Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

17 minutes ago, Skidmark said:

Remember the man who is ultimately responsible for this.... 

 

 

Wellens?

[foxfanazer]

Steve Cooper and Ruud Van Nistelrooy

 

Sometimes you have to take a step back and think, what the **** are we playing at?!

[The Year Of The Fox]

This topic shouldn’t be the hot topic on the forum with stuff being most debated

 

Should be ‘King Power Out’

[Paninistickers]

6 minutes ago, Lionator said:

If you went on hunger strike the last time we scored, and vowed not to eat until we score again, on a Bobby Sands timeline, you’d have died 6 days ago. 

Bobby de Cordova Sands!

[ClaphamFox]

4 minutes ago, Lionator said:

If you went on hunger strike the last time we scored, and vowed not to eat until we score again, on a Bobby Sands timeline, you’d have died 6 days ago. 

Bobby Sands went on hunger strike when we were in the bottom three of the old First Division and died a few days after our last game that season, when we were duly relegated. Heartbroken he was, poor lad. 

[Iwebema]

1 minute ago, teblin said:

Yep, we talk about silly decisions the club make. They would be daft to pay £5 million now when they could pay £1 million in a week or so. (figures made up).

 

Though might be they could negotiate with him seeing as its done already anyway pretty much..

Agreed, I am fairly sure he's been asking for a settlement for a while now, I would be highly surprised if he just out right quit. 

 

Id imagine he's going to try and negotiate leaving again today. Given the empty seats and the embarrassing mess the rest of the footballing world witnessed last night, we might finally agree to it, I won't hold my breath but someone must be saying we need to get this culture and rot on the turn before the season ends, you can't play out the last 7 games like that without it rolling into next season.

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, Iwebema said:

Agreed, I am fairly sure he's been asking for a settlement for a while now, I would be highly surprised if he just out right quit. 

 

Id imagine he's going to try and negotiate leaving again today. Given the empty seats and the embarrassing mess the rest of the footballing world witnessed last night, we might finally agree to it, I won't hold my breath but someone must be saying we need to get this culture and rot on the turn before the season ends, you can't play out the last 7 games like that without it rolling into next season.

Paying him more now than we need to in three weeks time could be the difference between having/not having  KDB here next season …….

[Claudio Fannieri]

2 minutes ago, Iwebema said:

Agreed, I am fairly sure he's been asking for a settlement for a while now, I would be highly surprised if he just out right quit. 

 

Id imagine he's going to try and negotiate leaving again today. Given the empty seats and the embarrassing mess the rest of the footballing world witnessed last night, we might finally agree to it, I won't hold my breath but someone must be saying we need to get this culture and rot on the turn before the season ends, you can't play out the last 7 games like that without it rolling into next season.

I think he is prepared to accept his reduced payout now to get out, that is what I gleamed from his interview with Sky Sports after the game. 

[Bilo]

9 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Bobby de Cordova Sands!

Neither of them could finish their dinner.

[Lionator]

11 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Bobby de Cordova Sands!

A man guilty of joining an organisation that he thought was for the greater good but ended up causing misery to many thousands of people throughout his place of home through their overly sickening actions…and as for Bobby Sands!  

Edited 8 April by Lionator

[5waller5]

1 minute ago, Iwebema said:

we need to get this culture and rot on the turn before the season ends, you can't play out the last 7 games like that without it rolling into next season.

I’m really torn on this, if we get say Rhol, and he comes in and loses those 7 games his honeymoon has been wasted. I think I’d rather either stick with RVN for those 7, and a big clear out in the summer, or a caretaker for the rest of the season. 
 

Although I’m not sure why I’m worried, our board aren’t aware that we might need a new manager yet and certainly haven’t begun writing the advert for the Mercury classifieds

[The Year Of The Fox]

4 minutes ago, Lionator said:

A man guilty of joining an organisation that he thought was for the greater good but ended up causing misery to many thousands of people throughout his place of home through their overly sickening actions…and as for Bobby Sands!  

🤣🤣

 

Arrested on terror offences on football 

[Iwebema]

2 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

I’m really torn on this, if we get say Rhol, and he comes in and loses those 7 games his honeymoon has been wasted. I think I’d rather either stick with RVN for those 7, and a big clear out in the summer, or a caretaker for the rest of the season. 
 

Although I’m not sure why I’m worried, our board aren’t aware that we might need a new manager yet and certainly haven’t begun writing the advert for the Mercury classifieds

I agree, I wouldn't want a new permanent manager until the summer, just a caretaker to try and get some order and standards in place. Send anyone not wanting to be here next season on holiday early, just start the clear out now.

[Bilo]

3 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

I’m really torn on this, if we get say Rhol, and he comes in and loses those 7 games his honeymoon has been wasted. I think I’d rather either stick with RVN for those 7, and a big clear out in the summer, or a caretaker for the rest of the season. 
 

Although I’m not sure why I’m worried, our board aren’t aware that we might need a new manager yet and certainly haven’t begun writing the advert for the Mercury classifieds

Put him on gardening leave today and then terminate his contract on July 1st so it doesn't appear on the balance sheet until the next accounting period, by which point we should have trimmed a decent amount of fat from the wage bill as well. BBM and King as caretakers until the end of the season.

 

Actively pursue Röhl by the end of the day and get him to sign a pre-contract agreement to take over on July 1st, again delaying the compensation payment to Sheffield Wednesday until the next accounting period, but also giving him a whole summer to rebuild the squad.

[Lionator]

3 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

🤣🤣

 

Arrested on terror offences on football 

Fortunately if any of our lads joined an organisation like that they’d cry off as soon as someone started mentioning an ‘attack’ as they wouldn’t know what to do. 

[bovril]

An emaciated Bobby Sands is probably less lightweight than most of our players

[Bilo]

2 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Fortunately if any of our lads joined an organisation like that they’d cry off as soon as someone started mentioning an ‘attack’ as they wouldn’t know what to do. 

Jesus. Our lads would make Four Lions look the SAS.

[LCFCJohn]

There’s a couple of concerning things as to the likelihood of RVN being moved in swiftly.

 

1 - it was made known it was a Top appointment. He seems happy to pull the trigger quickly when it’s not (Puel, Cooper) but I can see this being a Rodger’s situation where it drags on longer due to Top’s ego and not wanting to admit being wrong.

 

2 - the likelihood of there being a relegation agreement to part company instantly like with Juric at Southampton. I’d say it’s unlikely they have done this as they only seem to have acknowledged we are in both in the last week or so. They probably weren’t even considering relegation possibly when RVN joined.

[5waller5]

4 minutes ago, Bilo said:

Put him on gardening leave today and then terminate his contract on July 1st so it doesn't appear on the balance sheet until the next accounting period, by which point we should have trimmed a decent amount of fat from the wage bill as well. BBM and King as caretakers until the end of the season.

 

Actively pursue Röhl by the end of the day and get him to sign a pre-contract agreement to take over on July 1st, again delaying the compensation payment to Sheffield Wednesday until the next accounting period, but also giving him a whole summer to rebuild the squad.

I like the theory, and I’m sure there’s a way to do this… You’d need some lawyers involved though as it seems risky from an employment law perspective (of course our board could be entirely trusted to navigate complex contracts)!

[Bilo]

2 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

I like the theory, and I’m sure there’s a way to do this… You’d need some lawyers involved though as it seems risky from an employment law perspective (of course our board could be entirely trusted to navigate complex contracts)!

I'm probably oversimplifying it, but isn't this pretty much what happened with Graham Potter at Chelsea? It's apparently why he couldn't, and didn't, take a job for a while. 

 

Certainly this link seems to suggest that putting RVN on gardening leave to 'protect the employer's legitimate interest' for less than three months would be legitimate. 

 

https://www.michelmores.com/employment-insight/garden-leave-in-sports/

[Les-TA-Jon]

Our worst ever manager? Anyone think of anyone else who might take it? 

 

[filbertway]

1 hour ago, FrankieADZ said:

hes not been sacked or walked yet, gutless from both

Rudkin doesn't open his emails till he's finished his croissant and mocha.

[5waller5]

8 minutes ago, Bilo said:

I'm probably oversimplifying it, but isn't this pretty much what happened with Graham Potter at Chelsea? It's apparently why he couldn't, and didn't, take a job for a while. 

 

Certainly this link seems to suggest that putting RVN on gardening leave to 'protect the employer's legitimate interest' for less than three months would be legitimate. 

 

https://www.michelmores.com/employment-insight/garden-leave-in-sports/

That’s an Interesting read, seems like there’s definitely a way. The signing of his replacement, even in a pre-contract (which is ultimately a written agreement and therefore arguably a contract) is the sticky bit I think … but a clever lawyer would know the answer and to be fair to KP that’s the one area they seem to pick the right people! 

[Fox92]

7 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

Our worst ever manager? Anyone think of anyone else who might take it? 

 

We haven't scored since January.

 

He is our worse ever manager.

 

I can accept losing but not scoring in 3 consecutive games is a disgrace, never mind 8. That's on top of him setting us up to just not even attack teams and playing the same team for 4 consecutive games now. 

 

It's a joke. I don't know how anybody within the football club cannot see this is embarrassing. How a manager has lasted this is beyond me. 

[5waller5]

10 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

Our worst ever manager? Anyone think of anyone else who might take it? 

 

Good work!!! 

That’s incredible to see the cold hard stats behind the emotion