Rudkin who can replace him?

[Dan]

DOF is unique in that they're largely the ones who can fix a club being a shambles. Pay someone good, good money, and things will improve.

 

The Forest/Edu comparison is spot on. I'm not convinced Ashworth comes here but if you paid him well, why not? In a way for a DOF catching us at a low ebb is in their interest.

[urban.spaceman]

"Just to begin, this isn't a character assassination of Jon Rudkin. But he IS a cvnt."

[Leicesterpool]

Christian Purslow would be a good person to have on board as a chief executive. Scrap the director of football go with a different approach giving more power to the management and coaching team on transfers. Purslow was a director at chelsea and Liverpool and chief executive at Villa the last thing he done was bring Emery in. I think he would be our man to help us out business level off the field.

[CosbehFox]

3 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Christian Purslow would be a good person to have on board as a chief executive. Scrap the director of football go with a different approach giving more power to the management and coaching team on transfers. Purslow was a director at chelsea and Liverpool and chief executive at Villa the last thing he done was bring Emery in. I think he would be our man to help us out business level off the field.

That's quite literally what's happening now. Manager has final say on targets. Then DoF takes up the other half. It's a very archaic way of running a football club these days. 

[Tommy G]

8 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Christian Purslow would be a good person to have on board as a chief executive. Scrap the director of football go with a different approach giving more power to the management and coaching team on transfers. Purslow was a director at chelsea and Liverpool and chief executive at Villa the last thing he done was bring Emery in. I think he would be our man to help us out business level off the field.

Any involvement he's had in football have been with top clubs - he wont be interested in a championship club. Large part of his career has been in Private Equity, so we can't compete on a salary level anyway.

[CosbehFox]

Interesting point about getting someone in who's up and coming. So let's rule out the PL. 

 

There is no team in the Championship overachieving at the moment. League 1 is very much to type bar Wycombe. 

 

So you go to Europe:-

Ligue 1 - gone to type

Serie A - Nope, outside shout for Bologna but Sartori is 67. Como comfortably look after their own staff. 

La Liga - gone to type, Rayo outside shout

Bundesliga - Mainz & Freiburg - Hartenbach at Freiburg is 60 (https://www.scfreiburg.com/en/latest/news/2024/25/interview-klemens-hartenbach/ - good comms there) and Mainz can't work out. 

 

So you heading towards the smaller European leagues and a lot of them are reverting to type/budget. Frode Thomassen at Bodo/GLimt may be ? 

 

No outstanding candidate from those coming through. So you probably going to have to over promote or get someone out of work. 

 

[CosbehFox]

8 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Any involvement he's had in football have been with top clubs - he wont be interested in a championship club. Large part of his career has been in Private Equity, so we can't compete on a salary level anyway.

Favourite for the role of chairing the independent football regulator too - his time at Villa did include Championship (took the role in their third season and was there once they got promoted)

[south aussie fox]

Donald Trump could do a better job

[Tommy G]

22 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Favourite for the role of chairing the independent football regulator too - his time at Villa did include Championship (took the role in their third season and was there once they got promoted)

That role will just be for the clout as the salary is pants compared to what he's used to. Villa are also a much much bigger club than us

Edited 6 March by Tommy G

[CosbehFox]

2 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

That role will just be for the clout as the salary is pants compared to what he's used to. 

Was clarifying that the bloke is very unlikely to take a role at LCFC. I suspect salary has never been a motivating factor of his involvement in football with his fortune from his capital ventures days wrapped up in investments/property. 

[urban.spaceman]

21 minutes ago, south aussie fox said:

Donald Trump could do a better job

Dunno mate. The guy bankrupted a casino. A ****ING CASINO.

[Leicesterpool]

8 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

That role will just be for the clout as the salary is pants compared to what he's used to. Villa are also a much much bigger club than us

Villa weren't in a great place when he arrived, in a bit of a mess. I cant remember if he was brought in by the current owners or previous fraud owner Xia... whose in prison somewhere i think.

[CosbehFox]

2 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Villa weren't in a great place when he arrived, in a bit of a mess. I cant remember if he was brought in by the current owners or previous fraud owner Xia... whose in prison somewhere i think.

The new/current  owners brought him in August 2018, was villa's third season in the championship, he sacked Steve Bruce and brought in Dean Smith 

[KansasFox]

41 minutes ago, south aussie fox said:

Donald Trump could do a better job

It already looks like someone has withheld intelligence from our team!

[em9999]

On 04/02/2025 at 13:30, Silva Fox said:

Err preferably someone with a proven a track record in football management/directorship.

Misread that I thought u said dictatorship 

[Silva Fox]

3 minutes ago, em9999 said:

Misread that I thought u said dictatorship 

We have that already!

[The Fox Covert]

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

Dunno mate. The guy bankrupted a casino. A ****ING CASINO.

Donald Trump was bailed out with dirty money from Russian businessmen. Would you want a KGB agent in control of our club?

[AKCJ]

I think Leicester City are an attractive proposition for any aspiring DOF.

 

The training ground, the academy, the stadium plans, the fan base crying out for a change and an owner that'll happily back you.

 

It's all there. Just need someone competent in charge.

[filbertway]

Villa are spending more on wages than they are earning aren't they? I would be looking at them more as a ticking time bomb rather than a club that's being well ran right now.

[oxford blue]

I have looked through most if this thread. Is there anyone who thinks we should Rudkin should stay in his post?  It would be interesting to know if anyone thinks he is doing a good job. If we have seven pages of agreement could thread be locked to show unanimity? (It would be a problem for Top, as he seems inextricably linked. Of course that raises a different question  as to the ownership of the club.)

[urban.spaceman]

52 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

I think Leicester City are an attractive proposition for any aspiring DOF.

 

The training ground, the academy, the stadium plans, the fan base crying out for a change and an owner that'll happily back you.

 

It's all there. Just need someone competent in charge.

Sir this is FoxesTalk during a crisis. We don't do optimism here.

[cropstonfox]

This is a great job at great club,for the right

Person. 

Claude Puel is the ideal candidate. 

He knows the club and will appoint his own manager and recruitment team. 

[volpeazzurro]

3 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

Christian Purslow would be a good person to have on board as a chief executive. Scrap the director of football go with a different approach giving more power to the management and coaching team on transfers. Purslow was a director at chelsea and Liverpool and chief executive at Villa the last thing he done was bring Emery in. I think he would be our man to help us out business level off the field.

We saw precisely what happened when Rodgers was given too much power! Both him and his useless sidekick Congerton who HE had brought are largely responsible for our downfall just as much as Rudkin. With the exception of Fofana, his transfer expertise was just as bad as it was at Liverpool. In the end he was largely relying upon the players he had inherited when he first came.

 

The opposite side of the coin is arguably Chelsea and Manchester United. There has to be meaningful dialogue between manager and d of f for success I feel. The trio of Pearson, Shakespeare, Walsh and even Rudkin seemed to work at one time. Even Puel was very good in that respect. 

[AKCJ]

33 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Sir this is FoxesTalk during a crisis. We don't do optimism here.

It's the last sentence of my post that's causing all of it!

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

3 hours ago, south aussie fox said:

Donald Trump could do a better job

He's already working for the Russian FA (foreign assets and agents)