Next Manager

[Guppys Love Child]

14 hours ago, adam said:

Carrick would be a worst appointment than Martin. 

No he wouldn't.

 

Martin is a arrogant, egotistical 'Rodger's wanna be,' who would bore us all to death with a possession at all costs style of football 

 

Whilst Carrick isn't on my wanted list he has non of the "wonderful qualities " of Martin listed above.  He'd actually make us go forward at least, which is a plus.

[Lcfcwigstonblue]

Rangers fans taking it well 

[brookfox]

The threads gone Red Hot… with peoples opinions 😣

[lcfcbluearmy]

23 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

Clubs, not just us, seem to be very reluctant to pay manager compensation. Not sure why as the manager position is so important. Rudders probably did very well with the £10m Enzo compensation clause which got us out of a sticky PSR swamp.

It didn't get us out of PSR trouble though we still failed even after selling maresca and KDH and saying we were confident we would pass

[Hinckleyfox]

33 minutes ago, Jakemoore said:

Compensation should be earned. It should be based on a certain win % or points total. I can’t get my head around having to pay RVN millions of pounds for being shit. 

Whilst I get the frustration, its not how contracts work. Both parties entered in to a contract committing to it, knowing that compensation would be due to either party, if the other was to terminate early. Yes we can be angry at RVN for being stubborn with team selection and prioritising players who shouldn't have been near the pitch. But, we've negotiated the contracted and then not backed him. So we can look at rubbish stats and unwanted records all day long, but ultimately this is our boards doing. 

[Chelmofox]

3 minutes ago, Hinckleyfox said:

Whilst I get the frustration, its not how contracts work. Both parties entered in to a contract committing to it, knowing that compensation would be due to either party, if the other was to terminate early. Yes we can be angry at RVN for being stubborn with team selection and prioritising players who shouldn't have been near the pitch. But, we've negotiated the contracted and then not backed him. So we can look at rubbish stats and unwanted records all day long, but ultimately this is our boards doing. 

Yes - but if compensation was based on win %'s, no manager would be signing a contract to a team in a relegation dogfight. Win %'s are low down there and not always a reflection on the managers ability. 

 

I hate where we have got with both players and managers contracts, but we have to play the same game as everyone else. Its an are where those with the deepest pockets ruin it for everyone else. 

[filbertway]

8 hours ago, Dan said:

Michael Carrick reeks of us. Out of work so cheap, beat us twice in 2023/24 so gets overestimated on here somewhat despite two pretty disappointing campaigns at Middlesbrough, quite hipster vibes. Basically he's not hugely dissimilar to Martin without a lot of the same baggage. Could see them going for him.

He's signed up to Tongue Tied media who apparently represent/represented Jonathon Morgan and Josie Green from the ladies team. So there's the "in" 

 

You're right, this has us all over it

 

[EnderbyFox]

[Hinckleyfox]

Just now, Chelmofox said:

Yes - but if compensation was based on win %'s, no manager would be signing a contract to a team in a relegation dogfight. Win %'s are low down there and not always a reflection on the managers ability. 

 

I hate where we have got with both players and managers contracts, but we have to play the same game as everyone else. Its an are where those with the deepest pockets ruin it for everyone else. 

Exactly. So compensation is totally black and white. Leave the agreement early, you pay compo. End of. 

 

Ultimately we offered to handcuff ourselves and put the house on a manager with very little experience. All because we wanted a trendy name with a polo neck.

 

Absolutely unforgiveable, and a much worse crime than the horrendous losing streak RVN took us on. 

[daddylonglegs]

1 hour ago, Happy Fox said:

I can see Carrick going to Bristol City, don’t think he’s the calibre of manager we would go for imo.

We hired the last manager based on four games in english football, his aura & an impressive career at Manchester United. 

He's exactly the sort of calibre of manager we'd go for 

[VLC86]

12 minutes ago, daddylonglegs said:

We hired the last manager based on four games in english football, his aura & an impressive career at Manchester United. 

He's exactly the sort of calibre of manager we'd go for 

Ruud’s aura is immaculate tbf

[les-tah]

28 minutes ago, daddylonglegs said:

We hired the last manager based on four games in english football, his aura & an impressive career at Manchester United. 

He's exactly the sort of calibre of manager we'd go for 

RVN really convinced top and rudkin he could get man utd/real madrid loans

 

the manager we go for will be the best blagger because top and rudkin fall for it.

[daddylonglegs]

6 minutes ago, les-tah said:

RVN really convinced top and rudkin he could get man utd/real madrid loans

 

the manager we go for will be the best blagger because top and rudkin fall for it.

I'd be interested to understand if the fact that he interviewed at Cov/Norwich and got overlooked was brought up in any discussions internally. 

 

Seems utterly baffling that we'd go for someone who couldn't get mid table championship clubs but hey ho.

[Grebfromgrebland]

Think it'll be July when we hear something

[Tommy G]

15 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Think it'll be July when we hear something

July 2026

[Supergray22]

1 hour ago, Hinckleyfox said:

Exactly. So compensation is totally black and white. Leave the agreement early, you pay compo. End of. 

 

Ultimately we offered to handcuff ourselves and put the house on a manager with very little experience. All because we wanted a trendy name with a polo neck.

 

Absolutely unforgiveable, and a much worse crime than the horrendous losing streak RVN took us on. 

It’s a bit like blaming victims who fall prey to scam artists. It’s not solely our managements fault for not being the full ticket. It’s down to those in control who appoint them and pay their wages to step in and make it right. Unfortunately none have covered themselves in glory of late. 

[steveb]

So it won`t be russell martin cos he just signed with Rangers, probably a good match for him

how about we just stick with RVN, just kidding

[Lambert09]

We’ve really dodged a bullet. “Why rangers” then proceeds to pretty much make it me me me. Couldn’t resist telling everyone about how much interest he had hahaha 

 

what a  complete melt 

[kingpowerout]

What’s next for us tho!? Starting to think we’re just going to keep RVN 

[HitchinFox]

1 hour ago, daddylonglegs said:

I'd be interested to understand if the fact that he interviewed at Cov/Norwich and got overlooked was brought up in any discussions internally. 

 

Seems utterly baffling that we'd go for someone who couldn't get mid table championship clubs but hey ho.

 

It's not utterly baffling when you consider who our DoF is. 

[Richmondfox]

2 hours ago, Hinckleyfox said:

Exactly. So compensation is totally black and white. Leave the agreement early, you pay compo. End of. 

 

Ultimately we offered to handcuff ourselves and put the house on a manager with very little experience. All because we wanted a trendy name with a polo neck.

 

Absolutely unforgiveable, and a much worse crime than the horrendous losing streak RVN took us on. 

Shame he hasn’t got any questionable in today’s society social media posts and get HR to put him on a PIP? They shouldn’t be rewarded for failure. 

[Fox92]

3 hours ago, Happy Fox said:

I can see Carrick going to Bristol City, don’t think he’s the calibre of manager we would go for imo.

He plays the type of football we seem to go for. 

He's free.

 

He's definitely going to be on our radar.

 

Considering we appointed Van Nistelrooy on the back of four games in this country, two of which were against us, I don't think we really aim for a "calibre".

[ramadaone]

I did try telling you last week 

Wasn't exactly rocket science but some ITK's obviously knee better

 

[Pita]

1 minute ago, Fox92 said:

He plays the type of football we seem to go for. 

He's free.

 

He's definitely going to be on our radar.

 

Considering we appointed Van Nistelrooy on the back of four games in this country, two of which were against us, I don't think we really aim for a "calibre".

Rudkin just has a wild guess at who’s coming. Manager or players 

[Spudulike]

6 minutes ago, ramadaone said:

I did try telling you last week 

Wasn't exactly rocket science but some ITK's obviously knee better

 

So you think RvN is offski?