Ranieri Sacked

[City Fan]

I think back to the Ulloa incident. Leo is reported to have said things like 'he was lied to, Ranieri lied to me'. Ok, Leo was pissed off and wanted out, we all say rash things when we're angry but there's often a basis of truth. So I don't doubt that Leo felt lied to. It's possible Ranieri simply told Ulloa what he wanted to hear.

I think Ranieri was very adept at knowing what to say. We all saw it in press conferences; always quick to be humorous, dissipate any ill feeling, describing everyone as 'fantastic', etc. Now I'm not accusing Ranieri of being two-faced, because I don't think he is, but I do think he possibly knew how to take the heat out of situations with words. His 'slowly, slowly' mantra suggests he was prepared to work slowly in winning people over but possibly not changing his own position.

I remember him gushing with pride taking about 'his team', 'they're like the RAF', etc. It was a pride like a mother has for their pride and joy winning the egg and spoon race. It's a distanced pride though, a recognition of a success that one has not played a real part in. It's fair to say Ranieri inherited a side that was performing well and largely looking after itself. He had little to do though that's not to say that what he didn't do well the things that he did do. He kept the team on course. But has he been found out now the team has lost its way? I don't know.

I do believe that for whatever reason that he has lost the dressing room. I personally would have accepted relegation as the possible price to pay for showing Ranieri some loyalty. Then had a clear out of the 'disruptive' players. However the club understandably don't agree. They are business men and they decided relegation was not an option. I don't like the decision but I see why it was made and so I reluctantly agree.

Spot on.

 

[Mike - True Blue Tinter]

Lead sports story here in Milan today, even over Fiorentina getting a spanking by the Germans.

 

[FIF]

Lead sports story here in Milan today, even over Fiorentina getting a spanking by the Germans.

Which is very relevant. Their coach could get the sack and then the Thais can sign him up.

The return of Paolo de Sousa.

 

[Moose]

I've read a lot over the last few hours from players, pundits and journalists, almost unanimously united in their incredulity about this decision.

I've just shook my head over and over again at the lack of insight, understanding and logic that is being applied by them all. People commenting without any knowledge or comprehension. And then I read this, it is spot on:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...ing-claudio-ranieri-right-decision-leicester/

Great to see that article amongst all the absolute crap being written about us this morning.

Most of the media are basically saying 'how dare little leicester have any expectation of being able to score goals in the premier league?'

They're being incredibly patronising and i wish Gary Lineker would just shut the **** up. Has he not seen us play lately?

 

[City Fan]

"How dare little Leicester turn their nose up to playing against Burton Albion and Scunthorpe next season"

 

[fitz]

I've no beef with the owners. We've looked doomed for a while. Though what ever Ranieri has done to upset these ****s it's ultimately the paying fans who have been shafted by their attitude, Claudio will leave with a shitload of money yet our fans can't be compensated for the matches we've thrown this season.

 

[FIF]

This is the end, beautiful friend.

 

[frankw]

I keep thinking back to when Gordon Brown took over from Ken Clarke as Chancellor. He said then that the Economy is going so well that he doesn't need to mess with it. When he did start messing with it, he really messed it up.

 

[FIF]

When the kids had killed the man, I had to break up the band.

 

[Miles Away]

Imagine Morgan going to the owners after the Sevilla game and complaining about Claudio's performance? After being diabolical throughout. The lack of self awareness that takes is hilarious.

Shit houses.

 

[SimonW]

What a sad, sad, sad day.

It is painfully obvious that the footballing set up at the club is broken, and the powers that be have come to the conclusion that the remedy is to sack Claudio. Sack the man who lead us to the summit of English football for the first and probably only time of our history, a miracle that I believe will never be repeated in my lifetime.

The question I keep asking myself is why has it come to this, why has the situation been allowed to deteriorate to such an extent. In my opinion when relationships break down like this there is small number of Machiavellian individuals in the background who for some reason don’t like what is happening and try to subvert the whole set up.

The correct course of action should have been to identify the cancerous individuals last summer or in January and remove them, and probably make an example of them to discourage others from following them. In my opinion we have not done this, we have the situation fester and probably get worse, and then taken the easy option of removing the man who lead us to greatness and until we get lucky again with another great manager, if we ever do, then we will never achieve anything close to what Claudio has done.

It seems to me like the lunatics are now in charge of the asylum.

 

[Graz]

What a sad, sad, sad day.

It is painfully obvious that the footballing set up at the club is broken, and the powers that be have come to the conclusion that the remedy is to sack Claudio. Sack the man who lead us to the summit of English football for the first and probably only time of our history, a miracle that I believe will never be repeated in my lifetime.

The question I keep asking myself is why has it come to this, why has the situation been allowed to deteriorate to such an extent. In my opinion when relationships break down like this there is small number of Machiavellian individuals in the background who for some reason don’t like what is happening and try to subvert the whole set up.

The correct course of action should have been to identify the cancerous individuals last summer or in January and remove them, and probably make an example of them to discourage others from following them. In my opinion we have not done this, we have the situation fester and probably get worse, and then taken the easy option of removing the man who lead us to greatness and until we get lucky again with another great manager, if we ever do, then we will never achieve anything close to what Claudio has done.

It seems to me like the lunatics are now in charge of the asylum.

Strong first post! Can't argue much with that.

 

[Orifice]

If Leicester win their next three games, all the people will be saying its right to sack Mr Ranieri. IF.

Things are bad (league position, the scene in the club (it seems)), things change. Times change. We move on (hopefully forward).
Tomorrow is another day.

No other football club can have so many fantastically good times and such uncomfortably bad times in only a few months.

I wonder what's around the corner, can't wait to find out.

 

[FIF]

I wonder what's around the corner, can't wait to find out.

 

[Volpone]

Top's latest statement.....

I trust him implicitly.

 

[Miles Away]

Top's latest statement.....

I trust him implicitly.

What a farce.

 

[Orifice]

And I still like Top.
Can't always understand him but I do respect him.

 

[Jeff]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/leicester-couldnt-wait-watch-claudio-9908571

So what were Leicester’s owners supposed to do?

Stand by and watch their multi-million pound investment go up in smoke?

Stare adoringly at Claudio Ranieri , wistfully recalling memories of last season while the club boasting the current Footballer of the Year, the Player’s Player of the Year and a clutch of new signings goes down with a whimper?

The idea that Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and the Leicester board should have kept Ranieri on is madness.

He’d had 25 Premier League games this season to shake the players out of their title euphoria and get them focused again.

That away goal at Sevilla, the consolation that gives them a chance of reaching the Champions League quarter-finals, is not enough.

During their latest top-flight surrender, a 2-0, white-flag waving exercise at Swansea, Leicester were a mess. They’d taken over from the Welsh club and Hull as being the easiest team in the Premier League to play against.

They remain winless in the Premier League in 2017, without a goal in their last six league outings and just a point off the relegation zone. With resurgent Liverpool to come they were there for the taking with Ranieri in charge.

The players spouted all the right clichés about the spirit still being there in the dressing room and all being behind the manager.

But behind the scenes they were moaning behind Ranieri’s back about his constant tinkering, the chopping and changing of his team selection, the fact that they’d had no clue from one game to the next which formation he would play until hours beforehand.

They’d got precious. They moaned about the changes in their diet. They stopped putting in the effort that took them to the top of the table last season.

Pieces were written after the Swansea defeat suggesting they were in freefall. Back pages were dominated by the slow demise of the defending champions.

They’d already been put out of the FA Cup by League One Millwall and should have been beaten by a hatful in the Champions League at Sevilla.


What on earth were Leicester’s owners supposed to do?

In what other business with the hundreds of millions of pounds of a Premier League place at stake would Ranieri have kept his job?

Words like shock and inexplicable were used to describe the decision. Was it really? Nobody who has watched Leicester this season could possibly be surprised at any level that Ranieri was sacked.

The axe was painted as another blow for faith in football. But at what other club would Ranieri have kept his job?

The owners clearly wanted to keep him, which is why he was given two thirds of the current campaign.

But the idea that he should have had a free pass for what he did last season while the club went up in flames is lunacy.

He’d lost the players. The spotlight should actually be on them but it won’t be, because we have seen time again again that it is far easier to replace the man in the dug out rather than the underachievers when they down tools.

Jose Mourinho discovered as much at Chelsea. Roman Abramovich held out for as long as he could before he was forced to pull the trigger on the man that had delivered the title for him just eight months earlier. Keeping players onside is a manager’s job. When you stop doing that, you have to go.

So criticise the club for giving him that dreaded vote of confidence when they’d clearly lost faith in him. Criticise them for trying to sneak the news under the wire, timing it for just before the Spurs game against Gent kicked off.


Call for Ranieri to be given a role upstairs by all means. He will forever be a Foxes immortal for what he did last season and he remains one of the nicest guys in the game.

But the 65-year-old Italian, veteran of 15 managerial roles, had to go.

His incredible achievement will never be forgotten. But in the brutal world of football business, Leicester's owners had no other option.

 

[FIF]

And I still like Top.
Can't always understand him but I do respect him.

He has my unwavering support.

 

[Chrysalis]

It confused the **** out of me too.

and me, musa is a horrible winger.