Mapperleyfox

The timing of this in the current transfer window is the latest ridiculous example of decision making from our cretin of an owner. What will now happen is it’ll take an age to recruit a new manager and the window will be closed by the time he comes in, meaning we are stuck with this bunch of useless players…

If he’s still there tomorrow we can say goodbye to championship football. An absolute fraud of a manager. as for the ownership and DOF I don’t know how they dare show their faces in the city. The arrogance of them….

The worst number 9 we’ve ever had. Looks like he’s running in treacle. Stiff as a board, and no goal threat whatsoever. I can’t bear to watch him

Get him gone tonight

Total dogshit and shouldn’t ever pull on the shirt again. Probably our worst ever left back with Ryan McGivern.

Under the current ownership and regime, with a chairman who has lost all interest and can’t be arsed to turn up, coupled with the obvious incompetence of Rudkin and the inevitable fact we’ll make a pigs ear of our ‘restructure’ among the club hierarchy…. Then there’s the manager who looks like he’s out of his depth, and deluded players, most of whom don’t give a shit or think they’re too good for us…. If the points deduction helps send us down, I believe we’ll be languishing in league one or worse for a long time….this is the true legacy of King Power….

Those last four clubs should’ve been exactly who we were aspiring to in terms of business model etc, instead we’re heading for league one as the next Portsmouth thanks to Top and Rudkin. It’s ok though, the free teddies and donuts will sort it out….

I can see it playing out with a scenario of Top dragging his feet for weeks & months to appoint a technical director, then he’ll wield the axe on Cifuentes by which time it’ll be too late, points deduction etc and we’ll end up panicking and Russell Martin will get the gig anyway…..

Has there been a match under him where we’ve looked secure at the back? We’re a mess, and can’t get the basics right. Get rid tonight.

Did you go to Hull? He was an absolute liability. All over the place. He's brain dead, like many of our current crop.

What on earth were our scouts thinking when they signed off on this guy? He has absolutely no attributes whatsoever.... I'm convinced most of our scouting is now done on the cheap, using youtube etc.....all part of Rudkins master strategy eh In fact i don't think we actually scouted him, more like we took a punt in the last hour of the window on the say of an agent. Gone are the days of Steve Walsh looking at player's backgrounds, personalities etc before making a recommendation. Him and Daka are down there with Elvis Hammond, Geoff Horsfield and Trevor Benjamin as our worst ever strikers.

What is happening on the pitch bears little resemblance to what he says in interviews. Either the players simply can’t or won’t execute his game plan (where is this pressing he talks about) or he’s a total bullsh*tter… Currently I’m not convinced on him.

Top and Rudkin….It’s a pretty incredible achievement to take the club from winning the FA cup and having the best, most valuable squad we’ve ever had, to a complete and utter dysfunctional basket case riddled with financial problems, and one of the weakest, most unlikeable squads we’ve ever had - all in the space of 4 years. You couldn’t make a bigger mess if you did it deliberately. A complete failure and disastrous decision making. Top and Co have ruined a once in a generation opportunity and we’ll likely never get back to those levels. Disgraceful. I’m fuming.

Our problem isn’t talent, it’s work rate, desire , and a willingness to compete, win battles and do the ugly stuff. That should be a minimum and the manager should set this expectation. The fact these players aren’t willing to work and do the basics is telling. Has nothing to do with coaching.

If I think about what attributes he has or what he offers to the team, I can’t think of any. He’s a liability. Probably the worst in his position in the division.

None of them give a single shit. Outworked, outbattled. Not to mention the lack of quality. We are bang in trouble.

Worse than Ryan McGivern

There’s a genuine chance with a points deduction we’ll be in a relegation battle. Anyone believe this lot have the stomach for it? We are in big big trouble.

same please!

May as well hand you the title now if you're that good

Respectfully I disagree. It’s not about buying ‘endless players’, it’s bringing in 2/3 players in key positions where we are criminally weak.

For me this window will show whether we have genuine ambition to get out of this league this season or not. Sign no one and the club/owners are basically accepting mediocrity for the forseeable....

If no one comes in and we move a couple of key players on, the mood is going to be toxic beyond repair. As we have done for a number of years, we've left it too late anyway. We are well and truly f********d under this regime.

...agree it's not just the players but they've played a significant part and to let them off the hook is ridiculous, especially given the way some of them are behaving. I will concede it's not all the players too, however the bad apples can have a big influence. If 2-3 players in the team don't put it in the rest all suffer. It's the same formula from Sunday league all the way up....

I hate to break this to you but these arsewipes got us into this mess...