Cifuentes OUT

[Rubbersoul]

Very simply put I don’t think he’s a very good manager. Given up caring about whether he does though. 

[Ric Flair]

8 hours ago, DJW1 said:

I think he should be given more time.

On the eve of the season a poll here showed that the majority of us didn´t think we would finish in the top 8, so we are where  many of us thought we would be. However, there are certain areas of play (throw-ins etc.) that need to be improved and there are some players with talent whose confidence has disappeared (Mavididi etc.) - these are things that managers and coaches can improve.

We have this playing squad (and manager) because we are skint, even after taking in 50+ million quid in the summer. If we are in this league position in January then the owners will have to decide whether to stick (spend no money and accept a probable mid-table finish) or twist (spend some money on a couple of players to try and get promotion).

Probably because of the impending points deduction and/or because our fanbase is resigned to us doing poorly under Cifuentes. This is hardly an endorsement for him running at par right now. 

[winteriscoming]

Can’t understand this acceptance of where we are considering we’ve dropped points against distinctly average teams like Portsmouth, Oxford (granted we were down to 10 men), Wrexham, Preston, Millwall and Blackburn. 
Just mentioning those sides and dropped points pisses me off. 
Dread to think what we’ll do when we face some decent in form sides. 
I get that we’re not as good as we were 2 seasons ago in this league but we should still have enough to be picking more points up against those sides. 

[Foxin_Mad]

On 13/11/2025 at 16:26, Eskay said:

We should hire more managers based on Aura levels.....really missing a trick there!

Well it would probably work better than what we have been doing for the last 3 useless *****. A good manager should have a presence, an authority. It’s clear this Marti fellow doesn’t. You could probably take a risk on an up coming manager, more exciting than mr bang average who isn’t even average. 

[gurru991]

17 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Yet is still a better squad than the opposition we are dropping points against.

 

Of course poor recruitment has dragged the team down but that's been happening for years. Nobody made this excuse for previous managers.

 

"Our defence is slow & error prone" yet the manager continues to pick the same players. Nothing ever changes. We had to wait 13 games for him to pick Nelson ffs.

 

A manager like Pep would not struggle to get a tune out of these players considering Maresca was able too.

This is not the same team that Maresca had . It's missing a few players & the remaining one are 2 years older & 2 years slower. This team is older, slower & lacks motivation & a bunch of them are just playing their contracts out.

.All teams need to be refreshed every season & this one is stale & tired. Only one of the three loans is having any impact & the injuries are starting to mount up. I don't think that Marti is a great manager by any stretch but this team will struggle for top six regardless of who's in charge. 

Lack of sensible recruitment has impacted the club & it will be an uphill battle for whoever replace Rudkin.

[VLC86]

7 hours ago, winteriscoming said:

Can’t understand this acceptance of where we are considering we’ve dropped points against distinctly average teams like Portsmouth, Oxford (granted we were down to 10 men), Wrexham, Preston, Millwall and Blackburn. 
Just mentioning those sides and dropped points pisses me off. 
Dread to think what we’ll do when we face some decent in form sides. 
I get that we’re not as good as we were 2 seasons ago in this league but we should still have enough to be picking more points up against those sides. 

I think the signs have been there since about March.

 

The club sticking with Ruud for as long as they did, appointing someone whose highest previous level was doing ok at QPR and who was willing to forgo money he was due to take the job, losing our best ever player and not attempting to replace him, not spending a penny, actively trying to sell every player and planned points deduction all point to this season being one where we have should probably expect mediocrity.

 

I get your point about dropping points v those teams, but looking at a squad with such poor and low confidence defenders combined with an attack that always has been heavily dependant on our wide players scoring enough goals to counter that, I’m a bit shocked so many haven’t expected it.

 

The part where I think we can do better, is in the manager however with all of the above taken into account plus our lack of money and how ill prepared we were for the prem last time, I’d say the club will claim they have always had a 3 year plan to rebuild.

[SafewayFox]

Enzo had an elite mentality, Marti doesn’t, it really is as simple as that.

 

If he continues to play JJ (our best CM) out of position then surely no one can defend him.

 

This whole talk of players are two years older, omit that Fatawu is also in this camp and should be a bigger threat for us this season but Marti and his lack of identity have nullified that.

Edited 15 November 2025 by SafewayFox

[BrilliantFox]

You buy from QPR, you become QPR.

 

Its not rocket science.

 

Maresca came from the world class infrastructure of Man City, who have the best footballing structure on the planet.

 

If Maresca was treated right here, given the tools he needed and had a sensible DoF, he would have got this club back to winning silverware.

 

There is no doubt in my mind about that.

Edited 15 November 2025 by BrilliantFox

[JimJams]

Delusional.

[Claudio Fannieri]

4 hours ago, BrilliantFox said:

You buy from QPR, you become QPR.

 

Its not rocket science.

 

Maresca came from the world class infrastructure of Man City, who have the best footballing structure on the planet.

 

If Maresca was treated right here, given the tools he needed and had a sensible DoF, he would have got this club back to winning silverware.

 

There is no doubt in my mind about that.

I agree Maresca would have massively moved us forward had he stayed although I disagree on your first point.  We got Brian Little from Darlington, Martin O’Neill from Norwich and Nigel Pearson from Southampton and they all came in and massively moved us forward and delivered success. 

[Chelmofox]

4 hours ago, BrilliantFox said:

You buy from QPR, you become QPR.

 

Its not rocket science.

 

Maresca came from the world class infrastructure of Man City, who have the best footballing structure on the planet.

 

If Maresca was treated right here, given the tools he needed and had a sensible DoF, he would have got this club back to winning silverware.

 

There is no doubt in my mind about that.

If you are getting manager on the 'way upwards', you are going to be hiring from a lower placed club. You could say this about anyone on the way up (aka Rodgers going to Liverpool from Swansea, Rohl from Sheffield Wednesday). There are a lot of managers that have made the step up. You need to be looking at other attributed and just not attributing to the club they are at. 

 

Maresca was a risk and a bit of an outlier, as his prior job at Parma ended in failure. He also used us as a stepping stone, so as soon as someone like Chelsea came calling, he was always going to be gone. Its nothing to do with being treated rightly or wrongly.

[BrilliantFox]

3 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

Its nothing to do with being treated rightly or wrongly.

Maresca made it clear in post-match interviews that he was unhappy with our DoF and the structure.

 

He blatantly cried out for "more technical people" at the club.

 

You really thought he was fine with dealing with a dunce like Rudkin after spending most of his coaching career around Pep, Txiki and Chairman Khaldoon?

 

PSR **** ups, no vision forward, no ambition to overcome said PSR issues, I can go on to add reasons that excuse Maresca's discontent.

 

The fact that our hierarchy are too stupid to even use loopholes to invest to keep the club competitive in the PL let Maresca know that there is no project worth continuing at Leicester City.

[Chelmofox]

Just now, BrilliantFox said:

Maresca made it clear in post-match interviews that he was unhappy with our DoF and the structure.

 

He blatantly cried out for "more technical people" at the club.

 

You really thought he was fine with dealing with a dunce like Rudkin after spending most of his coaching career around Pep, Txiki and Chairman Khaldoon?

 

PSR **** ups, no vision forward, no ambition to overcome said PSR issues, I can go on to add reasons that excuse Maresca's discontent.

 

The fact that our hierarchy are too stupid to even use loopholes to invest to keep the club competitive in the PL let Maresca know that there is no project worth continuing at Leicester City.

He seemed to be content that change was possible.

 

So do you think that if Chelsea didnt come calling, Maresca would have left of his own accord? 

[BrilliantFox]

10 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

Maresca would have left of his own accord? 

No, but I'm saying all these points are contributors of his discontent and as to why there is no blame on Maresca but rather the source of his discontent (our hierarchy).

[whoareyaaa]

21 minutes ago, BrilliantFox said:

No, but I'm saying all these points are contributors of his discontent and as to why there is no blame on Maresca but rather the source of his discontent (our hierarchy).

If Chelsea or no other club came calling then he would have stayed and kept us up imo.

[winteriscoming]

10 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

If Chelsea or no other club came calling then he would have stayed and kept us up imo.

I agree. 
Also there’s absolutely no way we sign Skipp, Ayew and Reid had he stayed in charge. 

[gurru991]

2 hours ago, winteriscoming said:

I agree. 
Also there’s absolutely no way we sign Skipp, Ayew and Reid had he stayed in charge. 

Agree 100% 

All poor moves in my mind !!

[JimJams]

But we'd have probably signed Sensi, Casadei and still got Okoli....

And he'd have still turned down a permanent option of Yunus.

 

Our recruitment under Maresca wasn't faultless, we did still make shit moves.  One of whom we've fxxked off to Wrexham.

[LCFCJohn]

3 hours ago, whoareyaaa said:

If Chelsea or no other club came calling then he would have stayed and kept us up imo.

Disagree. We still wouldn’t have had positive recruitment and wouldn’t have had anywhere near the squad needed to make his style work as a newly promoted club into the PL. And he hadn’t shown himself to be adaptable in that he would have tried a different approach.

 

[LCFCJohn]

38 minutes ago, JimJams said:

But we'd have probably signed Sensi, Casadei and still got Okoli....

And he'd have still turned down a permanent option of Yunus.

 

Our recruitment under Maresca wasn't faultless, we did still make shit moves.  One of whom we've fxxked off to Wrexham.

Yep.

 

Coady, Winks, new contract for Vestergaard all costing us. None of them are the characters we need around the club. Then there was Cannon who at least we turned a profit on somehow.

[nnfox]

Maresca would not have kept us up.  We didn't have the players for his brand of football.  Chelsea coming in for him was exactly what he needed.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

10 minutes ago, nnfox said:

Maresca would not have kept us up.  We didn't have the players for his brand of football.  Chelsea coming in for him was exactly what he needed.

So glad somebody said this. Revisionism running rampant on here, most were glad to see the back of him. He's not even setting the world alight at Chelsea, they can look good on their day but still extremely inconsistent.

[Claridge]

We were pretty dreadful for the last few months of Maresca, no way he would of kept us without a lot of new players

[Gamble92]

32 minutes ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

So glad somebody said this. Revisionism running rampant on here, most were glad to see the back of him. He's not even setting the world alight at Chelsea, they can look good on their day but still extremely inconsistent.

Know a couple of their fans and they hate the way he plays as much as we did.

 

The Europa Conference and farce of a club world cup have made his CV look incredible though. 

 

I know Stamford Bridge has never been a great atmosphere but all their fans talking about how his style has killed anything there was of it. Sounds a bit familiar. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

11 hours ago, BrilliantFox said:

You buy from QPR, you become QPR.

 

Its not rocket science.

 

Maresca came from the world class infrastructure of Man City, who have the best footballing structure on the planet.

 

If Maresca was treated right here, given the tools he needed and had a sensible DoF, he would have got this club back to winning silverware.

 

There is no doubt in my mind about that.

Alex Ferguson transformed Man Utd into Aberdeen.

 

Arsene Wenger turned Arsenal into Grampus Eight.

 

Bill Shankly turned Liverpool into Huddersfield Town.

 

Vincent Company turned Bayern Munich into Burnley.

 

Rocket science.