Claudio Fannieri

Wonder if this is a club signing rather than a Cooper driven signing. Fits the profile of the types of signings made last summer.

I have an horrendous feeling something like that will happen, either Aurier or Djed Spence

Not sure where to post this but Head of Operations Justine Hewitt has left to the club to join Lancashire CCC

Appreciate that, clearly though some of the players seem very disappointed with Cooper, seems like a massive opportunity missed when Enzo left to bring in another forward thinking dynamic coach and instead we have plumped for an uninspired choice and already we are seeing the consequences of such short sighted thinking.

Not ideal situation at this stage and the circumstances rings some alarm bells as to whether the club is a happy ship. My bigger concern is our ability to bring in a suitable replacement, given Coopers current desire for proven premier league experience I wouldn’t be shocked or surprised if we signed Steve Cook 😩

What is concerning is this is a player happy to stay last season and play in the championship in the season leading up to a major tournament and yet now we are back in the premier league he wants out, suggests that all is not well and it does make you wonder if there others in a similar situation, Riccy P for example.

Don’t disagree in the slightest, I just hope once we do finally get our act together and issue a post/statement it is at least worthy of the man.

We have posted about the Carabao Cup fixture so social media team are active. We were slower than other clubs regards Shakey as well but in fairness when we did post it was a very touching and well thought out statement. Hopefully they will follow suit for Sven.

Tough few weeks for the club, losing 2 large personalities and key people in the success of King Power and Leicester City. Whilst Sven was unable to deliver on the field success there is no doubt his appointment massively raised the profile of the club and attracted some big name players. RIP Sven

Personally I think 31 points will see us relegated I think we will need like 34/35 as a minimum which will mean us accruing 41/42 points. My concern is given the mentality of trying not to get beat rather than trying to win games, we will struggle to secure the necessary wins to get us anywhere near. Given Coopers mentality to date I can see us drawing a lot and struggling to get more than 25 points but this is just my personal opinion and as my lad reminded me yesterday I am terribly negative this season 😂

Great post and what I would say is that in no way do I think Rudkin should be the scapegoat, this is a collective clusterfcuk with a number of people carrying a degree of accountability. Top, Whelan, Rudkin. Rodgers and his staff all significantly contributed to our demise and the current mess we find ourselves in. The landscape of the game and the club has changed so much over the last 10 years and it feels like the club have just kept faith with the tried and tested, this has proven to be outdated and naive. Rudkin has so many roles within KP, we should have a 100% focused DoF not split across 3 or 4 other projects. In truth Top either needs to radically shake up our operations, bring in reinforcements or restructure so the people in the roles are fully committed and do not have other work based distractions or commitments or he needs to make some ruthless changes of personnel because the current structure and the people within it are no longer fit for purpose. The only other solution if he is not prepared to move with the times is to accept that this is perhaps no longer a viable business to run and sell up. We need freshening up this current regime is stale, and we need new ideas and impetus. Whether that is a changing of the guard or a freshening up of his senior management/exec team but something needs to happen quickly because the football operations and non football sides of the business are falling very short.

Do you disagree with what I have said, just interested as to your thoughts?

I would be interested as as to why you think he should still be in a job given the significant drop off over the last 3/4 years

I am holding accountable for our PSR breaches, not sacking Rodgers early enough and for a football operations strategy that has delivered relegation with the most expensive squad to have ever been relegated. Or are our trying to tell me he is DoF and paid hundreds of thousands pounds and yet is accountable for nothing?

He isn’t the scapegoat but he is a massive part of the problem Just like Brendan wasn’t solely responsible for our relegation, however he quite rightly lost his job for his part in our demise, however Rudkin continues to retain his role. Like Rodgers he should have been relieved of his duties, his ability to cling on to the bowl like a belligerent skid mark is more of a kick in the teeth and middle finger up to the fanbase, if Top had a set of bollocks he would have sacked him as well and if Rudkin had the best interests of the club at heart he would have stepped down or at least agreed to bring in someone else to freshen things up.

Snap two miserable old moaners together 😂 went out for Sunday lunch today and my lad said I had become too negative about LCFC think I have become Victor Meldrew 😂

Paves the way for us to buy Chris Wood or Awoyini

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 great post and couldn’t agree more, there is no way KP sack him but moving him away from his current role and bringing in an experienced operator at DoF and straight away the club improves massively.

Couldn’t agree more let’s be honest had Spurs been able to finish then highly likely today we would be talking about a fairly lame 2-1 defeat following of the back of a bit of a drubbing at home to Spurs. The result and the improved performance for part of the 2nd half massively papered over some pretty alarming cracks that had been there throughout pre-season.

The concern is the damage this will do, if the club are trying to flog him regardless of whether that is Rudkin driven or Manager driven, I can’t see this ending well given Riccy is such a well respected and good pro. No doubt this is PSR driven but in reality another piss poor decision to protect the ineptitude of our incumbent DoF who is incapable of shifting our fringe players for sensible deals.

Same here pal 😂 too many people posting good stuff today

He scored 3 in his first 2 starts then we played Cov away and Abdul got sent off and not sure he started another game despite Daka stinking the place out from Middlesbrough at home onwards.

Possibly did cross my mind, maybe be could be the one who is shifted on loan for the season.

Thanks for posting and great to get such an open and honest assessment. Personally I think it will be a disaster of an appointment and he will do well to make it to the January transfer window.

If the interest in a new CB is genuine then maybe someone is potentially on their way out, and we have some options lined up as a replacement.