Leicester City are mired in the relegation zone having lost seven Premier League games in a row, but could financial constraints hamper their ability to recover if they were to go down?
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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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