Cifuentes OUT

[Donwebbio]

If they do decide to sack him they will be a chucking a few more million in the compensation pot and will still be the ones appointing s successor. That will ne another manager who ticks the box of being keen to work under amateurs and currently out of work. So either Gary O'Neil or Russell Martin. The good news is that with every bad decision made by those 2, we are another step closer to the club being sold.

[Dan]

It's usually quite obvious early on if a manager is much good. Was very obvious very early on he was rubbish.

[MC Prussian]

Should he still be at the club comes Norwich away, that'll be his final chance to prove that he can implement his "tactics" on the pitch.

Even if he should win, I think he's lost most of the goodwill given.

To me, for the first 14 league matches, he's come across as a fraud, a rather big disappointment.

We're not Manchester City, Barcelona or Bayern, where a rotation doesn't result in a drop in performance.

 

Simply not the right fit.

 

This also reflects badly on the club management. Selection of managers in the past 12+ months has been nothing but shocking.

It reeks of incompetence on all levels.

[Noahfence]

Alarm bells were ringing for me first game of the season when we looked like shit against Wednesday 

[Ric Flair]

Stop attending, stop going out your way to watching it on TV at the expense of doing something else and stop caring. It is the only way to save yourself. 

 

Just keep giggling to yourself about how badly this mob have fcuked it, it is quite extraordinary. 

 

Then if all else fails, look at a GIF of George Galloway pretending to be a cat on Celebrity Big Brother.

[Mickyblueeyes]

Yes it isn’t as good a squad as last time we were down here. However, this side is not so bad that we can spend 45 minutes and not have a single shot at goal. It’s not so bad that we can go the majority of games and not look at all a threat. It’s not so bad that we can’t control the ball for parts when needed. 
 

He can’t get anything out of anyone. This sits solely with the manager and his staff. 
 

 

[fox_favourite]

2 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Yes it isn’t as good a squad as last time we were down here. However, this side is not so bad that we can spend 45 minutes and not have a single shot at goal. It’s not so bad that we can go the majority of games and not look at all a threat. It’s not so bad that we can’t control the ball for parts when needed. 
 

He can’t get anything out of anyone. This sits solely with the manager and his staff. 
 

 

But if you have players that aren't not wanting to be here whatever the manager, then that doesn't help either. The squad do have a lot to answer for. They just don't have any passion. 

 

But I get your point, and you are right, that is the job for the manager to pick them up and give them belief, but it also has to come from the players. It's been a problem for too long just to be a manager issue. 

 

Maybe the dimwits above can't pick the right manager. 

[DennisNedry]

At this point I'm expecting Aiyawatt to be the next manager 😂

[Mickyblueeyes]

1 minute ago, fox_favourite said:

But if you have players that aren't not wanting to be here whatever the manager, then that doesn't help either. The squad do have a lot to answer for. They just don't have any passion. 

 

But I get your point, and you are right, that is the job for the manager to pick them up and give them belief, but it also has to come from the players. It's been a problem for too long just to be a manager issue. 

 

Maybe the dimwits above can't pick the right manager. 

And that also falls with the manager.

 

Warching yesterday, no one can tell Ben Nelson should have been part of March day squats, let alone starting. Yet, it was Cifeuntes who decided to isolate him completely, drop Okoli and bring back “I want out” Faes when we were sat third in the league. James and Winks in the middle were bringing up a decent partnership. We’ve switched James to 10 a number of times, broken up the partnership and impacted James game as a result. 
 

Switch to 352 yesterday, without either side having genuine wing backs. Starting both Carranza and Ayew instead of alongside a Daka or BCDR (players who can run off a knock on - not very well but both can). 
 

There is so much wrong here in just the management. 

[DAS Boot]

When he turned up for that first interview in tracky bottoms and a suit jacket, ‘Pound Shop Enzo’ was my first thought.

 

He’s a very average manager who’s main skill appears to be talking a good game.

 

100% not what is required right now.  Unfortunately the man we needed when Enzo left and when Cooper left and when Ruud left was Dyche but unfortunately, that ship sailed so we’ll end up with yet another manager obsessed with a style of football 2 years out of date.

[Fox85]

You cannot defend a manager whose team has a grand total of 7 shots on target in 3 games.

 

Thats criminal in its self.

 

Bin him off.

[kingpowerout]

In recent years I’ve always gone out of my way to either get to the game (live about 90mins drive from Leicester) or find a way to watch/stream it.

 

Last night was the first time I did neither and I only checked the score at HT and FT. I’ve really got to the point where I can’t be bothered anymore 

[thlcfc93]

Lots of debate as to whether we can even afford to sack him, but looking at how he was wet enough to pay half his own compo - there's always a chance we can convince him to pay for his own sacking!

[frany104]

I can’t believe there hasn’t been any reports of him being under pressure from the media??

 

He needs to be sacked but it doesn’t appear he is under any pressure from the club?

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

51 minutes ago, Dan said:

It's usually quite obvious early on if a manager is much good. Was very obvious very early on he was rubbish.

The first couple of months of Martin O'Neill were dire...

 

Not saying Marti is the second coming btw.

[Gwyn]

Let's get this straight people; we have always been a small  club with a small fan base due to the Tigers being the Man Utd of rugby.

Our succession of winning the PL/FA cup lifted us to global levels, but we aren't Chelsea, .Man U, etc. Which are brand's you see whilst holidaying around the world. 

Remember Blackburn Rovers, what a team..Leeds united were brilliant for season's. 

We are again at our level because we can't raise millions through merchandise; 

Just enjoy supporting a club you love rather than one that looks great at the time 

Edited 5 November 2025 by Gwyn
Missed out the FA cup

[Richmondfox]

55 minutes ago, Dan said:

It's usually quite obvious early on if a manager is much good. Was very obvious very early on he was rubbish.

He lost me when he said everyone has a clean sheet, and wasted countless games with Skipp, Soumare and Ayew only for them to be rotated back into his constant poor choices.  All he had to do was watch our best and worst game from last season to see what he has available.

 

He has zero passages of play to break teams down, zero in game changes to break a team down.  We have Ricardo, JJ and Fatawu yet they try one overlap a game then go back to the Fatawu step over challenge. That should be the focus, all three working together with a few different variations of play.
 

He has turned Monga into a hybrid of Mavadidi and Ayew and ignored Nelson who showed last night that he is solid at the basics and doesn’t mess around

for the sake of it.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

35 minutes ago, DennisNedry said:

At this point I'm expecting Aiyawatt to be the next manager 😂

That would be hilarious 😆 

[Fox1norfolk]

14 minutes ago, frany104 said:

I can’t believe there hasn’t been any reports of him being under pressure from the media??

 

He needs to be sacked but it doesn’t appear he is under any pressure from the club?

The media is only interested in the Premier League 

[RowlattsFox]

Not sure we can financially sack another manager. If relegation wasn't a possibility I'd probably stick with him for a dull midtable season and then get rid in the summer when we've finally lost a few more of the squad. The looming points deduction makes us nervous though. 

[DAS Boot]

11 minutes ago, Richmondfox said:

He lost me when he said everyone has a clean sheet, and wasted countless games with Skipp, Soumare and Ayew only for them to be rotated back into his constant poor choices.  All he had to do was watch our best and worst game from last season to see what he has available.

 

He has zero passages of play to break teams down, zero in game changes to break a team down.  We have Ricardo, JJ and Fatawu yet they try one overlap a game then go back to the Fatawu step over challenge. That should be the focus, all three working together with a few different variations of play.
 

He has turned Monga into a hybrid of Mavadidi and Ayew and ignored Nelson who showed last night that he is solid at the basics and doesn’t mess around

for the sake of it.

He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

 

I’m not saying that in a usual, moaning fan type of way.  I actually don’t think he knows what he’s doing.

[RowlattsFox]

I think he knows he's got nothing to work with, his constant changing of certain players and the positivity he had when he first arrived has been drained out of him and he clearly doesn't know what to do next. The place just sucks the life out of anyone who joins it.

[Jon the Hat]

2 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

I think he knows he's got nothing to work with, his constant changing of certain players and the positivity he had when he first arrived has been drained out of him and he clearly doesn't know what to do next. The place just sucks the life out of anyone who joins it.

Certainly it does to someone who can’t impose their will on the players.

[Richmondfox]

Just now, RowlattsFox said:

I think he knows he's got nothing to work with, his constant changing of certain players and the positivity he had when he first arrived has been drained out of him and he clearly doesn't know what to do next. The place just sucks the life out of anyone who joins it.

We get skinned constantly by the oppositions winger and full back doing 1-2s and then crossing into the box. Maybe he could try that in practise.

 

Does he know Andy King used to play, I wonder if he’s chipped in. 
 

I can’t stand to see another game with Ayew stopping during a counter attack to pass backwards or Fatawu try and skin everyone instead of passing the ball into space. 

 

Even Daka tried to play a 1-2 with Ayew yesterday but the donkey just stood still not even attempting to run into the space, there would’ve been no one in the box but still. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pliskin]

32 minutes ago, Gwyn said:

Let's get this straight people; we have always been a small  club with a small fan base due to the Tigers being the Man Utd of rugby.

Our succession of winning the PL/FA cup lifted us to global levels, but we aren't Chelsea, .Man U, etc. Which are brand's you see whilst holidaying around the world. 

Remember Blackburn Rovers, what a team..Leeds united were brilliant for season's. 

We are again at our level because we can't raise millions through merchandise; 

Just enjoy supporting a club you love rather than one that looks great at the time 

Why bother posting such ill educated comments? Again, the type of opinion from someone who’s complicit in our demise, because of their inability to grasp how modern football/businesses work.