Leicester City are fighting for relegation after a poor run of results in the Championship and a six-point deduction.

The Foxes are in their first year back in the second level, having finished 18th in the Premier League the previous season.

Leicestershire finished with just 25 points from 38 games, ending their one-year stint in the top tier.

Martí Cifuentes was appointed in the summer with the objective of achieving immediate promotion to the first division. However, he was fired in February due to poor results.

Leicester were then penalized six points for alleged violations of the profit and sustainability regulations (PSR), however they are appealing the verdict.

This has left new manager Gary Rowett with a relegation struggle, with the club in the bottom three with only 11 games remaining.

Simon Jordan criticises Leicester City’s reorganization.

Leicester announced earlier this week that they had restructured behind the scenes, with the recruitment of James McCarron from the City Football Group.

He will apparently report to Jon Rudkin, who will take over as chief football officer, with finance director Kevin Davies appointed the new CEO.

Simon Jordan has criticized the decision to move executives into new positions rather than replace them, claiming that it rewards individuals who were responsible for the club’s violations of PSR.

However, he feels that the owner will not make too many changes behind the scenes because he is still in charge of crucial choices.

“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],” said Jordan, according to Talksport.

“Obviously they’ve done it; they’ve done what they chose and wanted to do, so elevating him to chief executive is a reward for someone who has, in part, contributed to the governance breaches that have caused Leicester’s troubles in terms of potential relegation.

“Of course, you transfer people around.

“The business owner is not going to leave the business.

“The challenge in football is that you have this chief executive function and then you have the chairman, who is presumably the financier, and control always goes to the guy with the money.

“So you ask the CEOs to have complete power but no real influence because money drives everything.

“So, it’s a balancing act between people being skillful at their jobs and it’s about who they’re interfacing within the business.”

Jordan has questioned whether the choice to make these adjustments is simply to appease the irate supporters, or whether these people could thrive in slightly different jobs.

“Are you doing it to appease supporters in some way? Or are you doing it to reshape the board, move it around, and assign individuals to better roles?” he continued.

“If you’re doing it to please the audience, you won’t succeed since the same people are in the situation, but in new roles.

“If you’re doing it because you think there’s a better way of creating outcomes from very capable people that need to be given different roles [that can be successful].”

Leicester are presently 22nd in the Championship table with 11 games remaining, one point behind 21st-place West Brom.

Oxford United are two points further back in 23rd place, ensuring there is still much to play for in the battle to avoid relegation to League One.

The Foxes have gone winless in their last nine league games, their last triumph being against the Baggies on January 5.

Rowett’s team will next play promotion-chasing Ipswich Town on March 7 at Portman Road, with a 3pm kickoff.

Leicester’s change came too late.

Leicester have reshuffled behind the scenes, but it is too late to have any effect on the team this season, and it will not aid their relegation battle.

The King Power’s financial mismanagement has contributed to this precipitous slide, and the punishment they received for allegedly violating PSR may now prove pivotal in their season.

Bringing in McCarron has the potential to positively alter the team’s direction, but this will not be felt until the summer, when the transfer window opens and he can begin recruiting.

The pressure is on the team to produce success in the next weeks; otherwise, McCarron will seek to construct a side capable of advancing from League One.