cityfanlee23 Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 Just now, Lambert09 said: Fair enough, even so, I don’t think approaching now changes the situation. If he’d prefer Southampton he would be happy to wait. I don’t think he will want to add a relegation to his CV for the sake of it. A few games back, maybe as he may have backed himself to have a go at it. But with our fixtures and point gap, it’s a forgone conclusion. There are more illogical fans then logical ones and even though on paper you can say he’s coming into prepare for next season there will be people who judge him for what happens between now and the end of the season and it won’t be pretty. Completely get your point, I just hope come the summer he is available, but there will be other options out there if he's not, sadly it's in the hands of the circus upstairs.
Winstonthedog Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 37 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said: We signed six players last summer and one in January. Of those seven players, only one - BEK - was deemed good enough to start last night despite all of them apparently being fit. The most of expensive of those acquisitions, Oliver Skipp, did not even make the 20-man matchday squad. This is an utterly shambolic state of affairs - no newly-promoted club can hope to survive with a recruitment strategy as disastrous as this. If the penny doesn't now drop that we desperately need a proper Director of Football, it never will while KP are here. However, I have a hunch the penny will have dropped and that we will see a new DoF before next season. I have a hunch too .... anyone within Spagrave and within Kingpower .... live in a different dimension to the rest of us and are completely oblivious to the reality of the situation
volpeazzurro Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 46 minutes ago, cityfanlee23 said: Honestly, I'd pay the £4m now. He will have a LOT of competition in the summer, i'd rather pay the £2m extra and get it over the line, £2m is not a lot of money in todays market, we are probably going to spend 5x that on a midfielder who turns out to be garbage. You're assuming that there's 4m to burn, not only financially but PSR wise. I doubt therefore anyone will be going anywhere until the end of the season. 1
cityfanlee23 Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 (edited) 4 minutes ago, volpeazzurro said: You're assuming that there's 4m to burn, not only financially but PSR wise. I doubt therefore anyone will be going anywhere until the end of the season. You're right, either there is 4m available or we breach PSR, either way if we can't spend £4m then we are stuck with Ruud for the considerable future anyway, which is frightening. Edited 17 March 2025 by cityfanlee23 1
ClaphamFox Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Winstonthedog said: I have a hunch too .... anyone within Spagrave and within Kingpower .... live in a different dimension to the rest of us and are completely oblivious to the reality of the situation You may be right. It's possible that I'm in denial because the prospect of our board not grasping the gravity of our situation is too terrifying for me to contemplate... Edited 17 March 2025 by ClaphamFox
SemperEadem Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 1 hour ago, Ric Flair said: Rohl's release clause is apparently £4m to a PL club or £2m to a Championship club. Meant to have shaken hands with Southampton already
FrankieADZ Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 3 hours ago, cityfanlee23 said: Completely get your point, I just hope come the summer he is available, but there will be other options out there if he's not, sadly it's in the hands of the circus upstairs. reports that Rohl might be available for £2mil 1
cityfanlee23 Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 10 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said: reports that Rohl might be available for £2mil
Rossiter Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 Could do with a manager that hates conceding goals. Scott Parker anyone?
foxtillidrop Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 We just need a new manager... Baffles me how many fans are interested in playing style than survival....Cooper had us above the relegation zone, creating chances and fighting in games - way too early to sack him and we are giving Ruud all the time in the world. Keeping the faith with Ruud in the championship would be too big a risk. He is working a club legend down to the bone by playing him for 90 mins, and persisting with these lazy midfielders that we have playing for us... The fitness levels are no where near the 15/16 side. Too much rondo at the seagrave golf and leisure resort. The decision making and team selection capacity just isn't there. The goal drought record is crazy... Cannot see any way back now. Wolves would need to throw it away and we would need a miracle. 1
Wink84 Posted 17 March 2025 Posted 17 March 2025 We'll end up with Chris Coleman from Leuven and end up paying compo, and they'll get Rohl instead. Rudkin tactics
Arkie Bennett Posted 18 March 2025 Posted 18 March 2025 On 17/03/2025 at 05:26, Le Renard said: Wayne Rooney incoming; he takes any old job. Do we have any decent massage parlours chez Leicester? Gerrim in as the interim manager. Certainly liven up the changing room.
Trestellar Artois Posted 18 March 2025 Posted 18 March 2025 On 17/03/2025 at 14:59, Lambert09 said: Carrick is another Martin tbqh. The football looking pretty is more important than the results it generates. We need to move away from this direction. Boro have dropped so many points simply by messing around with the ball in their own box. We need someone that can be successful at scrapping in the premier league, because what’s the point in getting promoted if we will just crash and burn again because we will not be able to sustain the play style. Didn’t work for burnley, didn’t work for Ipswich ( for different reasons) but the teams that survive tend to adapt and with the gap as large as it is right now, you simply need a pragmatic manager to have a chance. Doesn’t mean you need to be negative but just understand that you preferred philosophy isn’t going to work against top sides and you have to build towards it. That’s why someone like rohl is my preference as he’s already proven he can operate at the bottom of a table so let’s see how he can do with a team towards the top. Just thinking who the last manager was who kept a newly promoted team in the Premier League by understanding that his preferred philosophy isn’t going to work against top sides and he had to build towards it. Someone that can be successful at scrapping in the premier league. Who knows that the Year One target is to stay in 17th or above... Can't... Think...
Dr The Singh Posted 19 March 2025 Posted 19 March 2025 3 hours ago, Trestellar Artois said: Just thinking who the last manager was who kept a newly promoted team in the Premier League by understanding that his preferred philosophy isn’t going to work against top sides and he had to build towards it. Someone that can be successful at scrapping in the premier league. Who knows that the Year One target is to stay in 17th or above... Can't... Think... Pearson maybe. He got Huth in, Mahrez in and Vardy just rocketed.
Lambert09 Posted 19 March 2025 Posted 19 March 2025 (edited) 4 hours ago, Trestellar Artois said: Just thinking who the last manager was who kept a newly promoted team in the Premier League by understanding that his preferred philosophy isn’t going to work against top sides and he had to build towards it. Someone that can be successful at scrapping in the premier league. Who knows that the Year One target is to stay in 17th or above... Can't... Think... You’ve got 2 choices, adapt. or really back yourself in the market. we dont have money and our scouting hasn’t been good enough, so you can rule out bargain gems. Our only option is to adapt. Perhaps someone like Leeds with red bulls backing can throw more at it but most clubs, need to adapt. ipswich made good signings but if I had to fault them it’s because they won’t alter their strategy. They could have made a decent go of it if they tightened up imo. Edited 19 March 2025 by Lambert09
Popular Post Mike Oxlong Posted 19 March 2025 Popular Post Posted 19 March 2025 It's a firm no to Southgate from me. The bloke is too strongly opposed to the well established training regimes at Seagrave to make it work 1 5
accessory Posted 19 March 2025 Posted 19 March 2025 On 17/03/2025 at 22:47, foxtillidrop said: We just need a new manager... Baffles me how many fans are interested in playing style than survival....Cooper had us above the relegation zone, creating chances and fighting in games - way too early to sack him and we are giving Ruud all the time in the world. Keeping the faith with Ruud in the championship would be too big a risk. He is working a club legend down to the bone by playing him for 90 mins, and persisting with these lazy midfielders that we have playing for us... At the end of the Cooper error we were NOT creating chances. In his last game we didn't have a shot on target until the 95th minute. The only reason he kept us out of the drop zone was due to a quirk in the fixture list which saw us play Southampton and Ipswich in quick succession. And even then, it was only those two sides pressing the self-destruct button which allowed us to take 4 points from those games. As for RVN overplaying Vardy, maybe he heard about what happens to managers who dare to take him off too early.. 4
Pita Posted 19 March 2025 Posted 19 March 2025 19 hours ago, Dr The Singh said: We will end up with Steven Gerrard No
Guest Lako42 Posted 19 March 2025 Posted 19 March 2025 On 17/03/2025 at 15:43, SecretPro said: Ruud will see out his 3 years. Sorry all. Yep Top personally wanted him and the man baby doesnt do admittance of mistakes. Fair play Ruud you useless ****.
Dr The Singh Posted 19 March 2025 Posted 19 March 2025 41 minutes ago, Pita said: No Alright Rudkin, prove me wrong
Vindaloo FOX Posted 20 March 2025 Posted 20 March 2025 Not sure why but i feel he would do well here Quique Sánchez Flores. 2
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