Martin appointed (reportedly)

[Claudio Fannieri]

I really hope this appointment works and Martin is a huge success, because for the sake of the football club, it can’t afford for it not to. 
 

However this appointment does confirm that there has been zero self reflection within the hierarchy in relation to the strategic direction of the football side of the business, and despite the ‘reshuffle’ we are just going to serve up even more of the same. 
 

There was a massive opportunity for a complete reset and a move in a different direction, even if we stayed with a possession based style but implemented a far higher intensity style but instead we have appointed the one manager that the majority of the fanbase really didn’t want as he epitomises slow, laboured possession for possessions sake football that the majority have come to despise. 
 

Yet again complete and utter tone deaf from the club and shows how limited, lazy and stubborn the thinking is within the boardroom.

[john ridley]

1 hour ago, CL Fox said:

@CruzNoir Mccarron you were our last hope🥲

Just proves we've  hired another yes man ,nothings changed .They deserve  everything coming ,and No Top, you won't be able to stop administration to save face ,you've ****ed us all ,this is on you ,Rudkin, Glover and now Mccarron plus all the shit players we seem to accumulate. 

Edited 20 hours ago by john ridley

[Nick]

Well, the only thing I guess we can hope for is that RM has learnt from failure. Every manager in this game has opportunities and spells of success and absolute crap. Sadly the ratio with this manager has lately been a higher percentage of the latter. Maybe he'll be too good for League 1 and this is what he needs to get his reputation and career back on track. That's about it.

[Soar Fox]

Welcome Will Smallbone 

[trooky]

I hope this isn't true, Top is so out of touch with the fans and an arrogant ****. 

 

The fans aren't going to get behind Martin, it could all turn toxic very quickly unless we're unbeaten top of the league in August. 

[winteriscoming]

The podcast Martin did with Lineker was after he got sacked at Southampton but before he was appointed at Rangers. 
He talked a good game in the interview but his spell at Rangers was exactly the same style as at Southampton. 
His ego won’t allow him to change his way of playing. 
He’d rather see an extra 100 passes going nowhere than win a game. 

[Cropwellfox]

First signing will be Ryan Fraser 

[HoChiMinhFOX]

The only plus side of this, is now once he gets sacked their sick little fetishisation of him and his appalling football should hopefully be over...

[BeaumontFox]

8 hours ago, SuperMike said:

In an effort to get 'on-side' with their fans, The board of Leicester City appoint the man who the majority of fans have stated would be the very worst possible choice.

Hmmm - that makes a lot of sense!!

He’s not the best, but certainly not the worst. That’s a touch dramatic. For the record, I didn’t want him either.

[Percy Thrower]

4 hours ago, lookwhaticando said:

 

Jamaal Lascelles

Asmir Begovic

Joe Aribo

Divine Mukasa

Dujuan Richards

Julián Carranza

Jordan James

Aaron Ramsey

Fran Vieites

Oliver Skipp

Bilal El Khannouss

Abdul Fatawu

Caleb Okoli

Michael Golding

Jordan Ayew

Woyo Coulibaly

Bobby De Cordova-Reid

Facundo Buonanotte

Odsonne Édouard

Harry Winks

Mads Hermansen

Tom Cannon

Conor Coady

Stephy Mavididi

Abdul Fatawu

Yunus Akgün

Callum Doyle

Cesare Casadei

Harry Souttar

Wout Faes

Victor Kristiansen

Tetê

Alex Smithies

Patson Daka

Boubakary Soumaré

Jannik Vestergaard

Ryan Bertrand

Ademola Lookman

Dean Smith

Enzo Maresca

Steve Cooper

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Marti Cifuentes

Gary Rowett

 

 We’ve certainly done a lot of living and dying by our recruitment in the last five years. I can only see this rebuild going brilliantly, based on our track record. 

 

Glover has to be held more accountable surely. He's as neck deep in this sh*t as the other two clowns. 

[BeaumontFox]

15 minutes ago, trooky said:

I hope this isn't true, Top is so out of touch with the fans and an arrogant ****. 

 

The fans aren't going to get behind Martin, it could all turn toxic very quickly unless we're unbeaten top of the league in August. 

Top is out of touch full stop, just like most people who grow up wealthy

[les-tah]

 

Russell Martin in League One for Leicester could be an absolute masterstroke.

 

This is a manager with a proper football identity. Not vibes. Not hoofball. Not “hope someone scores.” A real, modern, possession-based philosophy that, at League One level, could make Leicester look like they’re playing a different sport.

 

With Leicester’s resources, fanbase, facilities, academy, and likely technical quality, Martin’s style could be devastating. League One teams would spend 70 minutes chasing shadows while Leicester pass through them, suffocate them, and turn games into training-ground exercises.

 

And the Rangers spell? Honestly, you can make a very fair argument that it was never a Russell Martin problem. It was a squad-construction problem. You can’t ask a chef to cook Michelin-star food and then hand him a microwave meal and a broken spoon.

 

He needs brave centre-backs, press-resistant midfielders, full-backs comfortable in possession, and forwards who understand patterns. If the squad wasn’t built for that, then of course it would look awkward. That’s not the philosophy failing — that’s the ingredients not matching the recipe.

 

At Leicester in League One, though? Different story.

 

He could walk in and build something genuinely exciting:

 

A clear identity.

Promotion with style.

Young players improving.

Opponents barely touching the ball.

A fanbase reconnecting with attractive football.

A club bouncing back not just bigger, but smarter.

 

Honestly, Russell Martin at Leicester in League One could be the kind of appointment people laugh at for five minutes… then six months later everyone says, “How did we not see this coming?”

 

It could be ridiculously good.
 

 

 

 

 

I just asked chatgpt to lie and tell me why he is a good appointment.

[JimJams]

I'll be honest, despite watching Martins teams I'm still a bit on the dark about his actual "Style" that people keep mentioning.

 

For me, I've always seen him as someone who has fashioned himself as a bit of a Pep disciple with none of the understanding about what that entails.

 

The idea that keeping the ball means the opposition have less/no opportunity to score, I get that, that's obvious.  But I don't actually know what his supposed patterns of play are, they've never been evident while watching his teams.  I've seen people say he likes to get his (whole) team in the opponents half, so the passing build up is supposedly with the players gradually moving into the other half.  I've not seen that work with anybody, let alone a Russell Martin side.

 

Maresca played a possession heavy game, but there was at least a plan to draw players out of position to create and exploit space (kind of falls short when the other team doesn't go chasing the ball) but I have never really seen that with Southampton, definitely not with Rangers. It's always just come across to me as someone who latched onto a key part of a successful mans philosophy but only got part of it without any rhyme or reason as to why they pass it around.  Essentially pass for passings sake. because you didn't get the rest of the idea.

[Gazza M]

Is this their way of trying to put the fans in their place? 

[davieG]

46 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

They are gonna have to make some top top signings to have a chance of getting the fans on side

Can you make top signings in L1

[TheShark]

Let’s just hope it’s a Ranieri moment and he will do better than expected 

[BigGibbo]

Can't say anything that's not already been said... Just drifting into ennui now...

[adamkhalifa]

They had to get the one guy. The fans don't want. Great way to dissect the club further.

The owner and senior management have lost the plot. These delusional people will fail again.

 

Unfortunately for us. They are destroying my club. That new guy is just another yes man.

 

We gone from the best owner in the world, to the worst in one generation. How low will we go? Not low enough I guess. 

[BigGibbo]

Our only hope is that League One is actually his level and we get a lucky start. 🤷‍♂️ 🙏🤞🍀

[BigGibbo]

We are managing to collect a band of the most lesson learning averse people ever compiled. Birds of a feather flock together I guess.

 

Also a full house in Southampton failure bingo.

[Outfox the Fox]

As Percy said this at the beginning of the week, I guess the main holdup, has been 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 been a lot of 'tooing & froing' going on, trying to sort out the backup staff 

[Guppys Love Child]

9 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

It's been as clear as day for the last few years. The decline, the inability to change and the obsession with a small number of deeply flawed managers such as Graham Potter and Russell Martin.

 

Someone come and switch me back on when this has run it's course.

Come and join me on my LCFC sabbatical until he's sacked.  

 

As I've posted in other threads, I'm done with them until they do, that way I don't rip my nerves to shreds, and give myself high blood pressure and an ulcer.

[Outfox the Fox]

4 minutes ago, Outfox the Fox said:

As Percy said this at the beginning of the week, I guess the main holdup, has been 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 been a lot of 'tooing & froing' going on, trying to sort out the backup staff 

My bet is that we've now reached agreement with West Brom to release Gill and there'll be an announcement tomorrow, saying he's coming as Martin's Assistant Manager. I think Rhys Owen will also be there. Parker is very unlikely and I reckon Begovic will stay as Goalkeeping Coach, so no Thornton.

 

As to who Martin keeps from the current backroom staff, Kingy yes, Hughes probably not (hopefully) and I can't remember who the current Analyst is.

[Tielemans63]

When will it stop?

[Jonezy]

Fingers crossed its like the Ranieri appointment, but still brilliant how we relegate back to League One and appoints the absolute only manager the fans do not want. It really feels like we are being trolled.