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Agreed. He’s captained England at a few levels I believe and I’ve watched him a lot and he does have something about him. He needs to strengthen up a little and if we can get his confidence going (had a big injury after all ) I believe there is a good asset there time will tell!

I honestly don’t get any of the negativity surrounding Kasey and him at least being part of the squad while in the championship. He very much cares about the club and you can see that in the way he plays. I’d rather have players like him in the squad than the likes of Wout Faes who couldn’t care less. He’s always been in around the squad (when fit) under successive managers. I think he can improve but I think the comparison to Albrighton is fair and underestimated player who was reliable and did the job when it mattered.

Charlotte I can see, assuming Steve Walsh can persuade him over NY.

Likely the case. Top and Rudkin enjoying their holidays before deciding on their strategy for next season. @Ric Flair how is Jake holding up, he must be devastated.

Yeah ive seen worse tbh. However the apathy i feel is due the continuous poor decision after poor decision without accountability and seeing whats coming down the road when the board are myopic is frustrating. Im not convinced Martin is a complete disaster but its the boring tedious shite we can’t afford to play in the premier league that makes it insanity that we have a buffoon man child of an owner who insists on it when the better more exciting pragmatists like Rohl are likely overlooked, perhaps due to budgetary reasons caused by imbeciles on the board. I renewed and for what its worth I’ll give this season a shot waiting for a clever and clear organisational structure to rise from the ashes with the overpaid shiteheaps like Wout finally given the heaveho. If not then this will likely be my last as a season ticket holder.

The frauds at football insider saying he’ll be sacked. So in charge for the first game then.

Any right minded owner / majority Shareholder of any organisation would not want to avoid these costly legal battles that seem to negate the possibility of success and profitability. You would restructure and hold people accountable. This is dereliction of duty and self sabotage but he just seems so oblivious to it. The board survives because Top probably has no connection to the industry other than through JR and is reliant on him to do or change anything and we know JR wouldn’t entertain a DOF under Potter which seemed like a much needed logical change. We currently sit here not knowing RVN’s future. While Ipswich and Southampton look organised already ahead of the new season, months away, we again know that the board will delay and dither. I’ve discussed at length managers we could go for Rohl etc but who in their right mind will want to deal with this mess when it’s clear for anyone that this board is incompetent and can’t be trusted. Your long term journey here is unpredictable or short, everything is planned on a myopic whim, we’ll throw bad money after bad now become our new manager / player.

Someone quoted earlier on his time at Burnley that he heavily used the youth team promoting lots to the first team. So you’re only half right. But one can understand the logic of not doing that in the premier league. But your 💯% right regards to decision making at the club. It’s a shambles. If anything he was the manager you should be appointing to try and galvanise a poor squad without money to spend - not insist of a ‘possession’ based at approach manager who has next to no experience then not back him in the transfer market. The board can’t be trusted to get anything right. With the mess we’re in we could do a lot worse than appointing a coach like Dyche. He’s done a lot of out of the field talks that highlights his ideas on the game, some will have you believe he’s some kind of dinosaur. Personally I’d go Will Stil, Rohl or Cifuentes. However that rely on the board having got their arse into gear and reorganised a structure off the field that help these managers thrive. One thing we can’t afford next year is to do a Luton.

The strongest connection between Vardy and Charlotte FC is Steve Walsh..

Couldn’t agree more, he explained it very well and how the people at the top now (I.e. Rudkin) haven’t got it in them to replicate and bring an organised structure back. We had a structure built by Pearson et al under the laissez faire approach from Vichai but sadly that structure and the good staff that worked within it have slowly been picked off and left. It’s been a slow downward spiral the day we let Pearson and Steve Walsh go and sadly the passing of Vichai. We all know it isn’t working and that things need to be changed with a structural style to a similar style as before but who is putting that in Top’s head - certainly isn’t Rudkin.

Exactly the people running the club don’t have the first clue and Cooper was never the answer whether you think he’s a better option or not these appointments are just where we are at the moment, a downward spiral with incompetent leaders.

Walsh jumped into a basket case and had his wings clipped , found it difficult to make an impact with Koeman’s ego, he wanted to bring in players like Haaland and Andy Robertson - they’ve both not done too bad. He did manage to bring in Lookman a player we all know too well. We wouldn’t go wrong with bringing people back who understood the data driven system we used have at the centre of every decision we made. And clear competent negotiators that understand that market is a big must.

He’s created most chances and big chances. And that’s when he hasn’t played consistently for months.

Elite.

Hamza is the exact example of a player the club offered ridiculous terms to without seeing any results on the pitch - plenty off it though. Monga looks the real deal is my point, laying out huge contracts to the likes of Hamza and Vesty is bordering on szhitzo when we're likely offering small terms to good youngsters who'll be assets to the bigger clubs and NO clear path to the team. The club in this regard must do better.

Wonder why we offer stupid wages to proper shite and won’t push the boat out for a top class youth prospect.

Zero chance we ever see him play for the senior team.

Like Facundo he’ll go on and half a superb career. He definitely has that magic touch and aura. Just hope this shambles hasn’t dampened his confidence.

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/kevin-thelwell-everton-director-of-football-wgn5s6mn0 First West Ham and now Everton, another ‘lower’ half rival who is restructuring ahead of the summer with the DOF stepping down. Looks like those team are getting their house in order.

While I do agree with this, it’s all true. You’d think that two consecutive managers would have realised quickly that Vardy needs more pace and tenacity near to him to provide chances that’ll he’ll still be bang on likely to take. And yet Cooper didn’t fancy Mavididi and Fatawu at the same time. And Ruud is more keen on the pace of two slow wingers. So an ageing Vardy up front on his own is clearly not going to work. Better managers and better recruitment would have eeked out the best still left in him but we got Skipp and Edouard. It’s not Vardys fault he surrounded by incompetent slow team mates, clueless managers, led by donkeys on the board.

They chose the corporate ‘fan’ at the clubs height of success, like the fair weather ones that filled the stadium at the Everton match to the detriment of actual members. Success built on the shoulders and work of others now long since gone. Now the wheels have fallen off they’ve managed to alienate thousands of long suffering but loyal fans (£25 for physical ST etc) who now themselves feel distanced from their beloved team. By the looks of it lots are considering cancelling their season ticket. And the fans of the future will definitely be harder to attract, even with ticket price freezes. We need more than just platitudes.

One thing likely to happen, the only assets will be gone and we’ll likely struggle to sell the dross and have limited budget scope for investment. It’ll then be entrusted with Rudkin and his band of merry men to think outside the box to get the squad competitive to stay in the championship. While I think we’d have heard about EFL wanting to **** us without lube by now it’s going to get much worse for this club before it gets better regardless of the EFL . It appears our youth players mostly without good experience of loans are what we may even need to rely on to play alongside Bobby Reid and Ayew next year. I’d rather the club not blow money on anyone to get straight back up, they can’t be trusted.

Yearning for Cooper is fcking weird isn’t it.

I’m not sure I trust the club. The options of good managers listed in this thread I assume won’t be on any list held by a poorly advised Top. And the organisational changes required from top to bottom to ensure we have a structure at all levels playing and non playing just won’t happen. If the club had plans to do that they’d be making those changes now (not sacking Ruud just yet) and not half way through pre season. They may eventually be forced to think outside the box when we struggle in the championship. A change in manager is one thing.