CarolinaFox

Agreed. Maybe not his job, but his reputation with the fan base. Its games like these where you see promotion slowly slipping away and he's starting Ayew, Faes, Daka and Choudhury.

As they say here in the South, "that'll preach"

If Marti doesn't make serious substitutions after this half and it we don't go on to win 3-2 I will be Marti out. Had enough of the draws. Had enough of the anemic playing of a team that should be putting the Championship to bed. Marti should be improving the team over time, this team's shelf life is up, its rotten.

Not convinced Marti is actually doing any "thinking" - this line up is a shambles. Prime time RVN stuff right here.

Someone make this lineup make sense. Marti out.

Daka and Faes in the same team...is Marti trying to sabotage this season?

Anyone surprised???

If Faes plays it will be at best a 1-1 draw. Faes will do what he does best: lose his balance and let someone easily score, lose his cool and commit a stupid foul or penalty, or some combination of both. I will be pleasantly surprised and happy to be wrong about this. Suspect our only goal comes from Jordan James or Fatawu with another wonder strike. Hull will sit back, let us have possession and look to hit us on the counter. Marti will again try to go wide, which will play into Hull's game plan and most of the game will be Jordan Ayew or Caranza dropping deep to pick up the ball, place it wide to Fatawu or Monga. It will be slow with little to no direct play. There, do we even need to watch the match now?

Any iteration of our team with Faes in it is effectively a 10 man team.

Both are the problem. The biggest problem though is probably goal scoring. Across 10 league games we've scored 14 goals. When we only average 1.4 goals a game it means that when our dog garbage defending (looking at you Faes) lets us down, getting the draw is our best outcome - because we aren't scoring enough to get the win. Goals was always going to be our biggest issue, but Wout Faes is the gift that keeps giving, opening us up to the counter. Why is this a common theme? Teams have figured out our weakness. If we score first they know there is a statistical likelihood that we won't score another goal to put the game to bed. They just need to be diligent, focus on hitting us on the counter and Faes will inevitably gift them an opportunity.

An in-form striker and a reliable centre-back (anyone is literally an improvement over Wout Faes). In terms of a striker I'd like to see us bring in someone in form. I don't care if they are from a lower league or a smaller european league, I just think we need someone with confidence in front of goal and not someone who is looking to improve their profile by coming here or winding down their career by coming here.

My biggest criticism is Faes starting, or really being in a Leicester shirt at all. I guess Marti must think he fits his system best but his poor positioning on the ball and inability to think under pressure have cost us two games and almost cost us vs. Swansea. Faes is a liability on defense and the biggest weakness in our team right now.

Agreed. Faes is such a liability at this point that I don't see any advantage in having him in the team. He's always been a loose canon, reckless and sometimes just straight up brain dead. For me he makes too many silly mistakes to be in the squad as a starting player. Ben Nelson didn't cover himself in glory the last time he was in the team and I get why Marti might be cautious to include him. Maybe if we get a good run of wins we will see him integrated back into the team. Right now this team looks very unsettled, having really good spells in games and then periods where they drop off entirely. If the team can iron out its inconsistencies I would hope Marti will reconsider because I think Ben's ceiling is much much higher than Faes.

Hate to say any game is a must win but…this game feels like a must win. At least for fan and player confidence. I fear that if Marti doesn’t win this his days at the club may be numbered.

Coventry highlighting how important it is to have goal scorers. When you look at our squad we don’t have the goal production numbers we need to push for promotion. We have to strengthen in January and get some proven goal scorers.

Our need for a good striker isn't helping Marti at all. Daka had several opportunities to score and missed. January window will truly decide the trajectory of this season. We need reinforcements up top.

Not fit enough, nowhere near enough proven goal scorers in the squad.

Would be happy to never see him in a Leicester shirt again.

I get the frustration that some of you are feeling, but I can't help but feel like a lot of the noise about Marti not being a good fit or being out of his depth is knee jerk at best. Minus the goal that West Brom got on the counter we looked the better side through all phases of the game. Overall I thought our play on the ball was fluid and a lot better than it was last season, we are just missing that clinical edge in the final third. I loved that Marti was willing to change things up in the second half by changing his tactics to try to open up the game more for us to equalize. Yes, it produced a much more open game, but I like his flexibility and willingness to have a Plan B option. So many fans complained that Enzo never had a plan B. Here's my question for the cynics and grouchy grumblers on this forum; if not Marti, who would you realistically want right now? Let's not forget that Gary O'Neil was a name being thrown around in the summer.

Well said. I’d love to know what some fans expected? The club did the most pragmatic thing it could do: trim the squad for Marti, offload dead weight high salary earners and bring in players on loan that are good value for money. I think there is a huge disconnect for the critics who don’t understand how this club is positioned in the transfer market to operate.

Honestly not bothered with him going. We're only talking about him because he's a flair player, but if we look at his stats he's nothing special. Its better for us to cut the losses here, get him off our books for PSR and open up some salary space in the budget for a late addition (if one is in the works) or for January. Do we think he was really going to knuckle down after wanting out and magically change into a proven goal machine and leader in the changing room? He certainly wasn't those things before. Let's see how he acts when Stuttgart finish mid to bottom table in the Bundesliga this year like they most often do.

I could see this happening. Tottenham picked him up as a free agent from Shakhtar in 2023 hoping to either find a diamond in the rough or a player they could resell and make a profit off of. Ange didn't rate him and neither does Thomas Frank. His stats were great with Leeds, but they look set on going for Dilane Bakwa from Strasbourg. I suspect he would be available to us for around 10-12 million euros which fits our budget. Tottenham clearly don't want him around, and any sale would be pure profit for them, so I don't see Daniel Levy making it too difficult for us to get his signature. His goal contributions would be a big help to us. Its a yes for me!

First post here, but I had to weigh in. This might be an unpopular hot take, but putting aside how visually impressive BEK is, his performance stats suggest this deal favors us more than Palace. Last season, Eze scored 12 goals and had 8 assists across all competitions—20 goal contributions in total. BEK, on the other hand, managed just 3 goals and 4 assists—7 goal contributions. He’s undeniably talented, but he currently lacks that clinical edge (see the penalty he missed against Huddersfield). Could he develop into a more lethal player? Possibly. But Leicester have both a goal problem and a budget problem. For context, Vardy scored 18 goals for us the last time we were in the Championship. Based on past performance, I’m not confident BEK can deliver that output on his own. Sure, he might have a breakout season—but that’s a big “if.” We all know Daka isn’t a reliable goal threat, Ayew averages only a handful per season, and even Fatawu isn’t a goal machine. What we need are goal scorers—plural. I’d support selling BEK if we reinvest in one or two players capable of double-digit goal contributions. That would be the smart move given the uncertainty around where our goals will come from this season.