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On a new episode of The Football News Show focused on Leicester City, Ben Croucher asks why the Foxes are having such a difficult season, with the side no better off under Ruud van Nistelrooy than his predecessor Steve Cooper. So what's going wrong and how can he keep them up?
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Image source, Getty ImagesWe asked for your views on what is going wrong for Ruud van Nistelrooy at Leciester, and how he can turn his fortunes around.
Here are some of your comments:
Ian: RVN is not to blame for his appointment - accountability for that lies with the board. He is however responsible for finding a pattern of play to suit the players he has - not persist in trying 'his way'. So far he is an abject failure and in my book the same would happen in the Championship.
Trev: When Ruud covered at Man Utd he had a quality team and players. Now he has lower quality players who are not performing. A novice manager was a bad idea in such a situation. It needed a tried and tested manager who knew what to do. Sorry Ruud, it's time for another change. It pains me to say he must go as I like him, he's just not experienced enough a footballer manager for our situation.
Jack: Start Daka and give him a run of starts. He's a confidence player so we need to persist with him and get him firing. He brings more energy to the attack over Vardy and works his socks off every game. I hate to say it but it's time for Vards to move over and allow someone else to start. He's just not on it anymore.
Bill: Financial mismanagement, poor recruitment and no plan for replacing Enzo. Compare with Brighton and we are where we deserve to be. The squad is Championship level. No lessons are ever learned - the same people are on post and no one is held accountable.
Ken: I don't believe Leicester are a club that can really look to be one of the top 10. They won the title not long ago, but this was a freak year. Ruud needs to be given time, a lot of this squad are not really Premier League players and Jamie Vardy is running out of steam. The team needs a complete overhaul, and if the first team players don't perform, then play some of the development players. What do they have to lose?
Leicester City supporters directed their frustration towards Ruud van Nistelrooy during their 2-0 defeat by Fulham, with the Foxes boss admitting he understood their frustrations.
Dutch football journalist Marcel van der Kraan tells The Football News Show that despite their seven-game losing streak in the Premier League, Van Nistelrooy will stick with his management philosophy.
BBC Radio Leicester's Owynn Palmer-Atkin says "it's actually quite incredible to watch" the belief leave Leicester City's players when a goal goes in against them.
Speaking on the latest When You're Smiling podcast, he said: "When they concede - their confidence is on the floor.
"As soon as that first goal [against Crystal Palace] went in and as soon as the substitutes were made - which were very, very unpopular in the stadium - you could just see the confidence draining out of the players."
The Athletic's Leicester City correspondent Rob Tanner agrees, and thinks although some players don't seem to take it as badly as others, it cannot be long before it takes its toll on them.
"You look at the youngsters - like [Facundo] Buonanotte and [Bilal] El Khannous - and they look like lads who are not affected too much at the moment," he said. "But, the longer this goes on, they will be affected.
"If I'm thinking I've not got the confidence they won't keep it out of the net... how are they feeling? They're the guys who have got to do it."
Former Premier League striker Chris Sutton believes it is no surprise Leicester City's form has not picked up under Ruud van Nistelrooy because the Dutchman was "a massive punt" by the owners.
The Foxes remain second from bottom of the table and have lost seven of the nine league games Van Nistelrooy has been in charge for.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club, Sutton said: "He wasn't part of the thought process when Leicester appointed Steve Cooper, but then because he was caretaker manager when Manchester United beat them twice, all of a sudden it's, 'oh, he must be good'.
"Talk about gambling. It was a massive punt. I don't mean it in a disrespectful way to Van Nistelrooy as he had a good year at PSV and he did a good job as caretaker of United."
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Chris Forryan
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Image source, Getty Images"You don't know what you're doing" and "sack the board" rang round King Power Stadium on Saturday.
As good as Ruud van Nistelrooy was against QPR, he was the opposite against Crystal Palace and Fulham. So the question is: are we any better under him?
Better performances, some say - but the facts would say not in the league.
Van Nistelrooy's first nine games with decent performances: W1 D1 L7. That is four points.
Steve Cooper's first nine games with less pretty performances: W2, D3, L4. That is nine points.
Yes, Cooper had pre-season, but he also had a style of play that disrupted the opposition. So far, Van Nistelrooy has a style of play that says "here's three points" to the opposition.
Cooper had fewer injuries? Well, Bournemouth had nine first-team players out, but still managed to beat Newcastle 4-1.
We have now lost our past seven games, conceded at least two goals in eight of the matches under Van Nistelrooy and failed to score in five of our past seven - all with pretty much the same starting XI.
So what is the Dutchman doing wrong?
At 38, Jamie Vardy is past his best, but plays 230 minutes across three games in a week.
James Justin is not a right-back. Wout Faes is among the poorest defenders the Premier League has seen. Harry Winks is not a Premier League player. Jordan Ayew is not a starter, certainly not over Facundo Buonanotte. Bilal el Khannouss is taken off when he is the best player on the pitch. There are substitutions that are just like for like.
The list goes on.
We built a new training ground for £100m. We have some hot prospects in our youth ranks, yet they do not even make it on to the subs' bench. They could not do worse than this bunch.
"You're not fit to wear the shirt" was another chant on Saturday. The fans were not wrong.
What is going wrong under Ruud, Foxes fans? What would you be doing differently if you were him?
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Image source, Getty ImagesWe asked for your thoughts after Saturday's Premier League game between Leicester and Fulham.
Here are some of your comments:
Leicester fans:
Simon: Just when you think things can't get worse, they get worse! The decision to sack Steve Cooper and replace him with a relatively novice manager, was pure gross incompetence.
Neil: This game was the summary of four years of financial mismanagement by Jon Rudkin and the board at LCFC. Years of poor recruitment and bad decision-making, crippling the club with debt and awful deadwood players on long-term deals. We need a change at the top and the owner needs to make a decision and sack the people responsible for this utter mess.
Ian: Once again, tactically naïve and we concede straight after half time. Players don't look happy and chants of 'you don't know what you're doing!' Unfortunately, for me, that's my belief done and dusted. We can talk about 'the great escape' year, but that relied on guts, determination and fight. I don't see those things now. Too passive, not enough quality. It was good while it all lasted. It will be a long while before we taste it again.
James: You don't know what you're doing. Sack the Board. Get out of our club. You know it is desperate times when the happy-clappy fanbase turn against the hierarchy. Baffling subs, puzzling starting XI, mixed with some disorganised chaos. All the goodwill of the Christmas season for Ruud has now well and truly expired. The freefall continues, exponentially.
Fulham fans:
Robert: It appears to be a comfortable win, but you have to wonder, do we practice shooting during training? We only managed two efforts on target against one of the worst teams in the league. A clean sheet is nice after the defensive errors at West Ham.
Will: Great to get back to winning ways, not only for the confidence of the team but for Smith Rowe. An overdue goal from him really helps his confidence. I think he has the ability to create out of nothing and we need that.
David: After a poor-ish first half the goal ignited the game. We didn't look like losing it from then on. If we'd taken our chances it could easily have been three or four-nil. Berge was impressive coming back from injury, if only we'd had him at West Ham. Bring on the Red Devils next week.
Ben: Pretty solid, albeit Leicester weren't great. Great for Smith Rowe to get another goal. Hopefully it will boost his confidence. Very controlled midfield performance, and most importantly an elusive clean sheet! Bring on the tougher run!
Image source, Getty ImagesFormer Leicester City striker Matty Fryatt says "mood, confidence, morale and belief" have all disappeared at the club and it has now turned "ugly" following defeat to Fulham.
Speaking on BBC Radio Leicester's When You're Smiling podcast after the club's latest home defeat, Fryatt was asked how damaging he thought the loss was and said: "Very - pure and simple.
"Leicester needed a minimum of three points, you don't achieve that on Wednesday [against Crystal Palace] and that game was built up as if it was the biggest game in years - it didn't materialise that way.
"This one had to be even bigger and then nothing from this - and it didn't look likely after 10 minutes. Now you've gone from a minimum of three points to no points and mood, confidence, morale belief has all of a sudden evaporated and it turned ugly.
"I don't want to go on about the negatives but it felt ominous and it's going to take a lot to change that and obviously the results and performances in both second halves of really important games weren't there."
It is now seven straight Premier League losses for Leicester, and Fryatt added: "Something has to change - can you get others into the building to lift the ones around? It's really difficult, you have to manage it and stick together - these are the hard times.
"We mention characters and leadership, this is where it has to come to the fore, it needed to start today, but next game has to be like that - you're running out of games and now looking on others [dropping points] so early on.
"At some point you've got to win yourself."
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