Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[Jattdogg]

1 minute ago, EnderbyFox said:

Southampton have sacked a manager, hired a manager, sacked that manager & appointed another manager all in the time since we last scored a goal at home 

You'll never sing that.

[Pita]

Just proves how bad our management is. Let’s hope he’s gone in the morning 

[Guy]

4 hours ago, Blue.Fox84 said:

People forget how bad we was under Cooper. Cooper and Ruud was appalling appointments, Ruud has just helped make Cooper look a lot better than he actually was 

I recall the Forest fans taunted us in the infamous home fixture defeat in October with a reverse "straight back down, straight back down  LCFC ..... playing football the Cooper way" chant - and they probably wouldn't have been far wrong with that, it's just that his successor was even more of the wrong appointment based on a whim at a superior team's then autumnal form. That fault is clearly the boards and nobody else's!  

[Dickov22]

5 hours ago, FLAN said:

Despite his limitations he’s head and shoulders more use than BDR

Is he? Both as hopeless as each other in my opinion. 

[Corbee]

Has he gone yet??

[fox_favourite]

I have a horrible feeling he'll be here next season, which is completely wrong decision. We need a clean break. Clear out the rot and start again. New DoF, new manager and new approach to football. 

 

 

[funkyrobot]

3 hours ago, Dickov22 said:

Is he? Both as hopeless as each other in my opinion. 

MacAteer gave Estupinan a real game last week at Brighton. His running and commitment rattled the full back and he also tracked back effectively. BDCR offers nothing going forward, no pace or physicality and it’s exactly the same defensively. The worst of some terrible signings this season. 2 more years too ffs.

[Claudio Fannieri]

He will be gone, relegation will mean a lower pay off, given how he was hung out to dry in January with next to nothing in the transfer window, despite promises of getting lots of support to freshen the squad, I think Ruud has been waiting for his pay off, he wants out as much as us fans want him gone, look at how frustrated we are at how the club is managed, so imagine being the manager, lied to about transfers, players running to the owner, a DoF out of his depth, not being able to bring in your own backroom staff. 
 

We talk about a disconnect between supporters and the club, too be honest I can see a far bigger one between RVN and the club at present. 
 

Ruud keeps calling the club out about the future because he knows they are on suck different pages in terms of the future, the playing squad, culture and standards and that discussion is only going to end with a parting of the ways and a pay off. 

[winteriscoming]

Says it all when he looks like he gets on better with opposition players than his own. 
 

[JimmyC74]

I agree that there will be a parting of the ways but, I doubt this will happen before the season finishes alas.  The concern is that the higher ups delay making a decision until the end of June.
 

Top needs to be / hopefully is prepping now - looking for a new DofF and a new manager - and not waiting to start until the players start their summer holidays.

 

I think Ruud will be gone but I really don’t see Top changing Rudders - they are joined at the hip - and as Top has limited knowledge of the Football world I doubt he would be able to bring anyone in within a few weeks (unless he went on bended knee to the likes of Puel or more likely big Nige). Which means it is likely Rudders plays a central role in identifying/ recruiting the new boss.

 

 

 

 

Edited 21 April by JimmyC74

[phoneticerror]

42 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

I have a horrible feeling he'll be here next season, which is completely wrong decision. We need a clean break. Clear out the rot and start again. New DoF, new manager and new approach to football. 

 

 

We do yes, but we need to make sure the next one is the right manager. So would it be best to keep him now the season is over until the best willing candidate is found?

[Iwebema]

5 minutes ago, JimmyC74 said:

and as Top has limited knowledge of the Football

This is a big reason why I wouldn't get my hopes up for any change. His footballing knowledge extends from Rudkin to anything on the Premier League years. He won't have the first clue on who is out there to replace Rudkin.

[fox_favourite]

1 minute ago, phoneticerror said:

We do yes, but we need to make sure the next one is the right manager. So would it be best to keep him now the season is over until the best willing candidate is found?

I'd rather he's gone. He's part of the issue. Get the poison out the system now. I don't care who is caretaker. Like you say, it really doesn't matter now. Southampton have done it as they were clever and put a break clause in. 

Edited 21 April by fox_favourite

[Pliskin]

He will go, but he will be here until the summer. We will no doubt drag our heels as always and make the appointment a week before the season starts. 

[ClaphamFox]

14 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

He will be gone, relegation will mean a lower pay off, given how he was hung out to dry in January with next to nothing in the transfer window, despite promises of getting lots of support to freshen the squad, I think Ruud has been waiting for his pay off, he wants out as much as us fans want him gone, look at how frustrated we are at how the club is managed, so imagine being the manager, lied to about transfers, players running to the owner, a DoF out of his depth, not being able to bring in your own backroom staff. 
 

We talk about a disconnect between supporters and the club, too be honest I can see a far bigger one between RVN and the club at present. 
 

Ruud keeps calling the club out about the future because he knows they are on suck different pages in terms of the future, the playing squad, culture and standards and that discussion is only going to end with a parting of the ways and a pay off. 

I hope the first part of your sentence is correct, but it seems the second half isn’t. In his article yesterday John Percy, who is among the few reliable journalists covering Leicester, explicitly stated that there is no relegation clause. If he‘s right, that could mean that sacking RVN will incur a heavy cost, which may cause issues given our ongoing dicey position with PSR.

[StevieH]

Everyone is saying he needs to go but look at Ipswich. Chucked over 100m for players at it and they are still going down. Mckenna overviewed these signings too and he hasn't been sacked. The gap now between Championship and Premier is massive a virtually impossible to bridge. I can see RVN staying and given first 10 games next season.

[fox_favourite]

1 minute ago, ClaphamFox said:

I hope the first part of your sentence is correct, but it seems the second half isn’t. In his article yesterday John Percy, who is among the few reliable journalists covering Leicester, explicitly stated that there is no relegation clause. If he‘s right, that could mean that sacking RVN will incur a heavy cost, which may cause issues given our ongoing dicey position with PSR.

Another Rudkin masterclasses. Disgraceful the amount of awful decisions someone makes and still in a job. 

[phoneticerror]

6 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

I'd rather he's gone. He's part of the issue. Get the poison out the system now. I don't care who is caretaker. Like you say, it really doesn't matter now. Southampton have done it as they were clever and put a break clause in. 

Caretaker fine, but knowing our idiots we’ll sign somebody for 3 years.

[SemperEadem]

9 hours ago, South Shire Fox said:

Has there been a single chant calling for him to be sacked this season? Seems to get away scot free in the ground

One that I've heard. At 2.0 to Newcastle

[coolhandfox]

37 minutes ago, StevieH said:

Everyone is saying he needs to go but look at Ipswich. Chucked over 100m for players at it and they are still going down. Mckenna overviewed these signings too and he hasn't been sacked. The gap now between Championship and Premier is massive a virtually impossible to bridge. I can see RVN staying and given first 10 games next season.

We haven't scored in 9 home league games a English football League record and we have scored 6 goals since 8th of December.

 

We have lost 16 of the last 18 games, he shouldn't be given another game.

 

 

[joachim1965]

46 minutes ago, StevieH said:

Everyone is saying he needs to go but look at Ipswich. Chucked over 100m for players at it and they are still going down. Mckenna overviewed these signings too and he hasn't been sacked. The gap now between Championship and Premier is massive a virtually impossible to bridge. I can see RVN staying and given first 10 games next season.

The gap is huge, but we were not your typical newly promoted side, we had been relegated with a squad that should have been comfortably mid table on the back of European football, we had by far the best squad in the championship, we were an established premier league club out for one season, we should not be going down again.

[Edingleyfox]

McKenna might be retained but he has a lot in the bank with successive promotions from League one and the Championship. 

[Rusko187]

1 hour ago, Corbee said:

Has he gone yet??

Beat me to it.

 

With his record, there’s absolutely no way he can stay on. Been totally abysmal!

[Lako42]

Why did the incompetent billionaire baby even come if he wasn't sacking this useless twat at full time. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

1 hour ago, ClaphamFox said:

I hope the first part of your sentence is correct, but it seems the second half isn’t. In his article yesterday John Percy, who is among the few reliable journalists covering Leicester, explicitly stated that there is no relegation clause. If he‘s right, that could mean that sacking RVN will incur a heavy cost, which may cause issues given our ongoing dicey position with PSR.

I am pretty sure he stated there was no break clause. Which is very different to a reduced pay off