Rudkin

[87fox]

9 minutes ago, john ridley said:

Can that information be got up for Leicester v Coventry,all I hear at work is how great Cov are and what their  gonna do in the Premier League  next season .

The internet is accessible for us all my friend!

[wurmer]

The useless ***** is still here I’m guessing. Was excited for a second when I saw this thread had an update.

[ourla]

Vichai brought us success, Top did not and has not.

 

We can carry on and see if the latter changes but there is no evidence or logic to suggest it can or will.

 

We aren't "a big club" but we are bigger than Brentford, Bournemouth or Brighton so not sure what the relevance is in many ways. So yeah, we come back to the question. Do we have an owner that can bring us success. Not Vichai, not King Power but Top. I'm not talking his personality, I'm not saying I'm not grateful for what KP i.e., Vichai did and has done for the club. The question is simply is right now, how is this playing out.

[murphy]

16 hours ago, john ridley said:

They've  rolled the dice and lost.We are not going to get better with these 2 in charge .Your wasting  your time thinking any thing other will happen. 

They haven't rolled the dice.  That would suggest our decline was down to chance.

 

It wasn't bad luck that made us sign Daka, Soumare, Vestergaard, Bertrand, Faes, Ward, Krtistiansen, Souttar,  Ayew, Coady, Skipp etc etc etc 

 

It wasn't misfortune that made us put mediocre players on huge Rudkin contracts.

[Dmitry]

On 11/11/2025 at 00:26, LCFCJohn said:

I said something similar the other day.

 

Whatever we think of Rudkin, he has still been around football for an awful long time, probably his whole life. No doubt he has been promoted beyond his capabilities with stuff like negotiation and no doubt his integrity is in tatters given his part in all this and not walking away.

 

But, given he is a football man, do we really think he truly thinks all this is just normal and acceptable? I’m really beginning to doubt this which then puts it firmly back as him being as you say, a yes man and Aiyawatt being the true decision maker.

That's the only logical conclusion. If Top is the decision-maker, and the more we see of it, the more clear it becomes, then Rudkin is just a well-paid footman and nothing more. Replacing him with Nudkin or Budkin will have no effect on the situation as a whole.

[Product of 84]

12 hours ago, bmt said:

I'm gonna put it out there the Levein years were more fun than the last season and a half

No they weren't. I sat watching us at Plymouth. GK boots it out. Our Striker goes up for a header. It falls into midfield. If we win it a couple of sideways passes and it was back with our CB who passed it back to our GK to repeat. 

 

I've never seen us so inept.

[JacobLCFC1234]

8 hours ago, murphy said:

They haven't rolled the dice.  That would suggest our decline was down to chance.

 

It wasn't bad luck that made us sign Daka, Soumare, Vestergaard, Bertrand, Faes, Ward, Krtistiansen, Souttar,  Ayew, Coady, Skipp etc etc etc 

 

It wasn't misfortune that made us put mediocre players on huge Rudkin contracts.

the managers at the time must have rated those players. theyre every bit to blame, if not more, for their lack of talent spotting

[orangecity23]

15 hours ago, JacobLCFC1234 said:

the managers at the time must have rated those players. theyre every bit to blame, if not more, for their lack of talent spotting

Rodgers and Congerton both have long, previous records of wasting money on crap signings at previous clubs. This is something a good dof should be aware of, and be somewhat sceptical of their recommendations and be careful about spending. Instead, he just went along with it. The crap negotiation skills went back well before they arrived, as soon as Rudkin got the gig there were a number of gaffes, Kantes release clause, signing Slimani shortly after a release clause expired and paying more as a result, the Adrien Silva debacle, didn't Vardy get one large pay rise from renewing to remove a release clause that Arsenal were trying to trigger.

 

That's the thing about a DOF, they are supposed to be overseeing the whole football side of the business - so if it's "managers" or "recruitment" to blame - why isn't the dof properly supervising them, or hiring crap ones in the first place?

[Guppys Love Child]

On 12/11/2025 at 11:41, ourla said:

Vichai brought us success, Top did not and has not.

 

We can carry on and see if the latter changes but there is no evidence or logic to suggest it can or will.

 

We aren't "a big club" but we are bigger than Brentford, Bournemouth or Brighton so not sure what the relevance is in many ways. So yeah, we come back to the question. Do we have an owner that can bring us success. Not Vichai, not King Power but Top. I'm not talking his personality, I'm not saying I'm not grateful for what KP i.e., Vichai did and has done for the club. The question is simply is right now, how is this playing out.

A big fat weapons grade categorical No.

 

The Nepo Baby's whole outlook and approach to the club needs radical and major changes, however its plain as your nose that he simply can't implement theses or is too stubborn and arrogant to admit he's doing anything wrong to warrant action.

 

 Our current woes aren't an overnight thing, and after 5 or 6 years of steady decline,  suffering 2 religations, incompetent financial operations that now require a points deduction as punishment  and the need to sack two managers in quick succession, if he can't see there's a problem at the club he'll just confirm what we all suspect...he's a tw@t, and a tw@t who's had plenty of time and clear warnings to do something.

 

 

[foxinsocks]

13 hours ago, Guppys Love Child said:

A big fat weapons grade categorical No.

 

The Nepo Baby's whole outlook and approach to the club needs radical and major changes, however its plain as your nose that he simply can't implement theses or is too stubborn and arrogant to admit he's doing anything wrong to warrant action.

 

 Our current woes aren't an overnight thing, and after 5 or 6 years of steady decline,  suffering 2 religations, incompetent financial operations that now require a points deduction as punishment  and the need to sack two managers in quick succession, if he can't see there's a problem at the club he'll just confirm what we all suspect...he's a tw@t, and a tw@t who's had plenty of time and clear warnings to do something.

 

 

Top is playing with his own reputation.  leadership would be to recognise the scale of the job to turn things round and to appoint a DOF capable of doing it.

[murphy]

On 12/11/2025 at 21:39, JacobLCFC1234 said:

the managers at the time must have rated those players. theyre every bit to blame, if not more, for their lack of talent spotting

That is true.  The Rodgers/Congerton axis of evil is especially culpable and then compounded by Cooper's cameo clown show,

 

However, those managers are no longer here, but there is a particularly foul fart that continues to stink out the corridors of KP towers who, as director of football, oversees the whole thing and this is his thread, so...

[Gamble92]

57 minutes ago, murphy said:

That is true.  The Rodgers/Congerton axis of evil is especially culpable and then compounded by Cooper's cameo clown show,

 

However, those managers are no longer here, but there is a particularly foul fart that continues to stink out the corridors of KP towers who, as director of football, oversees the whole thing and this is his thread, so...

I'm really pissed off no journalists have held Rodgers to account over his signings at us and his last stint at Celtic. 

 

No one really focuses on just how much effort he puts in to getting media on side to enable him to create the narrative he wants. It's incredible how much worse he's made teams the longer he's stayed. 

[iancognito]

On 11/11/2025 at 20:46, Product of 84 said:

I'm sorry but I'm not lost or mentally ill. My brain is free thinking and my own. I simply have a different opinion to you. 

 

And yes I do remember Levein. And I am careful what I wish for. 

 

I also remember success that I couldn't even of dreamed of. And due to remembering that success I'm prepared to wait and see. I'm prepared to allow the people who brought us that success the time to turn our current mess around. 

 

I'd also much rather have owners who roll the dice than sit and watch us simply survive season after season in the Prem. 

People with Stockholm are the last to recognise it, it's okay 😁. Look, in all seriousness it's fine to have different opinions, have different perspectives etc. I get all of that. But they don't just roll dice. Since Vichai's death it's been a string of bad decisions. Lessons they promised would be learnt after the first relegation (the last time Top made a statement, bleating about getting abuse from fans) were made again and worse last season. The general stagnation of the club, fans drifting away in numbers, matchdays that are just repetitive paint-by-numbers affairs that stink of a club in decline with zero ideas. Terrible signing after terrible signing thats not been corrected by selling them and in some cases have even been rewarded for failure with new contracts.If there was a roll of the dice, the fatal roll was in 2021. They gambled not selling Tielemans or anyone else, failed to get Europe and financially crippled themselves trying to make up for it. Would you genuinely have rather had that decline than 5 years of stability? Genuinely have been splashing round to keep our heads above water than kept the model that Brighton, Palace, Brentford and Bournemouth have adopted and had moderate success, some big wins, half decent players and the occasional sniff of Europe?

 

Because THAT is crazy. Risking the foundations Vichai built, to roll the dice for a bit of extra fun. People say "oh well fans would have gone mad, selling players and not renewing Vardy, not chasing Europe" NO! That's where you communicate! Right there. You tell us there's limits, you give us an idea of the plans going forward. Not 5 years later, calling for unity after your disinterest, poor business acumen and inaction created it.

 

We accepted the sell one, buy three more to build the team model. Kante, Mahrez, Drinky, Maguire etc were all sold and we brought in Tielemans, Maddison, Soyuncu, Fofana etc. It was accepted because it worked.

 

What we don't accept is what's happened since. What's been allowed to happen. 10 years going forward. 5 years going backwards. And we haven't even had the pts deduction or lost the parachute payments yet.

[Dmitry]

1. Blatantly incompetent.

2. Buffer between p.o.ed fans and Top.

3. Will stay where he is for as long as Top owns the club.

 

[Aus Fox]

This man has got to go and go now! He can’t be the person responsible for the hiring of our next manager. 

[Mista_cle31]

He has to be the most hated person in Leicestershire.... If he had any integrity and actually cared about the club he'd resign.... F*****g bellend 😡😡

[Corky]

At least he got to sit on the front row today.

[Blue ROI]

The regime deserve no support if they don't get rid of Rudkin.

[HarryDee8]

Is he gonna do the same thing he did with ruud and keep him on, even though ruud was half expecting the dreaded phone a long time before he was sacked! 

 

This club hierarchy dawdles on everything!    Late signings, late manager appointments. 

[Philkeavo]

Following Cifuentes sacking and Aiyawatt’s crazy bad WYS episode earlier. It is clear the club is on its knees. Vichai’s son is totally and completely accountable for the mess we’re in, but Rudkin is also totally and completely responsible for the footballing side.

 

i asked Gemini to list his failings and provide a persuasive case for his sacking, here’s what it said:

 

The core of the issue is that the "Leicester Model"—once the gold standard of European football—has been dismantled and replaced by a culture of expensive stagnation, overseen by Jon Rudkin.

The Case for Sacking Jon Rudkin

A persuasive argument for his dismissal rests on three pillars of systemic failure:

1. The Financial "Black Hole" and PSR Negligence

Rudkin has overseen a catastrophic period of financial mismanagement that has left the club facing a potential nine-point deduction.

• Asset Mismanagement: He allowed high-value assets like Youri Tielemans, Çağlar Söyüncü, and Ayoze Pérez to walk away for £0 in 2023. At their peak, these players had a combined market value exceeding £80 million.

• The Wage Trap: Under Rudkin, the wage-to-turnover ratio reached unsustainable levels (peaking at over 116%). By handing massive, long-term contracts to aging or squad players like Jannik Vestergaard, he created "golden handcuffs"—players who cannot be sold because no other club will match their inflated Leicester salary.

• The £90m Deficit: The club’s staggering losses (including the £89.7 million loss in the 2022/23 accounts) are a direct result of failing to generate profit through player trading, the very thing that previously made Leicester successful.

2. The Collapse of Recruitment Standards

The scouting department, once led by experts like Steve Walsh, has become a "Recruitment Graveyard" under Rudkin’s ultimate sign-off.

• Wasteful Spending: Since 2021, Leicester has spent over £150 million on players who have either failed to make an impact or significantly depreciated in value (e.g., Boubakary Soumaré, Patson Daka, and Wout Faes).

• Lack of Profile: There is no longer a "Leicester type" of player. Every manager—from Rodgers to Van Nistelrooy to Cifuentes—has inherited a squad of "misfits" that don’t suit a singular tactical identity.

3. Strategic Inertia

Rudkin’s longevity is his greatest indictment. In any other high-stakes industry, an executive who oversaw relegation with a top-10 wage bill and a failed "reset" in the Championship would be dismissed.

• The "Mates Rates" Culture: His survival suggests a club that prizes personal comfort and loyalty to the Srivaddhanaprabha family over professional competence.

• No Succession Plan: The sacking of Cifuentes today without a replacement lined up—leaving the burden on Andy King as interim—shows a board that is reacting to events rather than dictating them.

Conclusion: If Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha continues to back Rudkin, he is essentially confirming your "delusional" assessment. You cannot expect a different outcome while the same man is making the decisions. For the club to move forward, the "Director of Football" role needs a modern, ruthless professional who understands the current financial landscape of the EFL and Premier League.

 

Edited 25 January by Philkeavo

[Finnegan]

10 minutes ago, Philkeavo said:

Following Cifuentes sacking and Aiyawatt’s crazy bad WYS episode earlier. It is clear the club is on its knees. Vichai’s son is totally and completely accountable for the mess we’re in, but Rudkin is also totally and completely responsible for the footballing side.

 

i asked Gemini to list his failings and provide a persuasive case for his sacking, here’s what it said:

 

The core of the issue is that the "Leicester Model"—once the gold standard of European football—has been dismantled and replaced by a culture of expensive stagnation, overseen by Jon Rudkin.

The Case for Sacking Jon Rudkin

A persuasive argument for his dismissal rests on three pillars of systemic failure:

1. The Financial "Black Hole" and PSR Negligence

Rudkin has overseen a catastrophic period of financial mismanagement that has left the club facing a potential nine-point deduction.

• Asset Mismanagement: He allowed high-value assets like Youri Tielemans, Çağlar Söyüncü, and Ayoze Pérez to walk away for £0 in 2023. At their peak, these players had a combined market value exceeding £80 million.

• The Wage Trap: Under Rudkin, the wage-to-turnover ratio reached unsustainable levels (peaking at over 116%). By handing massive, long-term contracts to aging or squad players like Jannik Vestergaard, he created "golden handcuffs"—players who cannot be sold because no other club will match their inflated Leicester salary.

• The £90m Deficit: The club’s staggering losses (including the £89.7 million loss in the 2022/23 accounts) are a direct result of failing to generate profit through player trading, the very thing that previously made Leicester successful.

2. The Collapse of Recruitment Standards

The scouting department, once led by experts like Steve Walsh, has become a "Recruitment Graveyard" under Rudkin’s ultimate sign-off.

• Wasteful Spending: Since 2021, Leicester has spent over £150 million on players who have either failed to make an impact or significantly depreciated in value (e.g., Boubakary Soumaré, Patson Daka, and Wout Faes).

• Lack of Profile: There is no longer a "Leicester type" of player. Every manager—from Rodgers to Van Nistelrooy to Cifuentes—has inherited a squad of "misfits" that don’t suit a singular tactical identity.

3. Strategic Inertia

Rudkin’s longevity is his greatest indictment. In any other high-stakes industry, an executive who oversaw relegation with a top-10 wage bill and a failed "reset" in the Championship would be dismissed.

• The "Mates Rates" Culture: His survival suggests a club that prizes personal comfort and loyalty to the Srivaddhanaprabha family over professional competence.

• No Succession Plan: The sacking of Cifuentes today without a replacement lined up—leaving the burden on Andy King as interim—shows a board that is reacting to events rather than dictating them.

Conclusion: If Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha continues to back Rudkin, he is essentially confirming your "delusional" assessment. You cannot expect a different outcome while the same man is making the decisions. For the club to move forward, the "Director of Football" role needs a modern, ruthless professional who understands the current financial landscape of the EFL and Premier League.

 

 

ffs

[HarryDee8]

He is to blame for recruiting cooper, ruud and Marti.   

 

I bet he has no clue on who to bring in next 😄😄

[J.Lisemore]

Spin the wheel Jon  

[Muzzy_no7]

After that shower of an interview with Bottom, it’s no surprise that Rudkin is still here. 

 

Club is the absolute pits. 
 

No CEO, no DOF, no Technical Director.

 

I mean, if PSR wasn’t a thing…would Top/King Power actually have any money to pump into the club anymore?

[OnlyOneCity]

Is it true, that after an earful from Vardy after he left, that Dudkin had all evidence of Vardy removed?