The Official Leicester City thread

[technodup]

Leicester Loyal said:

If he got us 15th last year then maybe? But we didn't finish 15th, we finished 1st and spent 80m on players.

I think you're about to get a reality check. Yes you finished first, but it was a freak result. A great one, but a freak. Your squad in any other season would be bottom half. So to assume that spending a few quid as champions is going to consolidate or push you on to even greater things doesn't make sense.

You're a yo-yo club who have spent a few quid. Same as all the other yo-yo clubs and bottom halfers. £80m is fk all, how much have Liverpool or Spurs spent and won nothing?

Ranieri was the best thing to happen to your club. Ever.

I hope Leicester go down and don't come back up for a while. I also hope Seville embarrass you at the KP.

[PurpleAki]

Exactly. Crystal Palace can buy £30M players these!

[chrisb92]

Leicester Loyal said:

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.

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.

You are deluded. Vardy and Mahrez are not as good as you think and there's more chance of snow in hell than you signing 'world class players'. Who in their right mind would have gone to you over one of the big clubs? I suppose you think you should have been the club signing Zlatan and Pogba for 80 mil.

Get real, Leicester are fking pants. It's the same mugs who were one of the worst sides in PL history for much of the 14/15 season. Danny drinkwater, Jamie Vardy, Rob Huth, Wes Morgan, Danny Simpson, Mark Albrighton et al and you expect to not be in a relegation fight. Jesus. Just repeat those players names to yourself and tell me you think they were ever going to recreate anything near to last seasons miracle. At the end of the day, you put up a good fight against a side who have won the Europa League 3 years running and are neck and neck with Barcelona and Real Madrid. Tells me the players like to turn up for the big TV games and don't give a fk and think they're big time so don't need to try against the Millwalls or Swanseas of this world.

[Equilibrium25]

chrisb92 said:

Leicester Loyal said:

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.

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.

You are deluded. Vardy and Mahrez are not as good as you think and there's more chance of snow in hell than you signing 'world class players'. Who in their right mind would have gone to you over one of the big clubs? I suppose you think you should have been the club signing Zlatan and Pogba for 80 mil.

Get real, Leicester are fking pants. It's the same mugs who were one of the worst sides in PL history for much of the 14/15 season. Danny drinkwater, Jamie Vardy, Rob Huth, Wes Morgan, Danny Simpson, Mark Albrighton et al and you expect to not be in a relegation fight. Jesus. Just repeat those players names to yourself and tell me you think they were ever going to recreate anything near to last seasons miracle. At the end of the day, you put up a good fight against a side who have won the Europa League 3 years running and are neck and neck with Barcelona and Real Madrid. Tells me the players like to turn up for the big TV games and don't give a fk and think they're big time so don't need to try against the Millwalls or Swanseas of this world.

Exactly that.

I was very pleased that Leicester won the title last year, and if it was my club then I'd happily take that one off and a relegation to follow. So what, you then get a good season or two of fighting for promotion.

It's usually the board that are seen as disloyal but Leicester Loyal has exposed that some fans are just as bad. If the players aren't showing fight, get on their backs, don't blame the man who picks them.

I sincerely hope that Leicester go down and get no reward for the shabby treatment of someone who should be a job for life hero (and I am sorry for all the real fans, but at least you had your moment of glory that 99% of clubs at or slightly above Leicester's level will never ever have).

[Leicester Loyal]

It's a lot easier to sack a manager than to sack 10 players. If last season was all due to Claudio, then surely this season has all been down to him as well? We shouldn't be near the top, but we should be a lot higher up the table.

We'll be judged and hated for this decision, but the majority of fans believe this decision is correct because they watch us week in week out.

[mickk]

I see Pardew is linked, you'd be better off with Sherwood.

[Leicester Loyal]

mickk said:

I see Pardew is linked, you'd be better off with Sherwood.

Please God no! To be fair I don't think Pardew does badly in his first 6 months, but after that it all goes to pot. I fancy Gary Rowett, young English and did well with £0 at Birmingham. Mancini is a risk but one that could pay off.

[robsco]

Read this on the news last night and still can't quite believe it. Flabbergasted. Like millions of others, I was over the moon for Leicester winning the league last season, it was a truly extraordinary story that is unlikely to be repeated. For the board of directors to be so short sighted is utterly baffling. I sincerely hope (apologies to Leicester fans on the forum) that they are now relegated and swiftly ejected from the CL too, it would be karma for what is a heroically poor decision. If Mancini was at the helm as this happens, that would be the icing on the cake.

[chrisb92]

Leicester Loyal said:

It's a lot easier to sack a manager than to sack 10 players. If last season was all due to Claudio, then surely this season has all been down to him as well? We shouldn't be near the top, but we should be a lot higher up the table.

We'll be judged and hated for this decision, but the majority of fans believe this decision is correct because they watch us week in week out.

No you shouldn't. Last year was just bizarre, you need to remember that. In the same way Chelsea finishing 10th was bizarre. These things happen. The squad you have is about where it should be - fighting to stay in the league. Where exactly do you think you should be? IF that crop of players put in similar levels of performance as last year (minus Kante), I'd say top half would have been an incredible season, INCREDIBLE. Why are you so bothered about going down? It's not like you're an established PL club who have been top flight for decades. Get over yourselves!!

[Janesy B]

Whoever sanctioned the sale of Kante to a premier league rival should be sacked, it's no coincidence that Chelsea are on top after struggling last season, and Leicester are now battling relegation as they were the season before the title was won.

If the rumours about senior players complaining to upper management about Ranieri, they should be taken outside and shot. It's their performances that have caused the problems.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/10779...

[antspants]

Apart from being surprised at the timing, I was also shocked that it hadn't been mutually agreed that he'd 'resign' and go out gracefully apparently on his own terms. But then when you read all of the news and social media it's very clear that not only has he come out £3m better off but smelling of roses as well.

Like Leicester Loyal I'm in agreement that it's the right decision, if a little late and may not halt the slide, but I'm very pleased for CR that the public support is 100% in his favour and it won't tarnish what he accomplished last year

ETA quote from Sky Sports... Legacy intact

Sky Sports said:

For Ranieri himself, the adventure is over and having lost his job there is nothing left to lose. If Leicester stay up then the legacy of his amazing title win is strengthened. If they go down, well, he left them outside of the relegation zone and still in the Champions League.

Edited by antspants on Friday 24th February 11:35

[Edwin Strohacker]

Kante was the difference for me. He made Huth & Morgan look like footballers.

Anyway, the overarching thing in all this for my money is I'm left wondering why anyone would express surprise at a managerial sacking in a football system that has had obscene amounts of money poured into it over a period of years, prompting lascivious chairmen to sell up at indecent haste to only too willing foreign investors with no history or tradition in the game and therefore no connection to it's past in pursuit only of either the highest return as they can possibly squeeze out of it, which hinges entirely on staying in the premier league at all costs or as in a couple of cases, a train set for the owner.

[XslaneyX]

Some truly embarrassing comments here from other fans. It's a business at the end of the day and being in the position we are after doing the unthinkable last season simply isn't good enough. That's not self entitlement talk as it was plainly obvious we wouldn't challenge for the title again, however it should of been a kickstarter to press on and establish as a top 10 team which is what the owners had ambitions of over a 6 year period.
Someone said a few pages back about being a tin-pot club? Spuds fan by chance?

He won us the league (By 10 points and not "fluke" as some fans/pundits still say) which is something that can never be taken away. Pre season was a shambles and i think dented confidence a fair bit going into season. A lot of rumours circulating about players not wanting to put the effort in for CR and him falling out with the backroom staff because of ignoring them and changing up team tactics last minute etc is the reason it led to the sacking. Kante going and a poor transfer window has done us no favours either. When you see some of the results produced, it was only a matter of time before he was to go.

[Trabi601]

If the players don't want to play for a manager who has just defined their futures as league winners and CL contenders, then the players are the problem, not the manager.

They've got above themselves and didn't seem to adjust to the reality of being the team everyone wants to beat - there's a very good reason why very few teams retain Premier League titles.

The whole episode shows the Leicester board and some of their fans in a very poor light.

[PurpleAki]

Is Mancini the man for a relegation dog fight?

Not convinced.

[Leicester Loyal]

XslaneyX said:

Some truly embarrassing comments here from other fans. It's a business at the end of the day and being in the position we are after doing the unthinkable last season simply isn't good enough. That's not self entitlement talk as it was plainly obvious we wouldn't challenge for the title again, however it should of been a kickstarter to press on and establish as a top 10 team which is what the owners had ambitions of over a 6 year period.
Someone said a few pages back about being a tin-pot club? Spuds fan by chance?

He won us the league (By 10 points and not "fluke" as some fans/pundits still say) which is something that can never be taken away. Pre season was a shambles and i think dented confidence a fair bit going into season. A lot of rumours circulating about players not wanting to put the effort in for CR and him falling out with the backroom staff because of ignoring them and changing up team tactics last minute etc is the reason it led to the sacking. Kante going and a poor transfer window has done us no favours either. When you see some of the results produced, it was only a matter of time before he was to go.

Shouldn't we be happy about going down as we won the league last season? That's what the general opinion seems to be. It's done now, hopefully we'll stay up, if not then so be it.

[Shamrock_]

Leicester Loyal said:

XslaneyX said:

Some truly embarrassing comments here from other fans. It's a business at the end of the day and being in the position we are after doing the unthinkable last season simply isn't good enough. That's not self entitlement talk as it was plainly obvious we wouldn't challenge for the title again, however it should of been a kickstarter to press on and establish as a top 10 team which is what the owners had ambitions of over a 6 year period.
Someone said a few pages back about being a tin-pot club? Spuds fan by chance?

He won us the league (By 10 points and not "fluke" as some fans/pundits still say) which is something that can never be taken away. Pre season was a shambles and i think dented confidence a fair bit going into season. A lot of rumours circulating about players not wanting to put the effort in for CR and him falling out with the backroom staff because of ignoring them and changing up team tactics last minute etc is the reason it led to the sacking. Kante going and a poor transfer window has done us no favours either. When you see some of the results produced, it was only a matter of time before he was to go.

Shouldn't we be happy about going down as we won the league last season? That's what the general opinion seems to be. It's done now, hopefully we'll stay up, if not then so be it.

What would you rather?

Finish just above the relegation zone in the premier league year in and year out
Yoyo between the premier league and championship but win the Premier League in one of the most remarkable seasons of sporting history

[Murph7355]

Janesy B said:

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If the rumours about senior players complaining to upper management about Ranieri, they should be taken outside and shot. It's their performances that have caused the problems.
...

This all day long. If there's truth to that, they should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves and deserve relegation.

The only one of them likely to get a decent birth would be Schmeicel IMO on this season's performance.

[PurpleAki]

Which of their wives is pregnant?

[technodup]

XslaneyX said:

Some truly embarrassing comments here from other fans. It's a business at the end of the day and being in the position we are after doing the unthinkable last season simply isn't good enough. That's not self entitlement talk as it was plainly obvious we wouldn't challenge for the title again, however it should of been a kickstarter to press on and establish as a top 10 team which is what the owners had ambitions of over a 6 year period.

Why would you press on and be a top 10 team when over the last number of years you have been a bottom three team? One swallow does not a summer make.

You really need to see last season for what it was. An incredible, unbelievable combination of form, timing, luck and other clubs problems. And I loved them for it, best thing in football for decades. BUT it was a one off. Clearly a one off, even last year. Under normal circumstances Leicester are a minnow, a yo-yo, or a diddy club as we call them up here. So this season needs to be seen in that context. And (as last year) you are where you deserve to be. My issue is take last year out and success for Leicester is PL survival and a cup run. Had Ranieri done that last year he'd probably still be in a job now. He's a victim of his own success.

I think all that champagne is still affecting Foxes fans. Real delusions of grandeur.