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I had to go back and watch the first minute again as I was trying in vain to clean some splash drops off my screen. Let me save you some time, that wall behind Marti needs a new lick of paint.
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Marti on today and his position going forward on 07:33 - Apr 27 with 1714 views
Regardless of what you think of how good a manager he is or has been, how can any QPR fan watch that interview and not love the guy? What he says here about the fans (around the 6:00 mark), surely the nicest thing any manager has said about us.
I said it before, I think he's done an excellent job personally, not flawless, but I don't think it's a crime to actually really like your manager almost come what may. It's the kind of support that should provide a little long-term stability and who knows...success? I keep thinking back to Warbs and although he wasn't adored in the same way, he was a class act on and off the field and removing him was nothing but damaging.
And I know, if we did go well I am sure Marti would up sticks to a bigger club without a second thought. Or maybe not, watching this, if he got support from behind the scenes.
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Marti on today and his position going forward on 09:01 - Apr 27 with 1529 views
Marti on today and his position going forward on 22:16 - Apr 26 by GaryT
I had to go back and watch the first minute again as I was trying in vain to clean some splash drops off my screen. Let me save you some time, that wall behind Marti needs a new lick of paint.
Ha ha !!!! I did exactly the same thing on Monday 🤣🤣
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Marti on today and his position going forward on 10:28 - Apr 27 with 1211 views
Marti on today and his position going forward on 22:16 - Apr 26 by GaryT
I had to go back and watch the first minute again as I was trying in vain to clean some splash drops off my screen. Let me save you some time, that wall behind Marti needs a new lick of paint.
Bloody hell I’m glad I read your comment about the wall before I watched that.
I don't think he'll be here next season. They can't even seem to agree behind the scenes on what the target was - or at least that's what I've decided to conclude from Marti raising it in every interview for the last 3 days.
For what it's worth (zero) I don't think the target was survival at the beginning of the season - they set it a lot higher than that, without ever actually coming out and specifying it. And I don't disagree with him that the injuries across the squad changed that significantly.
But I don't think Nourry will see it that way, at least not enough - he'll hit him with a spreadsheet of data on overlapping player availability, squad selections, XG, VAT, the greatest hits of XTC and the average monthly barometric pressure in the Cook Islands, and it'll spiral downhill from there. Yesterday's result was just a bit more fuel to the fire - that was not the interview of a man who feels he's still a central part of the vision going forward.
Personally I think we should suck it up and try to move forward together (minus that tit in Dubai). Acknowledge all of the mistakes across all parties and have a clear, practical plan to address them. But we won't. Depressing stuff.
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Marti on today and his position going forward on 12:12 - Apr 27 with 855 views
Marti on today and his position going forward on 07:33 - Apr 27 by GaryBannister86
Regardless of what you think of how good a manager he is or has been, how can any QPR fan watch that interview and not love the guy? What he says here about the fans (around the 6:00 mark), surely the nicest thing any manager has said about us.
I said it before, I think he's done an excellent job personally, not flawless, but I don't think it's a crime to actually really like your manager almost come what may. It's the kind of support that should provide a little long-term stability and who knows...success? I keep thinking back to Warbs and although he wasn't adored in the same way, he was a class act on and off the field and removing him was nothing but damaging.
And I know, if we did go well I am sure Marti would up sticks to a bigger club without a second thought. Or maybe not, watching this, if he got support from behind the scenes.
Agree. Being a football supporter is about connections, with the club, the supporters, the team and the manager. And Marti gets us, we have taken him as one of us, and I'd love it so much for QPR to climb up the table with Marti at the front of it.
A lot of this sadly feels like further mood music for him leaving though
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Marti on today and his position going forward on 13:00 - Apr 27 with 664 views
Marti on today and his position going forward on 12:15 - Apr 27 by GaryBannister86
True, sadly. I read today that Wrexham's declared income last year was bigger than most in the Championship apart from the parachute payments clubs.
Wouldn't surprise me if Dunne went there.
After Willock's adventure with Cardiff, no one is going to a lower club unless we offer no deal ala Dozzell. That's why Kolli and Lloyd signed up, he saw what could happen even way back then.
But wait you say, Pompy are in the same place us. Yes, they are, but QPR had massive amount of injuries that at times either wiped out the whole Defence, Midfield or as was the case for most of the season, the whole Attack. The only area that was not affected was the Keeper.
Marti managed to win games with no recognised striker and get players like Madsen to actually create chances, and use the loans wisely even when they are rubbish like Ashby. He even got Celar scoring before he got injured. Not to mention having to play Bennie who is clearly a Dev squad player and not a real first teamer.
If there had been any more injuries, they would have been announcing to the crowd, if anyone has their boots with them as they need to line up for a quick fitness test to narrow down who needs to be come in the 65 min so, Marti can rest some of the injured players he's already playing.
I suspect this is all known and Marti will stay for next season. He should want to stay as there is no a decent chance the Eze money comes through and when you look at the teams in the Champ next season you can already identify more than three teams that will be worse than QPR.
Here they are (assuming some of them stay up): Oxford Portsmouth Derby PNE Hull Wrexham (they will find it hard up here) Brum (they went down with Stansfield scoring lots of goals, don't assume they will be good enough). L1 Playoff winners.
Even if they go out and buy lots of players, that's 7 of the 8 teams (one will get relegated, and Luton have a decent squad and money still), not all of them will be successful in their squad improvement. Add in that the three teams coming down from the Champ will be better than the 3 teams leaving us for the Prem and that makes it really hard for the above 7 teams left, despite any squad improvements. And this does not assume that one of the middling teams does not implode (one of them always does, Watford look like they are ready).
So, Marti can take the squad into a stronger position next season and see what happens. He would be silly to leave unless Valencia comes a calling, which they won't, as his record on paper does not warrant it. But we know better.
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