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I haven't seen much about Mousinho but will have a look at him later!

Lampard is an interesting one, did well at Derby, great job at Chelsea first time around under a difficult embargo, 2nd time around an obvious disaster, by that point the club was a circus. Everton job didn't really work out, then goes to coventry and has barely put a foot wrong. Massively intelligent guy and not afraid to step down and work his way up. Not sure I'd want him next season if he was a possibility but he's a manager I like.

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I need to take a break from this forum if we do actually sign him

Yep I remember you mentioning him and I was alongside you there. I love the Red Bull system that Rangnick pioneered which is why I've often said the club should go all out to offer Rangnick anything he wants to become DOF, I also still quite like Hassenhuttl despite the disappointments at Southampton and he's done a decent job turning around Wolfsburg who were going down before he arrived and are now 6 points from Europe albeit in a very tight mid table. Marco Rose was also on my list when Rodgers left, as was Adi Hutter and Roger Schmidt (I would love to see us contact Schmidt in summer as he's taking a break for the rest of the season, I think he's above our level though), Kovac was a manager multiple people mentioned here over the last few years. The Red Bull network just constantly produces talent on and off the pitch and has one of the best scouting networks in the world, and with Jurgen Klopp now "Head of Global Soccer" there the sad thing is, right now, I would happily take Red Bull as owners. I genuinely believe that network would see us return to the top half of the premier league. Sorry, went off on a bit of a tangent there!

This. This. This. This. Got hammered so many times last season because I was bored of the sideways and backwards ball, Opposition camping in their own box mainly because of our painfully slow buildup giving them all the time in the world to settle into a deep block, then having fans lazily branding anyone who disagreed with the style as some sort of dinosaur fans who wanted route 1 football. Absolutely not. Give me Red Bull ball, Give me German heavy metal football used by the like of Klopp and Rangnick, I want to see players breaking their neck to get to the ball first and press, I want to see players who can run for 90+ minutes like KDH could. I want to see players who will "F'ing die to get 3 points" in the words of Neil Warnock. I want route 1 football like I want a hole in the head.

Just something to add on the Danny Rohl front. He has worked with Martyn Glover, so with a bit of luck their relationship was solid and it's a relationship that Danny thinks would work well.

Rohl now being touted as being on the list for Leipzig, where he began his coaching journey.

Honestly I just don’t think he’s going to be short of offers. He's made mistakes this season but a lot of that has been largely papered over by the sheer number of big injuries they have had. I’d snap his hand off as I think he’s a breath of fresh air, straight shooter. But I think the media have always been kind to him, even when they are speculating him being sacked they always seem to defend him because of the injury crisis, I can see him going to a decent sized club in Europe somewhere .

Hope whoever the next manager is enforces rules where players live closer. The travelling part is not the end of the world, but it's far healthier for a player to live closer to the team, if all players are local they are embedded into society and the area, they are all more likely able to participate in post training/match events with other players and staff, they get to spend more time with family and it's likely better for the players health and fitness to be closer to training and not spending multiple hours on the road every day which can be mentally and physically exhausting. Players need to be ingrained into the club, the area and the people they represent, that's far easier to achieve if they live local.

You’re right, but if it takes him 2 and a half hours per day, 6 days a week, that’s a lot of unnecessary travel for an athlete to be making, that also in many case stops the player being able to spend time with the squad post match etc etc. As I said earlier I’m genuinely not too fussed, I think it’s far healthier for a player to be local to the club, especially if spending time with his newborn is a priority it would make no sense adding all that travel time each day, I just want him to look like he gives a toss on the pitch.

Of course I have no idea, but he was here far longer than 9 months, personally I'd prefer players to be closer to the club purely because travelling hundreds of miles per day week in week out is never going to be optimal especially for a professional athlete, but to be honest I'm not too bothered about players travelling to training, clearly the manager feels differently, maybe the extra 600-700 miles a week have affected him or maybe he's been late or wants to leave early, or doesn't want to attend things with the team after, that's complete speculation, but I really don't see it being an issue spending a night away from home a month before due date for example, and I'm sure if there was some effort to compromise it would have been accepted. For me though as I said I'm not really bothered about this isolated issue, it's more about his complete lack of effort on the pitch, the rumours of him being a leak of player unhappiness on multiple occasions when cooper was here and according to a story on here was actually telling a Leicester fan how unhappy everyone was, then his public displays once cooper was sacked, I just don't think he's the sort of attitude we need around the club, but again I could be wrong, maybe he's a gem. If they've had a rough time during pregnancy then I'd fully understand that, but I'd also imagine Ruud would understand too.

I didn't realise it was impossible to move home when pregnant? or for the partner to have a single night away from home per week, he isn't going to be packing boxes himself.

He has been refusing since Ruud came in though hasn't he? and he's been at the club coming up to 2 years, if he's committed to the club he should be moving to the area.

I have heard multiple times from Ruud that the standards need to be raised and I fully agree with him, one thing you can't accuse Ruud of is not being professional and having standards, he's spent his career at clubs like United and Madrid, he knows what is required from everyone. I would prefer Ruud to go for both of our sakes, and I've been given no evidence he could rebuild us, part of me does have a gut instinct that we would be top 6 with him next season, but that's probably blind faith.

Fully behind Ruud on this. Don't rate Winks half as much as many do, sideways 5 yard pass merchant, very little else to his game. He was exceptional last season where he was specifically instructed to recycle possession horizontally. 75% of his passes in the championship were sideways or backwards, something that many players in that division could have done competently. He's not a prem player in the slightest when it comes to fighting relegation, he's a luxury player that slots well into a decent squad, he's not someone you need in the trenches, reminds me of James Maddison but without the magic. I'm also quite suspicious of his attitude, comes across well infront of the camera, however there was a strong rumour he was one of the big leaks at the players being unhappy with Cooper, then when Cooper was sacked we saw his antics abroad. Not a character I want at the club from what i've seen.

Yeah I can't see it either, he's going for Europe with Strasbourg, with that said though, the Prem is a hell of an incentive especially if you go to one of the favourites.

Danny was Ralph Hassenhuttls assistant 2018/19 season, if it comes to a straight choice between us and Southampton he 100% goes with Southampton, they are on a much better footing than we are and imo the favourites next season. The rumours are though that Southampton are also interested in Liam Rosenior, so our best bet if we were in contact with DR is Southampton stalling to make a decision.

I've been told time and time again "why would rohl want to join this" People really need to spend a few hours and properly research the situation at Wednesday, it makes Top look like childs play. Rohl will 100% come here. GET. ON. THE. PHONE. TOP.

Im reminded of this classic story whenever I think of Leicester City.

Anyway... Where were we? Ahh yes, race week

Top needs to call up Danny Rohl, organise a private 1-1 with nobody aware, guarantee him the job in summer with full backing of the owner, full control of everything. Then we can lose 18-0 for the rest of the season for all I care.

I'm just sad really, one of my favourite players of all time and look what he's done since arriving, spent more than 10 years enjoying watching him only to come to Leicester as a manager and completely give up after a handful of games. I wish there was a way to defend him, but pretty much every change he's made has been negative. Atleast if he's here until the end of the season we will likely have nobody bidding for Bilal or Mads.

If we lose every single remaining game, it massively improves the chances of nobody coming in for Hermansen/Bilal so I'm not too fussed at this point, I'm just feeling despondent towards the club, i'm not even angry at Ruud, I wish him well, I wish he was doing well with us or atleast showing us he has what it takes to bring us back up and rebuild, he's clearly out of his depth but he would be stupid to walk and I doubt the majority of us would walk. These players have fully given up, I don't think they've given up because of the system or the manager, I think they've given up because they are shallow, spineless, lazy players. I can't wait for the summer, between now and then I doubt i'll watch us more than a couple of times, they aren't worth the effort.