Russell Martin

[Tommy Fresh]

22 minutes ago, BillyFOX12 said:

To be fair, most fans on FT said the same when we were first linked with him. The only ones in favour of the appointment clearly hadn’t watched Southampton play beyond their matches against us.

Yeah I'm sure those in favour only watched their games getting pumped by Enzo

[Tielemans63]

[slymunn]

[boots60]

What do you call a man with a paper bag over his head?

 

Russell

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll get me coat

[lcfc_forever]

This is hilarious - either he’s doing it for engagement or he knows that it’s unlikely his mate Davide is getting the role so a last ditch attempt to try to sway the Rangers owners: 

 

 

[VLC86]

13 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said:

This is hilarious - either he’s doing it for engagement or he knows that it’s unlikely his mate Davide is getting the role so a last ditch attempt to try to sway the Rangers owners: 

 

 

He is a joke.

[lcfc_forever]

5 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

He is a joke.

It's putting me off the club getting Davide, Balague's becoming a parody of himself. 

 

I listen to him on EuroLeagues and he has some genuine insights, but then it comes with the shower of ego, self-indulgent crap. 

[VLC86]

1 minute ago, lcfc_forever said:

It's putting me off the club getting Davide, Balague's becoming a parody of himself. 

 

I listen to him on EuroLeagues and he has some genuine insights, but then it comes with the shower of ego, self-indulgent crap. 

I can only assume he’s paid by some managers as part of a PR drive. 

[lcfc_forever]

11 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

I can only assume he’s paid by some managers as part of a PR drive. 

Maybe - but think it's actually an access thing. He bigs them up, and in return they give him special access to their clubs, players etc. 

 

It's the modern way, you wonder how much further Inzaghi might have got with media supporters like Balague? 

[bmt]

13 hours ago, BillyFOX12 said:

To be fair, most fans on FT said the same when we were first linked with him. The only ones in favour of the appointment clearly hadn’t watched Southampton play beyond their matches against us.

This is one of the most funny takes I've seen on here in a while. We absolutely decimated them 

[lcfc_forever]

Tanner said on The Final Whistle channel that there wasn't firm interest in Martin (and any interest would have been doused by the fan reaction), and the noise around his joining came from his side to help his case with Rangers and encourage them to make a decision. 

[ClaphamFox]

1 minute ago, lcfc_forever said:

Tanner said on The Final Whistle channel that there wasn't firm interest in Martin (and any interest would have been doused by the fan reaction), and the noise around his joining came from his side to help his case with Rangers and encourage them to make a decision. 

So TalkSport were basically played by Martin's agent? Daft lot 

[baldeagle]

[pmcla26]

19 hours ago, BillyFOX12 said:

To be fair, most fans on FT said the same when we were first linked with him. The only ones in favour of the appointment clearly hadn’t watched Southampton play beyond their matches against us.

The complete opposite, in fact. I watched lots of Southampton under Martin and his style suits the current squad down to the ground in the Championship (the Premier League a completely different matter, but we need to get promoted first). We don't have a squad for direct football, and we aren't going to be playing on the counter away at Pompey and Oxford. They'll be sitting deep trying to get us to break them down. 

 

Same as those in favour of Rohl have never watched Sheffield Wednesday play under him. They see a young German manager and think exciting gegenpressing football, which couldn't be further from the truth. They've set up with 5 at the back, or two banks of 4, and lumped it up to a big man with Windass and Gassama running off of him for 90% of the season. It's been effective for them but it's not what we need (and not for several million £s, either.) 

[Gravel]

1 minute ago, baldeagle said:

Here we go 🙏

[purpleronnie]

43 minutes ago, Gravel said:

Here we go 🙏

Hope he's ready for the goldfish bowl that is the OF, we'd have been so much easier.  

[Mark_w]

How can a Vegan Buddhist end up managing Rangers? Weird.

 

Not complaining.

[UniFox21]

Rogers Vs Rogers wannabe for the Scottish title next year then 

[Tomo260]

Thank the lord.

[sm1]

Thank you Rangers 

[Lambert09]

17 minutes ago, Tomo260 said:

Thank the lord.

Hope he smashes Brendan tbf 

[fox_favourite]

aaaannnnnddddddd close thread

[lcfc_forever]

Guillem Balague will be crying into his soup!  His PR job didn’t work for Davide. 

[OntarioFox]

53 minutes ago, Tomo260 said:

Thank the lord.

Close thread, I'm off for a relief tug 

[FoxinNotts]

Good