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League One - Who manages us?

By Muzzy_no7, in Leicester City Forum

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adamkhalifa

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21 minutes ago, Stavros81 said:

I can’t see it being Martin I only assume the deal has fell through and Martin has had a change of mind. Would/Should have been wrapped up by now. Can only hope that Challinor was next on the list of candidates. 

Similar thing happened with Marti. They seem to take an age getting paperwork done. They are obsessed with RM, and they will do anything they can to make it happen.

 

Marrying to one playing style, and being pals with Maresca, doesn't help us pivot. 

 

I just want this done, and out the system. Hopefully, the destruction is minimum, and we can move again.

 

Challinor is the only obvious choice. But these people are delusional about the club status, rank, and profile. We need a Martin George type manager right now. And Challinor fits like a glove. 

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TamuffFox

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29 minutes ago, adamkhalifa said:

Similar thing happened with Marti. They seem to take an age getting paperwork done. They are obsessed with RM, and they will do anything they can to make it happen.

 

Marrying to one playing style, and being pals with Maresca, doesn't help us pivot. 

 

I just want this done, and out the system. Hopefully, the destruction is minimum, and we can move again.

 

Challinor is the only obvious choice. But these people are delusional about the club status, rank, and profile. We need a Martin George type manager right now. And Challinor fits like a glove. 

Martin George...now there's a man who knew how to choose a manager

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Pita

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1 hour ago, winteriscoming said:

If it was gonna be Martin I would have thought they’d have announced by now that Rowett has left. 
The longer this drags on the less likely it’ll be Martin. 
Yes I know I am clutching at straws. 

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inckley fox

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37 minutes ago, TamuffFox said:

Martin George...now there's a man who knew how to choose a manager

Shipman stood aside and he promoted Gordon Lee as the replacement for Pleat. He kept us up and George brought in Little, who revived the club. Then McGhee, who started the rebuild post-Little and established us in the promotion places to bounce back in 95/96. Then he brought in O'Neill and stood up to the likes of Shipman who wanted him out. And if I remember correctly Elsom stood aside for George when Adams came in for Bassett too.

 

He still attends games so it might not be a terrible idea to pick his brains on the new boss. It's hard to imagine the Van Nistelrooys, Cifuentes and Martins of the world getting his seal of approval.

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Foxdiamond

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12 minutes ago, inckley fox said:

Shipman stood aside and he promoted Gordon Lee as the replacement for Pleat. He kept us up and George brought in Little, who revived the club. Then McGhee, who started the rebuild post-Little and established us in the promotion places to bounce back in 95/96. Then he brought in O'Neill and stood up to the likes of Shipman who wanted him out. And if I remember correctly Elsom stood aside for George when Adams came in for Bassett too.

 

He still attends games so it might not be a terrible idea to pick his brains on the new boss. It's hard to imagine the Van Nistelrooys, Cifuentes and Martins of the world getting his seal of approval.

A man who certainly had his Weetabix!

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AKCJ

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On 12/06/2026 at 18:14, murphy said:

Can you back up this claim that the 'idea is objectively right'?  The risk of an interception on your own penalty area seems much greater than the potential reward to me.

 

Plus it makes you look a tit.

Because professional footballers are able to take a touch and pass the ball 99 times out of 100 and a player over pressing leads to space in behind. 
 

The risk is minimal.

Finnegan

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On 12/06/2026 at 18:14, murphy said:

Can you back up this claim that the 'idea is objectively right'?  The risk of an interception on your own penalty area seems much greater than the potential reward to me.

 

Plus it makes you look a tit.

 

It absolutely gets misused, Martin trying to do it against us in the Championship was suicidal let alone trying to do it against Premier League teams. It was also unnecessary. 

 

It's a method of drawing out teams who are stubbornly sitting in a modern mid or low block not engaging as these teams are extremely hard to play through. 

 

You obviously bait them out and back yourself to beat the press.

 

Clearly you look very stupid when you lose the ball but it's something of a necessity when the vast majority of the teams in the league are going to park the bus against you.

 

It's far easier to defend with mediocre players than attack and score with mediocre players in today's game and most defences in the top two flights are extremely well drilled and organised. 

 

Not everyone has the luxury of being Man City or PSG and having amazing attacking talent that can find the gaps. So you trick the opponent to come forward and you make those gaps. That's why Hermansen and Winks were the first players Enzo asked for because beating the press was 90% of what they were in the team for. 

 

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Richmondfox

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9 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

It absolutely gets misused, Martin trying to do it against us in the Championship was suicidal let alone trying to do it against Premier League teams. It was also unnecessary. 

 

It's a method of drawing out teams who are stubbornly sitting in a modern mid or low block not engaging as these teams are extremely hard to play through. 

 

You obviously bait them out and back yourself to beat the press.

 

Clearly you look very stupid when you lose the ball but it's something of a necessity when the vast majority of the teams in the league are going to park the bus against you.

 

It's far easier to defend with mediocre players than attack and score with mediocre players in today's game and most defences in the top two flights are extremely well drilled and organised. 

 

Not everyone has the luxury of being Man City or PSG and having amazing attacking talent that can find the gaps. So you trick the opponent to come forward and you make those gaps. That's why Hermansen and Winks were the first players Enzo asked for because beating the press was 90% of what they were in the team for. 

 

We never had the manager to come up with the tactics, the coaching staff to implement it, the players with the ability and most of the time they were sharing a brain cell. Passing backwards to the keeper who would boot it out of play when the whole team is waiting for a cross into the box. 

 

We spent the past season watching these clowns make the pass backwards for the sake of it at the expense of a quick forwards pass to an unmarked player. We also constantly got undone by a simple 1-2, another move that was alien to our fullbacks and wingers. 
 

 

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lcfc_forever

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Romano has actually got our manager choices wrong - said Benitez and Potter when we appointed Smith and Cooper (wish he had been right though!). 
 

But clearly on this, we’re appointing Martin - too many informed sources are saying this is happening. 

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fox_favourite

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43 minutes ago, Craig said:

 

So more of the same 'nearly', 'advanced', 'closing' etc....

 

If this is happening, just get it done you lazy dumbwits! For goodness sake 

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jammie82uk

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7 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

Knowing these clowns they’ll hire Martin and assume Hake was being interviewed for assistant without telling him. 

Obviously not going to be Hake after the google search has been done and they read “flexible tactical approach” 

 

 

 

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Outfox the Fox

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On 11/06/2026 at 13:06, Outfox the Fox said:

As Percy said this at the beginning of the week, I guess the main holdup, is sorting out his backroom team. He would want Matt Gill as his Assistant Manager, but all the talk at West Brom, is that Gill is staying there. If that's the case, I dont know who else he'd want for that job. Rhys Owen (Performance Coach) is very likely to be coming in from Rangers. Dean Thornton, RM's usual Goalkeeping Coach seems to be happy at Millwall and Ben Parker, the usual Analyst, is well set up at Old Trafford.

So, I would imagine there's a lot of 'tooing & froing' going on, trying to sort out the backup staff 

https://filbertway.com/2026/06/13/final-leicester-manager-push-makes-confusion-at-west-brom-as-matt-gill-admits-loyatly-stays-with-russ/

 

This seems to imply that I might be correct in thinking that the delay over Martin's appointment, has been held up, as we're trying to agree a deal with West Brom, for Gill to come in as Assistant Manager.

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lcfc sheff

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I’m gonna be slightly positive about this. He’s had a lot of experience for a young manager, only problem is not ideal amount of success.

 

he is also a freebie and although most don’t like the style of football he plays it does match with what the club want to do which shows some sort of attempt of structure. 
 

my reservations are rather with how we back him 

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Silva Fox

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9 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

I’m gonna be slightly positive about this. He’s had a lot of experience for a young manager, only problem is not ideal amount of success.

 

he is also a freebie and although most don’t like the style of football he plays it does match with what the club want to do which shows some sort of attempt of structure. 
 

my reservations are rather with how we bsack him 

Corrected for you!

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fox_favourite

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4 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

Only we could look past a manager who finished 3rd in league 1 last season for Russell fvcking Martin. 
I dread to think how long a contract we give him. 

Shows delusion from club and a sense that we're bigger than that. He would be the right man to rebuild the culture and start a new era that we so desperately need.

 

Alas we're ran by wombling zombie morons. 

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winteriscoming

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1 minute ago, fox_favourite said:

Shows delusion from club and a sense that we're bigger than that. He would be the right man to rebuild the culture and start a new era that we so desperately need.

 

Alas we're ran by wombling zombie morons. 

I said it previously the club has a bigger ego than Russell Martin and that’s saying something. 
The club was crying out for a Pearson type rebuild instead we’re gonna have endless passes going nowhere next season. 
I’d have had Challinor or taken a chance on Paddy McCarthy. 
 

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14 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

Only we could look past a manager who finished 3rd in league 1 last season for Russell fvcking Martin. 
I dread to think how long a contract we give him. 

Or it could be that Challinor has been approached but didn't want the job? Will be interesting to see where he goes or even takes on another club for now.

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