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Both Wasserman clients - it’s unbelievable @Ric Flair

Peter o’rourke (football insider) is not a credible source

gone to Bristol Rovers today, was released by us last month, but thought it was relevant

Read the Tanner article I just posted that dropped this evening, GK coach off Brighton…. Everyone’s trying to jump ship as they are sick of being left in limbo…: everyone’s in the dark and no manager has been approached or talked to, Rohl is too expensive and Dyche wages are too high. this is a complete and utter catastrophic mess

Leicester’s Van Nistelrooy limbo is excruciating and fuelling anxiety around the King Power Rob Tanner The opportunity to become Cardiff City head coach was one Brian Barry-Murphy could not turn down. The highly-rated coach, who only joined Ruud van Nistelrooy’s staff in December last year, cut his coaching teeth with the Manchester City development squad in a similar manner to former Leicester City boss Enzo Maresca, and now has the chance to forge his own managerial career. Having only been with the club for six months and having never worked with Van Nistelrooy before, there was no pre-existing bond that had to be broken. Perhaps of greater significance has been the interest from Brighton & Hove Albion in one of Van Nistelrooy’s other assistants, Jelle ten Rouwelaar, who also looks set to leave the club. As The Athletic reported earlier this month, Brighton head coach Fabian Hurzeler is keen to reunite Ten Rouwelaar with Brighton’s first-choice goalkeeper and fellow countryman Bart Verbruggen, with the Dutch international having worked with him at NAC Breda in the Netherlands and Anderlecht in Belgium. If Ten Rouwelaar — who worked with Van Nistelrooy at Manchester United before arriving at Leicester shortly after the manager’s appointment as Steve Cooper’s successor — also decides to jump ship this summer, that could reveal a lot about the destabilisation behind the scenes. Many of Van Nistelrooy’s staff and others around the club believed that Leicester were set to make another managerial change after relegation to the Championship was confirmed in April. Then they thought the move would happen after the final game of the season, but still nothing happened. Until there is clarity for Leicester about the club’s vision for 2025-26 and whether Van Nistelrooy is to get the opportunity to prepare for the new season, there will be remain uncertainty and confusion about what the plan that chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha mentioned in his matchday programme notes before the Southampton home game on May 3 actually is. The clock is ticking. Pre-season plans are being made, with friendly fixtures against Peterborough United, OH Leuven and Fiorentina already announced. The Championship fixtures for next season are revealed next week and the players who haven’t been on international duty are set to return to pre-season training by the end of this month. The issue has to be resolved by then. The players have to know who will be leading them next season and what the manager has planned in the transfer window. Do they have a future at the club under Van Nistelrooy or whoever may succeed him? As for possible new recruits, it would be bold for them to commit to joining a club when there is so little clarity over who will be leading the team — let alone the uncertainty over the profit and sustainability (PSR) charge Leicester face from the Premier League for the 2023-24 season, when they were last in the Championship, and what sanctions the EFL could impose on them in conjunction with a charge from the Premier League. So far, the only changes to the squad have been the expected departures of the three senior players who were out of contract: Jamie Vardy, Danny Ward and Daniel Iversen. There are eight players who are now entering the last year of their contracts in James Justin, Conor Coady, Patson Daka, Boubakary Soumare, Harry Winks, Luke Thomas, Jordan Ayew and Ricardo Pereira. Decisions have to be made on their futures. Van Nistelrooy has repeatedly stated publicly that he has revealed what his plan is for Leicester’s recovery to those above him. “I know what my plan is to bring the club back, but I am waiting on alignment,” he said after relegation was confirmed with defeat by Liverpool in April. “The quicker the better for the football club.” Two months later, it remains unclear how aligned the club is with Van Nistelrooy. Even after the final game of the season at Bournemouth, he was still unable to confirm whether he would still be manager come the start of pre-season and that he had received no word from the club’s decision-makers. Chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha is the man in charge of Van Nistelrooy’s future (Michael Regan/Getty Images) Since then, he has been on holiday with his family. Others at the club have taken the opportunity to recharge their batteries, including chairman ‘Khun Top’. While other clubs are starting to get their ducks in a row for the new campaign, there has been radio silence coming out of Seagrave. But it could still be quiet before the storm. If, as expected, there remains a desire to make a change, then it is a question of timing. Leicester could be waiting for the end of the financial year on June 30 to avoid having two managerial changes included in the same financial year’s accounts, to avoid doubling up after Cooper’s sacking in November. That would certainly help with PSR calculations but would mean Leicester start pre-season without a manager in place. Following Barry-Murphy’s exit and Ten Rouwelaar’s probable departure, that would leave Andy King and the long-serving fitness and conditioning coach Matt Reeves to oversee pre-season while Leicester work to bring in a replacement. It would also mean this summer would be the third consecutive pre-season in which the club have made a managerial change. Who the next incumbent will be also remains uncertain and the club has yet to meet with any potential suitors. Sheffield Wednesday’s Danny Rohl has been consistently linked, but would be very expensive to prise out of his contract. Sean Dyche has also been mooted and would be free, although his wage demands would be high. The former Burnley and Everton boss is a strong character who would want total control. A young up-and-coming coach who plays a progressive, possession-based style, and who is available, malleable and cheap — with his own staff as well — seems to be the direction Khun Top would want to go in. If that is the direction of travel, then the journey needs to begin now.

When your assistant manager is better then your manager 😅😅

60k a week 3 year deal that sits in the spa injured or dropped - can’t wait

I’m convinced our board haven’t talked to anyone or even told Ruud what’s happening, it’s an absolute shambles

The parents of Harley are friends of my wife, they told her that Leicester have been in touch with his agent, as have Celtic. He would be keen to join, so one to watch

It’s an absolute disgrace the way this club is being ran!

When are we ever wrong? vestergaard new deal, Skipp, edouard, Cooper etc etc…. We all see it coming

Alex Crook at talkSPORT once again confirming an hour ago https://talksport.com/football/3238564/ruud-van-nistelrooy-leicester-sacked-russell-martin/

It’s now Tuesday, the season ended 2 days ago, fixtures come out in a matter of weeks and STILL we have no idea what’s going on… whose the manager, whose leaving or staying etc etc. all this whilst Southampton acted quickly and got one of Europe’s best young managers in place already. This simply cannot continue.

Would be a steady useful player if on 20k a week, 60/70k a week is a piss take and he needs to leave too

Starting the summer as we mean to go on, absolute sh*t show!

Horse muck this so far

It would be almost worth relegation getting something there and stopping them getting CL football! Forest look off it, and it’s massively unlikely but we can dream

Haha no, but he was in traffic and was very much not looking anywhere else other than in front of him, avoiding any sort of eye contact

He drove past me about 3:45 at soar valley way in a brand new white range rover sport

He’s not even been here 3 years yet, but he feels like a cockroach in the Vestergaard mould

I don’t want 1 single person current owning or employed by the club to be here come July 1st…. I hate all of them

It’s quite incredible we’re not bottom already, been the worst team in this division for the majority of the season, Southampton have been unfortunate

Boozing aporel spritz when it’s game day, atrocious and clearly has no interest in lcfc or supporting the club. he needs sacking

“Not settled” is the term rather than homesick

After hearing reports that he’s homesick, hadn’t settled at all at Leicester think this transfer is done…. Not sure where we go from here. he has the quality for the championship but I don’t think he has the application here