Marti Cifuentes sacked - Official

[Not here to moan and whine]

Reading all the negativity on this thread is like watching Eastenders, talk about foxes moan talk.

[Pita]

7 minutes ago, damolcfc said:

And now whoever takes over brings back the unwanted players and we start the cycle again. 

Winks Soumare Daka all get chances again 

Can't wait 

 

Groundhog Day 4

😳😳😳

[oundlefox]

Seemed a decent enough chap but he was an uninspiring choice with uninspiring football.

 

Promised a lot but delivered absolutely nothing. 
 

Club had their hand forced. KP natives getting more and more restless and the utterly abject performances becoming more frequent

[fkas]

2 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

This could be Soumare’s moment he needs a new manager to play to his considerable strengths 

Buffets, long lazy walks and having the turning circle of a roundabout?

[Hales]

Make of it what you will but Wink's wife liked the sacking post.....

[Chelmofox]

8 minutes ago, damolcfc said:

And now whoever takes over brings back the unwanted players and we start the cycle again. 

Winks Soumare Daka all get chances again 

Can't wait 

 

Groundhog Day 4

You know that Winks will come back and look amazing for the first game.

 

Then average 2nd, dog turn 3rd.

 

Its the Winksy way. 

[Clever Fox]

56 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Coventry are doing brilliantly by just attacking quickly,  we have all the players to break and get through teams at speed. 

What Speed. I've seen Pensioners run quicker than some of ours. Just have a look at Hamza trying to chase back yesterday after giving the Ball away.

 

Fitness is a must have to have any success.

[Merchant_Banker]

9 minutes ago, damolcfc said:

And now whoever takes over brings back the unwanted players and we start the cycle again. 

Winks Soumare Daka all get chances again 

Can't wait 

 

Groundhog Day 4

I wonder if Winks was out because he told Cifuentes he was sh*t. He might actually play for another manager.

[Tommy G]

“All the lads have trained well this week, listen, they will all get a fresh slate under me to see what they are about - this is an incredibly talented group and where we find ourselves in the league isn’t reflective of the quality we have in the squad” 

 

Rinse and repeat 

[Dan]

Once again, the entire process around this is just an utter farce and a disgrace.

 

You see the tweets like this:

 

 

This tells me this was all done on a whim again. I don't think it's exaggerating to say that if we had lost to Stoke in November when he was over then, that Cifuentes would've been sacked the next day. It is no exaggeration to say if Jordan James doesn't get injured at Wrexham, that Cifuentes' job today is under zero threat.

 

This club operates for about 10% of the year. Jon Rudkin is a puppet who offers absolutely nothing to the club except for being the one people will go after because they don't have the same unconditional love for him as they do the owner.

 

The club literally does not operate off the pitch unless Aiyawatt is in the country - which he rarely is.

 

They have not planned for any of this. They never do. They totally wing everything they do.

 

Look at the summer. We were relegated to this league (sorry, confirmed our status) on 20th April 2025. The third club to be confirmed as a Championship club for 2025/26 after Southampton and Birmingham City. When Marti Cifuentes was appointed, every other club in the division had a manager. Danny Rohl then did leave Sheffield Wednesday.

 

So the 3rd club in the league to have our status in the league confirmed, which is a big advantage over a lot of teams. Yet the 23rd team in the division, beating only an exceptional case in Sheffield Wednesday to have a manager in place.

 

They have no care whatsoever for this club. Absolutely none.

 

I hear today that he's done an interview with Radio Leicester. Just like the video from Thailand, I shall not be consuming a second of it. I have absolutely no interest in their 'plan' (there isn't one) or what they intend to do to fix this. There is only one fix, and it's ensuring he's gone. Every single effort on every matchday should be put towards reaching this goal.

[splinterdream]

We have no idea what the club can do in the summer in terms of building a side, unless theres been some revelations in today's interview. 

We deffo need signings, you can't rely on 34/35 year olds who are shortly out of contract playing 90 minutes 3 games a week, and you certainly can't rely on 17 year olds to do the same. 

All the new manager needs to do is show they'll do whatever it takes to get as many points as possible, and right now i think it's long balls and squeeze up the pitch, crosses into the box and get aggressive.

We need to stop with the stupidity of things like passing back to the keeper from kick off, who boots it anyway, whats the point of that? You may as well pass to the defender who is already further up the pitch and then boot it up. 

We need a manager who demands work rate from those that can, who can stop  abdul coming deep facing the wrong way, a manager who's not afraid to try different unfashionable formations if it gets a better performance out of the players

[StanSP]

Saw a good tweet earlier. 

 

Symptom has gone. 

 

Now just the cause(s) of the problem to go... 

[Hales]

1 hour ago, TrentFox said:

I don’t get the pile-on for Marti. He seems like a totally decent guy. He just wasn’t good enough. That’s on us for appointing him. In a difficult set of conditions, he seems to have given it his all. Sadly, his all was nowhere near the level we needed. Personally, I hope he goes on to have success elsewhere and wish him well. 

This!

[Blueman1967]

36 minutes ago, BillyFOX12 said:

Russell Martin anyone?

No

[Staff]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

“Spent the same as Sheffield Wednesday”.

 

Look at the comparison in squads ffs.

At least their players look like they give a shit 

[Muzzy_no7]

43 minutes ago, blockheadder said:

I raise you Craig Levein.

Nope, Marti worse 

[Fox1980]

I’m in shock this has come out of nowhere 

[Gamble92]

28 minutes ago, beepee1984 said:

Has his staff left too?

 

Xavi Calm and Javier Ortiz?

I just asked Xavi Calm on Instagram and he told me to go **** myself 

[Tielemans63]

11 minutes ago, Dan said:

Once again, the entire process around this is just an utter farce and a disgrace.

 

You see the tweets like this:

 

 

This tells me this was all done on a whim again. I don't think it's exaggerating to say that if we had lost to Stoke in November when he was over then, that Cifuentes would've been sacked the next day. It is no exaggeration to say if Jordan James doesn't get injured at Wrexham, that Cifuentes' job today is under zero threat.

 

This club operates for about 10% of the year. Jon Rudkin is a puppet who offers absolutely nothing to the club except for being the one people will go after because they don't have the same unconditional love for him as they do the owner.

 

The club literally does not operate off the pitch unless Aiyawatt is in the country - which he rarely is.

 

They have not planned for any of this. They never do. They totally wing everything they do.

 

Look at the summer. We were relegated to this league (sorry, confirmed our status) on 20th April 2025. The third club to be confirmed as a Championship club for 2025/26 after Southampton and Birmingham City. When Marti Cifuentes was appointed, every other club in the division had a manager. Danny Rohl then did leave Sheffield Wednesday.

 

So the 3rd club in the league to have our status in the league confirmed, which is a big advantage over a lot of teams. Yet the 23rd team in the division, beating only an exceptional case in Sheffield Wednesday to have a manager in place.

 

They have no care whatsoever for this club. Absolutely none.

 

I hear today that he's done an interview with Radio Leicester. Just like the video from Thailand, I shall not be consuming a second of it. I have absolutely no interest in their 'plan' (there isn't one) or what they intend to do to fix this. There is only one fix, and it's ensuring he's gone. Every single effort on every matchday should be put towards reaching this goal.

Can't understand why this doesn't have loads of likes. Absolutely on the money. You're bang on that the club simply isn't run 80%-90% of the time. It's a ****ing disgrace.

[Tielemans63]

1 minute ago, Gamble92 said:

I just asked Xavi Calm on Instagram and he told me to go **** myself 

Xavi not so Calm

[TeaMen Tom]

1 hour ago, jim5000 said:

That’s three managers were presumably still paying off - cooper, RVN, and Marti - all for about 5 months work on 2 or 3 year contracts.

 

we really need the next guy to last longer and half a season

They fired Ruud for a guy who tried to insert square pegs into round holes - and then gave him no support on top of that. So now add Marti to the list of managers they're paying. This organization is run by idiots. No one who isn't deparate for a job would take on this debacle.  So it's either going to be someone like that - or someone so loyal to the club that they won't say no.  But anyone who takes on this job is stepping into a no win situation and hoping for an amazing amount of luck.  

[Wolfox]

2 hours ago, Vacamion said:

 

He was dealt a shit hand, but he played it badly.

 

Goodnight, sweet Spanish Prince.  

Having the most expensive squad in the league is hardly a shit hand…

 

And you’re right… He should’ve got a better tune out of the squad 

 

I hate the manager merry go round thing, but this feels like the right move 

 

[Dahnsouff]

1 minute ago, Wolfox said:

Having the most expensive squad in the league is hardly a shit hand…

 

And you’re right… He should’ve got a better tune out of the squad 

 

I hate the manager merry go round thing, but this feels like the right move 

 

This bollocks AGAIN.  The squad we assembled was horrifically over priced, that's our fault not Marti's. He is still not good enough though.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

1 hour ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

It was an inevitable decision and needed to be made as he was incapable of getting enough out of this squad. I found his stubbornness in relation to how we played and tactical set up hugely frustrating however he seemed a very decent bloke who gave it his all but just not good enough. 

Yep agreed

 

decent bloke

 

The Spanish Steve Cooper 

 

another good man  however just not good enough for this group of players 

[Spiritwalker]

19 minutes ago, Merchant_Banker said:

I wonder if Winks was out because he told Cifuentes he was sh*t. He might actually play for another manager.

Or maybe he thinks he’s too good for us and doesn’t put in the required effort and has been sussed out by

the last two managers.