What happened to Leicester City?
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Leicester City were the definition of an Underdog team. In recent years they had won the Premier League, FA Cup, Community Sheild and disrupted the “Big 6” by finishing 5th in consecutive years. But now they face relegation to the Championship.
How has this happened? Leicester’s business model was the envy of many, so how has it gone so wrong so quickly? And who is to blame?
Jon Mackenzie writes, Henry Cooke illustrates.
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But I'll always have spot in my heart for Leicester, Vardy, Kante, Mahrez, Ranieri, and of course always....Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha!!! rip
Harry Maguire too
Dont foget Kasper
And Wes Morgan.
@@doodhood2995 80 million towards the club
Don’t forget Danny drinkwater he was so good too back then😢
As a neutral it’s actually unbelievable what’s happened to the club in the last 24 months.
Seeing them relegated would feel like reading the cruelest, most surreal ending to one of your favorite fairy tales 😔😔😔
We are a yoyo club
its not like the club dies if they get relagated
@45 commando they did win the fa cup 2 seasons ago though in fairness, they did have a winners mentality that most teams lacked
Rogers nothing else
@@Bootneck777hey 🤡you don’t win leagues by luck a cup maybe.Stick to tiddlywinks.
I think the moment Leicester's decline became baked in was when they lost 4-2 to a diabolical Spurs team at the end of 2020-21, missing out on the champions league in the process. If they'd won that game they'd have finished ahead of Utd and CL revenue would have made up the hole in the accounts caused by the pandemic. However, they lost, and the money issues snowballed from there.
Yeah they basically did a Leeds
@@reintaler6355 perfect example leeds in 01 and 02 needed to qualify for champs and both season just narrowly missed and it ruined them just like Leicester in 20 and 21 and just like Leeds two seasons after nearly qualifying for champs they could go down
Chelsea not United. United had already confirmed 2nd place
@@folarinalabi3250 true. They could've finished above Chelsea but they bottled it to spurs who had nothing to play for
Ahead of united? United finished 2nd in 2020/21
On the topic of downfalls, I'd really like to see one covering the fall of Yeovil Town, from the Championship to National league south in less than a decade.
I remember Yeovil beating Brentford in the league 1 playoff final back in 2013.
It was a frustrating one because a lot of us knew Yeovil wouldn't survive in the championship. It's funny though because that team had players like Dan Burn and Luke Ayling who are premier league players 10 years on.
The difference in direction the 2 clubs went couldn't be more drastic.
Bolton would be an interesting one to cover too, I remember when I was growing up first getting into football they were a decent team who managed to qualify for europe on multiple occasions so to see them just over a decade later drop all the way into league two was wild
@@karl_franks Jesus I didn’t even know Bolton was in League 2, I remember Big Sam being in charge for the early 2000s for them as a kid so that’s shocking to hear
To be fair, their promotion up there was a massive overachievement. Yeovil never big enough to sustain that.
Scunthorpe have done the same too
Seeing Leicester and Southampton going down, makes me immediately worry about Brighton. Selling your best players will catch up with you at a point. No matter how good your recruitment team is all you need is one bad window, one unfortunate circumstance ( e.g a pandemic) and that's it. This clubs don't have the financial power like the top six to write of one window of huge bad spending. Brighton better be very careful this transfer window, with all the players they might lose, I fear they'll be in line next.
Nah Brighton will play in Europe 🌍
Brighton will be shredded to pieces next summer window and, at best, the club will be back to a mid to low table positions, it is the sad reality of the world of football and it will be the same story for other teams such as Napoli and to a lesser degree Benfica, so enjoy it as long as it lasts.
@@miloudbouchefra200 as a benfica fan - the club isnt exactly challenging for UCL titles, i think theyre fine just developing/selling players while challenging for the league title & good ucl runs here and there
@@matiasorcio He's not saying they won't play in Europe. He's saying they might suffer in the next transfer window
@@Farlon303 yeah he's probably right
They lost their leader Schmeichel who made the saves needed against the big 6 clubs enabling them to be competitive even when they sold many of their key players
Tbh I like Ivarsen. Very solid GK for Preston and I think people are starting to realise how good he is after that Everton performance, although I agree Schmeichel was phenomenal for them in more ways than just stopping shots.
I love Kasper, but it's more Rodgers insistence on playing Danny Ward. It looks even more braindead when we see how good Iversen has been. Leicester fans have been calling for Iversen to start since pre season and been cringing ever since. Ward has cost us so many points. Same with Amartey over Soyuncu.
@@mrwabbit9576 yeah but Ward who played a lot performed really bad.
It's pity that Soyancu will move to athletico Madrid next season. Rodgers ruined his whole year by benching him and even after that just see his performances in last 3 matches. Amarty was disaster for us
I agree, his saves gained them many points every season
It's a tragedy that their chairman passed away in that helicopter accident. It certainly leaves a hole in one's heart and makes an entire fan base wonder what could've been if he didn't die so suddenly.
Yeah everything goes downhill since that tragedy.
That is a question I have as well.
They almost got CL in 2020 and 2021...
@@dustinedwards7821 without wealth no soccer
@@cityplanner3063 The rich couldn’t exist if not for the exploitation of the working class.
As a Leicester fan, I think it's also key that BR fell out and then didn't play a number of top players. Playing Amartey ahead of Soyuncu this season for instance. A lot of our players have seemingly just declined as well: Ndidi, Ricardo, Castagne, Dewsbury-Hall, Tielemans have all played below their usual standards this season. Ndidi used to be one of the top defensive midfielders in the league and now just looks like a liability whenever he plays.
That's insane. Ndidi looked like the next Kante at times
I mean if you look at soyunu's and Faes's performances in the first few weeks of the season it's easy to see why he had to bench one of them
As a Leicester fan I'd say sadly this video is an accurate overview of the current issues. Good job as always Tifo
The one thing missing here is the reason for the change in transfer policy during the summer of 2021: Missing out on the Champions League on the last day of the season two years on the trot (thanks Jack Grealish!), there was a sense that the club were on the verge of being a top 4 side. So, they committed to not selling any top talent and acquiring talent that was ready to help out immediately. Then, disaster struck: Villarreal's Fer Nino snapped Wesley Fofana's leg in a pre-season friendly, hence the panic buy of Vestergaard. The club went all in on trying to reach the CL and finished 8th. This sense that the club's window had closed left top players unwilling to extend their contracts, and the financial problems were compounded by the Fofana drama last summer.
I lied: There was one other point that needed to be made: Rodgers' bizarre refusal to use the players at his disposal, including some he brought on. Vestergaard has barely played at all. Çağlar Söyüncü, arguably the club's best defender, couldn't even get on the bench. Wilfred Ndidi, the only real defensive midfielder in the squad, found himself out of favour with the club leaking goals. The manager might not like the hand he's been dealt (or has dealt himself), but it's his job to make the most of what he has and Rodgers couldn't or wouldn't do this.
The fall of Vardy was inevitable and they did nothing to replace him.
Daka was meant to replace him, he's not good enough though
Vardy is still good . Bt the midfield isn't . Not playing forward balls. Playing dewsberry hall who always played the ball backwards not making forward passes to vardy. Poor defence.
A striker is nothing without a good midfield
Vardy is still a great player. The reason why most people thought that he was a flop in recent time was because of Brendans formations and style of play. He didnt utilise Vardy, which saw him get benched or play very few minutes and even when he played , the style of play didnt suite it.
Vardy is still leicester city's best striker .it's all about his supply
Clubs like Brighton brenford took a page out of there game and a few other clubs across Europe
Still a brilliant team . They need to be playing with more heart , incredible players . Maddison , Vardy !
Am a Leicester fan and this has been the most heartbreaking season but the most hopeful one I ever witness, we go in each game looking to likely win only to commit one mistake and we down
But I believe we staying up and next season is a different story to write.
You went down
@@herman8809 we will be back
@@sonny22 not for a whole year
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It’s clear that some clubs like Newcastle get big investments and other clubs will suffer from this. Leicester sold their goalie and best defender last summer and didn’t get a new goalie. You can’t keep up in the prem with your secondary keeper
Leicester and Southampton are cautionary tales for ambitious and forward thinking clubs on the up like Brentford and Brighton, there is a glass ceiling in the PL and unless you get bought by a state like Newcastle the odds are you'll hit that ceiling and eventually slide back down, then it's really more of a case of seeing if you just slide back into mid table or you get relegated all together.
With Leicesters model it can be done that you can break through that glass ceiling, although its harder and longer than simply getting bought out like Newcastle, the problem lies in getting a hit player than performs year in year out. Buy even one or two many flops and your financial model might be under pressure
Not really. Leicester were doing just fine until the pandemic hit and their owners were put in a bad financial situation. The advantage of oil clubs is that demand for oil doesn't die even during a pandemic, so they can keep the cash flowing.
u cant say southampton is bad .... their academy was strong , every year can develop some player in youth to play in the premier league big stage...... Nice thumb up for southampton academy
@@justinwong7730 They are about to get relegated dude.
@@spinyslasher6586 u can't say they bad (maybe leicester was bad) I mean their academy... I know they lack of player can help them in the green pitch. Yet I still believe vardy can bring us back just like 2014...
I saw Leicester play Liverpool at Anfield earlier in the season, December I think, and they were really good, Liverpool are still good at home but had to fight hard to win. Then I watched them play Eveton last week and couldn't believe the decline, Everton are awful but if anything Leicester were even worse. Their defence is terrible in particular and can't keep a clean sheet. Quite scary how quickly they have fallen.
Leicester bought two defenders from a team they beat 0-9, one of whom was sent off after 12mins while the other subbed off at half time. I can't even begin to imagine the mental gymnastics that Leicester's recruitment team performed to justify those transfers.
As a Saints fan, I like to pretend Vestergaard and Bertrand are intentionally sabotaging from the inside, though in reality lower-table Prem team is about their ceiling.
I saw another comment call out the Head of Senior Recruitment Lee Congerton, who I imagine must shoulder a lot of the blame. Seems Congerton and Rogers used to work together as scouts/youth coaches at Chelsea in the early Mourinho days and have stuck fairly close together since.
Also one of the reasons is the death of the chairman, his son took over but isnt a football fan like his dad.
can you please bring back the old voice of Tifo on this channel... He's got such a calming tone of voice to him that makes watching your videos all the more engaging!
not getting UCL football in 2019/20 and 2020/21 was insane, they literally bottled it so hard… regardless, i do think they’ll just barely stay up this season and then it’s up to them to see if they’ll survive next season
Schmeicel not replaced is 80 percent why they are relegated
Fantastic explanation. I've been burned by the "Leicester Model" in Football Manager games without having an event like the pandemic ruining revenues by forgetting about what happens when all the young players' salaries want to go up at the same time
Kudos to the artist who incorporated Leicester Market and the surrounding buildings into the background artwork 👌.
2:41 top marks JJ. I couldn't have done it.
In their most recent game vs Everton I saw very bad passing from Leicester that killed attacks...I mean Chelsea-level passing. That's very bad.
Teams also caught on to what they were doing too. Maguires fee was way too much and caused some hesitancy for everyone else moving forward.
Considering Leicester were a game win away from getting top 4 two seasons in a row and a fa cup very recently
You didn’t even mention Leicester letting one of the best keepers in the Premier League leave and Vardy suddenly becoming too old to score goals.
It’s amazing how this has become the narrative. We tried to keep all of those players, the only one that didn’t refuse to play was Maguire.
Simple Brendan rodgers,
He starts of ok,
Then you have an amazing season
Then you have a decent season but nowhere near the amazing season then you get the 3 5 2 where he plays emre can at CB and plays for 1-0 wins but gets 0-0 draws, that is what’s happened to Leicester
Rodgers is a coach for a side that already has the talent, it was a squad built by Puel and he benefited from that, he's good coach for 2 years and then his messaging starts to fall on deaf ears. He wanted Vest'n' pants and Bertrand who were either injured or sent to the reserves, this combined with poor buys from his mate Congerton led to a bloated squad being paid too much money, most of players he bought were sitting on the bench.
After the Forest hammering in the FA cup Rodgers told the media that the squad needed a refresh and players would be moved on, he would have told certain players that they were no longer wanted at the club, who then still had to play for him. His summer rebuild didn't happen due to financial reasons, partly caused by himself, and all we got in the summer was his moaning and negativity, this then fed into the squad and the club. There was no humility or contrition from Rodgers, no owning up to his mistakes and his failings, it was always someone else's fault.
From the outside it probably looks like Leicester didn't back him, and that will be Rodger's defence, but in reality the club tried to give him the best they could afford and even let him run the club on the field from top to bottom. The U23 will be relegated this season playing Rodger's ball and maybe the senior squad will join them.
I think the biggest mistake of all is that the board gave too much control to one man, and didn't read the runes correctly, fans could see it slowly unravel, but why didn't the board? Did they convince themselves they still had a top class manager and they just had to wait out this blip?
it's all Rodgers. it's amazing to me that people don't see that.
Club spirit. Sometimes money and financial prosperity has a direct link to a club spirit. From the office, training grounds, player, player vibes, fan base. The atmosphere.
I'm from Lesta but my family are West Ham, there aren't many games (if any) I wish we would lose but the last game of the season this Sunday and I hope Lesta beats us and Everton goes down. It's such a shame to see what has happened to them.
A lot went wrong for Leicester City since Rodgers took over. Yes he won Leicester City the FA Cup and both times missed out on Champions League football by a whisker, however since the pandemic happened and their poor recruitment since last season has driven Leicester City from a possible top 4 contenders to relegation fodder. Plus most of their key players are losing their values and underperforming this season. Even if they survive they need a massive rebuild for their squad for the next few years.
Leicester bottling top4 in back 2 back seasons honestly is why they're in this predicament
It's because he wanted full control in transfer policy which with all due respect, he mostly really sucks on it..
Just look at players he brought when he was at Liverpool: borini, joe allen, nuri sahin, cissokho, iago aspas, luis alberto, ings, benteke, clyne, grujic, caulker, rickie lambert, markovic, balotelli, moreno, all considered as flops..
Yes some are nice like coutinho, sturridge, firmino, joe gomez, milner, but you can't deny it's not really his expertise in general, they should not let him do that at Leicester..
Always, great content from Tifo. One of the best channel in RUclips.
Great job!
Vardy's finally hitting the back of the net. A few months earlier might've been helpful!
I think that there's a vicious cycle - if an underdog team succeeds, it doesn't develop, it just sells the best players to established teams
I can't believe that they are still benching Harry Souttar....He should be playing more often.....
Very interesting take. I think the two mentioned, Madison and Tielemans will definitely go in the next window. The club is extremely well run so I am sure they will get through this rough patch.
I'm Australian and I have been so happy that we have an Australian in the prem for the first time in ages, Harry Soutar but now I am so annoyed that the foxes might be getting relegated, so lets all hope that the mighty foxes can clutch up and avoid relegation 🙏
He's scottish
@@user-bx2kd7jt8t he’s Australian and Scottish. Obviously feels more Australian to play for their national team.
One key point missed is that our star striker is sadly getting past it... very hard to replace 20 goals a season. Oh and we lost our captain and keeper, Schmeichal.
As a Leicester fan I do think that some of the fan base have got carried away with the overachievement that has happened over the past few seasons. Let's be honest, Leicester should be happy with any mid-table finish. Winning the League, watching them in the knockout stages of the champions league and winning the FA cup was an absolute golden age.
Ask any team like Villa, Fulham, West Ham, Everton how much they would like a 1st, 5th and 5th place finish, and to think people said they bottled 4th is laughable, get some perspective, this is Leicester not Arsenal or Liverpool.
This team have been overhauled, only Vardy and Amarty are left from the title win and relying on a 36yr old striker to drag you out of a relegation scrap is desperation.
Saying the club went downhill when Kasper left is not the full picture, even the year before the team could not defend a set piece to save their lives. Kasper's distribution was woeful at times and doesn't command the area, plus his insane wages. The replacement Ward was not up to the job.
Tifo is spot on with the obscene wage bill and contracts for players like Bertrand, it is killing the club.
Whilst Brendan brought trophies to the team, the fans did hate the negative substitutions and man management, the whole situation with Cags sums it up, and now he has re-emerged as our best centre back he has been sold on a free! Youri will leave on a free. Madison will be out the door as he is capable of much more. Plus £10m just to sack Rogers.
So you got to the end, well done 😂.
I hope Leicester survive and learn a lesson or two. I would love to see us challenge for Europe again soon but I hope even more that we can just stay relevant in the prem.
Well, I mean, we did bottle top four when we were over ten points clear of fifth with eight games to go and then 2-1 up with fifteen minutes to go needing a win to get fourth
We are watching the youtube algorythm ads, the sponsored ads, and Tifo hires this guy as narrator.
Im suprised Tifo you didn't include how stubborn and arrogant Rodgers was with his tactics and squad selection. Dropping Soyuncu when he's our best centre back just one example.
Anyone else think it's wierd hearing JJ Bull deliver something without any jokes whatsoever?
I think its also have to mention that vardy always become top 5 goalscore since 2016(except 2022 or 2021season i forget)is why liecester city able to compete on high level in epl,the moment vardy have bad season is another reason the downfall of liecester(which to be fair he carry the team since 2016 is insane stats)
The most impressive part of this video is that JJ pronounced the Leicester owner's name correctly. 😂
Its JJ 😂😂😂😂😂😂 i love this
It was a little odd at first just hearing JJ reading a script and not seeing him, lol. I really dig it though!
Omg hearing JJ Bull's voice in a Tifo (not Tifo IRL) vid feels wrong! Like seeing Batman in Avengers or Hulk joining the Justice League 😂 great vid guys
Tifo Football keeps asking and answering questions we all never thought of. What a channel!
the downfall is even more tragic considering how fast it was from almost making the champions league in 2021-22😭
We actually was in the CL as well a few years earlier.
I see a lot of these types of videos, and this isn’t a dig at tifo, but it isn’t about what happened to “x” club but more so the high level of competition in the premier league.
Every season every team is constantly improving, in new and different ways. Sometimes you could be improving at a set pace but because everyone else is doing it at an accelerated pace, it details your improvement and you end up struggling for the season.
No offense, but who are you trying to fool with that Skysports analysis? Football works in cycles, clearly theirs has ended. Each year in every league certain teams are relegated, the reasons stated here are better explanations. The quality of football in all leagues has suffered as a result of the mid season WC, but the PL especially has lost two previous powerhouses in Liverpool and Chelsea. Those teams aren't doing worse because everyone else caught up, nobody can match the investment Chelsea just put in, however their cycle with a previously strong squad has definitely ended (out of prime Kante as an example or VVD).
Their downfall is very similar to Leeds back in 02. Had Leicester qualified for the CL last season their finances would look much better, now on the other hand they might be relegated.
Lol what. Leicester have badly regressed. I'm a fan. Most noticeable regression was in goal from Schmeichel to Ward. Iversen only starting to play at the end of the season may save us but it's stupid how long Rodgers persisted with a keeper costing us so many points. It would be an essay to describe all other areas but just to say your comment is pithy af
Doing a Blackburn. Hopefully we're not condemned for perpetuity to the lower leagues :( Best thing ever having Gary Linekar a fan and our glory years just past
Rogers was a horrible choice for a manager, he decimated Leicester. This season that idiot sidelined Vardy and Suyuncu, causing the latter to leave the club on a free this summer. Dude also wasted money on useless players. He is a good manager for a team like Celtic that is absolutely dominant in a mediocre league. He would do great on PSG
A loss of leadership has also been key. Wes Morgan's retirement, Schmeichel leaving, and Johnny Evans playing 1 game a year have not been good for the team.
You're using the wrong microphone for JJ. He has a nice voice but the quality is boxy and cheap on this video. The ones with joe sound like a proper condenser at the right angle and with proper mixing. JJ deserves the same sound treatment even if he does follow Aberdeen.
A sad ending for bunch of great players that have become merely a shadow of their true potential & a club doomed to fail. Did Rogers leave too late or was his replacement just as bad? 😢💔
JJ on the voice over whaaaaaaattt, I'm in!
I hope Leicester can turn it around and stay up.
Don’t forget that they missed out on Champions League on the last day of the season - TWICE
Both times to Manchester United and both times after questionable referee decisions in the last ten games for each club.
I am a huge fan of the Leicester City model. However, their model was not truly sustainable and came apart by going above logical wages-to-revenue percent - as with most North American sports teams, a realistic value would be around 50%. Most Premier League and Championship teams would be more sustainable if they kept their wages around that marker.
It is very important to the future of the club to remain in the EPL. The Thai owner has already resumed investment into the team. They need to hang on to reap the benefit. Better squad will come next season. They just cannot go down now.
Q. What happened? A. Brendan Rodgers.
Here after they got relegated yesterday, what an insane end to the fairy tale.
I really think there is something to having a method or ethos that the whole club follows. When they lose their nerve after a poor run and break their own system they often see an improvement due to regression to the mean, only to have a long term failure due to straying from the path
I would pay money to watch the recording of 2:40. The speed up cracked me up
I can’t lie all of this happened when kasper left
Selling Harry Maguire was the greatest deal Leicester City ever did
The scout and recruitment is bad in these years didnt help the after covid effect for sure. Hope they can stay🙏
and we’re back
Its amazing to see this information. Great for sharing this one..
I'm an American who only started watching the EPL in 2019 ish, so I had the privilege of picking which team to root for. I chose Leicester city because I loved how they were a smaller (comparatively) club that still competed with the big boys at the top. Sad to see where it is now, though as long as they're in the EPL they're my team!
Beautiful Aberdonin accent, this is much more pleasing on the ear
You should do a video on Luton Town!
unbelievable what’s happened to the club in the last 24 months.
Seeing them relegated would feel like reading the cruelest, most surreal ending
The sales of Drinkwater and Maguire are amongst the best of all time 😂
If you conveniently ignore that they were both class while at leicester, sure.
Leicester’s run was always on a knife-edge, winning the FA Cup and getting to enjoy deep runs Europe was just glossing over the fact that this eventual decline was coming.
Would relegation actually be that bad? They have a solid foundation to build on, and with parachute payments and the undoubtedly significant chunk of cash they would get from selling Tielemans and Maddison, they could easily make a quick bounce-back, a la Newcastle. Furthermore, not having the pressure of competing against free-spending mid-table teams such as Villa, Wolves or West Ham would give them some breathing space, allowing them to fall back on their original recruitment model.
The relegation will cost them 100 million pounds from TV revenue, which is just the tip of the iceberg if they are using the current sales model since relegation also means players will want to force their way out for cheap. I think their decline truly started from not finding a good Kasper Schmeichel replacement, that same philosophy of selling first before buying bring into their downfall.
@@Hiah.l I think if we had Iverson start over Ward, we might've been in a better shape. But you are spot on about Kasper.
IIRC Youri is a free agent after this season? Maddison could get some decent value but if they're relegated his transfer value would be slashed
I hope your not a business man! 😂 Never a good thing!!
and now they’ve been relegated. Yeah I don’t think they will be returning to the prem for a while unfortunately.
Could you do a video on Swindon towns 93/94 premier league season
nobody wanted to watch it
There channel never disappoint with their content loved it already
They let Kasper go without a replacement is what happened to Leicester
Iversen could have replaced him, in fact if Iversen started the season as No 1 and not Ward they might not be in this position now
Iversen is quality, if we dropped ward from the start we wouldn’t be in a relegation scrap
Ranieri is probably in top 10 coaches of all time, beside names like Johan Cruyff and Brian Clough. Yeah he never won UCL, but Valencia was the strongest team he ever managed and won UEFA Supercup with them. He won promotions with Monaco, Fiorentina and Cagliari twice and even won some cups with those teams. He was only one with balls to take Juventus one year after Calciopoli scandal and Mourinho's Chelsea was built on pillars that Ranieri set up. He is a guy you give sunday league team and in 3 years they advance group stage in Europa league.
And they got relegated
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What happened to Chelsea?😢
Honestly if Leicester does end up getting relegated someone else should sign Jamie Vardy. It's like letting Harry Kane continue to play in championship with all the reports of other teams interested in him.
It's not the same as Kane. Vardy has reached an age where he cannot depend on his physical attributes alone that were key to his playing style. He won't get much joy even if he continues playing for another newly promoted club or bottom half team. Better to stay as he could still do a job in the Championship and get them back up.
No, I think Vardy Will pull a Del Piero. When Juve got relegated to serie B he stays with the club eventhough many clubs offered him
It is actually surprising that vardy even at this age is still fast and good
Vardy won’t leave Leicester till retirement
Love this narrator
Spending beyond their means on wages, budgetting as if they were a UCL club despite always bottling top 4. Inability to replace aging stars, inability to keep hold of their 15/16 stars.
I knew things were a problem from the first game. Leicester at home gave away a 2 goal lead and drew with Brentford and Brendan afterwards said he thought they played well. No, just no. You should not be happy giving two goals away at home, it was a lost 2 points that would have badly been used right now. Brendan should not have left Casper go and should have played Vardy far more. At least they would have been safe.
As a United fan, always had a soft spot for Leicester. Sad where they have fallen
I'd like more depth analysis on this topic. What i see Leicester did was following in Spurs' model in trying to establish themselves as 'Big' PL club. We were having the same model as LCFC by buying low and selling high like in Bale, Modric, Walker's case and we changed it to buy established players starting from 2019 but we're far from the same predicament.
I know COVID-19 was a death knell to every travel business, but it's not like Lewis/Daniel Levy ever invest a lot to the club and last i checked LCFC have like 300-ish mil revenue in 2020 or 2021 (the same amount where we sorta started to be recognized as 'top club'). I saw in some article that Rodgers' appointment and their players' lucrative contract probably was some kind of 'bet' to get UCL competition and their money, but they ended up not getting the spot and that derailed their 'development plan'.
great description
I think out of the teams down there they probs have what it takes to just about survive
Damn, 2016 is 8 years ago.
They are in dire need of a refresh.. they shouldve sold tielemans maddison and ndidi when their value was high to cut their losses..but now theyre out on a free or their value has gone down by half..
I can save you six minutes: Leicester is a small club. All of their stars were poached after Vardy re-signed. They were never going to become a big club. They were never going to compete for a title again. What happened is they went back to normal after one magical, unbelievable season. It was always going to go this way.
Is the narrator Scottish? As a non-native, i find his speaking so wholesome!
The scary thing is how easy it is to fall and keep falling in English football...