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I’ve been thinking about this for a time now and wonder where Top is in this. For context the 5 stages are normally to do with death but obviously can be anything in theory.
For the record the five stages are Denial Anger Bargaining Depression and Acceptance. Anyone on here who has lost someone close to them will probably understand this more.
Without getting too serious about this, I do wonder where Top is now, more than 6 years on from Vichai’s death.
1. We have to assume that they’d been conversations between the two of them in the event of a sudden death to Vichai. My guess is if Vichai would have lived, he’d have stayed in charge of KP until he was 70, which is 2028. Top will be 43 in 2028. Ironically Top is the youngest of the 4 children yet has always been the one it seems to take over from Vichai. The others are either incapable or just don’t want it. Obviously this is all the unknown, but looking at how Buddhism works, it has to be assumed that Vichai put in place that in the event of his sudden death, that everything stays the same. Don’t make any rash decisions and most importantly keep those who’ve been loyal to KP close to you. Loyalty is everything.
2. Back to the 5 stages, I reckon Top is bobbing between bargaining & depression probably. ( stages 3/4). I’m no psychologist but one of the bargaining aspects is trying to make deals with yourself or a higher power ( Buddhism). On the depression front, one of the points is that you feel helpless and isolated. Remember he was always the child who was going to take over KP, not his two older sisters or the brother. Suddenly without warning, he was thrust into the spotlight, on his own, with the whole of KP looking at him now for leadership. LCFC too. All on his shoulders. Yes he got enormous sympathy but that only goes so far for so long.
3. On the football front just one year after Vichai’s tragic death all was going brilliantly. He’d got rid of Puel who was taking us nowhere and replaced him with someone who really could take us forward. The timing of TCR’s appointment was perfect. He was told in February that you come to us now or not at all. Poor narcissistic TCR wanted to win the treble treble but his ego told him to go and sod the wrath of the Green Army. By the start of the 18/19 season all was ready. By early December we were top of the PL, had won 8 top flight matches in a row ( a record) including a record 9-0 away win and everything was as good as it could be. But as anyone knows from history, you are at your weakest at your strongest time. You suddenly go from being very confident to getting a bit cocky, you make rash decisions because you’re on top of the world and all around you are backslapping each other of what’s been achieved. . A great example is Hitler. As our resident historian Borebage will tell us, Hitler had the UK by the bollocks in early September 1940 but got personal and suddenly started the blitz on London because we’d bombed Berlin in late August. It took the pressure off the Kent airfields and suddenly operation Sealion was abandoned. Back to Top. Loads of the usual suspects were sniffing around TCR so Tops favoured football lieutenant gave him a crazy five year contract @£10m/year! Little Leicester City. By 2020 poor Top was trying to align KP’s businesses in Thailand during the worst pandemic in a century on top of running a football club. But the club were doing ok right? A league cup SF too. Well yes and no. Sadly we came 5th in a 4 horse PL race but don’t worry as by the following season we were doing equally well. More backslapping no doubt as we finally opened Vichai’s dream. A £100m training centre that would push little Leicester City into potentially a big 6 club. A training centre in fact far better than any other PL club. We’d really hit the big time. Another (sadly) 5th place in a 4 horse race in 2021, which on paper looked bad but hold on. This is Little Leicester! ( LL). But more importantly we finally won the bloody FA Cup! So another stellar year everyone’s saying. We’d bought in a load of players because of Europe and were paying them top dollar but that’s what the big teams do don’t they. And we’re now a big team surely. But behind the scenes the wheels are already loosening. Despite getting to the Europa Conference SF’s, the season had been bitty. Easily knocked out of the Europa League in a piss easy group, we’d basically made the CL SF on one 2nd half performance in Eindhoven. Smashed at F**^% in the Cup. But despite playing a record 58 games we still managed 8th. Not bad surely. Top’s happy as it was another good season. Or was it? TCR wasn’t happy
4. And now the crunch. You only find out who your friends really are when there’s a problem. You only find out who the really good managers of any organisation are when things go wrong. It’s not the problem but more importantly how you react. 2022/3 started badly. Very badly. That 2-2! Then 6 straight losses and not just losing but getting smashed ( that 5-2 at Brighton!). It’s obvious TCR’s time is up. Cmon Top. You’re the boss now. Sack him. But it takes him months. Top, you sacked Puel who remember guided the club and players brilliantly during those first dark weeks after Vichai died. This is an expensive business. No time for sentiment. Yes TCR had done well for us. In fact at times wonderfully well. But remember your dad sacked dear old, the most charming, the one the whole world loved, Claudio, just 9 months after the biggest sporting miracle of all time. So now Top. Now. But we waited and.we waited and we waited. Was Top still bobbing between Bargaining and Depression 4 years after Vichai’s death, meaning he’s trying to make deals with himself, feels lonely not only in his own family but in KP and then LCFC. Has he lost perspective of the whole business ( one of the Depression examples). Is it all too much? All he wants is his dad back, someone he can 100% trust and knew what to do. Why why why did he get into that bloody helicopter that night. Poor Top is literally frozen in time but he constantly remembers those chats he had with his dear dad. If the unthinkable ever happens whatever you do, DONT change anything and more importantly stick to those who are loyal to KP. They will guide you. And so I give you ladies & gentlemen one Susan Whelan and on the football side Jon Rudkin, someone who is the football equivalent of Trump. A con man. For context a few months ago on here, I made a tongue in cheek comment that surely Rudkin has something on Top to stay in his job. Soho quite rightly advised me to retract the comment as it could potentially be libellous. I don’t think now Rudkin does have anything on Top. Top just sees him as 100% loyal to KP.
5. So to conclude this, here we are more than 6 years after his death. Watching Top on Saturday at the match, there he was sitting next to his trusted lieutenant. His dad’s trusted friend. A man who has put the club into total financial jeopardy by giving long expensive PL contracts to players who are mid championship at best. Who has occasionally pulled the odd rabbit out of the hat ( Maresca) but generally screws up and is getting worse and worse. He chooses a manager with zip experience and players who are generally crap. ( Remember F*+^% defence including the goalie cost £50m). So Top it’s time to move onto the last stage of grief I’d suggest. Acceptance. Acknowledge what’s happened and move forward. If you can’t do that, then perhaps it’s time to sell up. Yes LCFC was your dad’s baby but you’re in charge now. It’s now your baby and you can’t keep throwing millions at it like a drunk gambler in Las Vegas chasing their losses. Because if you don’t act decisively soon this will just get worse and worse. I wish him well
Sorry I’ve ranted on a bit there but there’s obviously something not right. This is just my personal take on it.
For the record the five stages are Denial Anger Bargaining Depression and Acceptance. Anyone on here who has lost someone close to them will probably understand this more.
Without getting too serious about this, I do wonder where Top is now, more than 6 years on from Vichai’s death.
1. We have to assume that they’d been conversations between the two of them in the event of a sudden death to Vichai. My guess is if Vichai would have lived, he’d have stayed in charge of KP until he was 70, which is 2028. Top will be 43 in 2028. Ironically Top is the youngest of the 4 children yet has always been the one it seems to take over from Vichai. The others are either incapable or just don’t want it. Obviously this is all the unknown, but looking at how Buddhism works, it has to be assumed that Vichai put in place that in the event of his sudden death, that everything stays the same. Don’t make any rash decisions and most importantly keep those who’ve been loyal to KP close to you. Loyalty is everything.
2. Back to the 5 stages, I reckon Top is bobbing between bargaining & depression probably. ( stages 3/4). I’m no psychologist but one of the bargaining aspects is trying to make deals with yourself or a higher power ( Buddhism). On the depression front, one of the points is that you feel helpless and isolated. Remember he was always the child who was going to take over KP, not his two older sisters or the brother. Suddenly without warning, he was thrust into the spotlight, on his own, with the whole of KP looking at him now for leadership. LCFC too. All on his shoulders. Yes he got enormous sympathy but that only goes so far for so long.
3. On the football front just one year after Vichai’s tragic death all was going brilliantly. He’d got rid of Puel who was taking us nowhere and replaced him with someone who really could take us forward. The timing of TCR’s appointment was perfect. He was told in February that you come to us now or not at all. Poor narcissistic TCR wanted to win the treble treble but his ego told him to go and sod the wrath of the Green Army. By the start of the 18/19 season all was ready. By early December we were top of the PL, had won 8 top flight matches in a row ( a record) including a record 9-0 away win and everything was as good as it could be. But as anyone knows from history, you are at your weakest at your strongest time. You suddenly go from being very confident to getting a bit cocky, you make rash decisions because you’re on top of the world and all around you are backslapping each other of what’s been achieved. . A great example is Hitler. As our resident historian Borebage will tell us, Hitler had the UK by the bollocks in early September 1940 but got personal and suddenly started the blitz on London because we’d bombed Berlin in late August. It took the pressure off the Kent airfields and suddenly operation Sealion was abandoned. Back to Top. Loads of the usual suspects were sniffing around TCR so Tops favoured football lieutenant gave him a crazy five year contract @£10m/year! Little Leicester City. By 2020 poor Top was trying to align KP’s businesses in Thailand during the worst pandemic in a century on top of running a football club. But the club were doing ok right? A league cup SF too. Well yes and no. Sadly we came 5th in a 4 horse PL race but don’t worry as by the following season we were doing equally well. More backslapping no doubt as we finally opened Vichai’s dream. A £100m training centre that would push little Leicester City into potentially a big 6 club. A training centre in fact far better than any other PL club. We’d really hit the big time. Another (sadly) 5th place in a 4 horse race in 2021, which on paper looked bad but hold on. This is Little Leicester! ( LL). But more importantly we finally won the bloody FA Cup! So another stellar year everyone’s saying. We’d bought in a load of players because of Europe and were paying them top dollar but that’s what the big teams do don’t they. And we’re now a big team surely. But behind the scenes the wheels are already loosening. Despite getting to the Europa Conference SF’s, the season had been bitty. Easily knocked out of the Europa League in a piss easy group, we’d basically made the CL SF on one 2nd half performance in Eindhoven. Smashed at F**^% in the Cup. But despite playing a record 58 games we still managed 8th. Not bad surely. Top’s happy as it was another good season. Or was it? TCR wasn’t happy
4. And now the crunch. You only find out who your friends really are when there’s a problem. You only find out who the really good managers of any organisation are when things go wrong. It’s not the problem but more importantly how you react. 2022/3 started badly. Very badly. That 2-2! Then 6 straight losses and not just losing but getting smashed ( that 5-2 at Brighton!). It’s obvious TCR’s time is up. Cmon Top. You’re the boss now. Sack him. But it takes him months. Top, you sacked Puel who remember guided the club and players brilliantly during those first dark weeks after Vichai died. This is an expensive business. No time for sentiment. Yes TCR had done well for us. In fact at times wonderfully well. But remember your dad sacked dear old, the most charming, the one the whole world loved, Claudio, just 9 months after the biggest sporting miracle of all time. So now Top. Now. But we waited and.we waited and we waited. Was Top still bobbing between Bargaining and Depression 4 years after Vichai’s death, meaning he’s trying to make deals with himself, feels lonely not only in his own family but in KP and then LCFC. Has he lost perspective of the whole business ( one of the Depression examples). Is it all too much? All he wants is his dad back, someone he can 100% trust and knew what to do. Why why why did he get into that bloody helicopter that night. Poor Top is literally frozen in time but he constantly remembers those chats he had with his dear dad. If the unthinkable ever happens whatever you do, DONT change anything and more importantly stick to those who are loyal to KP. They will guide you. And so I give you ladies & gentlemen one Susan Whelan and on the football side Jon Rudkin, someone who is the football equivalent of Trump. A con man. For context a few months ago on here, I made a tongue in cheek comment that surely Rudkin has something on Top to stay in his job. Soho quite rightly advised me to retract the comment as it could potentially be libellous. I don’t think now Rudkin does have anything on Top. Top just sees him as 100% loyal to KP.
5. So to conclude this, here we are more than 6 years after his death. Watching Top on Saturday at the match, there he was sitting next to his trusted lieutenant. His dad’s trusted friend. A man who has put the club into total financial jeopardy by giving long expensive PL contracts to players who are mid championship at best. Who has occasionally pulled the odd rabbit out of the hat ( Maresca) but generally screws up and is getting worse and worse. He chooses a manager with zip experience and players who are generally crap. ( Remember F*+^% defence including the goalie cost £50m). So Top it’s time to move onto the last stage of grief I’d suggest. Acceptance. Acknowledge what’s happened and move forward. If you can’t do that, then perhaps it’s time to sell up. Yes LCFC was your dad’s baby but you’re in charge now. It’s now your baby and you can’t keep throwing millions at it like a drunk gambler in Las Vegas chasing their losses. Because if you don’t act decisively soon this will just get worse and worse. I wish him well
Sorry I’ve ranted on a bit there but there’s obviously something not right. This is just my personal take on it.
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