Speculation is currently rife about Leicester City Football Club. The (generally negative) chatter about the Foxes is varied and covers myriad issues. First of all, finances are a complete mess, or even restricted, at King Power Stadium. There is word that a hidden agreement exists between the English Football League powers-that-be and the LCFC organisation with regard to spending, along with what the East Midlands outfit can actually do. Whether that is true or not remains to be seen; Hull City and Sheffield Wednesday (embargo) remain the only two cited with restrictions on the Championship website.
So, as you can tell, before you even get into recruitment, managerial, playing personal and hierarchical problems - the LE2 team are in a complete mess! Yet the right signings have rarely been made in recent years. The appropriate managers have definitely not been appointed. The squad is seemingly vastly overhyped: judging by their place in the tier two table. Not to mention some of the condemnable performances during the current campaign.
Meanwhile trust in chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha (Khun Top) is at an all-time low. The majority of the support have basically wanted director of football Jon Rudkin to depart the club for years. Not good. There is even a rumour doing the rounds in the Leicester sphere that King Power cannot even sack under pressure head coach Marti Cifuentes. A lack of funding for severance packages and another appointment are frequently cited. Wow. That doesn't mean that the former Queens Park Rangers man is necessarily wanted on Filbert Way.
BBC Sport suggest Marti Cifuentes is clinging onto his Leicester City position following unhelpful and last-ditch West Bromwich Albion victory
Here is another bit of information, or supposition, from a notable outlet. BBC Sport note that the disjointed, late win versus the Baggies may not be enough to save the Catalonian in charge:
"While there were more of the now-familiar jeers aimed at Foxes players and under-fire boss Cifuentes during the game, it was the silence of the fans who chose to stay away for Leicester's first home game of 2026 which sent the clearest message of the growing dissatisfaction at how the club is being run.BBC Sport
The absence of open dialogue with the club's hierarchy after a year that produced just 13 wins from 47 matches across all competitions, and lack of reinvention after the Foxes suffered their second Premier League relegation in three years to slip into the bottom half of the Championship, are among a catalogue of supporters' gripes.
All that is only complicated further by the club's protracted legal battle over alleged profit and sustainability rule breaches the Premier League charged them with almost eight months ago.
Inconsistent results this season, and the latest run of just one win from four before the visit of the Baggies, had Cifuentes clinging to his job."