Having not really posted on here before and mainly read the forum for a long time I have had no luck attaching the link but there is an interesting article on BBC sport from the owner stating his ambition to finish 5th in the prem inside 3 years! Hard task but nice to see them looking up
£180M over 3 years sounds like finacial suicide to me with FFP Lets not try and run before we can walk. But lets no fault the ambition Afterall Hull wasnt a million miles off relegation and there in europe next season
I'd agree with all that proud. 5th is unrealistic considering one of the likes of Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea won't always be able to get in the top 4 with there being '5 top sides' but getting into Europe via cup success is more than possible. If we can get to the last 8 (Blackburn, Chelsea and Man City) as a championship side, surely we can go further now we are premier league. Hull are an example to follow in that respect
What you have to keep in mind is that footballing dynamics do not remain constant ... in my lifetime of watching football - Leeds were the dominant force in English football for a number of years Man United were relegated Man City were in the third tier Chelsea were a yo-yo club, bouncing between the top 2 divisions, lucky to get 20,000 at the Bridge Forest, Aston Villa and Celtic have won the European cup Wimbledon and Wigan came from non-league to the top tier and won the FA cup to boot Greece won the European Championships England won the World cup ... all I'm saying is that nothing is guaranteed, hierarchies do not always remain static ... and, at the same time, some things that at the time seem impossible dreams ... sometimes come to fruition ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27387616 It does state we'll be doing it 'one step at a time'. I do get the impression, rightly or wrongly they are quite grounded and after the SGE episode learnt a lot. They have backed NP and a more conservative/sensible approach. I'd rather we didn't do anything gung ho & get in a mess but they clearly have ambition and are willing to invest, so if we can do it sensibly, bring it on. Other clubs have done it, why can't we.
Can I point out that the BBC have twisted the words of our great Owner? Vichai said that he wanted us to be steady in the Premier League before moving on. He said "We should be able to stay there for at least two or three years and then my next goal will be taking the team to the top five or six in the Premier League". Here is the original interview http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/sports/409485/leicester-city-desperate-to-capitalise
Whilst we didn't finish the best we were hardly in any bother all season and for most of it was pretty clear of the bottom three
Whilst we didn't finish the best we were hardly in any bother all season and for most of it was pretty clear of the bottom three
This never all season were you looking in trouble and had a cup run to get into Europe. This is the example I think we can follow
Whilst you never even flirted with relegation you still only finish 4 points clear. Had the season ran on a little longer you would have been in trouble
Will cost more than £180m to challenge for the top 5 in 3 years, i'd rather we took our time with it, if we are Everton in 5 years, i'd be very happy. I appreciate his ambition, but we need to finish 17th or above to have a successful season next year.
Hello all, Congrats on promotion, Hope you don't spend like you're planning, always liked your club and would hate to see a financial fall from grace for you. Hope we've got an ally in you on this board next year, those Hull fans are just dreadful and wum everywhere.
As a mod for the Leicester board I was aware that yours and theirs had exchanged a few hand-bag swings ...I'm sure we'll have tons of banter with them, just as we did the season before this!!! ..
You got 37 points. Teams have gone down on 44 before. A lot like last season when you got automatic after losing 15 games (more defeats and less points than all of the top four this season), you are very lucky the league wasn't tougher AND you avoided tough competition in the FA Cup AND you're qualified for European on the back of another team's success! I can't fault your ability to be in the right place at the right time, but the sad thing about luck is that it doesn't last.
Things haven't changed at the top that much since the introduction of the Prem 20 years ago though but there have been some changes of course. As you say, Man C were in the third tier and are now the best team in the land and, hopefully, the era off Man U has now passed (but I doubt it). I'd be happy for us to take on Aston Villa's old role of finishing 4th/5th/6th every year, flirting with European qualification, while hopefully Villa themselves take that long deserved drop in the Championship.
Having just seen said headline may I say your owner is either very ambitious. Or delusional. Should it be the latter I fear for Nigel's future past Christmas.
Who gives a **** what teams have gone down with the only stat that matters is we are in the top division next season , and as for your stats about the championship a lot of people would argue that the league was far more evenly matched that season again the only stat that mattered was we finished second , as for the cup run you can only beat what's in front of you and away trips to boro and Brighton were hardly easy ! We don't need luck we have the base of a very good premier league side with a few quality additions we could be in for another very good season and we could win the cup yet and qualify off our own back !
You have needed luck! That's the whole point. Red the last post again. How may sides qualify for Europe AND get to the FA Cup final by beating no-one more testing than Sunderland (sorry, Prem sides beating Championship sides, one of which finished midtable, is no achievement!)? How many sides have survived on 37 points? How many sides have got automatically promoted to the Prem after losing 15 games? I take your point about last season being competitive, but you were lucky in the sense that there were no really good sides last year - you were second best of a bad bunch. There's been four good sides this year. And yeah you're right, to Hull fans, none of this matters. But luck has no doubt played a part - and luck doesn't last. I hope you don't mind if I don't wish you good luck next season. You've had enough.
