Cifuentes OUT

[Chelmofox]

3 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

I've literally just found a Cif bottle below the sink and kicked the shit out of it cos it reminded me of his round head 

I found some supermarket own cleaner and i kicked the shit out of it anyway. 

[jimsmallman]

I think they might fire him tomorrow. Feels weird firing him on a Sunday for reasons I can’t fathom. 
 

Fingers crossed!

[lcfc_forever]

If he doesn’t go, three immediate steps:

 

1. Expel Winks and Faes from the squad, not even on the bench. Attitude over ability, set the standard and culture. 
2. Go back to the counter-attack style that worked for us at the start of the season, Birmingham was the best performance from the that style and should have been the blueprint. That includes playing at least one defensive midfielder to protect the defence. 
3. Play the youngsters more, give the likes of Aluko, Page and Monga more time - as well as developing them, it gets the fans behind the team more. 
 

Have some sympathy that we have Jakub out along with our best centre-halves, but that doesn’t excuse that shower of 💩 that was the defending for their goals. 

[Happy Fox]

He’s out of his depth, just like our ownership.

 

Is this the dreaded vote of confidence article?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c9w7pj224xeo

[melrose]

From an LCFC bloke living in Sheep land. Please give us the chance of the new manager bounce this week!

[Tuna]

22 minutes ago, jimsmallman said:

I think they might fire him tomorrow. Feels weird firing him on a Sunday for reasons I can’t fathom. 
 

Fingers crossed!

Cooper and Rodgers both sacked on a Sunday

[Wymsey]

1 hour ago, Gamble92 said:

Just found out I've fathered a child in 2017 and I'm still more bothered about the pending points deduction 

[Tielemans63]

Seems about the only person at the club who actually cares, I'll give him that. Not a reason to keep him, though. He's just not the right man at all for what's required right now. I think he knows that himself, too.

[Gamble92]

9 hours ago, Vlad the Fox said:

I’ve often thought that if forest had beat us that night we turned them over 4-1 Rodgers would have got sacked and things could have been different.

I think this too but I still can't stomach losing to them ever for any reason

[Gamble92]

8 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Bit off topic but watching the Sharon Goodmay and Jeremy Vine being called the c word are some of the finest pieces of material you will consume today if you get a chance. 

Edited 1 December 2025 by Gamble92

[jv1]

How on earth has he not gone yet

[Vazman]

6 minutes ago, jv1 said:

How on earth has he not gone yet

No offence, but  I can't believe your asking this.

[daddylonglegs]

Totally unacceptable for the highest wage bill (by a mile) in the league to be in 16th position.

 

He doesn't exude authority or ability, nor do his tactics & subsequent performances make it seem like he has the support of the players. These players are utterly contemptable, entirely unlikeable & have hugely inflated opinions of themselves but they are not "16th in the Championship" bad. 

 

 

 

 

[Corky]

Bombing players out is a good idea in theory but in practice is much harder. The players are close to the ownership, as we have seen recently. These players could also say "we won this division two years ago", if the replacements don't perform then you'd imagine pressure will be put on and questions asked.

 

This is not an easy club to manage because of the low standards set plus the highly inflated opinions of the players. Cifuentes isn't doing well enough but I genuinely don't see the next man taking a different approach and being backed. It hasn't happened before.

[Chelmofox]

5 minutes ago, Corky said:

Bombing players out is a good idea in theory but in practice is much harder. The players are close to the ownership, as we have seen recently. These players could also say "we won this division two years ago", if the replacements don't perform then you'd imagine pressure will be put on and questions asked.

 

This is not an easy club to manage because of the low standards set plus the highly inflated opinions of the players. Cifuentes isn't doing well enough but I genuinely don't see the next man taking a different approach and being backed. It hasn't happened before.

As much as we all hate Faes, Marti had pretty much dropped him, and Okoli / Nelson were injured and Aluko suspended. There is literally noone else to play.

[bovril]

11 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Just found out I've fathered a child in 2017 and I'm still more bothered about the pending points deduction 

Born late January 2017, surely 

[Vlad the Fox]

2 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

I think this too but I still can't stomach losing to them ever for any reason

Ha ha, yes. Me too.  

[Dan]

I get he is not the main issue at the club by any means but he is so clearly out of his depth as well and even despite this owner/board you can sometimes patch over that with a good manager. He isn't. We've been crap all season. I remember having a few arguments about this early doors saying these performances will catch up with us and they have done. Nobody ever goes up playing like crap all season.

 

The real giveaway is how poor players like Fatawu and Mavididi have been. They're totally capable.

 

Not a single performance from his 19 games have been entirely satisfactory. A couple of 'ok' but more bad than good. He's simply not good enough and should be sacked.

Edited 1 December 2025 by Dan

[oldbluefox]

10 hours ago, lcfc_forever said:

If he doesn’t go, three immediate steps:

 

1. Expel Winks and Faes from the squad, not even on the bench. Attitude over ability, set the standard and culture. 
2. Go back to the counter-attack style that worked for us at the start of the season, Birmingham was the best performance from the that style and should have been the blueprint. That includes playing at least one defensive midfielder to protect the defence. 
3. Play the youngsters more, give the likes of Aluko, Page and Monga more time - as well as developing them, it gets the fans behind the team more. 
 

Have some sympathy that we have Jakub out along with our best centre-halves, but that doesn’t excuse that shower of 💩 that was the defending for their goals. 

Spot on. Let it be a warning that negative attitude will not be tolerated no matter who you are. Tell JV we are no longer slowing the pace down but will be progressing up the field with sharp slick passes.  Playing the ball back should no longer be the norm and start bedding in some of our younger players. It would be a lot more exciting than the dross they are currently dishing up week after week. 

[jimsmallman]

10 hours ago, Tuna said:

Cooper and Rodgers both sacked on a Sunday

Were they? Well then I take that back and we're stuck with him!

[jimsmallman]

31 minutes ago, bovril said:

Born late January 2017, surely 

This deserved more

[coolhandfox]

1 hour ago, Corky said:

Bombing players out is a good idea in theory but in practice is much harder. The players are close to the ownership, as we have seen recently. These players could also say "we won this division two years ago", if the replacements don't perform then you'd imagine pressure will be put on and questions asked.

 

This is not an easy club to manage because of the low standards set plus the highly inflated opinions of the players. Cifuentes isn't doing well enough but I genuinely don't see the next man taking a different approach and being backed. It hasn't happened before.

It’s always easier when you start strong and the players buy in. Unfortunately, we’ve been poor from day one, which has eroded his authority.

 

Our best performance was against an unfit Fiorentina side in pre-season, and since then we’ve struggled in the league, relying solely on the individual quality of certain players. Enzo inspired belief and united the squad, whereas Marti lost their trust just a few games into the season.

 

Isn't it the manager job to set the standards. 

Edited 1 December 2025 by coolhandfox

[cityfanlee23]

1 hour ago, Dan said:

I get he is not the main issue at the club by any means but he is so clearly out of his depth as well and even despite this owner/board you can sometimes patch over that with a good manager. He isn't. We've been crap all season. I remember having a few arguments about this early doors saying these performances will catch up with us and they have done. Nobody ever goes up playing like crap all season.

 

The real giveaway is how poor players like Fatawu and Mavididi have been. They're totally capable.

 

Not a single performance from his 19 games have been entirely satisfactory. A couple of 'ok' but more bad than good. He's simply not good enough and should be sacked.

This is it. What people don’t seem to want to accept is that a good manager can, to some degree, offset the circus happening upstairs. Look at the messes Warnock has walked into in the past and turned around. Look at what Rohl achieved at Wednesday while Chansiri was actively destroying the club. Look at what Pearson did for us — he stopped the rot and completely revolutionised the club. Big Sam is known as a relegation specialist for a reason, because he often goes into long term damaged clubs and at the very least keeps them up and brings in players and organises them a bit more and gets them fighting. 
 

None of these names are flashy. But the point is that they all have a reputation for building foundations, creating good habits, and, most importantly, starting to stop the rot.

Marti is currently helping the board push us toward oblivion with his arrogant approach to football, where he seems to believe his system is the only way — despite it being blatantly obvious that it isn’t.

Good managers can take some of the sting out of the board’s incompetence. For all the mess our board has created over the last 5 years, we actually had a half-decent window: bringing in Begović, Ramsey, and JJ, while offloading multiple big earners, including great fees for McAteer, Justin, and Ndidi and we are now in a position where we can afford to actually pay for a technical director. The board, to some degree, is restructuring both the DOF and CEO positions. Top has finally realised publicly that they need to make changes. If anything, MC has inherited us at a time when we’re actually trying to fix mistakes — and yet he’s adding to them. (don't get me wrong, we are a mess with or without him)

All we needed was stability on the pitch, whilst giving adequate game time to Okoli, Nelson, Aluko, Silko, Monga etc and we could be talking about this whole situation as the club turning a corner. Instead, we are now looking over our shoulder at relegation if the deduction is big, despite having at least 7-8 players that would get into the majority of promotion candidates' teams. 

Give me Warnock over this. 

Edited 1 December 2025 by cityfanlee23

[moore_94]

15 hours ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Would rather Pearson than MON

I would love Nige back

 

Not sure whether he is in a position health-wise to do it though

[FoxinNotts]

Brace yourselves ........