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Trabi601 said:
It's not Ranieri who's the problem, it's the players. Most of those players would be forever kicking around the lower leagues, Championship at best, if it hadn't been for Ranieri - he made them superstars, national names - and whatever they now do in the game will always be achieved on the back of what Ranieri did for them.
If you go down, so what? - that's where Leicester always have been and always will be - a yo-yo club, bouncing between leagues. In fact, going down and getting a parachute payment may actually be for the best. Especially if some of the underperforming prima-donnas decide they want out and are replaced by players with a point to prove.
I'm sure a few years ago you'd have taken a title and relegation over the continued tedium of the lower-mid table / relegation battle you usually get.
Of course we'd have taken it.If you go down, so what? - that's where Leicester always have been and always will be - a yo-yo club, bouncing between leagues. In fact, going down and getting a parachute payment may actually be for the best. Especially if some of the underperforming prima-donnas decide they want out and are replaced by players with a point to prove.
I'm sure a few years ago you'd have taken a title and relegation over the continued tedium of the lower-mid table / relegation battle you usually get.
What you and most people fail to realise is that as it stands we're going down without a fight. That's the reason he's been sacked, because we wouldn't have even got 30 points this season if we'd have kept him.
Leicester Loyal said:
He also spent 80m in the summer, we are the premier league champions and we spent 80m and we are 17th.
You are champions, but in name only. You don't have a league winning squad, no outstanding players, and can't compete financially when City or Utd can spend £80m one one player and not miss it.Leicester Loyal said:
This is copied from another forum I posted it on. Anyone who thinks that it's a stupid decision or that we should be grateful for being in 17th position is out of touch. Try paying £100 travelling to watch them every weekend and being blessed with some of the performances that we've produced.
I'm a Rangers fan, believe me you don't know the half of it. We were in the UEFA Cup Final in 08 and in division 4 four years later. For different reasons but still.If Ranieri had got you 15th last year and 15th this, you'd be hailing him as bringing stability, good base for a push, all that stuff. He's got you a Championship, last 16 of the CL and you're not in the relegation zone. If you want/expect more than that it is you guys who are out of touch. By a country mile.
technodup said:
'm a Rangers fan, believe me you don't know the half of it. We were in the UEFA Cup Final in 08 and in division 4 four years later. For different reasons but still.
If Ranieri had got you 15th last year and 15th this, you'd be hailing him as bringing stability, good base for a push, all that stuff. He's got you a Championship, last 16 of the CL and you're not in the relegation zone. If you want/expect more than that it is you guys who are out of touch. By a country mile.
If he got us 15th last year then maybe? But we didn't finish 15th, we finished 1st and spent 80m on players. We should be top 15 easily this year, regardless, but the players aren't even putting up a fight. Check our form, watch our watches for 90 minutes a week, believe me I'm the last person who ever wants a manager gone, I always follow them in blind faith, but this sacking is so obvious it should have been done in December. If Ranieri had got you 15th last year and 15th this, you'd be hailing him as bringing stability, good base for a push, all that stuff. He's got you a Championship, last 16 of the CL and you're not in the relegation zone. If you want/expect more than that it is you guys who are out of touch. By a country mile.
We are not currently in the relegation zone but we will be by next week, because there is not a chance in hell we'd have beat Liverpool on Monday. We had an absolutely easy group in the CL, fair enough you can only beat what's in front of you, no complaints from me in that sense. Did you watch us vs Millwall last week? A league 1 team with 10 men, they showed more passion, more commitment and more desire in that game than I've seen from us this season.
EDIT: Forgot to add, Mahrez and Vardy (last seasons vardy anyway) are outstanding players, they should be performing better. As premiership champions we had the chance to sign some world class players, but we haven't. Is that all Claudios fault? No, but has played his part in it.
king sick sometimes. Halfway through a CL tie! wBlack can man said:
I just can't help feeling that he should have replaced Huth & Morgan rather than spending all that money on the Algerian chap.
Bang on the money. Ask any Leicester fan what position we needed to strengthen in January, 90% would have said CB. Then we go and sign a young lad on loan with 'potential'. Can't help but feel we've wasted an absolute golden opportunity to become an established PL club with some of these decisions.Trabi601 said:
Amazing. That's truly astonishing.
You'd be better suited to supporting Manchester City or Chelsea with that attitude.
Can't be arsed arguing with you on here. Unless you watch this Leicester team week in week out then you really don't have a clue. I've supported this team for years and had my season ticket for years. We showed more fight when we got relegated from the Championship under Holloway than we have this year.You'd be better suited to supporting Manchester City or Chelsea with that attitude.
Take your stuck up opinion elsewhere.
Leicester Loyal said:
Of course we'd have taken it.
What you and most people fail to realise is that as it stands we're going down without a fight. That's the reason he's been sacked, because we wouldn't have even got 30 points this season if we'd have kept him.
Unless the players buck their ideas up you're going down without a fight regardless.What you and most people fail to realise is that as it stands we're going down without a fight. That's the reason he's been sacked, because we wouldn't have even got 30 points this season if we'd have kept him.
You were at the knacker's yard door 7 games from the end of the season before. Whatever was said to the players then seemed to give them a jolt and needs saying now. Maybe Ranieri isn't the right temperament to do that. But after what he did last season he served to be kept to the end of the season IMO to see if he could turn it.
I have no idea who you guys think you're going to get to replace him, but I'd be really worried if I were a Leicester fan (and I'm a Sheff Utd fan FFS!).
As for Vardy and Mahrez...they were great last season, but I wonder whether that was the anomaly year, and perhaps whether Kante was a massive support for them? Look at their performances other than last season in the EPL.
Some of the Leicester fans on here seem to forget who the fek Leicester are. They seem to think they should have been contenders again this year. But the top 7 in the league this year are doing things they didn't do last year... winning most of their games. That and the fact that all the other teams want to put the current champions back into their box is what's happened to Leicester.
You were never ever going to repeat last years form or the circumstances with the other teams under performing.
Without doubt Ranieri has made some mistakes. But he doesn't carry the can alone in the form of the team.
Kante leaving was a disaster that could have been repaired.
13 games to go, out of form Liverpool on Monday after a good CL result. The time to sack him was with 10 games to go and out of CL. Not yet.
Liverpool are going to DESTROY you on Monday now. Talk of post manager sacking dead cat bounce performance is going to be wrong this time. Six nil I reckon.
You were never ever going to repeat last years form or the circumstances with the other teams under performing.
Without doubt Ranieri has made some mistakes. But he doesn't carry the can alone in the form of the team.
Kante leaving was a disaster that could have been repaired.
13 games to go, out of form Liverpool on Monday after a good CL result. The time to sack him was with 10 games to go and out of CL. Not yet.
Liverpool are going to DESTROY you on Monday now. Talk of post manager sacking dead cat bounce performance is going to be wrong this time. Six nil I reckon.
We had a power cut all last night so I've only just heard the news. I think Leicester loyal is right. You can't live on sentiment.. Blame the players if you like but its his job to motivate them and he obviously couldn't anymore. Living in Leicester I know loads of fans who'd already resigned themselves to championship football next season. At least an effort is being made, even if it is a bit late imo.
Leicester were in free fall and going down. At least they're still in the CL and they've got a chance of getting a better manager because of this.
Who'd have wanted the job if they'd gone down?
The owners have done the right thing imo.
And dont forget he walks away with a nice pay off.
Leicester were in free fall and going down. At least they're still in the CL and they've got a chance of getting a better manager because of this.
Who'd have wanted the job if they'd gone down?
The owners have done the right thing imo.
And dont forget he walks away with a nice pay off.
I think Jamie Caragher was bang on the money on Sky Sports last night when he said if you asked Leicester City fans two years ago if they'd take winning the Premier League and being in the last 16 of the Champions League and being relegated the year after every single one would say yes.
You can always get promoted again.
You're never going to have another year period like the last 12-18 months.
You can always get promoted again.
You're never going to have another year period like the last 12-18 months.
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