Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[Parker Pen]

3 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

I desperately want him to succeed. Just like Enzo. Its a battle to fix our club due to the ownership and we need someone with a big rep to put Top in his place. 

 

Do I think he will ? Unfortunately not. 

I think a vast majority want him to succeed, but Where is his support. The silence is deafening. I know of no other club to operate in such a fashion! How many more managers get thrown under the bus.

Communication is everything in all organisations otherwise people will just make stuff up or snippets from people glued together become reliable sources for News articles for the likes of Jon Percy. 

[Happy Fox]

These players need to wake the f**k up and listen to some home truths, they are dogshite.

[VictorFox]

10 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

We’re not skint, we are paying below average players far too much money. 

Skint in terms of PSR

[Tuna]

6 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

Boots seem to be an issue at the moment.

True. Prices gone up. I prefer Superdrug.

[teblin]

When you read the article in full, it does have some disturbing bits about Ruud, though mainly aimed at the club and the players. 

 

Ruud to seems like he's generally frustrated that he's trying to change the culture but its not working. That said he might have made the wrong choice of job and he isn't right for us either.

[Ricey]

I think RvN comes out of that article a lot better than anyone else.

 

We know the board are a shambles, but I think we have to seriously start looking at the players now. They are too comfortable and too well connected to the likes of Top and Rudkin. No wonder Coady keeps talking about the togetherness at the club being incredible, you get rewarded with big lucrative contract to spend everyday in a wellness spa and then moan to the Chairman every time the Manager has made you sad. Too much power, too much money, too much comfort, and not anywhere near enough fight or standards. Get them all gone.

[HankMarvin]

9 minutes ago, Parker Pen said:

I think a vast majority want him to succeed, but Where is his support. The silence is deafening. I know of no other club to operate in such a fashion! How many more managers get thrown under the bus.

Communication is everything in all organisations otherwise people will just make stuff up or snippets from people glued together become reliable sources for News articles for the likes of Jon Percy. 

Maybe this explains the hesitancy behind the scenes in the incoming market, we expect to change managers again with a sacking or Ruud walking.

[izzymuzzet]

All reminds me of the period before Pearson came back for his second spell. Players with big reputations on big contracts not performing. Cliques in the dressing room. Increasingly frustrated supporters. Question is whether Ruud can be the man to do a proper reset like Nige did in 2012-13, and whether Top/Rudkin/Whelan will allow him to.

[lcfc_forever]

2 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Maybe this explains the hesitancy behind the scenes in the incoming market, we expect to change managers again with a sacking or Ruud walking.

But that highlights the problems with the club - it's too much led by the manager rather than the DoF having a grip of things. 

[ronnup]

Hilarious if he walks! 

 

Just let Rudkin be the manager 

[lcfcsnow]

Just now, izzymuzzet said:

All reminds me of the period before Pearson came back for his second spell. Players with big reputations on big contracts not performing. Cliques in the dressing room. Increasingly frustrated supporters. Question is whether Ruud can be the man to do a proper reset like Nige did in 2012-13, and whether Top/Rudkin/Whelan will allow him to.

Pearson sidelined certain players, as did Enzo within a few weeks of being here and brought through the likes of Nelson and Wanya. Ruud has had chances to feature Alves but hasn't, preferring the players he's got issues with.

[HankMarvin]

2 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said:

But that highlights the problems with the club - it's too much led by the manager rather than the DoF having a grip of things. 

Or the fact that they have let a manager dictate to signing previously and wasted about £50m on wages and fees once the manager goes, which seems short lived and inevitable at this club 

Edited 24 January by HankMarvin

[Ian Nacho]

No player should have direct line to the owner. Well and truly disrespects the role of the manager. 

[ian__marshall]

Surely he's on borrowed time now. I don't disagree that we need a culture reset and a reshuffle both on and off the pitch. This pretty much confirms relegation now. There's simply not enough time left. Whether Ruud is the right man to oversee the revolution I have no idea.

 

What is alarming is that he seems happy to call out a young player and another player who's struggling to get minutes, yet seems content with keepung senior players who've consistently been poor onside. Where's the criticism of Faes, Justin and Ward for all the howlers? Winks and Skipp for regularly putting in half arsed performances, and Vards for missing 4 sitters in the last 2 games?!? 

 

Instead he wants to call out a kid who's developing, for a 20 minute cameo which whilst poor, certainly wasn't any worse than anyone else, along with accusing another who hasn't stepped onto the pitch for months of falling over all the while. It's just utterly bizarre behaviour and borderlines either a bully boy mentality or someone who needs support in terms of their mental health. 

 

I swear that in some alternate universe, Leicester City is a highly popular soap opera watched by millions. You just couldn't make up half the stuff that goes on at our club. 

 

Edited 24 January by ian__marshall

[when_you're_smiling]

15 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

He's lost the dressing room for sure but I'm backing him. The culture and the attitude of the players stinks. They need to be told some home truths and if they don't like it they know where the door is. 

 

We're in that much of a mess at the moment the people management is far more important than the tactical side of things. 

I agree to a certain extent, but if you’ve not really achieved anything in management to back your approach up then it’s not likely to go down well.

 

It’s incredibly similar to the rumours around the fallings out that happened at his only other job where he walked before he was pushed.

 

Pearson was a novice and did it, but it’s easier to do that in League One or the Championship where you have a comparatively decent squad and the Premier League when you have one of the worst.

[The Hitman]

Think we need to sing Ruud’s name loud and proud and show that we’re behind him here. He’s trying to change the passive attitude within the club. 
 

Sick to death of these players as well so it’s not them I’m backing this time. 

[orangecity23]

If Ruud goes and we are definitely going down anyway, we should make Steve Bruce the new manager for the rest of the season, under a strict contract that guarantees he writes another "Steve Barnes" mystery novel that is in no way based on anything real, about goings on at Louchester City, and it's owner Tap and dogsbody DoF Ron Judkin.

 

Could be an absolute literary masterpiece, can't wait for the opening chapter about the fine features and heated seats available in the standard package option of Barnes jaguar, as he parks it up at the Watergrave training complex.

[Fox92]

2 minutes ago, ian__marshall said:

Surely he's on borrowed time now. I don't disagree that we need a culture reset and a reshuffle both on and off the pitch. This pretty much confirms relegation now. There's simply not enough time left. Whether Ruud is the right man to oversee the revolution I have no idea.

 

What is alarming is that he seems happy to call out a young player and another player who's struggling to get minutes, yet seems content with keepung senior players who've consistently been poor onside. Where's the criticism of Faes, Justin and Ward for all the howlers? Winks and Skipp for regularly putting in half arsed performances, and Vards for missing 4 sitters in the last 2 games?!? 

 

Instead he wants to call out a kid who's developing, for a 20 minute cameo which whilst poor, certainly wasn't any worse than anyone else, along with accusing another who hasn't stepped onto the pitch for months of falling over all the while. It's just utterly bizarre behaviour and borderlines either a bully boy mentality or someone who needs support in terms of their mental health. 

 

I swear that in some alternate universe, Leicester City is a highly popular soap opera watched by millions. You just couldn't make up half the stuff that goes at our club. 

This is exactly my issue with it. Also consider that one of those players, Buonanotte, has been one of our better players prior to Van Nistelrooy's arrival. 

 

There are more senior players that have consistently underperformed under him but get picked every week regardless.

[FoxFossil]

4 minutes ago, ian__marshall said:

Surely he's on borrowed time now. I don't disagree that we need a culture reset and a reshuffle both on and off the pitch. This pretty much confirms relegation now. There's simply not enough time left. Whether Ruud is the right man to oversee the revolution I have no idea.

 

What is alarming is that he seems happy to call out a young player and another player who's struggling to get minutes, yet seems content with keepung senior players who've consistently been poor onside. Where's the criticism of Faes, Justin and Ward for all the howlers? Winks and Skipp for regularly putting in half arsed performances, and Vards for missing 4 sitters in the last 2 games?!? 

 

Instead he wants to call out a kid who's developing, for a 20 minute cameo which whilst poor, certainly wasn't any worse than anyone else, along with accusing another who hasn't stepped onto the pitch for months of falling over all the while. It's just utterly bizarre behaviour and borderlines either a bully boy mentality or someone who needs support in terms of their mental health. 

 

I swear that in some alternate universe, Leicester City is a highly popular soap opera watched by millions. You just couldn't make up half the stuff that goes at our club. 

Truman show, with Ruud in starring role.

[teblin]

5 minutes ago, ian__marshall said:

Surely he's on borrowed time now. I don't disagree that we need a culture reset and a reshuffle both on and off the pitch. This pretty much confirms relegation now. There's simply not enough time left. Whether Ruud is the right man to oversee the revolution I have no idea.

 

What is alarming is that he seems happy to call out a young player and another player who's struggling to get minutes, yet seems content with keepung senior players who've consistently been poor onside. Where's the criticism of Faes, Justin and Ward for all the howlers? Winks and Skipp for regularly putting in half arsed performances, and Vards for missing 4 sitters in the last 2 games?!? 

 

Instead he wants to call out a kid who's developing, for a 20 minute cameo which whilst poor, certainly wasn't any worse than anyone else, along with accusing another who hasn't stepped onto the pitch for months of falling over all the while. It's just utterly bizarre behaviour and borderlines either a bully boy mentality or someone who needs support in terms of their mental health. 

 

I swear that in some alternate universe, Leicester City is a highly popular soap opera watched by millions. You just couldn't make up half the stuff that goes at our club. 

We don't know he hasn't called out the others, jut maybe stands out that he went at those ones.

[cityfanlee23]

We have a manager having bust ups with players (most of these players need a rocket so can’t disagree with Ruud on that) 

we have a board who have made 1 signing where we now have what 25m to spend for PSR? 
An ownership with zero communication to the fans, we are free-falling toward relegation, the tactics aren’t working but they are not being changed, 

we are making just as many mistakes on the pitch as off of it. 
 

It feels like the club is lost at sea and absolutely nobody from any department seems to know what to do. 
 

Games are coming and going and nothing is changing anywhere. 

[KFS]

Back at the Seagrave hotel, 

Five stars but all rooms are vacant,

Meanwhile, I can hear alarm bells,

Outside they’re losing their patience 

[AjcW]

2 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

This is exactly my issue with it. Also consider that one of those players, Buonanotte, has been one of our better players prior to Van Nistelrooy's arrival. 

 

There are more senior players that have consistently underperformed under him but get picked every week regardless.

To me the articles stink of being briefed by Anthony H. It's no coincidence that they make two players we are desperate to get shot of look bad. I'm convinced Ruud wants another PL loan and the only way we get that is Brighton recalling Bouna.

[Happy Fox]

Unless we get a change in ownership this same shit is going to appear on a continual basis. Top is not up to the job, and neither is the board.

[The Doctor]

Just now, KFS said:

Back at the Seagrave hotel, 

Five stars but all rooms are vacant,

Meanwhile, I can hear alarm bells,

Outside they’re losing their patience 

ah, we're signing Shaqiri