Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[RoboFox]

18 minutes ago, lgfualol said:

The bloke is absolutely useless, what a disaster

Dutch football journos did warn us all TBF. 

 

Shockingly, it seems like the club didn't do their due diligence. 

 

But still, has a nice aura. 

[cityfanlee23]

Super Frank 👀 

[Gamble92]

So statically he'd only have had to have been about the 10th worst Premier League manager ever to have kept us on same points as Wolves. 

 

Puts it into context of just how bad this is.

[CosbehFox]

2 hours ago, RoboFox said:

Dutch football journos did warn us all TBF. 

 

Shockingly, it seems like the club didn't do their due diligence. 

 

But still, has a nice aura. 

That’s what you get when you let a nepobaby make decisions like occurred here 

[broughtonblue]

Any other manager (use the term loosely) survived a run of 12 defeats in 13, conceding 32 and scoring 5, but no goals at home in 6 matches!

[AKCJ]

46 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

So statically he'd only have had to have been about the 10th worst Premier League manager ever to have kept us on same points as Wolves. 

 

Puts it into context of just how bad this is.

 Jesus christ that is insane.

[AKCJ]

Project Ruud has failed miserably but don't let anyone pretend that sacking Steve Cooper was anything but an absolute necessity. 

 

[honeybradger]

21 hours ago, Twitcher said:

Has to go. If for nothing else, continually playing Soumare. How many of us, with no experience would play him again?

 

Exactly!

who would you play instead? Winks and Skipp have been poor as well this season.

[SuperMike]

2 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

who would you play instead? Winks and Skipp have been poor as well this season.

Yeah - agreed - but Soumare takes poor to levels that had previously never been plumbed in the Premier league before. Simply the worst.

[OnlyOneCity]

10 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

who would you play instead? Winks and Skipp have been poor as well this season.

At least Winks is prepared to move the ball forward. After a couple of decent performances earlier in the season, it’s time Soumari was dropped. Although he’s frustrating at times, I think Mavididi should start on Sunday. He surely has a point to prove and again, is prepared to go forward. On another note, did you hear Maresca’s comments when asked about Fernandes being jeered for passing the ball back to the keeper? He said if he didn’t pass back he would be out of the team. Same for the keeper if he goes long. No room for initiative then if there’s a chance of a break.

[winteriscoming]

No rumours whatsoever even shit sources saying his job is under threat. Ridiculous. 
The acceptance that losing 12 out of 13 is ok is shocking. 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

19 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

No rumours whatsoever even shit sources saying his job is under threat. Ridiculous. 
The acceptance that losing 12 out of 13 is ok is shocking. 

Losing 12 out of 13 for ANY club is unacceptable let alone Leicester 

 

he shouldn't just be sacked he should be hung drawn and quartered 

[nettle]

1 hour ago, winteriscoming said:

No rumours whatsoever even shit sources saying his job is under threat. Ridiculous. 
The acceptance that losing 12 out of 13 is ok is shocking. 

You'd like to think there would be a rumour somewhere wouldn't you. It's absolutely shocking really it must be the best job football abject failure but still safe in your job.

[Tomo260]

Well eventually Ruud tried a different formation/tactics albeit 2 months late.

 

With the squad we've got there's no doubt it's better, but a few tweaks needed. We're all but mathematically relegated, so we might as well just try, right?

 

Anyway, this is my idea of what I'd like to see against Man U. Take out Faes and Victor. I admire Victors grit but I think Luke's performance deserves him a start, and Woyo in front may add a bit more flow and aggression down the flank. Faes I think makes more mistakes than anyone this season, if he closed down Marc Paella we may have pinched a draw.

 

Our lovely Ricardo is back, we all know his qualities and I think would support JJ well on that side. 

All our CBs are not great but with a back 3 Coady perfoms best in that central position IMO

Finally the front 3 has to be Facundo, Bilal, Vardy. A mixture of class and  tenacity between those 3 may lead to a goal.

Edited 11 March by Tomo260

[tickler28]

The plan has to be to get relegated....there's no other explanation for it

[danny.]

55 minutes ago, Tomo260 said:

Well eventually Ruud tried a different formation/tactics albeit 2 months late.

 

With the squad we've got there's no doubt it's better, but a few tweaks needed. We're all but mathematically relegated, so we might as well just try, right?

 

Anyway, this is my idea of what I'd like to see against Man U. Take out Faes and Victor. I admire Victors grit but I think Luke's performance deserves him a start, and Woyo in front may add a bit more flow and aggression down the flank. Faes I think makes more mistakes than anyone this season, if he closed down Marc Paella we may have pinched a draw.

 

Our lovely Ricardo is back, we all know his qualities and I think would support JJ well on that side. 

All our CBs are not great but with a back 3 Coady perfoms best in that central position IMO

Finally the front 3 has to be Facundo, Bilal, Vardy. A mixture of class and  tenacity between those 3 may lead to a goal.

That isn't a 12 losses in 13 team, it's not amazing but not awful either, on paper.

[RYM]

I can only think they’ll stick with him for a while yet. Hope he gets us back up or challenging and claim it’s always been a long term aim to support an up and coming manager. He’ll eventually leave as it’s shite here and KPFC PR Anthony H will release a statement for Top playing the victim. 

 

The threat of the press destroying the owners further is more damaging to them than another L.

 

[ClaphamFox]

8 minutes ago, danny. said:

That isn't a 12 losses in 13 team, it's not amazing but not awful either, on paper.

It's a team that will start to improve and pick up more points but will not catch Wolves. The question is whether it improves enough for Top to decide that RVN deserves a shot next season.

[indierich06]

There's no point bringing in an interim manager, as we're basically down. There's no point in bringing in a perm manager with an eye on the Championship because they will just start off by losing a bunch of games and it will turn the fans against them. Let him stay IMO, the damage is done, and can't be undone by anyone else. Sack him the second the whistle blows on the final match of the season.

[turtmcfly]

49 minutes ago, danny. said:

That isn't a 12 losses in 13 team, it's not amazing but not awful either, on paper.

 

You can ignore Ricardo and Ndidi from the line up, given how long they've been out. So...

 

Justin/Coady/Thomas is puke.

 

Winks/Woyo/Puke Ricardo replacement/Puke Ndidi replacement is puke.

 

Bounanotte is puke in a dress.

 

Assuming we're judging them with a football near them, I've forgotten what Vardy is.

 

El Khanouss is indeed 'not awful', but has been giving awful a good go recently.

 

Got a really good goalie though.

 

[Filbert Fireworks]

Been in complete denial but accepted he's here until the end of the season. 

[Les-TA-Jon]

23 hours ago, winteriscoming said:

No rumours whatsoever even shit sources saying his job is under threat. Ridiculous. 
The acceptance that losing 12 out of 13 is ok is shocking. 

 

22 hours ago, Bob Weasel Fox said:

Losing 12 out of 13 for ANY club is unacceptable let alone Leicester 

 

he shouldn't just be sacked he should be hung drawn and quartered 

People seem to want a sacking for purely punitive reasons. But (even for the current set up) there has to be an attempt at strategic thinking. 

 

4 hours ago, indierich06 said:

There's no point bringing in an interim manager, as we're basically down. There's no point in bringing in a perm manager with an eye on the Championship because they will just start off by losing a bunch of games and it will turn the fans against them. Let him stay IMO, the damage is done, and can't be undone by anyone else. Sack him the second the whistle blows on the final match of the season.

This ^^^

[AjcW]

BR was sacked with 10 games to go straight after an International break.

 

If he goes after United we'll have 9 games left and an international break.

Wouldn't put it past them  

 

[winteriscoming]

What have we got to lose by replacing him? It can’t be any worse. 
I admit we’re down but what harm would it do getting a different voice on the touchline. 
Go down with someone with fight instead of a whimper.  

[Paninistickers]

5 hours ago, danny. said:

That isn't a 12 losses in 13 team, it's not amazing but not awful either, on paper.

Any self respecting manager could squeeze points out of 11 mads, JJ, Vk, Okoli, Faes, Vesty, Winks, Skipp, Wilf, Buonanotte, Stephy Daka, BEK, Ayew

 

 

Vards, Soumare, BdcR is essentially playing with 8.5 players. No manager can get points with so few contributing.