Ric Flair

5 hours ago, RedSoxUK said:

@Ric Flair's sources were are reliable as his scout report on Tete then?

Hahahaaa the person this came from as well has floored me. Their explanation is at the time it was reported he'd had talks/agreed we hadn't even spoken to him. I think they got it wrong to be honest, Brussell has been the unwavering first choice at every opportunity since May 2023. 

44 minutes ago, Gers blues said:

I'm feeling sorry for the Foxes fans if they have to watch the same style of football as Rangers fans had to watch at the start of last season under Russell Martin. He is not attack minded and plays negative football. He didn't seem fazed whether the team won or not and was very defensive minded.

He has an appalling record defensively as well. 

3 minutes ago, CL Fox said:

Rodgers came in and took that team to 8th - when he arrived we were in free fall and about 14/15th.

 

The team he had - had Maguire, Chilwell and Vardy - all in the England squad, and Maddison, Ndidi, Evans, Schmeichel - he even had Mahrez for a time. For the level of talent the output was dire.

100%

Puel's first 3-4 months were promising and then we ended that 2017/18 appallingly and it was under performance from there on in bar the odd decent scalp against the elite.

Rodgers for all his faults, teased out the quality in this squad immediately as we were top 6 form from the moment he joined us until the end of 2020/21 season spanning 2 and a bit seasons where arguably his signings were worse the longer he was here.

3 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Feels like a BSLB episode situation to me … 

Oh there'll be one and could well be my last if I can't snap out of this.

2 hours ago, kingfox said:

Brussel tends to prefer a 4-3-3, so if both Winks and Skipp leave, as I’ve advocated for, Archie Collins makes perfect sense for me.

 

6’s - Collins, Braybrooke

8’s - Smallbone, Page

8/10 - ?, could depend on how Brussel sees BDCR, Alves and maybe Briggs

 

My biggest concern is if he goes with inverted full-backs, you expect Choudhury to play a role like that, but for Thomas, Aluko and Joseph would it suit them? 

Forgot about the inverted full backs, I think Aluko would be fine but Joseph might have to play as one of the wingers which he's probably then not seen as creative and attacking enough. 

7 minutes ago, kingfox said:

The only bit of hope to cling onto, is the type of transfer window we produced under Maresca. At that particular time, it ended up being our most successful transfer window under Martyn Glover, many signings made sense and you could see a clear strategy. Since then the strategy has been very random, with Steve Cooper’s fetish of Premier League experience being added to the mix. 
 

We need another strategic window like 23/24. I thoroughly expect a few players to follow Martin from his previous clubs, Smallbone probably the best example, but like Russell Martin has produced at other clubs, a bunch of young signings mixed in with a couple of experienced signings is hopefully the route we’ll go 🤞🏻

Get rid of Winks and loan out Skipp and Smallbone would be an OK piece of business. Either of them stay and i'd not be keen.

9 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

Birmingham city spend £15m on a striker!

Rules have significantly changed

7 hours ago, kingfox said:

The work of scouting Scandinavian ball playing CB’s that we won’t sign starts now!

I don't even think we can look at the modicum positives in that Martin's transfer track record isn't too bad as it'll still be conducted by Glover and Rudkin primarily. I actually think Glover should go down as one of the worst in the business, we have been diabolical since he came in and makes Lee Congerton look like Monchi.

Barney Stewart - Falkirk

On 07/06/2026 at 19:36, ramadaone said:

Load of younger players not signed their contracts now.

Man City etc mopping up as usual but at least one rumoured to be going abroad

 

Elo Onuchukwu?

10 minutes ago, Long Eaton Fox said:

The spine is the most difficult thing to find. Plenty of unproven kids with a great deal of potential  but i think a spine of Soutter  + cm + cf is required 

 

 

Martyn Glover your time is never

8 minutes ago, izzymuzzet said:

Brussell may have noted how long it took the club to get staff in for RvN and Cifuentes and doesn't want to take the risk of joining without at least a core team. 

Fair point and hopefully we fail to get who he needs and it falls through 😂

51 minutes ago, bald reynard said:

I think this is spot on. I'm pretty sure, as soon as we can nail Martin's backroom team, he'll be announced. Possibly in the next few days?

In addition to Owen, I wonder whether Gill might actually be sorted - a deal with West Brom, could be what's taking the time. I can't see Parker leaving OT and I'm sure Begovic will be our new Goalkeeping Coach.

That doesn't usually stop us announcing managers, the last few have come in with skeleton staff to start with. Even Cifuentes last summer.

16 minutes ago, LFC bear said:

I feel genuinely sorry for the Leicester Faithful. 

 

Martin will have you hating football he's a total bombscare. 

 

Prepare to lose goals at record levels. 

We've already had a right good crack at doing that in this unprecedented decline. Brussell is here to complete the job.

2 hours ago, Outfox the Fox said:

As Percy said this at the beginning of the week, I guess the main holdup, is sorting out his backroom team. He would want Matt Gill as his Assistant Manager, but all the talk at West Brom, is that Gill is staying there. If that's the case, I dont know who else he'd want for that job. Rhys Owen (Performance Coach) is very likely to be coming in from Rangers. Dean Thornton, RM's usual Goalkeeping Coach seems to be happy at Millwall and Ben Parker, the usual Analyst, is well set up at Old Trafford.

So, I would imagine there's a lot of 'tooing & froing' going on, trying to sort out the backup staff 

What I always enjoy about your posts is this sort of exploration. Most folk never even consider this but you seem to have a keen interest and backroom staff, respect the craft! 

31 minutes ago, Dippy said:

Personal opinion is that the mistakes at the back that come with his style would probably have pushed us down the table, but the talent was enough that it would likely have been a play off challence so 5th-9th rather than fighting for the top 2.

And there lies the fundamental flaw in his philosophy, one that is not suited to anything bar the elite level and even there is seemingly being moved away from in favour of quicker and aggressive styles. He's fastly becoming a modern dinosaur.

3 hours ago, FrankieADZ said:

Noel Atom

leaving brighton on a free, looks a pretty decent cb

worth a punt imo, left footed too

I like this shout a lot!

11 minutes ago, Dippy said:

Yeah that's the point. He assembled the squad, left just as the season was starting and so the replacement manager Liam Manning just tweaked things slightly to make us a little more forwards than sideways, and we finished third after being in a promotion battle until the very last day.

Very subjective, but would Brussell have got the same success or was a lot of it Manning's doing? I know it's hard to answer and is probably a bit of both.