Shame on our club...

[Wolfox]

14 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

The whole football world fvckin seem to hate us right now and desperately want us to be relegated.

 

We've gone from everybody's second favorite club nine months ago, to now being the new Millwall.

 

Sad...

 

I post on another forum regualry... a non football one 

 

some quotes 

 

Utterly disgusting! Did they expect him to copy last season?? 
He led them to a deserved premier league trophy which gifted the shareholders with Champions League football this season!! 

If they had done what was expected and just managed to "tread water" last season it would be business as usual, he'd have five more seasons of it. It seems that because they over-achieved last season he is being punished now!

No offence to Leicester fans, last year was well fought and well deserved, they got off to a flying start and momentum carried them through. It wasn't world class football and at times it wasn't pretty, but every match they played the whole team just seemed to WANT it more than the other guys. Ranieri ignited and stoked that fire, and now they've binned him because Leicester are playing mediocre football...as was expected of them last year.  

The premier league is a disgrace.

 

 

 

 

 

Disgraceful, after all he's done for the club! 

Those players and fans who called for his head should now hang theirs in shame!

This from Ranieri:

'I could leave last season, I won the title and I had something with other teams but I wanted to stay here because I knew it was a difficult year.
'I came here to build, to build something good for Leicester, for everybody. I keep going, I maintain my mind in this way. I forget the title and I want to achieve something good for the fans, chairman and the city.'

 

 

 

 

 

Disgusting. He took them to heights they could never have dreamed of. 6 months ago he was a god to them and now something resembling reality has hit the club they dump the man who has given the fans more to cheer about than anyone who came before him.

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

7 minutes ago, TeamRocket said:

Dont get why people are hating the team cos we sacked him 

Because they have not watched the garbage served up as football by us this season?

[BlueSi13]

5 minutes ago, Vacamion said:

 

Any future unequivocal backing of a manager by these owners ain't worth the paper it's written on.

To be fair, I don't think they we expecting us to be humbled by ten-man Millwall following their very public backing.

[dorsetboy]

im in the i would have preffered claudio to be moved upstairs camp than see him sacked .

 

i have to say though that i quite vividly remember when the owners went all spend spend spend with sven and it didnt work they said they had learnt from this and wouldnt do it again . Why then last season did they hand out huge contracts to every player who now seems to just enjoy the magazine and deckchair life  . 

 

i can understand players like vardy ,mahrez and drinky getting a rise although not to that extent and i personally think they should have been bonus driven for wins and goals instead. 

 

what i cant understand is why give people likes fuchs who said he will only be around for another year a big fat 3 year deal and also wes and huth whos legs havent lasted 6 months never mind 3 years more . 

[Webbo]

We've sacked the Fifa manager of the year, the architect of our greatest ever achievement.

[Babylon]

4 minutes ago, Wookie said:

If we were to be relegated at what point would we say actually we sentimental anymore? Ranieri isn't bigger than the club and he was taking us down.

It's baffling. Don't sack him for being shit now... but in the summer it's fine. What sort of mentality is that.

[Babylon]

1 minute ago, Webbo said:

We've sacked the Fifa manager of the year, the architect of our greatest ever achievement.

Don't forget the man who was in charge when we lost to a 10 man league one team and is sending us down without a whimper.

 

We're not sacking him with us top of the table, we're utterly atrocious now and going down.

[Babylon]

7 minutes ago, Wolfox said:

 

I post on another forum regualry... a non football one 

 

some quotes 

 

Utterly disgusting! Did they expect him to copy last season?? 
He led them to a deserved premier league trophy which gifted the shareholders with Champions League football this season!! 

If they had done what was expected and just managed to "tread water" last season it would be business as usual, he'd have five more seasons of it. It seems that because they over-achieved last season he is being punished now!

No offence to Leicester fans, last year was well fought and well deserved, they got off to a flying start and momentum carried them through. It wasn't world class football and at times it wasn't pretty, but every match they played the whole team just seemed to WANT it more than the other guys. Ranieri ignited and stoked that fire, and now they've binned him because Leicester are playing mediocre football...as was expected of them last year.  

The premier league is a disgrace.

 

 

 

 

 

Disgraceful, after all he's done for the club! 

Those players and fans who called for his head should now hang theirs in shame!

This from Ranieri:

'I could leave last season, I won the title and I had something with other teams but I wanted to stay here because I knew it was a difficult year.
'I came here to build, to build something good for Leicester, for everybody. I keep going, I maintain my mind in this way. I forget the title and I want to achieve something good for the fans, chairman and the city.'

 

 

 

 

 

Disgusting. He took them to heights they could never have dreamed of. 6 months ago he was a god to them and now something resembling reality has hit the club they dump the man who has given the fans more to cheer about than anyone who came before him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disgusting. He took them to heights they could never have dreamed of. 6 months ago he was a god to them and now something resembling reality has hit the club they dump the man who has given the fans more to cheer about than anyone who came before him. 

Who cares, they are the same as the clueless talking heads who don't watch us. We don't expect the win the league, we don't expect top 10 finishes... what I expect is to actually make a fight of staying up and we're not even close to doing that.

[buzzy]

god hope they have a replacement and not the ****ing list [in another thread] and rudkin know needs to go and take half the blame for this season as well. the players also need to hang there heads in shame. has i have said the owners better have a good replacement

 

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

5 minutes ago, Webbo said:

We've sacked the Fifa manager of the year, the architect of our greatest ever achievement.

True. But we've also sacked the manager who presided over no league goals in 2017, only 5 wins in the league, humbled by 10 man Div One side in the cup,  prison shamed in Sevilla in reality and no sensible selection policy. And yes I do love him!

[sm1]

As i've written in other threads, I love Claudio, but the owners are absolutely right in their decision making. If anything they've shown too much loyality and let our season just get worse and worse. People criticising the owners should think that when nobody wanted to employ Ranieri, after the Greece debacle, they gave him the chance. All these so called football pundits and fans of other clubs were laughing at us. They thought it stupid that the owners had sacked a man that kept us up for Ranieri, a guy who had just lost to the Faroe Islands. Now they're all coming out and professing endless love for Ranieri. Who cares what those fickle f**ckers think, LCFC is the most important thing and the owners have shown balls of steel once again. Kudos to them.

[HankMarvin]

Leicester City's owners were snakes claiming to support Claudio Ranieri... his dispiriting, depressing sacking marks the day the game lost its soul

• STORY: Claudio Ranieri sacked with Leicester one point outside relegation zone 
• Despite the precarious position, it is hard to imagine a more pathetic decision  
• Leicester owners have betrayed him midway through a Champions League tie
• Ranieri was never afforded the respect he deserved by his players or the owners 

 

They must have someone absolutely exceptional lined up. A miracle worker, really. A man who, in ways we cannot begin to understand even now, pulled off the greatest single achievement in the history of football leadership.

No, they can't have; because that individual is Claudio Ranieri, and Leicester have sacked him.

It is hard to imagine a more pathetic, dispiriting, thoroughly depressing decision has ever been made. Forget the happy clappers, the free rounds of Singha beer.

 

 

When it mattered, Leicester's owners were found wanting. They were snakes, claiming to support Ranieri only to betray him now – midway through a Champions League tie, in which the spirit of last season was forcibly evoked, some may say for the first time in this campaign. 

Yes, Leicester lost in Seville. But by scoring an away goal against a superior Sevilla side, a 2-1 defeat almost felt like victory. It stirred memories, of a Leicester triumph against all odds, and gave hope that a corner may at last have been turned. And now this. Ranieri gone. A painful decision, said the owners. Not painful enough, sadly.

 

Ranieri was never afforded the respect he deserved. Not by his players, who drenched him in public as he was about to speak to the world's media, and not by his owners, who seemed more interested in parading pictures of Thai royalty on the day of his crowning glory. 

It should have been Ranieri's image up there that afternoon, just as it should have been Ranieri who was given the chance to complete this epic journey, whether it ended in safety or relegation to the Championship. Sean Dyche took Burnley down, but the club knew what it had in him, and kept faith. 

 

 

They were rewarded with a return to the Premier League and, so far, a season that has exceeded all expectations. And Ranieri was not due that? He was not due the opportunity to right the wrongs of this campaign, no matter where it ended. 

He has not even been given a year from the most remarkable, illogical, title win – from an achievement that took the name of Leicester City into parts of the world that did not know it existed.

Muhammad Ali, it was said, could look out of an airplane window on any continent in the knowledge everyone on the ground below knew who he was. And that was true of Leicester, last May. Not ly-cess-ta in America, anymore. Leicester. Leicester City. Improbably famous, even now. The outsiders against which all others will be judged, forever more.

Leicester changed the sporting landscape, changed our expectations, even changed the odds at the bookmakers. No one is quoted at 5,000-1 anymore. Even this season, they continue to confound. Breezing into the Champions League knockout round – Tottenham couldn't do it – and now a 1-0 home win over Sevilla away from the quarter-finals in this, their supposed moment of great catastrophe.

Imagine what their fans would have considered Ranieri due before this happened. What loyalty they would have considered sufficient for a man who could deliver the Premier League title, and then a Champions League run. Five years? Ten? A lifetime? In the end, Ranieri didn't even get nine months. 

And this is a decision that could cost millions. Not millions in terms of finance, which is the prime consideration for Ranieri's employers, obviously; but millions in terms of support. Fans, followers, lovers of football, who may feel this morning that the game is no longer for them; that a sport placing such little value on integrity and humanity, that no longer recognises feats unprecedented, has truly lost its purpose and its soul.

 

Roman Abramovich sacked Roberto Di Matteo months after winning the Champions League. Carlo Ancelotti was gone a year after winning the double in his first season. We were appalled, yes, but we also understood. Chelsea consider themselves a huge club now. 

They set standards, they make demands. They seek parity with Real Madrid. Elite clubs are manager eaters. But this was Leicester. This was a club that nobody – nobody – ever thought could be England's champions. The days of parity had passed. We had resigned ourselves to that fact; and Ranieri then made us reconsider what was possible.

His achievement in managing Leicester to the title remains the single greatest of the modern sporting age. Better than Liverpool in Istanbul, Manchester United's treble, Arsenal's Invincibles, the 2017 Super Bowl, the miracle in Medinah. Wonderful though they all were, those outcomes were all considered possible. 

These were good teams, great players, elite performers. It was different for Leicester, last year. Ranieri drew elite quality from mongrels, from journeymen, and at a time when football is ruled by money like never before. 

He took a club marked for relegation to heights unimagined. And what did it get him? Not even nine months grace. Not even the courtesy of being treated honestly, openly, by those that employed him – of being allowed to at least complete the Champions League campaign that he delivered.

Leicester were the greatest story football ever told, yet this is its bleakest coda. The weasel words of the club statement should only harden the sense of disgust around this decision. Leicester may not be the favourites to go down; but, after this, it is quite likely they will be the people's choice. 

MARTIN SAMUEL FOR THE DAILY MAIL

 

 

 

[bovril]

I can kind of see both sides of the argument. I accept his management has been poor this season. But overall I agree with a lot of the sentiments of the original post. Some things are more important than short term results. Personally I think the club, the fans and the community will end up regretting this decision. If we'd stayed up and he'd retired / resigned the legacy would be intact. But whatever happens now, even if the new manager comes in and manages to keep us up, the title win will always have this unpleasant coda. An ending which goes against what I would ultimately like my football club to be about.

[Twitcher]

The owners are honourable men. They've done this with heavy hearts. It wasn't a knee jerk reaction. We were only heading in one direction. It's very sad but the situation hasn't left them much choice. If a new manager gets a tune out of what has been a woeful bunch of players all season then it will further justify the decision. It's like a divorce. Initially it might seem the painful thing to do, but may well be right and necessary to move on.

[HankMarvin]

12 million contract 2 million bonus for winning the league, secured his family's futures for generations , not a bad little number

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

2 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Leicester City's owners were snakes claiming to support Claudio Ranieri... his dispiriting, depressing sacking marks the day the game lost its soul

• STORY: Claudio Ranieri sacked with Leicester one point outside relegation zone 
• Despite the precarious position, it is hard to imagine a more pathetic decision  
• Leicester owners have betrayed him midway through a Champions League tie
• Ranieri was never afforded the respect he deserved by his players or the owners 

 

They must have someone absolutely exceptional lined up. A miracle worker, really. A man who, in ways we cannot begin to understand even now, pulled off the greatest single achievement in the history of football leadership.

No, they can't have; because that individual is Claudio Ranieri, and Leicester have sacked him.

It is hard to imagine a more pathetic, dispiriting, thoroughly depressing decision has ever been made. Forget the happy clappers, the free rounds of Singha beer.

 

 

When it mattered, Leicester's owners were found wanting. They were snakes, claiming to support Ranieri only to betray him now – midway through a Champions League tie, in which the spirit of last season was forcibly evoked, some may say for the first time in this campaign. 

Yes, Leicester lost in Seville. But by scoring an away goal against a superior Sevilla side, a 2-1 defeat almost felt like victory. It stirred memories, of a Leicester triumph against all odds, and gave hope that a corner may at last have been turned. And now this. Ranieri gone. A painful decision, said the owners. Not painful enough, sadly.

 

Ranieri was never afforded the respect he deserved. Not by his players, who drenched him in public as he was about to speak to the world's media, and not by his owners, who seemed more interested in parading pictures of Thai royalty on the day of his crowning glory. 

It should have been Ranieri's image up there that afternoon, just as it should have been Ranieri who was given the chance to complete this epic journey, whether it ended in safety or relegation to the Championship. Sean Dyche took Burnley down, but the club knew what it had in him, and kept faith. 

 

 

They were rewarded with a return to the Premier League and, so far, a season that has exceeded all expectations. And Ranieri was not due that? He was not due the opportunity to right the wrongs of this campaign, no matter where it ended. 

He has not even been given a year from the most remarkable, illogical, title win – from an achievement that took the name of Leicester City into parts of the world that did not know it existed.

Muhammad Ali, it was said, could look out of an airplane window on any continent in the knowledge everyone on the ground below knew who he was. And that was true of Leicester, last May. Not ly-cess-ta in America, anymore. Leicester. Leicester City. Improbably famous, even now. The outsiders against which all others will be judged, forever more.

Leicester changed the sporting landscape, changed our expectations, even changed the odds at the bookmakers. No one is quoted at 5,000-1 anymore. Even this season, they continue to confound. Breezing into the Champions League knockout round – Tottenham couldn't do it – and now a 1-0 home win over Sevilla away from the quarter-finals in this, their supposed moment of great catastrophe.

Imagine what their fans would have considered Ranieri due before this happened. What loyalty they would have considered sufficient for a man who could deliver the Premier League title, and then a Champions League run. Five years? Ten? A lifetime? In the end, Ranieri didn't even get nine months. 

And this is a decision that could cost millions. Not millions in terms of finance, which is the prime consideration for Ranieri's employers, obviously; but millions in terms of support. Fans, followers, lovers of football, who may feel this morning that the game is no longer for them; that a sport placing such little value on integrity and humanity, that no longer recognises feats unprecedented, has truly lost its purpose and its soul.

 

Roman Abramovich sacked Roberto Di Matteo months after winning the Champions League. Carlo Ancelotti was gone a year after winning the double in his first season. We were appalled, yes, but we also understood. Chelsea consider themselves a huge club now. 

They set standards, they make demands. They seek parity with Real Madrid. Elite clubs are manager eaters. But this was Leicester. This was a club that nobody – nobody – ever thought could be England's champions. The days of parity had passed. We had resigned ourselves to that fact; and Ranieri then made us reconsider what was possible.

His achievement in managing Leicester to the title remains the single greatest of the modern sporting age. Better than Liverpool in Istanbul, Manchester United's treble, Arsenal's Invincibles, the 2017 Super Bowl, the miracle in Medinah. Wonderful though they all were, those outcomes were all considered possible. 

These were good teams, great players, elite performers. It was different for Leicester, last year. Ranieri drew elite quality from mongrels, from journeymen, and at a time when football is ruled by money like never before. 

He took a club marked for relegation to heights unimagined. And what did it get him? Not even nine months grace. Not even the courtesy of being treated honestly, openly, by those that employed him – of being allowed to at least complete the Champions League campaign that he delivered.

Leicester were the greatest story football ever told, yet this is its bleakest coda. The weasel words of the club statement should only harden the sense of disgust around this decision. Leicester may not be the favourites to go down; but, after this, it is quite likely they will be the people's choice. 

MARTIN SAMUEL FOR THE DAILY MAIL

 

 

 

Tell him to f#ck off and support Man U

[Joefox]

21 minutes ago, TrentFox said:

Ah. The overreaction thread. No offence, but I'd rather go down trying hard to prevent it than to meekly accept it. The club had no option. It's sad, but the correct call. No shame whatsoever. 

The owners are doing what's in the best interests of this club and I have to say it took some cajones to do it knowing the reaction of the media. Good on them. I for one applaud them.

[sdb]

This is the narrative the media are driving. But the man was getting us relegated, 100%. Look at our form over the last 3-4 months. Inexcusable. We're the worst football league side in the country in 2017. That'll lose you your job, regardless of your past. 

[Bernieboots76]

I am sorry that it has come to this I don't like seeing anyone loose their job but it was coming to a point where the owners had to make a decision and they now have.  I personally didn't think C.R was going to sort it out, the result last night was not a disaster but it could have been and the owners decided they could not let their investment in the club go down without doing anything to stop the rot. 

[Wolfox]

1 minute ago, Babylon said:

Who cares, they are the same as the clueless talking heads who don't watch us. We don't expect the win the league, we don't expect top 10 finishes... what I expect is to actually make a fight of staying up and we're not even close to doing that.

 

I care about how my club is perceived as I take great pride in calling myself a City fan...  I don't feel comfortable about feeling entirely embarrassed  about how my club has treated Ranieri especially when I can't and won't try to justify it...

 

i know now an awful lot of people who don't support my club....  I get out of Leicester occasionally 

[JamesfromlondonLCFC]

1 minute ago, Wolfox said:

 

I care about how my club is perceived as I take great pride in calling myself a City fan...  I don't feel comfortable about feeling entirely embarrassed  about how my club has treated Ranieri especially when I can't and won't try to justify it...

 

i know now an awful lot of people who don't support my club....  I get out of Leicester occasionally 

really? cause i personally couldn't ****ing care less what other people think about my club. you're either Leicester of you're against us, what the rest of the world thinks is totally ****ing irrelevant in my opinion 

[Renart]

4 minutes ago, Babylon said:

It's baffling. Don't sack him for being shit now... but in the summer it's fine. What sort of mentality is that.

There is something called integrity. With him, we might have stayed up and we might not. Now, we might stay up and we might not - but we will always be the team that sacked him. He is a very popular guy and for good reason. Fans, owners, players etc get caught up in this idea that changing the manager is going to solve everything. Well, I would have rather we had gone down with him than we stay up with someone else. And don't any of you dare say that I don't have the interests of my club at heart - because I have supported them all my life and I have never seen anything like last season - and if it meant us going down, then I would have taken it to have protected my club's integrity!  

[Trav Le Bleu]

The LCFC instagram is just full of foreign people who say that it's disgraceful and they have lost respect for the club

 

[Guest MattP]

We are the most hated club in England for the forseeable future now.

[Babylon]

2 minutes ago, Renart said:

There is something called integrity. With him, we might have stayed up and we might not. Now, we might stay up and we might not - but we will always be the team that sacked him. He is a very popular guy and for good reason. Fans, owners, players etc get caught up in this idea that changing the manager is going to solve everything. Well, I would have rather we had gone down with him than we stay up with someone else. And don't any of you dare say that I don't have the interests of my club at heart - because I have supported them all my life and I have never seen anything like last season - and if it meant us going down, then I would have taken it to have protected my club's integrity!  

So it's integrity to sack him in the summer but not now, you might kid yourself into thinking that but it's not really any different. You're still sacking him for the same reasons.