Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[OnlyOneCity]

He must be as frustrated as the fans at the total lack of activity in new players coming. Surely there must be a couple of experienced defenders who are quicker than our 2 middle men, that we can get on loan. It beggars belief than we have only had Coulibaly in but will we see him play?

[Tuna]

Should have kept Cooper and used the money that went on paying him off on January transfers, plus we have a happy Bounanotte.

[pkonline]

Our lack of quality transfers in and out this window isn't a surprise - our transfer windows over the past 5 years have been a total mess. It doesn't surprise me so no meltdown. Just disappointment that our club is on this downward path. We know where we are going to end up!

[Muzzy_no7]

Hope he walks 

[Tommy Fresh]

50 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Exactly, this isn’t the 80’s. When was the last time a manager resigned from a PL job? It just doesn’t happen these days

Didn't Klopp do that technically

[Lesta2014]

He will walk after he’s gone to United on Friday night. 

[don_danbury]

25 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Should have kept Cooper and used the money that went on paying him off on January transfers, plus we have a happy Bounanotte.

keep cooper and let him make more shit signings? no thx

[roblcfc84]

25 minutes ago, don_danbury said:

keep cooper and let him make more shit signings? no thx

Better record than RVN with arguably tougher fixtures

[adejo92]

RVN is very fortunate that the transfer situation is being a bit of a distraction to his abysmal management.

[accessory]

3 minutes ago, roblcfc84 said:

Better record than RVN with arguably tougher fixtures

But he had a lot fewer injuries to deal with!

[Dahnsouff]

• Ruud walks after not being backed
• Dyche comes in and get us to not be utterly pathetic
• We stay up
• Top buys a new horse 

 

[PAULCFC]

1 minute ago, Dahnsouff said:

• Ruud walks after not being backed
• Dyche comes in and get us to not be utterly pathetic
• We stay up
• Top buys a new horse 

 

I'd take that at the moment!

[Matt]

53 minutes ago, don_danbury said:

keep cooper and let him make more shit signings? no thx

As opposed to:

 

Potentially losing one of our better players - or keeping him and being unhappy?

 

Signing a player who’s hardly been involved yet and is potentially a “shit signing”?

 

Signing no-one?

 

 
 

Not sure anything has improved either way or that either situation is ideal or any better than the other yet people certainly make it sound so and that other is the antichrist.

 

Edited 3 February by Matt

[Seventyseven]

Not too sure why people think Dyche would be the answer. Might tighten up the defence a bit but hoofing it to Vardy isn’t going to work. Everton have better players than we do and he’s been port there for a while. 

 

it had to be Moyes or Potter when RVN was appointed. But then I doubt they wanted it. 

[fox_favourite]

1 hour ago, Tuna said:

Should have kept Cooper and used the money that went on paying him off on January transfers, plus we have a happy Bounanotte.

Would he have got Bilal playing. Though at the moment it's the only positive. 

 

Ah man, this season sucks dolphin. 

[don_danbury]

31 minutes ago, roblcfc84 said:

Better record than RVN with arguably tougher fixtures

but he brought in bdr. ayew and skipp. just imagine what other shyte he'd bring if backed even more

[jonny_wright]

1 minute ago, don_danbury said:

but he brought in bdr. ayew and skipp. just imagine what other shyte he'd bring if backed even more

Glover bought them in, Cooper asked for PL experience and those positions - what we got was the fine scouting of Martyn Glover, the same guy that ruined Southampton before us 

[Matt]

4 minutes ago, don_danbury said:

but he brought in bdr. ayew and skipp. just imagine what other shyte he'd bring if backed even more

When was the last time a manager actually signed and hand picked players here?

 

Let me give you some example, i'd love you to explain the reasoning and logic. Please.

 

Why was Coady and Cannon bought then not played when Enzo was here? A waste of £14m. (I genuinely don't see Enzo 'having' those 2 and believe very much they were signed over his head)

 

Why was Souttar, Kristiansen, Daka, Soumare, Vestergaard, Bertrand (Free, but wages..) bought and not played when Rodgers was here? A waste of around £87m.

 

Now this is no defence of Cooper, it's simply making the comparisons and points, neither am I going to sit here and say Cooper was no part of it (I'd be a hypocrite and contradicting myself I did) because when people claim "Rodgers wasn't backed" I like to point out he was backed, very much so, to the tune of £200m, buying shite, leaving us in the mess we're currently in, of course he had a part in it but like Cooper cannot be solely blamed.

 

Meanwhile, RVN hasn't brought or been allowed his own staff, so by that metric we're still left with the same staff, same scouts, same moneymen that recruited under Cooper. Yippee!

 

[Blanchflower78]

He has a choice, go down with us in abysmal fashion with it on your CV or walk away citing lack of support etc on new additions. I expect the latter but doing it twice in a very short managerial career would equally look appalling. 

 

Tough gig for Ruud!

[Scotch]

I really hope he walks tomorrow. This crap needs to be highlighted nationally and his name should do that. People need to be held accountable. 

[Nolucklcfc]

I’ll be amazed if he does walk. You can tell in his whole demeanour that we weren’t signing anyone. 

[Sly]

He’s walked into a bigger shit show than he imagined. 
 

This has massively highlighted his inexperience and that he wasn’t ready to make sweeping changes. 

 

The question is does he walk, before he becomes the latest fall guy? 

[Mickyblueeyes]

Walk mate. Go on. Please. Shake it up.

[reynard]

29 minutes ago, jonny_wright said:

Glover bought them in, Cooper asked for PL experience and those positions - what we got was the fine scouting of Martyn Glover, the same guy that ruined Southampton before us 

Glover is totally useless. He has to be sacked after today.  

[Iwebema]

1 minute ago, reynard said:

Glover is totally useless. He has to be sacked after today.  

Rudkin will need a fall guy 👀