Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[reynard]

42 minutes ago, RedSoxUK said:

The Dutchman has got to go. He clearly can't hack it in the PL so why give him a chance in the Championship when the objective is to get back in the Premier League.

 

Surely it's better to get someone in now or at least 'from June' so we can plan properly.

I agree he has to go but the choice right now is limited. Clubs do not want to part with successful managers this late in the season.  Maybe the options would be better and wider in the summer?

[ClaphamFox]

6 minutes ago, reynard said:

I agree he has to go but the choice right now is limited. Clubs do not want to part with successful managers this late in the season.  Maybe the options would be better and wider in the summer?

Literally no point in trying to appoint a new manager now, for the reasons you cite. Very few quality candidates available.

[HankMarvin]

1 hour ago, SafewayFox said:

I’m sorry but this seems to crop up on here with those comments ignoring that the rot started under Cooper, he lost 4 of his last 5.

 

With the other result being against a 10 man Ipswich.

 

The players downed tools and weren’t having Cooper, I know that’s a whole different story.

 

Cooper from day one was a horrible appointment, like RVN also has been.

That “rot” in the league games accrued 4 points in his last 5 games.

 

7 points if you go back 6 games 

Which the same amount it’s taken RVN 14 games, soon to be 15 games to get 

[reynard]

3 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Literally no point in trying to appoint a new manager now, for the reasons you cite. Very few quality candidates available.

Any well run club would be looking now a the direction it needs to go. Apart from the much needed financial side of things this has been a sobering and frankly painful season. We need quite a big rebuild and for me a whole restructuring of the football side from youth team to first 11.  I'm not well enough informed to know who that might be but what we don't want is a stop gap manager just to get us back up but one with a wide philosophy that starts with decent discipline and raising of standards all the way through the club.

Above all we need an owner to get a grip of the club and to stop fantasizing about us playing like Man City.  Perhaps start with trying to win the fans over with simple entertainment and players that actually look like they want to be here and actually look like they are trying.

[Stadt]

1 hour ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

We’re effectively playing the style this club was “built” for and we’ve been totally disastrous since. He took a side bottom of championship and built the foundations for a side now likely to make champions league, he clearly not a crap manager.

They won none of his last 13 games with the foundations of a champions league squad.

 

He’s a crap PL manager - fine, he’s a decent championship one.

[CrazyKopCorner]

Shuddering at the thought of what the twats going to do next and the pathetic lukewarm efforts of these total morons. 

[Legend_in_blue]

We cannot plan anything properly until the people above the manager are gone.

 

Whether that includes RVN or not is currently not the priority.

[Twitcher]

On 10/03/2025 at 14:49, honeybradger said:

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

Either of those two.

[Nolucklcfc]

One of his major failures is the decline of Facundo. 

[FoxinNotts]

This fvcking twate 

[beepee1984]

Surprised he has not made any changes to the team

 

Shows he is happy with what he is seeing... I know the team are useless, but accepting the performances our players put in last week without a single person dropped shows a serious lack of management

[Analysethis]

I put the below in the match thread, probably more suited to this thread. I am so cheesed off with this muppet I`ll copy here as well

 

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I cant recall every being a supporter of my club and looked at a manager as being as clueless and stubborn as RVN.

 

It may sound obvious with the amount of losses we have suffered, but his team selections have largely been questionable,  his tactics being obvious and the fact that he refuses to blood any of our youngsters whilst United start with one youth and have a further 6 on the bench.If this idiot is not blooding them in now he never will.

 

Get him out and lts get a forward thinking manager in for next season

[Tom12345]

“At the moment, Leicester City is playing a brand of going nowhere football.”.  Commentator.

 

Quite right.

 

RVN is really bad, as it turns out.  Much worst than Cooper.

 

We were always somewhere in the game with Cooper.

 

I remember Cooper’s Forest were always threatening.

 

RVN’s Leicester is absolutely trash with no idea how to even attack a goal. Relying on Justin to attack as a winger?

 

Edited 16 March by Tom12345

[Mickyblueeyes]

For him to still be here shows the level the stupid bastard owner will drop us to. There is only one chant for Top and unfortunately it’s not for kids. 

[Tom12345]

We have no idea how to score yet RVN still leaves Bouneoette on the bench. He stopped scoring since RVN came.

[Fox92]

How is this bloke still our manager. It’s a joke.

[Tom12345]

8 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

That “rot” in the league games accrued 4 points in his last 5 games.

 

7 points if you go back 6 games 

Which the same amount it’s taken RVN 14 games, soon to be 15 games to get 

Agree. Cooper, while not the best, was way better than RVN and this current display. 

[Beachyboy]

Quite possible that we go from 5 goals in Ruuds first 2 games to 5 league goals in 5 months.

[TrickyTrevLeftPeg]

He's lost all credibility with the fans and players. The writing is on the wall.

 

He won't be in charge next season. Not a chance.

[FrankieADZ]

how he is still the manager is beyond me, hes frankly not good enough

[The Doctor]

9 hours ago, Stadt said:

In 15 years under KP we’ve appointed a manger employed by another club TWICE and one of them was Pearson.

 

Just pure laziness, never have we appointed a manager that hasn’t already worked in England. It’s completely myopic.

Yep. Worst of all, the RvN appointment wouldn't have happened in the summer - not because of his lack of quality, but because he wasn't recently involved in the PL. We've become the exact opposite of what we used to be under Pearson, a forward thinking club with a clear plan, recruitment where attitude was as important as ability. Now we're a bunch of dinosaurs off the pitch, and an arrogant and unlikeable team on it.

[CrazyKopCorner]

Have we ever had as big a cxxt as RVFN manage us? Discuss 

[frany104]

Get him gone. Useless. 
 

get Dyche in. at least we would have some fight and defensive structure 

 

can’t keep watching us ship Sunday league level goals every week. 
 

 

[bluefox1]

Rvns half time talk,plenty of the same stuff

Edited 16 March by bluefox1

[Claudio Fannieri]

I am fed up of hearing at least Cooper had a plan, he didn’t he was an appalling manager who relied on moments, an almighty dollop of luck and a goalkeeper playing out of his skin, RVN has a plan and a structure the trouble is its laboured and the majority of our players that he selects lack the technical skills to execute and make it effective. 
 

2 woeful appointments