Cifuentes OUT

[Gamble92]

Can't deal with the thought of losing to Derby on top of all this

[Lad1966]

The problem is that until we get our Technical Director in place, it’s pointless sacking MC. Surely that needs to happen 1st before we can think about sacking MC, otherwise we will probably end up sacking whoever comes in next because he might someone else. We need to be patience and build back stronger,  without any additional baggage !

 

[MC Prussian]

"It's so important that we think about how to react on Saturday, ..."

You what?

 

Shallower words ne'er spoken.

[Chelmofox]

3 minutes ago, Lad1966 said:

The problem is that until we get our Technical Director in place, it’s pointless sacking MC. Surely that needs to happen 1st before we can think about sacking MC, otherwise we will probably end up sacking whoever comes in next because he might someone else. We need to be patience and build back stronger,  without any additional baggage !

 

Wonder if they have put the job spec together yet.

 

[fleshdaddy]

I'd be a lot less harsh on him if, now over a third of the way through the season, you could see some sort of identity and way of playing. But there's nothing at all, we just rely on bits of individual quality and if nobody steps up on that front, we don't score and, obviously, we don't win.

The squad on paper (I know) is better than 15th. Yes, we have serious issues in the squad, and have done for quite a few years now,, but I refuse to believe any half decent manager wouldn't be able to do better job of coaching us. I've said it before, that last minute winner against Norwich has only served to delay the inevitable, which will be us needing to move him on. 

Difficult circumstances sure, but I think it's clear that we won't move forward with him - and even if we persist and finish the season in around the same place, I've seen nothing to suggest he's the man to lead a rebuild next season, once we've cleared more of the dead wood out.

[Reg Vardy]

5 minutes ago, fleshdaddy said:

I'd be a lot less harsh on him if, now over a third of the way through the season, you could see some sort of identity and way of playing. But there's nothing at all, we just rely on bits of individual quality and if nobody steps up on that front, we don't score and, obviously, we don't win.

The squad on paper (I know) is better than 15th. Yes, we have serious issues in the squad, and have done for quite a few years now,, but I refuse to believe any half decent manager wouldn't be able to do better job of coaching us. I've said it before, that last minute winner against Norwich has only served to delay the inevitable, which will be us needing to move him on. 

Difficult circumstances sure, but I think it's clear that we won't move forward with him - and even if we persist and finish the season in around the same place, I've seen nothing to suggest he's the man to lead a rebuild next season, once we've cleared more of the dead wood out.

Good post, but it could be argued, Ayew, Daka, Skipp, Ricky P, Faes, Soumare, Thomas, DeCR, Hamza, And four young players are good enough, or want to be here, the term flogging a dead horse comes to mind….those players are not his players…are drawing the do ray me.and clearly lack the mentality needed….but do we really want to go back up? Time to develop kids, give them time, offload deadwood and start again…..

[Foxin_Mad]

7 minutes ago, Reg Vardy said:

Good post, but it could be argued, Ayew, Daka, Skipp, Ricky P, Faes, Soumare, Thomas, DeCR, Hamza, And four young players are good enough, or want to be here, the term flogging a dead horse comes to mind….those players are not his players…are drawing the do ray me.and clearly lack the mentality needed….but do we really want to go back up? Time to develop kids, give them time, offload deadwood and start again…..

Problem is if we don’t go up this year it could be 10-20 years before we are anywhere near again, maybe a trip to league 1. Financially can the club survive this, or is it what we need to drain the swamp and find the club again from happy clapping Kpfc fans and leeches claiming to be players 

[Ric Flair]

30 minutes ago, Lad1966 said:

The problem is that until we get our Technical Director in place, it’s pointless sacking MC. Surely that needs to happen 1st before we can think about sacking MC, otherwise we will probably end up sacking whoever comes in next because he might someone else. We need to be patience and build back stronger,  without any additional baggage !

 

Don't be surprised to see us employ someone from another club who has to serve a notice period of the rest of the season.

[HankMarvin]

I wouldn’t get too excited about him getting the bullet, there hasn’t even been a murmur of discontent reported on the media 

[Paninistickers]

35 minutes ago, Lad1966 said:

until we get our Technical Director

Who'll be toblerone seller of the month from BKK

[Sankey93]

3 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

I think we lose the next 3 and he'll be gone.

I’m sure it will be this Sunday after the blades beat us Saturday there on a roll now.

[AyewJoking]

3 hours ago, Lad1966 said:

The problem is that until we get our Technical Director in place, it’s pointless sacking MC. Surely that needs to happen 1st before we can think about sacking MC, otherwise we will probably end up sacking whoever comes in next because he might someone else. We need to be patience and build back stronger,  without any additional baggage !

 

Or sack Cif anyway.

 

He offers nothing, we wouldnt miss him

[FoxSince88]

Honestly, If at the start of the season you put all the squad players names into a hat and then drawn one randomly each week and it was their task to take that weeks training and games I don’t think we would be any worse of than we currently are.

Forget the negatives around Marti But trying to find positives is a struggle on a whole, The biggest issue I have is the Rot will get greater and greater whilst he is at the helm. 
 

what doesn’t help is there doesn’t to me seem to be much hunger about the squad, You have multiple in the last year of the contracts taking a chunk home each month with one foot out the door and you have the other aspect where they are on contracts too long and they don’t need to care. 
 

Anyway get behind the team 

[Vindaloo FOX]

In my opinion he's job this season is to keep us up, i think he will do that and we will wait till then end of the season to sack him.

 

Also plenty of dead wood off also at the end of the season, next season should be interesting.

 

 

[Claudio Fannieri]

I still think the expectation was promotion, or at least to be up there challenging and. In the mix for automatic regardless of the points deduction and the fact that a good few of the squad had checked out or would be leaving at the end of the season. 
 

I think it’s fair to say that there is little evidence to suggest that there is a mid to long term project in place and it’s very much about short term, here and now objectives which absolutely makes me think that if we lose on Saturday Marti will be gone. 
 

I know there has been little from any ITK journalists but there wasn’t when Cooper was sacked somewhat out of the blue. Also given our position in the championship I am not sure we are of that much interest. However there have been a few murmurings from EFL focused social media accounts in recent weeks alluding to the fact he needed a result etc. 

[LCFCJohn]

7 hours ago, jbflcfc said:

If anyone fancies a laugh tonight, please direct yourself to the Leicester City FC facebook page (not the official one)

 

Im convinced some of the comments are AI, but we are where we are I guess…

@The Year Of The Fox will have a field day when he sees them 

Edited 27 November 2025 by LCFCJohn

[LiliansLeftPeg]

Bad under Cooper. Dire under RvN. Toothless under Marti. I'm convinced this doesn't change with a new manager with this squad. The game has never been played on paper. 

 

I don't see us going down. I don't care if we don't go up this season. My standards are low (and on current evidence, realistic). As long as we stay well clear of relegation form then I'm happy to keep Marti til the end of the season and see him gone if we're not in the mix for the playoffs; that all allows for the points deduction and backing him in January. 

 

Next season, with no points deduction (I assume/expect), the squad swamp largely drained, players who want to be here and a fit-for-purpose Board in place (tall order under Aiyawatt), I expect whoever is the manager to get us promoted. I don't know or care if that's Marti at this point.

 

 

[fox_favourite]

41 minutes ago, LiliansLeftPeg said:

Bad under Cooper. Dire under RvN. Toothless under Marti. I'm convinced this doesn't change with a new manager with this squad. The game has never been played on paper. 

 

I don't see us going down. I don't care if we don't go up this season. My standards are low (and on current evidence, realistic). As long as we stay well clear of relegation form then I'm happy to keep Marti til the end of the season and see him gone if we're not in the mix for the playoffs; that all allows for the points deduction and backing him in January. 

 

Next season, with no points deduction (I assume/expect), the squad swamp largely drained, players who want to be here and a fit-for-purpose Board in place (tall order under Aiyawatt), I expect whoever is the manager to get us promoted. I don't know or care if that's Marti at this point.

 

 

It is a possibility. Giving us a points deduction will take us on the cusp of the relegation places. Then we have players with such a weak mentality and work ethic that they'll give up. 

 

So it has to be a possibility as I'm getting Prem relegation v1 vibes from these melons

[Muzzy_no7]

8 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Can't deal with the thought of losing to Derby on top of all this

Get ready

[Pliskin]

9 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Can't deal with the thought of losing to Derby on top of all this

Get used to it…. If he’s here it will happen. 
 

If Marti is still here and loses our next game, I don’t think we will pick up another point under him. I think the dressing room isn’t having him, and the body language on Tuesday night for me just further highlighted it. 

Edited 27 November 2025 by Pliskin

[gerblod]

I see Christian Fuchs has taken over at Newport County - 24th in League 2. First game a 0-3 away loss to Oldham and 5 points adrift of safety at the bottom.  

I'll be watching his 'progress' with a great deal of interest. He's certainly chosen an uphill task for his first foray into management - but I suspect that it's his intention to find out if he can 'hack it' where the going is toughest. There'll be media interest due to his City success and expectation from disgruntled fans and an embattled owner. I always admired his focus, determination and awareness. 

Just in case someone thinks I'm well off topic, should he save Newport from the drop, he'd be the first name I'd choose to succeed Cifuentes at the start of next season. The club is crying out for a strong and familiar personality in its key position. There's fvck all of that type at City atm. 

 

[moore_94]

Good chance he will have us in 16th after Saturday

 

I will be very surprised if we get anything from the 3 after that as well - Derby (A), Bristol City (A), Ipswich (H)

 

Depending on when we get the points deduction we could end up in or at least very close to the relegation zone, and he certainly hasn’t shown anything so far to make me think he would be able to get any of these players to improve in form

[Pliskin]

10 hours ago, fleshdaddy said:

I'd be a lot less harsh on him if, now over a third of the way through the season, you could see some sort of identity and way of playing. But there's nothing at all, we just rely on bits of individual quality and if nobody steps up on that front, we don't score and, obviously, we don't win.

The squad on paper (I know) is better than 15th. Yes, we have serious issues in the squad, and have done for quite a few years now,, but I refuse to believe any half decent manager wouldn't be able to do better job of coaching us. I've said it before, that last minute winner against Norwich has only served to delay the inevitable, which will be us needing to move him on. 

Difficult circumstances sure, but I think it's clear that we won't move forward with him - and even if we persist and finish the season in around the same place, I've seen nothing to suggest he's the man to lead a rebuild next season, once we've cleared more of the dead wood out.

This is exactly it. 
 

At some point most of these players individually have operated at higher levels than this, with more success…. And the fact we’ve seen absolutely no improvement at all, from anyone under him is concerning. 
 

No matter what’s happening in the background, a coach only needs to focus on his players and the matchday, that’s it. Football is football, and many, many times before have we seen teams rise through adversity because they’ve got a good unit from the coach down…. We’ve even done this. 
 

There’s been plenty of incompetent people running football clubs who have achieved good results on the pitch because the boots on the ground so to speak, are a cohesive unit. 
 

Only a manager can provide that kind of cohesive unit, sometimes an owner can, but it’s largely down to the manager. 
 

So when people say “what difference will it make” potentially massive. 
 

Forest are a massive example of this, from relegation candidates to promotion, because they’ve got the right man in for the job. 

[Mapperleyfox]

I can see it playing out with a scenario of Top dragging his feet for weeks & months to appoint a technical director, then he’ll wield the axe on Cifuentes by which time it’ll be too late, points deduction etc and we’ll end up panicking and Russell Martin will get the gig anyway…..

[Long Eaton Fox]

Yes MC could be doing better but the reality is, during the promotion season two years ago, Vardy and KDH provided 60 goal/assists and Hermanson saved 10 more goals. Daka and Skip have provided 2 goal/ assists this season whilst the goalkeeper is saving less. The squad is so much weaker with no money for replacements. Plus the potential points deduction is making us a less attractive club to join. MC has gone through all of the permutations in player selection including the latest in Aluko but the squad is simply not good enough in terms of quality and physicality. This season and beyond will be transitional until the over paid players leave and the academy players develop.