No managerial communication since relegation to L1 on 21st April

[Trav Le Bleu]

12 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

In comparison, Wolves hosted an event where the manager and chief exec were grilled by fans on what was going to be done next

And will that serve them better?

[Lookatthebluesky]

1 hour ago, Corky said:

We were 16th, a point outside the relegation zone having lost 4 of his previous 5 matches when he was sacked. We certainly weren't mid-table.

Exactly 

[LCFCJohn]

10 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

We rightly slate Rudkin but it sounds like even he is left in the dark as to when Top will make these kind of decisions. 

 

He's only ever acted when he's been in the country too. Which of course, isn't even that often. 

 

I could write essays on how bad this is. If someone told me this was deliberate sabotage id completely believe it at this point. 

You just have to ask yourself, if you were suddenly in charge of Forest or Coventry and actively wanted to tank them, what would you do? And would it be any different to Aiyawatt’s ownership of us….

[Pita]

Top just never going to change he does not have a clue how to run a business. Rudkin totally out of his depth. So not telling the fans anything is just standard for them 

[The Year Of The Fox]

10 hours ago, Lcfcwigstonblue said:

Yes they’re useless. However even a well run club wouldn’t announce a new manager whilst we have one under contract.

Bournemouth?

[Gamble92]

Starting to wonder if Willy Caballero might be interested. Might explain Enzo and him being at the Norwich game. 

[HP1]

18 hours ago, Gazza M said:

We are run by communists. We arent entitled to an opinion. We do as state instructs in what is supposed to be the best for everyone. Just drink the free beer and enjoy the 15-16 parade please. 

Bread and circus

[jayfox26]

9 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Starting to wonder if Willy Caballero might be interested. Might explain Enzo and him being at the Norwich game. 

Would he not be going with Enzo to Man City next summer?

[Tom12345]

On 14/05/2026 at 13:54, Lookatthebluesky said:

How was Cooper keeping us ‘mid-table’? Don’t ever convince yourself that he and his brand of football were ever going to keep us up. He’d been hugely fortunate to pick up points during his tenure.

At least he recognized that our team (after promotion) did not have enough talent to play free flowing football throughout the whole pitch. His strategy was ugly, which is that he bet on one side of the pitch and devote players to that side while simply defending the other side - that may not have been a bad idea.

 

RVN wanted us to play like Man United, but he was so rigid he didn’t see that we didn’t have the quality throughout the squad to play that across the whole pitch.  
 

I think that has been our downfall this season too.

 

In the last few seasons, we had players that were just not good enough at any level playing positive football (like Hamza, Ndidi (the time for a destroyer without any ball control skill was gone), Thomas) and they constantly give the ball away / back pass / wait for opponents to settle / etc that made us so easy to play against. Yet, these players continued to be in the team, earning bigger wages than they should. Maresca was smart enough to see that and played players according to their attributes (this is why Ndidi was played up front; to be a destroyer up front where losing the ball is not such a big deal), but he would have needed new players in the PL.

Edited 20 May by Tom12345

[LcFc_Smiv]

The lack of managerial appointment i can just about accept and understand, the lack of communication other than the post confirming our relegation and that we will be playing in league 1 next season, is baffling and massively frustrating. Just communicate.

[1972 Fox]

7 minutes ago, LcFc_Smiv said:

The lack of managerial appointment i can just about accept and understand, the lack of communication other than the post confirming our relegation and that we will be playing in league 1 next season, is baffling and massively frustrating. Just communicate.

The norm for our club under King Power, which is the exact reason why I started this thread. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

4 minutes ago, LcFc_Smiv said:

The lack of managerial appointment i can just about accept and understand, the lack of communication other than the post confirming our relegation and that we will be playing in league 1 next season, is baffling and massively frustrating. Just communicate.

Agreed, in reality we are not going to receive regular updates on how are search for a new manager is progressing, however there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that there shouldn’t have been an announcement in regards to Rowett, Davidson and Sadler all leaving at the end of their short term deals, thanking them for there efforts and also equally baffling is the lack of confirmation as to the players out of contract who will be leaving at the end of their contracts. 
 

Yet again it demonstrates a clear disregard towards the fanbase and a determination to continue to not communicate and drive the disconnect even deeper. 

[ClaphamFox]

43 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Agreed, in reality we are not going to receive regular updates on how are search for a new manager is progressing, however there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that there shouldn’t have been an announcement in regards to Rowett, Davidson and Sadler all leaving at the end of their short term deals, thanking them for there efforts and also equally baffling is the lack of confirmation as to the players out of contract who will be leaving at the end of their contracts. 
 

Yet again it demonstrates a clear disregard towards the fanbase and a determination to continue to not communicate and drive the disconnect even deeper. 

We never publish our retained list this early, so it’s not that baffling that we haven’t done so this time. And when it’s published it won’t  tell us much we didn’t already know anyway. 
 

The lack of announcement re: Rowett’s departure very likely means he’s being considered as a back-up option if none of the club’s preferred candidates works out. He clearly isn’t first choice or he would have been appointed by now, but he’s probably not been completely discarded as a candidate while the club is still in talks with other people. I agree this is worrying, but I think it’s probably what’s happening. 
 

 

[Dan]

Nothing changes until he's gone. It's very clear.

[nnfox]

I would think the Rowett's contract has expired.  Nothing has been said because he's put his name forward as permanent manager and is being considered.  I suspect with the finances we have (or don't have), we're actually biding our time with making an appointment, even if it's Rowett.  We should be able to get pretty much the whole of May and June out of the way without paying a manager, which is money in the bank.  As frustrating as it is, we are now so tinpot that that's the only reasonable explanation I have for the total lack of urgency.

[foxfanazer]

Another summer of sitting on their hands whilst our cuckold fans lap it up 

[Bozman]

Don't buy a season ticket then, he will just plod along if the finances mean he can survive..

 

[teblin]

23 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

We never publish our retained list this early, so it’s not that baffling that we haven’t done so this time. And when it’s published it won’t  tell us much we didn’t already know anyway. 
 

The lack of announcement re: Rowett’s departure very likely means he’s being considered as a back-up option if none of the club’s preferred candidates works out. He clearly isn’t first choice or he would have been appointed by now, but he’s probably not been completely discarded as a candidate while the club is still in talks with other people. I agree this is worrying, but I think it’s probably what’s happening. 
 

 

I think if we haven’t had a retained list by early June after the season finishes then it’ll be very strange.

 

In terms of the manager I’d expect we’d start to hear some names etc… after the season finishes too. If we don’t start hearing links and speculation in early to mid June I fear that more might be happening that is being let on, and not in a positive way.

[davieG]

Work going on in the background 

 

[1972 Fox]

On 14/05/2026 at 01:10, 1972 Fox said:

Bump. The deafening silence continues after almost 6 weeks.

 

Maybe we're waiting for the right man to become available (e.g. Challinor) but history tells us it's just a repeat of previous failings.

[Jonezy]

[Winstonthedog]

Problem is the club can't afford to pay the SKY monthly direct debit.... so phone and Internet are down until we find some funds 

[greenfox58]

Christian Fuchs, obviously 

[The Year Of The Fox]

Can’t believe people thought anything different 

[Spanner73]

It’ll be the 2 blokes from Black lace but their doing the circuit in Magaluf at the moment that’s why there’s a delay 

 

“Agadoo” will be the new walk out song