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If we were mid table and comfortable I'd say this was a dream appointment as the guy seems to tick a lot of boxes. But the next two months could be brutal for us and we are going to need steel, resolve and a "fuck you" attitude to all of these cunts who are going to put an extra shift in to try and relegate us, before we even think about playing stylish football. That's my only concern.

He has got to hit the ground running though. We won't have the time to adapt his philosophy with this squad. I hope the owners are making it clear to him just how mediocre this bunch are, and the job that he's going to have in front of him.

4 wins in 24 against the top Italian teams too....

Me neither.. I just worry that he has no idea how much good coaching has been drilled out of this squad of players. Fulham were a great team to watch last season, very attack-minded and look where it got them. On the flipside I guess we do have the January big spend coming that they didnt.

If we are paying him £6m a year I'd say he's not being brought in to make up the numbers in the league. A lot of the comments suggest the guy doesn't know how to get a team to defend. That's worrying.

Reading this quote in the comments makes me nervous about this guy..... I'm an AS Roma fan and I tell you this interview sounded to me like an attempt to sell Paulo Fonseca to Tottenham fans as something he is not. It is true that human resources of the team were not that good but it is also true that if at the end of a first half at Old Trafford you are winning and if you know what players you have to line up you can play any way but conceding your opponents to score on counterattack. Fonseca is surely known as a well dressed gentleman with a nice hair style and all the rest... But he is not a manager for great scenes. Ukraine can be his dimension or maybe some portuguese outsider team or whatever, but surely not Serie A or Premiership. When you make 6 substitutes in a game it means you are not focused on the final result. And I could go on with exemples for hours... Wish Tottenham the best but I don't believe Fonseca to be a good choice. The last thing we need is style over substance in our current plight. Didn't realise his Roma team got hammered 6-2 off Man Utd a few seasons ago too.

If we can get to the January window and we aren't any more than 3 points adrift from 17th I wlll feel better, but I'm really not sure that we will. All of the teams we play up to that point will smell blood and up their game by an extra 10% against us.

What's everyone's thoughts on this now then? Right now I have to say I'm at a solid seven, maybe even an eight. It's really worrying, to say the least, and I'm not sure if the damage has already been done, with the fixtures we have got up to the New Year.

Please God, not Martinez.

I mean, I will gladly take this guy as he must surely be a significant upgrade on Bruce, and he does appear to have an actual footballing philosophy. But is 5th & 7th in Serie A anything to get excited about?

get the fuck iNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

We are on edge because every game that he remains is three winnable points lost, with a nightmare set of fixtures coming up. If he is here on Saturday we are getting 100% turned over again. Right now we are going to be properly cut adrift from 17th in a week or two if he isnt peddled before the weekend.

I hope you are correct my friend. If he is there in training tomorrow then we will know for sure.

This is so true. It doesn't matter what happens, we won't be given any credit whatsoever. Trophies won will be accounted for because it was "always going to happen because of the money spent". Bitter, bitter cunts. I'm enjoying how their new reality is to check the fortunes of NUFC well before even contemplating what is happening at their own club. The NUFC thread on there will never depart from the top five threads on that board from now on.

I love how he is held up as some kind of wise old sage over there when in reality he is as dense, bitter & twisted as the rest of them. Literally a day or two before the takeover went through, he was soothing them all with his words of wisdom as to how it would be impossible to prove the separation between Saudi state & PIF. I would love to have seen the look on the prick's face when the bomb dropped.

How would a scout for another club know, so quickly? Sounds fishy to me.

This is fucking torture now. JUST SACK THE CUNT MAN.

The Saudis should send a letter to those clubs saying "think VERY carefully about your next decision". It was CAT that forced through this takeover, I have no doubt of that. And dealing with these clubs through the same organisation will be an absolute breeze compared to getting the club sold.

He speaks well there. Have to say I'm liking him more and more. His Overlap feature on Sky is excellent too.

An ITK on Toontastic also says he's been despatched. Please be true.

I just wish they would sack Bruce so I can enjoy all of this drama.

Martinez will be a disasterous appointment. He's absolutely not equipped for a relegation battle

Aye, they haven't got a leg to stand on. I'd love it if we sued all 18 of them for millions. it's nowt more than them trying to frighten us. They will have to do a lot better than this.

What did he say?

I known that the takeover caught them by surprise and literally happened overnight but they had 18 months beforehand to have a rough plan of how they should handle the management structure. If Bruce is still here at the weekend then I'm afraid that this will be an awful start from them. They are fiddling while Rome burns down to the ground.