Keep Ranieri

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Just now, Claridge said:

The players have let him down,no question,but Ranieri is paid millions and the buck stops with him. Lose to Swansea and he must go

I think the Derby and Swansea results are paramount to our season

 

itveither gets saved  or goes down the swanny 

[Manwell Pablo]

4 minutes ago, Bob Weasel Fox said:

I think the Derby and Swansea results are paramount to our season

 

itveither gets saved  or goes down the swanny 

 

I know its a tough game but they all are now, he's had fixtures we should take points from all season and we haven't and that's lead up to this situation, so for me Swansea is last chance saloon, a defeat has to be it for him, especially if we lost to Debry

[Nalis]

I fear its too little too late regardless of whether Ranieri will stay or go.

[Johnthefoxrayner]

23 hours ago, Old Fox said:

Top man Bob.....I am in your corner....

Well said Bob I'm with you 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

3 minutes ago, Johnthefoxrayner said:

Well said Bob I'm with you 

Cheers all 

[Soar Fox]

Go down or stay up I think he has to go either way. 

 

Poor tactics, poor recruitment, lack of motivation. Will the owners back him with more money to spend? By judging his record here since he arrived I wouldn't. 

[jim5000]

10 hours ago, Ricey said:

Prior to the game I wanted him to stay. The team selection was good and for 40 minutes it was a team working hard and going toe-to-toe with one of the best away teams in the league. Then a goal and we imploded.

 

You could argue that Ranieri is to blame for the fragile mental strength we currently posses, but he isn't telling Huth to totally misjudge a ball, instructing Morgan and Huth to let Zlatan drift into space on the penalty spot nor training Ndidi to switch off and not track Mkhitaryan, then Fuchs to inexplicably play the offside trap. Yesterday, there is little more he could have done. I can't fault him.

 

IF he has totally lost the dressing room, and more importantly the backroom staff, then maybe the owners have no choice. However, if the squad are still behind Ranieri, even if that support is dangling by a thread, then he needs to remain and the players need to look at themselves first before they question the man that guided them to more success than they could have ever dreamt of.

 

But he did sack the sports psychologist that had just been working with a title winning team.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

32 minutes ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

I know its a tough game but they all are now, he's had fixtures we should take points from all season and we haven't and that's lead up to this situation, so for me Swansea is last chance saloon, a defeat has to be it for him, especially if we lost to Debry

It's looking that way sadly

 

 Leicester turn things around its these next few fixtures

[Great Boos Up]

I'm the biggest Pearsonite going and I'm related to MON, but we cannot sack Ranieri. It's just wrong.

He has resigned before and will do again if he feels our players aren't up to the task under him.

I think the owners will give him Sevilla away and home.

I'm praying we stay up and he then resigns.

 

[reynard]

There have been some decent arguments put forward but the truth is obvious for all to see. We are steadily getting worse with each passing week. There doesn't seem to be any plan, no cohesion, no structure to the way we play. I am sure he's a decent man etc but his previous record does show largely what appears to be happeneing here. Things start brightly but eventually fade away.

 

I'm afraid sentiment needs to be put to one side. Though last season was fantastic this season is an embarrasing disaster. Let's also not forget Ranieri isn't our manager for altruistic reasons. He's a very well paid guy supposedly doing a professional job. The level of investment has never before been seen in the history of our club and yet we have gone backwards and are in truth speeding up that process day by day. The final straw for me was the performance against Chelsea and the moment he took off Huth. At that point it was clear the players did not know what to do. They had no idea how they were supposed to set up or the formation in which they were supposed to play. That is the manager's direct responsibility. He failed. And that's largely been the story of the season so far.

I would like to think he could turn this around but absolutely nothing in the last few weeks suggests to me that he can.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

6 minutes ago, Great Boos Up said:

I'm the biggest Pearsonite going and I'm related to MON, but we cannot sack Ranieri. It's just wrong.

He has resigned before and will do again if he feels our players aren't up to the task under him.

I think the owners will give him Sevilla away and home.

I'm praying we stay up and he then resigns.

 

Yeah I'm praying we stay up and then Ranieri walks away with his head held high and we move on and get a young hungry up and coming manager or somebody who will at least galvanise us again

[biggs]

My expectations each week have dropped for a while now. There is no team....we have lost all unity and it clearly shows on the pitch. The players sure as hell aren't playing for each other, for the fans or for the manager.

 

My thoughts....we will sink lower in the table if we don't do something drastic soon and may still drop lower even if we make a change but to do see us continue the status quo is a mistake to me. CR has shown little if not nothing that he is capable of stopping this slide....if he stays on and we turn things around, I'll get to eat my words.... I'm okay with that but haven't seen any signs this season he has the answer.

[HybridFox]

Even if we do somehow stay up, the question remains is he the man to take us forward?

 

Our achievements from last season have masked the fact we seem to have no long term strategy at the moment.

This season was a perfect time to establish ourselves as one of the better Premier League sides. That hasn't happened.

So when the dust settles and lets say we do stay up, can Ranieri take us to another level next season? And not just a "40 point" club.

 

Afraid to say although I love him, I have my reservations

[Struwwelpeter60]

And on the fifth day everyone said: “cheers God, appreciate everything you’ve done mate, but we’re a bit bored of you now, can you do one?”

Leicester City play Manchester United today, but enough of that. Let’s get something straight: Claudio Ranieri should have a job for life at Leicester. If he wants to manage them until the age of 102, all the way down to the 47^th tier of English football amid a series of indefensibly eccentric decisions, he can do that. If he wants to line up today with ten men and his imaginary friend Cecil at left-back, that’s fine.

What Ranieri and the Leicester players achieved last season transcends short-termism and entitlement and money. If Leicester are relegated this season, so what? Wouldn’t change a thing, wouldn’t tarnish the memory of the greatest achievement in modern football history. But sacking Ranieri less than a year later would. It would be the final, definitive proof that football is beyond redemption.

                                                                                                                                   Rob Smyth, The Guardian

 

 

 

Claudio Ranieri believes the promise he made to Leicester City’s owners at the start of last season to stay with the club in the event of relegation should mean that his loyalty is repaid during a hugely disappointing second campaign, ...

 

                                                                                                                                   Stuart James, The Guardian

 

 

 

What many here seem to forget is  that Ranieri in 2015 was willing to join a club, which, according

to the vast majority of experts, pundits and sports writers, was the top canditate for relegation.

If the owners, back then, actually wanted him to stay with the club in the event of relegation, they

would have a huge problem to justify sacking him now.

[chicagofox]

2 minutes ago, Struwwelpeter60 said:

What many here seem to forget is  that Ranieri in 2015 was willing to join a club, which, according

to the vast majority of experts, pundits and sports writers, was the top canditate for relegation.

If the owners, back then, actually wanted him to stay with the club in the event of relegation, they

would have a huge problem to justify sacking him now.

Mate, with all due respect, that is complete and utter nonsense.  Nobody could honestly say that a sacking of Ranieri now was unjustified.  

[The_77]

During the match, I said it's time for him to go. Been rethinking that-- we have to let him have his shot against Sevilla in the Champions League. Anything else would be undignified.

[reynard]

3 minutes ago, TK95 said:

Even if we do somehow stay up, the question remains is he the man to take us forward?

 

Our achievements from last season have masked the fact we seem to have no long term strategy at the moment.

This season was a perfect time to establish ourselves as one of the better Premier League sides. That hasn't happened.

So when the dust settles and lets say we do stay up, can Ranieri take us to another level next season? And not just a "40 point" club.

 

Afraid to say although I love him, I have my reservations

I agree but Ranieri isn't the only issue here. There hasn't been enough focus on the long term for many years. Internal player development is pathetic. For eg here is a list of our Academy players in April 2009. How many have made it here or indeed anywhere?

Robbie Burns, Cain Bolger, Tom Parkes

Joe Cobb, Ben Milnes, Nathan Hicks

Billy Kee, Jorrin John, Elliot Chamberlain

Craig King, Robert Ambrusics, Claudiu Hobin

Luke O'Neill,Adam Vasey, Abdillahie Yussuf.

 

I'm not having a dig at these guys. Pro sport is tough and not all can make it however, hard they work. But I bet I could pull up a similar list for most of the last ten years and it would produce similar results. Compare this to say Southampton. And guess who was Academy boss that year?

[Soar Fox]

3 minutes ago, Struwwelpeter60 said:

And on the fifth day everyone said: “cheers God, appreciate everything you’ve done mate, but we’re a bit bored of you now, can you do one?”

Leicester City play Manchester United today, but enough of that. Let’s get something straight: Claudio Ranieri should have a job for life at Leicester. If he wants to manage them until the age of 102, all the way down to the 47^th tier of English football amid a series of indefensibly eccentric decisions, he can do that. If he wants to line up today with ten men and his imaginary friend Cecil at left-back, that’s fine.

                                                                                                                                   Rob Smyth, The Guardian

 

What many here seem to forget is  that Ranieri in 2015 was willing to join a club, which, according

to the vast majority of experts, pundits and sports writers, was the top canditate for relegation.

If the owners, back then, actually wanted him to stay with the club in the event of relegation, they

would have a huge problem to justify sacking him now.

Load of bollox.

 

All because he won the league with us doesn't mean he is allowed to take the same players & £80million pound later down to the championship. 

 

Also Ranieri wanted another job in England and we were the only ones that would take a punt on him. Luckily for him he inheretired a good group of players & excellent back room staff. 

 

The next man to take over us will be inheriting a mess & a squad in need of a total overhaul.

[reynard]

7 minutes ago, Struwwelpeter60 said:

What many here seem to forget is  that Ranieri in 2015 was willing to join a club, which, according

to the vast majority of experts, pundits and sports writers, was the top canditate for relegation.

If the owners, back then, actually wanted him to stay with the club in the event of relegation, they

would have a huge problem to justify sacking him now.

Actually we only became the top candidate for relegation once he was appointed. Before that many pundits thought we would perhaps do ok but it was the shock of Pearson's sacking and the appointment of a man seen, rightly or wrongly, as a bit of joke and not up to the job, that swung all the pundits against us.

[Struwwelpeter60]

1 minute ago, chicagofox said:

Mate, with all due respect, that is complete and utter nonsense.  Nobody could honestly say that a sacking of Ranieri now was unjustified.  

May I remind you, that the owners didn't sack Pearson, although we were sitting

for 140 days at the bottom of the table. This season, so far, we didn't spend a

single day in the drop-zone.

Sacking Pearson would have been much more justified. But they didn't to it

either. Why???

There may have been/be some gentlemen's agreement between the owners and their

managers, that made/make it impossible for them to sack Pearson back then and Ranieri now.

In Asia ( and in Italy), going back on your word is almost a deadly sin for a man.

My guess: if they had to chose between LCFC going down, or going back on their word, they

would chose the former.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

31 minutes ago, reynard said:

I agree but Ranieri isn't the only issue here. There hasn't been enough focus on the long term for many years. Internal player development is pathetic. For eg here is a list of our Academy players in April 2009. How many have made it here or indeed anywhere?

Robbie Burns, Cain Bolger, Tom Parkes

Joe Cobb, Ben Milnes, Nathan Hicks

Billy Kee, Jorrin John, Elliot Chamberlain

Craig King, Robert Ambrusics, Claudiu Hobin

Luke O'Neill,Adam Vasey, Abdillahie Yussuf.

 

I'm not having a dig at these guys. Pro sport is tough and not all can make it however, hard they work. But I bet I could pull up a similar list for most of the last ten years and it would produce similar results. Compare this to say Southampton. And guess who was Academy boss that year?

Claudio ? 

 

[Struwwelpeter60]

26 minutes ago, reynard said:

the appointment of a man seen, rightly or wrongly, as a bit of joke and not up to the job,

In other words, our owners are fools, who have no clue at all.

Right?

Because, if not, why did they hire him?

[Guest Col city fan]

Are people purposefully ignoring Ranieri's CV?

He's done this before. Suffered in his second season. A point I made weeks ago.

Its not just at Leicester that this had happened, yet many on this very thread are acting like it is.

Seriously, do your research.

It's no exaggeration to say that some who have read about Ranieri's managerial career would have even predicted it.

[Guest Mickyblueeyes]

2 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Are people purposefully ignoring Ranieri's CV?

He's done this before. Suffered in his second season. A point I made weeks ago.

Its not just at Leicester that this had happened, yet many on this very thread are acting like it is.

Seriously, do your research.

THANK YOU!!!

 

jesus, you'd think he has been a success throughout his career. It's happen before, it will happen again and again. He's set in his ways.

 

i cannot believe people are happy to spend £30 million on a player one summer and then happily go down and probably be in the race to chase after Chris Wood the next!! That's the level we are going to people. Is that acceptable? Let's just stay where we are. **** sake, if the arabs took over Leicester some fans would be happy with league one. We are not the same club as we were in 1996!!

[Koke]

I said it on the moan in thread but I will also put iy here.

 

One thing that Mina said I noticed is that fans of Roma, Juventus; Valencia etc got tired of him because after every defeat he'd act so carefree and nonchalant in the post match interviews. We see it happen here. 4 straight defeats and no league goal in 2017 but if you listened to CR in his interviews you'd think we were midtable with nothing to play for.