No Game time for Monga / Rudd stands by contract if relegated.

[Fox92]

30 minutes ago, when_you're_smiling said:

The youngest player Alex Ferguson gave a debut to was Giggs who was 17 and three months.

He never played a 16-year-old never mind a 15-year-old.

 

Even Johan Cruyff was 17 before he made his debut. I haven’t seen enough of Monga but I doubt he’s going to be as good as Cruyff. Only one player has made their debut in the Dutch top flight while 15, Wim Kras in 1959. 

 

I’m no fan of RVN but having a go at him because we’re not throwing kids in and expecting them to thrive in a shite team is ludicrous.

I wasn't specifically talking players, I just meant our young players in general.

[AKCJ]

Yeah I think some of you need to get real.

 

He's a 15 year old boy and, as talented as he obviously is, he shouldn't be playing against grown men in the Premier League. He's developing at the right rate in the U18s and U21s. 

 

If he goes to Man City or Real Madrid or wherever then it won't be because we didn't let him play the last 5 minutes in a match in the league.

[AKCJ]

54 minutes ago, RedSoxUK said:

I don't understand this, why was he on the bench Vs Manchester United in the FA Cup then? Shits and giggles? 

 

****ing fraud of a man.

Come on. He was on the bench in that game for the experience of being around a (don't laugh) Premier League dressing room as it prepared for a match. It showed him how (again, don't laugh) professionals prepare for games.

Edited 2 April by AKCJ

[HankMarvin]

Ethan Nwaneri Waves 

[whoareyaaa]

50 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

wont play him at 15 but will at 16? Whats the point?? Its not like something happens when you turn 16! 

 

I stand by what i have said if he is good enough (others clearly think he is!) then play him. Coming on with 10-15 minutes to go in a few dead rubbers (lets be honest all our games are now until August) will not hurt him one bit! 

He is still at school so when he turns 16 he will be available all the time ?

[st albans fox]

2 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

He is still at school so when he turns 16 he will be available all the time ?

Correct 

at 15 he is supposed to be at school 

no players can get out of that, irrespective of what club they’re at. Even if the club was running a school on site at seagrave, the pupil’s education would come first and the time they could spend with the first team squad would be heavily limited. 
 

Professional football is a heavily tactical game - it may not seem that we do much of that but I assure you that we do. We’re just not very good at it!  can’t expect any of the players to just ‘rock up and play’. 

[AjcW]

1 hour ago, CosbehFox said:

I get Monga not playing at 15 - simply it's hard to have him tactically on the same wavelength. However, for Monga to be convinced to stay he needs to see other young lads being given a go and at the moment, he sees Ayew or Reid chuffing up down the touchline. For example, Evans should be featuring. 

What tactics exactly would he have to be on the same wavelength for?  

[CosbehFox]

1 minute ago, AjcW said:

What tactics exactly would he have to be on the same wavelength for?  

Defensive shape. Let’s not be silly here. As shit as we are, 1 training session a week isn’t going to be any good for Morga himself, let our team 

[Mickyblueeyes]

Worst thing from that article is that Van Nistelrooy wants to honour his contract. Please don’t mate

[RedSoxUK]

45 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

Come on. He was on the bench in that game for the experience of being around a (don't laugh) Premier League dressing room as it prepared for a match. It showed him how (again, don't laugh) professionals prepare for games.

I'm not buying that at all because it's well known first team players travel and are in the dressing room before and after whether they're on the bench or not.

 

He could go with the first team and not be on the bench. If he's on the bench it either means he's an option to come on.. or it's a show/sham.

 

Clearly it was for show.

[stevostadium]

2 hours ago, Pliskin said:

He won’t be here next season.

oh he will 

[Pliskin]

3 minutes ago, stevostadium said:

oh he will 

Monga? Not a chance. 

[Fox on the Rox]

1 hour ago, Molson Canadian said:

He might not be in a full time training model in the academy. He could be living 1.5 hours or further away travel time from the academy centre meaning he has to attend school elsewhere.  Does the Leicester academy have a full time schooling program on site for the academy players? Allowing them to attend school and train on the same days?  His school commitments which are mandatory most likely don't give him enough time to train appropriately to be included in a senior men's training day.  Ruud most likely doesn't want to play a kid who can't do full match training the week before a game with the senior squad.  Throwing a kid into a premier league game when he can't even train on the same level as the senior players properly is quite risky.

Yes, there is a full time training model at the club. The school involved is close to the training ground.

[Out Foxed]

liverpool took another young talent and played him at what 16 or 17?

[Stadt]

2 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

I get Monga not playing at 15 - simply it's hard to have him tactically on the same wavelength. However, for Monga to be convinced to stay he needs to see other young lads being given a go and at the moment, he sees Ayew or Reid chuffing up down the touchline. For example, Evans should be featuring. 

Tactically it doesn’t matter anyway if he’s getting 5, 10 or 15 minutes.

 

Tactically it doesn’t matter because RVN is miles out of his depth and not cut out for management on this set of circumstances.

 

Tactically doesn’t matter because we’re already down.

 

Not having a go at you, it’s just there always seem to be an excuse for not playing players when we couldn’t be in a better place to do so.

[ronnup]

He's not going to be in a rush to play a 15 year old who's going to be gone in about 5 months

Edited 2 April by ronnup

[Freeman's Wharfer]

Keeps making a point about his contract and still being here in the event of relegation. Meanwhile he appears like he’s hating it here and has made zero effort to build a connection with the fans. This guy is really digging his heels in and making it clear he won’t forego that pay off.

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, RedSoxUK said:

I don't understand this, why was he on the bench Vs Manchester United in the FA Cup then? Shits and giggles? 

 

****ing fraud of a man.

Fraud of a man is a bit unfair.

 

Fraud of a manager, maybe.

[Gamble92]

3 hours ago, Lineker's Left Foot said:

Not to sound naive, my neighbour said the same thing and not to sound funny, but  why would that be the case?

First of all I absolutely agree with you about King Power. Don't want this to sound like a defense of them in anyway. I've made it well known what I think of Rudkin and that lot.

 

We have just kept our heads above water by operating like we have the last 2 years. The relegation was catastrophic in terms of how we could still operate with these wages. If we dropped down say to league one last season instead of promotion, can you imagine the implications? 

 

You're taking about doing that twice. Top would more than likely try and sell with no one willing to buy and any club that's dropped from Premier League to League 2 like Coventry and Wimbledon have either gone or been very close to going. We'd be on a different level to that. Even if we didn't go bust, would you really want every other week to be headline after headline like 2002? 

 

 

[honeybradger]

Imagine being Monga and getting asked to train with a Premier league first team as a 15 year old then comjng up against the players in person and realising they're all shit.

[sm1]

We're as good as relegated and haven't scored a league goal in about 10 hours. We are in a no lose situation.

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ruud-van-nistelrooy-addresses-immediate-10079047

 

Ruud van Nistelrooy addresses his immediate Leicester City future amid expected relegation
The Leicester City manager has overseen a run of 14 defeats in 15 Premier League games that has left the club staring at an immediate return to the Championship

ByJordan Blackwell
15:36, 3 APR 2025Updated15:40, 3 APR 2025

Ruud van Nistelrooy has vowed not to “run away” from Leicester City’s relegation fight even as their fall back into the Championship nears.

Van Nistelrooy has lost 14 of his last 15 Premier League games in charge and City now looked destined for the drop.

With eight games to play, they are 12 points behind 17th-placed Wolves and require a miracle to avoid a return to the second tier.

 

But despite their increasingly inevitable relegation, van Nistelrooy is not considering deserting the club.

Asked if he’d ever experienced form like this, he said at his press conference on Thursday: “It’s the first time, thank God.

“It’s something I feel that I want to go through this with this team, with the squad, with the staff.

“Stay together, stay connected with them, fight ourselves through this as people and give energy every day to get ourselves out of this.

“For me it’s not something where I feel I want to run away from. I want to be part of this and I want to fight for this with the squad.

“That’s every day. So that’s also leading into Monday’s game. It’s another opportunity for us and we can only hope for some support in our own stadium.”

If City’s performances on the pitch don’t already show that they are accepting of their relegation, van Nistelrooy’s matter-of-fact take suggests they have.

But he says they have an obligation to keep striving even when their fate is sealed.

“We have to live in reality,” he said. “Twelve points in eight games and a goal difference that is a lot worse, so that’s another point. It’s huge.

“Mathematically it’s not over and we have the obligation to keep going. But also when it’s mathematically over, we still have the obligation to keep going.

“We’re not going to stop. We always have that obligation. We feel we want to defend the club and the badge and our own personal pride to show that we’re capable of getting results in this league and doing better than we’re doing. That’s what we’re looking for.”

 

[Vestan Pance]

On 02/04/2025 at 15:08, Lineker's Left Foot said:

What an absolute pillock this 🔔end is.  RVN what a w⚓️.  Monga will go and I don’t blame him.

If Monga plays for our first team, Man City will have to pay more for him, and it weakens Monga's negotiating position. I'd think again about why he hasn't featured. This club is run by Muppets but not everything is within their control.

[DJW1]

On 02/04/2025 at 17:18, CosbehFox said:

I get Monga not playing at 15 - simply it's hard to have him tactically on the same wavelength. However, for Monga to be convinced to stay he needs to see other young lads being given a go and at the moment, he sees Ayew or Reid chuffing up down the touchline. For example, Evans should be featuring. 

They have tactics?  There are 2 possibilites: 1. Some of the young players are better than the current first teamers but Ruud doesn´t want to "rush" them, which would be worrying. 2. The young players are worse than the current first teamers, which would be very worrying

[HankMarvin]

3 hours ago, davieG said:

We’re not going to stop. We always have that obligation. We feel we want to defend the club and the badge and our own personal pride to show that we’re capable of getting results

Embarrassing saying that 

should’ve just kept it zipped