John Rudkin

[Carl the Llama]

John Rudkin orders the most expensive food on the menu and expects you to split the bill evenly.

[rico]

Rudkin won't swap the Kop for the Family Stand

[Trav Le Bleu]

I'm not on Twitter, but can someone send an abusive tweet or two to his wife?

I gather that's what we do these days.

[FireFox]

I'm not on Twitter, but can someone send an abusive tweet or two to his wife?

I gather that's what we do these days.

Yeah, what do you want said?

[Gerard]

Release clauses are obviously negotiated by both sides.

If they were just down to the agents and player everybody would have a 5p release clause in their contracts so that the club buying them wouldn't have to pay a transfer fee and the players and agents could keep all the money.

It's apparently been part of Rudkin's remit to oversee contract negotiations for some time. If he's agreeing to a new contract for an England international centre forward who's just scored in 11 straight games and was at the time the league's top scorer, it's absolutely negligent to put in a release clause of £20 million (or less, it now seems).

Ordinarily when release clauses are in contract they're prohibitively high, or at least (as was the case with Kante) speculatively high (£20 million for him seems like a bargain but at the time you'd have have to say a potential £15 million profit was good money). In any event, it's one thing agreeing a low release clause to tempt a player to sign for the club but another thing to include a low value release in a contract for a player whose registration the club already holds.

Webbo's suggestion that he may have had a lower release clause in his old contract is the only thing that could make this make any sense at all.

Perfectly put.

The only thing in all this that would make sense is if Vardy has a release clause in his previous contract but I seriously doubt that's the case.

[Babylon]

Rudkin wouldn't have told the players to put in a release clause, nor would he have set it so low by choice. The player and his agent would have made it a condition of signing.

but he could be terrible at negotiating.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Yeah, what do you want said?

Tell her she has a silly husband who is a poo-face and that she spends a lot of his money!

[Lincs sam]

Can't really get my head round this why is everybody blaming Jon Rudkin when he has been at the club all these years and we are where we are now

[Unabomber]

Can't really get my head round this why is everybody blaming Jon Rudkin when he has been at the club all these years and we are where we are now

gotta blame someone 

[bluebeau]

As someone above has stated though. It is up to the club to ensure that said release clause is good for both parties. In this case it certainly is not! Getting Vardy to sign a comtract last year in the form he was in with that release clause is criminal. It's like saying to everyone interested, have a free punt at convincing our vards to leave.

Now i don't know who is in charge of contracts at the club, but they need to have a hard think about any future dealings they do.

 

How do you know that Rudkin didn't want a release clause of £50m but Vardy's agent said £20m is our demand & if we can't agree on that, then Jamie will not sign a new contract?   Don't you think Rudkin has got a brain in his head?

 

I don't know who is in charge of contracts at the club either, but assuming it is Rudkin, then that's the guy that brought in the likes of N'Golo, Mahrez, Fuchs etc etc. pretty useless signings weren't they?!!!

[Lincs sam]

Like I said why are people jumping on Jon Rudkin and blaming him

[foxes_rule1978]

Like I said why are people jumping on Jon Rudkin and blaming him

Scapegoat for when all goes wrong, it's happened before when we were struggling at the bottom

[Lincs sam]

Yes but we are now at the top with him involved

[foxes_rule1978]

Yes but we are now at the top with him involved

Exactly, he has helped negotiate the deals with the players that won us the title

[The Doctor]

Exactly, he has helped negotiate the deals with the players that won us the title

7 of the starting 11 (all bar huth, fuchs, kante and shinji) were signed while he was youth director and Terry Robinson or Andrew Neville were doing the negotiating - don't think you can put that much on Rudkin.

[foxes_rule1978]

7 of the starting 11 (all bar huth, fuchs, kante and shinji) were signed while he was youth director and Terry Robinson or Andrew Neville were doing the negotiating - don't think you can put that much on Rudkin.

I know, but he got great deals on all those players...

[Donut]

7 of the starting 11 (all bar huth, fuchs, kante and shinji) were signed while he was youth director and Terry Robinson or Andrew Neville were doing the negotiating - don't think you can put that much on Rudkin.

 

Four of the most critical players then.

 

It aint Rudkins fault.

[Carl the Llama]

Can't really get my head round this why is everybody blaming Jon Rudkin when he has been at the club all these years and we are where we are now

Because I heard when Rudkin uses public transport he puts his bag on the seat next to him.

[Guest Sharpe's Fox]

The guy has come across as a super special kind of fvcking stupid in all this. You put on a sell on fee for half of what the players worth when he has OVER HALF of his contract to go in the summer where his profile will never be higher for one more fvcking year? Jesus fvcking Christ the man is a grade A god damn idiot. Just tell his fvcktard agent to piss off for a few month and he goes nowhere because you hold all the cards but instead Rudkin deals the cvnt a straight fvcking flush and sticks an ace up his sleeve for good measure.

[Lincs sam]

Because I heard when Rudkin uses public transport he puts his bag on the seat next to him.

And these funny comments are your only answer are they

[HighPeakFox]

I do love Scapegoat Spectacles.............

[The Doctor]

Four of the most critical players then.

It aint Rudkins fault.

In as much as all 11 were critical...

[Carl the Llama]

And these funny comments are your only answer are they

Dude it's not funny, my sources tell me Rudkin leaves his wrappers on the table when he goes to McDonalds.

[Donut]

In as much as all 11 were critical...

 

So we are going to make John Rudkin the official scapegoat now it seems.

 

Viva was most likely to be correct. He was always going to leave, and this was a dealthat kept him happy enough, for long enough, that we won the league.

 

We aint gonna compete with clubs like Arsenal on wages. So theyre always likely to be very attractive.

 

And in any case, weve had the best out of Vardy we could have.

[Lincs sam]

Like I said what your silly comments have got to do with this I didn't know