Lee Congerton appointed Head of Recruitment

[Guest SO1]

1 minute ago, kingston_fox said:

About time we had some controversy -This place had become too civilised after the pro/anti Puel arguments.

 

Let the battle commence! 

Rock m Sock m Robots till I knock your block off 

[MC Prussian]

A bit like Starsky & Hutch.

[AjcW]

Such an odd reaction, especially the whole 'beginning of the end'  

 

Have you been around under our current owners? You get a very short window to prove yourself and if you fail you're sacked, it wont matter that he is Brendans mate, if his work doesn't bring results he'll be fired just like everyone else.

 

[Bluetintedspecs]

Foxes Talk has decided 

[Guest SO1]

1 hour ago, foxinsocks said:

Its the john rudkin thing i worry about... he is not bad or mad   yet weve out grown him

I'd rather see how Rodgers works out before I start throwing Knives.  Admittedly, since being here for such a short time, I have a higher tolerance level than you.

I'm waiting to see how youth development is handled before I make criticisms of Rudkin. I think both of us are after the same thing. A modern football club that competes at the highest level.

 

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[foxinsocks]

13 minutes ago, SO1 said:

I'd rather see how Rodgers works out before I start throwing Knives.  Admittedly, since being here for such a sort time, I have a higher tolerance level than you.

I'm waiting to see how youth development is handled before I make criticisms of Rudkin. I think both of us are after the same thing. A modern football club that competes at the highest level.

 

For the record. .. i think rogers impact has been great... and he is authoritative.  I am not worried about him.  I just want to see the club making the right choices to help us to become a top 6 club 

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[weller54]

19 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

A bit like Starsky & Hutch.

More like Bogey and Boil. 

[Langston]

He has a terrible surname. Immediate bin.

[Guest SO1]

Just now, foxinsocks said:

For the record. .. i think rogers imoact jas been great... and he is authoritative.  I am not worried about him.  I just want to see the club making the right choices to help us to become a top 6 club 

Agree. This is going to be a very interesting summer and I think you and I will learn much about where this football club is headed. I'm extremely confident.

[WoodyFox]

Amazed we didn’t go back in for Steve Walsh. 

[KFS]

Rudkin will keep him in line 

[mozartfox]

8 minutes ago, WoodyFox said:

Amazed we didn’t go back in for Steve Walsh. 

Spent Force.    His players' database has probably expired, plus at Everton, things went off the rails.   We need to try something new.

[lgfualol]

This is a super important transfer window and we might end up spending 60m on dwight gayle and chris smalling

[Ted Maul]

[Micky]

https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/celtic/in-full/brendan-rodgers-defends-celtic-s-head-of-recruitment-1-4862839

[Royston.]

55 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

A bit like Starsky & Hutch.

Lee: hey brendan, just found a wicked player on youtube!

Brendan: fcuk sake! not another one

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

He does seem to have had a track record of identifying some decent players, let’s be fair. His job isn’t actually signing the players - that’s down to the DoF. You can’t necessarily blame him if the people above fail to get the better deals across the line - and you try and convince players to move to Sunderland or join Celtic in a pub league. 

I keep reading this as if it exonerates him from the muck that was signed under his tenures. Those ones were still found by him, just because there were supposedly other players his clubs couldn't get is fairly irrelevant, smacks of burying the head in the sand.

[Gamble92]

6 hours ago, chapero82 said:

We are so unprofessional at times, why don’t we look into the past like normal businesses

 

nothing on his CV tells you he’s done good 

He worked at Woolworths in 1989 I'll have you know

[KingsX]

1 hour ago, MC Prussian said:

A bit like Starsky & Hutch.

 

 

     A bit.

[sdb]

Is there a list anywhere of the players signed whilst he's been in this role at each of his previous clubs? 

 

Can't recall anyone having such a poor reputation in the game, in any position. Even Ghezzal was better regarded than this guy! 

[st albans fox]

 

 

 

Summer 2014

 

Summer 2015

 

 

Jan 2016

 

 

 

Summer 2016

 

 

Jan 2017

 

 

DONE

 

seemed to get worse as the money likely ran out .......

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[urban.spaceman]

24 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I keep reading this as if it exonerates him from the muck that was signed under his tenures. Those ones were still found by him, just because there were supposedly other players his clubs couldn't get is fairly irrelevant, smacks of burying the head in the sand.

I’m just trying to temper the negativity around his appointment by putting his last two jobs in the context of the clubs he was at.

 

People should also remember our recent history with certain signings... Claudio was a disaster at Greece; Vardy was from non-league and flopped in his first season; Steve Walsh was a genius for us but a disaster in a bigger role at Everton. 

 

I’ll wait to see what he does in the summer personally. 

[volpeazzurro]

3 hours ago, Spudulike said:

What you lot on about ?? 

 

Says on LCFC.COM ...

 

"The vastly-experienced 45-year-old joins the Foxes following a highly-successful two-year spell with Scottish champions Celtic....'

'Congerton’s impressive background has seen him fulfil key roles for Hamburg, Sunderland and Chelsea – during which time he was credited with identification of a host of exciting talent.'

 

He must have written that himself ?

[UPinCarolina]

3 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

I’m willing to give him a chance and if it goes tits up we could always hire Claude to do the job  

I would absolutely have him as a head of recruitment TBH. He wouldn’t ever do it, IMO - but I really respect his eye for players - Ghezzal not withstanding. 

[Ric Flair]

11 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

I’m just trying to temper the negativity around his appointment by putting his last two jobs in the context of the clubs he was at.

 

People should also remember our recent history with certain signings... Claudio was a disaster at Greece; Vardy was from non-league and flopped in his first season; Steve Walsh was a genius for us but a disaster in a bigger role at Everton. 

 

I’ll wait to see what he does in the summer personally. 

I'll absolutely wait and see, not a lot else we can do. It's funny though because poor signings we make in the past it seems quite straight forward who gets thr blame, yet the same people are now saying " well we don't know what Lee's circumstances or remit was at other clubs ". Is that going to be the same here then?

 

Hopefully it all works out but it seems a very needless risk, we are an ambitious club and yet certain appointments or positions are filled with sub standard staff, its bizarre.