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Heres a conspiracy theory for you, weve been arse licking Enzo for so long to maintain a good relationship and hes promised us to be a feeder club aslong as we carry on his style of play so thats why they went for russel martin and maximum man city loans a year

Russell Martin in League One for Leicester could be an absolute masterstroke. This is a manager with a proper football identity. Not vibes. Not hoofball. Not “hope someone scores.” A real, modern, possession-based philosophy that, at League One level, could make Leicester look like they’re playing a different sport. With Leicester’s resources, fanbase, facilities, academy, and likely technical quality, Martin’s style could be devastating. League One teams would spend 70 minutes chasing shadows while Leicester pass through them, suffocate them, and turn games into training-ground exercises. And the Rangers spell? Honestly, you can make a very fair argument that it was never a Russell Martin problem. It was a squad-construction problem. You can’t ask a chef to cook Michelin-star food and then hand him a microwave meal and a broken spoon. He needs brave centre-backs, press-resistant midfielders, full-backs comfortable in possession, and forwards who understand patterns. If the squad wasn’t built for that, then of course it would look awkward. That’s not the philosophy failing — that’s the ingredients not matching the recipe. At Leicester in League One, though? Different story. He could walk in and build something genuinely exciting: A clear identity. Promotion with style. Young players improving. Opponents barely touching the ball. A fanbase reconnecting with attractive football. A club bouncing back not just bigger, but smarter. Honestly, Russell Martin at Leicester in League One could be the kind of appointment people laugh at for five minutes… then six months later everyone says, “How did we not see this coming?” It could be ridiculously good. I just asked chatgpt to lie and tell me why he is a good appointment.

Lets assume Russel Martin is the man how do we afford 11 new players fitting his style? Even maresca would struggle with this squad.

F**k winks braybrooke will take the winks role on.

What the fvck is our bizarre fetish with Russell martin about?!? That style of football is horrible and we literally won the prem playing opposite to it and if you ever make to the prem then unless you are the Top 6 with 100s million to spend it wont end well.

Dont even think that would be useful to us, technically he is probs better than 99.9% of league 1 players but will get absolutely bodied/bullied currently in that league at his age as we saw in the championship when he was largely ineffective or missing in games.

Dream on we got Rudkin at the wheel. Best we will get is a signed monga shirt and box of chocolates every year.

Come on now lets be realistic. toxic ownership aside we are a huge club and hes hardly a world class manager. We would still be the biggest and most successful club hes ever managed in modern times and next year we will likely be in the championship again.

I also asked ai and they said “I’d liken Dave Challinor most closely to Antonio Conte, but at EFL level — with a bit of Diego Simeone’s edge in mentality.”

Genuine question as am clueless - why do we want/need him? Whats he offering to us?

The best we can hope for is Maresca sends Top and Rudkin some talent to help us go back up.

So reading between the lines on the new rules its basically lose lose for top. If he doesnt inject his own cash injection into the club so we can spend 65% of it on transfers we might not go back up and the club will continue to de value. so its either king power lose money by cash injection or king power lose money by staying in league 1. So its best for all parties for Top to just sell us to a happy go lucky billionaire mr top.

This where im at. If you want to implement a specific style then this is the season 100%. we will be favourites and rightly so regardless of how bad last year was. So a manager “could” walk this league and give him a seasons breather before the championship. Id personally rather a specific style, tactics and identity rather than your Coopers, RVN and Rowetts of this world. Everyone bought into Maresca and look where they got us. Just hope we dont go for that style again.

I know quite a few orient fans and they say he can go up to the top and they are surprised they even got him as was highly regarded in england youth setup.

I just want a manager with a clear football identity, style and tactics. That we never got with Cooper, Marti and Rowett. The last person with that was Enzo and he was hugely influential and won us the league. Now i dont want that style ever again but there is plenty more out there and there is plenty of managers or younger managers that will drop a league for a season to implement this.

Other than some English experience… We just need a bunch of cheap unknown kante and mahrez’s that would struggle in england if they came straight the way in the higher divisions (mahrez) but turn out to be elite after a couple of seasons. now this is possible if we had Stevie Walsh and co back in charge of scouting but maybe not now.

Top and Rudkin are absolutely trolling us if Darren Ferguson gets the job🤣

Good it would mean we have almost certainly seen the back of them then

I see no point in developing other teams players in league 1. Just develop what weve got with quality experience in tha league around them.

Imagine this was the Steve Walsh setup and the Kante, Mahrez, Vardy era. We would get some outrageous hidden gems and could develop them in league one easy.

With league 1 rules we could spend a war chest if owner does cash injection but top isnt fronting his own money so please just sell us.

Dom Bollard - 1 of league 1s best players this season.

Needs to sell just to a billionaire, Top and king power has too much money to lose now.

Time for top do a dirty dodgy saudi deal for £50 million.. im sure favours can happen for some duty free or polo business

Bloody hell walked the dog and came back to 2-1😂