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trooky

trooky

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On 16/05/2025 at 13:47, Nickaj said:

It would seem to me that keeping Ruud to see out the remainder of his contract is, at the moment,  the lowest cost option available to the club and, for that reason, I think that is most likely what they will try to do - at least into the start of next season to see how results go.

I don't see it happening, Ruud apparently presented his  plan to the board for next season. Part of the plan was preparing now to sign potential free transfers.

 

If we intended to keep him, I believe even our incompetent board would have told him. 

kingfox

kingfox

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43 minutes ago, studentofthegame said:

I don't really get the love for Will Still, has he really done anything overly impressive other than be young?

 

Reims finished 12th the season before he took over, he took them to the dizzying heights of 11th in his first season and they were 11th when he left with a few games left of his second season, caretaker came in and took 7 points from 9 to move up to 9th.

 

Goes to Lens who have finished 7th, 2nd, 7th, 7th over the last 4 seasons and he has them in 9th with a negative goal difference.

 

His teams also don't score goals, 109 goals in 92 Ligue 1 games over Reims and Lens. 12th out of 18 for goals scored this season and their top scorer is on 6. 11th most goals last season with Reims and 13th most in 22/23.

If you want a progressive style of football, aggressive pressing out of possession, and someone who has decent history of managing young players, then Will Still is a good candidate over some other names mentioned. 
 

When he took over at Reims they were in the relegation zone, with the worst league start they had in over 40 years. He went on a 19 game unbeaten streak, getting them into the top half. 
 

Even though they fell away in both campaigns he was there, he had Reims in the mix for European football in both the 22/23 and 23/24 season’s. 
 

His work at Reims was deemed good enough for him to get the Lens job, Lens finished 2nd only two season’s ago. Yes, on paper this season has looked average from him, but they are nowhere near the side they were two season’s ago. They’ve lost Khusanov and Danso this season. They’ve gone from having a prolific striker in Lois Openda, to having Elye Wahi who didn’t live up to expectations, now under Will Still this season, they have M’bala Nzola and Goduine Koyalipou, they are nowhere near the quality of what Lois Openda was, so it’s no surprise that Lens have been a bit dry in terms of goalscoring. 
 

Still has been managing in a top five league, did well in periods at Reims, and now managing Lens who were one of the better teams in Ligue 1 a few season’s ago, managing in the Championship would be an ideal next step for him. 
 

57 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Fecker doesn’t even have his coaching badges so the club get fined 22k every game, that is a little known secret i thought I would share 😂

That’s old news mate 👍🏻

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studentofthegame

studentofthegame

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31 minutes ago, kingfox said:

If you want a progressive style of football, aggressive pressing out of possession, and someone who has decent history of managing young players, then Will Still is a good candidate over some other names mentioned. 
 

When he took over at Reims they were in the relegation zone, with the worst league start they had in over 40 years. He went on a 19 game unbeaten streak, getting them into the top half. 
 

Even though they fell away in both campaigns he was there, he had Reims in the mix for European football in both the 22/23 and 23/24 season’s. 
 

His work at Reims was deemed good enough for him to get the Lens job, Lens finished 2nd only two season’s ago. Yes, on paper this season has looked average from him, but they are nowhere near the side they were two season’s ago. They’ve lost Khusanov and Danso this season. They’ve gone from having a prolific striker in Lois Openda, to having Elye Wahi who didn’t live up to expectations, now under Will Still this season, they have M’bala Nzola and Goduine Koyalipou, they are nowhere near the quality of what Lois Openda was, so it’s no surprise that Lens have been a bit dry in terms of goalscoring. 
 

Still has been managing in a top five league, did well in periods at Reims, and now managing Lens who were one of the better teams in Ligue 1 a few season’s ago, managing in the Championship would be an ideal next step for him. 
 

That’s old news mate 👍🏻

Appreciate a response from someone who has watched them more than me, just wasn't seeing anything particularly enticing from a distance

 

Cheers!

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Guest Bilo

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Is it bad that I think there's a chance we might be interested in Still because the whole 'Lens have to pay a fine every week' meme means there's a chance our clueless board might have actually heard of him? 

kingfox

kingfox

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22 minutes ago, studentofthegame said:

Appreciate a response from someone who has watched them more than me, just wasn't seeing anything particularly enticing from a distance

 

Cheers!

This is a good piece on him when he was at Reims https://theanalyst.com/2023/11/the-revolution-at-reims-under-will-still

 

I do allude to Regis Le Bris quite a bit, he was relegated from Ligue 1 with Lorient last season, Sunderland were willing to take a chance on him. 
 

As I said on the previous page, Ligue 1 is a good league to look at for managers with history of developing youth 👍🏻

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Lesta2014

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Watching palace win is everything I miss in Leicester. Pride passion and effort, give me that and il always back the team no matter what the quality is. Next management team please just bring this back to us. Foxes never quit needs to be accurate again. 

accessory

accessory

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23 minutes ago, kingfox said:

This is a good piece on him when he was at Reims https://theanalyst.com/2023/11/the-revolution-at-reims-under-will-still

 

I do allude to Regis Le Bris quite a bit, he was relegated from Ligue 1 with Lorient last season, Sunderland were willing to take a chance on him. 
 

As I said on the previous page, Ligue 1 is a good league to look at for managers with history of developing youth 👍🏻

Sunderland have been running on fumes for the last few weeks.  Le Bris has run a small, inexperienced squad into the ground and seen the consequences.

 

Not sure that's a model for City to follow in the Championship next season..

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accessory

accessory

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9 minutes ago, Lesta2014 said:

Watching palace win is everything I miss in Leicester. Pride passion and effort, give me that and il always back the team no matter what the quality is. Next management team please just bring this back to us. Foxes never quit needs to be accurate again. 

We took Édouard off their hands and helped fund their signing of Nketiah.

 

Maybe Rudkin will claim some credit for their cup win.. 😄

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Guest Bilo

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Just now, accessory said:

Sunderland have been running on fumes for the last few weeks.  Le Bris has run a small, inexperienced squad into the ground and seen the consequences.

 

Not sure that's a model for City to follow in the Championship next season..

You could arguably say the same about Pearson with us in 12-13. We went from a solid bet to get automatic promotion and pumping everyone to losing at Barnsley and Peterborough. We looked utterly knackered by the play-offs and the nature of losing at Watford had a lot of us worried for the following season. 

 

Safe to say it didn't do us much harm in the long run.

kingfox

kingfox

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12 minutes ago, accessory said:

Sunderland have been running on fumes for the last few weeks.  Le Bris has run a small, inexperienced squad into the ground and seen the consequences.

 

Not sure that's a model for City to follow in the Championship next season..

I’m talking solely from a youth development perspective mate, Sunderland have a model that heavily focuses on youth development, Le Bris worked in a similar mould at Lorient, even though it looked a surprising appointment, you can see they did their homework. 
 

I get the feeling that quite a few Leicester fans want someone of that profile, especially with a number of younger players coming through. 

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Sankey93

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1 hour ago, kingfox said:

This is a good piece on him when he was at Reims https://theanalyst.com/2023/11/the-revolution-at-reims-under-will-still

 

I do allude to Regis Le Bris quite a bit, he was relegated from Ligue 1 with Lorient last season, Sunderland were willing to take a chance on him. 
 

As I said on the previous page, Ligue 1 is a good league to look at for managers with history of developing youth 👍🏻

You’ve sold me on Still 👍🏻 would also be fascinating recruitment 

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accessory

accessory

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45 minutes ago, kingfox said:

I’m talking solely from a youth development perspective mate, Sunderland have a model that heavily focuses on youth development, Le Bris worked in a similar mould at Lorient, even though it looked a surprising appointment, you can see they did their homework. 
 

I get the feeling that quite a few Leicester fans want someone of that profile, especially with a number of younger players coming through. 

Sunderland's recent history means their fanbase is prepared to give players more time, and allow for a season or two (maybe three?) of failure.

 

Not sure that's the case here..

Claudio Fannieri

Claudio Fannieri

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Let’s hope Top is seeing that teams are starting to get the better of Man City’s style and he recognises we need to change our approach and you know what let’s appoint a forward thinking progressive manager who instills a Leicester City style. 

kingfox

kingfox

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2 minutes ago, accessory said:

Sunderland's recent history means their fanbase is prepared to give players more time, and allow for a season or two (maybe three?) of failure.

 

Not sure that's the case here..

You can’t knock the job that Le Bris has done though, getting them finishing in 4th place, did many expect them to be comfortably in the play-offs 🤔

 

In that type of profile of manager though, you’re seriously limiting yourself if you’re saying Leicester fans wouldn’t give a manager of that profile time. You can rule a bunch of Championship managers out of the equation, just because they haven’t tasted the heights of challenging for promotion. 
 

Of course there’s managers available who have the experience of tasting promotion, or just have more experience in general, and who you may expect to give us a more certain chance of challenging the automatic spots, but as we know, those names are a very unattractive  list. 

jammie82uk

jammie82uk

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4 hours ago, studentofthegame said:

I don't really get the love for Will Still, has he really done anything overly impressive other than be young?

 

Reims finished 12th the season before he took over, he took them to the dizzying heights of 11th in his first season and they were 11th when he left with a few games left of his second season, caretaker came in and took 7 points from 9 to move up to 9th.

 

Goes to Lens who have finished 7th, 2nd, 7th, 7th over the last 4 seasons and he has them in 9th with a negative goal difference.

 

His teams also don't score goals, 109 goals in 92 Ligue 1 games over Reims and Lens. 12th out of 18 for goals scored this season and their top scorer is on 6. 11th most goals last season with Reims and 13th most in 22/23.

He was on Monday Night Football a few weeks ago, found a small portion from that on YouTube 

 

 

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K789

K789

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16 minutes ago, jammie82uk said:

He was on Monday Night Football a few weeks ago, found a small portion from that on YouTube 

 

 

Yeah only gets a gig on their as his Mrs is a sky sports reporter isn't she

Tommy Fresh

Tommy Fresh

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3 hours ago, accessory said:

Sunderland have been running on fumes for the last few weeks.  Le Bris has run a small, inexperienced squad into the ground and seen the consequences.

 

Not sure that's a model for City to follow in the Championship next season..

Haven't they had the playoffs wrapped up for a while, likely that also played a part in them dropping off a little

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