Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[HankMarvin]

He aint leaving and we aint sacking 2 managers in a season with a precarious PSR position which is even less than the other seasons we have been a prem club

[South Shire Fox]

15 minutes ago, leicesterlad1989 said:

 The buck stops with whoever is in charge of recruitment for both managers and players, who i assume is Rudkin. Doesnt matter who is in charge. They are on a hiding to nothing. 

 

This summer we've signed Okoli (doesnt play). Skipp (doesn't play). BDR (doesn't play). Eduard (doesn't play). We employed a manager in Cooper who should have been nowhere near this club. Ruuds now expected to work miracles. 

 

We are shit. The club is run by *****. **** em.

Agreed. Zero guilt whatsoever this year not renewing my membership

[phoneticerror]

TalkSPORT blaming game management for the L. Yes, we have a bit of a shit squad, but I think we can manage to games better

[FoxesWalk]

12 minutes ago, leicesterlad1989 said:

 The buck stops with whoever is in charge of recruitment for both managers and players, who i assume is Rudkin. Doesnt matter who is in charge. They are on a hiding to nothing. 

 

This summer we've signed Okoli (doesnt play). Skipp (doesn't play). BDR (doesn't play). Eduard (doesn't play). We employed a manager in Cooper who should have been nowhere near this club. Ruuds now expected to work miracles. 

 

We are shit. The club is run by *****. **** em.

Amen, I was already without hope when we sold KDH and Enzo in the summer, absolute madness, we are weaker now than when we were in the second tier. We deserve to go down, not only for the dire football on the pitch, but the even worse decision making off it that got us to this point. 
 

More or less every high level decision taken for years now has just been managed decline, and to say “managed” is probably very generous. 

[phoneticerror]

Just now, Dahnsouff said:

You cannot be serious, being wrong is not a terminal condition you know? Ayew has not been a bad signing and he was instrumental in our goal.

He’s not a bad signing, but better utilised as a sub

[kingfox]

Judge him after January.

 

Today was yet another game lost by an individual error by a player who is past his sell by date. 
 

The quality and depth of this squad right now just reeks of Championship. 

[Dahnsouff]

Just now, phoneticerror said:

He’s not a bad signing, but better utilised as a sub

Is this all because we did not start Facundo? (Who was shite when he came on)

[Corky]

We have been utterly awful all season. I wouldn't have had either of these managers but I don't see anyone keeping this rubbish up.

[JonesLCFC]

We are on the same points at this stage as we were in Jan 2015. The major difference being the team in 2015 had bags of characters, this team doesn’t. 

[Mickyblueeyes]

I don’t who could possibly do anything any different. Maybe bring on subs a little earlier. Be a bit more expansive etc. the reality is, we’ll lose games due to the lack of individual quality. We had Okoli and Skipp on the bench today. Two of our three biggest signings in the summer. Ruud isn’t the biggest issue here. The ownership is taking the piss out of us and there’s nothing being done. 

[phoneticerror]

1 minute ago, Corky said:

We have been utterly awful all season. I wouldn't have had either of these managers but I don't see anyone keeping this rubbish up.

Out of interest, how do you predict we’d have faired had Chelsea not poached Enzo?

[pazzerfox]

Bring back Cooper!

[StonyFox]

You can't survive in the premier league without a squad of premier league players, and we just haven't got that. 

 

If we don't bring in three players this window that go into the first 11, Ruud should walk and I wouldn't blame him. 

[Tuna]

I think Ruud could be on collision course with Rudkin/board/recruitment if they make a mess of this window. We don't do Jan windows well, do we. Ruud needs support and is being hung out to dry with a squad that needs improvement. He needs to call it as it is and put pressure on, not accept it. Given how he left his job in Holland, I wouldn't be surprised if he walked out if he isn't backed properly.

Edited 4 January by Tuna

[Pliskin]

Unfortunately, if we want to enjoy our football club, he’s no choice but to keep us up. If we go down, I genuinely believe we will sink to the depths that the likes of Bolton and Pompey did. 
 

There’s future of this club it potentially looking very, very dark.

[Pliskin]

2 minutes ago, pazzerfox said:

Bring back Cooper!

Piss off.

[FoxinNotts]

It’s all, ifs, buts, and maybes isn’t it. Fact is, if everything else had gone exactly the same under RVN, as it has, apart from we’d beaten Wolves at home, I’d genuinely be very happy.

[Corky]

1 minute ago, phoneticerror said:

Out of interest, how do you predict we’d have faired had Chelsea not poached Enzo?

I think we would have been better going forward and the likes of Mavididi and Fatawu heavily involved. Defence needed overhauling whoever was in charge. A struggle but some better performances than the meagre amount we have had.

 

I would have expected a better transfer window. That has really helped to drag us down.

[ronnup]

Wr haven't improved. Weve got worse. That's statistically a fact

[Noahfence]

I’ll always find it hilarious he’s only our manager because Top saw his United side beat us twice in a week and thought yeah he’ll do. 

[HankMarvin]

6 minutes ago, StonyFox said:

You can't survive in the premier league without a squad of premier league players, and we just haven't got that. 

 

If we don't bring in three players this window that go into the first 11, Ruud should walk and I wouldn't blame him. 

walk away from a 30 month contract, makes sense

[Matt]

8 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Unfortunately, if we want to enjoy our football club, he’s no choice but to keep us up. If we go down, I genuinely believe we will sink to the depths that the likes of Bolton and Pompey did. 
 

There’s future of this club it potentially looking very, very dark.

On the plus side that's many of this squads level.

 

Unfortunately (Or fortunately!) by the time we get there all their contracts will have expired.

[Corky]

10 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Unfortunately, if we want to enjoy our football club, he’s no choice but to keep us up. If we go down, I genuinely believe we will sink to the depths that the likes of Bolton and Pompey did. 
 

There’s future of this club it potentially looking very, very dark.

It already is. Being in the Premier League doesn't make this enjoyable.

 

Just a higher level of grim.

[shen]

5 minutes ago, ronnup said:

Wr haven't improved. Weve got worse. That's statistically a fact

RvN has also been without our player of the season, our best winger, our best right back and arguably our best defensive midfielder for most of his games. Hardly a fair comparison.

I'd argue that we are less worse off than if Cooper had stayed. We were going into free fall.

[cityfanlee23]

It's obvious we need to strengthen, but we won't be signing the 6-7 first team players who will change our fortunes in January, we will be lucky to get 3 permanent signings and a loan deal whilst sending back Edouard IMO. 
Ultimately, Ruud is going to have to improve what we have as well as signing a few players. 
There is no point signing 3-4 quality signings on premier league wages if players are getting worse. A couple of players have improved, most have been just as bad if not worse.