Next Manager

[ARM1968]

The very fact that Del Boy Fudkin has convinced Top that he is the man for his football recruitment AND nag recruitment says all we need to know. Top is out of his depth on all fronts and the club is in absolute disarray. 

[Phil Mitchell]

I’m telling you, get cifuentes in NOW. The geezers hardly been unearthed and he worked absolute wonders with that dross qpr side. Listen I’ve got connections west of the river that know their onions. If I have to dig up Charlie slater and get him in his black cab to drive him to seagrave I will. I even frighten the dead. Phil

[Chown]

13 hours ago, Donwebbio said:

I would go further and say Rodgers was NOT a good appointment either. It was at that point that the club placed all of their faith and power in the manager who talked them into, or agreed to have a pop at breaking into the top 4. The sustainable recruitment model was abandoned and we began overpaying for average players and stopped moving players on for profit. The recruitment record under Rodgers is the reason we are in so much financial and footballing trouble at the moment in my opinion:

 

James Justin - 6.7M - 

Ayoze Perez - 33.4M

George Hirst 

Tielemans (already there on loan)

Callum Hulme - free

Dennis Praet - 19.2M

Ryan Bennett (loan)

Castagne - 20.9M

Under (loan)

Fofana - 35m - 80M

Daka - 30M

Soumare - 20M

Bertrand - free

Vestergaard - 17.6M

Lookman (loan) - 

Smithies - free

Wout Faes - 17M

Victor Kristianson - 14M

Tete (loan) - 

Harry Souttar - 17M

 

Spend €230m 

1 sold for a profit (Fofana)

 

Yes he won the FA Cup but that was with a team built by others and he used that talent already at the club to enhance his own reputation without strengthening or even maintaining the clubs standing in the game.

 

How can anybody say the only manager to win the FA cup in the club’s entire history was not a good appointment?

[Donwebbio]

11 minutes ago, Chown said:

How can anybody say the only manager to win the FA cup in the club’s entire history was not a good appointment?

For the reasons stated above. Maybe 5 years 5-10 years of decline is worth the trade off of the FA Cup. Who is to say another manager would have not have got even more out of that talented squad and continued on with the healthy cycle of recruitment. We were a very attractive club for managers in 2019.

[MrLuke]

I disagree with the notion Rodgers wasn't a good coach for us. Not only did we get an FA cup and Community shield win, we played in Europe and we were responsible for some of the best football I've ever seen as a Leicester fan. At one point we were absolutely demolishing teams for fun. We could pretty much beat anyone.

 

As someone else has already stated, the blame lies with the leadership of the club for not identifying the rot in the club and doing something about it. Rodgers may have been a total car crash for his last 18 months, but like many managers, he probably believed he could turn it around. I wish he had left with his reputation intact rather than mentally checking out. I imagine he also wasn't keen to leave without a substantial pay out. Can you blame him? 

Edited 31 May 2025 by MrLuke

[Chelmofox]

25 minutes ago, Chown said:

How can anybody say the only manager to win the FA cup in the club’s entire history was not a good appointment?

As an appointment he was a good one. But his role should have been kept to the basics and he shouldn't have been given free reign the restructure fundamental parts of the club.

 

We are still paying for what he did. He was not a good long term appointment, but those above him should have dealt with the problems long before it became irreversible. 

Edited 31 May 2025 by Chelmofox

[FoxinNotts]

1 minute ago, MrLuke said:

I disagree with the notion Rodgers wasn't a good coach for us. Not only did we get an FA cup and Community shield win, we played in Europe and we was responsible for some of the best football I've ever seen as a Leicester fan. At one point we were absolutely demolishing teams for fun. We could pretty much beat anyone.

 

As someone else has already stated, the blame lies with the leadership of the club for not identifying the rot in the club and doing something about it. Rodgers may have been a total car crash for his last 18 months, but like many managers, he probably believed he could turn it around. I wish he had left with his reputation intact rather than mentally checking out. I imagine he also wasn't keen to leave without a substantial pay out. Can you blame him? 

BR Best manager we’ve had imo. His time should have come to an end about six months earlier than it did, however.

[MattFox]

Rodgers was a good appointment and good for us for a period of time

 

However dismantling our entire transfer strategy for him and letting him appoint Congleton was a disaster that we’re still paying for

 

Heads should roll for that alone 

[davieG]

5 hours ago, JimmyC74 said:

With each passing day it increasingly looks like KP are delaying the decision on RVN until the next financial year 1 July.

 

If that’s the case and we waste 4 more weeks then that will surely have a knock on impact on our transfer business (incomings) and early results if organisation and patterns of play haven’t had time to be embedded.

 

Even if RVN ends up staying he can only think the club couldn’t find a better option - hardly a ringing endorsement- and again doesn’t set us up well for the new season.

 

 

If this is the case it would be good to think they are using that time to make the necessary changes like having a manager ready to take over, lining up players to buy and sell with that manager in mind. 

 

[Muzzy_no7]

I just don’t know what to say anymore. We are an absolute mess and it’s entirely down to a small group of people. 

[Loxm]

A shameless plug. Removed if not allowed. 
 

This morning we went through the three managers named yesterday by Rob Dorsett to offer a *little* bit of insight into each one and their history. 
 

 

[JimJams]

Rodgers was good at managing the players we had.  He was fxxking awful when it came to bringing players in.  Only one player brought in during his time here was an improvement in Fofana (I suppose you could say Perez as well because he didn't come in for Mahrez, but he basically filled an empty position).

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, MattFox said:

Rodgers was a good appointment and good for us for a period of time

 

However dismantling our entire transfer strategy for him and letting him appoint Congleton was a disaster that we’re still paying for

 

Heads should roll for that alone 

The good people of congleton would have been way better than the fraud congerton 

the very definition of someone full of sh1t who smells of roses …..

[Spudulike]

37 minutes ago, Loxm said:

A shameless plug. Removed if not allowed. 
 

This morning we went through the three managers named yesterday by Rob Dorsett to offer a *little* bit of insight into each one and their history. 
 

 

I'll watch this later but can you give a spoiler? Was there an outright winner?

[Lambert09]

1 hour ago, FoxinNotts said:

BR Best manager we’ve had imo. His time should have come to an end about six months earlier than it did, however.

People seem to forget that if our ownership acted the same way with Claudio as they did with BR then we may have been relegated after winning the league and have tarnished him as well. 
 

Our ownership didn’t take the appropriate action with Brendan and it didn’t play out how he wanted it to… I’m certain he would have been flabbergasted not to have been sacked after the Brighton or spurs games.  He ‘quiet’ quit very publicly and we were too dumb to do anything about it… I think the same has happened with Ruud as well tbqh 

Edited 31 May 2025 by Lambert09

[cruzFOX]

I don’t mind the weird long wait if it so happens we get the right guy in charge. My big worry is we are running out of valuable pre season time and buying players.

[Ric Flair]

Any club that might be having to delay sacking their manager and appointing another manager due to financial implications is ran absolutely horrendously. Bottom line. 

[bald reynard]

Martin now 4/7 favourite at Rangers. There must have been some update, that possibly puts Ancelloti out of the mix.

[Pliskin]

2 hours ago, MrLuke said:

I disagree with the notion Rodgers wasn't a good coach for us. Not only did we get an FA cup and Community shield win, we played in Europe and we were responsible for some of the best football I've ever seen as a Leicester fan. At one point we were absolutely demolishing teams for fun. We could pretty much beat anyone.

 

As someone else has already stated, the blame lies with the leadership of the club for not identifying the rot in the club and doing something about it. Rodgers may have been a total car crash for his last 18 months, but like many managers, he probably believed he could turn it around. I wish he had left with his reputation intact rather than mentally checking out. I imagine he also wasn't keen to leave without a substantial pay out. Can you blame him? 

He’s the best manager we’ve ever had. We played some breathtaking football under him. There was a period in his second season where we dismantled all of the top sides…. Like you say, he lost interest in the project when the board did. He openly said he had made loads of arrangements and plans in the summer to move players on and bring players in, and nothing was said, came back after pre season and it was a case of “yea, we can’t sign anyone”…… that’ll be enough to turn anyone away. 
 

The only thing I won’t forgive him for, is tossing the project off and ultimately leading to the rot that sent us down. He could have kept that team up if he wanted, but like you say, he’s wasn’t obliged to cover for the boards mess. 

[bald reynard]

7 minutes ago, bald reynard said:

Martin now 4/7 favourite at Rangers. There must have been some update, that possibly puts Ancelloti out of the mix.

I haven't seen any news to support Ancelloti's odds going out - all the latest media reports are saying he's pretty much a done deal.

[Loxm]

24 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

I'll watch this later but can you give a spoiler? Was there an outright winner?

We did a poll at the end and Rohl won with 66% of the vote. The options in the poll were Rohl, Martin, RVN and Rosenior. 

[Corky]

Rodgers played some good football for a while and arrived at the club (as did Top in his current role, albeit in horrendously tragic circumstances) with the benefit of the hard work and success of previous people. They didn't need to do too much for a couple of years as the squad matured and improved.

 

Rodgers' attitude after the Cup win was disgraceful and indulged by the board. We are still paying for it today and will do so for a long time yet.

 

They are all to blame for the past four years.

[lcfc_forever]

Don’t know much about him but part of Red Bull and worked under Guardiola as well: 

 

 

[MattFox]

39 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Any club that might be having to delay sacking their manager and appointing another manager due to financial implications is ran absolutely horrendously. Bottom line. 

You’ll get the usual sycophants spin this as some sort of savvy business move

[Kitchandro]

3 hours ago, Pliskin said:

He’s the best manager we’ve ever had. We played some breathtaking football under him. There was a period in his second season where we dismantled all of the top sides…. Like you say, he lost interest in the project when the board did. He openly said he had made loads of arrangements and plans in the summer to move players on and bring players in, and nothing was said, came back after pre season and it was a case of “yea, we can’t sign anyone”…… that’ll be enough to turn anyone away. 
 

The only thing I won’t forgive him for, is tossing the project off and ultimately leading to the rot that sent us down. He could have kept that team up if he wanted, but like you say, he’s wasn’t obliged to cover for the boards mess. 

We improved with an underperforming side for the first year and then stagnated and declined consistently for 2 and a half years.

 

We were very good in certain games because we had very good players, and in even more games we were bang average and the players would get us out of jail with a moment of magic. The football was generally horrible to watch, people only remember the highlights.

 

How can the best manager we’ve ever had completely destroy the club with negative football, dreadful signings and disrespect? There’s a great argument to say he’s up there with Taylor with the worst we’ve ever had. The trajectory is extremely similar, so why do we not laud Taylor for having us in the top 3 for most of the season yet you do with Rodgers?

 

Personally, I’d have pulled the plug on him as well if he spent that £200m on the players that he did. He was backed to the hilt and deserved no more backing after saddling us with so many poor players and failing to make the top 4.

 

Many managers have got more out of less quality at the club when they joined. Little, O’Neill, Pearson, Claudio. These are our best managers because they got the best out of what they had. Rodgers did the opposite. Rodgers did a Taylor.

Edited 31 May 2025 by Kitchandro