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Reality is, if we don’t get Martin we will be starting at zero again and we will be getting a manager in at a similar time to Marti. Shambles 

3 hours ago, winteriscoming said:

I get what you’re saying but at 
Mk dons in league one he finished 19th and 13th. 
At Swansea in the championship he finished 15th and 10th. 
Am I missing something? 
Apart from getting Southampton up he’s done fvck all. 
He had the opportunity at Rangers to change his style of play but didn’t. 
Teams vastly improve once he’s left. 
I’m baffled we’re not at least talking to Challinor. 

Yeah I get that but a few things to consider and to preface this:  I don’t think he’s the best option, I think the club is being lazy as per … but just trying to balance the views as I think with the opinions of ‘he’s the worst choice imaginable’ or ‘he’s a great pick’ … the reality is he’s somewhere in between. 

 

mk dons was essentially his first job. He was learning and in that role he did have them playing nicely. Sometimes the squad available can’t achieve things and with mk dons he was building something positive even if the results didn’t get there in an instant. Same could be said with Swansea… they were pushing towards playoffs didn’t miss out by a great deal. Not amazing work but I don’t think a position in a table always tells a full story. Lots of posters on here used to make similar points about lampard and taking derby from 6th to 6th etc… but sometimes football is like that.  He didn’t underachieve with Swansea or mk dons as if either club went up that would have been a surprise, so all it proves is that he isn’t a miracle worker and he’s not likely to get an average group suddenly promoted, not with the way he plays. But if he has a top 6 squad he will likely finish in the top 6 …. Which simply put isn’t a disaster appointment given the talent we have coming through our youth ranks and hopefully a recruitment drive that should be way beyond most league 1 teams reach. 

if the club mess up recruitment… we will fail big time but if we get it right… I think he will do well. I think we get caught up by the fact Enzo was too good for him …. But Enzo is the man city manager… of course he should be miles ahead of a league 1 manager. It’s the reality of where we are 

I dislike him as a man, I dislike his tactics as a spectacle…but as a coach for league 1 he is talented.  He gets players on side and even gives youth a chance, he was monumental with dibling and made him look better than he is. 
 

It’s incredibly unlikely but if he’s learn from his last 2 jobs and has the humility to adapt, he could end up surprising everyone 

19 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Surprised Will Still hasn't been mentioned as a possibility.

Will still legitimately suggested the reason he was a failure at Southampton was because of his English.  I don’t want anyone with that much bs up their ass anywhere near us 

Wonder if vardy might train with us to stay fit. We dont even have  a striker for training ffs

After the complete disaster of sponsorships, does anyone have any faith we’d even sell to the right people. We clearly will just take the best financial deal which will likely place us in the hands of someone bad/corrupt . Wonder if we will end up BC game fc 

I doubt we do anything until after the World Cup 

If you’ve got weeds in the garden and it looks like crap, you don’t just dig out all the flowers. 
 

1 minute ago, Jordan said:

All of the reasons here why City shouldn’t hire Fuchs and should hire an “experienced” manager are cliches.

 

Michael Skubala and Brian Barry-Murphy didn’t exactly have CVs with a ton of accomplishments as first team managers before they took their respective current jobs and look where they took their clubs last season.

 

Ruud van Nistelrooy and Gary Rowett have much different backgrounds and both of them were equally unsuccessful here.

The problem with Fuchs is that I think had he gone and got that experience at a top end club in league 2, we could actually look and see what he could build. 
 

he’s done very well for a club scrapping but that doesn’t give us much foresight to how he could build a club that needs to win a league. 
 

it shows he can get player buy in and has some tactical astuteness but we wouldn’t have much of an idea on how he could build our team. 

On 29/05/2026 at 09:08, AKCJ said:

Not sure I fully agree. We absolutely were well run as a club, even if he himself didn't always make sound football decisions.

 

Vichai did get lucky to an extent but he definitely made things happen to ensure he got lucky. You can't argue that he had a vision and sculpted an identity that saw the club reach heights it hadn't for 20 years. Clubs don't go up and stay up based solely on luck.

 

He also made difficult decisions when he needed to and his ruthlessness has been sorely missed. There's no way he doesn't sack Rogers early. No way does Rudkin get away with failure for this long. No way does the club continually let expensive players walk away for free etc etc.

 

He built a proper culture at the club where respect was a non-negotiable. King Power and Leicester are both much worse off without someone like him leading them.

 

He left the football to other people but made sure that things ran well. If there were snags in the chain then he would notice and act upon it. We don't have this level of authority and responsibility amongst the higher ups at the club now.

I think we would have eventually slipped with him as well. Rudkin had him just as in his pocket as top. 
 

it would obviously have been better that Top (impossible not to be) but I still think we would have fallen from grace no matter what.  Lots of the problems we have today were around when he was here as well it’s just that we had enough good people at the club who were doing excellent jobs. The transitions would have always been downgrades and I think the PSR rules were always going to hit us in a massive way. If we survived the Brendan season, we very likely went down the following year after a severe points deduction.  It’s hard to say what situation it would be though as in that scenario… we probably made good money on Madison and Barnes rather than the pittance we got. But you’d imagine we wouldn’t have been able to spend much to replace them. 
 

However; I do think it’s unfair to assume that as who knows how he would have handled things. But that is my opinion on where things would have gone but it’s just that an opinion 

57 minutes ago, Pita said:

A club with no manager a useless leadership what do we expect 

Sounds like you described Liverpool 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DY_7XhZD5DF/?igsh=cm1pOTJ0cjdscDVm
 

I was seriously worried we’d forgotten the sole point of club communication was to wish people a happy birthday. You can all imagine my relief to see this post this morning 

I love that Leo is paying tribute to patson daka today 

29 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

Passing football in League 1 will be the recipe for disaster. We need to get out, so we do it the Wrexham way and Parkyball. 

 

With Rylan, we'll get the same wet blankets of players, same passing turd tactics and no proper leadership. Rince and repeat.

 

We need something completely different. A manager to take charge with a captain that actually leads by example and make people accountable. 

 

If Rylan is put in charge, then it shows McCarron doesn't have much power. 

 

I do think Rylan's ego won't let him drop down that far. 

I’ve seen a lot of similar posts about mccarron…. Who do you think we’ve brought in exactly? 
 

1) he’s brought in because he has been at man city, which means he has had the  philosophy driven into his head. He is literally here to make another pep light team 

 2) he’s been brought in because he’s willing to do as he’s told 

This isn’t a random appointment full of experience who will put a stamp on things. It is someone inexperienced, learning the job from those already at the club and will be utilized to pass on more knowledge of how to make us play possession football like man city. 
 

the only thing he guarantees, is a continuation of the possession route and you can bet your house we will try everything to get a manager who plays that way. The only way we get something different is if we get rejected by everyone we can think of and have to take on a random target as nobody our agent list work with plays that way 

has patson only just realised we’re relegated? Seems very odd to wait this long to post…. After he’s been released. So weird 
 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DY7QIe8sfcQ/?igsh=MWJtaGtoZmxybGpodA==

38 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

massive loss for Lincoln and big coup for Bristol City id say

I understand wanting a more established club but not Bristol. They are hardly patient. 
 

3 hours ago, Finnegan said:

I've said since I first saw him that he lacks pace. 

 

However, he's 16. Not everyone develops like Bale, Rooney, Owen or Walcott. 

 

You don't really know what his body is going to do in the next two or three years. 

 

Could gain a fair bit in strength and pace still. I think he looks very much like a child when he's playing and that's fine because he is. 

 

I personally think its because hes never focused his training on passing or positioning.  Which is fairly common when you are so good at dribbling with the ball but to reach the top, hes going to need to master everything and not skip it because he has the ability. Its the difference from becoming a Kvaratskhelia or a Madueke 

Stockport haven’t renewed the contracts of a few decent league one players. Odin Bailey in particular should be considered 

It’s impossible to not want him back isn’t it? I liked to think I could move on but there’s always a part of me that just hopes he’ll re-sign for this season. 
 

Loved it when we brought dickov back the last time we were in league 1. I know vardy is far too good for us but there’s always hope 

1 hour ago, ClaphamFox said:

We recently tried to get Enzo back. We have many problems, but a lack of delusional self-confidence doesn't seem to be among them.

I think that’s because they already had his phone number 

1 hour ago, stu said:

 

These are the links that remind you that things won’t get better. 

Give me the best striker in league 2 or below over these signings any day! 

4 hours ago, bald reynard said:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/15454837/rangers-kevin-muscat-shanghai-port-salary-revealed-contingency-plan/

 

Even though his contract at Shanghai ends in December, can't see him taking a HUGE pay cut to come to us.

Depends how badly he wants to break into Europe. It would be a real coup for us to pull off something like this so you better believe we won’t even try