brookfox Posted 11 February Posted 11 February De Zerbi the fiery Italian who has form for throwing his toys out the pram and falling out with the board? Errr yes please!
Mickyblueeyes Posted 11 February Posted 11 February When you hire your bit on the side to run the football side. Hire his bit on the side to act as managing director. Alienate multiple good people in football. Have ex players call you out. Fill the squad with players with obvious attitude problems. Do interviews and repeatedly use the word “promote” instead of promotion or promoted despite being here for over 10 years. You lose credibility. No one wants the job.
nnfox Posted 11 February Posted 11 February 7 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said: Brilliant as we will now spend a week sending messages to his agent which will be laughed at and ignored. That's funny, but also probably true!
Wink84 Posted 11 February Posted 11 February 1 hour ago, teblin said: Rowett would've taken our job 100%, but looks like that ship has sailed. Not sure where we go from here, not sure they do either but I might be wrong. Probably because in his interview Top asked why should our club consider a lowly manager like you? Stinks or arrogance in our club.
Mark 'expert' Lawrenson Posted 11 February Posted 11 February Marti was sacked on the 25th of January. Why is it taking so long to replace him? I don’t believe for a minute it’s due to Top and Rudkin being thorough in picking the right person. It’s costing us dearly now, another shambles. 3
Old Foxes man Posted 11 February Posted 11 February Before my comments, some background. I have been a Foxes fan since the 1960’s, having been born in Grasmere Street. As a nipper, I regularly went to Filbert street with my notebook and football programmes to get autographs from the players arriving for training. Over the years, I have supported the Foxes through some lean times and some incredible times. Throughout this time, I have never felt as disconnected from the club as I do now. Perhaps most worrying, is the fact that I feel no connection with the players. I think the latter is because I do not sense that the players are committed to the club, and the ineptness of the leadership. We are currently in a dire situation, with very limited player assets, financial pressures, an increasingly toxic culture, and we seem to be in a downward spiral that we cannot control. I do not blame Top for this though, because I think his only ‘crime’ is to have appointed/listened to the wrong executives and managers. I think he has been gullible and naive to trust these individuals, but he has made a significant financial investment in the club and would want to leave a legacy for his father. These Executives and Managers have demonstrated extremely poor knowledge, judgement and business acumen. One only needs to look at the players signings, contracts offered, player contract management (namely allowing players to see their contracts out and leave on a ‘free’), and the ‘knee-jerk’ appointments, contracts, and exit payments for managers. I suspect that Top and his advisors have desperately wanted to appoint managers who, at interview, have said that a ‘turn around’ can be achieved in relatively quick time without significant investment in new players. This is evidently not the case; the road to recovery is long, arduous and will require strategic investment. The business performance of the club’s executives would not have been tolerated in any other industry. The club is not an attractive investment opportunity at the moment, so no new buyer is going to appear unless there is a billionaire who wants a vanity project. The club has very limited players assets, a small ground with diminishing attendance, and the associated poor ability to attract other commercial forms of income (e.g. sponsorship). Similarly, a new manager appointment is not going to fix this unless it is part of a broader strategy (see below). In terms of the solution, I would suggest that Top’s first step should be to bring in an external team of Consultants with football and business knowledge to assess the current status of the club, how it has managed to get in this position, and to recommend a recovery strategy. These external consultants should report directly to Top and with a brief that encourages an honest and realistic assessment. I think it would then be for Top to decide whether he is prepared to accept and act on the recommendations. I think the latter will involve a realistic recovery time-frame of three to five years to stabilise the descent and start the turn around (dependent on the pace of investment), a number of changes at an executive level, further investment, and the appointment of a manager with the appropriate skills to manage the required ‘rebuild’. In the meantime, they are in ‘damage-limitation’ mode and I will protect my mental health by continuing my emotional detachment for my club. 3
Muzzy_no7 Posted 11 February Posted 11 February 24 minutes ago, brookfox said: De Zerbi the fiery Italian who has form for throwing his toys out the pram and falling out with the board? Errr yes please! Absolutely no chance.
Stevosevic Posted 11 February Posted 11 February I would genuinely go for Allardyce. No coaches please
Fox1norfolk Posted 11 February Posted 11 February 8 hours ago, Foxin_Mad said: They got to get this right, which I have no faith in. That Marti fraud was the latest in a long line of incompetent clowns. How a bunch of professional footballers on the highest wage in the championship can let themselves be so unfit and poorly conditioned I will never know Simple solution to motivate them, if you win you get paid, if you lose you don’t
Silva Fox Posted 11 February Posted 11 February 21 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said: Marti was sacked on the 25th of January. Why is it taking so long to replace him? I don’t believe for a minute it’s due to Top and Rudkin being thorough in picking the right person. It’s costing us dearly now, another shambles. We've probably already been turned down by just about every "candidate" that has been named so far - who in their right mind would want to come here and work under King Power and Rudkin? We'll end up with another "nobody" purely on the basis that they are prepared to accept the job. 1
trooky Posted 11 February Posted 11 February Makes no difference anymore, after last night this team doesn't have the character to recover from that loss and we're heading to league 1.
Tommy G Posted 11 February Posted 11 February 1 minute ago, Fox1norfolk said: Simple solution to motivate them, if you win you get paid, if you lose you don’t Might be a breach of contract, exciting thought as it may be.
brookfox Posted 11 February Posted 11 February 4 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said: Absolutely no chance. Oh I know that, it was more the prospect of getting a manager who will give Top and Rudkin a rocket up their collective arses!
Pliskin Posted 11 February Posted 11 February 26 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said: Marti was sacked on the 25th of January. Why is it taking so long to replace him? I don’t believe for a minute it’s due to Top and Rudkin being thorough in picking the right person. It’s costing us dearly now, another shambles. They’ve no plan at all. I bet they’ve not spoken to anyone. Top isn’t on the country at the moment is he? So that usually means nothings happening. 1
Fox1norfolk Posted 11 February Posted 11 February 1 minute ago, Pliskin said: They’ve no plan at all. I bet they’ve not spoken to anyone. Top isn’t on the country at the moment is he? So that usually means nothings happening. They are in dire straits now and have to act. King has failed tactically and you do question the players fitness levels. With one of the finest sports facilities at Seagrave there is no excuse
5waller5 Posted 11 February Posted 11 February (edited) 3 hours ago, ian__marshall said: I completely agree. Two weeks ago Top mentioned in his interview that a Technical Director was 'close' yet there's been no appointment and barely a whisper of who it could be. It's clear as day that there is no vision or strategy underpinning what we are trying to achieve, and any plans are either built on sand or nonexistent. We really have two incompetent individuals steering the ship and we're heading for the mother of all icebergs. Worse… we have one incompetent fool stearing the ship and a disinterested rich passenger in First Class that’s trying to fund it, has absolute faith in the idiot in charge, and finding that he’s running out of money Edited 11 February by 5waller5 Typo
Popular Post Happy Fox Posted 11 February Popular Post Posted 11 February Incompetence FC, at least the whole footballing world can see these clowns for what they are now, there is no hiding anymore. 5
Blue ROI Posted 11 February Posted 11 February All our players with contracts expiring and dumb and dumber running the show. Yeah that'll really get them queuing up won't it Aiyawatt? Aiyawatt.....Aiyawatt.....hello.... 1
Wortho Posted 11 February Posted 11 February It seems as if they don’t care about the club and that includes the players. It’s an utter shambles and no wonder why we can’t recruit anyone good. I have never felt so embarrassed about being a Leicester fan. 2
HybridFox Posted 11 February Posted 11 February (edited) This delay is the fine margins that cost us in 2022-23 when we put Dumb and Dumber in charge while we p**** about (one of them is remarkably back at the club!) Edited 11 February by HybridFox
VLC86 Posted 11 February Posted 11 February 16 minutes ago, Stevosevic said: I would genuinely go for Allardyce. No coaches please 6 minutes ago, Happy Fox said: Incompetence FC, at least the whole footballing world can see these clowns for what they are now, there is no hiding anymore. And for the above reason this won’t happen. He doesn’t need the money we offer, he doesn’t need the kudos of turning us around (unlikely) and he certainly doesn’t need to be working with these complete and utter fraudsters at this point in his career. I’ve said elsewhere, the profile of manager we get in this mess is someone completely desperate (Marti) or someone massively on the decline who just wants another pay day. This club has no redeeming factors at the minute, and has got to be the very bottom of the pile for anyone wanting a job. 1
Happy Fox Posted 11 February Posted 11 February Just now, VLC86 said: And for the above reason this won’t happen. He doesn’t need the money we offer, he doesn’t need the kudos of turning us around (unlikely) and he certainly doesn’t need to be working with these complete and utter fraudsters at this point in his career. I’ve said elsewhere, the profile of manager we get in this mess is someone completely desperate (Marti) or someone massively on the decline who just wants another pay day. This club has no redeeming factors at the minute, and has got to be the very bottom of the pile for anyone wanting a job. Steve Bruce/Mark Hughes nailed on..
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