Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[Parker Pen]

I feel that this situation is like a fox with its leg caught in a snare waiting for the gamekeeper to come and put us out of our misery.  Our option to escape is to chew our leg off but we don’t have the bottle to do it.

[SK3Blue]

23 games in charge including all cup games, 3 wins, 2 draws, 18 defeats. Win ratio 13.04% and that includes the 6-2 v QPR! 
 

An average tier 5/6 non league manager would not do any worse. 

[Weller Wing]

Love the bit where he says doing things that are in the best interests of the club.

 

Well just feck off then and rip up your contract.

 

That would help the club no end.

 

And before anyone says 'would you walk and lose money'?

 

Yes I would if I was already a multi millionaire and will walk into a well paid job as soon as I fancied

[Sooper Steve's shin]

We are clearly loathe to sack him because we’ve obviously written ourselves into a corner in the contract. You’d think having just got rid of Cooper after 15 games or whatever that we might have tried to cover ourselves. I guess he’s holding out to get paid, but Ruud is not doing himself any favours in terms of his personal reputation by holding on. Have some dignity and walk - in reality, he should take some/a lot of blame for our situation but at this point we don’t care. Blame the board, the players or whatever but just go. Otherwise he’s just going to be losing more games until the end of the season and making his record even more abysmal.

[Merchant_Banker]

11 hours ago, when_you're_smiling said:

That’s all about Dan Ashworth who was joining another club. That’s the standard gardening leave. RVN isn’t joining a competitor.

 

I think from my very limited knowledge there’s something about ‘right to work’ so if the employee is placed on gardening leave, they could take it to court and say they wanted to work. The employer would then have to prove they had a legal reason to place them on gardening leave. In Ashworth’s case, organising the transfers of staff for a rival club would be a legitimate (and fairly standard) reason. I’m guessing ‘to not pay him off until July because we don’t want to’ would not be looked on favourably by a court as a legitimate reason.
 

I was put on gardening leave from a job when I didn't have another job to go to. I had only just joined and spent more time on gardening laeve than I did working for the company!

[LcFc_Smiv]

I can't buy the 1st July sacking, that puts us 4 weeks out from the start of the season. My biggest concern is that he's not going anywhere.

[winteriscoming]

It’s a master plan from Top. Ancellotti is going to be Brazil manager. Real Madrid will go for Ruud like Bayern did with Kompany. Even if that did happen we’d be stupid enough to turn the approach down and offer Ruud a new 5 year contract. 

[Nolucklcfc]

56 minutes ago, Weller Wing said:

Love the bit where he says doing things that are in the best interests of the club.

 

Well just feck off then and rip up your contract.

 

That would help the club no end.

 

And before anyone says 'would you walk and lose money'?

 

Yes I would if I was already a multi millionaire and will walk into a well paid job as soon as I fancied

He’s a disgrace 

[majaco]

I've seen a suggestion that he be put on gardening leave.  If he won't come to a deal to leave then this could be a good idea.   The worst thing that could happen is we pay off his contract in time rather than pay it off in one go.  Hopefully, he would get another job, I doubt it would be as a manager, and have to do a deal

[SK3Blue]

1 hour ago, Weller Wing said:

Love the bit where he says doing things that are in the best interests of the club.

 

Well just feck off then and rip up your contract.

 

That would help the club no end.

 

And before anyone says 'would you walk and lose money'?

 

Yes I would if I was already a multi millionaire and will walk into a well paid job as soon as I fancied

Agreed, his CV looks bad enough but he could potentially see out the season without the team scoring and losing the remaining four.  
 

If someone’s daft enough to take him on, surely it sounds better to say I’ve walked due to lack of clarity from owners rather than ‘yeah we lost the last however many games and didn’t score at home in 11 matches’ 

 

Theres no hiding it, he’s worse than Pleat, Taylor, Holloway, as we say goodbye to our greatest ever player, it’s an absolute travesty that the worst ever manager is still sat at his desk. 

[roblcfc84]

You look at yesterdays team and think he’s completely incapable and not planning for the future. Personally I think that’s the most likely scenario. Is there any chance he’s playing the players who won’t be involved next to avoid damaging the confidence of the new players and youth players. Let these lads suffer the humiliation and start totally fresh next year? 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Ruud boy OUT

[Mickyblueeyes]

If we can’t sack him despite this god awful run. Anyone who is not completely Rudkin, Top and fat bitch Susan out needs to slap themselves silly.if in doubt, you’re ****ing stupid.  
 

An unemployed, unproven manager with no other PL team looking at the time and if he’s managed to get a contract without a reasonable release clause, he’s had the three wankstains pants down. And is not the first. 
 

Get this guy out of the club now!

[Tommy Fresh]

4 hours ago, deep blue said:

If he were trying to get results he wouldn't have picked the players he did yesterday.

Picking Facundo a player who won't be here next season kind of proves he is

[HankMarvin]

1 hour ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Picking Facundo a player who won't be here next season kind of proves he is

Top tier management, totally alienate and drop loan signing then in 20 games time, expect him to give a shit and put in a shift to try and keep you in a job 

[purpleronnie]

us?

 

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[Happy Fox]

2 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

us?

 

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Not us, as we are still classed as a premier league club till the shares are passed on to the newly promoted teams.

 

I imagine it’s either Norwich or West Brom.

[Corky]

To lose virtually all mitigation is some going. He has made a poor squad even worse.

 

There comes a point where the record has no caveats.

[Philkeavo]

Top, Rudkin and Whelan are the architects of our decline.

RvN is just the accelerant of our demise. He’s just another chancer, a modern day snake oil salesman who duped Nepo “my hands our tied” baby good and proper by pretending to be a manager while overseeing Manure during their post manager sacking bounce.

[Sly]

[Blue.Fox84]

At this point it has to be one of two things;

 

1. We can’t afford to sack him and we will wait till this seasons books are closed

 

2. The board are happy with either what he’s done or his plans

 

Either way it’s a poor state of affairs and shows how incapable and poorly ran this club has become. We should never be in a position that we are forced to sit and watch the ship sink as badly as it has with no actions or how blinded the board are to believe that someone who has been so poor could be the right man to get us out of the championship. 
 

At this point it looks like RvN is saying and doing all the right PR stunts to save his career stating the club hasn’t spoken to him (could be true which is poor on our point and but gives him an angle to say there is no support to allow him to be successful) and by saying we should be focusing on academy (which I do believe we should) however I don’t think it’s been done correctly.

[Dan]

Once again tells you absolutely everything you need to know about our board that they didn't put a relegation clause in there. They really were delusional enough to think that we were going to just rise from 16th. Imagine having them as your accountant. You'd be dead within two years.

[BeaumontFox]

1 hour ago, Blue.Fox84 said:

At this point it has to be one of two things;

 

1. We can’t afford to sack him and we will wait till this seasons books are closed

 

2. The board are happy with either what he’s done or his plans

 

Either way it’s a poor state of affairs and shows how incapable and poorly ran this club has become. We should never be in a position that we are forced to sit and watch the ship sink as badly as it has with no actions or how blinded the board are to believe that someone who has been so poor could be the right man to get us out of the championship. 
 

At this point it looks like RvN is saying and doing all the right PR stunts to save his career stating the club hasn’t spoken to him (could be true which is poor on our point and but gives him an angle to say there is no support to allow him to be successful) and by saying we should be focusing on academy (which I do believe we should) however I don’t think it’s been done correctly.

I believe it’s been mentioned before that he wants his compensation and we cannot afford to sack until the books close.

[Edingleyfox]

So in the last 9 months Leicester have handed out two 3 year contracts for managers. RVN came with virtually no prem management experience and Cooper very limited Surely there must be some clauses in them??  But then in January signed a full back on a 4.5 year contract and what happened there. Not to mention Golding from Chelsea last summer for £5m not featured at all. 

[cityfanlee23]

24 minutes ago, Dan said:

Once again tells you absolutely everything you need to know about our board that they didn't put a relegation clause in there. They really were delusional enough to think that we were going to just rise from 16th. Imagine having them as your accountant. You'd be dead within two years.

If I had the sort of money KP have wasted on managers I’d be dead in 12 months tops