If we had a goalscorer you’d say there was a play-off possibility. Staying up is about not letting in goals; promotion is that plus regular goal scoring - we definitely lack in one area .
It’s true of course but we don’t get enough from across the team either. Chair has five (top scorer), Willock 4, Smyth 3, Andersen 0. You want maybe 10-12 from your defence over the season and 30 or so from midfield/wingers then another 30+ from strikers. Taarabt obviously accounted for nearly half but if you include him in the midfield the Warnock midfield got 45. Mackie got nine which none of our players are likely to get to this time. Helguson only got 13 and I’d argue his role is similar to that of Dykes (while far better).
After the way he’s turned us around, the style of football he’s got us playing, the player recruitment and the team spirit he’s quickly fostered, the biggest hurdle to him getting us promoted next year, is someone poaching him in the summer. If De Zerbi goes to Liverpool, Marti would be a perfect fit for Brighton. Gonna be a host of clubs wanting him if our form continues to the end of season.
He feels very Fulham to me. But if it means, assuming safety this season, a good first six months or so next season then he’s off and someone takes over with us in with a good chance of playoffs then so be it. Beale leaving when he did was more about it being so soon and so many players seemingly only being here for him - Salter has proven himself since but Laird, Balogun and Roberts basically ****ed it off.
Yep it’s the price of success that clubs like us will always have to pay. But I can’t see Fulham ditching Silva this summer. What worries me is that Marti was among several managers Brighton were paying close attention to before De Zerbi was appointed. With DZ on the Liverpool shortlist and quite a bit of tension now between him and Tony Bloom, I can see Brighton having a vacancy sooner rather than later. Just hope they’d have to pay way over the odds to get him
Bloom normally has a few candidates in mind well before losing a manager. Not saying he wouldn’t be on the radar a bit now but unlikely. I might be misremembering but I think Silva was very close to ****ing them off for Saudi when everyone was moving there.
Bloody hell, there's alot of people getting ahead of themselves on here lol. I don't think Liverpool will appoint De Zerbi, and other Prem clubs being interested in El Cif is a bit far fetched at this moment in time. Yes he's done wonderfully so far, but he'd have to get us in the promotion mix next season before Prem clubs come calling in my opinion. The Ipswich manager is much more likely to he poached in my eyes , even if they go up !
I should imagine he was asked to keep us up and ‘then we’ll talk about what’s next’. He knows that he’s done his reputation in this country a lot of good already, which might be all he’s after at this stage, he’s switched clubs pretty regularly in the past. Though I don’t think a PL club would be in for him over the summer. Once they begin to struggle next season he might be on the list if we are still making progress. Whatever the ‘project’ is for QPR rather depends on getting new investors in for infrastructure and continuing to avoid FFP punishment.
One would hope that he was asked how he would move us forward, as well as making survival a priority. I would have thought Marti sees it as a project to move us up the table next season, if we stay up, with an aim to get towards the play offs. Obviously he'll have half an eye on his own future, which is completely understandable. We seem to be running the club better these days, so hopefully we can start to progress (as long as we stay up, which is nowhere near a foregone conclusion).
Marti has switched Clubs regularly but it looks like he's stayed longer than a season at each of his last 3 Clubs in Scandinavia. Looks like he was at Sandefjord 2.5 seasons, AaB a season and a half, Hammarby the best part of 2 seasons. Sandefjord were in a poor position when he took over. He improved them but they were still relegated, then got them back up in 2nd place the season after, and got them to 11th in the top Division the season after that. So hopefully he will want to at least maintain that and want to have a full pre-season and season with us at least. He moves on but didn't jump ship at Sandefjord when they were relegated.
