Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[Claudio Fannieri]

I wonder if his contract/ severance package is linked to our end of season final position, the higher we finish the bigger his pay off, however if he is sacked before the end of season he is entitled to his full pay off. So it may be that by waiting to end of season his pay off will reduce. Also given we would only have a temporary management team  in place, it may therefore make more financial sense to let him finish the season. 

[Lichfieldfox.]

Whatever the outcome the contracts team need to be cleverer in future contract wording to cover the full spectrum of performance so we don't stitch ourselves up again. Reward and motivate excellence and not overpay for failure. 

 

[honeybradger]

Just noting that Amorim, who was excellent at Sporting, has Man United on a torrid run of form. Sometimes it is down to the club.

 

I'd rather keep Ruud with regular gametime for Monga and Evans next season than change to Sean Dyche who would never give them minutes.

[Slab Edd]

Ruud hasn't been the best manager in the world,in some games we've looked truly terrible, but in some games as well,we should have taken at least a point, the first Man city match,the Crystal palace match,the aston villa match should have been a draw, Brighton we should have beat, Liverpool which we had a goal chalked out and would would put us on about 33 points meaning we're still in the race, he hasn't been the best,but this team and their lack of quality really let him and the club down 

[oldbluefox]

3 minutes ago, Slab Edd said:

....... he hasn't been the best,but this team and their lack of quality really let him and the club down 

I would agree with that. Some of his team selections have been questionable as have the tactics but when you look at what he had to play with especially players who don't give a damn you can understand why we're in this mess. Cooper's legacy was a team of journeymen just looking to make a quick buck and giving little in return. (Don't get me started on Edouard!!!). Money would have been better spent on young lads with something to prove who would bust a gut to put in a performance. We are stuck with a load of prima donnas out for an afternoon stroll who have let the club down. 

Unfortunately we will never know what was promised to RvN and wasn't delivered. Rudkin needs to go.

[cityfanlee23]

I think if Ruud was a bit more forward in the media he would probably win *some* people over, if he came out in the interviews and said "I want this job, I can rebuild us, I want to see us playing attacking, exciting football with young hungry players, and I want to rebuild this club around the likes of Monga, Evans, Nelson, Alves etc etc" I'd probably back him over going for another gamble like Davide Ancelotti. 

But he's got what I would consider a typical Dutch sort of approach where in the media he's more closed off and very 'matter of fact' about the situation, rather than letting some emotion out and telling everyone he wants to lead us into the championship, he's aluded to doing that, but he's not really shown it in a passionate way even though I think he genuinely wants the job. I've not been fully convinced he is "waiting for a payoff" 

The question I've asked since about 5 games in, is forget the results and positions, is he showing us that if he can't keep us up can he get us out of the championship if we go down? I'm not convinced, but I think recently we have been more competitive, we've beaten Southampton comfortably, were unlucky in quite a few games under Ruud such as Man City, Palace, Brighton and Forest and have had matches where individual mistakes such as Vardy missing absolute sitters and Faes having 53 brain farts per match. Southampton and Ipswich are the obvious markers. If we beat Ipswich in the manner that we beat Southampton, I'll be somewhat convinced that we are probably going to have a core of a squad good enough to be fighting at the top end of the Championship next season. 

With that said. Rohl in. 

Edited 12 May 2025 by cityfanlee23

[Chown]

12 points in 23 games. Awful. And to those that keep quoting luck, you won’t see a luckier four points than the ones RvN got in his first two games. If you discount those first two games before he was able to fully implement his awful selection/tactics then it’s 8 points in the last 21 games. Worst manager in our history.

[Filbert Fireworks]

You make your own luck. He has been woeful and a solitary win against the joint worst team in Premier league history at home and a draw away to an imploding forest when we are already relegated and the pressure is off doesn't change that. He's tactically inept. Sorry but we haven't been 'unlucky' in games we've barely produced anything going forwards. Persisted with a double pivot of Soumare Ndidi and wow what a shock performance picks up when soumare is out which we all knew 20 games ago. 

Its been horrific. 

RVN is last name on the list to manage us next season. 

 

 

[Big_Nige]

Ruud is another manger who doesn’t manage the game in front of him. He won’t access a team we’re about to play and look for their weaknesses and ways to hurt them. He’ll just play his way. Which with the players we have in the squad doesn’t work and is impotent
 

Maybe with a squad in his imagine and with players who can carry out his “vision” he might do a good job. But he needs to go, the fact we’ve done the same thing ad nauseam is just maddening. Yes we have a squad short in quality at this level, but he should have found us a way to be competitive

[brookfox]

If he does stay (and I hope he doesn’t) he needs to seriously revamp his coaching staff.

[winteriscoming]

Yes great getting the draw against Forest and stopping their push for Europe but there was no game plan. If he still thinks Ayew can do a job for us I dread to think if he’s still in charge next season. 
Amazingly 2 young players change the game in the last 15 mins. 
Tactically clueless but these clowns will see the results in the last few games and think we should stick with him. 
He has to go. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

25 minutes ago, brookfox said:

If he does stay (and I hope he doesn’t) he needs to seriously revamp his coaching staff.

IE the club need to pay for who he actually wants.

[Jakemoore]

Anyone else notice that he seems to be talking like someone who is here to stay 😢🙃

[RoboFox]

Sort of telling that tactical expert Dominic Wells who pops up on RL every now and then seems utterly baffled by van Nistelrooy's tactics. 

 

This dude's a performance analyst but in six months of football still struggles identify what Ruud's game plan is or what he's trying to achieve. 

 

Sums it all up really. The guy is utterly tactically inept. 

 

 

Edited 13 May 2025 by RoboFox

[Stadt]

The cope is starting I see

[Fox92]

On 12/05/2025 at 12:00, Slab Edd said:

Ruud hasn't been the best manager in the world,in some games we've looked truly terrible, but in some games as well,we should have taken at least a point, the first Man city match,the Crystal palace match,the aston villa match should have been a draw, Brighton we should have beat, Liverpool which we had a goal chalked out and would would put us on about 33 points meaning we're still in the race, he hasn't been the best,but this team and their lack of quality really let him and the club down 

Load of rubbish. It's all "ifs". I could argue if's for every single manager in the World. Why should those games have been draws? We shouldn't have draw at Villa for example, they were the better team. 

 

End of the day we broke the football league record for not scoring goals under his management. He is the worse we've ever had.

[Joe90]

How anyone on here can give this manager the SLIGHTEST bit of credit is absolutely beyond me, the bloke Is probably our worse ever manager, one of the worse managers of all time in the league he deserves nothing but the sack 

[Foxin_Mad]

Hes absolutely not worse than Peter Taylor, that is absolute garbage. Taylor had nearly 2 seasons to build his squad and at that time A LOT of investment. Rudd has basically had, well **** all, no money no nothing and people are expecting him to polish absolute turds he didn't even choose with a load of Coopers useless staff for 3 months,  hes had issues but anyone cant see he has been given a tragic hand, not to mention the absolute crap communication from the club, im really struggling to find many people who would come to this club who could make a good situation out of this mess. 

[Dan]

I can fully see him staying.

[Joe90]

5 minutes ago, Dan said:

I can fully see him staying.

I said this before, if we keep him it will be the worse decision the club has ever made, surly we are not that incompetent………… surly not 

[Dan]

5 minutes ago, Joe90 said:

I said this before, if we keep him it will be the worse decision the club has ever made, surly we are not that incompetent………… surly not 

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[Edingleyfox]

Ruud was saying that he was supporting Facundo to shape his own future. I’m increasingly frustrated hearing this type of spin because the youngsters have had very little opportunity during his tenure. I haven’t heard an outstanding replacement mentioned but I don’t have confidence in Ruuds ability to navigate a promotion push.

[Joe90]

2 minutes ago, Dan said:

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Actually 🤣

[1972 Fox]

3 hours ago, Joe90 said:

I said this before, if we keep him it will be the worse decision the club has ever made, surly we are not that incompetent………… surly not 

Agreed. It will make me bad tempered and unfriendly if we keep RvN as our manager.

 

Edited 13 May 2025 by 1972 Fox

[jv1]

Makes me feel sick that he is still in charge - nothing gets better until this absolute chancer is gone - get this season erased from my memory forever