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Greedy King Power to accept £1m bid for promising Leicester Fox

Leicester City Pre-Season Training
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The more well-informed Leicester City fans have almost entirely turned on owner Aiyawatt (Top) Srivaddhanaprabha and chief football officer Jon Rudkin, furious at how the club is being run. The King Power International Group, owned by Top, has put LCFC up for sale - a move many hope will finally save the once-feared Foxes from further harm.

Under this regime, nearly every major decision has backfired, results have collapsed, along with finances, and bright young talents are being sold off rather than developed. The hierarchy have overseen a slide down the table, poor recruitment, as well as a clear lack of long-term vision, leaving most supporters convinced they have got almost everything wrong.

Lorenz Hutchinson to Lazio from Leicester City?

One of the most questionable, even upsetting, elements of this either naive or despicable hierarchy threatens to destroy whatever little respect remains from the Blue Army. Accepting Lazio's cheeky £1 million bid for 18-year-old Academy Player of the Season Lorenz Hutchinson (a prolific youth striker with huge potential) is exactly the kind of call that could leave fans seething.

Selling every promising rising star is clearly counterproductive, weakening the squad and eroding future value when the club needs strength most. On the whole, fairly mediocre signings and existing players such as Bobby De Cordova-Reid are playing instead of great prospects.

If the owner is preparing to leave, this looks like a deliberate attempt to bleed the club dry. An unacceptable manoeuvre which is arguably little more than legal asset‑stripping before walking away.

Hutchinson scored 15 goals in 15 LCFC Under-18 games and already has England U19 caps, making him exactly the kind of prospect Leicester may have offered a chace to. Accepting a modest fee for such talent while the side struggles for goals near the foot of League One feels like another extraction of value before an inevitable sale - it's a decision that will not be forgotten in LE2.

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