Ruud Van Nistelrooy - Sacked - Official

[em9999]

6 minutes ago, AjcW said:

There's people at the club who have been doing a terrible job for years and still keep their job.

I inferred from your post earlier you work for the club?

I don't disagree with that never have done 

[Spudulike]

Extra bottles of Moet on his birthday.

[Chelmofox]

1 minute ago, Spudulike said:

Extra bottles of Moet on his birthday.

Chang

[lcfc_forever]

40 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

Can you imagine if managers didn't get the pay off for non disclosure? This club would have been exposed ****ing years ago and we might have been saved all this shit show. 

 

A nice £8m pay off and Brendan can't speak highly enough of Susan Whelan and Rudders. 

I think there would be a fair bit about Rodgers that would damage him as well. 

 

Not sure Enzo would care particularly - even his fanboy Balague said it wasn't due to issue with Leicester he left as he'd already agreed to stay on, but Chelsea came along. 

[em9999]

44 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said:

Tanner had confirmed as much about PSR meaning the club have gone back on pledges - they need to bite the bullet and move on as it’s heavily damaged the club in multiple seasons now and damaged trust not only with the manager but the fans as well:

 

“Such a waste of money hampered Van Nistelrooy, who had said he was given assurances when discussing the position with Leicester that there would be funds available. When the January transfer window came around, that assurance faded, with the club’s ongoing concerns over profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) overriding any pledges.”

He might have well been promised funds but me for one was glad he never got them because I wouldn't have trusted him in a transfer market .

 

And even if any promises are made. Circumstances change and you show flexibility and imagination with the team you have 

 

If your a half decent manager you do anyway 

 

 

Edited 27 June 2025 by em9999

[AjcW]

8 minutes ago, em9999 said:

I don't disagree with that never have done 

"If you do a bad job you get sacked"

 

???

[em9999]

Just now, AjcW said:

"If you do a bad job you get sacked"

 

???

Yes your right ✅️  I am contradicting myself 

 

As a manager o meant.. those higher up seem to get a free pass .. but I'm afraid that's the way it is 

[AjcW]

Just now, em9999 said:

Yes your right ✅️  I am contradicting myself 

 

As a manager o meant.. those higher up seem to get a free pass .. but I'm afraid that's the way it is 

Wouldn't even say that high up to be honest. How does a marketing department consisting of 4 or 5 blokes who have been there 6+ years get away with it for so long when we've seen barely any revenue or fan engagement growth?

[SB87_LCFC]

Timing is questionable, he should of really been moved on at the end of the season so things could get moving ahead of next week.  

 

I would echo some of comments I have read that the buck doesn't just stop with Ruud and he has been treated horrifically by the board, false promises, left him to fend for himself, what did they expect? Him to get a kit on and keep us up?

 

I said on another post, the Enzo promotion party was only to paper over the cracks that were clearly visible from the season before. 

 

High transfer fees, wages and possibly agent fees for mediocre players, no focus on a clear direction post Vardy or even a plan B when we had him - Daka from memory had one good game for us in Europe and Tom Cannon was bought and sold faster than he could get to 5 goals for us. The recruitment of 33 year old Jordan Ayew, Bobby Reid and Odsonne Edouard on higher salaries just shows how bad things have got. 

 

Think the writing is on the wall for Top to sell up, reading the KP situation with their new chief exec coming in as well raises alarm bells. 

 

As for the manager situation, not overly sure Rohl is the right way to go, I think we need someone with experience and the ability to balance the books and the dynamic in the squad at the same time.

 

Dyche for me, despite Percy's comments in his article, Wilder up until last season had the ability to get Sheff Utd over the line, could he do it here? Either way whoever comes in has a mammoth job on and for me it has to be someone with experience and authority. 

[Kitchandro]

Not sure why anyone feels sorry for him. He acted like he didn’t want to be here. He didn’t change things up, never looked angry with defeats / thrashings, continued to play the old boys whilst saying he was planning for the future, never acknowledged the fans, did no homework whatsoever on our squad (leading to him playing Ward). 

 

Slaughter the club for how they treat us, not multi-millionaire managers.

[David Hankey]

Should have happened months ago. RVN was probably the worse manager this Club has ever had in it's illustrious history. Good riddance!!

[Claudio Fannieri]

Already updated his LinkedIn profile 

[TheLittleBigMan]

Just now, Chelmofox said:

This is a pretty naive comment. 

 

Priorities and funds change all the time. How many workers trust that their existing employers might not pivot, change their team dynamic or even make redundancies?  

 

A manager needs to be adaptable. 

 

I also hate this notion that Rodgers was somehow hard done by in the transfer market. He is one of the biggest causes of where we find ourselves now.

The context was the level of dishonesty. 

Edited 27 June 2025 by TheLittleBigMan

[Lambert09]

They’ve sacked him now so we can still say happy birthday in 3 days. Proper family club 

[Wsl]

28 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

This is a pretty naive comment. 

 

Priorities and funds change all the time. How many workers trust that their existing employers might not pivot, change their team dynamic or even make redundancies?  

 

A manager needs to be adaptable. 

 

I also hate this notion that Rodgers was somehow hard done by in the transfer market. He is one of the biggest causes of where we find ourselves now.

It doesn't change that drastically over one financial year unless there is an unexpected event that could not reasonably have foreseen. How did the priorities change? If you have a competent financial director in place, you'll have known the rough funds that might be available. Remember these directors seem to work on the most optimistic basis possible. But you can still tell the truth to a manager - we'll do our best but we can't promise much by way of funds is very different to yeah, they'll be funds (we hope) - oh hang on....

[Nickaj]

16 minutes ago, SB87_LCFC said:

......... for me it has to be someone with experience and authority. 

 

 

For me too - plus someone with the ability to bang heads together both in the Boardroom and in the Dressing Room

[coolhandfox]

People smashing RVN for months now feeling sorry for him and making excuses for him.

[HankMarvin]

I’m glad he wasn’t given funds we would be in in even worse shape, plus a lot more dead weight the next manager doesn’t want 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

16 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Already updated his LinkedIn profile 

Hate AI so much 

[Guest BMFox]

16 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Wouldn't even say that high up to be honest. How does a marketing department consisting of 4 or 5 blokes who have been there 6+ years get away with it for so long when we've seen barely any revenue or fan engagement growth?

Seen you hammering the marketing department a lot and I take a lot of notice to it as it's something I've been baffled with for years too!

 

Looking at from maybe a simplistic point of view, I can imagine their performance in their tenure will be judged by the club largely based on the revenue of things like shirt sales, sponsorships, partnerships etc, and with us having had such a meteoric rise so quickly from League 1 (when some of them were even in the department back then) to winning the PL followed by Europe etc there's been this massive growth in revenue alongside that naturally, so looking at those numbers they'll probably be seen to be doing a good job on paper. If that department is anything like the rest of the club they'll be the ones judging their own performances and have given themselves a pat on the back for a job well done without having to have lifted a finger.

 

I can only imagine that's the reason no changes have been made because everything else suggests they're no good. I'm honestly embarrassed every year when it comes round to our kit releases. They all look so boring, the editing on the pictures look amateur, the promotion just seems so unimaginative, when that's really the time to throw your best ideas at grabbing the fans' interest. That's one example, but I can't think of a single imaginative thing we've done in promoting anything. I know we won't have the budgets of Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs or any European giants, but surely it doesn't take much of a budget to come up with an execute a good idea if the department is worth its salt.

[Stuntman_Mike]

16 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Already updated his LinkedIn profile 

Open to work.

 

Destined to fail.

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, coolhandfox said:

People smashing RVN for months now feeling sorry for him and making excuses for him.

Him being shit and also not having anything to work with doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. 

 

Both are true. 

[HankMarvin]

Just now, StanSP said:

Him being shit and also not having anything to work with doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. 

 

Both are true. 

Nothing to work with? I know it seemed like he fielded a team of reserves but there is no excuse for setting the record for no goals scored consecutive matches.

Look how many worse teams there have been over the years and at the very least avoided such a heinous record.

[coolhandfox]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

Him being shit and also not having anything to work with doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. 

 

Both are true. 

The squad wasn't great, but the nothing to work with rubbish is bollocks.

 

Leicester became the first club in top-flight history to go nine games without scoring at home. 

 

Do you think that's acceptable with the squad he had? 

 

 

[Rusko187]

Strangely, although he was a failure for us, I never came to actually disliking him. Sure frustrated with a lot of his decisions but he wasn't helped by the club/players, wish him all the best but it turns out it wasn't a good fit to have him at Leicester.