funkyrobot

Verstergaard isn’t going to get a better deal than the £80k he’ll be on a week for the next 3 years. If it goes badly for him form-wise we’ll have another Danny Ward problem. We haven’t learned a thing.

Yes, the point I was making was the fact that Rudkin agreed to it shows the club have not learned from past mistakes. Give him a new contract by all means but 3 years is steep for a 32 year old.

Yeh I know but that doesn't justify a 32yr old with a sketchy premier league history being given a 3 year contract.

£160 as well 😂

Tbf he should be rocking the entire BKT LCFC range EVERY match. He’d look an absolute vision in patchworked snow wash denim like KDH did at the launch

The first thing Cooper needs to do is stop rocking Paul Smith tops and grab himself some vintage jumpers emblazoned with ‘The Sweater Shop.’ - Syston’s finest (defunct) clothing wear.

You moved into safer ground from your ‘Patson Daka is a quality striker’ days I see!

I would say the fact that 32 year old Vestergaard has been given a 3 year contract would suggest the drastic reset isn’t happening anytime soon.

Could be worse, we could’ve waited a week and recruited the soon to be out of work Gareth Southgate.

We have at least recruited a manager that is at virtually no risk of being poached by Chelsea or any of the big six 🤪🐍

This is my favourite Cooper. Without them there’d be no whiskey to drown our Stevie Cooper appointment sorrows.

3 year contract ffs. When will we ever learn.

Most Leicester fans right now

When I originally heard it was Potter I was like ‘ah well, he’s very Southgate but at least he’s not fkin Cooper’ and then suddenly we are getting Cooper. It’s a very Leicester way of doing a very Leicester thing in this Top era.

Cooper wasn’t good enough for Notts Forest. He was scrabbling around throughout his time in the Premier League, either conceding too many goals and then reacting by becoming ultra defensive and not scoring enough goals.That’s all the information the club should’ve needed. Why will it be any different at Leicester? Definitely feels like a significant backwards step tactically. I’m sure the players will be disappointed going from a Pep style manager to Cooperball. If he brings the paranoia that he helped develop at Forest, where EVERY decision against him became a post match rant and a written letter of complaint, despite him having a team where Yates’ appalling gamesmanship was encouraged then it will quickly get annoying for all of us!

If we go for Cooper then that’s an absolute downgrade from Maresca. He was all over the shop tactically with Notts Forest in The Premier League, either conceding lots of goals or being that defensive that nothing was created at the other end. He also started the paranoid victim mentality that plagues Forest to this day. Every decision against his team was wrong and yet he appeared blind to the cheating of Yates and the like.

Relegation would’ve been a factor in that rating surely?

Supposedly we had a shirt sponsorship deal all lined up and then inexplicably the sponsor cancelled on the 27th May 🤷🏻‍♂️

He’s also a Brighton fan and likes to suggest potential peril for other clubs which often ends up less serious than he suggests. Meanwhile his beloved Brighton win co stent praise for their highest profits cup™️

Cooper has a very poor record in The Premier League. I’d rather have an unknown quantity (like Enzo was) than someone we have already seen fail.

Very bad Premier League experience. He was rubbish in the top league with Notts Forest. No thanks.

It’s not like a normal job though, you can’t compare a football manager and his team to a standard office job or similar. In a normal job when you are headhunted by another employer there is usually both a succession plan within the business involving staff already employed in the business and/or a reasonable handover time when the person leaving will assist with the handover to the new appointment. In football management there isn’t that. Not only that, the whole management team is usually entirely asset stripped as will be the case with Maresca and his gang. Tbh, Enzo leaving after just one season and after winning The Championship is an outlier, it’s not a normal situation even in the disloyal world of football. I can’t think of another example in recent times. I do totally understand why he’s gone. There’s football reasons sure, but the most important consideration is money. The apparent scarcity of the type of managers top clubs now want has resulted in relegated Kompany at Bayern and Championship experienced Enzo at Chelsea. This scarcity of talent and the level of disruption left at the asset stripped club should be reflected in a higher compensation or transfer fee for a manager. £10m doesn’t reflect the risk that Enzo leaving now places on Leicester’s chances of survival. He should’ve cost Chelsea the price of a quality player on a long term contract, something like £30m or so. Not only does this truly reflect the potential damage that a successful manager leaving causes to a club, it might make clubs like Chelsea think twice before signing new managers on for five years and then sacking them less than 12 months later, repeating the process to asset stripping another club!

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He got the job based on the long term project he outlined. He’s then not even lasted a year. He’s been particularly disloyal in a disloyal business however much you defend him. McKenna on the other hand has already given Ipswich two years and he’s committed to another despite bigger clubs wanting him.