Rudkin

[AjcW]

On 24/05/2024 at 18:38, Foxes1 said:

 Rodgers speaking on Talksport said: “I’m so happy for Leicester I have to say. It’s a great club. Top, the owner, is absolutely amazing. And Jon Rudkin works so hard as a sporting director, while Susan Whelan oversees a lot of stuff.

 

 

Brendan making our most senior employee sound like an admin person and… *checks notes* yep… yep she’s a woman.

 

What a **** he is. 

[FoxOnWheels]

4 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Brendan making our most senior employee sound like an admin person and… *checks notes* yep… yep she’s a woman.

 

What a **** he is. 

You’ve read well to far into that

[Viva]

6 hours ago, ozleicester said:

last 12 months have been a Rudkin masterclass... 
get in a cheap manager
gain promotion
sell manager for huge profit

Add to that a few very good signings. 
 

[LinekersLugs]

6 minutes ago, Viva said:

Add to that a few very good signings. 
 

Let’s review this in Dec 

 

 

[AjcW]

49 minutes ago, FoxOnWheels said:

You’ve read well to far into that

Naaa he’s got far too much previous. But thanks. 

[Raj]

Lets face the facts.

He must be doing something great in the eyes of the owners else he would have gone last year after relegation.

Now we are back in the Premier league  no doubt he will be walking around like  he is Jesus!

 

No use getting angry about the situation or him, nothing said on her will oust him.

[Viva]

57 minutes ago, LinekersLugs said:

Let’s review this in Dec 

 

 

We don’t need to wait until Dec to review them. They did the job and got us the trophy. 

[when_you're_smiling]

I don’t know if it was Rudkin, but the board as a whole deserve credit for taking what was a massive gamble on Maresca and it paying off.

[foxinsocks]

11 hours ago, HarryDee8 said:

How do we sell rudders for a small profit? We need the extra cash

If he was any good other clubs would be in for him

[FoxOnWheels]

47 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Naaa he’s got far too much previous. But thanks. 

For being randomly sexist? He said she oversees a lot of stuff what’s degrading about that

[Daggers]

26 minutes ago, Raj said:

 

Now we are back in the Premier league  no doubt he will be walking around like  he is Jesus!.

What, like coming back from the dead as a reanimated zombie?

[LaCiudad]

14 minutes ago, when_you're_smiling said:

I don’t know if it was Rudkin, but the board as a whole deserve credit for taking what was a massive gamble on Maresca and it paying off.

True. Good point. 

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, LinekersLugs said:

Let’s review this in Dec 

 

 

Aye when that PSR assessment for this period comes in 

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

31 minutes ago, when_you're_smiling said:

I don’t know if it was Rudkin, but the board as a whole deserve credit for taking what was a massive gamble on Maresca and it paying off.

Or Jon Morris does because he does the dof's work for him....

[Claudio Fannieri]

I see Rudkin in a similar light to when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister, I find myself wondering how he has managed to hoodwink so many to end up in such a top job and despite being a complete and utter buffoon and being complicit in driving the place into the ground, he still hangs around, clinging on for grim death. The frustration then turns into utter contempt for him, I just hope we end up with the same relief that like Johnson one day Rudkin will eventually go. I just hope when it happens we are more successful in finding a decent replacement. 

[trooky]

The worst think about Enzo leaving is Rudkin will definitely remain as DOF.

 

What this club needs more than anything is a new strong DOF that can implement a longterm blueprint, a style of play, player recruitment, tactical philosophy starting from the academy upto the first team

 

Rudkin allowed Rodgers to sabotage everything good about the club at the time, meaning Enzo had to start again.

 

We can't afford to waste money on good players that don't fit the next manager's system, who are either loaned, don't play or sold at a loss.

 

Managers are short term, the DOF is the most important person at the club and we're stuck with Rudkin for the foreseeable future.

Edited 1 June 2024 by trooky

[HarryDee8]

How many years are we likely to be suffering with FFP restrictions

 

In essence what is the amount of money we need to make (sell players) just to break even ? 

[Ric Flair]

On 29/05/2024 at 08:15, Viva said:

We don’t need to wait until Dec to review them. They did the job and got us the trophy. 

I think we do. Getting promoted was par for the course with the squad we already had. We had no business being in the Championship. Sure we could still have plummeted as the mindset and malaise under Rodgers had broken beyond repair but this wasn't a capability issue.

 

We have made what appears to be some good signings (Hermansen, Mavididi, Winks, Fatawu) but if most of them are crap at PL level then it's no masterclass at all.

[Viva]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

I think we do. Getting promoted was par for the course with the squad we already had. We had no business being in the Championship. Sure we could still have plummeted as the mindset and malaise under Rodgers had broken beyond repair but this wasn't a capability issue.

 

We have made what appears to be some good signings (Hermansen, Mavididi, Winks, Fatawu) but if most of them are crap at PL level then it's no masterclass at all.

Take those 4 out we wouldn’t have got promoted in this highly competitive season. We all know what the consequences of not going up would have been. 
Even if they all perform poorly until December, with the exception of possibly Winks, we could make a profit on them too. 
So there is no justification in not giving credit where credit is due for the signings last summer. 

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, Viva said:

Take those 4 out we wouldn’t have got promoted in this highly competitive season. We all know what the consequences of not going up would have been. 
Even if they all perform poorly until December, with the exception of possibly Winks, we could make a profit on them too. 
So there is no justification in not giving credit where credit is due for the signings last summer. 

A masterclass requires far more than giving a manager the tools to return to somewhere we should never have left in the first place. 

 

Any masterclass in my eyes would be to have a squad and manager that means we've somehow not lost much ground from 2021/22. Very difficult but not impossible. PSR will hinder that but that's largely at the door of the said people who are being praised for the last 12 months righting of wrongs.

 

Not for me Clive. I rate our transfer business of the last 12 months nothing more than about a 7/10 but that changes if some of them go on to be PL quality. There's still a significant disconnect between board/recruitment/management in player identification for the roles required.

 

Nearly half of our signings were deemed not suited to Maresca pretty quickly.

[Corky]

4 hours ago, HarryDee8 said:

How many years are we likely to be suffering with FFP restrictions

 

In essence what is the amount of money we need to make (sell players) just to break even ? 

If Maresca and staff go we will probably need another £20 million before the end of June to meet the 23/24 period. Need to lose less than £35 million next year and then the rules are likely to change.

 

We could, in theory, have a head start on other clubs with players out of contract and sorting our wage bill out. We'll have to wait and see if we have learnt from the past.

[Viva]

2 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

A masterclass requires far more than giving a manager the tools to return to somewhere we should never have left in the first place. 

 

Any masterclass in my eyes would be to have a squad and manager that means we've somehow not lost much ground from 2021/22. Very difficult but not impossible. PSR will hinder that but that's largely at the door of the said people who are being praised for the last 12 months righting of wrongs.

 

Not for me Clive. I rate our transfer business of the last 12 months nothing more than about a 7/10 but that changes if some of them go on to be PL quality. There's still a significant disconnect between board/recruitment/management in player identification for the roles required.

 

Nearly half of our signings were deemed not suited to Maresca pretty quickly.

Fair enough. Just follow what 90% of people love to do on this forum, which is blaming Rudkin for everything bad, while skimming over all  the good parts.

 

I’m not sure where you get the feeling of disconnect between player identification for roles required. Fatawu, Winks, Hermansen were perfect Enzo players. Casadei, Mavididi and Coady all fit the system well. 

 

 

 

Edited 1 June 2024 by Viva

[Sunbury Fox]

Rudkin is going nowhere.

Edited 1 June 2024 by Sunbury Fox

[Ric Flair]

4 hours ago, Viva said:

Fair enough. Just follow what 90% of people love to do on this forum, which is blaming Rudkin for everything bad, while skimming over all  the good parts.

 

I’m not sure where you get the feeling of disconnect between player identification for roles required. Fatawu, Winks, Hermansen were perfect Enzo players. Casadei, Mavididi and Coady all fit the system well. 

 

 

 

Enzo went on record saying Yunus wasn't quick or strong enough to play out wide and he had to move him inside (a position he's not played very often before) - indication he wasn't the 1 v 1 type winger that Enzo commands.

 

Tom Cannon he barely played, really bizarre signing. We needed another option out wide that could potentially play up front, we got a striker who's previous strong spell at Preston was in a front two and we didn't play a front two very often even when chasing games.

 

Enzo said on numerous occasions that Coady and Doyle were too slow which meant they couldn't play with Vestergaard. Really odd that we signed not one but two defenders who were slow when Maresca repeatedly said we needed more pace in the back line.

 

Only a year ago had they gone and paid way over the odds for a backs to the wall CB in Harry Souttar despite Top demanding our managers play like Man City and not surprisingly the said managers quickly didn't use him.

 

We sign more players unsuited to possession based football than do, it's somewhat odd. Nearly all strikers we've signed in recent years have come from clubs or their vood form with us is where they've excelled in a front two (Iheanacho, Daka, Cannon). And we wonder why we struggle to find a striker who can challenge Vardy and we recruit managers who seldom play 2 up front.

 

 

[HarryDee8]

4 hours ago, Corky said:

If Maresca and staff go we will probably need another £20 million before the end of June to meet the 23/24 period. Need to lose less than £35 million next year and then the rules are likely to change.

 

We could, in theory, have a head start on other clubs with players out of contract and sorting our wage bill out. We'll have to wait and see if we have learnt from the past.

So we've got about £15m to spend over 2 years. (£7.5m each year)