Both the players didn't want to play for him due to baffling tactics and selection
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What has changed so dramatically in your tactics/team selection since last year?
Guys, give me a few hours and i'll phone up the Leicester chairman himself and find out the real story, he used to have brunch with my Dad so we're best friends.
WOW,he could have said no to answer the question but didnt..
There are other teams that can help and grant your wish in helping to relegate Leicester.
No way I'm cheering on liverpool as they are a top 4 rival and they need to drop points and also because its liverpool..
"Did you or your fellow players go to the chairman at any point this season and ask for Ranieri to be dismissed?"
"According to the Geneva convention it is considered a war crime to torture prisoners"
"That's not what I was asking, did you ask for Ranieri to be sacked?"
"Dora the explorer is a cartoon about a little girl and a monkey who go looking for stuff with a magic map, that answers your question, I don't know how many more time i have to be clear with my answer"
Cryptic criticism of Ranieri's tactics there.
Funnily enough, I know Dora the Explorer and her monkey's rhino mate knows a keeper who once went to Leicester and said Ranieri was doing Vardy's missus so the club had to sack him.
The truth always gets out eventually.
Never mind that, see if you could find out what it was like filming a romcom with Julia Roberts.
He was hoping it would be figured out, his guilt consumes him.
Bloody hell, Ranieri got banged and Vardy chatted shit.
He said she is really a man and he found it really difficult to hide his half-mast.
Those Leicester players should be ashamed of themselves. Hope the lot of them get relegated and never return to the league.
Five out of their next six games are at home. Good period to get their groove back, go into next stage of CL, and ran away from bottom dwellers.
I couldn't even watch the team. I bought two tickets for two home games. First one yes, I screamed like "what the feck malaka, what kind of staring eleven id this malaka, get him out malaka" etc. I left before the end of the game. I never used the second ticket.
We were drowning and knowing how bad he treated the players... well, it didn't help me like Ranieri. In fact, when his name was announced I w disappointed. He did everything to prove I am right.
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Reading this thread and the overwhelming majority make very good points and I can't help but agree with them.
The patronising attitude from pundits and other clubs fans must be really annoying for them. This are the same pundits that largely mocked the appointment of Ranieri's in the first place.
It also reminds me of the nonsense we had to go through from other clubs fans and pundits when we sacked Moyes. Almost like we had to just sit there and accept failure because we had success in the past, and that complaining made us spoiled and entitled. While we watched our games each week, while said critics popped in for a few games throughout the season.
This is a Leicester team that has not scored a single league goal this year. It's almost March now.
Reading this thread and the overwhelming majority make very good points and I can't help but agree with them.
The patronising attitude from pundits and other clubs fans must be really annoying for them. This are the same pundits that largely mocked the appointment of Ranieri's in the first place.
It also reminds me of the nonsense we had to go through from other clubs fans and pundits when we sacked Moyes. Almost like we had to just sit there and accept failure because we had success in the past, and that complaining made us spoiled and entitled. While we watched our games each week, while said critics popped in for a few games throughout the season.
This is a Leicester team that has not scored a single league goal this year. It's almost March now.
I feel some sympathy for Ranieri but i'm of the view they were likely to go down with Ranieri, so i can understand the decision. Sacking the manager is what clubs who think they're in relegation trouble do with 10-15 games to play. We've seen Sunderland do it more than once. In 2013, they sacked Martin O'Neil,then hired Paolo Di Canio who ended up keeping them up. In 2015, with relegation staring them in the face, they sacked Gus Poyet and brought in Dick Advocaat who kept them up. They might feel the need to fire Moyes in the hope of his successor keeping them up. Look at this season, we've seen Swansea sack Bob Bradley, hire Paul Clement and they've got a better chance of staying up now than with Bob Bradley. Hull seem more likely to stay up with Marco Silva than with Mike Phelan. Yes, Leicester won the league with Ranieri but they feel they have a better chance of staying up with somebody not named Claudio Ranieri at the helm. Let's see how that pans out.
The sentiment angle annoys me a bit. Do people honestly, genuinely think Leicester owe Ranieri the opportunity to finish the season knowing that could conceivably result in relegation even if they think a change in manager gives them a better chance to stay up? This is about Leicester doing what they think is in their best interests, not what the football world want them to do. For some clubs relegation is something they struggle to recover from. If Leeds are promoted they would have spent 13 years out of the Premier League, three of those years were in League One. This is a club that played in a Champions League semi final in 2001, relegated in 2004. Blackburn, out of the Premier League since 2012 are no closer to a return. The same can be said of Wigan relegated in 2013. I appreciate last season Hull and Burnely returned to the Premier League after one season out of it and Newcastle could very well do the same having spent just one season in the Championship after their previous relegation in 2009. That said, relegation from the Premier League carries no guarantee of an immediate return. Just ask Leeds United.
The sentiment angle annoys me a bit. Do people honestly, genuinely think Leicester owe Ranieri the opportunity to finish the season knowing that could conceivably result in relegation even if they think a change in manager gives them a better chance to stay up? This is about Leicester doing what they think is in their best interests, not what the football world want them to do. For some clubs relegation is something they struggle to recover from. If Leeds are promoted they would have spent 13 years out of the Premier League, three of those years were in League One. This is a club that played in a Champions League semi final in 2001, relegated in 2004. Blackburn, out of the Premier League since 2012 are no closer to a return. The same can be said of Wigan relegated in 2013. I appreciate last season Hull and Burnely returned to the Premier League after one season out of it and Newcastle could very well do the same having spent just one season in the Championship after their previous relegation in 2009. That said, relegation from the Premier League carries no guarantee of an immediate return. Just ask Leeds United.
IMO there needs to be a feat that once achieved should make a manager immune from sacking unless they basically end up way worse than they originally were especially for teams not in top 6. Winning the league is a once in a lifetime achievement for clubs such as Leicester and there is no way they would be reaping the rewards for that league win for multiple years because of the media coverage and possibly, movies being made of this historic achievement.
The thing is Ranieri made Leicester everyone's second team and had it been Pearson, who had led them to the title, people may not have been that overjoyed because of the persona of the manager.
Personally, had I been a Leicester fan, I wouldn't have cared even if Leicester went down this season because of the happiness the side gave me an year ago and also due to the fact that they are more than well equipped to bounce back up on their first attempt. They are financially stable and have decent owners, unlike case of Blackburn, Leeds
Financially, their losses are going to be minimal. I mean they've earned 2 season's worth of money in one season.
I read through that discussion yesterday and there's not much i disagree with there and i agree with what you've posted under the link. Cold hard fact is if Leicester was 12th in the league Ranieri is still in charge there. They're at risk of becoming the first top flight champion of England to be relegated the following season since 1938 when Manchester City was relegated as Champions.
Quite astonishing that all of last seasons League/FA Cup/League Cup winners have all lost there jobs
I wonder if Leicester have a decent manager lined up who is a cert to turn things around with the lure of Champions League football this season - a Mancini or a Hiddink or even a Martin O'Neill - but the suggestion they would sack a Premier League manager to replace him with Nigel Pearson or Alan Pardew is laughable.
Replacing O'Neill with Di Canio was one of the daftest decisions that have been made in the Premier League, Sunderland, admittedly in the midst of a terrible run under O'Neill, were 16th at the time of the Irishman's axing, his replacement kept them up by finishing an ever lower 17th and went on to become one of English top flight's least credible appointments.
Well even if Im the only United fan on Redcafe, for once in my life: 'I want Liverpool to win'!
My sentiments exactly. First time I will want the dippers to win a game in my lifetime
Fixed for the scouser.
But yeah, joking aside, let that sink in for a moment. All three domestic winners gone the season after.
How exactly would that work?
Leicester before Ranieri came and now are two completely different entities. Partly because they spent almost 80 mil pounds last Summer. The owners having invested that much would surely expect more than sleep walking to relegation.Ranieri will have been given those funds based on some level of expectation.
And I'd think that the Leicester owners that did the firing would be more knowledgeable about about their financial well-being. A large part of the club's spending has come directly from their own pocket. That could be on the back of expected funds from staying in the cash rich premier league.
And the part about being a Leicester fan not caring about going down is the patronising attitude that Leicester fans are complaining about. It's their club. They don't want to go down. They have gone down before and it was years before they could get back up. We have seen with clubs like Leeds, Wigan, Wolves and Portsmouth that it's possible to be relegated and sink even lower.
Unlike us opposition fans wagging our finger disapprovingly,they would have with to live the reality of relegation everyday. It means massive cuts, including real people within the club losing their jobs.
Absolute horsesh*t and you know it.
Nope, i'm super well connected. My uncle used to do coke with Charlie Sheen, my older brother used to bang Charlize Theron, my younger sister is best friends with Lily Allen and I dated Kiera Knightley before she was famous, still meet up now and then for some fun. My dad, as well as being buddies with the Leicester chairman, is on the Oscars and Baftas committees, studied management under SAF and taught Travolta how to fly planes.
I swear they've drawn those specs on him with a felt-tip.
The rubber end of his crutch is worn through. That's the saddest thing of all.
The final indignity.
Just had an e-mail from F-Rog, he has no idea who endless wheelies is and has never played racket ball in his life, love F-Rog, he's hilarious, constantly sends me cat pics though.
That actually sounds more likely than Endless Whee-LIES post tbf
I need to tell you something about your dad....
People are mixing up the reason why things went badly with the decision that had to be made. Even if the players downed tools and are disgraceful and have been plotting to have him sacked and all that, what could the owners and board possibly do to fix it? In February, nonetheless.
Sacking him was the only thing that could be done. I agree that the players let him down but I am also baffled that after seeing Huth and Morgan stink the place up till December, he didn't go all out and buy one or two CBs. They've been terrible.
Sacking him was the only thing that could be done. I agree that the players let him down but I am also baffled that after seeing Huth and Morgan stink the place up till December, he didn't go all out and buy one or two CBs. They've been terrible.
It wasn't flying planes was it?
I don't buy the argument that Leicester were certain to go down had Ranieri remained, or that they were highly likely to go down.
Sunderland are useless, Hull poor, Palace awful, Leicester terrible, Middlesbrough struggling to score, Swansea had a few good games recently but could easily go back to being hopeless, Bournemouth on an awful run. Only 3 teams get relegated. That means 4 teams that are either very poor, or on terrible runs, will escape relegation.
The key to Leicester's survival is Slimani. He has scored or assisted in 4 of their 5 PL wins. The other win, he had yet to join the club. In the CL he started their first 3 games, all won, scoring once with one assist. Their record without Slimani is terrible.
Sunderland are useless, Hull poor, Palace awful, Leicester terrible, Middlesbrough struggling to score, Swansea had a few good games recently but could easily go back to being hopeless, Bournemouth on an awful run. Only 3 teams get relegated. That means 4 teams that are either very poor, or on terrible runs, will escape relegation.
The key to Leicester's survival is Slimani. He has scored or assisted in 4 of their 5 PL wins. The other win, he had yet to join the club. In the CL he started their first 3 games, all won, scoring once with one assist. Their record without Slimani is terrible.
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I don't know whether it warrants a new thread or not, but Hodgson seems to be in talks with Leicester over the manager's job.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39125968
What a car crash that could be if he gets it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39125968
What a car crash that could be if he gets it
Always felt the manager has to go if he loses the dressing room and this case Ranieri clearly had done.
His sacking doesn't sit easy with me at all, but it is still a cardinal sin for the manager to lose the dressing room as he has done so. Hard to come back from that as the board will never sack all their players.
His sacking doesn't sit easy with me at all, but it is still a cardinal sin for the manager to lose the dressing room as he has done so. Hard to come back from that as the board will never sack all their players.