James McCarron

[Ian Nacho]

Absolutely pointless having him here. Just another one of Ruskin's puppets. 

[Ric Flair]

2 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

Is he still ‘cooking’?

Bet he has beans with everything 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

McCarron's at the wheel 😮‍💨👨🏻‍🍳

 

 

 

[Iwebema]

I will say hes churned out alot of work, we have got through way more player transactions since hes come in.

 

The worry is aside from Bristric, they are looking like a similar theme to every window before him, a few of the managers mates and likely overpaying some older players from the league above to drop down, we are obsessed with signing players on the way down in their career rather than the way up.

 

Huge 10 days for him imo, we need some grit, some league one fighters and some legs in the middle. Im anticipating some 30 year olds from the championship at best.

[Dan]

All the ****ing plonkers you saw on social media happy with the crumbs offered to them. Sums up how ridiculously far they've tanked expectations at the club.

 

This summer, like the last, should've been an absolute massacre of the squad. Literally 20+ gone.

 

But it's OK, Winks and Vestergaard both went so everything is fine.

 

We have a squad of players who know nothing but losing. Nothing but failure. Underachievement. Break it up. Rip it to pieces and rebuild from the ground up.

 

Burton ****ing Albion have this lot sussed. You do not need world beaters to be a football team that can compete.

[CosbehFox]

On 21/07/2026 at 15:46, CruzNoir said:

Exactly

 

I've always thought it would make zero sense A) for James to leave such a position at CFG with no assurances of influence within the position here, and B) to hire him and literally not listen to him with the experiences he’s got

 

I get the Rudkin power complex folks have, it’s completely understandable but when you look at the calibre of JM, there’s no way he was going to be a push over or an unheard voice in the board.

 

To an extent, those worries or concerns imo should have been laid to rest now with what we’ve seen so far from his clear impact, it’s been completely different this summer the way we’ve gone about things, and that’s no coincidence with McCarron's appointment.

 

I’m by no means saying it’s been perfect, but it’s been a huge step forward from what it has been over the years.

 

I’d say as someone else has said, so far so good and to be quite honest, that makes a refreshing change 

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Claudio Fannieri]

It’s very concerning that in the last 3 weeks we seem have lost complete momentum in shifting out the deadwood and wantaways. 

 

Faes, Mavididi, Souttar, Okoli, Coulibaly, Thomas, Choudhury, Skipp are all still here, is it a case of no interest in our deadwood or as in previous years is it more a case of unrealistic valuations. Either way something has to change this week, otherwise I see a repeat of last season. 

[lcfc sheff]

He’s got a few more to get rid of and replace, deadline day actually should be interesting this year. If it is true we don’t now need to sell financially, I still want pretty much a whole new defence and midfield (hamza and skipp gone).

 

step up and sort it 

[kingpowerout]

5 hours ago, Dan said:

All the ****ing plonkers you saw on social media happy with the crumbs offered to them. Sums up how ridiculously far they've tanked expectations at the club.

 

This summer, like the last, should've been an absolute massacre of the squad. Literally 20+ gone.

 

But it's OK, Winks and Vestergaard both went so everything is fine.

 

We have a squad of players who know nothing but losing. Nothing but failure. Underachievement. Break it up. Rip it to pieces and rebuild from the ground up.

 

Burton ****ing Albion have this lot sussed. You do not need world beaters to be a football team that can compete.

Imagine your tactics are as easy as ‘let’s just load up the pitch with some big lads and get into these pussy’s’ - because that’s what we’ve seen in the first 2 league games and that’s what we’re going to face in the next 44.

 

if McCarron doesn’t spend the next 10 days shipping out some of these overpaid wet wipes and bringing in some strong, athletic lads (I don’t even care if they aren’t the best footballers) to supplement some of these young, nimble, attacking players (who seem to have potential) then we’re only going one way.

Edited 23 August by kingpowerout

[trooky]

20 minutes ago, kingpowerout said:

Imagine your tactics are as easy as ‘let’s just load up the pitch with some big lads and get into these pussy’s’ - because that’s what we’ve seen in the first 2 league games.

 

if McCarron doesn’t spend the next 10 days shipping out some of these overpaid wet wipes and bringing in some strong, athletic lads (I don’t even care if they aren’t the best footballers) then we’re only going one way.

Yes not rocket science, Coventry managed 4 shots from 36% possession against Arsenal, yet we give Burton 13 off 26%. 

 

We know we're not good enough to play this way yet the heirachy insist on forcing it down our throats. 

 

We should have got rid of Skipp, BDR, Thomas, Okoli, Souttar, Faes, Mavididi, Choudhury already, but I've 0% confidence it will happen before the window shuts. 

 

Cullen is also a poor piece of recruitment, obviously a RM signing but I'm not sure what he is?

 

He's playing as an 8 alongside Braybrooke, but he's not technical, physical or quick. 

Edited 23 August by trooky

[Bordersfox]

29 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

It’s very concerning that in the last 3 weeks we seem have lost complete momentum in shifting out the deadwood and wantaways. 

 

Faes, Mavididi, Souttar, Okoli, Coulibaly, Thomas, Choudhury, Skipp are all still here, is it a case of no interest in our deadwood or as in previous years is it more a case of unrealistic valuations. Either way something has to change this week, otherwise I see a repeat of last season. 

We were told the interest in Mavididi and Faes was high.  Yet here they still are.  It reeks of us p1ssing about over a few quid. Same wih Souttar.  

 

Make use of the different financial rules in league 1 and get people who don't want to be here out the door.  Unfortunately we are surely stuck with Skipp and Thomas but move the others on now.  

[Donwebbio]

They have prioritised having 4/5 wingers so RM can double change them out at 60 mins. That is such a hipster Premier league new thing saying that wingers can only play 60 mins. 

 

The priority should have been 2 x CB's who had power, desire to be here and be able to pass a football forward with a 90% success rate. Then an absolute monster CDM who could break up play and offer protection to Braybrooke and his smaller colleagues.

[kingpowerout]

3 minutes ago, Donwebbio said:

They have prioritised having 4/5 wingers so RM can double change them out at 60 mins. That is such a hipster Premier league new thing saying that wingers can only play 60 mins. 

 

The priority should have been 2 x CB's who had power, desire to be here and be able to pass a football forward with a 90% success rate. Then an absolute monster CDM who could break up play and offer protection to Braybrooke and his smaller colleagues.

Couldn’t agree more other than an additional more experienced number 9.

Edited 23 August by kingpowerout

[NextPlease]

6 hours ago, Dan said:

All the ****ing plonkers you saw on social media happy with the crumbs offered to them. Sums up how ridiculously far they've tanked expectations at the club.

 

This summer, like the last, should've been an absolute massacre of the squad. Literally 20+ gone.

 

But it's OK, Winks and Vestergaard both went so everything is fine.

 

We have a squad of players who know nothing but losing. Nothing but failure. Underachievement. Break it up. Rip it to pieces and rebuild from the ground up.

 

Burton ****ing Albion have this lot sussed. You do not need world beaters to be a football team that can compete.

Have you looked at the line up properly ?

 

Only 3 of the starting 11 were regulars last season (can’t count Souttar). Unrealistic to expect 100% new players 

 

Agree we need more physicality in the 11, we look a small side, hope the remaining signings focus on this

[MattFox]

6 hours ago, Dan said:

All the ****ing plonkers you saw on social media happy with the crumbs offered to them. Sums up how ridiculously far they've tanked expectations at the club.

 

This summer, like the last, should've been an absolute massacre of the squad. Literally 20+ gone.

 

But it's OK, Winks and Vestergaard both went so everything is fine.

 

We have a squad of players who know nothing but losing. Nothing but failure. Underachievement. Break it up. Rip it to pieces and rebuild from the ground up.

 

Burton ****ing Albion have this lot sussed. You do not need world beaters to be a football team that can compete.

People were bigging up this season because we have a semi decent kit 

 

Fanbase full of simpletons

[Chelmofox]

42 minutes ago, Donwebbio said:

They have prioritised having 4/5 wingers so RM can double change them out at 60 mins. That is such a hipster Premier league new thing saying that wingers can only play 60 mins. 

 

The priority should have been 2 x CB's who had power, desire to be here and be able to pass a football forward with a 90% success rate. Then an absolute monster CDM who could break up play and offer protection to Braybrooke and his smaller colleagues.

And he already had 2 in Evans and Carr. 

[lcfc_forever]

The basics are you have a strong goalkeeper and reliable forward, building from there. 
 

It’s incredible we haven’t invested in those positions yet again, relying on only having Bristic as a recognised striker is a huge risk. Instead, they’ve prioritised lots of ‘8’s - we have at least six players who can play that position. 

Edited 23 August by lcfc_forever

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

Well done Jim lad, some quality swamp draining going on here. But I really hope we’re not paying a % of wages for outgoing players like Choudhury, Faes and Mavididi. Otherwise…

 

 

Edited 1 September by Wasyls Pec Deck

[KFS]

Faes

Mavididi

Okoli

Woyo

Skipp

 

All gone today and I will rename this fella God

 

Souttar, BDCR, Thomas still have a place I guess but can play roles for depth

[Ricey]

1 minute ago, KFS said:

Faes

Mavididi

Okoli

Woyo

Skipp

 

All gone today and I will rename this fella God

 

Souttar, BDCR, Thomas still have a place I guess but can play roles for depth

You are assuming that it's McCarron doing these deals.

[Tommy G]

1 minute ago, Ricey said:

You are assuming that it's McCarron doing these deals.

Who else would be? Unless he was employed to do a completely different job to his job title. 

[CL Fox]

He spends a lot of time posting on here.

[Cincinnati Fox]

I imagine Rudkin is just bumbling around the halls of seagrave in his full tracksuit sticking his head in to different departments like David Brent 

[Tuna]

1 minute ago, Cincinnati Fox said:

I imagine Rudkin is just bumbling around the halls of seagrave in his full tracksuit sticking his head in to different departments like David Brent 

I've always thought of him as Lumbergh from Office Space

 

 

[dmayne7]

2 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Who else would be? Unless he was employed to do a completely different job to his job title. 

You do realise this is Leicester City Football Club, right? We've seemingly employed lots of people over recent years who are given a job title of 'footballer', but they've clearly never kicked a ball in their life