How long are you going to give Ranieri?

[ARM1968]

As long as he wants. Dilly-Ding mate. He won the league. Looks like CL knockout stages. 

 

The players need need to step up and storm the beaches again like last season. A band of brothers?  Not for one season. They need to fight every season. 

[Crinklyfox]

The duration of his contract.  And then they can put the statue outside the ground.

[Guest]

He won the Premier League man. I will never see Leicester do that again ever. He can stay as long as he wants.

 

If you completely ignore last season. Leicester are improving on the 2014 season. You can't just a season on last seasons performance. Both are completely separate entities, as with every other club.

 

This is why premier league managers get sacked so easily......

[Adster]

I have all the time in the world for Ranieri. He helped delivered an achievement that Leicester fans could only of dreamed and it looks likely we'll go through to the knockout rounds of the CL too. 

[Buce]

22 hours ago, Blue Fox 72 said:

Claudio achieved something beyond our wildest dreams last season and for that we should be forever grateful. The slide this season in the league has been pretty alarming but he deserves time and patience from everyone. 

 

My ideal scenario is that he steadies the ship and stays until the end of next season (he might be happy to step down then anyway). We should then move heaven and earth to get Martin O'Neill back after the 2018 world cup.

 

[RowlattsFox]

As long as we aren't in serious danger of relegation, I would give him the season and then assess how we want to move forward in the summer.

 

He was brilliant last year, mainly because we were leading in games and he proved to be excellent at seeing games out in winning positions. I don't how much impact he had on the summer dealings but it was woeful. Stock-piled similar attacking players and not strengthen in areas we needed. Also selling Kramaric and even Inler could be seen as a poor decision.

[NeilLCFC]

Claudio didn't install the spirit that made the team a 'band of brothers' so it was only a matter of time before the unity within the team started to die and as a result we aren't picking up the points. 

 

Based on the outcome of the transfer windows where Claudio has taken a much more hands on approach, I can't say I hold much confidence he'll get it right in Jan and fear we'll end up pissing away more money.

 

Under Pearson you could always see the direction he was trying to take the club in and what he was trying to build. This season it doesn't appear Ranieri himself knows what direction he's going in. Even the things he says to the press are starting to become a little repetitive. 

 

There is no way we should be ok with relegation this season. It's amazing how many on here would be ok with it and still keep Ranieri in charge. At worst case we should finish no lower than we did during the great escape, and even then if you put last season aside (as many say we should cos it was a one off), it would mean we've made no progress since the great escape.

[Corky]

4 minutes ago, NeilLCFC said:

There is no way we should be ok with relegation this season. It's amazing how many on here would be ok with it and still keep Ranieri in charge. At worst case we should finish no lower than we did during the great escape, and even then if you put last season aside (as many say we should cos it was a one off), it would mean we've made no progress since the great escape.

I wanted to avoid the Pearson thing but had to reply to this. It's clear you are a huge Pearson fan- so would you have kept him if we'd been relegated two seasons ago? And why, with the excellent team spirit that is now apparently being eroded, did the team sit bottom of the table for so long?

 

 

[WardyisPukka]

All i want him to do is change how we play as the players at our disposal (Amartey) arent good enough to play 4-4-2

 

4-3-3 or 5-3-2 are viable options 

[uragomper]

Christmas.

[Buzzell]

Aye man, we're in Champions League, we are in Champions League man, dilly ding dilly dong, commmmeeeee ooonnnnn! 

[lgfualol]

1 hour ago, NeilLCFC said:

Under Pearson you could always see the direction he was trying to take the club in and what he was trying to build. This season it doesn't appear Ranieri himself knows what direction he's going in. Even the things he says to the press are starting to become a little repetitive. 

Probably because under Pearson we always had a direction to go in, i.e get promoted and stay in the league. With Ranieri we went from 'stay in the league' to straight up winning it.

[ozvaldo]

I'd rather be in the Premier League next season, than qualify for the knockouts of the CL this season.  
We're never going to win the CL (or come close to doing so).  Before any skip-licking BinHead says "yer but we wun the leeg at five fousand to wun", I'm full aware of that, however the difference in standard between the PL & CL is huge in the latter stages.

 

I like him as a person and want to see him continue managing success at LCFC.  
However, I really think he's got his priorities wrong.  I think he didn't manage pre-season very well (I know not all decisions are his, but he needs to be more influential).  He's not bought very well - to go from a £30million CM target to no one is a joke (again, not all his doing, but you'd know NP would have had a back up target and wouldn't have fûcked about in this scenario).  The worst thing for me is his tactics - 442 every week home or away.  It's not working this season, we're outplayed in the midfield each week. For example, Drinky has to do literally everything and those killer balls through to Vardy aren't present as much this season because he's having to win the ball deep, turn and play a pass which is 10-20 yards longer than any last season - giving defends ample time to counter this.  
Ranieri needs to offer more support to Drinky to allow him to be the amazing playmaker he can be.  The only time this season I can remember us quickly recycling the ball which lead to the classic 'long ball to Vardy goal' was Swansea at home - Amartey wins it, instantly plays it off to Drinky, quick ball over the top to Vardy, goal.  When it works, it's lethal - but it shouldn't be our only option.  

 

Claudio, I need more tactical nouse from you.  I don't need happy, jolly press conferences with no end product.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

2 hours ago, Corky said:

I wanted to avoid the Pearson thing but had to reply to this. It's clear you are a huge Pearson fan- so would you have kept him if we'd been relegated two seasons ago? And why, with the excellent team spirit that is now apparently being eroded, did the team sit bottom of the table for so long?

 

 

Uh oh the "Pearson thing" has been mentioned 

 

 

stand by your beds and get your tin hats on

 

[Merging Cultures]

16 hours ago, volpeazzurro said:

NP did a great job for a period of time and certainly managed to get rid of a lot of expensive dead wood. But...he was a tactical midget, let's not forget that prior to the great escape it was he and his methods that got us there. He was a tactical midget.The jury is out on who masterminded the great escape. In the end he and his idiot boy of a son were authors of their own downfalls. Compared to Ranieris long and distinguished career NP is just a mediocre journeyman. Without his team he's toothless and his lack of success shows it.

And sticking with 4-4-2 regardless of how badly we play makes CR a tactical giant?!

 

CR's long and distinguished didn't include a top flight Championship until last year, and it includes good 1st season performances, followed by less than stellar ones.

[AyewJoking]

sack him right now and let shakespeare take over as interim. bring in big sam in time for january transfer window.

 

he'll get so much abuse from the media and opposing fans, it will divert pressure away from our men.

[Dan]

Prioritising the CL makes no sense when we had a budget to be able to prioritise both.

[Dan]

I don't know how much the state of our squad is down to Ranieri either. He's not doing well this year but I think people are under-estimating how thin our squad is. There's very little you can do when you've got such a weak midfield.

[foxy boxing]

it's not how long you can give him it is whether he can turn things around and from a bad start and get us playing the way we did last season.if a name manager becomes available then maybe the owners will act but at the moment we have to stick by him and hope he can turn things around

[AyewJoking]

17 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

Prioritising the CL makes no sense when we had a budget to be able to prioritise both.

[AyewJoking]

15 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

I don't know how much the state of our squad is down to Ranieri either. He's not doing well this year but I think people are under-estimating how thin our squad is. There's very little you can do when you've got such a weak midfield.

put an extra midfielder in?

[suffolk fox]

This thread is ridiculous and shouldn't be allowed to stand.  Fickle nature of our fans sometimes is just unbelievable.  Overheard a group of Watford fans taking the pee out of Leicester fans on Saturday saying Leicester people and fans are always moaning and never are happy.  Jeeps they won the bloody league last year and they still aren't happy.   We are on the verge of qualifying for the last sixteen of the Champions league and a lot are saying things like, yes but we should from that group it's the equivalent of playing, Yeovil, Cheltenham, Derby etc, etc.  Belittling our achievements.  Have you ever known such fans.

 

You can only ever beat what is put in front of you, to date in the Champions league we have, conceding no goals in the process.  Yet, still, they aren't happy.

 

I read comments like, would rather stay in the premiership than make the last sixteen of the Champions league.  Granted, it's important to stay in the premier league but the money implications for the club by progressing in the Champions league is and are huge.

 

We are not a big club, regardless of winning the premier league last season.  We are a small club we can't compete financially with, Arsenal. Tottenham, Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, Everton.

 

Last season was a one off sensational season we were never going to emulate that success this season.  Stay in the premier league, finish in the last sixteen of the Champions league and maybe have an fa cup run will equate to a good season for Leicester.

 

A lot need to calm down, take off their Blue tinted specs, realise we are not a big club.  Get behind the manager, the team not bitch and moan about everything and with that support we may start to replicate how we played last season.

 

 

[steflcfc]

Ranieri has as long as it takes as what he achieved last season was beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

 

He has got to start waking them up for league games, we can use the "tiredness" "CL a priority" excuses.

Some of the away performances in particular have been so embarrassingly poor.

 

If we hadn't seen what we did last season, on performance I would be worried as they look like a Sunday park team at times.

 

No team is big enough to go down, the longer these performances are being served up the more we will find ourselves closer to the regelation places.

 

We look a shadow of the team of last season, now Ranieri must start to earns his extra £ like some of the players need a size 10 up their ass's.

 

Yes, there has been the odd injury etc but our main failure was in the transfer market, we left ourselfs short on cover for positions we were not strong in the first place.

And strengthened where we didn't particularly need to.

 

 

[Out Foxed]

This season is showing what absolute donuts football fans can be. we achieved one of the craziest things seen in sport and this year we're losing games and it's moan moan moan. can't understand anyone who saw us in the 00's compalining about us now. we won't be relegated and we're in the champions league. chill the **** out.

[Tyskie]

eternity