Cifuentes OUT

[gurru991]

Just now, CarolinaFox said:

I think you're  misunderstanding what I'm saying. I agree, our players are massively underperforming. For me this is not due to the quality of our squad, its due to the failings of our manager. Our squad is a top level championship side when evaluated on pure player value, quality, footballing pedigree and talent. This is a squad that can do a lot better than midtable.  We have players who have played international football, champions league football, had success in the premier league and come from elite football academies and played with the games top coaches. In terms of value, quality, and talent I think we have a squad that should be in the top 5 if it had a manager who knew how to use that talent more effectively. 

 

 

I do understand what you are saying but I disagree with you. The players are not underperforming , they are just not very good !!  You like so many other  fans you are wearing rose tinted glasses ... Ricardo Pereira is done,  Hamza Choudhury has never been decent & still isn't,  Luke Thomas is awful , Vestergaard is painfully slow, he cant jump & always has a mistake in him. Faes is a disaster waiting to happen    

That's just the defence !!!    Only Nelson would make Coventry or Middlesbrough or Ipswich.  

  This team is mid table at best.

 

[Lambert09]

I’d actually happily take Rowett over Marti. Oxford condemning themselves for relegation. 
 

He’s the type of character the club needs right now 

[Joe90]

Shame on the club we can’t afford to sack this absolute fraud of a manager!! Even worse employing him in the first place, and half you divs on here who thought he was the next pep 

[Pita]

1 minute ago, Joe90 said:

Shame on the club we can’t afford to sack this absolute fraud of a manager!! Even worse employing him in the first place, and half you divs on here who thought he was the next pep 

He was very cheap that’s all we could get

[Chrysalis]

On 22/12/2025 at 21:27, JimJams said:

Whilst I do agree, they shouldn't be THIS fragile.  A league 2 defence would hold out better than we do in many first halves.  Being 3 or 4 down by half time on multiple occasions, with incredibly early goals is an absolute failing on the setup as well as the personnel. 

I do kind of agree with this, but my reasons are, that this is because we not changing our priorities and way of play.  we likely training and concentrating on that we defend via having the ball, keeping possession, so there is likely inadequate work done on the basics.  A lot of goals we concede are the sane type we have been conceding for ages now, trying to play out from keeping, boom goal, and also defenders not willing to bust a gut to stop a goal.  By defenders I mean pretty much the entire team as of course when you dont have the ball, it shouldnt just be the back 4 defending.  Teams repeatedly just bypass our midfield, and then its only when it reaches our box we start to care, and then not enough.  So many players are just like statues.

But of course it would help if we were playing players who want to be here, and show case themselves rather than just collect a wage.

[Plastik Man]

4 hours ago, Joe90 said:

Shame on the club we can’t afford to sack this absolute fraud of a manager!! Even worse employing him in the first place, and half you divs on here who thought he was the next pep 

Poundshop Pep

[Clever Fox]

Maresca will be available soon. We should bring him back to bring through the next young team.

[Chelmofox]

7 minutes ago, Clever Fox said:

Maresca will be available soon. We should bring him back to bring through the next young team.

Suppose you've missed all the rumours hes off to Man City?

[Clever Fox]

13 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

Suppose you've missed all the rumours hes off to Man City?

Yes that's a real possibility too, Though I doubt Man city would sack Pep to move him on.

 

That's the level of Manager we need to move forward again.

[LCFCJohn]

33 minutes ago, Clever Fox said:

Maresca will be available soon. We should bring him back to bring through the next young team.

I wasn’t even his biggest fan but thoughts he would come back to us or any club at this level is pretty delusional tbf. Never going to happen. 
 

There’s also managers we could find in the lower leagues/abroad who would be much better with bringing young players through as well.

[Clever Fox]

2 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

I wasn’t even his biggest fan but thoughts he would come back to us or any club at this level is pretty delusional tbf. Never going to happen. 
 

There’s also managers we could find in the lower leagues/abroad who would be much better with bringing young players through as well.

I doubt it will happen as he's likely to end up at Man city but you never now in Football.

 

I do agree there is another great Manager starting out somewhere, It's difficult to find and trust them especially with no experience of Uk. Football.

[EastAnglianFox]

Yet another game drifting into nothingness.

 

Still no obvious patterns of play, still standing off waiting for a moment of magic.

 

But of course this is a man that loves aggressive front foot football......fvck off 

[Cropwellfox]

So slow in our build up, two or three very obvious passing lines that our opposition suss out within half an hour. No leadership or organisation at the back and an awful fascination with playing the ball out from defence with players who can’t do it. Useless. 

[The Doctor]

Talked a good game in the summer and has done the exact opposite of what he said he would. Where the front footed aggressive play, looking to extend the lead?

[Claudio Fannieri]

In possession this is as slow, turgid and impotent as anything served up under Puel. This is largely dire stuff, predictable and lacking any intensity, surely this cannot continue, week in week out we are looking bang average at best against mediocrity. 
 

He has to go for me, the players are playing with the handbrake on in the 2nd tier,

this is appalling. 

[Fazzer 7]

We can't carry this muppet any longer. He's Sunday league. Anyone and everyone can see through his bullshit. 

[Fazzer 7]

Omg. Another howler 

[Levi Port]

Despicable C***, get out of our club. Top, Get out of our club. 
 

We are the most passive collective of boys I’ve ever seen. I’m done. ( apart from Derby I’ll be black out) 

[ousefox]

How does this man still have a job? Our team as individuals are far too good for this league still. The problem is that they are all individuals and he has no idea how to make a team. 

 

Dog shit manager after dog shit manager.

[Gazza M]

Enough is enough. 

[Stuntman_Mike]

He's clearly not had the dressing rooms backing for a while, if ever. But here we are still.

[Leicester_Loyal]

Get him gone.

 

Even though the next manager will just be as useless.

[Corky]

I thought we were seeing signs of progress a couple of weeks ago. 

 

Not any more.

[Claudio Fannieri]

6 goals conceded so far in 2 games against QPR and Watford that is appalling. Awful defensively and powder puff going forward make no mistake this is utter garbage and he has to go. Enough is enough. 

[Sankey93]

Is this the weekend Marti is finally sacked ? 
 

this is abysmal im so glad I sold my ticket back to the club today absolute shambles.