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We don’t have a natural leader to be honest. I mean, I thought it was Coady , however as he’s in / out the team like a YoYo then it defaults to Vardy.

I said at the time, an open top bus parade felt like celebrating failure to me. Rightly so, some indicated that the younger generation etc would have like to see it which I get. It was the bus full of random “influencers”, that just showed our disconnect!

Thank you! I would say a lot of that sounds very relatable.

Yes, albeit a very small sample size as he’s played minimal games this season. Interesting that we all call him out (me included) for the part he played in our relegation, however the stats have him better than Stolarkzyk this season.

He needed a stint as an Assistant under an Experienced Coach. That’s the traditional route. Maresca, Still, Arteta, loads under Baresi etc

It’s a class facility, to get the best out of it, you need the worlds best coaches. The question is, do we.

I personally think he needs a more experienced head to help him, almost like a tutor / mentor. I think he clearly has the right ideas and wants to play the brand of football the club wants. He maybe needs someone who can support him tactically and game management wise. Someone like a Craig Shakespeare, Nigel Pearson, if you want to go Dutch, Lodeweges, Advocat etc. Clubs employee these people all the time as special advisors.

Milan understood football. Vichai in the early years made some questionable decisions as we rolled around the Championship. We obviously caught lightning in a bottle with the title win, however our business model has been successfully replicated by other clubs that we would have received to be smaller than us 4 years ago. We basically mortgaged ourselves to the hilt (in terms of paying top player wages) and it failed spectacularly. I felt under Maresca they’d at least identified what had gone wrong and employed someone that could drive us forward. They’ll never acknowledge when results / summary of the review as they are a very private business. The Cooper appointment and gamble on RVN just feels like it’s deviated away from this a little again. Enzo was a calculated gamble but he’d earned his stripes. Cooper was a mile away from what we had with Enzo and whilst the results have got worse with RVN, I think longer term with time it might work. Unfortunately, football is a results business and we don’t have time. You can’t really learn on the job. If they’ve got any sense, they’ll bring someone in to work alongside RVN. Liverpool did it years ago with Roy Evans brining in Houllier.

Oh, I’m not saying I don’t advocate for better owners than we have currently. I’m just saying, it could get a lot, lot worse, to the point we don’t exist as a football club. Whoever owns us could asset strip us if they really wanted to, sell everything off etc. That is maybe a bit extreme, however if the new owners didn’t invest and used our current assets as collateral against loans, we could quickly see ourselves in a situation where we become a football club with lots of debt, no money and a significantly worse playing squad than we have now.

He has added “some” staff. However I’m guessing the challenge is wi the him falling out with the previous ones he worked with and then only being in a temporary role at Manchester United, he’s basically been the “Graduate that showed loads of potential”. If you look at the staff listed currently: Jello ten Rouwelaar First Team Coach Joined with RVN after leaving Manchester United, where he was a Goalkeeping coach. Brian Barry-Murphy First Team Coach Joined in January, formerly a Manager at Rochdale but was Manchester City Elite Development Squad. He is well thought of within the game. His spell at RochdalI didn’t end well. They did play the football Top likes. I didn’t know if he was added by RVN or the club to be honest. ——————————————— Then we have, Ben Dawson, First Team Coach, Joined from Newcastle as part of Coopers staff in the summer. Andrew Hughes, First Team Set Piece Coach Joined from Norwich as part of Coopers staff in August. Danny Alcock Goalkeeping Coach Joined with Cooper in July, was part of Coopers staff at Nottingham Forest. Matt Reeves Head Of Fitness & Conditioning Part of the furniture at Leicester and was here with Pearson, even going with him when he went to Hull. More about him here if you wanted to read it! https://www.lcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/Sports-Science-Staff Dr. Simon Morris Head of Medicine Joined in the summer of 2023. Previously spent 12+ years with Burnley. His CV is here if anyone wants a read! https://www.fmpa.co.uk/app/uploads/2022/12/Dr-SJM-CV.pdf Gary Silk First Team Physiotherapist Another that’s been with us with a significant period of time, joining in 2013. Reuben Walker First Team Masseur Been at the club since 2017. Rob Smith First Team Masseur Been around the club since 2007. Fiona Gore First Team Masseur Been at the club since the Rennie years. Can’t find a lot else. Tom Joel First Team Sports Scientist Again, part of the furniture at Leicester, he’s been here a significant amount of time. More about him here: https://www.lcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/Sports-Science-Staff Tom Iaciofano Assistant First Team Sports Scientist Been at the club since the summer of 2023. Mitch Willis First Team Strength & Power Coach Another that is part of the furniture, having been with us for 10+ years. Swit cha es over from the Tigers. More about him here. https://www.lcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/Sports-Science-Staff Peter Habershon First Team Strength & Power Coach Has been with the club since August 2019. Pete Clark First Team Performance Analyst Started at the club in 2012, left to join the FA in 2019, then rejoined us. Matthew Edge First Team Performance Analyst Joined from Aston Villa in 2016. Paul McAndrew Kit Manager Been here with the club for decades and must have a great kit collection. Jon Sanders First Team Player Liaison Off He’s also been with us some time!

Oh, without a shadow of doubt, we are in a terrible state to even 2021 when we should have really been a major disrupter to the Greedy 6.

Jaap Stam offering to support RVN and sort the defence out! https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ruud-van-nistelrooy-gets-green-30833743#google_vignette Ruud van Nistelrooy gets green light for surprise Man United reunion after Leicester nightmare The latest Manchester United news as the Leicester City boss has been offered help from one of his former Man United and international teammates. Former Manchester United defender Jaap Stam has said that he would be open to joining Ruud van Nistelrooy’s coaching staff at Leicester City to try and help save the club from relegation. Van Nistelrooy replaced Steve Cooper as manager at the King Power Stadium at the start of December, just a couple of weeks after a successful four-game interim period in charge of United. After an initial upturn in form with the Foxes picking up four points from their first two games under the guidance of the former striker, things have been harder going in recent weeks. Despite some performances probably deserving more, Leicester have lost each of their last seven league games. The only reprieve came with a 6-2 win against Championship QPR in the FA Cupthird round earlier this month. The results leave Leicester in 19th position in the Premier League table, two points adrift of safety. They are next in action when they take on Tottenham Hotspur away on Sunday afternoon. One of the problems Van Nistelrooy has faced is with his defence. Leicester have kept just one Premier League clean sheet so far this season, and individual mistakes keeps seeing them concede goals. Former defender Stam has now offered his help. Asked on Viaplay if he would be willing to take an assistant manager role at Leicester, Stam replied with: “Yes.” After apparent surprise from the presenter, he added: “Didn’t you expect that?” Before joking: “Maybe when I go into training for two weeks I can still play a ball.” He then added more seriously: “If Ruud were to call, I would certainly do so.” The 52-year-old is currently manager of Dutch side DOS Kampen, having been appointed in the summer. He has previously had spells in charge of Reading, Feyenoord and Cincinnati. Stam and Van Nistelrooy’s time at United as players only overlapped by a few weeks. Van Nistelrooy arrived at the club in early July 2001, with Stam leaving in late August of the same year. The two would have however played on the international stage together with the Netherlands. Both players started every game of Euro 2004, helping the Netherlands to the semi-final of the tournament in what was Stam’s final appearances for his nation.

So he’s expected to be fit in mid to late February, then he might go back to Oxford United?

Cheers @Gamble92! I’ve introduced everyone to the King Power duty free website it would appear! I don’t remember Vichai turning up this junk! Maybe I’m getting old and out of touch.

If King Power sold tomorrow, complete with all Leicester related items included, then they would leave us in significantly better shape than they got us. 1. We own the ground again. 2. World class training facility 3. Higher profile across the world. 4. Fully funded female team. The question is could a different owner build on those foundations and improve us. Football is a strange game. It depends on the aspirations of each club, However not every club can be successful and win the league each season. That means that largely 5 to 6 other clubs deem their seasons to be an under performance.l at the top end alone. We could get a Vincent Tan, we could get a Roman Ambramovic, or even Glaziers. Changing owners is a gamble. We’ve been in far worse quagmires than the current one we find ourselves in, albeit we are a bit of a mess right now. We’ve shot ourselves in the foot, however it’s business and it happens. Just ask BlackBerry.

Ange has been a success everywhere he’s been, other than Tottenham. It says more about Tottenham, than it does about he if I’m honest. I’d have had him in a heartbeat.

Amartey was horrendous. Faes is just average at best.

I wonder if we were targeting players but plans changed, as we were looking to fund these moves through the sales of Souttar, Cannon and Okoli.

What’s the opinion on King Power from an OHL perspective?

He’ll be a top goalkeeper at a big club.

It appears it was a PSR fiddle and he’s knocking about in the reserves.

They need a reset in the retail section as well. I’m not sure they quite understand football if they think selling Leicester merchandise like this guff makes money!

Playing for Ghana

We’ve made another one. Assuming it’s to get money to buy people this time.

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