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Is this confirmed anywhere? Can only see it on some dubious looking social media posts.

Didn't see the game today but fair play to him for getting a good result in what looked like a tricky game on paper. My thought is the rot runs far deeper than the dugout, but Marti has done very little to show he can dig us out of a miserable period. I'm still far from convinced, but today gives me a little bit more confidence he might be able to. A mate who is a QPR fan said he's a very streaky manager. Can apparently go on runs of lots of wins in a row. Fingers crossed...

So except for the multiple examples of bad attitude towards teammates, bad attitude towards fans and bad attitude towards the club, you think there's a lack of evidence of him having a bad attitude? It's true we never really know what happens behind the scenes, but I've got a pretty decent bellend-radar. For the avoidance of doubt, I reckon Wout Faes is one.

i bet he's glad we didn't...!

Get an interim in until the end of the season, and spend the next few months sorting out the boardroom before getting the new structure to appoint a permanent manager in the summer. My wish list 1. Nigel Pearson 2. Martin O'Neill 3. Claudio Ranieri I may be being naively nostalgic, but I think any of those three would be a huge upgrade. So would Rodgers, but I'd rather not have him back

I don’t disagree, but any competent manager could see the system has to change if none of our strikers can lead the line alone. It’s frustrating to say as our wingers are actually good, but I think we need to play 5-3-2 to get extra cover at the back and up front. A back five has steadied us before, and ignoring it now risks relegation. We've got the icing but no cake. Jakub Pereira – Nelson – Souttar – Okoli – Thomas Skipp – Choudhury – James Daka – Fats/Mav/Monga/Ayew Nowhere near promotion material, but enough to stay up. Probably.

Tough one. Option 1: the club I love potentially never gets back to a decent level in my lifetime and could even go bankrupt Option 2: some multi-millionaires (who will earn millions more regardless of performance) don't have a relegation they don't even care about on their CVs

He won't be fired unless we're in high risk of relegation. Hopefully the club aren't too blind to that possibility like they were with Rodgers. If Pearson is healthy, we should be finding a role somewhere for him - even if Cifuentes is still the manager.

I enjoyed Sheff Wed first game of the season. I don't live in Leicester and get to about 3 home games and 1 away per season. Had a crazy run (/chose my games carefully) where I hadn't seen us lose between 2019-2025 before getting hammered at Everton last season. The season of the Rodgers / Smith relegation I went 5 times and saw 5 wins, aggregate score 15-3

It was a joke, but when comparing 21st century trophies, Leicester are 6th and Wigan are 8th

Some of you lot take yourselves way too seriously on here. I'm not saying we shouldn't be proud of our trophy achievements this century. It's just the team you compared our trophies to (Wigan) just happen to be one of the very few other clubs to have won major trophies this century

Huh? Selling a player for 4x what you paid only for the buying club to regret it hardly shrieks incompetence by the seller. The club has made a lot of mistakes and the bad outweighs the good, but it's not like all the transfer business has been dreadful. Plenty of good signings (Mads, Fatawu, James) and decent value sales (Mads £20m, McAteer £14m, Justin £10m). And somehow turning a profit on Tom Cannon...!

TBF Wigan aren't far off Leicester By any metrics Man U, Man C, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool are the top 5 this century. Safe to say Leicester 6th and Spurs 7th... can't think of anyone but Wigan and Portsmouth for joint 8th as FA Cup winners...!

I don't follow his career closely, but you've got to ask why Blackburn played him so sparingly. Maybe it was a fitness thing (which again wouldn't bode well for us) but I suspect despite his relative fame he just isn't very good in 2025... and we've got more than enough of those types!

No thanks - 6 goals since 2022. An average of 2 per season is prolific by Daka's standards TBF. Looking at his career it seems like he only had one remotely good goalscoring season. Years Team Apps (Gls) 2016–2017 Zorya Luhansk 22 (6) 2017–2021 Club Brugge 85 (19) 2021 → 1. FC Köln (loan) 9 (0) 2021–2022 Watford 35 (10) 2022–2025 Nottingham Forest 19 (2) 2023–2024 → İstanbul Başakşehir (loan) 8 (0) 2024 → Watford (loan) 17 (4) 2025 → Blackburn Rovers (loan) 6 (0) A player who has similarly achieved little in recent years but I can't stop wondering about is Dele Alli. Lots of baggage but would immediately become the most talented player in the division. Tbh I wouldn't be confident that Cifuentes would be the man who could get him back on track, but that's a whole other conversation.

Yep. We're in a proper shit loop

I don't think anyone wants the way things are to continue - but there is an argument to not changing the manager until you first change the people who would decide who the next manager will be. I think he'll go if (when?) results don't improve, but the rot runs a lot deeper than the dugout.

I would love him back at the club. What is his current health? I know he had extremely serious surgery, but if healthy enough it feels like an absolute no-brainer. He's the only person I can think of who could stand up to the egos in the squad and the boardroom to stop the obvious toxic behaviours in the club.

Are you sure? The last 3 managers have been exactly the same in terms of formations, 'tactics' and players picked. I'm not even convinced they pick the players.

I'm extremely underwhelmed by the guy but I really don't think it would change much. Just like sacking Cooper didn't. Or RVN. We have to make changes that have clearly been needed for years at board level and find a way to shift toxic players who haven't wanted to be here for years out. It's a zombie football club, and swapping managers again isn't going to solve the problem.

Perhaps still too early to write him off, but he doesn't seem to have the instincts for English football. Seems mad that in this calendar year he scored a Champion's League knockout round goal at the San Siro that eliminated AC Milan

Very generous from what I've seen from Carranza!

There's a name I haven't thought of in a while. Last managed a club in 2012...! I don't think Cifuentes is the issue but I also don't know if he's the solution to our problems. If they could work together I'd utterly love whoever is in charge to work with Nigel Pearson as Director of Football and Wes Morgan as a coach.

Agree we can't expect him to hit the ground running, but of course we can put him straight in. He's a professional footballer who has been in first team squads for years and played regularly at this level last season. I don't see why he'd be an injury risk. He's a 21 year old 6'5 unit of a centre back who trains every day. I also think the fans will be much more forgiving towards a local lad who isn't to blame for recent poor performances.