Fosse Friday 058 - 20 June 2025: All the latest news from Knig Pewor Stdiaum
This week's update is yelling into the void and letting the daft dominate
The good
We may not be able to sort ourselves out with a manager but we can sort Cardiff out.
Farewell Brian Barry-Murphy, we hardly knew ye. But thanks for raking in a few thousand pounds in compensation. We don’t know how we’ll cope without a coach capable of luring the kind of performances we saw last season.
Also some impressive capitalisation work here from “the Football Club”.
Olivia Clark and Hannah Cain are in the Welsh squad for the Women’s Euros.
Clark climbed a mountain with the manager for the squad announcement, which may reflect the task for Wales - their group also contains the Netherlands, France and England.
Jutta Rantala made the Finland squad despite missing the vast majority of the season with a serious injury, so fingers crossed she can get through the tournament safely and make a well-deserved impact.
England’s send off game for the Women’s Euros is down the old KP. Which is good, and will help to inspire the next generation of Lionesses from Leicestershire.
To mark the occasion, Susan Whelan (No, yeah, she’s still here. What? She’s the chief executive. No, I know. You would expect that, wouldn’t you? At least some kind of message like last time, about how we’re absolutely f***ed for years to come. But yeah, still here, just hasn’t said anything about the whole relegation thing this time) has surfaced from deep hibernation to offer a boiler plate quote.
The bad
The ongoing radio silence on anything tangible from the club.
Ok, it’s not been quite that long but it feels like a looong time since the season finally ended and there’s still no news on the manager.
But we’re heading inexorably towards the endgame.
Fixtures come out on Tuesday 24th June.
Players who didn’t have international duty for their countries are back in training by the end of the month.
The club are, by all accounts, waiting until the new PSR window opens on 1st July to give RVN the heave-ho and bring in Sean Dyche/Chris Wilder/Michael Carrick/Danny Rohl/Preki.
Meanwhile over on social media, the club are busily saying happy birthday to everyone who has ever been connected with Leicester City and we note, with deliciousness…
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s birthday is 1st July.
The daft
It’s 20th June and the online store is still down in the US with allegedly no updates and no help offered to those contacting the club.
You may have noticed this week’s Fosse Friday has one or two typos in the title. You’d be forgiven for thinking our fingers had melted in the heat but actually it’s a sly reference to the slightly wonky journalistic standards we’re spotting at good ship LCFC of late.
For example…
Pre Season Friendly / King Power Stadium
Please Note: This fixture is taking please at Seagrave?
Has everybody given up?
And if you fancy a bit of time travel, this was published on Wednesday.
King Power’s attempts to exploit legal loopholes extends beyond LCFC: They’re trying to wiggle out of their contracts with Thailand airports by invoking a force majeure clause.
Basically, they’re losing a bunch of money and they’re trying to stop the bleeding.
AFP reported on this news, but sadly - in news that will shock absolutely nobody…
Hot goss
There isn’t much and it isn’t really hot. But err, Sam Greenwood is on our radar apparently.
Sevilla apparently want Bouba Soumare. We can all chip in 50p for the Ryanair plane ticket to speed that one up.
Depending on how credible you like your sources, allegedly we’re getting another pink away kit and then a third kit inspired by the 1994/95 kit. Which the club are already selling a retro version of that doesn’t have the stupid crypto logo. So maybe don’t get too attached to this rumour.
Thing we learned
This week there’s been a bit of a reshuffle within King Power themselves. Or as we’re crowning it - Top has been successioned by his mum. Cue the TV theme tune and channel your inner Roman Roy.
Nitinai Sirismatthakarn is the new CEO, while Top is now Group Executive Chairman. What does this mean for the club? Probably not much at this stage. Maybe Top has more time to enjoy some polo or ask the others if there’s any decisions coming soon…
The news also meant we got this gem from the Leicester Mercury in case you were wondering what the general mood around fans and media was:
One last thing…
We received an email shortly after last week’s email went out from highlighting another crack in the already fragile operations that seem to be the club’s attempt to make money, John O’Brien told us:
3000 hospitality customers including many who buy season tickets have heard nothing about products or availability for next season despite the countdown [Ed’s note - fixtures next week lads!].
The club response to multiple customer requests on this topic is ‘we don’t know’, or ‘we don’t when’.
Now there was a delay due to changing the catering contract that took forever but this has now been agreed and there’s still now news. This also means that fans in those areas cannot purchase Fiorentina tickets until they go to general sale and may struggle.
I know corporate fans who are unhappy with the wait and have moved to Derby and Coventry.
3000 spaces at up to £4,000 pounds a space is upwards of £12m revenue and the staff cannot get it moving.
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Thanks - that's as enthusiastic as I can get.