Russell Martin - Confirmed as First Team Manager

[murphy]

1 hour ago, LFC bear said:

Within 3 games of his tenture at Leicester you will hate him just as much! Mark my words 

Don't worry, we are way ahead of schedule.

 

The way I look at it, the worse the pain, the quicker he f**** off.

Edited 30 June by murphy

[kingfox]

Gotta say, this face doesn’t give me Yorkshire ripper vibes

[Uncle Monty]

1 hour ago, LFC bear said:

Russell Martin has done nothing to merit the job at Leicester. He's not the man to grind out results to get you back up the leagues. Tbh he's the exact opposite of what the club needs at this moment. You would have been better with A pragmatic manager. Dyche or Sam Allerdice would have way better options 

Nobody disagrees with you here.

[Foxin_Mad]

2 hours ago, LFC bear said:

Russell Martin has done nothing to merit the job at Leicester. He's not the man to grind out results to get you back up the leagues. Tbh he's the exact opposite of what the club needs at this moment. You would have been better with A pragmatic manager. Dyche or Sam Allerdice would have way better options 

None of the managers this club have employed for the past 2 seasons have done anything to merit being at this club, most of them barely qualify as football managers at any level. Problem is the club is wedded to tippy tappy and Rudkin is a twat so we are pretty limited on who would come here. I suppose you could say the club have done nothing to warrant getting a better manager which is why we are where we are, we just have to hope we get a miracle or we die

Edited 30 June by Foxin_Mad

[Collymore]

Most motivational speech since Churchill.

 

 

[Glasgow Bear]

Hi guys.

 

Rangers fan here. I don’t want to continue the narrative of negativity but thought I’d share my experience. It helps to know what to expect.

 

Rangers are a club in turmoil. I started going since I was 7 and I’m now 25. We went to the very bottom, went to a Europa league final, won a league title but still somehow see ourselves levels below Celtic. It was too big a job for Martin.

 

We signed Martin under the new regime to try implement a new style. At Rangers you get no time. I think he has big bright ideas but you need the very best players to do what he wants. You need playing centre backs and dynamic CMs. We didn’t have that, but he refused to find a plan B. We had talented players but you must win no matter the cost.
 

If you want him to do well, you MUST ignore the horrible first half of the season. He showed at Southampton he can do alright with time. The problem is that you will lose your identity. It will become Russell Martin’s way of playing or nothing else.

 

I wish you all the best. Big club, great fans.

[Sly]

I actually prefer him to Cifuentes and Rowett. 
 

Van Nistelrooy was a major disappointment.

 

He’s got his work cut out though, as this squad lacks known quality. 
 

Other clubs are blown away we’ve got Choudhury playing for us in League 1. We are so use to higher quality that we are just going have to grind this out and if he does this with this squad. Then full props to him. 

[winteriscoming]

5 minutes ago, Sly said:

I actually prefer him to Cifuentes and Rowett. 
 

Van Nistelrooy was a major disappointment.

 

He’s got his work cut out though, as this squad lacks known quality. 
 

Other clubs are blown away we’ve got Choudhury playing for us in League 1. We are so use to higher quality that we are just going have to grind this out and if he does this with this squad. Then full props to him. 

Not sure how you can judge him as we’ve not played a competitive game yet. 
He’s arrogant despite achieving very little in the game. 
I hope he does well but I’m less than convinced he will. 

[lcfc sheff]

The big advantage and disadvantage of Russell is his amount of experience and his experiences as a manager, will he have learned from it?

 

We’re gonna be the ones to find out 

[Sly]

2 hours ago, winteriscoming said:

Not sure how you can judge him as we’ve not played a competitive game yet. 
He’s arrogant despite achieving very little in the game. 
I hope he does well but I’m less than convinced he will. 

His record is better than Cifuentes. Who’s record to be quite frank, was very average before he arrived.

 

At least Martin has achieved promotion. 

[LFC bear]

4 hours ago, Sly said:

His record is better than Cifuentes. Who’s record to be quite frank, was very average before he arrived.

 

At least Martin has achieved promotion. 

I would look into the small print of his promotion with Southampton btw. We never did that when he first came to Rangers but on closer inspection it revealed some dark skeletons. 

 

Finished 4th with the biggest budget in the championship, lost as many goals as teams who finished mid table.

 

Slithered through a playoff to get into the EPL - then was sacked after obtaining the worst ever record in EPL history because he set his team up to get hammered. 

 

His MO is always the same.

 

First blame will be the players who he will publicly chuck under the bus “anxiety” “self preservation mode” “not running hard enough” then once he's lost the changing room he will move on to the fans for not clapping hard enough whilst watching his eye wateringly bad football “we need to get behind the team as a club” “Toxic atmosphere” 

 

Then he will say what he said at the end of his Rangers journey and blame the political tensions in the UK. 

 

I'm going to watch Leicester very closely this season as I believe it's this fraudsters last rodeo before he is banished from pro football forever. 

 

The Leicester board must be the thickest custodians in world football bringing this chump In

 

A vegan Buddhist Green Party conman 

[volpeazzurro]

On 30/06/2026 at 21:33, kingfox said:

Gotta say, this face doesn’t give me Yorkshire ripper vibes

Could he be about to say ‘Oooh Betty?’

[BillyFOX12]

He's quite loved in Glasgow.

 

 

 

By Celtic fans.

[Free Falling Foxes]

On 04/07/2026 at 14:18, LFC bear said:

The Leicester board must be the thickest custodians in world football bringing this chump In.

They are........ and we know.

Sadly.

[Guy]

On 04/07/2026 at 08:17, lcfc sheff said:

The big advantage and disadvantage of Russell is his amount of experience and his experiences as a manager, will he have learned from it?

 

We’re gonna be the ones to find out 

Despite the collective underwhelming vibe on here then I for one am hoping RM's time here is to prove a point and that he was judged too early at Southampton re second season (at a higher level) syndrome and obviously having then been thrown in at the deep end at Rangers in an unknown quantity (to him) capacity of the entire SPL set up/scene/expectation levels - plus with not the best tools at disposal either ay Ibrox - but the squad's uncertainty at present isn't likely to help going forward in the immediate tense re who's on board for now until next May and who's leaving before October, players wise! Especially with it all being underpinned by the fact that we're somehow back in League One after everything - and so at our equal lowest ebb in our history versus 2008-09 - albeit the next 10 years turned out more than ok after that last low ebb but history may not necessarily repeat!!

[Les-TA-Jon]

5 weeks until the first competitive game.

6 weeks until the first league game. 

8 weeks until the window closes. 

 

And we have what? Multiple first teamers who need to be sold because we can't afford them/they're crap/they're toxic/they want to leave/we need cashflow

And the squad is missing:

• A decent goalkeeper
• Defenders who can defend
• Goal scoring midfielders
• 2 centre forwards

How good RM is or not is largely irrelevant right now unless we actually do the business in the transfer window. 

[Greg2607]

2 hours ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

5 weeks until the first competitive game.

6 weeks until the first league game. 

8 weeks until the window closes. 

 

And we have what? Multiple first teamers who need to be sold because we can't afford them/they're crap/they're toxic/they want to leave/we need cashflow

And the squad is missing:

• A decent goalkeeper
• Defenders who can defend
• Goal scoring midfielders
• 2 centre forwards

How good RM is or not is largely irrelevant right now unless we actually do the business in the transfer window. 

i also guess it depends what his mandate has been. 

 

it MIGHT have been... there is no budget, we will sell what we can, but that money has to go towards operating costs. 

 

YOUR job Mr Martin is to bring through to talent that we have in the squad.   

 

That could mean that we have our strikers in BDCR, Hutchinson and Evans. 

 

It might mean that Alves takes up a wingers spot.   That Braybrooke is the central midfielder alongside Page that need to create our chances.  

 

If we are all expecting loads of incomings, then I fear we really don't understand the financial position we find ourselves in. 

 

We will probably stick with Stolarchyk in Goal with an Academy keeper as 3rd choice. 

I suspect we sell Souttar and probably Nelson or Okoli....  but whatever remains is likely to be alongside Vestegard, again, with strong academy products making the bench.... It's effectively the "league 1 loan" we always talk about them needing. 

 

 

[stevostadium]

I really didnt want him here and was very disappointed in his appointment.

 

However, i am told that  he is very popular with the youngsters and all the non playing staff at the club.

 

I was also told that he put on an extra training session last week at the time of the england game due to standards not being met.

 

These show ponies have had it too good for too long.

 

I actually think he be ok. As long as he can get rid of the bad apples.

[Rubbersoul]

14 minutes ago, stevostadium said:

I really didnt want him here and was very disappointed in his appointment.

 

However, i am told that  he is very popular with the youngsters and all the non playing staff at the club.

 

I was also told that he put on an extra training session last week at the time of the england game due to standards not being met.

 

These show ponies have had it too good for too long.

 

I actually think he be ok. As long as he can get rid of the bad apples.

I’ve almost gone past the point of caring that I’m actually fine with him now 

[FoxesTez]

22 minutes ago, stevostadium said:

I really didnt want him here and was very disappointed in his appointment.

 

However, i am told that  he is very popular with the youngsters and all the non playing staff at the club.

 

I was also told that he put on an extra training session last week at the time of the england game due to standards not being met.

 

These show ponies have had it too good for too long.

 

I actually think he be ok. As long as he can get rid of the bad apples.

Have heard similar positive stories from inside the camp. Seems he’s a balance between being friendly with the players but firm - basically a captain kind of figure been missing for years.  
 

Let’s see how it translates onto the pitch. 

Edited 6 July by FoxesTez

[Chelmofox]

30 minutes ago, stevostadium said:

I really didnt want him here and was very disappointed in his appointment.

 

However, i am told that  he is very popular with the youngsters and all the non playing staff at the club.

 

I was also told that he put on an extra training session last week at the time of the england game due to standards not being met.

 

These show ponies have had it too good for too long.

 

I actually think he be ok. As long as he can get rid of the bad apples.

Out of interest - what sort of standards?

[JonnyBoy]

1 hour ago, stevostadium said:

I really didnt want him here and was very disappointed in his appointment.

 

However, i am told that  he is very popular with the youngsters and all the non playing staff at the club.

 

I was also told that he put on an extra training session last week at the time of the england game due to standards not being met.

 

These show ponies have had it too good for too long.

 

I actually think he be ok. As long as he can get rid of the bad apples.

if this is true he has already done better the cooper, RVN and Marti’s tenures 

 

 

Turn that spa into spa-ta 

[OntarioFox]

10 hours ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

5 weeks until the first competitive game.

6 weeks until the first league game. 

8 weeks until the window closes. 

 

And we have what? Multiple first teamers who need to be sold because we can't afford them/they're crap/they're toxic/they want to leave/we need cashflow

And the squad is missing:

• A decent goalkeeper
• Defenders who can defend
• Goal scoring midfielders
• 2 centre forwards

How good RM is or not is largely irrelevant right now unless we actually do the business in the transfer window. 

Honestly at this rate if he gets them playing as even a semi-cohesive unit I'll hold my hands up and give the guy the benefit of the doubt, even if the style of play is complete arse. Our squad is such a mess and that doesn't look like changing.

 

Edited 6 July by OntarioFox

[Gamble92]

On 30/06/2026 at 21:33, kingfox said:

Gotta say, this face doesn’t give me Yorkshire ripper vibes

Ngl I fancy him here 

[BillyFOX12]

Ive watched enough of RM to know this will only work if we have far superior players, which might be the case in League One.