Deucalion Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Claudio Ranieri has only been in the job for two days, is yet to speak publically as Leicester manager, hasn't picked a team for even a friendly and has not signed a player. Even so, he is roundly attacked from all sides. I can understand Leicester fans who are still shocked by Pearson 's departure taking it out on the new man. I don't agree, but I understand it. What I am finding really hard to take is the whole of the media lining up to predict Ranieri's failure. Every has been footballer now lining their pockets on Sky are queuing to get their sound bite on the bandwagon. This hurts when it is one of our ex-players, but even more so when the ex-player clearly has not a clue about Leicester City. The only way we are to prevail against this concerted attack of negativity is to close ranks, raise shields and adopt a surge mentality.
Stadt Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 On paper it looks as if we're going against Pearson's gradual approach with a quick success approach and that hardly ever works. I think that's where they are coming from but the football media are usually wrong
AKCJ Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 It's justified. We'd say the same if another team took him on. There's far too much about him that just isn't 'Leicester'.
indierich06 Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Have we ever given a **** what the press or the pundits say? Everyone had us nailed on to go down last season, Jamie Carragher told us we shouldn't even bother celebrating at the start of our run in because we were down already. They're a bunch of absolute idiots who know next to nothing. Why is anyone bothered what they say?
Ric Flair Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 It's very surprising given he's never really failed in a job other than Greece. His time before Chelsea was good, he was decent at Chelsea and since elaving them he's had a number of clubs where he's improved them. He's certainly no worse than some high profile managers who go from gig to gig and the media love them. It doesn't bother me anyway, it helps create a siege mentality if the players support Ranieri. Henry Winter who I respect thinks the players will need some convincing as their very pro Nigel Pearson. Any professional footballer that is still pining after Pearson can fcuk off, he's gone. Whether they agree with it or not, buy in to our new managers regime or leave.
Ric Flair Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 It's justified. We'd say the same if another team took him on. There's far too much about him that just isn't 'Leicester'. Why would we? If he'd turned up at Sunderland, Newcastle or West Ham this summer i'd not have said anything. I'd have thought, experienced manager if not a little unoriginal. I don't get the negativity with Ranieri. Can somebody give me a bullet point list of misdemeanours and failures.
foxfan92 Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Hopefully the negative reaction will work in our favour and spur him and the team on to prove the critics wrong.
cc_star Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 I hope it works out for him and us, really hope so But we've got a squad built on pacey counter attacks & wide men being key, Ranieri likes neither, favouring a kind of defensive possession game. All indication is we'll be playing our best stuff in front of oppositions defence, rather than devastating pace behind them which saw us virtually unplayable over the last quarter of the season. I hope Ranieri justifies his appointment & Pearson's sacking. Up the city!
Rob1742 Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Too many people have got too much to say. Must get their ten pennoth in. Probably don't realise the damage that is done by heaping pressure on players etc. Pretty sure three players wouldn't have been sacked if people would have kept their mouths shut, which had knock on effects. Now straight away fans and media can't help but have their say and heap pressure on someone who doesn't even yet know the players names. Imagine if he was at Belvior Drive now and decided to pick a copy of the Leicester Mercury up in the first few days? Is there any wonder that there is closed ranks at the club? I can fully understand players, managers and owners saying nothing. Fully understand Pearson being stand offish in interviews. Like an episode off Eastenders anytime anything happens. Too many people to quick to have a snipe. It just shows on here when you have 30 pages of views about things that most of the time don't happen.
Edingleyfox Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 With seven sackings and the recent Faroe Islands disaster he is an easy target.At Monaco however I'm sure he was getting brilliant reviews but lost his job for finishing second due to unrealistic expectations of rich owners. We just have to go into the season with an open mind.The squad should be good enough to stay up as long as we play an attacking formation.One thing for sure is that it is going to be entertaining and the media will be focused on us so let's get behind the team and management and prove a few people wrong.
jamesmilner Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Do not expect the "press" to be anything other than the "press" !! The Daily Sport once said there was a Lancaster bomber on the moon !! ( great titty paper tho ) .
C-man Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Why would we? If he'd turned up at Sunderland, Newcastle or West Ham this summer i'd not have said anything. I'd have thought, experienced manager if not a little unoriginal. I don't get the negativity with Ranieri. Can somebody give me a bullet point list of misdemeanours and failures. Completely agree. I've seen 'he hasn't won anything of significance' banded about as if it were shocking that some managers don't win major trophies. 'He lost to the Faroe Islands' as if no other manager has ever lost to an underdog and conveniently ignoring they lost to them again 7 months after his departure. As if international management was the same as club management. 'He's too old and won't be a long term solution'. Maybe after NP we need a short term fix whilst the club figures out what they want to do in the long term. Ranieri is at the top end of the managers we could realistically tempt. 'He linked himself with the job'. Most people have to apply for a job to get it. Kind of suggests he wants it. Football management is lived out in the public domain, it's hardly crime of the century from either party. The media are a complete joke. They rounded on Pearson and now he's gone they largely seem to be criticising the appointment as if there were far superior candidates for a team that finished 14th.
Guest Bob Hazels shorts Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 I hope it works out for him and us, really hope so But we've got a squad built on pacey counter attacks & wide men being key, Ranieri likes neither, favouring a kind of defensive possession game. All indication is we'll be playing our best stuff in front of oppositions defence, rather than devastating pace behind them which saw us virtually unplayable over the last quarter of the season. I hope Ranieri justifies his appointment & Pearson's sacking. Up the city! I'm sure we all hope Ranieri justifies his appointment, but surely its not down to him to justify Pearson's sacking?
davieG Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 As I said re Lineker's comment that he was uninspiring, maybe he was but that's not the point pray tell us Gary who would have been inspiring that would have come to lcfc. If you don't know or can't think of anyone why bother with your negativity.
fleckneymike Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Claudio Ranieri has only been in the job for two days, is yet to speak publically as Leicester manager, hasn't picked a team for even a friendly and has not signed a player. Even so, he is roundly attacked from all sides. I can understand Leicester fans who are still shocked by Pearson 's departure taking it out on the new man. I don't agree, but I understand it. What I am finding really hard to take is the whole of the media lining up to predict Ranieri's failure. Every has been footballer now lining their pockets on Sky are queuing to get their sound bite on the bandwagon. This hurts when it is one of our ex-players, but even more so when the ex-player clearly has not a clue about Leicester City. The only way we are to prevail against this concerted attack of negativity is to close ranks, raise shields and adopt a surge mentality. With high profile managers come high profile grudges. For all Pearson's idiosyncracies he benefitted from being Nigel Pearson. The London press left us and him pretty much alone, had a London team had a manager with the a litany of misdemeanors like Nigel then the coverage would have been vitrioloc and sustained. We've now got a manager who has operated in the pressure cooker of London football and a manager for whom the press pack have already created a narrative, this means the spot light of the press is suddenly on our club and no longer in the patronising plucky little "X" way that the majority of non London clubs get.
foxfan92 Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Completely agree. I've seen 'he hasn't won anything of significance' banded about as if it were shocking that some managers don't win major trophies. 'He lost to the Faroe Islands' as if no other manager has ever lost to an underdog and conveniently ignoring they lost to them again 7 months after his departure. As if international management was the same as club management. 'He's too old and won't be a long term solution'. Maybe after NP we need a short term fix whilst the club figures out what they want to do in the long term. Ranieri is at the top end of the managers we could realistically tempt. 'He linked himself with the job'. Most people have to apply for a job to get it. Kind of suggests he wants it. Football management is lived out in the public domain, it's hardly crime of the century from either party. The media are a complete joke. They rounded on Pearson and now he's gone they largely seem to be criticising the appointment as if there were far superior candidates for a team that finished 14th. I don't think this is a bad thing at all and can't work out why those negative articles keep picking up on it. He clearly feels hard done by after taking Chelsea to its (then) highest position in the league and still being shown the door. He clearly has a point to prove, and I suspect will be doing all he can to prove his critics wrong. The owners said he shares their vision for Leicester and hope he takes us to the next level, and I see no reason if we add to the players we have we can't establish ourselves as a regular premiership outfit for the forseeable future. I was and still am a big Pearson fan, (even through the difficult periods when we went on bad spells in both the championship and premier league - although knowing the management team personally probably biased my feelings during those times), but after two weeks of nervously refreshing google for news - we now have stability back in the club and I am honestly optimistic for the future. I think this season will be hard work - a lot of transition - and anyone saying Ranieri should be sacked if we're in the bottom 3 at Christmas clearly has a very short memory and unrealistic expectations; however I believe Ranieri will guide us to becoming this established team over the next 3 years or so, if given time and backing. He is called "The Tinkerman" and it will take time for him to find the formation that works best, but NP struggled to find that too, and he had known the majority of players better than anyone. Hopefully we'll continue to build a team that becomes more solid in the middle and that maintains the speed out wide and upfront that proved to be so hard to counter at the end of last season. Come on you Foxes!
smudger63 Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Why would we? If he'd turned up at Sunderland, Newcastle or West Ham this summer i'd not have said anything. I'd have thought, experienced manager if not a little unoriginal. I don't get the negativity with Ranieri. Can somebody give me a bullet point list of misdemeanours and failures. Completely agree. If he had gone to another club outside the top 10 in the premier league i would have been thinking what a good appointment he was.
shailen Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 I completely agree with the OP. I don't personally think he was the right man for the job, yet I thought the same with NP in his first spell. Give the man a chance and he may surprise you. I think that's all some of us are asking. Just give him a chance. He had nothing to do with Pearson leaving.
6ups 6downs 2 cups Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 If we do well the press will change, he seems a decent bloke and I can imagine he'd be more than willing to give in depth interviews to the press. At the moment they have hedged their bets that he will fail.
NewquayFox Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Give Ranieri the backing him and the owners deserve, they have put everything into our great club and for all we know Ranieri could have been their first choice as manager (so much crap about odds on managers) Pearson's gone for reasons none of know for sure and no two managers play the same style of football and I hope he is a success, not just for the sake of our club and the fans but just to shut the doubters up...... Up the City......
Wilson_6 Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 So many of our fans and ex players are doing my head in with there negativity, Slating a manger with out even having a glance at his wiki page because if they did they would know he's never really failed anywhere managed lots of top clubs and had good win percentage at all of them. He's a good manager, seems a nice bloke good in interviews and players will know who he is and want to play here. The majority of fans on here used to have a big club mind set when we were in the championship now all of a sudden they are complaining about us trying to move to the next level signing players on bigger contracts and spending money. I dont get it.
Guest MattP Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 It's very surprising given he's never really failed in a job other than Greece. His time before Chelsea was good, he was decent at Chelsea and since elaving them he's had a number of clubs where he's improved them. He's certainly no worse than some high profile managers who go from gig to gig and the media love them. It doesn't bother me anyway, it helps create a siege mentality if the players support Ranieri. Henry Winter who I respect thinks the players will need some convincing as their very pro Nigel Pearson. Any professional footballer that is still pining after Pearson can fcuk off, he's gone. Whether they agree with it or not, buy in to our new managers regime or leave. If that is true then why has he been sacked or had to resign from every job he has been in this century? As for the OP - He's a big name, the press love to load attention onto a big name, just like under Sven we will be big stories next season, everything will be under scrutiny and the London press will want their fill of the tinkerman, of course they want him to be a disaster, that creates headlines for them. Expect them to make a hell of a lot of mischief if we get off to a bad start.
whoareyaaa Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 I'm pretty sure one man can't make a whole group/club fail, we still have the same players, backroom staff and owners from last season just with a more experienced manager on board. He won't send us down that's for sure and if he can improve on the season we had last year then I don't see what the negativity is all about!!! He will attract better players than Pearson and most managers on the short list and has knowledge of big games all over Europe. People need to calm the **** down.
dedlock Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 Don't give much weight to opinions in the press or media. We know they are'balloon heads'or'ostriches'.
justfoxes Posted 15 July 2015 Posted 15 July 2015 ' FOOK EM ALL ' He's the manager of Leicester City like it or lump it he's our manager so as far as I'm concerned we stick by him through good and not ( more good !! ) until the powers to be choose to replace him !! There seem to be some sour grapes for some reason e.g Cottee's strange outburst but I think he will bring in a new dimension to the way we play !
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