Russell Martin - Confirmed as First Team Manager

[UniFox21]

23 minutes ago, Tuna said:

I see so many rumours, but nothing actually happening. Worrying. Season about a month away.

Linked FC at it's finest 

[suffolk fox]

Going into the season, again, with no recognised striker is my main fear.  When, will the club ever realise and wake up to the reality that we need a striker.

We only ever buy or loan defenders and midfield players.  Never known a club like it.

[Cropwellfox]

Ugh. Interested FC, whilst at the same time completely unable to move anyone out the door.

 

McCarron really earning his salary, genuinely might as well not have bothered bringing him in.

 

Meanwhile the overpaid ‘senior pros’ will be infecting the younger players with their awful, entitled attitudes. 
 

Just put an end to this doomspiral 

[stevostadium]

21 hours ago, JonnyBoy said:

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

 

 

Turn that spa into spa-ta 

this is true

apparently a few of the senior players were not happy

shame

[stevostadium]

11 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Great news if true, I just hope the club give him the best opportunity to do his job by moving on the bad apples and the players who have clearly checked out.
 

The issues will be just like last season if some don’t move on and he is forced to reintegrate them and it makes for a toxic environment, the standards and culture further deteriorate and RM is completely hung out to dry by Aiyawatt and Rudkin. 

and there lies the problem.

that said he is doing the right things early.

the contracts handed out in the past are utterly astonishing

 

jutys definately out with me but i believ he is trying to get things right off the pitch

 

still not convinced by his style of play, especially in this league but we shall see.

[stevostadium]

5 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

I am yet to see any evidence of sufficient finances to bring players in.

agreed, but shifting players is the key right now. that will free up some income.

personally think we will get few journeyman freebies in and 2/3 on loan made up by the rest of whats left, of the ones he wants to keep that is.

priority is shifting shit so to speak

 

[stevostadium]

4 hours ago, AKCJ said:

We're not going to shift enough players out though. Sorry mate but it's going to be Mavididi and BDCR on the wings, Vestergaard at the back,  Hamza right back, Skipp and Winks in midfield etc.

 

You say that you're yet to see any evidence of sufficient finances to bring players in but I'm yet to see any evidence that the club has learned from it's mistakes. These players are all going to leave at the end of their contracts.

 

I think we'll see those players listed above with a few free agents alongside a couple of 500k-1m signings and a load of loans. We'll have these exciting young players on the bench or in the 21s whilst we've got the next bone idle Chelsea loanee just because we never learn and we keep pretending we're above the situation we're in.

 

If we were in the Premier League you can guarantee that the likes of Hutchinson, Gray, Aluko, Joseph, Richards, Wilson-Brown, Briggs etc would all be marked as loans for clubs in League 1.

We're not going to shift enough players out though. Sorry mate but it's going to be Mavididi and BDCR on the wings, Vestergaard at the back,  Hamza right back, Skipp and Winks in midfield etc.

 

Not a chance of that happening!

i be very surprised if 2 or more of that are still here.

 

worst case scenario of loaned out us paying percentage of wages

 

our situation is dire

 

wage bill has to be reduced

 

wouldnt surprise me to see pay off contracts offered to get them off the books

 

 

 

 

[Ric Flair]

4 minutes ago, stevostadium said:

We're not going to shift enough players out though. Sorry mate but it's going to be Mavididi and BDCR on the wings, Vestergaard at the back,  Hamza right back, Skipp and Winks in midfield etc.

 

Not a chance of that happening!

i be very surprised if 2 or more of that are still here.

 

worst case scenario of loaned out us paying percentage of wages

 

our situation is dire

 

wage bill has to be reduced

 

wouldnt surprise me to see pay off contracts offered to get them off the books

 

 

 

 

That only works on players with no amortisation left on their book value, we still have to consider the impact of making a " loss " on players to comply with the rules.

[Spudulike]

5 hours ago, AKCJ said:

We're not going to shift enough players out though. Sorry mate but it's going to be Mavididi and BDCR on the wings, Vestergaard at the back,  Hamza right back, Skipp and Winks in midfield etc.

 

You say that you're yet to see any evidence of sufficient finances to bring players in but I'm yet to see any evidence that the club has learned from it's mistakes. These players are all going to leave at the end of their contracts.

 

I think we'll see those players listed above with a few free agents alongside a couple of 500k-1m signings and a load of loans. We'll have these exciting young players on the bench or in the 21s whilst we've got the next bone idle Chelsea loanee just because we never learn and we keep pretending we're above the situation we're in.

 

If we were in the Premier League you can guarantee that the likes of Hutchinson, Gray, Aluko, Joseph, Richards, Wilson-Brown, Briggs etc would all be marked as loans for clubs in League 1.

We'll need to fit Faes into that line-up.

[whoareyaaa]

3 hours ago, suffolk fox said:

Going into the season, again, with no recognised striker is my main fear.  When, will the club ever realise and wake up to the reality that we need a striker.

We only ever buy or loan defenders and midfield players.  Never known a club like it.

Because the scouting system relies on Rudkins black book

[MGLCFC]

3 hours ago, suffolk fox said:

We only ever buy or loan defenders and midfield players.

Caranza, Edouard, Ayew, Richards - whilst the standard of loan and purchase is very low, we have invested in forwards over the last 2 seasons. 

[CosbehFox]

3 hours ago, suffolk fox said:

Going into the season, again, with no recognised striker is my main fear.  When, will the club ever realise and wake up to the reality that we need a striker.

We only ever buy or loan defenders and midfield players.  Never known a club like it.

There’s no money to sign a striker. Chaplin would have been here by now if there was. It’s 1 in, 1 out 

[Ric Flair]

1 minute ago, CosbehFox said:

There’s no money to sign a striker. Chaplin would have been here by now if there was. It’s 1 in, 1 out 

Chaplin's not the answer either as a striker, he's a 10 or in a front two at best. 

[SafewayFox]

29 minutes ago, MGLCFC said:

Caranza, Edouard, Ayew, Richards - whilst the standard of loan and purchase is very low, we have invested in forwards over the last 2 seasons. 

Are any of those genuine strikers though?

 

Edouard perhaps but that’s a shocking list, also scarily when in either the PL or Championship.

[MGLCFC]

21 minutes ago, SafewayFox said:

Are any of those genuine strikers though?

 

Edouard perhaps but that’s a shocking list, also scarily when in either the PL or Championship.

I think they would fall into the forward category rather than defenders or midfielders and were bought or loaned as forwards - but you're correct it's a dreadful list.

[Katy]

Are we thinking that RM has been sold a line by Dumb & Dumber in terms of there being money available? I really can’t see RM coming here if he doesn’t have money to spend on his own players. If they’ve said we have to sell first to get him in then good luck with getting the majority of these toxic reprobates off the books in the next few weeks. 

[Lesta Legend]

4 minutes ago, Katy said:

Are we thinking that RM has been sold a line by Dumb & Dumber in terms of there being money available? I really can’t see RM coming here if he doesn’t have money to spend on his own players. If they’ve said we have to sell first to get him in then good luck with getting the majority of these toxic reprobates off the books in the next few weeks. 

You almost start feeling sorry for him, which in itself doesn’t feel right. 
 

We know the score , same pattern each year. 

[MPH]

6 hours ago, suffolk fox said:

Going into the season, again, with no recognised striker is my main fear.  When, will the club ever realise and wake up to the reality that we need a striker.

We only ever buy or loan defenders and midfield players.  Never known a club like it.

we need more then one striker!

[Corky]

If he is questioning the standards at the club then it is time the people in charge backed their manager for once.

[Claudio Fannieri]

7 hours ago, Corky said:

If he is questioning the standards at the club then it is time the people in charge backed their manager for once.

My only hope is given they have finally secured the manager they have been chasing for so long, that they actually listen to him and back him as required. If he is calling out poor standards then they have to help him by moving on the bad eggs. 

[CrazyKopCorner]

If he's calling out these charlatans he's already gone up in my estimation. 

 

Fair play to him - Get into these ****ers 

[Winstonthedog]

Still having to cope with paying premiership wages to several players isn't helping ... and I can't see anything happening until the likes of Skipp, Winks, Faes, Vestaguard are gone .... Rudkin and his crazy wage policy have painted the club into a corner .... God knows what BS and promises they have made to Martin .... so the saga goes on 

[ronnup]

8 hours ago, MPH said:

we need more then one striker!

 

Lorenz is going to bag 30 👀

[Ric Flair]

9 hours ago, Katy said:

Are we thinking that RM has been sold a line by Dumb & Dumber in terms of there being money available? I really can’t see RM coming here if he doesn’t have money to spend on his own players. If they’ve said we have to sell first to get him in then good luck with getting the majority of these toxic reprobates off the books in the next few weeks. 

It can't come as any surprise if so. How many managers have gone on record as saying the same, you do your due diligence. What I find staggering is how these managers buy what Top and Rudkin say, having heard Top communicate sparingly and what we are led to believe about Rudkin, neither would instil massive confidence (IMO) on what the project looks like. 

 

His reputation has taken a hit but i'm amazed he's come here under these circumstances. Going to be interesting to hear what he says in the coming weeks.

 

 

[filbertway]

It would take the most basic of research to know what financial state we're in. Someone in the game would have access to people with extra insight as well.

 

Also the guy spent around 35m last summer on a Rangers squad that already had a huge advantage over the rest of the league.

 

He then couldn't wait to tell everyone that the players were struggling with pressure when his awful football was immediately found out by teams with a 10th of Rangers budget.