Martí Cifuentes

[pazzerfox]

35 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Well players like Ruud, Rooney and Lampard etc had glittering careers but that hasn't translated to being a good manager all that much. There have been plenty of great managers not all that as players so that aspect doesn't worry me. 

I quite like Lampard.  Chelsea was too much too soon, but he's done alright at championship level so far. 

[RoboFox]

We're so massive we've got managers paying their own compo to fvck off their clubs. Never in doubt. 

[teblin]

2 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

 

I see this as a positive, also he will see what happened with Enzo, if he is confident in his ability and can get us up he know his stock will then be pretty high.

[Long Eaton Fox]

Strangely excited by this appointment 🤔

[Sol thewall Bamba]

5 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

 

Yeah I've seen enough. I'm onboard!

 

And some actual sense and possibly some lessons learned with a shorter contract with the option to extend, alongside a lower salary.

Edited 10 July 2025 by Sol thewall Bamba

[FrankieADZ]

wouldnt be shocked if it was all announced by tomorrow

[Foxdiamond]

1 minute ago, pazzerfox said:

I quite like Lampard.  Chelsea was too much too soon, but he's done alright at championship level so far. 

The point being he was elevated based on his playing days. If he was a journeyman this would not have happened 

[Jon the Hat]

5 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

We're so massive we've got managers paying their own compo to fvck off their clubs. Never in doubt. 

Sounds to me like he has been paid a lump sum to leave, but is liable to pay some of it back if he finds employment within the period of his original contract.  Fair play to him for not sitting on his arse.

Edited 10 July 2025 by Jon the Hat

[TheGoldenGod]

9 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

 

Everyone get behind him! Also is wake up call to those who diminish us still as a big draw! Blokes doing himself out of big moolah to come to the mighty forkses!

Edited 10 July 2025 by TheGoldenGod

[123]

49 minutes ago, mozartfox said:

A trial run of Starmlin's new one in/one out policy would be nice       Cifuentes IN and Rudkin OUT.

Careful now, any reference to politics that isn't explicitly worshipping the left wing gods will get you a ban. 

[mozartfox]

4 minutes ago, 123 said:

Careful now, any reference to politics that isn't explicitly worshipping the left wing gods will get you a ban. 

Blimey freedom of speech cancelled on FT?  Surely not....

[mozartfox]

17 minutes ago, westernpark said:

Who is Starmlin?

Clue - a very popoular man.

[Mark_w]

6 minutes ago, 123 said:

Careful now, any reference to politics that isn't explicitly worshipping the left wing gods will get you a ban. 

Do you have to work on being this tiresome or is it all natural?

[AjcW]

2 minutes ago, Mark_w said:

Do you have to work on being this tiresome or is it all natural?

Easy as 1,2, 3 I reckon

[st albans fox]

10 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

 

Can we just get beyond this ‘pay cut’ and ‘paying back his ‘compo’  stuff.

 

the fella will be v unlikely (imo he defo won’t) to earn less here than he was paid there.  The 500k must be a settlement that he’s been paid in advance against his notice period whilst on gardening leave. )

we have to pay that back to qpr as compensation against that settlement.  So we will pay him 500k less in year 1.  Hence his salary in year 1 will be lower than he was earning at qpr. (He can’t demand to be paid twice although he could have insisted and it’s decent that he apparently hasn’t ). There could be variations on a theme on this but it’s going to be something of that ilk.  If there is a comp clause still valid because he’s on gardening leave rather than having actually left their employment then there could be an additional sum involved that we have to pay. 

[sharpylcfc]

Really bizarrely for how close this seems he's not even in the betting for next Leicester manager on SkyBet.

[TiffToff88]

2 minutes ago, sharpylcfc said:

Really bizarrely for how close this seems he's not even in the betting for next Leicester manager on SkyBet.

And that's as big a clue as you'll ever need that it's practically a done deal. They're not going to add him as an option now, knowing they'll have to pay out on it in a day or two!

[ClaphamFox]

2 minutes ago, sharpylcfc said:

Really bizarrely for how close this seems he's not even in the betting for next Leicester manager on SkyBet.

Are they running a book on it? They don't seem to be on my app...

[RowlattsFox]

I'm not sure whether to be impressed that he seems to really want to come here or worried that we are potentially paying him less than QPR were and he's had to fund part of it himself  

 

At lease he's keen I guess.

[The Year Of The Fox]

We’ll sell

 

Soumare £8.73m

Faes £3.1m

Nestagaard £4.64m

 

Assuming both are on £100k p/w then we’ll recoup upwards of £20m this year alone. 
 

That’ll give Cifri a war chest and a half to go out and buy that FC Aalborg winger we know nothing about 

[Scotch]

34 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

Hope im proved wrong...   but Rudkin is still DoF, and Top still Chairman.

100% but thats a completely different discussion and would apply to ANYONE that we gave the job to. 

[sharpylcfc]

2 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Are they running a book on it? They don't seem to be on my app...

Still shows up for me has Dyche as favourite at evens, could be a glitch on their website though. 

[RowlattsFox]

With a couple of clever loans (striker, midfielder) I think we have a squad more than capable of promotion without having to spend anything, depending on who leaves of course.

Biggest challenge is getting players to buy into it and create a togetherness for me. 

[Levi Port]

He’s going to be working his balls off here. Massive opportunity for him to catapult himself with a promotion onto the football stage and he evidently wants it. Nice to see hunger coming to the club. 
 

Hopefully the scale of this opportunity for him means that he’ll be ruthless in culling those that don’t want to be here, or who’s attitudes stink. 
 

Only issue is when managers are very much under pressure, which he is to get this right, they don’t usually trust youth too much. 

Edited 10 July 2025 by Levi Port

[ClaphamFox]

4 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

I'm not sure whether to be impressed that he seems to really want to come here or worried that we are potentially paying him less than QPR were and he's had to fund part of it himself  

 

At lease he's keen I guess.

I'll only be truly convinced by him if he turns up for his first day at Seagrave on an old-fashioned push bike, wearing a flat cap and bicycle clips on his trousers, and then chooses a bowl of porridge for his breakfast in the canteen, and puts salt instead of sugar in it.