The basic of football !

Last updated : 21 August 2002 By
Leicester say that almost 80 % of their cost is paying wages to the players. Of course that is a big problem. But if you look at the administration at the club, the organisation and all the people that run other areas of the club, there is a lot of people. One thing must be crystal clear, Leicester City FC is a football club, nothing else. The other parts of the club should be run on a basis that makes it all profitable, if not it should be shut down. They run a restaurant, a store, and they have their own media and website information centre. The players are the backbound of the club, without them they are nothing. And now they sell of their "gold" just to save this "Titanic Ship" for another month or two. I hope that all Leicester City fans see that if you cannot run a club from day to day with a sale of £ 12.6 million in three months and cannot give the manager even money to pay so called "non-contract" players, then this is just going one way and that is downhill. Queens Park Rangers, Barnsley, Bradford, Coventry and Watford has all been forced to do the same and clubs like Bristol City, Luton, Burnley, Huddersfield and Oxford never came back after a run in the basement of English football. The club needs a total restructure and other parts of the club must suffer heavilly to save Micky Adams and his team. Of course a lot of players has been given contracts they shouldn't have, but then they must sit down with the players and try to change this deals so that the club can survive. But we beleive that a lot of people in the club has a "good life" and want to keep it that way, then it is no use to go to the players and try to say to them that they should take a paycut, if executives at the club don't want to step down and it's easier to fool supporters and their own manager with "bubbles of beliefe" that you must sell of the whole squad to keep floating. We believe that those in charge even could dump Micky Adams if it is needed. Players and football managers are just small men in this game and in the end the power will still be where it has always been. Why hasn't Martin George made a single comment on the club website since he became chairman. They of course hope that Micky Adams can make miracles with a group of 19 years old players. I am sitting in Norway and bother about this matters which I shouldn't. But I have a lot of friends in England and Leicester that suffers a lot at the moment as faithfull Leicester fans. This is of course just predictions but I cannot believe that Leicester would be able to solve these problems any better than Nottingham Forest, Bradford, Barnsley, Swindon and other clubs in the same position. The only club that has taken players on without paying them is Leicester City FC. So who is in the worst position ! I just hope that Leicester don't have to suffer for another decade before they are back in the top flight. A team that collapse like Leicester did against Ipswich ( no excuses ) will not be a proper promotion candidate. I of course hope that Leicester can find out what the basics are and that Micky Adams will be allowed to act like a manager and not a clown in the future. Micky is a great carachter and a fantastic manager, why should he stay at Leicester. There will be a lot of manager jobs up for grabs in the near future and then it might be another "Harry Houdini" that will step in as a "miracle worker" at Leicester. Who would like to take this job if the "rot" continues. Please come forward Mr. George and give supporters a view of what is going on, this cannot continue. The last financial report also told us that the club is ran like a "castle in the sky" and that the club soon must get back to the basic of football, and that is 11 players ( good players ) a manager and then you need 6 or 7 extra players. You can of course run an academy and have a staff of information people around, but they must never be more important than the first team, then the whole idea of running a football club has come to an end. It is of course a very difficult situation but to ruin your first team to try to save the rest of the club is totally totally wrong, if you don't want to slip down into the basement of English football. Then you loose patient fans, that only want to see a good team out on the pitch every Saturday. They don't care if you have a promising young squad of players or if you have Steve Bould or David Seaman, the most important is that the team win games and if you want to do that you cannot wait a year or two on so called promising youngsters in the youth team.