Strolls is outside waiting to drive him to West Bromwich but he’s barricaded himself in his office. More updates as I get them.
What kind of welcome will Marti get if he turns up next season with WBA, a returning hero’s welcome, or a returning snake’s welcome.
I’ll be getting a ticket in the Paddocks just to throw an entire paella Valenciana. Unless he stays of course in which case he’s our fearless dear leader.
It'd be a 'Meh' from me. He kept us up last season, promised much but dropped us in it again, then turned it round to the point we deludedly thought the play-offs were on before we finished with a whimper. If he goes we're back to square one. I'd give him 6/10 overall...
Agree. I'm not too fussed about him going as it's not like we've been great this season. We'll maybe just about do better than last year, but no massive progress. What does annoy me is that he's somehow managed to spin his time at QPR as a raring success, and good enough to warrant a job at a 'bigger' club. I don't get that. If he goes, once again, it feels like we've been used as a stepping stone for a manager who talks the talk but doesn't stick to what he says, and that doesn't always pay off. Michael Beale was last seen as assistant manager to Gerrard in the Saudi Pro league. He's now unemployed.
A rare alternate view from a 'journo'. https://www.londonworld.com/sport/football/qpr/mart-cifuentes-qpr-reject-west-brom-5102340
Very surprised at how 'meh' lots of folk are on this one. I think Marti is a superb coach and we'll miss him if he goes. Article posted above covers off a lot of this - and some valid optimism around Kelman & Vale being two key "summer signings" already sorted. Will be interesting to see how some of the highly rated younger but untested players step up, like Sutton and Pearman, and how Morgan, Kolli and Lloyd continue to develop. Given the injuries we've faced this year (our best player missing for the vast majority of the season), and the development potential I think we're yet to see in players like Dembele, Celar (I know, I know, but I really think he was getting used to the championship), and Morrison, I'm glass half full if we keep Marti. I suppose the other thing to say is that with the clear exception of Ainsworth, I think the club has made some good manager appointments in recent years. Marti, obviously. Warburton too. Beale and Critchley didn't work out for different reasons, but I'd maintain that both were good appointments, in the right style/mould that we should be looking at.
‘League One top scorer Charlie Kelman is to return from his loan at Leyton Orient and thevery highly-rated Jaylan Pearman has already agreed a move from Perth Glory. January signing Harvey Vale is still to kick a ball since joining from Chelsea due to injury and fellow winter arrival Esquerdinha is dazzling with the Development Squad.’ Reasons to be cheerful
Maybe this was part of Marty's grand plan. Show the board how rubbish our summer signings were, then illustrate that he can polish a turd before reminding the board that this group of players are really L1 quality. In my opinion, i'm not comfortable having a fairly naive and clueless 26 year old run our football club. We have a good man in Marty but it's all about Nourry Nourry Nourry and he's got a load of things wrong but the good man has to go whilst the idiot is allowed to continue running the club. Very worrying - and i don't hold out much hope for our next manager who will have to work with his hands tied behind his back.
From my perspective 3 of our better players this season - Nardi, Varane and Morrison - were last season summer signings, and Edwards and Saito as loans were good too (QPR good, not really good). Of course these have to be offset against Madsen, Celar, Dembele and the less than stellar loans Asbby and Yang. If Cifuentes’ grand plan is to deliberately lose games to make some kind of point he can piss right off, but I don’t actually believe this because it would be cretinous for his own reputation. I do believe that his ‘team’ have leaked all this ‘relationship breakdown’ stuff in order to engineer a way out with a new job or a pay off. And let’s face it, he’d be going if he’d done a better job anyway. Interested to see the evidence that Nourry is ‘naive and clueless’, that’s just an assumption because he’s young. He’s running a club on negative money, he might not be great but the books are in a little bit better shape I’m told and we probably can’t afford anyone better. And not a single championship club is in profit when player sales are taken out of the equation, so getting a more ‘experienced’ CEO in would probably make no difference anyway.
