Babylon

How exactly is it rubbish? Do enlighten me on this one, how exactly is top involved in the transfer process at LCFC? Do you think he’s sat with our budget in a closed envelope and not told all the other senior executives at the club? Do you think he’s the only one who can sign a document at the club? If, for some reason someone at the club would even need to make contact with him. I do believe phones exist in Thailand last time I checked.

Why? What does it matter? It has ZERO impact on anything we are doing.

Also known as, bunch of fannies get their knickers in a twist about literally nothing and need spoon feeding as they can’t hold their emotions together.

Yawn… Yeah I’m sure he should be down at the KP waiting to… I dunno, make a comment for the website or something. Or maybe sign a cheque, because bank transfers don’t exist.

Obligation: Morally or legally bound to do something… They would be legally bound to purchase them if promoted at that price. It’s the very definition of an obligation

What on earth do people think he should be doing? Ringing around trying to find a winger or something? People have lost their minds

But he is isn’t he though. Having already lost one winger to injury, another injury and he’s going to be involved more than he already has been.

They are the obligated if promoted and not obligated if they aren’t. Not sure what people are arguing here. They would have no option, the contract would stipulate if they go up they must buy him. Hence an obligation Obligation just means legally bound to do something. There could be any number of stipulations in a legally binding contract.

Kasey has played 16 games this year in some capacity. So that would suggest we do need him; even if it’s just as back up. It’s not even an obligation either, it’s based on promotion apparently. So we could weaken ourselves and get nothing. We also are hardly blessed with options at full back. We’re an injury away from either of them needing to play more than we’d probably want them to be.

Why would we accept it if there is little chance of getting a replacement? People would soon moan if it was accepted and then we couldn’t turn around a signing in a few hours.

It saves face doesn’t it, if they can actually look like they’ve won and we’ve not got away with it… that was my thinking!

We’ve been one step ahead (for once) at each turn. I’d imagine us being in mediation will suddenly yield an agreed points deduction as soon as we are nailed on relegated. Hopefully with it taking away the EFL’s chance of any claim in the process.

It's so weird and leftfield that I can only imagine there has been a lot go on behind the scenes, we want him gone for whatever reason and a swap is just a very quick way of facilitating that. A large percentage of Glovers signings have been bob, but he's also operating with one hand tied behind his back. Whether that's financially, or with a manager wanting "premier league experience". Which on our budget means signing old past it players, or very expensive squad players. Who knows, Coady is shite so might as well roll the dice as it ain't working currently.

Soon changes, not long ago it was all on Cooper and we had a good squad. I think the fact remains a better manager than either of them gets more from what we have. Maresca would have been getting more in my opinion, but then even he struggled at times in the Championship. But at least the playeres would have fit his philosophy that we signed.

bAbYlOn tHiNks rUdkIn iSn'T tO bLame for anything... August 2024 "Pointless moaning at him about players signed, focus on the bigger decisions of installing heads of recruitment suggested by the manager, a head of recruitment who had a track record of total failure." September 2024 "That's why I always say I'd rather focus on what is likely his decision, in putting the head of recruitment in place. Eg. Getting Congerton despite a clear history of rubbish. He allowed the manager to dictate a key position in the club. Those for me are the failings there. I can see him falling for all the bluster Rodgers used to come out with about Congerton spotting X and Y players. We don't know for sure, but I suspect there isn't a great deal of forward planning. You'd like to think the scouting team were tasked with watching managers and signings of other clubs so see who is building a reputation for great work, so that we can keep them in mind. But it doesn't really feel like that with some of our decisions. Again, I think that forward planning is a potential failure point." August 2024 "I just want him to do the due dilligence on the head scout and get the very best we can, not bend over backwards for a manager and get his mate in. I also want them to set a direction... eg. We want a focus on younger players with sell on value, and to focus on if we go down we have a talented team proven at that level, that might also stay up. And let the scouts do their job. We failed with Congerton and it has sowed many bad seeds. We let the manager have too much power with Rodgers and it's looking that way again under Cooper and we don't seem to have much of a direction in terms of signings and so far his "passing" ideal seems like bluster. I'm far more concerned about this big decision stuff. Rather than moaning about x or y player getting paid too much, when if they were actaully any good, people wouldn't give two hoots what they were paid. " Augsut 2024 "John Rudkin is not a scout, he does not scout players, he's not there to know every single player in world football and what they are valued at. The club literally employ "experts" in their field who are meant to spend their time looking at all of this stuff. Walsh used to talk about building links with players and clubs etc long before we bid. That they've basically hand the club a player and an already partially done transfer deal. What he is going to be responsible for is hiring the wrong people in the wrong positions at the head of the scouting department. Hire the wrong people there... eg. A certain managers mate who was useless at his previous clubs, then they might give you duff info because they are rubbish at their job, or because the manager has too much inflluence on them. One wrong decision can lead to dozens and dozens of poor decisions down the chain. " February 2024 "You see, it's shit like this that makes me think what's the point. Do you even bother to read the posts? I've said god knows how many times, that Rudkin is clearly going to take a portion of the blame. I've said numerous times in the last two pages, I think he's culpable for appointing a poor head of recruitment (a huge problem as most of the others stem from it). I've said times over the years, I believe there has, at times, been a serious lack of forwarding planning, amongst numerous other things. Just because I don't join in with the sad little bandwagon of trying to put the blame at one man's feet, doesn't mean I like him, or that he's good at his job. " February 2024 "I mean, I literally just said he’s to blame for installing a shit head scout, so it’s pretty clear I don’t think incoming transfers were working." August 2023 "So the reality is, KP, Top, The board, Whelan, the manager, his head of recruitment etc all share an element of responsibility. The reality is, we don’t know the facts of any situation. For all we know, Rudkin advised the board and they overruled him. Alternatively he could have badly advised them. This is exactly why I’m not interested in pointing fingers at individuals. " I could go on and on, but people will just ignore it and I'll get blocked for defending myself. May 2023 "We hired Rodgers 4 years ago and won the FA Cup two years ago and finished 5th twice. Whether you like it or not we had a successful start to his reign and played some great stuff. The problems started to mount because we let him dictate the head of recruitment and dictate we get rid of an established and successful fitness team. It was a good decisions to hire him originally IMO, a bad decision to give him too much power and a poor decision to not act sooner to replace him. But by the time we realised the damage was done. This happened under Vichai also, see giving Ranieri too much power after the title win to start dictating to the club. The club needs to get a plan back in place asap and buck up its ideas on recruitment. I’m massively concerned do not get me wrong, there just seems to be a huge lack of detailed planning. The hiring of the guy from Saints, who had hardly pulled up trees recruitment wise just stinks of hiring someone who applies for the job. See Ranieri, see Puel… There should be people continually monitoring other teams recruitment, their successes and then then you try and poach them, like people do to us. The same goes for managers also. But we very rarely, other than Rodger’s ever seen to do some research and get someone with a good recent track record. Perhaps Rudkin is too busy buying horses, perhaps he’s just stupid. But his position needs analysing asap, but he’s so far up Top and Whelans arse I doubt either of them will. "