Claudio Ranieri Appointed Manager

[SJN-Fox]

I think some people are quick to forget that it's not that long ago that the best we could attract was Allen, Holloway, Kelly et al. To be able to engage the services of someone like Ranieri shows how far we have come and also where we want to be. A place I don't think Pearson could have taken us. Ok. He engineered the great escape but it was he that rooted us to the bottom in the first place and could just as easily repeat that next year. Ranieri is a risk but I have more optimism for next season than I would have had withPearson.

 

[Lako42]

I'm pretty staggered by the negativity surrounding his appointment. Not amongst fans on forums because there's always one winger for every one blinkered optimist, but amongst the mainstream press. And no doubt they'd have applauded the hiring of O'Neill or Lennon. Useless ****ing pundits. A total lack of insight.

The same Twat on Talk Sport was saying Lennon was a better manager and based this on his time at Celtic, in particular the fact they beat Barca, utterly pathetic stuff.

Let the media be negative, it will only create a point to prove and a siege mentality again.

 

[TangledUpInBlue]

I liked Pearson and was shocked at the timing of his departure however I am becoming bored feckin shitless with the blinkered view that he was / is the only manager capable of ever achieving any level of success with our club. He has obvious limitations and his replacement in Ranieri, whilst far from a guarantee of success, is not the hopeless chancer some are making out.

Bottom line is he probably wasn't first choice, but then again neither was Pearson on either occasion and that didn't work out too bad in the end did it???

Let's get behind Claudio and judge him on how he performs with us. Who knows how it will turn but at least give him a chance

Got to agree with you
The King is dead, long live the King !

 

[Rock Fox]

What great heights had MON and Pearson achieved as managers before they came to Leicester? Claudio Ranerieri is as big a name as City could have hoped for. Plus it's a name with all the vowels in it. He'll do fine.

 

[ChrisFilter]

The same Twat on Talk Sport was saying Lennon was a better manager and based this on his time at Celtic, in particular the fact they beat Barca, utterly pathetic stuff.

Let the media be negative, it will only create a point to prove and a siege mentality again.

Christ.

As was mentioned on a Man City forum, it's not a stretch to see Ranieri tactically out-thinking the likes of Sherwood, Pulis, etc.

 

[martin peters]

We all have to look at this appointment and back the owners and Claudio Ranieri, I hope that the current backroom staff, Craig Shakespear and Steve Walsh are retained to add continuity and also Kevin Philips and hopefully the club can secure the signiture of Esteban Cambiasso to do the job on the pitch that he did last season, can't wait for the kick off now COME ON YOU BLUES

 

[Durham Fox]

This really is depressing and proof should it be needed that our owners really are clueless. They got lucky with Pearson but this is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Gone by Christmas with £3M in his pocket and leaving us with a string of overpaid shite players on lengthy contracts. Mark my words.

 

[Chrysalis]

So he has ties to steve walsh, the betfair article points out positive facts and also has managed hith and cambiasso before.

I am hopeful about this, but as others said cambiasso's decision may be telling.

 

[alex]

Sorry.. Anyone who doesn't think this is a magnificent appointment for a club like ours is seriously deluded. Just look at the list of clubs managed.
TEAMS MANAGED
1986-87 – Lametini
1987-88 – Campania
1988-91 – Cagliari
1991-93 – Napoli
1993-97 – Fiorentina
1997-99 – Valencia
1999-00 – Atletico Madrid
2000-04 – Chelsea
2004-05 – Valencia
2007 – Parma
2007-09 – Juventus
2009-11 – Roma
2011-12 – Interazionale
2012-14 – AS Monaco
2014 – Greece
2015 – Leicester City
Come on people.. Did we really think this was even remotely possible back when we won away at Cheltenham Town with Matt Oakley as captain?
We are Leicester City FC. We are a Premiership side with a top stadium, top training facility, an OK squad and now a manager who has been through the highest levels - forget Greece, that's a load of old cock. Look, just look, at the man's CV.
No.

We get behind this manager and we applaud the owners for having the guts and courage. And we hope, as fans, that this fits. Because, if it does, my god, we might just be a proper club yet.

 

[Blaarev]

What great heights had MON and Pearson achieved as managers before they came to Leicester? Claudio Ranerieri is as big a name as City could have hoped for. Plus it's a name with all the vowels in it. He'll do fine.

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[David Gwilliam]

Off topic but Blaarev deserved a reply.

I get a feeling that JoeFox actually managed to annoy you a bit.

There is a positive view. There is a sense of honour in Homer and myself being picked out from the possible choice of posters. . In an idle moment I mentally listed all the excellent current posters who could have been included excluding people like Kingy85 who sadly seems to have stopped posting. I stopped when I reached thirty.

It seems to me that despite the odd rogue poster a forum with over thirty excellent posters is in very good health. No doubt this was not the message Joe was trying to save. But then when his heroine complained about Alf Garnet, Steptoe and Monty Python in the 1970s all she did was increase their prestige.

 

[TangledUpInBlue]

Sorry.. Anyone who doesn't think this is a magnificent appointment for a club like ours is seriously deluded. Just look at the list of clubs managed.
TEAMS MANAGED
1986-87 – Lametini
1987-88 – Campania
1988-91 – Cagliari
1991-93 – Napoli
1993-97 – Fiorentina
1997-99 – Valencia
1999-00 – Atletico Madrid
2000-04 – Chelsea
2004-05 – Valencia
2007 – Parma
2007-09 – Juventus
2009-11 – Roma
2011-12 – Interazionale
2012-14 – AS Monaco
2014 – Greece
2015 – Leicester City
Come on people.. Did we really think this was even remotely possible back when we won away at Cheltenham Town with Matt Oakley as captain?
We are Leicester City FC. We are a Premiership side with a top stadium, top training facility, an OK squad and now a manager who has been through the highest levels - forget Greece, that's a load of old cock. Look, just look, at the man's CV.
No.

We get behind this manager and we applaud the owners for having the guts and courage. And we hope, as fans, that this fits. Because, if it does, my god, we might just be a proper club yet.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.

 

[tedfoxxx]

He will be gone by March

Always nice to bump into a fellow Football Ramble listener

 

[ChrisFilter]

This really is depressing and proof should it be needed that our owners really are clueless. They got lucky with Pearson but this is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Gone by Christmas with £3M in his pocket and leaving us with a string of overpaid shite players on lengthy contracts. Mark my words.

Can you elaborate as to why you're so uncompromisingly negative about it?

 

[Blaarev]

This thread will be fun to pick up again sometime in the future.

 

[FryattFox]

This really is depressing and proof should it be needed that our owners really are clueless. They got lucky with Pearson but this is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Gone by Christmas with £3M in his pocket and leaving us with a string of overpaid shite players on lengthy contracts. Mark my words.

You may well be proved right, but I just can't see a better option, and neither can you by the looks of it.

You didn't want Hiddink or Lennon, and the only name I have seen you offer is Dyche? Really?! You think that he would be much less of a gamble?

I'm not having a go, I am just yet to see any alternatives where I've thought "I agree that he would be excellent for the club, and not a gamble at all". We're in the position where we either gamble on someone who's done well at lower levels but has little/no success at the top level, or someone's who's previously been successful but may be in the latter years of their career.

 

[alex]

Homer and Claudio down by the school yard..

 

[FryattFox]

This thread will be fun to pick up again sometime in the future.

Agreed. Pick a side Blaarev, otherwise it won't be as fun in six months time...

 

[Blaarev]

Off topic but Blaarev deserved a reply.




There is a positive view. There is a sense of honour in Homer and myself being picked out from the possible choice of posters. . In an idle moment I mentally listed all the excellent current posters who could have been included excluding people like Kingy85 who sadly seems to have stopped posting. I stopped when I reached thirty.

It seems to me that despite the odd rogue poster a forum with over thirty excellent posters is in very good health. No doubt this was not the message Joe was trying to save. But then when his heroine complained about Alf Garnet, Steptoe and Monty Python in the 1970s all she did was increase their prestige.

Thanks for being off topic, David.

I just envy you your increased prestige, you know.

 

[Mike - True Blue Tinter]

From the little I know about him, he does not come across as a 'Spiv' like Redknapp or Warnock, so I imagine he would not want to embarrass himself by making a total dogs dinner of maybe one of his last Club appointments before retirement. If you have his CV would you want to be remembered as a spectacular failure with Greece and Leicester, rather than 9 trophies with 12 of the top clubs in Europe?

He has been out of the Premier League for 11 years. He will have seen DVDs of our last 10 games and read about our spirit etc throughout last season.

He knows that that same 'die for each other' squad is still intact, so I imagine he would think it foolish to just tear it all down and start again.

I would hope that he would keep on Walsh and Shakey and the rest of the team for at least many months for the sake of continuity for what the players are used to.

Match tactics may be very different but he has successfully played 3-4-3 before at Chelsea.

As others have suggested I am certain he will go for a couple of top midfielders first, whether Cambiasso stays or not.

Potentially a very brave appointment, but certainly not a 'bombscare' in terms of PR, which for obvious reasons would have been much higher on the tick box list of essential qualities for the owners.