NewEnglandFox Posted 12 July 2016 Posted 12 July 2016 Today we celebrate a year with the legend, the uninspiring managerial appointment who failed to bring us to the Championship but instead to the Champions League and some other trophy. Today marks one year since Claudio Ranieri came to Leicester. Pre-signing Thread: http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/topic/101462-claudio-ranieri/ Appointment Thread : http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/topic/101556-confirmed-ranieri-new-manager/ Pundit's Reaction: https://www.dreamteamfc.com/c/the-11-best-quotes-about-claudio-ranieris-appointment-that-prove-nobody-knows-anything-about-football/
foxy boxing Posted 12 July 2016 Posted 12 July 2016 Pizzas and champagne all round,dilly-ding dilly- dong
ousefox Posted 12 July 2016 Posted 12 July 2016 Absolute hero. He will never be forgotten at this club whatever happens in the future.
urban.spaceman Posted 12 July 2016 Posted 12 July 2016 Still struggling to comprehend the magnitude what he's achieved for this football club in under a year - I still well up at the thought of it sometimes! Thank you Claudio.
Dan Posted 12 July 2016 Posted 12 July 2016 It really is just so mad how it worked out. I remember being sat in Portugal by the pool with five others, mostly Leicester fans, streaming the phone-in thinking we'd absolutely shot it. I was £330 richer from this appointment and still didn't feel particularly happy. What a clown I was. Completely under-estimated this bloke and our players. Club legend, best appointment we'll ever make and a genuinely lovely bloke too. It all seems too good to be true.
Max Power Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 Remember how odd that initial photo shoot was? Claudio sitting in some wicker chair like he can't stand up that long or something. An absolute legend in every single way. Great man. Great manager.
Littletoe Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 The man, The Godfather, The Master. Best appointment we ever made!
Stadt Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 I remember being so unenthused by it, I can't remember my pre-season prediction but I expected us to be in a relegation battle. Finishing in the top half would have been an amazing feat, a Europa League place would have done me for the next 10 years with how unlikely it would be, the champions league? Well that's a fantasy. The title? Piss off.
jaqo88 Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 One of the most important days in the clubs history. Still can't get my head around what has happened since
Xen Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 At the time, I was over the moon with the appointment. Not just because I'd just won £162 off of it, but because he was so much more appealing than the other candidates. Who else had we been linked with, seriously? People like Preki, Lennon and Cotterill. His last job for Greece looked terrible, but if you only look at the club sides he'd managed he'd managed to improve every single one of them by the time he left, and I don't think he'd ever been sacked for poor performances (owners just thought that someone else could do better...). His track record really wasn't as bad as it looked at a glance, and I was optimistic he'd do the same with us. What I thought that would entail, however, was a period of stability and maybe rising 1 or 2 places a year, and I'd predicted us to finish 12th with a reasonably good chance at top 10 if we had a good season. Whats happened since then has been incredible. One of the most likeable personalities in football management (at least in the UK), which in itself seems to have brightened up the spirit within the whole club (no disrespect to his predecessor, but Pearson didn't exactly liven the place up...). He's fun, friendly, respectable and yet he's also highly aware of exactly what needs to be done and how to go about it. He could easily have turned up and chose to overhaul everything but opted for evolution, not revolution, at the training ground. He's fitted in perfectly with the existing personnel on the squad and in the coaching department, trusted them all with their own jobs and its paid dividends. He's kept the philosophy of adding players who want to contribute and who fit into the club ethos, whilst signing even more quality than we've ever had. And on top of all this, he's exhibited his tactical genius time after time, which has ultimately led us to one of the biggest victories ever not just in football, but in sport as a whole. What. A. Man. TL;DR: He's bloody good, huh?
nigelbee Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 Transformed our club on and off the pitch. Unique statesman and overall top bloke. Legend.
Bluetintedspecs Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 I thought the Don was a good appointment and certainly the best of a very poor bunch linked with us......Never in my wildest dreams though, what a man!
sylofox Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 Not sure he has done enough bring back hollow head. Them were the days lol
Lcfc_lass10 Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 I was in Cornwall on a 30 mile bike ride, had recieved a message from a relative that told me. Me & my partner (at the time) looked at each other & just said "oh well, let's see what he can do." It's crazy how much he's proved so many people/pundits wrong. What an absolute legend.
VLC86 Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 Thought we'd be cursed to finish 2nd with him. That was my immediate thought as well 'Fuuuuuuuck, what we if we finish 2nd in the league' fuming.
Guest CityFan 06 Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 Ranieri's blue army. What a great man & manager.
shade Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 "GaelicFox's PhotoGaelicFox 13 Jul 2015 This will end in tears" tears of joy! how did you know?
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