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Understood completely! But a good sponsor relationship is mutually beneficial to both sides, not just a cash grab. An opportunity to raise a your own profile via another vehicle. Source: Me, marketing professional with focus on consumer, commercialisation & brand partnerships.

Sorry, this is totally the wrong way to spin this and something I’m quite passionate about. Wrexham have done a phenomenal job of commercialising the club, helped by their absolute star power yes, but it’s the case study on how to get attention, and therefore £, into your club. Meanwhile, whilst we had ALL the attention, we treat fans like crap, we continued with KP as front of shirt sponsors rather than accept outside money, we’ve launched absolute crap merchandise, our media and social media team are atrocious and don’t drive engagement with the club, I could go on and on. The online shop has been down for at least 6 weeks whilst our greatest ever player has retired, can’t buy a Vardy shirt. And when we do try to capitalise, it’s shit tours to South East Asia in monsoon season. We all whinge about the amount we spent on shite players, but our revenue generation is also absolutely terrible.

But it’s more agent-led noise, than actually anything about other clubs being interested

Yeah but he didn’t have any Premier League Experience™ so obviously not worth it

Absolute diving ***** Lucas Neill never touched him

He can’t sort out Tottenham’s defence, yes. It’s not just injuries, it’s player mindset. But Levy uses him as his meat shield the way that Rudkin does Ruud. Given the trust, Ange would be ****ing phenomenal for us next year, Bielsa-esque fun. Infuriating at times, but with a club that embraces the mindset, tough to beat. Never going to happen mind

18s not having fun vs Spurs, 5-0 down after 53’

Neithers sacking Rudkin but I can hope yeah?

Have any of his performances warranted him getting a fair run? Or are you basing it off Faes and Vesty being shite? Because if it’s that, Caleb Okoli would like a word

Had only just seen it myself No chance he drops a division, more chance of Ange, but will dream.

Imanol Alguacil

Just need someone dumb enough to buy him now 🤞🏼

It says a lot that two relegations in no way defines this man’s Leicester career. An absolute king.

What rumours?

I’m using garden leave fairly loosely. For all intents and purposes, and Ruud would know this, he would be being removed from duty due to poor performance, and to stop further negative business impact. There is absolutely 0 doubt to this and tribunal couldn’t disagree with this. His income is not dependent on him actually managing the games and taking training. He likely won’t be able to achieve bonuses anyway. We tell him to stay away, whilst we finalise negotiations with him and his management. He gets paid the whole time, and we give him his payout when suitable. We don’t stop him taking other jobs in the media etc. Yes it’s messy, but is it less messy than him staying in the role right now. It’s messy because of our consistent failures and mismanagement.

You can’t say mutually agree and suggest something he might not agree to. He might be forcing the issue over an NDA so he can be a pundit and talk about it openly, he might be forcing the issue of wanting his cash upfront, he might be forcing his contract to the letter because of how he’s been lied to by the board. Gardening leave gets him out the way, formally sack him when it’s suitable accounting wise (ie we make player sales that puts us well over the top of PSR or next period)

You’re right, it does push it into a period where it’s tight. It’s also tight now, because we’ve already sacked a manager who made some absolute dross signings. Pushing it out may be the only way to manage it, without significant income coming in. That’s why the club are hoping he’ll walk away. By the way, not a single one of us would leave a job, where your bosses have lied to you, want you gone, and there’s a few million quid on the table if you’re sacked, UNLESS we had something lined up.

They can put him on gardening leave until 2nd July and then pay him out. Gets him out now and saves us for PSR

More saw it as letting him have his moment tbh. Surely would’ve had a good chat before the cameras turned on.

Got to have buyers to be able to sell them

I don’t buy this, but I do think we were close and we’re in trouble again this year, hence the no transfers and not sacking Ruud. If we actually did fail, it would be absolutely stupid to not admit it at this point, and just cop the deduction. We’re already down.

Didn’t do anything wrong, reckon we promote him to the board

Just put him on gardening leave until you can afford the compo next year

Play for next year Stol Ricardo Ndidi Okoli Thomas Aluko Skipp Braybrooke Monga BEK Evans Subs: Mads Joseph Cartwright Briggs Richards