Top’s Programme Notes vs Arsenal

[Pita]

All smoke and mirrors just trying to cover up the mess the management have got us into. No spending on the team no explanation to the stadium. Just no commitment to Leicester city fc

[Stuntman_Mike]

22 minutes ago, Knighton1976 said:

Buts let always remember if you wear black and bounce up and down well, wow, just wow, I wish....

If they didn't bounce up and down would that have stopped Rudkin spunking £200m?

[Knighton1976]

3 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

If they didn't bounce up and down would that have stopped Rudkin spunking £200m?

No

[KrefelderFox666]

1 hour ago, Knighton1976 said:

70 I think which gives them a big voice, massive, well when they're not on a singing strike...

Rudkin? Is that you?

[dmayne7]

1 hour ago, Viva said:

Signing a player that Ric was really keen on that turned out to be crap! 

Right... I knew Ric was actually Rudkin.

 

Regardless, no idea what your point actually was. Even massively contributed to one of the few wins we picked up. Signing absolutely nobody isn't going to improve your chances is it?

[Viva]

14 minutes ago, dmayne7 said:

Right... I knew Ric was actually Rudkin.

 

Regardless, no idea what your point actually was. Even massively contributed to one of the few wins we picked up. Signing absolutely nobody isn't going to improve your chances is it?

It's not that hard to understand! I was replying to a post Ric Flair made about several players we could have signed cheaply to improve our chances. Similarly to when he hyped up Tete, who turned out to be useless. You can't seriously be giving Tete any credit for one good performance out of 13?!

 

Signing nobody is better than just signing anybody for the sake of it, especially when PSR is obviously tight. We made that mistake with Edouard. 

 

Edited 14 February by Viva

[Scotch]

Soulless and impationate statement. It doesn't read like it was written by someone who loves or is passionate about this club. 

 

Let's call it what it is, emotional blackmail to try and prevent fans protesting a mess that he and his band of goons created. 

 

The fans reaction is a direct response to his inaction and he can't allow himself to take responsibility so they are shifting the blame to the only people who actually care because there is no evidence that he, the board, the manager or even the majority of players actually give a crap.

[Ric Flair]

2 hours ago, Viva said:

Signing a player that Ric was really keen on that turned out to be crap! 

Just a shame they didn't listen to me on Keekez that same window eh, ended up paying just as much for Kristiansen. Naff

 

 

 

[Clogger_]

5 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Just a shame they didn't listen to me on Keekez that same window eh, ended up paying just as much for Kristiansen. Naff

 

 

 

Tete's nowhere near as bad as folks make out. Kristiansen is however worse!

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, Viva said:

It's not that hard to understand! I was replying to a post Ric Flair made about several players we could have signed cheaply to improve our chances. Similarly to when he hyped up Tete, who turned out to be useless. You can't seriously be giving Tete any credit for one good performance out of 13?!

 

Signing nobody is better than just signing anybody for the sake of it, especially when PSR is obviously tight. We made that mistake with Edouard. 

 

It's a flawed defence though, like saying it's best not to risk eating again in case you get the two bob bits like you once got on a weekend in Rhyl with your Nan. You'll quickly end up snuffing it mate. 

 

No serious football club can make such a pigs ear of the opening twenty plus games this season and think they still stand a good chance of staying up by keeping they're powder dry and not strengthening properly. 

 

[LCFCCHRIS]

3 hours ago, sishades said:

The vitriol towards Top on this forum is utterly disgusting. Shame on you!

I do agree with this. Calling him a cvnt etc isn’t right. I am fully behind the protests and change of upper management, and we should keep going until something changes, however I’m against the vitriol and hate being projected to a man / family who is clearly interested in our club and city. 
 

Will always love what the ownership has done for us but good god get some new ideas in before the lack of them forces you out. 

Edited 14 February by LCFCCHRIS

[cityfanlee23]

Basically, "get behind us, help us scrape up, and we will then continue to change nothing" 

Nah, I'm good thanks Top, either sell up or sack the board and take full responsibility for allowing this mess, zero wiggle room on this. 

[SecretPro]

****ing manchild. Thai Trump, nothing less.

[dmayne7]

1 hour ago, Viva said:

It's not that hard to understand! I was replying to a post Ric Flair made about several players we could have signed cheaply to improve our chances. Similarly to when he hyped up Tete, who turned out to be useless. You can't seriously be giving Tete any credit for one good performance out of 13?!

 

Signing nobody is better than just signing anybody for the sake of it, especially when PSR is obviously tight. We made that mistake with Edouard. 

 

God forbid somebody suggests a player thay turns out to be a disappointing signing. I think everyone should only ever suggest players that they can absolutely guarantee will be one of the best players in the league... Just so boring when people make that Tete joke all the time, as though there weren't plenty of other people championing him. Ric doesn't need me to defend him and I'm sure he'd admit that some of his recommendations are a bit 'football hipster' or far too much of an unknown quantity but the embarrassing thing is, even just by throwing out all these names, he's presenting more of a coherent strategy than the clowns in our recruitment team can come up with. Buy low and spread the risk on a few players in the hope that some of them come off and we then sell for big money. Better than pissing away £20m on players who never get a look in.

 

And on Tete, the stupid thing is that for how underwhelming he was, he still actually improved our squad since we decided to not have a single other player who could play wide on the right. We had to shunt our best player out there for most of the season. Yet another example of the quality recruitment work we did.

 

Signing some players on loan where there is minimal financial impact is absolutely better than not signing anyone which was his point. What if 1 out say 3 loan signings was actually decent (not amazing, just decent), that would improve our chances of staying up, and consequently massively help the financial situation. The mistake with Edouard is that he used up a domestic loan slot, and the leadership team being the morons they are, decided not to get a loan cancelled clause in there.

 

EDIT: @Ric Flair Just wanted to tag Ric to let him know that I actually think he's a complete p**** and was only using him to get my point across 

Edited 15 February by dmayne7

[em9999]

My god can't believe I've backed down and just brought two tickets in West stand for this ..

 

Mug 

[dillonpanthers87]

1 hour ago, cityfanlee23 said:

Basically, "get behind us, help us scrape up, and we will then continue to change nothing" 

Nah, I'm good thanks Top, either sell up or sack the board and take full responsibility for allowing this mess, zero wiggle room on this. 

Yep. Damage is more than done and I don't want to be read, see, hear (I mean let's scratch out the last two as he never actually communicates) about *our* club again. I know it's not as simple as that, but beyond a miraculous change in his approach, he's a virus upon our club. Rudkin is a mere symptom.

[Silebyfox_89]

6 hours ago, Knighton1976 said:

Buts let always remember if you wear black and bounce up and down well, wow, just wow, I wish....

Got a chip on you're shoulder bud?

[LCFCJohn]

9 hours ago, Viva said:

Signing a player that Ric was really keen on that turned out to be crap! 

Agreed. Having a young loan player for a minimal cost for the rest of the season who didn’t work out has been much more detrimental to the club than the contract extensions to the likes of Ward and Vestergard and signing Skipp until 2029 for £25mill and the likes of BDR and Ayew on the wages and sign on fees they’ll have had….

[Dahnsouff]

1 minute ago, LCFCJohn said:

Agreed. Having a young loan player for a minimal cost for the rest of the season who didn’t work out has been much more detrimental to the club than the contract extensions to the likes of Ward and Vestergard and signing Skipp until 2029 for £25mill and the likes of BDR and Ayew on the wages and sign on fees they’ll have had….

Well, seeing as Ayew and BDCR do actually contribute, albeit far less than we might like,  this feels rather silly. A young un who does nothing is clearly not better than an old pro who does a very little, no matter how little.

[LCFCJohn]

2 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Well, seeing as Ayew and BDCR do actually contribute, albeit far less than we might like,  this feels rather silly. A young un who does nothing is clearly not better than an old pro who does a very little, no matter how little.

To be fair, I do think Ayew and BDR get a bit too much stick so it was a bit tongue in cheek. Not that I was them both at the same time starting as our wide options mind.

 

I have said before when people complain about the transfer fee for Ayew, that has probably been repaid by the important goals he has scored. 
 

BDR as a free transfer…really depends on how much he had in sign on and wages. Purely as a free agent I did think it seemed like the sort we’d had success with before.

 

My point back to Viva was really that all the decisions I mentioned are the ones that impact upon PSR much more than a Tete for example. Not that Tete offered more in his time here if that clarifies?
 

And @Viva, I did note your subsequent point about Edouard which is correct and he has been a waste of space. But he will be out the way at the end of the season and not drag our financial position down in further years which is the point I was making in defence of the loan arguement.

[ACF]

11 hours ago, l444ry said:

Playing Devil's Advocate here but there is nothing he could have written that would placate many on here? 

“Following on from the 2023-24 season, we undertook a review. These are the learnings that we took.  As part of this, this is what we are doing and what we will be doing to ensure a sustainable Premier League position. We are also firing Rudkin into the sun.”

[Dahnsouff]

1 minute ago, LCFCJohn said:

To be fair, I do think Ayew and BDR get a bit too much stick so it was a bit tongue in cheek. Not that I was them both at the same time starting as our wide options mind.

 

I have said before when people complain about the transfer fee for Ayew, that has probably been repaid by the important goals he has scored. 
 

BDR as a free transfer…really depends on how much he had in sign on and wages. Purely as a free agent I did think it seemed like the sort we’d had success with before.

 

My point back to Viva was really that all the decisions I mentioned are the ones that impact upon PSR much more than a Tete for example. Not that Tete offered more in his time here if that clarifies?
 

And @Viva, I did note your subsequent point about Edouard which is correct and he has been a waste of space. But he will be out the way at the end of the season and not drag our financial position down in further years which is the point I was making in defence of the loan arguement.

Yup, thanks and that’s fair I reckon. Weirdly I understood why we signed an Edouard as having no fit strikers other than Vardy at that point was madness, a madness that we had let happen over several seasons, but getting an emergency backup striker was required. Should it have been Edouard? Probably not, and why we couldn’t draft one of our young lads up as emergency backup is the biggest failure here. Does not really matter if they are not ready, as they will mostly likely be a bench player 99% of the time. 
 

This club sure is weird.

[Dahnsouff]

2 minutes ago, ACF said:

“Following on from the 2023-24 season, we undertook a review. These are the learnings that we took.  As part of this, this is what we are doing and what we will be doing to ensure a sustainable Premier League position. We are also firing Rudkin into the sun.”

And if that is the minimal expectation, then that’s why people will never be happy. 

[LCFCJohn]

6 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Yup, thanks and that’s fair I reckon. Weirdly I understood why we signed an Edouard as having no fit strikers other than Vardy at that point was madness, a madness that we had let happen over several seasons, but getting an emergency backup striker was required. Should it have been Edouard? Probably not, and why we couldn’t draft one of our young lads up as emergency backup is the biggest failure here. Does not really matter if they are not ready, as they will mostly likely be a bench player 99% of the time. 
 

This club sure is weird.

Wasn’t it Edouard or Daka back when Daka came and Edouard went to Palace? Was probably on the radar still. It would be in keeping with the laziness of the club.
 

I felt he came as a means of Cannon going out on loan to get experience. But then we recall and sell Cannon which may be the correct decision for Cannon in isolation but still seems a lack of joined up thinking if that is why Edouard was brought in, like purely for numbers. 
 

I agree that youngest, whether our own or the likes of Hermansen and BEK with sell on value is the way we can be competitive. This is why I was pissed off after the QPR game that with 9 sub spots, we couldn’t find a couple of places for some youngsters. 

[FoxesWalk]

12 hours ago, l444ry said:

Playing Devil's Advocate here but there is nothing he could have written that would placate many on here? 

“I’ve decided to sack Rudkin”

”I’ve decided to sell the club” 

 

Either would be very popular 

Edited 15 February by FoxesWalk