Tuna Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3995938/David-Moyes-reveals-Leicester-Claudio-Ranieri-took-charge-never-saw-getting-position-got-ve-no-regrets.html Says he was approached before The Don took over.
foxile5 Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 To be honest, who can blame him. Literally noo-ne could have seen that coming. He would have been accepting the most difficult post possible. Such a weight of expectancy and such an, at the time, weak looking squad. Vardy was a 5 goal a season striker and Mahrez was a lightweight for whom the end product was a dream. Matty James was our starting CM at that time too, and Cambiasso had just sacked us off. Makes CRs achievement all the more ridiculous, really. We had just come off of a disastrous pre season, with real and obvious problems behind the scenes. The entire team would have been forgiven for just getting by in the first ten games. I had expected this year's form last year. We would have never won it with him. That being said I'd have been happier at the time. I'll hold my hands up and say that I felt CR was past his Premier League sell by, and it goes to show how right the upper echelons were to say 'trust us.'
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 1 minute ago, dynamark said: Got away with that one then This
foxile5 Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 4 minutes ago, dynamark said: Got away with that one then Fellaini would be a Leicester player right now. We dodged that massively.
dynamark Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 Amazed anyone else is awake . I'm certain I should have something better to do. What could be worse Neville,Dyche,Warnock,Pearson oops
foxile5 Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 3 minutes ago, dynamark said: Amazed anyone else is awake . I'm certain I should have something better to do. What could be worse Neville,Dyche,Warnock,Pearson oops Dyche would love a budget like we used to have.
FireFox Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 Clickbait topic title. "I could have managed Leicester?" No. "Leicester interest before before CR took charge." Alright. We've been told Ranieri was first choice.
sylofox Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 16 minutes ago, FireFox said: Clickbait topic title. "I could have managed Leicester?" No. "Leicester interest before before CR took charge." Alright. We've been told Ranieri was first choice. He may have been first choice once they had sounded out people.
WigstonWanderer Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 1 hour ago, foxile5 said: To be honest, who can blame him. Literally noo-ne could have seen that coming. He would have been accepting the most difficult post possible. Such a weight of expectancy and such an, at the time, weak looking squad. Vardy was a 5 goal a season striker and Mahrez was a lightweight for whom the end product was a dream. Matty James was our starting CM at that time too, and Cambiasso had just sacked us off. Makes CRs achievement all the more ridiculous, really. We had just come off of a disastrous pre season, with real and obvious problems behind the scenes. The entire team would have been forgiven for just getting by in the first ten games. I had expected this year's form last year. We would have never won it with him. That being said I'd have been happier at the time. I'll hold my hands up and say that I felt CR was past his Premier League sell by, and it goes to show how right the upper echelons were to say 'trust us.' Not quite how I remember it, but might be my aging memory. We had just come off a 7 out of 9 winning streak, top of the form table IIRC. I wouldn't say the squad was looking weak. Matty James was out injured. Cambiasso decided not to re-sign AFTER CR took over. Untill NP was sacked I was pretty confident of a reasonable season ahead, as I think most here were. After that I thought the disruption caused by his departure might put us in danger of relegation. Admittedly the prevailing view in the press was that we were relegation fodder.
Aus Fox Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 2 hours ago, foxile5 said: To be honest, who can blame him. Literally noo-ne could have seen that coming. He would have been accepting the most difficult post possible. Such a weight of expectancy and such an, at the time, weak looking squad. Vardy was a 5 goal a season striker and Mahrez was a lightweight for whom the end product was a dream. Matty James was our starting CM at that time too, and Cambiasso had just sacked us off. Makes CRs achievement all the more ridiculous, really. We had just come off of a disastrous pre season, with real and obvious problems behind the scenes. The entire team would have been forgiven for just getting by in the first ten games. I had expected this year's form last year. We would have never won it with him. That being said I'd have been happier at the time. I'll hold my hands up and say that I felt CR was past his Premier League sell by, and it goes to show how right the upper echelons were to say 'trust us.' Pretty sure we were in a far better position than the Sunderland team he has taken over this year.
los dedos Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 4 hours ago, WigstonWanderer said: Not quite how I remember it, but might be my aging memory. We had just come off a 7 out of 9 winning streak, top of the form table IIRC. I wouldn't say the squad was looking weak. Matty James was out injured. Cambiasso decided not to re-sign AFTER CR took over. Untill NP was sacked I was pretty confident of a reasonable season ahead, as I think most here were. After that I thought the disruption caused by his departure might put us in danger of relegation. Admittedly the prevailing view in the press was that we were relegation fodder. THIS ! I was sure we would do well.Not win it but with the form we were in top ten at least.
FLAN Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 7 hours ago, foxile5 said: To be honest, who can blame him. Literally noo-ne could have seen that coming. He would have been accepting the most difficult post possible. Such a weight of expectancy and such an, at the time, weak looking squad. Vardy was a 5 goal a season striker and Mahrez was a lightweight for whom the end product was a dream. Matty James was our starting CM at that time too, and Cambiasso had just sacked us off. Makes CRs achievement all the more ridiculous, really. We had just come off of a disastrous pre season, with real and obvious problems behind the scenes. The entire team would have been forgiven for just getting by in the first ten games. I had expected this year's form last year. We would have never won it with him. That being said I'd have been happier at the time. I'll hold my hands up and say that I felt CR was past his Premier League sell by, and it goes to show how right the upper echelons were to say 'trust us.' Thought you were describing this season for a moment
norwichfox Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 Quote David Moyes has revealed that he could have taken charge of champions Leicester City before Claudio Ranieri was appointed last summer but feared they would be fighting relegation. He wasn't wrong was he.,...timing a bit off though
Guest Col city fan Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 Bet hes fooked off he didn't! If he had of come here he'd have no doubt signed and played Fellaini over Kante....
Barky Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 Moyes seems to enjoy talking about how he has been offered other jobs. Not sure if it's mind games or what, but it's a slightly strange thing to keep saying. I think more people would have been happy had we appointed Moyes over Ranieri, and he might have been a solid choice, but of course we wouldn't have won the league. Last season was the absolute perfect cocktail of right place, right time, change any of the ingredients and we don't win it.
Soar Fox Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 We were interested about 16 years ago to get David Moyes from PNE but went for Peter Taylor instead didn't we?
sphericalfox Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 Coulda, shoulda, woulda... What is the point of dropping that line of information? Is he saying he was offered the job, but didn't take it, cos he didn't want to be in a relegation scrap? Is he saying that he thought Sunderland weren't relegation fodder when he joined them last July? I don't get it. If he manages to keep Sunderland up in their annual battle of doom I'd be surprised. They almost need to to go down to be able to clear the decks and rebuild, not shuffle the deckchairs. I'm not sure there is mindgames going on here, as it doesn't add up to anything. If he's suggesting he's as good as Ranieri and and was considered so then he's having a bit of a laugh. I think he's a decent manager given time, and proved that he could at least stabilise a team with not a great deal of funds and punch above their weight at times with Everton. Sunderland are a basketcase, and have been for years under successive managers. Their owner blatantly has too much say and swing on their transfers. They failed miserably to sort themselves out, and seemingly have no plan besides potentially selling up before its too late.
m4DD0gg Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 Thank God he didn't. Sounds like some mind games anyway.
BoyJones Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 So he chose Sunderland??? Presumably didn't envisage a possible relegation battle!
MPH Posted 3 December 2016 Posted 3 December 2016 So he didn't want to manage us because he thought we would be in a relegation battle but chose Sunderland instead? riiiiight. And he thought what exactly? That they would be fighting for a European place? worst attempt at mind games ever....
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