Simon Jordan is obviously a bright bloke: a tech millionaire who owned a (borderline) successful top-flight club. Though doing so almost broke the man. Yet that surely harrowing experience in the boardroom trenches provides him with almost unprecedented knowledge on how Leicester City is currently poorly run. Not to mention what must change exactly. While Jordan's delivery is frequently wrapped in a cloak of intellectual arrogance (this outlet empathises there!), his diagnosis of the systemic rot at King Power Stadium is increasingly accurate as well as difficult to ignore.
Simon Jordan on Leicester City FC
​Admittedly, Jordan's views can be corrosive, insensitive and often inaccurate. He has slammed previous City appointments with a venomous haste; often before those prospects had a chance to prove themselves or address perceived past transgressions.
Furthermore, Jordan's claim that Leicester fans should be eternally grateful for the hierarchy's previous success along with largesse is sentimentally cloying. For a business, this stance is fundamentally disingenuous: in the cold light of commerce, past glory does not grant a perpetual license for persistent finance incompetence.
Most abruptly, the 58-year-old recently called for the Foxes to be docked further points upon the discovery of their appeal. An inflammatory demand made without apparently knowing the granular particulars of the legal challenge.
Right this time
​Nevertheless, despite his penchant for the theatrical, Jordan is bang-on about the King Power organisation's so-called 'restructuring'. The recent decision to reshuffle the deck by elevating internal figures (most notably transforming failed finance director Kevin Davies into the chief executive) is a move of staggering tone-deafness.
"Ultimately it’s interesting that you elevate the finance director that’s been responsible for these PSR breaches, to some extent, because it’d be his budgeting, his cost controls and his direction of input that’s allowed people [to spend]. If you’re doing it to placate the fans, then you’re not going to achieve it because the same people are in the situ, just having different roles."
To promote the very architects of budgeting and cost-control failures that invited PSR breaches is not a strategy - it is a reward for failure. It suggests a club retreating into a defensive crouch. The unqualified generally prioritise loyalty over accountability.
Jordan may well be a divisive figure. But his insistence that LCFC's administrative leadership requires an axe rather than a promotion is a hard truth that the East Midlands club can no longer afford to ignore.