So they accept that they're a club that should be struggling to survive. They'd only just done it before Ranieri took over and they're in that same position now. The only difference is they won the premier league in the middle. That justifies the sack does it? Every single manager has underachieved by comparison so there should be 91 similar sackings if all things are even. Words defy me (apart from those I've already spewed onto this thread obviously).
Hardly a surprise considering their League position. Heard him talking positively about their owners last we, and got the feeling he was about to get some bad news.
I disagree quite strongly with Mr Keys. Sentiment, 'misguided' or not, is what real football is all about. The very least the Leicester owners could have done is offer Ranieri some other role. Director of Football perhaps.
terrible decision,couldnt really give a toss about leicester but now im hoping they get relegated#two bob club
That's modern life I'm afraid, you're only as good as your last game unfortunately, I've found out the hard way, and no big payoff either
Ranieri has gone the way of Mourinho just over a year ago, Manager of Champions one season, Manager of Relegation candidates the next. Ranieri got 2 bonus months. Conte will know where the bar is.
Quite possibly he got lucky, Strolls, as the team he'd inherited from Mad Dog had just finished the previous season so magnificently, but he had the nous not to tinker (see what I did there?) too much with a winning formula, which I think was commendable. I'd imagine it's all too tempting for managers/coaches to come into a job and say "look at me, I'm the Big I Am" and bring in loads of players, impress their own personality on the team and fashion them in his own image. You can fall flat on your face doing that. Even Spunky learned his lesson and has evolved Stroke ****ty over a few seasons rather than immediately dispense with the unattractive, more direct Pulis style he'd inherited.
Bad decision, but not surprising. I was expecting that they got rid of him after exiting the Champions-runners-up-third-fourth League. Hope they go down and get JFH or some other failure in. All of the players that didn't want him (if true) will be jumping ship like the rats they are this summer. Would we want any of them?
From a "loyalty" or "emotional" point of view, it is a very tough decision. However, from a "technical" or "factual" stance, it is much less surprising, although the timing is awful. All they can hope for is a "new manager bounce" effect" which is very short term. On a long term basis, Ranieri may be a very good manager to rebuild the team. However, is this decision any different to our, or more precisely the QPR board, treatment of Neil Warnock? True, we "only" won the Championship and not the Premiership, but the parallels and the behaviours are very similar, if not the same.
Unfortunately Sky money is king these days and a £100m minimum going down the tubes is what the owners are looking at.... What I don't really understand is when they say "take Leicester to the next level...." They clearly don't understand that 17th in the league is roughly their true level and last season was a complete one off, never to be repeated, when all the stars aligned. The natural order has taken over again by clubs that are owned by Countries and have a spend greater than some 3rd world country national debt, will rise to the top again and the top 6 will become a closed shop once again........ This season will probably be their one and only crack at the Champions-runners-up-third-fourth League, as Totally described it above, this is them dining at the top table and they should try to enjoy it, but instead the owners panic and now set whoever comes in 12 or 13 games to avoid relegation and probably screw the chance that they had to do a number on Sevilla in the 2nd leg....... Football in the top flight has truly lost its soul.......
I am sorry but you don't get lucky for a whole season. They did get some luck I agree but to win it by ten points over the whole season isn't just luck.