Rudkin

[CosbehFox]

https://archive.ph/YQPbC
 

The other is Jon Rudkin, 56, who first joined Leicester as a volunteer coach for the youth teams and now runs the football operation single-handedly

 

 

 Other than Top, no one interferes with the running of the club under Rudkin, not even Susan Whelan, nominally the club’s chief executive. A long-term King Power employee, she attends Premier League shareholder meetings but is not involved in the key concerns of the football operation, such as player trading and managerial appointments.

 

 

 

Edited 22 December 2024 by CosbehFox

[Silva Fox]

1 minute ago, CosbehFox said:

Rudkin ruins the football business 

Corrected it for you

[reynard]

23 minutes ago, Trev3939 said:

Half of my point is what you’ve said there that he isn’t as hands on as we think.
 

The other half is sort of what you’ve said which is that he does need to be accountable BUT it’s the whole ownership imo. 
 

maybe I’m missing something but I seriously don’t see why he gets all the blame over the others. 

In some ways he's an easy target but it is because he's the company name behind all matters football.

I'm not ITK but a couple of years back I was with someone from our company, I hope you don't mind me not naming him, at a completely unrelated event to sport. This person's agent turned out to be a top football agent who had just sold a player to a Premier League team for a lot of money. He told me that Rudkin was actually well respected among football agents and he also indicated that Rudkin was very heavily involved in player recruitment and that agents had to go through him to sell players to Leicester.

Whilst ticket prices and food offerings aggravate supporters what really matters is, is their team winning? So whilst he might not get praise when things are good he, for sure, gets criticism when things go wrong and, from the little I know, with some justification.

[Corky]

Got away with last season by having a ridiculous squad and adding top players for the division.

 

Won't happen again.

[sylofox]

32 minutes ago, reynard said:

In some ways he's an easy target but it is because he's the company name behind all matters football.

I'm not ITK but a couple of years back I was with someone from our company, I hope you don't mind me not naming him, at a completely unrelated event to sport. This person's agent turned out to be a top football agent who had just sold a player to a Premier League team for a lot of money. He told me that Rudkin was actually well respected among football agents and he also indicated that Rudkin was very heavily involved in player recruitment and that agents had to go through him to sell players to Leicester.

Whilst ticket prices and food offerings aggravate supporters what really matters is, is their team winning? So whilst he might not get praise when things are good he, for sure, gets criticism when things go wrong and, from the little I know, with some justification.

Of course he's respected by players agent's.

 

He pays stupid amounts for at best average players then gives them stupid contracts no one else would.

 

The fact no one wants to buy them from us proves how fvcking stupid he is.

[fox_favourite]

1 hour ago, CosbehFox said:

https://archive.ph/YQPbC
 

The other is Jon Rudkin, 56, who first joined Leicester as a volunteer coach for the youth teams and now runs the football operation single-handedly

 

 

 

 Other than Top, no one interferes with the running of the club under Rudkin, not even Susan Whelan, nominally the club’s chief executive. A long-term King Power employee, she attends Premier League shareholder meetings but is not involved in the key concerns of the football operation, such as player trading and managerial appointments.

 

 

 

And this is the problem. Letting this guy be responsible solely for footballing matters. It's failing. It's falling apart. It's a mess. We need a competent DoF with contacts. We need to get rid of the stale smell otherwise it's groundhog day. 

[sdb]

I was never sure enough that he was the cancer running through this club. I didn't feel educated enough on the subject. But he is the common denominator for everything that's bad at this club.

[Wymsey]

Why can't someone like the @Foxes_Trust write an open letter to him formally via the club; and he could possibly respond to the various concerns about him?..

Edited 22 December 2024 by Wymsey

[whoareyaaa]

The only time we have done well in transfer windows was under Pearson and Walsh and Puel and who ever was running the scouting then it’s been a mess in between 

[DerbyshireFox]

£12m on Ward

£16m on Kristiansen

£15m on Vestergaard

£15m on Faes

£17m on Soumare 

£20m on Skipp

£5m on 34yr old Ayew

 

Thats just in today’s squad. Some would include Daka in that as well (I like him, but for the price tag I get it), probably justifiably at £23m. That’s £123m wasted in poor recruitment. Surely as a director of football, you’d at least have a performance review. Add losing Söyüncü and Tielemans for nothing. Chanted for Rudkin out today, and someone said what difference will it make. I think the list above demonstrates the answer. 

[The boy Linacre]

4 minutes ago, DerbyshireFox said:

£12m on Ward

£16m on Kristiansen

£15m on Vestergaard

£15m on Faes

£17m on Soumare 

£20m on Skipp

£5m on 34yr old Ayew

 

Thats just in today’s squad. Some would include Daka in that as well (I like him, but for the price tag I get it), probably justifiably at £23m. That’s £123m wasted in poor recruitment. Surely as a director of football, you’d at least have a performance review. Add losing Söyüncü and Tielemans for nothing. Chanted for Rudkin out today, and someone said what difference will it make. I think the list above demonstrates the answer. 

Fair few of those might send us down twice

We've all been here before but we were as well run & respected as Brighton, now we’re back where we were in 2014, with less team spirit & probably less quality.

Most of it down to poor management selection & player acquisition

We’re heading into the world of needing a sea change or a miracle to stay up.

We have 19 games to be better than Everton, Wolves & Palace, don’t think we are.

 

Edited 22 December 2024 by The boy Linacre

[CosbehFox]

4 minutes ago, DerbyshireFox said:

£12m on Ward

£16m on Kristiansen

£15m on Vestergaard

£15m on Faes

£17m on Soumare 

£20m on Skipp

£5m on 34yr old Ayew

 

Thats just in today’s squad. Some would include Daka in that as well (I like him, but for the price tag I get it), probably justifiably at £23m. That’s £123m wasted in poor recruitment. Surely as a director of football, you’d at least have a performance review. Add losing Söyüncü and Tielemans for nothing. Chanted for Rudkin out today, and someone said what difference will it make. I think the list above demonstrates the answer. 

By successfully avoiding any public questioning, he’s managed to work this angle 

[Tuna]

1 hour ago, whoareyaaa said:

The only time we have done well in transfer windows was under Pearson and Walsh and Puel and who ever was running the scouting then it’s been a mess in between 

We did well in 23, Mads, Mavididi, Winks, Fatawu in, Coady and Cannon questionable but on the whole we did well.

[Poznan34]

2 minutes ago, Tuna said:

We did well in 23, Mads, Mavididi, Winks, Fatawu in, Coady and Cannon questionable but on the whole we did well.

Mads - great

Mav - good enough at Champ level but not sure at PL, likely big wages

Winks - good at Champ level but has hardly pulled up trees this year, likely mega wages

Fatawu - great

Coady - monumental waste of money, likely mega wages, chump

Cannon - barely played last year, lucky if we make our money back on him

 

Not that great tbf

[Luke Brown]

Potential chant to the tune of wolves chant today & spurs chant 

 

I don’t care about Rudkin

he don’t care about me

all I care about

Is Leicester city 

[Dan]

5 hours ago, Corky said:

Got away with last season by having a ridiculous squad and adding top players for the division.

 

Won't happen again.

Yep. Carried by residue from an improbable ****up and an ambitious young manager.

 

An ambitious young manager eh - no wonder he had no interest in sticking around this place.

 

I increasingly agree that people like him and Whelan are only in post because they'll lift the lid on a lot of dirt if not. It's the most plausible situation really.

[Raj]

7 hours ago, DerbyshireFox said:

£12m on Ward

£16m on Kristiansen

£15m on Vestergaard

£15m on Faes

£17m on Soumare 

£20m on Skipp

£5m on 34yr old Ayew

 

Thats just in today’s squad. Some would include Daka in that as well (I like him, but for the price tag I get it), probably justifiably at £23m. That’s £123m wasted in poor recruitment. Surely as a director of football, you’d at least have a performance review. Add losing Söyüncü and Tielemans for nothing. Chanted for Rudkin out today, and someone said what difference will it make. I think the list above demonstrates the answer. 

Dont forget the wages they are on too which makes it impossible for anyone to buy these.

Which league one club would take Ward on 50k a week

[Pliskin]

How much involvement he had in the recruitment of Ruud I don’t know, but imagine hiring a coach and leaving the backroom staff in place (not even adding to those who have gone) of the previous manager…….. 

 

Utterly astounding. 

[Foxy-Lady]

14 hours ago, FrankieADZ said:

That would be so brilliant .....if it wasnt so tragically spot-on!

[Foxy-Lady]

10 hours ago, reynard said:

In some ways he's an easy target but it is because he's the company name behind all matters football.

I'm not ITK but a couple of years back I was with someone from our company, I hope you don't mind me not naming him, at a completely unrelated event to sport. This person's agent turned out to be a top football agent who had just sold a player to a Premier League team for a lot of money. He told me that Rudkin was actually well respected among football agents and he also indicated that Rudkin was very heavily involved in player recruitment and that agents had to go through him to sell players to Leicester.

Whilst ticket prices and food offerings aggravate supporters what really matters is, is their team winning? So whilst he might not get praise when things are good he, for sure, gets criticism when things go wrong and, from the little I know, with some justification.

My own personal experience of that was absolutely NOT the case...and the Agent in question was one of the TOP agents in UK football!

[blueharmie]

Blokes a fraud.

[markko]

 I do not know what he is and is not responsible for but something stinks and nothing has been done to address how the club is being run. Average players. Huge contracts. Failure to get rid of players not good enough. Financial troubles.We were brilliantly run and the envy of many clubs only seven years ago. 

[reynard]

22 minutes ago, Foxy-Lady said:

My own personal experience of that was absolutely NOT the case...and the Agent in question was one of the TOP agents in UK football!

Well I'm only saying what I was told. I guess different people have different opinions. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

Something has to give and soon, yes Ruud made some mistakes yesterday no doubt, but look at the squad he is currently managing, we have players like Ward, Choudhury, Thomas, Coady, Vestergaard , Soumare, Iversen, McAteet, Kristiansen, that is 9 of a 25 man squad that have been deemed surplus to requirements at some stage by the club, most of which. were either bench warmers in the championship or were sent on loan in the hope of moving them on. We have then compounded it by signing utter guff like Ayew, BDCR, Skipp, and Eduoard 
 

The inability of a certain person to move on our squad payers is pathetic and continues to massively hamstrung our ability to be competitive and plays a heavy burden on PSR compliance. 

 

We then have a bloated academy full of players who barely go out on loan to aid their development or to help assess if they can make it, instead they hang around playing academy football until they are 21/22 and then drift away. We have players in their now who have not one chance of making it at the club. 
 

We are on our arse at right back at the moment, a few years ago Joe Wormleighton was being touted as one to watch, he is still here and yet he hasn’t made an appearance in anger for the 1sf team, surely we have to pushing the talented 18 years old out on loan and fast tracking their development and making them 1st team ready. I really struggle to see what our policy is as it seems all over the show and we just seem to be stockpiling academy players with no clear direction of how we develop or them or when to cut our losses and release. 
 

We really do need some fresh blood, new ideas and impetus at Football Director level as the club is currently stagnating under the current incumbent. 

Edited 23 December 2024 by Claudio Fannieri

[Lionator]

Like Tom Collomosse said on the BSLB podcast, Rudkin got lucky in Maresca. He wanted Parker, he ended up with the best current coach in English football. Everything is making it up as he goes along, there is no strategy. The clubs that do well have a strategy and they recruit around that strategy. It did not have to be this way and it does not have to continue being this way.