Whelan and Rudkin Falling Out

[Dr The Singh]

23 minutes ago, TheLittleBigMan said:

I'd like to see them do some naked mud wrestling.

I would participate and pay for that,.make it happen my friend.

[apollo4joe]

22 minutes ago, Bilo said:

Pretty much all of our problems over the last couple of years have come from the football side.

 

Poor recruitment, not sacking Rodgers, absurd contracts and letting other contracts run down. Those are Rudkin issues, not Whelan ones.

 

Whelan got us a combined £150m for Maguire and Fofana, and you'd have to think she'll be a tough cookie when it comes to fees for Barnes, Maddison etc.

I don't disagree with what you're saying, but we have also lost just under £200million over the last three financial results

 

So the w@nk financial decisions from our CEO had an impact on our lack of spending. Which lead to our relegation. So both are to blame

[Buzzell]

[l444ry]

They all sit there with faces like Bulldogs chewing wasps these days.  One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
 

Edited 28 May 2023 by l444ry

[sacreblueits442]

10 minutes ago, Matt said:

Fair enough.

 

Although I seem to have understood them alot differently hence the need for the loans.

 

Again, I ask the question, to what benefit to us were they when (due to the rules. FFP) we still weren't allowed to spend anything? How are do we find ourselves in the financial situation we do when we've sold players for such figures? I don't see too many other clubs selling players for what we've commanded yet they're not pleading poverty and living on beans on toast.

 

The loans of which are only going to screw us even more but if you say we got the money upfront and in 3 installments I don't quite get the need for the loans, not when we've not spent any of it.

(The training ground, ok, but that was money according to you upfront...I still don't get the loans situation)

...the loans would be against infrastructure or capital spending!!!

As it is a loan, it cannot be used for player acquisition or against salaries, the final position money is only collateral and the loans would be tied to these future payments. In a worst-case scenario, should the club become bankrupt, no other creditor can have a claim on the receipts from the Premier League just the bank that made the loan.

 

[SheppyFox]

MTVs celebrity death match is running a new season?

[moore_94]

13 minutes ago, Matt said:

Fair enough.

 

Although I seem to have understood them alot differently hence the need for the loans.

 

Again, I ask the question, to what benefit to us were they when (due to the rules. FFP) we still weren't allowed to spend anything? How are do we find ourselves in the financial situation we do when we've sold players for such figures? I don't see too many other clubs selling players for what we've commanded yet they're not pleading poverty and living on beans on toast.

 

The loans of which are only going to screw us even more but if you say we got the money upfront and in 3 installments I don't quite get the need for the loans, not when we've not spent any of it.

(The training ground, ok, but that was money according to you upfront...I still don't get the loans situation)

I think one of the main reasons is because we allowed our wage bill to spiral out of control

 

We have one of, possibly actually the worst wage to turnover ratios in the league, with us spending something like 85% of all the money we bring just on wages

 

Backing Rodgers with the 2021 window where we didn’t sell anyone for big money and also spent £60m, on top of the massive wage bill, just made things even worse for us financially

[Fox92]

Get rid of Rudkin ffs. But Top won’t dare. We need someone who can make decisions.

[AaronH]

Sounds more like a Percy fluff piece as he gets all of his info from Whelan 

[Kopic]

Remember when someone posted the photo of him on holiday on a sunbed with his laptop during a very important transfer window. Should've got rid of him then.

[wurmer]

2 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Get rid of Rudkin ffs. But Top won’t dare. We need someone who can make decisions.

This is why we will continue to be in trouble - if

the obvious decisions don’t get made.

[lanefox]

Rudkin is the Barrie Pierpoint of this generation absolute bellend

[jonny_wright]

54 minutes ago, Bilo said:

She's a big name in King Power and came with Vichai when the family bought the club. 

 

I'd fancy her chances more than Rudkin if push came to shove. 

Rudkin was academy coach then academy manager before stepping up, can’t really argue with what he’s achieved with us, but it feels like it’s come to a natural conclusion 

[Foxin_Mad]

The football side has been a calamity. This squad shouldn't go down, for 2 years we have been unable to defend a set piece.

 

Rudkin must go, else we will be like Stoke. 

[Bilo]

2 minutes ago, jonny_wright said:

Rudkin was academy coach then academy manager before stepping up, can’t really argue with what he’s achieved with us, but it feels like it’s come to a natural conclusion 

I totally agree. I wouldn't disagree with a golden handshake for all he's done for the club over the years, but he simply cannot be here for the rebuild. 

[Hales]

He can't even show emotion when we score. Ugh vile man, don't let the door hit you on the way out Rudkin!

[Fazzer 7]

11 minutes ago, lanefox said:

Rudkin is the Barrie Pierpoint of this generation absolute bellend

This.

I would also add, Rudkin is the ultimate brown noser, that is where he excels, he will fight tooth and nail to secure his position and he won't care what collateral damage is done in the process. None of us know how strong  his relationship with Top is. But I will be surprised if Top has the bottle or the conviction to fire him.

[Freeman's Wharfer]

To be fair, hearing they’re not on good terms kind of makes me cut Whelan some slack.

 

I had in mind that they were both side by side in their ineptitude around sacking Rodgers but Percy’s article makes it very clear that Whelan does the non-playing side of the club (which has done relatively well) and it‘s Rudkin who handles the playing side.

 

The problems we’ve had, like giving out huge contracts, recruiting poorly, allowing contracts to wind down… they should all be Rudkin decisions on that basis.

 

Whelan comes out of the article well for the Maguire deal, unsticking the Fofana one and being well respected in Premier League circles. Rudkin does not. The whole article is pointing to him being the man who

should shoulder the blame.

[Wymsey]

Has anyone on here ever met either of them in real life?

[eblair]

Always felt like we have always achieved what we have inspire of Rudkin. All those crap signings, the Adrien Silva debacle, the ridiculous contracts. His record is actually pretty appalling 

 

Pearson hated the **** as well

[Fox92]

9 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Has anyone on here ever met either of them in real life?

I have walked past Rudkin at a couple of away games. Years ago now, mind, last was when we’d only recently appointed Rodgers.
 

He spoke both times (I was wearing our colours obviously which is why he spoke).

Edited 28 May 2023 by Fox92

[Lesta Legend]

8 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Has anyone on here ever met either of them in real life?

I would say that fans will have met Susan as she does attend the fan feed back meetings and I dare say it the award nights. 
 

I think Rudkin is the one that keeps his distance. It says a lot between the two. 

[MalletFox]

1 hour ago, Mee-9 said:

Bring back testicle face Milan Mandaric.

 

He might have a face like my left ballsack, but at least he kept people in their place.

I’d get that seen to mate!

[mod hero]

1 hour ago, Dr The Singh said:

I just want to add my sexual relationship with either and both Ruskin and Whelan have not had any impact on us getting relegated.

Nick Knowles.

 

probably the only man I’d have a threesome with.

Edited 28 May 2023 by mod hero

[Blue ROI]

.....of the Premier League