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An open letter to the Leicester City heirachy: where did it all go so wrong?

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Dear Top,

No one can question you or your fathers commitment to Leicester City FC since you bought the team.

You have pumped millions of pounds into rebuilding the club from the foundations and with your commitment to the things like the training facilities you show that you have the future of the club at heart. You turn for for as many games as you can and are not afraid to make decisions.

 One of your biggest decisions was to do everything you could to get this club into the Premier League as quick as you could. But because of other decisions you have since made this may not happen as quickly as you yourself wanted. Are you attempting to get this club to run before it can walk? A rebuilding job that was started under Milan Mandaric was passed onto yourself but unlike another cash rich club in QPR who took their time to get things right you seemed to go at this like a bull in a China shop.

 Your first decision was to remove Paulo Sousa from his position as LCFC manager a decision which, at the time, seemed the right thing to do, but we will never know had he stayed if he would have turned things around. But the masterstroke in bringing in a manager of Sven Goran Eriksson’s stature removed any questions we may have had re the early sacking of Sousa.

 You could question Sven’s potential to manage at the lower level’s of the game and the fact that he would turn up at the opening of an envelope if he was paid enough, to get an ex England Manager into our club meant you were walking on water as far as the fans were concerned.

 So where has it gone wrong? The sacking of Sven had divided our club like no other decision I can remember in my 40+ years of following the club. It was, most people seem to agree, a decision made too early in the season and one that was seemed to be made in haste rather than serious judgement by yourself and the board.

 To replace a manager you have to be seen to do so with someone bigger and better or a manager that is viewed as up and coming.

Neither has been the case. The up and coming berth which would have been filled by Lee Clarke from Huddersfield never materialised and how do you get someone bigger than Sven? It appeared to me that you sacked Sven with no idea of a replacement. Would you do that in any of your other business’s?

Rumours went round for what seemed like ages that Martin O’Neill was to return by so called big names such as Mark Hughes & Carlo Ancelotti again fell by the wayside and we went ‘back to the future’ with the appointment of Nigel Pearson. A decision that delayed the progress of the club whist you and your counterpart at Hull wrangled over compensation.

It never ceases to amaze me that clubs like ours are willing to pay over £5m for a what has turned out to be an average Championship player but don’t want to pay out quickly to get the new manager in.

 All these decision’s lead to your picture being booed at the Leeds game when it was flashed up on the big screen.

 Since he has arrived Pearson has, in most peoples eyes, NOT improved our lot in life at all. In fact if anything we have gone backwards now being in a worse position than when you sacked Sven.

 Nigel blames Sven and the players he was left with. I’m sorry but that is a lame excuse. If he has the same players why is he doing worse? The standard of the individual players Nigel has at his disposal is of a far greater standard than when he left, but he seems unable to take advantage of this. He lets Gelson Fernandes end his loan spell early only for us to see him go to a team 3rd in Seri A. Good enough for them and not for us?

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