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Martin appointed (reportedly)

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Mista_cle31

Mista_cle31

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What frustrates me even more, which a few of you have alluded to, is why appoint a manager you know full well the fans won't be happy with? What businessman with half a brain cell actually does that?!  It just shows how inept Nepo baby really is at owning this club.

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foxile5

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2 minutes ago, Mista_cle31 said:

What frustrates me even more, which a few of you have alluded to, is why appoint a manager you know full well the fans won't be happy with? What businessman with half a brain cell actually does that?!  It just shows how inept Nepo baby really is at owning this club.

Total disregard for the fans of the club. We're not in their thinking at all - we've been an inconvenience for years.

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J.Lisemore

J.Lisemore

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21 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

if this one doesnt come off for the club, then it will certainly be the nail in the coffin for King Power at the club

Nail was in the coffin the moment we were relegated to League One. We need a miracle for these idiots to leave. 

Iwebema

Iwebema

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We basically need a whole new squad, so we are giving him full control to the rebuild aswell. 

 

We are locking in for the long term with him. We just have to hope that all these people in the game saying hes a highly rated coach we are the club it finally works at because hes been underwhelming at best everywhere hes gone.

Mista_cle31

Mista_cle31

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I couldn't agree more. He really is ruining everything his father built. I personally don't think we've hit rock bottom yet.... We should protest at Russell Martin's appointment and then boycott the club.

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kingfox

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On 23/01/2025 at 15:07, kingfox said:

Russell Martin is the most inevitable Leicester manager in the history of Leicester managers. 

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inckley fox

inckley fox

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29 minutes ago, jayfox26 said:

Genuinely feels like sabotage now. Appointing a manager that is incompetent as well as being hugely unlikely by the vast majority of our fanbase is beyond belief. 

Well, it's proof that there'll be no reset or rethink.

 

The failure to recognise the need to go back to square one, to divorce themselves from awful, demonstrably wrong misconceptions they had in the post-Ranieri era that this kind of football was the only 'sustainable' kind of football, to overhaul the boardroom, to accept that someone else may need to make the big decisions... it was always going to end badly, wasn't it?

 

If you want positives, then I wouldn't entirely rule out the possibility of it working in the short term. We might come back up, you never know.

 

But it feels very, very unlikely to me that, in the long run, it'll go down as an astute appointment. And the chances of it going wrong from the off are immense. There's an unholy level of unrest and disapproval just waiting to re-erupt, and many erstwhile KP apologists will be as bemused by this appointment as I am.

 

It's an utterly bonkers decision. A huge call. As childish as it sounds, it's as if Top is reminding us that this is his club and he'll do as he pleases with it. I believe he's capable of that degree of incompetence and egomania. There'll be fans who think that if this goes horribly wrong, and quickly, then that might work out better for us over time. Like Sousa in 2010. I'm not sure I agree, but you can see why people would feel that way.

 

When you raise eyebrows at the decision-making at Leicester City, then as a general rule your worst fears about their ineptitude fall well short of how entirely useless they really are. It'd be wonderful to be reflecting, five years or so from now, on how insanely wrong I was. But the feeling is starting to creep in that, when people warned four or five months ago that the club was on a path to extinction if it didn't correct course, that we're seeing the first motions of a 'this is exactly what you're not supposed to do' masterclass.

 

Or perhaps Josh Holland was right all along.

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Corky

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Love how this extremely underwhelming appointment has been even more drab because we've known about it for over a week before confirmation.

StriderHiryu

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My biggest concern isn’t even the manager here but the direction from above. This is an opportunity to build a new squad in a style that is more applicable to what works in 2026. With Martin we are going to recruit and play heavy possession again, which isn’t working anymore, teams have wised up. Even in League One last season the champions had the lowest possession stats of anyone! 

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TommyK

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6 minutes ago, inckley fox said:

Well, it's proof that there'll be no reset or rethink.

 

The failure to recognise the need to go back to square one, to divorce themselves from awful, demonstrably wrong misconceptions they had in the post-Ranieri era that this kind of football was the only 'sustainable' kind of football, to overhaul the boardroom, to accept that someone else may need to make the big decisions... it was always going to end badly, wasn't it?

 

If you want positives, then I wouldn't entirely rule out the possibility of it working in the short term. We might come back up, you never know.

 

But it feels very, very unlikely to me that, in the long run, it'll go down as an astute appointment. And the chances of it going wrong from the off are immense. There's an unholy level of unrest and disapproval just waiting to re-erupt, and many erstwhile KP apologists will be as bemused by this appointment as I am.

 

It's an utterly bonkers decision. A huge call. As childish as it sounds, it's as if Top is reminding us that this is his club and he'll do as he pleases with it. I believe he's capable of that degree of incompetence and egomania. There'll be fans who think that if this goes horribly wrong, and quickly, then that might work out better for us over time. Like Sousa in 2010. I'm not sure I agree, but you can see why people would feel that way.

 

When you raise eyebrows at the decision-making at Leicester City, then as a general rule your worst fears about their ineptitude fall well short of how entirely useless they really are. It'd be wonderful to be reflecting, five years or so from now, on how insanely wrong I was. But the feeling is starting to creep in that, when people warned four or five months ago that the club was on a path to extinction if it didn't correct course, that we're seeing the first motions of a 'this is exactly what you're not supposed to do' masterclass.

 

Or perhaps Josh Holland was right all along.

Agree with this. We don't learn. I can't see a appointment which does more to say " I'm not connected to what the fans what and I don't give a shit".

 

Absolutely baffling decisions and just shows how we've not moved forward as a club at all. 

Gamble92

Gamble92

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3 minutes ago, EnderbyFox said:

Gotta think of the positives imo, when he's inevitably sacked before Christmas we never have to get linked with him again 

You say this but I was told they were seriously considering Marti again after he told them he'd come back 😭

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