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Him still being in charge means: Club is undecided on next season Club is decided on him not being here next season but he may as well stick around to be the fall guy It's cheaper to sack him at a later date Point being, we don't know. Only outcome that actually matters, in terms of it being bad or not, is if he's part of the plan for next season - which would be a huge mistake.

Don't know about favourite but I think last minute winner vs West Brom is arguably the most 'influential' goal in the club's history...

Would have been a travesty for the final 2 homes games to go by without proper recognition of him...

Next up: Leicester fan base holding every striker for the next 5-10 years to impossibly high standards...

If this is true - I've been saying the last few weeks that without official confirmation soon there's a risk he will play his last few home games without it being properly recognised by the club and without the match going fans getting the chance to show it either.

Last year still 'wasted' £7.5-£8.5m on Coady and £7.5m on Cannon...

By all accounts - we couldn't afford to sack Rodgers; couldn't afford release fee for any in-work manager (Corberan); couldn't afford to pay for anyone after Cooper was sacked; can't afford to sack RVN. Maybe the club should start planning for the entirely predictable expense of firing and hiring managers.

Contract expires June 2027. Expected book value this summer of approx £6m. Who will pay that? I guess we could see him go if we're happy to make a small loss and make it up elsewhere on other transfers, but I'm not sure sure, given some of the offers we've supposedly turned down in the past for other players.

Just took 76 days

He's going to be here for a long while because of the fee we paid. We can't shift him unless we accept a big loss. Expected book values: Summer 2025 £16m Summer 2026 £12m Summer 2027 £8m Summer 2028 £4m

I had no idea Iheanacho was back in the Championship with Middlesbrough

I think this is very unlikely. Some of those figures are optimistic - £5m for Ayew - who's paying that!? Likewise for Vestergaard. I don't see the club selling 13 players for only £5.8m profit. Where would the money come from to replace them?

About the same

That would have given RVN and the club about 1 hour to come to an agreement and then prepare a public statement...

Multiple things can be true at once: Cooper was an 'OK' appointment given lack of funds, impending deduction, unattractive job to other potential candidates The recruitment (both with the club's and Cooper's influence) was awful - no other PL club would have made the signings we made and they did virtually nothing to address the weaknesses and imbalance of the squad Cooper was an ill fit for the Maresca influenced squad; Cooper did not help himself with dropping some of his best players (Fatawu, Ricardo) We were going down with Cooper, despite his pragmatism making us slightly solid; it was correct to sack him The following recruitment process began from a standing start (again!) and could only muster a very risky appointment in RVN RVN has of course turned out to be woefully underqualified

Was it not kinda the opposite? The model of signing young and upcoming / unknown players and selling them for big profit 2-3 years later was somewhat dismantled under Rodgers. Under Rodgers we began prioritising 'PL experience' - see Perez, Bertrand, Vestergaard type signings - and got a really poor return on investment. Under Rodgers, much of our sports science, physio and analytics departments were gutted and realigned too.

Tweet from a few matches back... He's now basically got the highest loss percentage of any manager (15+ games) in the PL era

Now is not the time to appoint our next permanent manager, nor is it likely the wanted candidates are available/willing to come to the job in the current circumstances What would actually be gained by asking one of the background coaches to step up in the interim? It's possible that sacking RVN once relegation is officially confirmed, could save the club millions

Our worst ever manager? Anyone think of anyone else who might take it?

Right, so, because it’s not zero, that’s a reason they could ‘need’ his sacking to be in the next accounting period

A relegation clause likely means reduced compensation, not zero?

A possibility that we have to wait until after June 30th to sack him? I.e wait until into next accounting period? Surely not though because that would be a month of waiting around after the season is finished?

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