Cifuentes OUT

[Brizzle Fox]

The first half was so easy,  but Bristol helped us by being so passive. 

 

Said to the guys I was with at half time, that all that Bristol needed to do second half was up their tempo a bit and we'd fall apart. And so it came to pass.

 

So predictable. A lack of leaders (only really saw Bobby R trying to rev them up), mindblowingly bad substitutions etc as said elsewhere. I couldn't even begin to guess what the plan was for that second half. Was embarrassing. 

 

And don't get me started on the time wasting pretty much from when they got their first goal. So weak.

 

We were lucky to get a point and that is an absolutely shocking admission. Can't sack the players unfortunately so the manager just has to go.

 

Broken football club.

 

 

[TJB-fox]

8 hours ago, Chico1958 said:

Rodgers

Smith

Enzo

Cooper

Ruud

Marti

Every season the same thing who evers in charge. Sack the Manager. He's not going anywhere soon, we can't afford to sack and we're looking at a points deduction. 

Let's just get the season out of the way and see where we are at the end of it.

How can you include Enzo in this list?

[TJB-fox]

12 minutes ago, Brizzle Fox said:

The first half was so easy,  but Bristol helped us by being so passive. 

 

Said to the guys I was with at half time, that all that Bristol needed to do second half was up their tempo a bit and we'd fall apart. And so it came to pass.

 

So predictable. A lack of leaders (only really saw Bobby R trying to rev them up), mindblowingly bad substitutions etc as said elsewhere. I couldn't even begin to guess what the plan was for that second half. Was embarrassing. 

 

And don't get me started on the time wasting pretty much from when they got their first goal. So weak.

 

We were lucky to get a point and that is an absolutely shocking admission. Can't sack the players unfortunately so the manager just has to go.

 

Broken football club.

 

 

I can’t believe you’ve just called them Bristol. Sickening stuff. 

[Stuntman_Mike]

Yeah, he's just not doing enough. 

 

Terrible last night and he's made us unbelievably inconsistent.

[Happy Fox]

He’s not good enough for us yet another poor managerial choice from our incompetent ownership. Anyone would be significantly better.

[Aus Fox]

Subs were a little odd to say the least - JJ off Daka on was potentially the weirdest sub I’ve ever seen in a game of football 

[Noahfence]

I think the last 2 games have shown we do have the players to score goals and actually look competent at times. 
 

The problem is our manager is just rubbish. Okay you can say Bristol C were always going to get better but did anyone have any faith in Marti to be able to influence that game? 
 

The Daka sub was an absolute shocker. No complaints with James coming off as he did looked gassed but SURELY the move was to get an actual midfielder in there and then bring Daka on for Ayew. 

[JonnyBoy]

12 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

He’s not good enough for us yet another poor managerial choice from our incompetent ownership. Anyone would be significantly better.

 

the fact that QPR have been so much better without him in charge says it all. Unfortunately the win at the Derby gives him more time AGAIN. Worst thing to happen was beat Norwich before the international break. 

 

So so predictable, nailed on loss to Ipswich, then draw, then win, then lose 3, then draw, then win. 

 

 

[Happy Fox]

1 minute ago, JonnyBoy said:

 

the fact that QPR have been so much better without him in charge says it all. Unfortunately the win at the Derby gives him more time AGAIN. Worst thing to happen was beat Norwich before the international break. 

 

So so predictable, nailed on loss to Ipswich, then draw, then win, then lose 3, then draw, then win. 

 

 

Yes exactly at best we can win back to back games only twice in this league.. we aren’t making the playoffs with him in charge that’s a certainty so what is the expectation this season..

[Walshy5]

Poor subs and tactical decisions again! When are we going to sack this clown? 

[Swarles Barkley]

Puel 2.0 here isn’t he. Will win the odd game to buy himself a few more games and then its back to the usual shit

[Fox92]

I can't believe people still post "not much a manager can do with this squad" when time after time it's this manager who makes strange decisions and costs us when we are in decent positions. Yet again the second half was horrific. What does he say to them at half time.

 

Any decent manger would be doing a better job. We've seen that with Southampton. Their fans moaning about the same thing, overpaid squad etc, yet a change of manager who has new ideas and they're winning games now.

[westernpark]

I understand that James had to come off. Whilst I’m not bothered by the manager this season, I just can’t understand the Daka replacement. Page or one of the right sided players could have come on and then you move Choudhury into the middle. It also meant that Bobby Reid had to play further deep, who is one of our only attacking threats at the moment.

[Happy Fox]

As far as I am concerned failure to make the playoffs even with a points deduction would be a disgrace to be quite frank, we need a better manager it's as simple as that, we have a good core of players that are underperforming under Marti.

[5waller5]

10 hours ago, oxtonfox said:

I did wonder at half time whether we could go five at the back then.  When we got the second goal just before half time we were already losing our grip. Bringing on Daka was a waste because we never had the ball to release him. 

This is where I have sympathy for Marty …. Daka should have been an outlet for a pressurised defence, a long ball that he’d latch onto. He’s so useless it’s astonishing, rarely did he get near to those clearances, and if he did it simply bounces off him to the opposition. I hate to say it, but Ayew is a way better outlet, and at least looks like he’s played football before

[Richmondfox]

1 hour ago, Brizzle Fox said:

The first half was so easy,  but Bristol helped us by being so passive. 

 

Said to the guys I was with at half time, that all that Bristol needed to do second half was up their tempo a bit and we'd fall apart. And so it came to pass.

 

So predictable. A lack of leaders (only really saw Bobby R trying to rev them up), mindblowingly bad substitutions etc as said elsewhere. I couldn't even begin to guess what the plan was for that second half. Was embarrassing. 

 

And don't get me started on the time wasting pretty much from when they got their first goal. So weak.

 

We were lucky to get a point and that is an absolutely shocking admission. Can't sack the players unfortunately so the manager just has to go.

 

Broken football club.

 

 

It’s annoying as first half at Derby should’ve been a blueprint for the whole season, applying to teams that attack and sit back. 
 

He isn’t learning anything after every game.  Fatawu running with the ball at defenders and crossing has worked once again, yet we stop trying 

 

Mav has gone back to being greedy and lazy and Thomas’ performance was obviously a fluke. 

 

Such a poor manager in every aspect.  His in game management is no existent and made us even weaker as Bristol were getting momentum.

 

Moving Reid to fill the role of JJ, dropping Auew deeper and brings Daka on is a new low in tactics. 

 

Reid is good for us in the 10, he wants to bring others into the game, occupies that area and then gets into the box.  The opposite of Ayew.  He always drifts into Mavs area, doesn’t pass the ball then makes no effort to help out. 

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Reasons why he won't be sacked.

 

Modern King Power consistently take too long to sack managers, and nothing has changed so this will continue. 

We have an absentee owner that is off playing Polo on the other side of the world. Probably hasn't even check our last results. 

We have an interim MD who has no experience in football.

The search for the new full time MD will be the priorty, we can't work on more than one player singing at a time, how does anyone expect the board to be working on appoitning a new DoF and a new manager at the same time? Not a chance. 

We're skint and can't afford to pay him off. 

Regardless of what the fans think, they'll look at the fact we're three points off the playoffs and think to themselves that it could change quickly (it won't). 

 

So keep screeching but he's staying. 

[Gamble92]

1 hour ago, Noahfence said:

I think the last 2 games have shown we do have the players to score goals and actually look competent at times. 
 

The problem is our manager is just rubbish. Okay you can say Bristol C were always going to get better but did anyone have any faith in Marti to be able to influence that game? 
 

The Daka sub was an absolute shocker. No complaints with James coming off as he did looked gassed but SURELY the move was to get an actual midfielder in there and then bring Daka on for Ayew. 

Exactly this. We have fans who have become way too accepting that this squad should be around where it is in the table and it just isn't true. 

 

It's becoming a very obvious tactical issue now. Earlier on in the season he was actually showing some good signs he could influence games. He couldn't be any further from that now. 

 

BDR ending up in centre midfield as Daka was left to chase long balls that constantly fell to Bristol City was just asking for trouble. I have no idea what his gameplan was second half. It's really worrying he's tried to see out 2 games with virtually no attacking intent. 

[Richmondfox]

3 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

This is where I have sympathy for Marty …. Daka should have been an outlet for a pressurised defence, a long ball that he’d latch onto. He’s so useless it’s astonishing, rarely did he get near to those clearances, and if he did it simply bounces off him to the opposition. I hate to say it, but Ayew is a way better outlet, and at least looks like he’s played football before

Daka looked like he had never kicked a ball before but we all keep playing with his back to goal expecting him to suddenly be anle to control it.  I have no sympathy for Marti as he’s bringing it on himself.  He doesn’t have to play Daka, he could bite the bullet and play one of the youngsters or keep Ayew there. Even Silko got a shot on target. 
 

The problem with Ayew is he isn’t a team player and will stink out the play anywhere on the pitch because he can’t help himself. he just needs to goal hang and not get involved in any build up. 
 

Him and Mav both had a chance to cross quickly on the second half, of course they held onto the ball and pissed around.  These are things the manager has to stamp out, Marti ignores the flaws and lets them get on with it.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

1 hour ago, Happy Fox said:

He’s not good enough for us yet another poor managerial choice from our incompetent ownership. Anyone would be significantly better.

Are you sure? 4 out of the last 5 appointments made by King Power have been worse than the previous one. 

[Happy Fox]

Just now, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Reasons why he won't be sacked.

 

Modern King Power consistently take too long to sack managers, and nothing has changed so this will continue. 

We have an absentee owner that is off playing Polo on the other side of the world. Probably hasn't even check our last results. 

We have an interim MD who has no experience in football.

The search for the new full time MD will be the priorty, we can't work on more than one player singing at a time, how does anyone expect the board to be working on appoitning a new DoF and a new manager at the same time? Not a chance. 

We're skint and can't afford to pay him off. 

Regardless of what the fans think, they'll look at the fact we're three points off the playoffs and think to themselves that it could change quickly (it won't). 

 

So keep screeching but he's staying. 

 

We are 7 points behind Millwall on what planet do Millwall have a better squad than ours, it's a disgrace mate, but anyway this is the new norm now to be on par with Watford 

[JonnyBoy]

15 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

This is where I have sympathy for Marty …. Daka should have been an outlet for a pressurised defence, a long ball that he’d latch onto. He’s so useless it’s astonishing, rarely did he get near to those clearances, and if he did it simply bounces off him to the opposition. I hate to say it, but Ayew is a way better outlet, and at least looks like he’s played football before

 

 

But he tries hard and makes runs so loads of people on here rate him 🤣 He is the worst player to ever play for Leicester. His record is absolutely honking  

[Sol thewall Bamba]

4 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

 

We are 7 points behind Millwall on what planet do Millwall have a better squad than ours, it's a disgrace mate, but anyway this is the new norm now to be on par with Watford 

They'll just excuse it internally as we have no standards as a club becasue the owner is incompetent. Everything stems back to that basically. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

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Edited 11 December 2025 by Sol thewall Bamba

[ClaphamFox]

23 minutes ago, westernpark said:

I understand that James had to come off. Whilst I’m not bothered by the manager this season, I just can’t understand the Daka replacement. Page or one of the right sided players could have come on and then you move Choudhury into the middle. It also meant that Bobby Reid had to play further deep, who is one of our only attacking threats at the moment.

This was the obvious solution if James had to come off. A right back to replace Choudhury, who then moves into defensive midfield (where he has played many times). Then BDCR can carry on in the position that he's effective in rather than being pushed back into one he can't play. Horses for courses.

 

Unfortunately Marti strikes me as one of those managers who rejects the obvious choice in favour of bizarre and over-complicated 'solutions' that the players don't understand and therefore can't execute. We've seen his like before.