Marti Cifuentes appointed new manager

[indierich06]

1 minute ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Fatawu and Monga are both quite hard working? It’s Mavididi that isn’t.

 

Dyche has played McNeil, Kightly, Lennon, arfield, Boyd, gudmunsson

And would you say that lot are more in the Fats/Mav mould, or more like BCDR/McAteer? They're not exactly flair players, are they?

[Aleksz]

7 minutes ago, LiliansLeftPeg said:

Consider that Marti is persisting with dross like Soumare and playing Ayew as a 9 to prove a point to the board - "If you don't back me, this is what you get". I wouldn't be surprised if the board think the squad is good enough to compete because of the money they've spent on them (sunk cost fallacy, anyone?) and how well we did 2 years ago.

 

While the window is open and there's a chance he gets his own players in, I'll not be drawing too many conclusions on Marti's team selections.

Feel like I'm going mental. If he started his only other options in Skipp and Daka respectively in those positions, you'd say the exact same thing. What can the bloke do?

 

Edit: I think I've missed the overall point of your post, but my reply does still apply to a lot of other posts on here to be honest

Edited 16 August 2025 by Aleksz

[Muzzy_no7]

Just now, indierich06 said:

And would you say that lot are more in the Fats/Mav mould, or more like BCDR/McAteer? They're not exactly flair players, are they?

Mcneil and Boyd certainly are flare players.

 

In fairness, Dyche hasn’t ever worked with particularly strong squads for said divisions or indeed had a productive youth academy? 

[filthyfox]

8 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

Genuine question, are you being serious? 

Has Soumare been played by him?

[CrazyKopCorner]

1 minute ago, Filberts Treat said:

Feel sorry for the bloke. Probably lied to before taking the job on

Yes imagine how he feels. 

 

Thinks he's getting a mix of Premier League and Championship players and literally 80% of them are division 1 / 2 mentality 

[JonnyBoy]

Doesn’t help when he can’t say boo to a goose. Bloke is too nice, players will sulk and get away with it (Winks) we need someone who has a bit of steel. Fed up of employing fairy after fairy for managers. He just doesn’t offer anything in terms of having a bit about him who can drag those players into the dressing room and bollock them. 

[SK3Blue]

Imagine having to deal with the never ending line of Rudkin failures, and indeed Rudkin on a daily basis. Poor bastard. 

[Jobyfox]

I hope people don’t jump on Marti. He has no chance with this squad

 

We need signings before the transfer window shuts. Ideally 4 or 5, but 2 or 3 would be a start. 
 

We can’t measure him until that happens. If it doesn’t then the anger must be directed to those above him. 

[Ian Nacho]

Whilst the manager is not immune to criticism, most of it doesn't land at his door. 

[whoareyaaa]

6 minutes ago, JonnyBoy said:

Doesn’t help when he can’t say boo to a goose. Bloke is too nice, players will sulk and get away with it (Winks) we need someone who has a bit of steel. Fed up of employing fairy after fairy for managers. He just doesn’t offer anything in terms of having a bit about him who can drag those players into the dressing room and bollock them. 

Ruud wasn't a fairy and got sacked, you can't win with this board.

 

Dyche would get the same treatment.

[BigGibbo]

I think the rot at the club is too deep to pass any kind of judgement so far, or possibly at all if it continues spiralling. 

 

However, the decision to make and stick with Ayew as master set-piece taker in spite of clear evidence that he's not any good at them is a bit of a red flag. Akin to Southgate with Kane that summer...

[Pita]

6 minutes ago, Jobyfox said:

I hope people don’t jump on Marti. He has no chance with this squad

 

We need signings before the transfer window shuts. Ideally 4 or 5, but 2 or 3 would be a start. 
 

We can’t measure him until that happens. If it doesn’t then the anger must be directed to those above him. 

If the club bring in new signings it will be rubbish players Rudkin wants on very large wages. 

[Shane]

Having your LB bomb forward when the LCB is Vestergaard is beyond daft.
 

Preston did a good job exploiting the acres of space in behind our left flank.

[honeybradger]

He has opportunities for us to be better:

 

He's not giving minutes to the like of Nelson, Aluko, Page, Alves, Evans.

 

He's not starting Monga who is our best player.

 

You cant tell me that Evans would not be better than what Daka and Ayew showed tonight.

 

Vestergaard will constantly let us down. Yes Nelson wasnt good the other week but he is a young developing player whilst Vestergaard is at the end of career and still puts up clangers just as bad as Nelson against Huddersfield like he did today. I know which player I would rather start but i also have a strong hunch which player Cifuentes will back.

 

Aluko was so so impressive in pre season and has received 0 (zero) minutes this season. His ability to drive with the ball was one of our best attacking outlets and he was very good defensively. Justin and Thomas were poor today, Cifuentes is again shooting himself in the foot by not giving Aluko a chance.

 

Page has impressed with every chance he had, including against Huddersfield. 0 minutes today, he is a similar talent bracket to Monga who was our best player, not a far reach to suggest that given a chance Page would be one of our better players as well yet Cifuentes is not utilising him. Instead he is playing the mardy Winks who has given up on this club.

 

Alves didn't show much against Huddersfield but he was a good impact player on loan at Cardiff. Cifuentes should be utilising that instead of leaving him at home. Would be better than Ayea in the role that Ayew played in the second half as well.

[Unabomber]

13 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

Has Soumare been played by him?

Yeah he played today. 

[cityfanlee23]

Marti needs time but if our transfer budget was £10m, I’d rather spend £7m and keep £3m aside… you know… just incase. 
 

 

[whoareyaaa]

1 minute ago, honeybradger said:

He has opportunities for us to be better:

 

He's not giving minutes to the like of Nelson, Aluko, Page, Alves, Evans.

 

He's not starting Monga who is our best player.

 

You cant tell me that Evans would not be better than what Daka and Ayew showed tonight.

 

Vestergaard will constantly let us down. Yes Nelson wasnt good the other week but he is a young developing player whilst Vestergaard is at the end of career and still puts up clangers just as bad as Nelson against Huddersfield like he did today. I know which player I would rather start but i also have a strong hunch which player Cifuentes will back.

 

Aluko was so so impressive in pre season and has received 0 (zero) minutes this season. His ability to drive with the ball was one of our best attacking outlets and he was very good defensively. Justin and Thomas were poor today, Cifuentes is again shooting himself in the foot by not giving Aluko a chance.

 

Page has impressed with every chance he had, including against Huddersfield. 0 minutes today, he is a similar talent bracket to Monga who was our best player, not a far reach to suggest that given a chance Page would be one of our better players as well yet Cifuentes is not utilising him. Instead he is playing the mardy Winks who has given up on this club.

 

Alves didn't show much against Huddersfield but he was a good impact player on loan at Cardiff. Cifuentes should be utilising that instead of leaving him at home. Would be better than Ayea in the role that Ayew played in the second half as well.

I'm sure we will see these players starting in a few weeks, give him some time.

[em9999]

Its too easy to blame the manager the whole club is rotten ..

 

Even the best manager in the world would struggle with these jokers we call players 

[Jobyfox]

4 minutes ago, Pita said:

If the club bring in new signings it will be rubbish players Rudkin wants on very large wages. 

Maybe so, but doesn’t detract from the point I was making.

 

MCF really isn’t the biggest issue at LCFC currently and shouldn’t be made a scapegoat 

[JonnyBoy]

9 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

Ruud wasn't a fairy and got sacked, you can't win with this board.

 

Dyche would get the same treatment.

I dunno how he was in the dressing room with the other players and actually bollock them. Yea fairs he froze out winks. If you haven’t already watch the Blues documentary on Amazon. Someone like Chris Davies is exactly the sort of character we need to sort these lot out. 
 

just get the impression Marti is a nice person, which is exactly what we don’t need atm. 

Edited 16 August 2025 by JonnyBoy

[TheGoldenGod]

Wait there's actually criticism TWO games in for Marti? Having a laugh surely. He's got a bunch of criminals playing for him that haven't changed their spots.

[TheGoldenGod]

What I will say is Jakub best cut that shite out his game cause whatever that was for the first is a disgrace!

[Foxdiamond]

1 minute ago, whoareyaaa said:

I'm sure we will see these players starting in a few weeks, give him some time.

A complete rebuild under severe restraints concerning lack of new signings. This is some challenge for Marti. Hope we can at least consolidate and get rid of the wasters ASAP. 

[Dahnsouff]

Doubt Marti was under any illusion of the state of the club when he joined, and was more sold on the ambition, evident from past successes.

Does not seem like a moron, so you would suspect he asked pertinent questions during the interview process.

[lcfcsnow]

He needs to sideline the players who don't want to be here or the club want to move on. It's the only way forward, team morale will be shot to pieces otherwise and the season won't go anywhere. Don't think he's a strong Enzo or Pearson type character needed to do that though.