Donwebbio

Any developments on this? It seems a really important next step for the club so surely should be priority 1. If they appoint well, it will put some much needed credit in the bank with fans, if they mess it up it will only serve to quicken the decline and the day they sell up. As Typical with the club, there has been no direct communication with fans or what to expect and by what date. Cue the scenes on here when they appoint Martyn Glover.

If we are going to sack yet another manager, let's at least do it properly. Let's first employ the best Technical Director we can afford abd attract. Then we allow him to fully understand the club dynamics, current squad, finances. Then he makes a recommendation to the rest of the board about direction of travel and the manager to implement the vision on the pitch. The new Tech Director will probably be a yes man and probably be agent recommend, but it would still be the right way to do things and we all want Aiya (t)watt to do things the right way if he insists on hanging around.

Faes Vestergaard Thomas Skipp Sigh...

The decision not to expand after the title win could be the single worst made under King Power.

If we look at Arsenal as the poster boys of a well run club in 2025 and how they do things, replicating or being guided by their set up would be a good starting place: Chief Executive Officer: Richard Garlick. Previously MD & DFO. Law background with experience as DOF for the Premier League & before that at WBA. Director of Football Operations: James King. Responsibility for overseeing the clubs football and administration. 16 years experience in business and sport. Sporting Director: Andrea Berta. Recently appointed after a highly successful 12 year period in the same role at Athletico Madrid. Below them you will have the heads of departments: Medicine, Recruitment, Academy etc. By comparison, we have a call centre worker as acting CEO, Rudkin in the DoFO roll, and now with a job advert out for Technical Director. My previous doubts stand in so far as you need the vision and competence at the top in order to recognise and attract talent to back fill the positions below. How does Top/Rudkin know who is good and who isn't? I appreciate we are not Arsenal and be in a posirion to recruit Athletico's highly-rated SD, but we appoint the best available with the lure of job autonomy and a clear pathway for progression.

I am sceptical about everything 'Top' does but there does seem to finally be an acceptance that things aren't going well and they don't have the expertise in the club to turn things around. I just struggle to see how they get the appointments right if the people doing the hiring don't know what they are doing - it's just reliant on luck isn't it?

There is zero evidence that they have the will or the skillset to turn around this juggernaut of failure. I know some people who have this Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to King Power or anything Aiyatwat & Rudkin related. It's a deep-rooted blind spot that makes otherwise logical people act like blinkered cult followers.The sad reality for the whole fanbase is that it means we will be divided for years to come or until they sell up.

Even if we made a change and got in, by chance, a progressive young manager who got increased performance and an uptick in results. Isn't that just papering over the cracks? Isn't that just pretending that things are good at the top of the club and we just need a good manager to complete the vision? It would be a matter of time before that progressive manager realised that he doesn't have a DoF who would do anything but sign players on recommendation from agents for inflated fees and inflated wages with disregard for character or attitude of player. It would be a matter of time before realising that the club is in a huge financial hole caused by mismanagement of funds and that there is a culture of failure emanating from the very top of the organisation. It would be a matter of time before he jumps ship to a better prospect. Exactly what happened with Enzo. Another new manager is just delaying the day when Aiya-twat runs out of road and sells up.

Yes wrong way around! Skipp over anyone else. How embarassing!

Every time i wonder if Marti could be manager we could get behind I think about him playing Ayew over Mavididi or Faes over Nelson or anyone over Skipp and I just can't fathom it. That said. Aiya-twat out.

I would sooner the original Skippy the bush kangaroo playing in that no.6 role. He offers so little. At least you know Hamza is playing when central.

Obvious Norwich have more confidence than us and more desire than us, and thats a team who have lost 7 on the bounce at home. We haven't been in such a poor state since Holloway was talking about his nan's biscuit tin whilst taking us down in 2008. Dear oh dear.

What is it about Ayew that manager's seem to love so much?

Even if you are right on that, the club have backed him in the transfer window in the August to the tune of millions and then sack him 3 months later which backs up Caludio's original point that the club don't back their managers and to a degree neither do the fan base. I wouldn't have gone for Cooper after Enzo, i would have gone all in for Corberan who was keen by all accounts and would have been the most seamless transition in terms of style. Obviously we don't like to employ manager's in employment so we are always getting manager's who are at least tainted by a recent sacking or have insufficient experience.

What pawprints? You watch his first press conference after signing Skipp. So lukewarm about him that it could not have been his signing. The recruitment process is also shrouded in mystery so who knows who makes what decision and has input.

100% nailed it Claudio. We don't back managers which is why we only get tepid returns out of them. Enzo wasn't backed when he felt he needed reinforcements in the promition bid. Cooper wasn't perfect obviously, but was not backed by the club conducting the worst transfer window in living memory with Skipp, Ayew, BDCR, Edouard before sacking him for poor petformance from those players and picking up some results. Ruud was not backed in the window despite being promised reinforcements. All of them tried to freeze out the toxic wasters to some degree but these efforts ultimately not supported by the board and have allowed this ridiculous situation where so called 'senior' players have the chairman on speed dial to have a moan when they are asked to do things by the manager that they don't agree with.

No he doesn't have masses of quality but he isn't helping himself with not javing clarity in his approach or line up. My personal opinion is that it is pointless sacking a manager until the structure of the club is sorted because we will just appoint another average manager or below average manager. We could have got Corberan after Enzo left but baulked at the compensation fee of a few million and instead spent £25 million on Oliver Skipp & Ayew as well as the £10 million compensation to 2 subsequent managers. We are useless.

He hasn't done himself any favours at all. He has some garbage in that squad but I would expect a manager to know his best XI after 14 games and a style of play to suit that personel but I don't think he is anywhere near knowing. Even people with half an idea about football can tell you that Soumare, Skipp, Thomas, Daka, Ayew shouldn't be starting games for us. Last night's selection was bizarre. Nelson playing after no league minutes. Mavididi best player on Saturday being dropped and Ayew playing 90. Ricardo not playing, Monga not getting minutes despite us not having a shot 2nd half. Okoli playing RB and then at times inverting as a CM despite not being able to pass a ball. It all smacks of not knowing which way to turn.

If they do decide to sack him they will be a chucking a few more million in the compensation pot and will still be the ones appointing s successor. That will ne another manager who ticks the box of being keen to work under amateurs and currently out of work. So either Gary O'Neil or Russell Martin. The good news is that with every bad decision made by those 2, we are another step closer to the club being sold.

100% that's my take too. The last 3 Manager's have been royally thrown under the bus. And the thing they all had in common is that they were out of work and desperate for the job so agreed to whatever the club wanted. The leadership at the club must be the worst in the country.

Our squad is honking.

I can see there could potentially be light at the end of the tunnel with contracts, but I just have no faith in those in charge wont replace those dossers with some new overpaid and underperforming dossers.

I can see there could potentially be light at the end of the tunnel with contracts, but I just have no faith in those in charge wont replace those dossers with some new overpaid and underperforming dossers.

We are in a total mess. This will take years to sort out and that's with somebody who knows what they are doing. It makes you feel sick to the stomach.

I think fans need to come to the realisation that they shouldn't be supporting this regime in their own time. I have come to my own realisation this last week that I won't be spending one more penny and won't be renewing my membership (and 2 children) or going to games until the club is sold or something major happens in terms of club management. They have turned us into consumers so lets act like them. Disgruntled ones.