okeydokeystokie2 on May 13, 2014 15:39:27 GMT
Even disregarding the implications for FFP, these figures seem to have been plucked out of thin air.
If you assume he will need at least 18 "top 5" players (back of fag packet guestimate, average £15m each), that's £270m + the small matter of the £150m per year wage bill required to sustain that.(Based on the equivalent of Liverpool and Arsenal, currently the 4th and 5th highest wage bills). That looks like a total somewhere north (or should that be east) of £700m.
This sounds like a pitch to sell TV subscriptions and football shirts to the locals.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2014 15:45:41 GMT
it's nothing more than a PR soundbite put out by the club to let the fans know they have ambition and plan to become an established Prem side who won't be happy just languishing at the bottom or just be happy to be there which the BBC have then jumped right on board with to make it sound like far more of a story than it actually is....nothing more than that.
and didn't we spend nearly £100mill in the first five years anyway? i don't for a second believe the chairman thinks they will get top 5, it just sounds good to make the fans happy. not that hard to see through surely?
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Post by okeydokeystokie2 on May 13, 2014 16:07:33 GMT
Under promise and over deliver. The Golden Rules of Marketing and PR.
If this is a PR soundbite, I think it will come back to bite him soundly in the arse.
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Post by shawi on May 13, 2014 16:08:25 GMT
They could do OK - Leicester probably have greater capacity than us, it is a richer City / area & I wouldn't underestimate the financial power of their Asian community in addition to the Thai funding.
It's just that Wally Wing Nut Lineker smirking on MOTD whilst keeping us on last that really winds me up.
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Post by scfcsimon on May 13, 2014 18:56:03 GMT
Don't think this will happen as west sham said it soon as they got in the premier league look where the r now..  |
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Post by cmc89 on May 13, 2014 19:22:57 GMT
Leicester forum seems pretty split about this quote. Some are wincing and others are completely caught up on it. We got a lovely mention though, after they'd said how knowledgeable bindipper fans were: "Well informed and somewhat intelligent I'd say, I think most big clubs fans follow football with more interest than just the game being played. Those Stokie fans seem the opposite to the reds to me." We know less than liverpool |
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Post by march4 on May 13, 2014 21:17:56 GMT
Looks like we have this season's Cardiff!
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