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Because some come at the recommendation of our head of recruitment, Some come at the recommendation of the Manager and some come from our DOFs cushty relationships with certain agents. Was pretty clear which of this summers signings came from Cooper.

If there’s no link to Ruud, this stinks of the club getting their ducks in a row (A Christmas miracle, I know) for next summer. Barry-Murphy is very highly regarded and has been linked to championship jobs in his own right.

I felt sorry for him until you stop and realise he's been picking up his cushty wage packet for 2 years now as a third choice keeper, even in the championship. No ambition as a footballer.

The bloke is bizarre, he's not shit in the sense he's error prone and chucks them into his net, but every single shot on target is a goal its honestly baffling

Today that was years of poorly run football club unravelling on one pitch. One goalkeeper on a ridiculous wage that should have been out of the door two years ago, Two full backs bereft of confidence that desperately need to come out of the side with no one to replace them, three Steve Cooper signings worth 30m and 150k+ wages stinking the place out and a new manager chasing his tail trying to work out his best system and team mid season mid relegation battle. There was a total lack of desire today, but it was mainly on the workings of one man and one man only. Out.

Saw Kingy’s instagram post and thought Ruud had pulled a masterstroke for a second, then I noticed he said young players.

Not sure I’d ever say our main strength under Rodgers was counter attacking but whatever

Been quite good since United in the cup tbh, was the best of a bad bunch that night too.

Every manager that’s come in (Barring enzo, presumably because he showed no desire to play championship football) has seen something in him in training to want to play him from the off. I think Coady has said as much about him on talksport iirc? Theres so clearly a player in there, it just needs to be translated into some consistency in a match day. At least from the aspect of intensity/desire.

Can’t fully take the credit, saw someone on twitter say “he made Verbruggen” and noticed he’d followed Verbruggen through Breda, Dutch Youth Teams and Anderlecht

I think it might have been a situation with Bart Verbruggen (Brighton)… the two have got the same career path. I would presume Verbruggen joined Anderlecht and asked them to bring in his previous goalkeeping coach - and then Kompany ended up taking a liking to him.

Thought there was couple of new faces on the bench last night from where I was sat. Alcock was always defo going to go, he’s fully coopers man. I imagine Dawson and Hughes will stick around having been club recruited and compensation paid for.

Big clubs pay a lot of money for keepers like him. The saves were incredible, but that pass where he broke the West Ham press with a pass to Soumare in the first half, that’s why he’ll be a champions league keeper this time next year.

Actually quite surprised at the low level of praise in here from the majority to be honest, I thought that was his best game in a Leicester shirt by some distance. Immense. Doing that more consistently is another matter though.

That’s literally all Daka needs to do, I can handle him being a bit technically poor but when you’ve got that much pace just give us that desire and intensity and the results will come. So happy for him.

Player without a real run of games comes in to an awfully performing side and doesn’t do well, shock, instantly becomes scapegoat. Seems fair.

Where has this Tony Loughlan thing come from? Just because he’s worked for us 20 years ago and is out of work? Or has he even worked with Ruud before?

@Happy Fox suggested Rene Meulensteen in the other thread. Which is a great shout. Just out of work from working with Australia. Senior figure, Dutch, worked with RVN, knows the premier league inside out. God knows what their relationship is like though. People from that Man United era seem to randomly hate each other .

Now this is a great shout

If they’d have been reading the Cooper out thread they’d of sacked him two months ago Tbf

It’s club leaked propaganda I reckon and Percy is being played a fiddle. First bit to save face and say “oh we’ve slapped them on the wrists” and the second to manage fan expectations.

Silence on Ruud today is defeating, really expected the media to ramp up with it. Makes you wonder. But for the record, Carsley is ****ing brilliant. His style of play and ideas of football shit on everyone we’ve been linked to. The England players have loved the last few camps with him. To compare what we’ve seen during the last international breaks to Stevie Cooper ball is absolutely incredible 😂 His media managing skills are another matter mind. But I don’t think you all need to unjustifiably get your knickers in a twist anyway, I don’t think the bloke wants to be a senior club manager, he very much likes just coaching and developing young players by the looks of it, or he’d of made more of a play for the senior England job than he did in the press.

Surprised there’s no big post from any reliable media sources on this one yet considering all of our fanbase consider it done

You tell us boss?

Someone actually mentioned in here that top has supposedly sought advice from a former manager. Lines up despite being a poor source.