"Evolved" Leadership Structure To Drive Long-Term Stability & Success

[Lionator]

To add to the positive vibes.

 

 

[AjcW]

1 minute ago, Lionator said:

To add to the positive vibes.

 

 

Oh.... he was the only positive  

[Foxin_Mad]

Sounds like he should fit in will operation extinction former champions, utter incompetence

Edited 3 March by Foxin_Mad

[21st Century Fox]

4 minutes ago, Lionator said:

To add to the positive vibes.

 

 

I dunno, no organisation is perfect but I feel like you don't last long in the City Group if you're that incompetent. 

[Stadt]

Not like me to defend anything the club has done but I'm not sure net profit is something CFG are that bothered about 

[jonny_wright]

Jobs for the boys! 
 

lead the biggest ever mismanagement of a club (Leeds 2002 might have a word) and get promoted! 
 

nothing will change 

[hejammy]

[kingfox]

1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

Leading the Club’s football operation, Jon Rudkin has been appointed to the role of Chief Football Officer, providing executive leadership of all football matters, ensuring long-term sporting alignment, strategic squad development

 

1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

James will support and help shape the Club’s player recruitment and identification strategy

What will this shit actually look like 🤔

 

To be more like a poundland Man City?
Having to rely on frees and loans because we’ve got no money? 

[SemperEadem]

Tough one for the facebook groups this. So many seemed to hang on Top would get rid of Rudkin and then magically all would be ok.

[moore_94]

6 minutes ago, Lionator said:

To add to the positive vibes.

 

 

They basically just spent a load of money on young players when he was there

 

A lot of them are then loaned out, sold on, or moved around the City group clubs

[UniFox21]

Kevin being the anonymous source ey

 

[moore_94]

3 minutes ago, kingfox said:

 

What will this shit actually look like 🤔

 

To be more like a poundland Man City?
Having to rely on frees and loans because we’ve got no money? 

Might actually start using our link with Leuven properly?

 

Doubt it though

[inckley fox]

20 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

It's one thing people who are very defensive of the ownership can't get their heads around. Most of them want Rudkin gone, but they need to realise that Rudkin will be here for as long Aiyawatt is chairman. The only way that Rudkin goes is if the club changes hands. 

I tend to think of it as Rudkin being an unbearable, debilitative symptom of a chronic problem. He's not the massive degenerative disorder which is terminal if it goes untreated - that's clearly Top. Rather, Rudkin is the unsightly sore which proves that it's gone, and is still going untreated.

 

I thought Top had three potential cards left up his sleeve before things got truly untenable (and on a much wider scale than now). These were to show recognition of the need for (a) him to step back from hands-on involvement, (b) the arrival of a name in leadership that we could get behind and (c) Rudkin to go. I thought that even two out of three might buy him time.

 

It won't be immediately obvious, but I think - just as he's spectacularly blown every other chance he had for redemption - Top has also thoroughly shafted himself with this final fragile lifeline. Everyone still reports to him and a board with nobody on it who knows the first thing about the game. Rudkin is promoted, or at very least moved sideways, and stays in charge of all things football. Still the right-hand man. Glover remains intact.

 

So I honestly can't see the way back for him any more, because even the staunchest of his supporters will recognise that this is just a fancy way of saying 'we'll change these peripheral bits and bobs - but of the stuff that really matters (e.g. football leadership, recruitment, chairmanship) we're not going to alter a bloody thing.' The main argument from the 'Pro-Family' faction is that considerable changes are needed, though not a change of owner. Rudkin - yes, he goes. Glover - him too, perhaps. A change of approach from Top? Clearly needed. But he can stay. That's the Ginetta line, isn't it?

 

And, while critical of him, I'd say that personally I've held back a lot more than most in my criticism of KP. I've always been willing to see where a fundamental overhaul leads us. But, it turns out - unsurprisingly, I'm sorry to say - that this is what patience gets you - no meaningful change at all. And if you're one of those refusing to turn; hoping against all hope that Top wakes up, smells the coffee and makes major changes, then those hopes are out of the window now.

 

Some of them, I'm sure, will wait and see. But whether we stay up or not, when we continue to wallow, continue to fall foul of the authorities, and continue to fail to bring in fresh blood to the squad - things that will become even more abundantly clear than they are already in the coming months - it's not only Top's last card that's gone down the bog, but also that of those who stand up for him. The one last tenuous argument is obliterated.

 

So yeah, sooner or later, and whether the club's demise is the final nail or not, he's a goner.

[StanSP]

6 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Kevin being the anonymous source ey

 

How can you be finance director/controller at the club for several years and oversee the past 4/5yrs of financial mismanagement, but then 'stepped in' when we faced difficulty about PSR? 

 

Where the fvck was he beforehand, and what the fvck was he doing?! 

[Stadt]

7 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Kevin being the anonymous source ey

 

Wow somebody in the finance team stepped in to deal with a financial matter, canny and savvy operator alright

[burleighfox]

The definition of failing up; we could all do with such rewards for being completely inept!

[Katy]

What a pile of fetid horse dung. 

[Finnegan]

35 minutes ago, AjcW said:

If McCarron is still here in September i'll be amazed.

 

At this point I think we (as in foxestalk) are long overdue stopping believing everyone LCFC hire is some sort of simpleton that doesn't do any due diligence and is walking in here blind. 

 

It was daft when people thought we duped Enzo about having money to recruit in that January, it was more daft when people thought the same about Marti or Ruud. 

 

McCarron isn't turning up here naively thinking the place isn't a mess. He isn't going to be horrified with what he sees, he's seen all the disputes with EFL and the Prem and us barely spending a penny in 18 odd months. 

 

Edited 3 March by Finnegan

[filbertway]

4 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

At this point I think we (as in foxestalk) are long overdue stopping believing everyone LCFC hire is some sort of simpleton that doesn't do any due diligence and is walking in here blind. 

 

It was daft when people thought we duped Enzo about having money to recruit in that January, it was more daft when people thought the same about Marti or Ruud. 

 

McCarron isn't turning up here naively thinking the place isn't a mess. He isn't going to be horrified with what he sees, he's seen all the disputes with EFL and the Prem and us barely spending a penny in 18 odd months. 

 

I imagine he's referring to the fact that talented employees don't tend to stick around for very long.

[The Doctor]

41 minutes ago, Mark_w said:

But he’s got a new hat!

He's just a regular director of football with a stupid job title. He still embodies the ****ups he did before.

 

[Dan]

34 minutes ago, Lionator said:

To add to the positive vibes.

 

 

**** me.

[Finnegan]

4 minutes ago, filbertway said:

I imagine he's referring to the fact that talented employees don't tend to stick around for very long.

 

If he's any good I'm sure he won't be here forever but I doubt he's out the door that fast, even accounting for a bit of hyperbole. 

 

[Finnegan]

34 minutes ago, Lionator said:

To add to the positive vibes.

 

 

 

Hahahahhahahha. 

 

Oh. 

 

[jayfox26]

Fck off King Power, fck off Top, fck off Rudkin. 

[Danizen]

What's the difference between a Chief Football Officer and a Chief Sporting Director?