Ranieri Sky Press Conference

[smr]

I cant understand why claudio got a win against derby with a hugely changed team and a good performance that he would then revert back to the shower of shite that hasnt been playing well all season.

 

Wheres the ****ing logic in that claudio?

 

Makes no sense whatsoever.

 

Einstein said "the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different outcomes"

 

Ita not ****ing rocket science.

 

Drinkwaters playing shit too. 

 

He should have started with chilwell, amartey, benny and mendy instead of drinkwater, sack mahrez off too. Hes ****ing lazy. Makes ozil look like kante.

[Guest Col city fan]

10 minutes ago, Bob Weasel Fox said:

I know Col

 

just personally find it wrong, my general belief in life is that is someone sticks up for you or fights your corner (even when not right to do so) in my books deserves support and thanks not to be treated the way the players have

 

total disgrace

 

Ranners has made mistakes, clearly he has but he has also been dramatically let down by the people the very people he has been loyal to

 

im a loyal person, without wanting to sound over the top, but I would die and I mean genuinely die for the people and the errm situations I find myself in both personally and professionally but this lot are gutless turds

 

fecking fed up of it

I sense that your loyalty and passion for those around you, mate, stretches somewhat further than your average Premier League footballer.

I genuinely think, with some exceptions, that many of our squad don't give a shite. They weren't born in Leicester. They aren't City fans. It's not 'in the blood', so to speak. They've acquired their contracts that will make them never really have to work very much again. And even if we go down, they'll move on. Mahrez will end up at Arsenal or somewhere. Vardy will go to Everton, for example. Drinks might even sit on the bench at Old Trafford.

This nonsense about players being loyal to their clubs and their fans is rubbish mate. Football is their job. End of.

Money aside, being a top level football manager must be a thankless job. Having to motivate those plonkers who see two hundred thousand pounds each month, poured into their bank accounts, who have had everything done for them right from being a kid and whose biggest decision in life is whether to come into work in the Bentley or the Lamborghini...can't be easy.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

1 minute ago, Col city fan said:

I sense that your loyalty and passion for those around you, mate, stretches somewhat further than your average Premier League footballer.

I genuinely think, with some exceptions, that many of our squad don't give a shite. They weren't born in Leicester. They aren't City fans. It's not 'in the blood', so to speak. They've acquired their contracts that will make them never really have to work very much again. And even if we go down, they'll move on. Mahrez will end up at Arsenal or somewhere. Vardy will go to Everton, for example. Drinks might even sit on the bench at Old Trafford.

This nonsense about players being loyal to their clubs and their fans is rubbish mate. Football is their job. End of.

Yep totally agree with you Col

 

dont agree with people's attitudes like footballers though

 

i get paid a year roughly a third of Vardy's weekly wage and I'm expected to do a ****ing shit lot more than he does, I have spilled blood for my "company" a fair few times including stitches etc etc

 

ive worked 18/19 hour shifts sometimes and been called back in a few hours after finishing with 4/5 hours sleep tops and I get paid relatively fvck all

 

ive been to hell and back and I mean literally to fvcking hell and back and I would still die for what I believe in

 

these ****ers in blue shirts at the moment hardly break fvcking sweat, it's disgusting

 

im so fvcked off with them but I will never waver and never change allegiances. Ranieri clearly isn't the man for a relegation scrap but I would rather he fell on his own sword than any other shenanigans

 

i want to love my team again, like we all do

 

i want to be positive, I want to cheer us on all the time, please City do something

[Koke]

42 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

His loyalty to his players will be his downfall, they obviously don't give a damn about him.

 

 

 

[Clever Fox]

1 hour ago, EnglishOxide said:

Questions need to be asked of recruitment in defence. For all we moan, he hasn't got a lot to choose from. He's not in charge of that area.

 

That's four transfer windows gone past and nobody has joined that can improve on Morgan, Huth and Simpson.

If what you say is true then that explains a lot and is a recipe for disaster. That means CR is only a Coach and not a proper Manager. It can only work if the person doing the choosing is really experienced and signs quality players. That's clearly not the case with us as the Signing have been for the most part poor. We know Pearson wouldn't agree to anyone else picking the players to sign so this change in policy must have happened since Pearson left. Does any of ITKs know for sure who is picking the players. Any Manager worth his salt wouldn't join us under those circumstances.

[reynard]

9 minutes ago, smr said:

I cant understand why claudio got a win against derby with a hugely changed team and a good performance that he would then revert back to the shower of shite that hasnt been playing well all season.

 

Wheres the ****ing logic in that claudio?

 

Makes no sense whatsoever.

 

Einstein said "the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different outcomes"

 

Ita not ****ing rocket science.

 

Drinkwaters playing shit too. 

 

He should have started with chilwell, amartey, benny and mendy instead of drinkwater, sack mahrez off too. Hes ****ing lazy. Makes ozil look like kante.

Whilst I agree with your sentiment did you actually watch the Derby match? I mean really watch it. It wasn't a good performance at all. We won the match largely because in extra time we had better players on the pitch than they did. Which I should damn well hope would be the case considering what they cost. Two moments of quality won the match not an overall dominating perfomance from start to finish. The first half was woeful and exhibited all the usual Ranieri hallmarks we've seen too often this season. Also don't forget we were up against a Derby reserve team featuring some players who had barely played this season. Few of those who started made a truly positive case for starting against Swansea. The trouble lies in the fact that out players are simply not good enough and our manager is hopeless at the moment.

[erlee]

20 hours ago, SheppyFox said:

The biggest concern I have isn't our current form, it's that Ranieri lost his way months ago and it went unnoticed by top. 

Months ago his chargers were clicking.. now they have fallen apart BUT he did not change his line up - his fav players.

 

he has to fall on his own inept plans/sword

[reynard]

3 minutes ago, Bob Weasel Fox said:

Yep totally agree with you Col

 

dont agree with people's attitudes like footballers though

 

i get paid a year roughly a third of Vardy's weekly wage and I'm expected to do a ****ing shit lot more than he does, I have spilled blood for my "company" a fair few times including stitches etc etc

 

ive worked 18/19 hour shifts sometimes and been called back in a few hours after finishing with 4/5 hours sleep tops and I get paid relatively fvck all

 

ive been to hell and back and I mean literally to fvcking hell and back and I would still die for what I believe in

 

these ****ers in blue shirts at the moment hardly break fvcking sweat, it's disgusting

 

im so fvcked off with them but I will never waver and never change allegiances. Ranieri clearly isn't the man for a relegation scrap but I would rather he fell on his own sword than any other shenanigans

 

i want to love my team again, like we all do

 

i want to be positive, I want to cheer us on all the time, please City do something

Excellent post

[smr]

Just now, reynard said:

Whilst I agree with your sentiment did you actually watch the Derby match? I mean really watch it. It wasn't a good performance at all. We won the match largely because in extra time we had better players on the pitch than they did. Which I should damn well hope would be the case considering what they cost. Two moments of quality won the match not an overall dominating perfomance from start to finish. The first half was woeful and exhibited all the usual Ranieri hallmarks we've seen too often this season. Also don't forget we were up against a Derby reserve team featuring some players who had barely played this season. Few of those who started made a truly positive case for starting against Swansea. The trouble lies in the fact that out players are simply not good enough and our manager is hopeless at the moment.

I was sat behind the away dugout. Yeah i just thought we played better than we did today. Cant teach an old dog new tricks and all that.

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, reynard said:

Whilst I agree with your sentiment did you actually watch the Derby match? I mean really watch it. It wasn't a good performance at all. We won the match largely because in extra time we had better players on the pitch than they did. Which I should damn well hope would be the case considering what they cost. Two moments of quality won the match not an overall dominating perfomance from start to finish. The first half was woeful and exhibited all the usual Ranieri hallmarks we've seen too often this season. Also don't forget we were up against a Derby reserve team featuring some players who had barely played this season. Few of those who started made a truly positive case for starting against Swansea. The trouble lies in the fact that out players are simply not good enough and our manager is hopeless at the moment.

Thank **** I'm not going mad. The first half was the biggest load of shite in the history of professional football  and we won the game b pecause our reserves were fitter than theirs. 

[reynard]

1 minute ago, smr said:

I was sat behind the away dugout. Yeah i just thought we played better than we did today. Cant teach an old dog new tricks and all that.

Fair enough. I'm afraid our old dog doesn't appear to have any tricks old or new.

[Mike Oxlong]

I'll never turn my back on the club but never have I felt more like turning my back on a group of players than now. They are in no way representative of what we are about.

[reynard]

1 minute ago, st albans fox said:

Thank **** I'm not going mad. The first half was the biggest load of shite in the history of professional football  and we won the game b pecause our reserves were fitter than theirs. 

I know but I'm afraid there were some who saw it as a new dawn a new hope where as I saw it for a win over a much weakened opposition in which we played some lousy football.

[Guest Basildon Fox]

38 minutes ago, ROB-THE-BLUE said:

With pleasure.

 

Shut the fvck up

[Volpe Viola]

I think that a perfect storm was created for LCFC to win the league but the same storm will destroy us. The momentum from 14/15 was carried forward by Claudio and by him asking the players how they would like to play. The season started with us winning but not keeping a clean sheet until a certain Kante came along. The rest is history until we let Kante go smuglike in that we'd kept Mahrez and Vardy. A bit like Brendan Rogers letting Suarez go but he'd got Sturridge and Sterling. What no one twigged us that these players made the others look better. Join that with the typical football culture that it was me and I deserve a pay rise to let's face it soft touch owners and we pay ourselves shit loads for a historic but past glory. We're then left with some players playing with cigars on, a manager who can't or won't see it and owners who are not ruthless enough. We've got some outstanding players but the back 4 and Drinkwater are not the same. I've benn going to city for 50 years and despite last years heroics am struggling to remember a more lacklustre and embarrassing season. It seems now that Foxes do Quit once they've had they're Timmy tickled and told how good that are. Sorry but relegation is inevitable.

[erlee]

19 hours ago, Koke said:

 

 

 

NOW it is too mucg & tooooooo late

[Dr The Singh]

1 minute ago, erlee said:

NOW it is too mucg & tooooooo late

CR is on crack

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, erlee said:

NOW it is too mucg & tooooooo late

Jeff didn't get as many chances as the rest of them! 

 

Problem is he saw how inept the second string were in Porto. Let's see how they do against millwall's first team (motivated) before thinking some of them could step up to save the club from relegation. 

[nelbert]

1 hour ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Never been so conflicted in my football fan career. Love the guy and I'm so pissed off with the players who have left him out to dry, but then when he picks the same old shit it's so hard to feel sorry for him. 

imigine how the the old man feels for all his billions whealh and buddism ,to to turn around and tell him       its probably the hardest decision he will ever make

[SheppyFox]

34 minutes ago, Max Power said:

Glad he's finally said it.

Where?

[DB11]

In 2014/15 we were playing better and looked like a good team, just things weren't going our way. This season we look shit and I can't see anything changing

[SheppyFox]

34 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

I sense that your loyalty and passion for those around you, mate, stretches somewhat further than your average Premier League footballer.

I genuinely think, with some exceptions, that many of our squad don't give a shite. They weren't born in Leicester. They aren't City fans. It's not 'in the blood', so to speak. They've acquired their contracts that will make them never really have to work very much again. And even if we go down, they'll move on. Mahrez will end up at Arsenal or somewhere. Vardy will go to Everton, for example. Drinks might even sit on the bench at Old Trafford.

This nonsense about players being loyal to their clubs and their fans is rubbish mate. Football is their job. End of.

Money aside, being a top level football manager must be a thankless job. Having to motivate those plonkers who see two hundred thousand pounds each month, poured into their bank accounts, who have had everything done for them right from being a kid and whose biggest decision in life is whether to come into work in the Bentley or the Lamborghini...can't be easy.

Absolutely right, never ever show sentiment to footballers, they get paid to get the job done, if they don't give their utmost do get the results they should be removed, as in any other respectable profession. Same with managers and coaches, staff, scouts etc.

[Volpe Viola]

To be a serial winner you have to be ruthless. First game of the season against a Hull in disarray sums it up. In my time following LCFC I can't say how that first result in my mind had defined the season. Then we're concentrating on the Champions League as though PL survival is a foregone conclusion. I'm sorry but this is mismanagement of a multi-million pound business on an epic scale. I wish I didn't care so much but I blame my dad.

[Raw Dykes]

2 minutes ago, Mike Oxlong said:

I'll never turn my back on the club but never have I felt more like turning my back on a group of players than now. They are in no way representative of what we are about.

I agree. I've never been more disappointed in the team than I am right now. Even when we were treading water in the wrong end of the 2nd tier before we were relegated. Maybe even during Taylor's reign. I'd accepted that times were hard before League 1, and that MON was an exceptional manager who was always going to be almost impossible to replace.

 

This is easily the worst performance vs expectation ratio I've ever seen. We're the champions, and we're about to be relegated without so much as a whimper. Just so sick and tired of the same limp performances and the same old, tired post-match interviews from Claudio week after week.

 

If you spend £80-odd million on a PL title winning squad, you should at least expect mid-table obscurity, surely? At the very least, that's what we should be right now. But no. Instead, we're heading for 20th as quick as we can without even scoring a single goal in 10 whole hours of football. It's disgraceful.

 

I hope heads roll in the summer. The players who have woefully underperformed can fvck right off if anyone is stupid enough to pay for them. I'd like to keep the few who haven't embarrassed themselves, but they deserve better than the Championship, and I won't blame them for jumping this ship. Good luck to them.

 

I don't like to say it, but Ranieri clearly isn't all I thought he was last season. Maybe he's the best manager in the world for keeping a good side ticking along, but a good manager needs to have a lot more in his arsenal than that. I'll remember his first season very fondly, obviously, but if he's out the door by the morning, it won't be a minute too soon.

[Raj]

24 minutes ago, Koke said:

 

 

 

This is the worst thing about it all.

Ranieri has put SO much faith in these players,who after all won him a Premier League title. He feels he owes them a chance. A chance to show last season wasn't a fluke, that they are good players who can step up....unfortunately they are proving they are the exact opposite...the stars,the galaxies the way the wind blew last season made this bunch if journeyman average players take the biggest prize in world domestic foitball....now they are back to their normal limits. I feel for Claudio, I love him...but PLEASE stop believing in them and change,for your OWN benefit!