Vote Of Confidence

[lcfcsnow]

1 hour ago, adejo92 said:

And who do you propose we get? with our situation we need a relegation specialist.

Marco Silva had an 80% win ratio at Olympiacos and has performed well at every other club he's managed, so no relegation specialist there. He just knows what he's doing.

 

Problem is, those who make the decisions for us don't know what they're doing, so how will they find a manager who knows what he's doing? They couldn't even bring the correct players in during two transfer windows to help us nevermind a new manager with a plan.

[Ric Flair]

Going out the cup tomorrow might not be a bad thing. I'd then fcuk Ranieri off, get that Swansea game out the way and then put them through the absolute ringer before Seville away and Liverpool at home. Break them down and build them back up again. Get the fitness levels back, anyone who doesn't fancy it can be put on gardening leave in a horrible hostel in Bangkok with no air con. Get the fight back and see what happens.

 

I'd go to Seville straight after the Swansea game as if they're all golfers who mean business by being at the course a week early. Mind games. I'd be threatening Seville fans and players. Maybe use Huth, Morgan and Vardy to do that rather than play them. Get them banned for the season and hopefully dock their wages.

[Ted Maul]

10 hours ago, Tuna said:

Against United the players were surprised to see Ahmed Musa taken off at half-time

 

Really? The guy was abysmal. Surely everyone was more surprised to see him start on the wing again despite him not being able to control a ball.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

It looks obvious that Ranieri's taking us down - we've got to act now and get rid of him as manager to try and safeguard the club's medium to long-term future.

 

However getting rid entirely would be a PR disaster for the club and the King Power brand given the global goodwill the club currently enjoys -  and also disrespectful to the man who's brought us history of course.

 

As others have said could he take the DoF role off Rudkin? Or could he take over from the Academy? Depends what he wants and if he's still keen to keep working!

[antspants]

This article just reads like a reporter has spent a day on this forum and regurgitated every single rumour floating around, with no actual facts or comments from anybody working at the club.  

 

Might not be wrong but doesn't tell me anything I haven't read countless times on here! 

[crazyleicester]

10 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

I remember an Italian football correspondent being interviewed on BBC radio Leicester when Ranieri was appointed. She said that after a year the players become confused by tactical changes and disillusioned under his management. This article seems to point out the exact same thing. 

That was on the basis of him not winning the title.

 

As far as I am aware he hasnt tinkered that much with formation. Of course he has tried some stuff but not much. As for team selection, a lot of his have been forced. Kante leaving followed by a spate of injuries and suspensions. Loss of form have seen the occasional change along with trying to introduce the occasional signing. I am really struggling to find anything crazy or outlandish that he has done this season to be fair but why not clutch at straws as usual....

[ramboacdc]

My friend works with someone close to a first team player. Has told me there has been a meeting with the chairman behind Claudio's back. Apparently the board are looking at the next 4 games and judging from then so that means we need good results against derby, Swansea, sevilla and Liverpool to save his job.
Main word being said is "adjustment"

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[ZeGuy]

Wague didn't play since November. Good god.

 

The recruitment heads should be sacked on the spot.

[STUHILL]

We will go from a neutral fan's favourite to one of the most hated clubs if we sack Claudio 

 

It's frustrating, as from the outside I too would not consider sacking him after what he achieved. Being on the inside though you can see that there is no real light at the end of the tunnel, and it is not just the way we are performing, it is other things too, like the bizarre signings or lack of, and the reluctance to drop any of the underperforming players. 

 

We see a whole lot more than the neutral fans and pundits out there, and at the moment, it is all pointing to a relegation. I wonder if we go bottom of the league in the next couple of weeks and then sack him, and manage to stay up... then, the neutrals and pundits will go back on all these things they are saying. Niall Quinn saying that if he was chairman, he would drop two leagues before he would sack the manager.. is just ridiculous! 

 

Hoping we can turn it around. A few wins and everything changes.. confidence can return, and the fear goes. Swansea is such a huge game. I think the player's know this though and I hope it doesn't mean we freeze up under the pressure. Swansea have the same pressure of course, but we have the added torment of being Champions and the weight of that and everyone's disbelief if we do go down. The player's are certainly not responding well to that at the moment. I wonder whether it is more of a curse than blessing at the moment. One positive, we are due some luck! Had spades of it last season, but very little this season. A penalty or deflected goal.. anything pleaseeeee!!

 

 

[somebum]

3 hours ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Wrong decision sticking with Ranieri. 

 

If we do go down I'd go all out for either Gary Rowett or Sean Dyche. 

 

Burnley will stay up but hopefully we could tempt him with many pound notes in his back pocket and a big budget to get us back up.

Ffs seriously mate behave

[somebum]

28 minutes ago, ramboacdc said:

My friend works with someone close to a first team player. Has told me there has been a meeting with the chairman behind Claudio's back. Apparently the board are looking at the next 4 games and judging from then so that means we need good results against derby, Swansea, sevilla and Liverpool to save his job.
Main word being said is "adjustment"

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Did he tell you he had some seafront property in Birmingham going cheap as well

[Guest Lako42]

Depressing stuff in here.

 

 

[Guest Bob Hazels shorts]

49 minutes ago, ramboacdc said:

My friend works with someone close to a first team player. Has told me there has been a meeting with the chairman behind Claudio's back. Apparently the board are looking at the next 4 games and judging from then so that means we need good results against derby, Swansea, sevilla and Liverpool to save his job.
Main word being said is "adjustment"

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Claudio wouldn't attend every meeting the chairman holds, that's fairly normal.

 

Was the player who is close to a friend you are close too at the meeting, surveillance or typed up the minutes.

[ramboacdc]

2 minutes ago, Bob Hazels shorts said:

Claudio wouldn't attend every meeting the chairman holds, that's fairly normal.

 

Was the player who is close to a friend you are close too at the meeting, surveillance or typed up the minutes.

no. ill post the messages here now hold up:

 

Kasper gave the post match interview the other day because Morgan refused to. Kasper has been to the chairman as well to complain.

 

In training they don’t do any training on set pieces, they also don’t know who they’re marking.. that says a lot about the defensive mistakes we’ve made

 

 

He won’t go yet. If he loses the next 4 he’ll be gone. And rightly so because he hasn’t adjusted correctly. But until then I’ve still got an ounce of faith in him

 

 

Got a few more but since its a conversation i got to chop stuff for context. 

[J.Lisemore]

I can't see them giving it 4 games. Losing to both Derby and Swansea would surely be the killer. We can't afford to let things drag on, Newcastle being the prime example when they brought Benitez in too late.

[Monsell1976]

5 hours ago, Dickov22 said:

Looks like he's staying then. Huge mistake. 

Is it the dreaded vote of confidence, the next two games should be a decider as to wether they are going to sack him.

i think lose both games in the same manner as we have been losing, the owners will have no choice, and if they the players are not playing for the manager, Wes needs to go to the chairman and explain it, it's wrong to do that, but it's about what's best for the club, and relegation isn't.

That said, the players who have let us down should be outed in the summer, as if the rumours are true, we don't want that character of player, that is likely to sabotage the next manager, if they don't get their own way.

[norwichfox]

29 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Depressing stuff in here.

 

 

Agreed, but sadly, it's a lot more depressing out on the Field of Play.

[volpeazzurro]

5 hours ago, SheppyFox said:

GARY MONK 

Did he not get the boot out of Swansea for similar given reasons despite the job he'd done there?

[Soar Fox]

1 hour ago, somebum said:

Ffs seriously mate behave

You would be happy to keep Ranieri if we go down? 

[volpeazzurro]

12 hours ago, Tuna said:

According to The Mail.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4197724/Claudio-Ranieri-given-final-chance-save-Leicester.html

 

Leicester’s owners face a crucial decision on Claudio Ranieri’s position after the side slipped to two points off the bottom but sources indicate a willingness to maintain faith going into the Champions League fixture against Sevilla.

Relegation as defending champions is a genuine prospect after the 3-0 defeat by Manchester United and Ranieri’s role has been placed under serious scrutiny amid strong suggestions of dressing-room unrest.

Sportsmail understands Ranieri has spoken to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the club’s chairman, since the game and received reassurance in keeping with his regular discussions with the Thai billionaire.

Srivaddhanaprabha was back in his homeland rather than at the King Power Stadium and it is believed the famous helicopter taking off from the centre-circle after the encounter was for a different executive.

The performance on that pitch from those in blue can only have alarmed Leicester’s hierarchy, a meek surrender as soon as Henrikh Mkhitaryan opened the scoring.

It was a display that did little to quell suspicions, as understood by Sportsmail, that the players are close to losing faith with Ranieri’s approach.

Doubts among the team have been lingering for a number of months with the Italian’s tactical changes proving confusing and allegedly culminating in plunges of confidence.

Less than two hours before November’s Champions League tie in Copenhagen, Ranieri changed to a 3-4-3 system that proved disastrous and was abandoned after 40 minutes.

The diamond formation employed at Southampton was practiced on for just two sessions in advance despite the prior week being free of a game. Leicester lost 3-0 and Ranieri accepted the blame.

Against United the players were surprised to see Shinji Okazaki and Ahmed Musa taken off at half-time but have become accustomed to Ranieri’s quick decisions.

They have made their feelings known previously but the manager will take his own course. He has earned the right to, of course, but that is believed to be behind the strained relationship Ranieri is said to have developed with his assistant Craig Shakespeare. It was noticeable how little communication between the pair occurred in the dugout against United.

Also seen as telling were answers from Kasper Schmeichel and Wes Morgan when asked about their manager. Neither offered a firm backing – preferring to instead insist the team was ready to fight together – and while they were talking amid high-adrenaline shortly after the final whistle continued responses of that kind will only see speculation grow.

The question to be pondered is whether removing Ranieri from the equation would trigger an uplift in form. Club sources insist the Italian’s position is not under threat but should Sunday’s huge tie at Swansea end in similar fashion as against United those discussions appear inevitable.

The groans from Leicester could be heard when Jon Moss was named as referee for that crunch game at Swansea. It will be the first occasion Moss has officiated a Leicester game since his controversial appearance last April when West Ham were given a debatable penalty and Vardy was dismissed for diving.

Ranieri would have liked a clear run at the Swansea game but has an awkward FA Cup tie against Derby on Tuesday night. Team selection will prove a headache. He must balance fatigue and the potential for injury for first-teamers against the psychological damage a defeat to local rivals from a division below would do.

‘Maybe the FA Cup can help with our confidence, it is a big game. I don’t think you should write it off because of what is going on in the league,’ said Danny Simpson.

Molla Wague is not eligible for the tie having been signed after the first leg but it remains dubious whether the Mali international will provide the competition to Morgan and Robert Huth that has been badly needed.

Both are desperately short on form but Wague has not played a club game since November and Ranieri made the startling admission he must first study the 25-year-old in training. He can be justifiably miffed a defender ready to hit the ground running was not brought in.

Those players who performed miraculously to win the title are not now doing so to a level in keeping with the new contracts many signed last summer, with Riyad Mahrez in particular a shadow of himself.

Vardy, often starved of service, has scored just five times all season and Christian Fuchs is nothing like the dependable left-back we came to know him as.

It is thought the squad will take salary cuts in the region of 30 per cent in the event of relegation but Leicester would still have a huge wage bill by Championship standards and such a prospect is not in the four-year plan mapped out to Ranieri when he replaced Nigel Pearson.

Leicester’s owners retained faith in Pearson when the side were plugged to the bottom for months during 2014-15 and were rewarded with a late revival. But neither of those events can be guaranteed this time.

 

'Against United the players were surprised to see Shinji Okazaki and Ahmed Musa taken off at half-time but have become accustomed to Ranieri’s quick decisions'

 

Why surprised?  With that team on the field they'd just gone 2-0 down. Musa had been absolutely useless and had contributed nothing whatsoever. Okazaki in fairness hadn't done to bad, and personally I'd have just replaced Musa with Gray. 

 

However, I thought Ranieri's quick decisions last year were brilliant. Players have to follow their managers orders because invariably they know best and think of the team as a collective as opposed to the self. Do we honestly thing Chav boy Vardy or selfish lazy boy Marhez, after one good season, have suddenly become more tactically astute than their vastly experienced manager? I can only imagine Fergies response but he had a much stronger in depth squad to replace such oiks with. The players need to think less,  does as they're told and bust a gut and earn their money until the end of the season then do one if they don't like it. Ranieri, the owners and Leicester City made this bunch of journeymen more successful than they could ever have dreamed. Some of them are still doing their best but some because of their lack of effort aren't fit to wear the shirt. No tactics will work without effort. Caspar for one must despair of some of them.

[SecretPro]

43 minutes ago, J.Lisemore said:

I can't see them giving it 4 games. Losing to both Derby and Swansea would surely be the killer. We can't afford to let things drag on, Newcastle being the prime example when they brought Benitez in too late.

4 games would be far too late. Would be a pointless exercise to sack him then.

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, ramboacdc said:

no. ill post the messages here now hold up:

 

Kasper gave the post match interview the other day because Morgan refused to. Kasper has been to the chairman as well to complain.

 

 

 

In training they don’t do any training on set pieces, they also don’t know who they’re marking.. that says a lot about the defensive mistakes we’ve made

 

 

He won’t go yet. If he loses the next 4 he’ll be gone. And rightly so because he hasn’t adjusted correctly. But until then I’ve still got an ounce of faith in him

 

Got a few more but since its a conversation i got to chop stuff for context. 

more like he was in united's dressing room still trying to get near enough to ibra to get the ball

 

how can they work on defending set pieces in training. we dont have anyone who can deliver a corner or free kick to test them !

 

 

[AjcW]

 

[Wymsey]

[maddog]

Kudos to the club for issuing that statement.

 

This should calm the media frenzy and reassure the fans and allow the manager and players to focus on matters on the pitch.

 

It will also hopefully motivate the players to start performing, now they know their behaviour won't automatically get Claudio sacked.