Cifuentes OUT

[Tommy Fresh]

11 hours ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

Yeah, that's competitive mate, picking up results, being above the relegation zone and actually being able to score a goal at your own stadium most weeks,  by definition means you are competing. It's what he was bought in to do, not entertain, not play nice football, get points, keep us up. And if anyone has any other expectations of him with that squad then they are just being completely unrealistic. 

 

What's not competitive is not scoring a single goal at home for best part of 5 months and only having that duck broken by the two sides worse than we are once they were both already down. 

 

 

 

 

Never said Ruud was competitive, and he was worse than Cooper but I also don't think being last for pretty much every metric under Cooper and relying on Hermansen every game is competitive but sure thing.

 

Had we had people running the club with any kind of initiative when it comes to appointing managers, things could of perhaps turned out different

Edited 23 October 2025 by Tommy Fresh

[Happy Fox]

QPR above us in the league doesn’t make for good reading..

 

Marti is on thin ice imo, he needs to do infinitely better with the players we have.

[Spanner73]

The Khun Top mind control class

 

Repeat after me it’s not Khun Top’s fault

Its not Khun Top’s fault

its not Khun Top’s fault 

 

I blame Rodgers 

I blame Cooper

I blame RVN 

 

Well done everyone ! 
 

Next week we’ll be working on blaming Marti Cifuentes he’s the next one on the list ! 

[Winstonthedog]

12 hours ago, Legend_in_blue said:

1 win in 7.  A 9 point deduction places us in the bottom 3.

 

Let that sink in.

 

If it happens it may wake some people up to the reality of the situation .... Top, the board and the fans 

[Winstonthedog]

13 minutes ago, Spanner73 said:

The Khun Top mind control class

 

Repeat after me it’s not Khun Top’s fault

Its not Khun Top’s fault

its not Khun Top’s fault 

 

I blame Rodgers 

I blame Cooper

I blame RVN 

 

Well done everyone ! 
 

Next week we’ll be working on blaming Marti Cifuentes he’s the next one on the list ! 

Oh  Mr Rudkin  ....you've not mentioned yoursef

[S1DDO]

This is embarrassing, some people seem to be massively overestimating the quality of the squad, he needs a couple of transfer windows at least

[Stadt]

Just now, S1DDO said:

This is embarrassing, some people seem to be massively overestimating the quality of the squad, he needs a couple of transfer windows at least

A couple of transfer windows for us to get worse as we lose our better players? 
 

Teams with significantly worse players are creating far more chances than we are. The clowns above him are primarily at fault but it doesn’t excuse the blunt possession-obsessed football.

[chuddy8]

14 minutes ago, Stadt said:

A couple of transfer windows for us to get worse as we lose our better players? 
 

Teams with significantly worse players are creating far more chances than we are. The clowns above him are primarily at fault but it doesn’t excuse the blunt possession-obsessed football.

This is the issue, he's playing such banal and unimaginative football and creating so few good chances that the personnel is almost irrelevant. We clearly have one of, if not the strongest squads in the league, but all we manage to do is tap it around the back, take ages to get it to the wingers and then either lump it across or hope for a worldie.

[murphy]

33 minutes ago, S1DDO said:

This is embarrassing, some people seem to be massively overestimating the quality of the squad, he needs a couple of transfer windows at 

Moat of those players were signed to play in the Premier League and are letting us down even at this level. 

 

 

Edited 23 October 2025 by murphy

[Winstonthedog]

Believe me having watched city for 50+ years ... we are seasons away from seeing any real consistent improvement... firstly we need players with passion, a team to play on the front foot with intensity... some nastiness in the team .... look at the current squads body language... there is none ... 

[daddylonglegs]

1 hour ago, Spanner73 said:

The Khun Top mind control class

 

Repeat after me it’s not Khun Top’s fault

Its not Khun Top’s fault

its not Khun Top’s fault 

 

I blame Rodgers 

I blame Cooper

I blame RVN 

 

Well done everyone ! 
 

Next week we’ll be working on blaming Marti Cifuentes he’s the next one on the list ! 

Top is obviously at fault but to suggest that none of the four aforementioned names should accept any responsibility for the utterly dismal jobs that they did (Rodgers at the end, Cooper, Ruud) or are doing (Marti) is scandalous. 

 

Just because your boss is an idiot doesn't give you the excuse to underperform in your own job. People are perfectly entitled to direct their negative energy in multiple directions as plenty of people deserve it.

[Foxin_Mad]

16 hours ago, iancognito said:

You think he's worse than Cooper and RVN?

Yes because he is shit in the Championship. I think even Cooper has the tactical nouse to get out of this division of turgid shit. RVN won a trophy with Ajax which is more than this utter clown will ever do. 

Edited 23 October 2025 by Foxin_Mad

[Noahfence]

The squad is pretty rough, especially the defensive options but fck me we should be able to create way more than we currently do. 
 

I’m not even sure I could tell what our style is apart from give it to Abdul and hope he does something amazing 

[Foxin_Mad]

1 hour ago, S1DDO said:

This is embarrassing, some people seem to be massively overestimating the quality of the squad, he needs a couple of transfer windows at least

You could have said the same with Rudd and Cooper in the division above. This clown is in a terrible division that Coventry managed by Lampard sit 4 point clear of and Rod Edwards Boro sit second. You only need half an ounce of competence to be successful 

[AjcW]

Managing to appoint 3 managers in a row who clearly don't have a particular style of play is mighty impressive  

 

Agree with a lot of other sentiment in here though, we have an owner who is wedded to a style of play and what we need is a complete reboot.

 

That won't happen until he's gone unfortunately.

 

I'm Marti in at the minute, purely because I CBA to go through all this again to hire our next "possession based" bullshit merchant. 

[pkonline]

It took him a while at QPR to get his team playing - he needs time. Yes it's not great at the moment, but calling for him to go is premature.

[AKCJ]

1 hour ago, Stadt said:

A couple of transfer windows for us to get worse as we lose our better players? 
 

Teams with significantly worse players are creating far more chances than we are. The clowns above him are primarily at fault but it doesn’t excuse the blunt possession-obsessed football.

Who are the players in our squad that you think are significantly better than the competition?

 

As far as I can see the only player in our squad of Premier League quality is Fatawu (Ricardo too but he's only good for 60 minutes a week).

[tickler28]

15 hours ago, AyewJoking said:

more a case of people expressing they want him gone and why.

 

doubt anyone thinks he'll be sacked in the near future and would be shocked if he was.

My point is why waste our energy on this....it's those above him that need to go.....we all know it.....Tops credit is rapidly running out.....how far we are away from the team we were 5/6 years ago is on him and he needs to go

[whoareyaaa]

18 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

You could have said the same with Rudd and Cooper in the division above. This clown is in a terrible division that Coventry managed by Lampard sit 4 point clear of and Rod Edwards Boro sit second. You only need half an ounce of competence to be successful 

They had Vardy, Ndidi, Facundo, Bilal and Hermansen basically half the starting 11

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

2 hours ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Never said Ruud was competitive, and he was worse than Cooper but I also don't think being last for pretty every metric under Cooper and relying on Hermansen every game is competitive but sure thing.

 

Had we had people running the club with any kind of initiative when it comes to appointing managers, things could of perhaps turned out different

 

The "we were outside the relegation zone !" argument for Cooper is weak too. Doesn't account for the fact Palace and Wolves didn't piss about and soon started winning, there is no chance we'd have stayed up under him.

 

He was "better" than RvN but it's two bald men fighting over a comb 

[Foxin_Mad]

1 minute ago, whoareyaaa said:

They had Vardy, Ndidi, Facundo, Bilal and Hermansen basically half the starting 11

In a far superior division, this league and these players should do better, no excuses. If we weren't tarting around with it between the centre backs and playing Soumare, Daka etc. The aim of football is to score goals, more than the opposition, not have the most possession. 

[whoareyaaa]

8 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

In a far superior division, this league and these players should do better, no excuses. If we weren't tarting around with it between the centre backs and playing Soumare, Daka etc. The aim of football is to score goals, more than the opposition, not have the most possession. 

Still he hasn’t got them players so can’t really compare it as we havent bought one defender in the window and lost 6 first team players and that is our main problem area, We have a limited squad sure he can make some changes he’s only had 11 games in charge though

 

Also not easy to score goals when you don’t have a striker capable of doing it 

Edited 23 October 2025 by whoareyaaa

[Stuntman_Mike]

Calling for him to go at this stage is daft.

[Donwebbio]

I would expect to get shot down on this but I think we need to reframe our expectations as a fanbase. We are weaker than 23/24 where we had the best midfield 3 in the league, Doyle instead of Thomas, James Justin, Vardy up top with Cannon, iheanacho in reserve, in form Mavididi, best goalkeeper in the league. Ricardo 2 years younger and fit all season.

 

We now have no strikers, no quality at full back, no back up wingers, 2 relegations in the bank, saddled with more sub-standard players. Hand on heart, how many of our players walk into Coventry's team? We must still have the highest wage bill but a mid-level quality squad.  

 

[Ashley]

1 minute ago, Donwebbio said:

I would expect to get shot down on this but I think we need to reframe our expectations as a fanbase. We are weaker than 23/24 where we had the best midfield 3 in the league, Doyle instead of Thomas, James Justin, Vardy up top with Cannon, iheanacho in reserve, in form Mavididi, best goalkeeper in the league. Ricardo 2 years younger and fit all season.

 

We now have no strikers, no quality at full back, no back up wingers, 2 relegations in the bank, saddled with more sub-standard players. Hand on heart, how many of our players walk into Coventry's team? We must still have the highest wage bill but a mid-level quality squad.  

 

Do a Leicester/Cov XI?