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[Vlad the Fox]

11 hours ago, RedSoxUK said:

I don't buy the Top wanting to look like Man City comments we always hear. It doesn't make sense because we would never have looked at Dean Smith, Steve Cooper.. if you're ideological to that point you don't willy nilly shift.

 

So I don't think Top/us are ideological in that sense, and if they were, perhaps not anymore.

Me neither, I seems like a throw away comment made to Enzo having just come from man city who then repeated it in an interview and it suddenly becomes gospel and set in stone. 

[cropstonfox]

1 hour ago, Brainy said:

We're hardly likely to release a statement saying RVN will be sacked the moment July comes around are we? If he ends up staying then a statement at the time this was decided would have been a sensible idea, in which case you can probably assume that he's a goner

Hes gone and the new boss is in waiting.Both paid to be silent.New Guy having to side step other offers..All to

foil the financial police who are watching

Us ,and waiting to pounce.

In the meantime we'll have to follow the cricket for a fortnight,Pride of Leicester at the minute

Edited 19 June 2025 by cropstonfox

[Guest Electric Yetis]

3 hours ago, winteriscoming said:

How many ex players birthdays do we have until the 1st July? Because it’s guaranteed we’ll hear about that instead of who’s in charge next season. 

It's Ruud's birthday!

 

 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

13 hours ago, RedSoxUK said:

I don't buy the Top wanting to look like Man City comments we always hear. It doesn't make sense because we would never have looked at Dean Smith, Steve Cooper.. if you're ideological to that point you don't willy nilly shift.

 

So I don't think Top/us are ideological in that sense, and if they were, perhaps not anymore.

Yea the bloke doesn’t know his arse from his elbow. So many signs he’s inept, and not just concerning us - even the family business have moved him away from day to day decision-making.

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

1 hour ago, cropstonfox said:

Hes gone and the new boss is in waiting.Both paid to be silent.New Guy having to side step other offers..All to

foil the financial police who are watching

Us ,and waiting to pounce.

In the meantime we'll have to follow the cricket for a fortnight,Pride of Leicester at the minute

It will be interesting if come 1 July RvN is still in charge. And I’m not sure RvN has been silent. He’s been calling for clarity, whereas he could have just said “I’m under contract etc…”. I’m not sure he’s leaving, but wary I’m in a minority there. I’d start to think he’s off if his Dutch mate GK coach leaves as is rumoured.

[StriderHiryu]

Dyche with Michael Keane coming in is being mentioned a lot in various circles. Supposedly players’ agents have told them. 
 

The fact that Dyche hasn’t taken another job and hasn’t been interviewing for any makes it highly credible to me. 
 

Going from Rodgers and Maresca to Sean Dyche shows we are clueless at the board level. If we truly wanted to go the progressive manager route we’d have gone for Cuesta who is very highly rated at Arsenal; they think he’ll be an Arsenal manager one day. So seeing him go again makes me believe the Dyche rumour. 
 

I’ll give any manager a chance but I feel like we are going to sign a few ex Burnley players and block the pathway for our younger talents. 

[fox_favourite]

7 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

Dyche with Michael Keane coming in is being mentioned a lot in various circles. Supposedly players’ agents have told them. 
 

The fact that Dyche hasn’t taken another job and hasn’t been interviewing for any makes it highly credible to me. 
 

Going from Rodgers and Maresca to Sean Dyche shows we are clueless at the board level. If we truly wanted to go the progressive manager route we’d have gone for Cuesta who is very highly rated at Arsenal; they think he’ll be an Arsenal manager one day. So seeing him go again makes me believe the Dyche rumour. 
 

I’ll give any manager a chance but I feel like we are going to sign a few ex Burnley players and block the pathway for our younger talents. 

It also shows me that the board don't learn their lessons either. As I've said before, I think the board see this as a safe option. But the squad will need a rebuild to play Dycheball, and we won't be able to get rid of everyone. 

 

Do they see this as a Pearson esque moment, which it won't be. It won't be a pretty watch, it won't be a tactical masterstroke that you can analyse. It'll be functional football. 

 

I hope and pray one of his obligations is to play youngsters. But I can't see him developing Monga, Evens, Fatawu etc...while he's here. It's not his style. 

 

We are a clueless, soulless and disorganised club and it's sad to see. Let's hope it's just rumours and nothing more and they'll be a surprise sprung on us...but I'll back whoever comes in as it won't be an easy gig. I was hoping for someone more progressive in mindset. 

Edited 20 June 2025 by fox_favourite

[LestaLad]

7 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

Dyche with Michael Keane coming in is being mentioned a lot in various circles. Supposedly players’ agents have told them. 
 

The fact that Dyche hasn’t taken another job and hasn’t been interviewing for any makes it highly credible to me. 
 

Going from Rodgers and Maresca to Sean Dyche shows we are clueless at the board level. If we truly wanted to go the progressive manager route we’d have gone for Cuesta who is very highly rated at Arsenal; they think he’ll be an Arsenal manager one day. So seeing him go again makes me believe the Dyche rumour. 
 

I’ll give any manager a chance but I feel like we are going to sign a few ex Burnley players and block the pathway for our younger talents. 

Genuinely might give this season a miss if so. Such a boring appointment and then signing if true. 

[Tommy Fresh]

Keane and another clown starting over Nelson would really for it for me 

Edited 20 June 2025 by Tommy Fresh

[ClaphamFox]

7 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

Dyche with Michael Keane coming in is being mentioned a lot in various circles. Supposedly players’ agents have told them. 
 

The fact that Dyche hasn’t taken another job and hasn’t been interviewing for any makes it highly credible to me. 
 

Going from Rodgers and Maresca to Sean Dyche shows we are clueless at the board level. If we truly wanted to go the progressive manager route we’d have gone for Cuesta who is very highly rated at Arsenal; they think he’ll be an Arsenal manager one day. So seeing him go again makes me believe the Dyche rumour. 
 

I’ll give any manager a chance but I feel like we are going to sign a few ex Burnley players and block the pathway for our younger talents. 

I remain sceptical. If Dyche has been appointed and it’s being openly discussed between players and their agents, it would have reached some of the media outlets by now, yet there are absolutely no reports about this anywhere. It would also have very likely have influenced betting patterns enough to affect the odds, yet you can still get 13/8 on Dyche (Rohl is still 4/6). Of course it might be that it’s true and that it’s being widely discussed among agents yet has somehow completely evaded the attention of journalists and punters, but it doesn’t seem very likely to me. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

22 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

I remain sceptical. If Dyche has been appointed and it’s being openly discussed between players and their agents, it would have reached some of the media outlets by now, yet there are absolutely no reports about this anywhere. It would also have very likely have influenced betting patterns enough to affect the odds, yet you can still get 13/8 on Dyche (Rohl is still 4/6). Of course it might be that it’s true and that it’s being widely discussed among agents yet has somehow completely evaded the attention of journalists and punters, but it doesn’t seem very likely to me. 

That is what i want to hear, common sense and more importantly sensible points as to why this information may not be accurate, or least this is what i am hoping for. If we appoint Dyche and then bring in Michael Keane then I am going to give next season a very wide berth as I am getting peak Micky Adam’s vibes and not his 1st full season but the horrible 3rd season when we signed a load of aging prem players and we were absolutely awful, turgid football played at walking pace. 
 

the gerritt forward lot will be in raptures but personally I will be done with the club when the likes of Nelson, Alves etc etc leave the club for a fraction of their value because the pathway has pretty much been closed. 
Dyche will destroy our potential golden generation. 
 

it would also show that there is literally no long term plan or strategy just a patch work quilt of managerial appointments all with a differing style and profile of player, with the only target to win promotion or stay in the premier league at all costs, we have become that club who make scattergun decisions and if this does indeed happen then it really is time for Top, KP, Susan and Rudkin to walk away. 

[Happy Fox]

If it’s not Dyche I will be surprised this is our board remember, we aren’t going to pay compensation for a manager not in our predicament thank you Aiyawatt 

 

Dyche will be seen as someone ‘experienced’ that will get us promotion at the first time of asking, but it’s certainly not a long term strategy, we don’t even have one anyway under KPFC, the sooner these charlatans sell the club the better.

[Winstonthedog]

Whoever it is .... fairly certain they will get a 3 year mega bucks contract... instead of 2 years with a 1 year option.. .. as the days roll on I find myself getting less and less interested which is the sad part 

[teblin]

I'll start this with a caveat, I am not in the Dyche in camp but just trying to think of the logic behind it, if it is to be SD.

• He's got teams promoted before.
• He's worked under difficult conditions and adversity
• He has managed to keep team in the top flight against the odds
• He's got a relatively small team into Europe on a small budget

That coupled with the fact he his pretty friendly with Rudkin I believe. 

 

I don't doubt that we would be near the top end of the table with SD in the coming season, but depending on who is still here most managers should do that. Like others have said it just not a long term vision, but maybe the club is in such a state it needs to think short term(which can just cause more issues long term).

 

[VLC86]

It’s a tough one to accept, but due to the financial situation we are in and the probable desire by Top to sell us, it’s inevitable that we go for what we perceive to be the safest way to bounce back and appoint someone like Dyche.

 

I think we needed to accept that for a good few years to come our strategy is worst case to go up for the Prem money and bounce back. I say strategy in the loosest of terms because clearly we are all over the shop or we wouldn’t have paid so much for Skipp.

[VLC86]

It really is going to be hilarious when Ruud arrives for pre season testing on Monday only to be sacked a week later.

[davieG]

1 hour ago, ClaphamFox said:

I remain sceptical. If Dyche has been appointed and it’s being openly discussed between players and their agents, it would have reached some of the media outlets by now

That would apply to any manager we have lined up. So on that basis either nothings happened or they're very, very good at keeping it quiet. Which means it could still be Dyche or any one else. So we're back at square one where no one outside the board has a clue.

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

8 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

Dyche with Michael Keane coming in is being mentioned a lot in various circles. Supposedly players’ agents have told them. 
 

The fact that Dyche hasn’t taken another job and hasn’t been interviewing for any makes it highly credible to me. 
 

Going from Rodgers and Maresca to Sean Dyche shows we are clueless at the board level. If we truly wanted to go the progressive manager route we’d have gone for Cuesta who is very highly rated at Arsenal; they think he’ll be an Arsenal manager one day. So seeing him go again makes me believe the Dyche rumour. 
 

I’ll give any manager a chance but I feel like we are going to sign a few ex Burnley players and block the pathway for our younger talents. 

Surely blocking young talent depends on budgets and the brief from the board? I thought Michael Keane was still playing as well?

[davieG]

1 minute ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

Surely blocking young talent depends on budgets and the brief from the board? I thought Michael Keane was still playing as well?

Hi 5 year contract just about to expire.

[Aleksz]

Said it before I will say it again, bringing in a manager that is just going to prioritise experienced players over our golden generation of young talent will be just as catastrophic towards this clubs future as not getting promoted again. 
 

If this club doesn’t turn Nelson, Alves, Braybrooke, Golding, Monga, Evans, Page etc into 10/15/20m+ assets for the transfer windows ahead, then it’s going to be on its arse very quickly. 

[FoxinNotts]

20 minutes ago, davieG said:

Hi 5 year contract just about to expire.

With regards to Michael Keane, I wouldn't want him to start over Nelson.

However, in terms of our squad, is he actually a better defender than both Coady and Faes?.. I actually think he might be! (Which speaks volumes as to how poor i feel Faes has been!).

If we are to go into the Championship season with Nelson, Souttar, Okoli, Vestergaard and Keane, as our center back options, that's really no that bad, and will arguably represent the best combined options for CB in the division.

[ClaphamFox]

35 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

It really is going to be hilarious when Ruud arrives for pre season testing on Monday only to be sacked a week later.

“Oh Ruud - you didn’t actually believe we’d let you manage us next season, did you? Ha ha ha - your face!!” 😁

[Outfox the Fox]

3 minutes ago, Aleksz said:

Said it before I will say it again, bringing in a manager that is just going to prioritise experienced players over our golden generation of young talent will be just as catastrophic towards this clubs future as not getting promoted again. 
 

If this club doesn’t turn Nelson, Alves, Braybrooke, Golding, Monga, Evans, Page etc into 10/15/20m+ assets for the transfer windows ahead, then it’s going to be on its arse very quickly. 

Of course, that situation could be the 'straw which breaks Dyche's back'!! In other words, if he's got no money to spend on buying (or bringing) in experienced players (which, is always his preference) and has to rely on relatively inexperienced younger players, he might not find us attractive enough to come. Add to that, a probable significant points deduction and existing players, used to playing in a tactical formation he doesn't like, we can't exactly be his 'cup of tea'!!

 

Perhaps I'm clutching at straws here, but we really can't be high up on a list of clubs, he'd ideally want to come to.

[VLC86]

Just now, FoxinNotts said:

With regards to Michael Keane, I wouldn't want him to start over Nelson.

However, in terms of our squad, is he actually a better defender than both Coady and Faes?.. I actually think he might be! (Which speaks volumes as to how poor i feel Faes has been!).

If we are to go into the Championship season with Nelson, Souttar, Okoli, Vestergaard and Keane, as our center back options, that's really no that bad, and will arguably represent the best combined options for CB in the division.

There has to be little chance of us having them 5 CBs. We need to dramatically reduce our wage bill and that’s probably 200k a week in CBs alone.

[FoxinNotts]

Just now, VLC86 said:

There has to be little chance of us having them 5 CBs. We need to dramatically reduce our wage bill and that’s probably 200k a week in CBs alone.

I actually think if Coady, Soumare leave, and with the ones who have already left, our wages are much more under control, already.

We'll need 5 CBs with Souttar injured, and just the general grind of a long Championship season.