Ruud van Nistelrooy - Leicester City manager

[homer]

4 goals for and 25 against is astonishing

I know the squad isn’t great, but this bloke is a complete and utter clueless ****ing idiot



But hey, look, we’ve got Ruud Van Nistlerooy, isn’t it soooo cool?

 

[LoopisDeLupis]

4 goals for and 25 against is astonishing

Especially considering 75% of those were in one game.

 

[popillius]

Cooper was a ****ing awful appointment. We then went with RvN, another appalling choice. Both were obviously poor selections to nearly everyone with a ****ing brain in their head but that's where we are.

We painted ourselves into a corner and had to appoint someone who would cost us **** all. We should have gone with Gary Megson, Steve Bruce, Iain Dowie, Paul Ince or Dean Smith. They'd have all been better ****ing choices than the pair of hopeless wankers we took a punt on.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Especially considering 75% of those were in one game.

50% were in one game. 50% were in another.

 

[fitz]

Anyone still think this guy should be our manager?

originally the only reason to be pro his appointment was that he isn't Steve Cooper....the major con being that he's worse than Steve Cooper. What a club!

 

[Blue Maniac]

50% were in one game. 50% were in another.

Erm. No. 50% in one game. 25% each in two others.

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

He has to go. What does it take to sack him? Yes the squad isn’t great, but he’s a coach not a manager. We need a proper shot-caller.

It’s the very last throw of the dice.

3 points off safety, 13 matches left. Sack him and we can begin an adventurous albeit unlikely great escape.

This is the time to do it. Not after Brentford. Not with 9 games left. NOW.

 

[popillius]

He has to go. What does it take to sack him? Yes the squad isn’t great, but he’s a coach not a manager. We need a proper shot-caller.

It’s the very last throw of the dice.

3 points off safety, 13 matches left. Sack him and we can begin an adventurous albeit unlikely great escape.

This is the time to do it. Not after Brentford. Not with 9 games left. NOW.

It's not happening.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

We find someone better in the summer. Nobody with half a brain would take on the hopeless task this season. We try to find someone who can solidify us in the championship.

What we SHOULD do is scour the continent for a young manager with ideas who is doing stuff in some league below the elites.

What we absolutely SHOULD NOT do is appoint some predictable **** from the journeyman roundabout & hope for the best. Then if we get promoted, stick with them as a reward & get relegated again.

Rebuilding has to be from the ground up, even if it takes 3 seasons to get back up. That means a mass clearout of the toxic wankers in the squad, even if it results in losses financially. Leaving it to fester is just asking for worse in the long run.
Young manager, young players, new ideas. All 100% required. Plus time allowed for an identity to develop.

Obviously none of that will happen & we'll appoint some tiresome non achiever without a club on the cheap. Or give RvN a 5 year contract & a pay rise.

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

Sometimes things are better off getting REALLY bad because that’s what it takes for real change to take place which is good long term.

Based on the above, the hope should be that we get relegated for any chance of change in the hierarchy and a cleaner future. But Top is so inept I doubt even that would do anything.

And more immediately, based on the above, the hope is that we lose horribly vs Brentford so that we sack Ruud. But again, only God knows if that provokes change, and if it does, who the **** do we bring in?

I’d suggest Dyche, but I’m sure that the hierarchy want to get someone who understands our “playing style.” What ****ing playing style?

 

[Brown Nose]

If we sacked RvN anytime soon, I'm pretty sure that Brian Barry-Murphy would be in charge until the end of the season.

To be fair to RvN, he's only been allowed to bring one member of staff in himself. He still has a rag bag of coaches from previous regimes. How you're supposed to affect change that way is beyond me.

Barry-Murphy was brought in by Rudkin as Assistant Manager. It was not a RvN appointment.

As another ex-Man City acolyte U21 manager obsessed with Pep, I fully expect him to have come here on a 'pathway' to being in charge at some point.

 

[popillius]

If we sacked RvN anytime soon, I'm pretty sure that Brian Barry-Murphy would be in charge until the end of the season.

To be fair to RvN, he's only been allowed to bring one member of staff in himself. He still has a rag bag of coaches from previous regimes. How you're supposed to affect change that way is beyond me.

Barry-Murphy was brought in by Rudkin as Assistant Manager. It was not a RvN appointment.

As another ex-Man City acolyte U21 manager obsessed with Pep, I fully expect him to have come here on a 'pathway' to being in charge at some point.

If he does as good a job as the last one I'd be all for it.

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

What’s the point in putting Bazza in charge if Rudkin will just employ his assistant. Him and Ruud should have a job swap.

Were such an unattractive proposition at the moment. Top needs to start being a “top” instead of being a “bottom.” He’s getting ****ed all over the shop.

 

[DillyDing22]

I hope we give RvN time and at least a couple of windows with an ability to get players in before we totally write him off.

I agree he wasn’t the correct appointment of a ‘proven’ manager we desperately needed to fight to stay up, but he is a young manager who has learnt under multiple managers and had some successes in another league.

So far for me he has made some mistakes, starting Ward, substituting Bilal, and I’m sure we can name more, but he has been given a terrible hand with no funds or assistance to improve it.

UNLESS, there is an OBVIOUS replacement and we have to strike while the irons hot.

 

[Fox Fan]

Meanwhile, here's what we could have won:

 

[Robin127]

...he is a young manager who has learnt under multiple managers and had some successes in another league...

He is older than Iraola.

 

[DillyDing22]

He is older than Iraola.

Thanks for that

 

[alex]

Meanwhile, here's what we could have won:

View attachment 19417

He was never coming here was he?

 

[popillius]

Meanwhile, here's what we could have won:

View attachment 19417

In reality though, we couldn't. He was never, ever going to come here.

 

[Fox Fan]

In reality though, we couldn't. He was never, ever going to come here.

Yeah, he probably wasn't and if he was, it would have been in the summer when everyone was scared off by a potential points deduction