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

[Foxes1]

Not many KPFC fans on Facebook defending Rudkin or Top on this announcement, yet

[Mike Oxlong]

I’ve taken Man City down to the Conference on FM so will be emailing the club my CV demanding to be appointed as Senior Senior Chief Football Officer 

[CruzNoir]

11 minutes ago, filbertway said:

The video of Mcarron explaining how his team should have had 6 wins instead of the 4 they had doesn't fill me with confidence.

 

Seems like he had a remit of taking CFG's policy and implementing that at Lommel. So aside from having a fairly limited task he's not really done much.

 

Underwhelmed at this and my instinct is that he'll try to force through absolutely turgid Russell Martin style football.

 

The one positive is that his experience has been in youth development and we really do need someone who can tap into the youth market and bring through fairly cheap players that we can develop and sell on.

 

So, I suppose I'm not too optimistic but can definitely see potential for optimism

 

The wolves fella sounds like more of the same. Deal with random asian companies and trying to replace the legacy fans with day trippers. Good luck in league one with that.

 

Then a couple of promotions for people who have been in position at the club during a massive period of under performance.

 

 

His CV would suggest he’s done quite a lot tbf for his age.

 

We aren’t going too get a polished glowing proven Sporting Director with a track record in the role at the highest level. McCarron looks perfectly decent enough for the position we find ourselves in.

 

Of the 3 big new roles, he’s the only one I’m remotely optimistic about. I understand from circles within CFG, I’ve heard from folks that the likes of Brian Marwood and Simon Timson all rating this fella as CFG’s best up and coming SD’s.

 

Its nonetheless a curious jump from City too us but, perhaps he doesn’t want too be abroad no more with other CFG Clubs? And there’s no near future openings at Man City as SD? Who knows.

 

It’s the falling upwards I’m more baffled at in Rudkin, I have optimism though, what’s the other option? 

[lcfc sheff]

I reckon there will be a documentary for next season, can just smell the tv gold in league one 

!

 

 

(plus we’re gonna need the money)

[Greg2607]

6 minutes ago, BrilliantFox said:

 

People like yourself deserve the current state the club is in. You enable and make excuses for the horrid decisions being made. 

Go on then, tell me who YOU would have appointed. 

[beepee1984]

Same shit different title

I can't wait for our summer evolution of players.

 

Ayew new contract as a Senior bench warmer

Winks new contract as Leicester City ambassador in London

Pereira new contract as Trainee Physio practice patient

 

[Gazza M]

Shit sticks to shit. We need administration to get them all gone. 

[Corky]

That front row will be rammed when His Wonderfulness bothers to show up.

[filbertway]

1 minute ago, CruzNoir said:

His CV would suggest he’s done quite a lot tbf for his age.

 

We aren’t going too get a polished glowing proven Sporting Director with a track record in the role at the highest level. McCarron looks perfectly decent enough for the position we find ourselves in.

 

Of the 3 big new roles, he’s the only one I’m remotely optimistic about. I understand from circles within CFG, I’ve heard from folks that the likes of Brian Marwood and Simon Timson all rating this fella as CFG’s best up and coming SD’s.

 

Its nonetheless a curious jump from City too us but, perhaps he doesn’t want too be abroad no more with other CFG Clubs? And there’s no near future openings at Man City as SD? Who knows.

 

It’s the falling upwards I’m more baffled at in Rudkin, I have optimism though, what’s the other option? 

Yeah I don't disagree, I'm trying to keep an open mind on him as he's certainly the appointment to feel most optimistic about.

 

I feel like the way CFG run that it's almost hard to fail in your job as the processes and tasks will be so clear and ingrained. It'll certainly be an interesting change for him coming into a club where he's not got anyone to tell him what to do and has been ran like a  Sunday league club for the past 5 years.

 

Hopefully he can take what he's learned and use that to create a solid foundation for us on the footballing side. In theory it should be a completely blank canvas for him. Let's hope Rudkin let's him crack on and just spends his days snoozing and watching at the races.

[Tommy G]

27 minutes ago, Greg2607 said:

Simon Capper was Finance Director here before moving to Newcastle in 2023... so in reality,  Kevin will have been managing through the mess that was left behind.   Those long term contracts and spend happened long before he will have taken the reigns. 

 

For all we know, it COULD have been him that's put the brakes on player spending, to protect the club as much as possible. 

 

Lots of people will go through a career journey of FC, Finance Director and then CEO, it's not an uncommon trajectory. 

 

I'm sure our resident CFO @Tommy G will know colleagues and peers that have made that transition. 

 

I certainly know of plenty from my professional career. 

 

 

I’m don’t know the guy but he must talk a good game to go from FC to CEO in a handful of years - he could be really good before I slate him but this is Leicester City we’re talking about. 
 

Yes a lot of CFOs will transition into CEO roles but they tend to be the more commercially astute ones. I’m staggered they haven’t gone with someone external, as for the Rudkin role it’s a joke at this point and it’s now 100% concrete he isn’t going anywhere. 
 

if they wanted to appoint the FD its lazy to say they are now recruiting a new one, seems another afterthought - I’ll try and find who the recruiter is and may have a stab myself. 

[Tommy G]

They must read Foxestalk and sit around and discuss “what could wind them up the most” then release a statement like today? I don’t think it could of gone much better from their point of view

[Nolucklcfc]

17 minutes ago, Foxes1 said:

Not many KPFC fans on Facebook defending Rudkin or Top on this announcement, yet

Think Aiyawatt will lose a few fans over this because a lot of the defence has been to blame Rudkin and “it’s the people around him” …  

 

He then goes and promotes him to oversee all football operations … 

[CruzNoir]

5 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Yeah I don't disagree, I'm trying to keep an open mind on him as he's certainly the appointment to feel most optimistic about.

 

I feel like the way CFG run that it's almost hard to fail in your job as the processes and tasks will be so clear and ingrained. It'll certainly be an interesting change for him coming into a club where he's not got anyone to tell him what to do and has been ran like a  Sunday league club for the past 5 years.

 

Hopefully he can take what he's learned and use that to create a solid foundation for us on the footballing side. In theory it should be a completely blank canvas for him. Let's hope Rudkin let's him crack on and just spends his days snoozing and watching at the races.

100%
 

It’ll be an eye opener for him coming here I completely agree  and agree things I’d imagine fall into place more easily under the CFG umbrella with the direction ect, maybe he’s super confident in his ability too step outside the CFG comfort zone and see’s us as a project worth taking on visualising the riches at the end of it if he’s successful with us, I mean, what a career boost that would be for him.

 

or, he’s standard Top appointed that turns out too be deluded in his abilities and gets sent walking come September  

 

I’m hoping but also relatively confident it’s the former.

 

theres others I’d far sooner see sent packing, unlikely I know 

[trugerkem]

I hope they have relegation clauses in their healthy new contracts 

[Le Renard]

Has Rudstein set up a honey trap? No way someone that incompetent keeps his job let alone get promoted!

[Vestan Pance]

42 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

Next in recruitment - Keith Vaz as public relations director 

TBF he would be ok as kit man, he knows a bit about washing machines.

[CosbehFox]

33 minutes ago, CruzNoir said:

His CV would suggest he’s done quite a lot tbf for his age.

 

We aren’t going too get a polished glowing proven Sporting Director with a track record in the role at the highest level. McCarron looks perfectly decent enough for the position we find ourselves in.

 

Of the 3 big new roles, he’s the only one I’m remotely optimistic about. I understand from circles within CFG, I’ve heard from folks that the likes of Brian Marwood and Simon Timson all rating this fella as CFG’s best up and coming SD’s.

 

Its nonetheless a curious jump from City too us but, perhaps he doesn’t want too be abroad no more with other CFG Clubs? And there’s no near future openings at Man City as SD? Who knows.

 

It’s the falling upwards I’m more baffled at in Rudkin, I have optimism though, what’s the other option? 

 

A bloke on the ground what overseen him in such a role doesn't think much of him. 

 

[CosbehFox]

17 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Think Aiyawatt will lose a few fans over this because a lot of the defence has been to blame Rudkin and “it’s the people around him” …  

 

He then goes and promotes him to oversee all football operations … 

Yep, he's turned others against him today. An utter, unintelligent fool 

[mod hero]

Did Monika from 7/11 get the gig full time?

[fox_favourite]

5 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

 

A bloke on the ground what overseen him in such a role doesn't think much of him. 

 

Sounds like it's exactly what we need. Excellent....

 

Sigh

[CosbehFox]

3 hours ago, Stadt said:

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

Just gone through the squad(s)  during his time there though and I don't see a single player that gone on to be impactful in football. One lad at Verona now but roughly about it. 

 

Despite a very clear advantage, they only got near promotion once. 

[Mint_Fox]

4 hours ago, ealingfox said:

This might just be hopium but going to put it out there that Chief Football Officer sounds like a bullshit job - in terms of plain English why would that rank above a Sporting Director?

 

I've said many times that the Rudkin issue could be sorted by giving him a bullshit job that can be framed as a promotion but takes him out of the technical areas and away from decision making. He can still mince about in his tracksuit and hang around on matchdays but has less scope for doing damage. This at least does sound a bit like that - 'long-term sporting alignment' and 'high-performance environment' are both phrases of meaningless waffle but sound important.

We can only hope your right 

[UniFox21]

The only positive thing I've seen so far from Tom Collomosse.

 

[CruzNoir]

2 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

 

A bloke on the ground what overseen him in such a role doesn't think much of him. 

 

Yeh I did see this but couldn’t find any credible details on its truth tbh.

 

I don’t see much suffering though as that journalist would suggest, a quick look and I see record league sales of players, state of the art new training facility which opened up after McCarron left which is something he’d have been overseeing during his tenure and a squad still predominantly the same since he left with a manager he hired that are currently going for promotion this season.

 

Could have left them in a worse position. I’m always dubious of spiteful journalism, not that they are always wrong.

 

 

[21st Century Fox]

Director of Football > Chief Football Officer