GingerrrFox

Have a look at where Oxford United were 10 years ago. There are literally no words in the English language to accurately describe what’s happened to Leicester City football club. 

That flop in his own box against a player smaller than him is absolutely disgusting. If he was a King Power horse this lame, they’d be ****ing rid of him. 

Begovic

Aluko

Nelson

Vestergaard

Ali

Choudhury

Soumare

Evans

Page

Mavididi

Thomas

I’d go for this, interesting mix of youth and experience. Should be enough to beat Cheltenham

KPFC can say what they want but there was more fans in the ground against Middlesbrough years ago when heavy snow nearly prevented the game going ahead. 
 

They are seeing the tide turn in front of their eyes. 

Bring on the Leicester City civil war. We could very well be 17th in the league by the time we kick off on Monday night, that’s before the EFL stick us with a points deduction. 
 

Yet we will still have KPFC willy pullers screaming to protect Emperor Top and his right hand man Rudkin. Boycott Monday, get involved in fighting for change before your club ends up like Woolworths. 

Is it too early to put in my application to be manager of the phoenix club Leicester Fosse? 

If he had everything he wouldn’t be playing for us in the Championship. You’ll have loads of whopper comments in here but the statistics don’t lie he’s currently the best shot stopper in the league and as he matures and develops the other sides of his game will come on. Goalkeepers don’t peak until they reach late 20s into their 30s. 

Never mind anything else just playing Jordan James consistently out of position is a sackable offence in itself. 

56 minutes ago, nnfox said:

This argument where he should play the kids is a nonsense.  We have had a good few years where decent talent from the academy has been slim pickings.  Now we have half a dozen genuinely promising prospects, they should all go straight into the team and show the seasoned pros how it's done? Come off it 

 

Ben Nelson.. I have seen him play two games.  Good in one, poor in the other.  Has been injured for a bit.  Would I like to see more of him? Yes.  Does not picking him in every game mean that Marti doesn't know what he's doing? No

 

Louis Page... Has looked out of his depth whenever I've seen him.  Decent prospect? For sure.  Ready to rip up the Championship? Absolutely not.

 

Jake Evans... Hasn't featured.  From what I saw if him in pre-season, he didn't look like someone who was going to get double figures in the Championship.  Do I want him to do well? Definitely (he was in the year above my lad at school) Does he need more development time? Yes, I think so.

 

Jeremy Monga... Exceptionally talented.  Could he go to the very top of the game? Maybe, but he's nowhere near yet.  A lot of pressure for a 16 year old and there are many aspects of his game that need fine tuning.

 

Olabade Aluko... People crying out for him to get a game.  "Marti, give Aluko a game because Thomas is rubbish", "Marti should give Aluko a chance".  Gets a game.  Gets sent off after 30 minutes, what happens? "Marti shouldn't have played him in that game".

 

Silko Thomas... Another one that holds a lot of promise, but needs careful development.

 

The list goes on.

 

What do you do? Play them all? At the same time? What happens when they get battered 5 or 6 nil?  Still Marti's fault.

 

Any manager that comes in at this point in our history is on an absolute hiding to nothing.  Spring follows Winter.  Right now it's Winter.  Things will get better but changing the manager will not all of a sudden bring us sustainable long term success.  It's not possible in the current situation.

The players who have let him down most this season are players where there were other options. Page was playing regularly when we were 3rd btw, since we’ve gone to playing James as the number 10 we’ve not looked anywhere as good and James should have been played deeper, that’s where he looks most dangerous and scores goals from. 
 

He said he wanted a team that worked hard and pressed and we’ve not been that for ages, funnily enough when the likes of Winks and Faes have been brought back in.
 

There’s zero excuses for how bad we’ve been as a football team recently. It’s not acceptable to go 2 down in 5 minutes at home and the writing has been on the wall for a while. We need to have more energy and aggression and he should have played Nelson and Page more than he has so far. The rest of Aluko, Thomas and Evans for me aren’t what’s needed now. Soumare/James/Page would have been my middle 3.  

1 hour ago, nnfox said:

 

Interesting pre-Marti thread, because there's some posts in here that were correct about our season before we had a manager.

 

There's interesting references to us going to be fine because we have Bilal, Mads, Wilf.  Justin will be fine at this level and McAteer was decent in the Championship (all of them now gone).

 

Yet some people blame our current predicament on the fact that Faes is preferred over Nelson.

 

I'm not saying Marti is perfect by any stretch but look at the tools he has at his disposal.

 

This club limped over the line in 2024 with Maresca.  It was a poor finish to the season where we benefitted massively from a statistically anomalous first half of the season.  We were shocking in the Prem under Cooper, some would say even worse under Ruud. Now we have much weaker team on paper, yet for some, it's Marti's fault we're not winning every game.

 

So many fans were calling for a reset last season.  Now it appears loads of those same fans thought it could be sorted in a single transfer window and less than half a season. 

 

It's a multi-window, multi-season task.  Yes, of course we all want to be winning every week but we pretty much all wanted a manager to preside over a rebuild.  We're still very much in the demolition phase and Marti needs at least one transfer window to start laying some proper foundations.

 

 

 

Sorry not having that. Anyone with any sense in football was aware that we weren’t gonna keep the likes of Bilal and Wilf in the Championship.

Marti has pure bottled it, he gave it big ones in the summer about how if a young player was good enough he would give them the opportunity, Ben Nelson spent all season putting in good performances for Oxford, he came back pre-made stick me in the oven M&S meal and he went back to Wout Faes.

He had Louis Page playing solid football for us, he signed a new contract and he was out the side. He’s been playing our best central midfielder as a number 10 and not utilising him the best he can. 
 

He’s just not a very good manager, there’s obvious things he’s should have done and hasn’t done, put his faith in players that are known to be shirkers and bad attitudes and it’s done him here. 

9 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

What, why?

Personally think he did a very good job at Blackburn in the championship. Was impressed by them when we were last in the league and think it was harsh for him to get the boot from Sweden after 4 games considering Isak carries them and spent the whole of pre-season holding out for a move and was unfit during his tenure. 

Jon Dahl Tomasson for me. 

Said it ages ago that there isn’t the strength in the man to essentially put certain players on gardening leave and pretend they don’t exist. He’s fallen into the same trap of those before him who thought they could snap shit bags like Faes and Winks out of being soft hearted fairy ****s. He’ll pay for it with his job but hopefully he learns from this in future roles because he doesn’t seem a bad bloke. 

That has to be one of the most limp dick performances from a Leicester side in a long while. Albrighton must be embarrassed this used to be his club. 

1 minute ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

We're still in this, call yourselves true blues 

Can I have some of what you’re on Micky?

A lot of our players are genuinely embarrassing. The effort levels from some in the squad is appalling and they have zero resilience. Then to top it off, the captain on the night just puts the ball into our own net so that Southampton can get a corner in. It’s just bad optics and this squad need to grow up. 

They are getting soft fouls, that we aren’t. 

Can’t believe they’ve come out with this expecting some sort of sympathy. The management of this football club genuinely haven’t got a clue. 

As much as I will be glad to see Ben play if he’s included tonight, for me that really cements that Marti hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing as he should have been given opportunities before now and he’s gonna throw him into a game against the team that’s 2nd in the division, cold. This is a desperate attempt to stay onside with the fan base.

3 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Significantly brighter today, looked more back to the Mav from the last championship year. 

 

 

Good save from the keeper here, I'd argue unlucky he's got a foot to that, but should be scoring.

 

All well and good looking threatening but he got in the way of Vestergaard’s header that was going in the bottom corner and he missed chances he had to score. 

He could include Aluko, Okoli, Nelson, Page and Evans. He doesn’t need to be rolling out the likes of Faes, Soumare and Daka. There is no attempt from him to progress this football club by blooding youth, he resisted playing Monga for as long as he could and the lads a generational talent FFS.