By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE THAI-OWNED LEICESTER City are obviously limping on the verge of relegation from the Premier League to the Championship, the top and second tiers of the English football system respectively, upon the end of the 2024/2025 season next month.
Ranked at 19th on the 20-team table of the Premier League with only eight games to go through the 38-game season, the Foxes are very likely slipping down to the Championship from where they were automatically promoted last season due to poor performances on the pitch with 14 defeats in the 15 league games under manager/ex-Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Having so far secured 17 points in the last 30 games, Leicester City are needing no less than 12 more points to keep themselves out of the relegation zone on condition, which will be very unlikely if not downright impossible, that the 17th-ranked Wolverhampton who are now having 29 points not get a single more until the end of the season.
Also likely to be relegated to the Championship alongside the Foxes are Ipswich Town and Southampton, currently ranked 18th and 20th on the Premier League table respectively.
It has already been known to the public that van Nistelrooy spontaneously accepted the increasing likelihood of Leicester City who won the Premier League champion title in the 2015/2016 season currently failing to stay up in the top tier, given unrelenting, painstaking games week in, week out.
A couple of Leicester City’s top scorers, namely Jamie Vardy, 38, and Jordan Ayew, 33, are literally too old and too feeble to outpace rival defenders on the pitch whilst any strategic shake-up will not do enough in time to keep the Foxes from the relegation zone, either in home or away games, throughout the ending part of the season.
In the meantime, the Dutch manager whose contract at King Power stadium is scheduled to end in 2027 is seeking solid assurances from Leicester City owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha to the extent that financial support be provided for a major revamping of the otherwise staggering Foxes squad in the Championship next season so much so that they could successfully strive to return to the Premier League at one go just like last season.
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Leicester City owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha. Top photo: Football League World, Front Page photo: Sky News
First insert: Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy. Photo: Sky News
Second insert: Jamie Vardy celebrates scoring for Leicester against West Ham. Photo: Sky News
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