Leo Ulloa interview

[kushiro]

 

"Cambiasso must take a lot of the credit for what happened that led to us not going down. He started to analyse what the situation was, who our main rivals were, not just the bottom three but six or seven clubs that could all become involved. He started to work out what we needed in terms of points. It gave us a focus, it created a change of mentality, we knew what we needed to do. We worked out that to survive we would probably need to win about six games and draw one. This was Cambiasso’s plan. We knew that if we did what we set out to do then it would depend on the other sides doing what they had to. The coach used Cambiasso’s plan without saying where it can from."

 

I'm praying that no-one in the Sunderland or Middlesbrough dressing rooms has access to a calculator. Wouldn't want to be dragged back into the relegation scrap.

 

[Foxxed]

It's incredible to think how Cambiasso changed the team's mentality by devising the plan and giving it to, I assume, Pearson who then told the team.

 

Ulloa said they didn't know where the plan came at the time. I wonder when they found out it was from Cambiasso.

 

Without Cambiasso sitting down to calculate the points and to analyse the teams and then approaching a receptive ear there'd be no great escape.

 

And then probably no Kante, no Shinji, no Fuchs, no emgence of improved Vardy, Drinky and Mahrez playing against premier league teams, and no title and no Champions League place.

 

Cheers Esteban!

 

[Aus Fox]

You have got to feel for the lad, wanted to leave to play every week. When Slimani came in on deadline day, I can only imagine how pissed off he was. It seems a lot of promises were made by CR but he went back on them.

Then refusing him the opportunity to move on in January.

Glad to see him back in the fold at Everton, but I imagine Leicester's number 23 will be the first player to leave when the window reopens.

 

[theessexfox]

I don't get the idea of a plan, I could've told them that winning 7 of the last 9 would be very handy in staying up. 

[Foxxed]

4 minutes ago, theessexfox said:

I don't get the idea of a plan, I could've told them that winning 7 of the last 9 would be very handy in staying up. 

Haha, I guess it focused their minds and marked a change in mentality more than "Winning matches? We need to win matches? Oh I misheard: I thought you said lose matc,,.".

[KingsX]

6 hours ago, brucey said:

 The situation became complicated, the coach left, people’s heads and minds were cleared and refreshed, we went back to the old system and the dynamic changed.

On the surface, that one sentence says little ... but using a bit of context, I get more clarity from it than from the oceans of "inside stories", babble and psychoanalysis.  Nobody's ... freaking ... FAULT.

[Babylon]

5 hours ago, Foxxed said:

It's incredible to think how Cambiasso changed the team's mentality by devising the plan and giving it to, I assume, Pearson who then told the team.

 

Ulloa said they didn't know where the plan came at the time. I wonder when they found out it was from Cambiasso.

 

Without Cambiasso sitting down to calculate the points and to analyse the teams and then approaching a receptive ear there'd be no great escape.

 

And then probably no Kante, no Shinji, no Fuchs, no emgence of improved Vardy, Drinky and Mahrez playing against premier league teams, and no title and no Champions League place.

 

Cheers Esteban!

 

As plans go, it's not exactly brilliant is it. "We must win games"... well yeah cheers for that.

[Guest Basildon Fox]

Esteban: "Boss we are a little ****ed at the moment. We need to win 6 games to stay up but we are running out of games to do this."

NP: "Wow. I did not look at it that way. If we win games then we will get more points. What a great idea. We have tried the let's play shite and lose way. I will let the other players know."

NP to everyone: Guys listen up. Esteban the bold headed loveable bugger has come up with a cunning plan..."

 

12 months later it was NP that won us the league. The lying bastards soon forgot about the Esteban win lots of games idea.

[Guest the fox]

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[foxile5]

I really don't have much time for Ulloa. Refusing to play for us again because he couldn't move to a relegation rival. Now he's trying to engineer a move in an interview. I appreciate what he did as a player, but he's a bit of a disloyal turd. 

[StriderHiryu]

The Cambiasso insight is interesting as it's something that's been mentioned in both a positive and negative light before by several players. In Jamie Vardy's book, he is pretty forthright about Cambiasso and implies that several of the senior players did not like him and didn't miss him when he left. They felt that the team formation and style was configured to cater for him, despite him being old and unproven in the Premier League. They thought he was a liability and not a positive for the team. I think he also mentions that Cambiasso did indeed arrange a team meeting when they were bottom of the table to discuss how to stay up and that he and others felt it was disrespectful because it was Wes Morgan's job to arrange team talks and he had undermined him.

 

However, at the same time other players and staff like Ulloa have spoken very positively about him. Yes, you could say that the idea of winning lots of games in order to stay up is hardly tactical insight of the year, but put yourself in Nigel Pearson's situation. Your marquee signing who is on big wages and who could easily find another pay day has got the players together and says he believes the team can stay up and this is how to do it. Morale and confidence at the club would have been at a real low, but having the most senior figure there show a willingness to fight would been a huge positive and is testament to the man. He was brought in to do one job - make sure Leicester did not get relegated and he was going to achieve that no matter what it took! And fair play to Esteban, he was immense during the last 10 games of the great escape season and played his part. I personally remember seeing him in many games shouting and berating Jeff Schlup throughout a match to ensure he was always standing in the right position and not getting caught out. And it worked, Jeff went on to win the players player of the season that year thanks to a notable improvement in those games.

 

Definitely a divisive figure both in the dressing room and on these forums, but he played his part. Personally I am a big fan and feel he showed that had he been playing in the Premier League at his physical peak, he would have been one of the best players in the division. The 35 year old version was immense when he had to be and deservedly won fans player of the season that year. In the end his departure was a blessing as it paved the way for a certain N'golo Kante and the rest as they say, is history.

[Strokes]

3 hours ago, Babylon said:

As plans go, it's not exactly brilliant is it. "We must win games"... well yeah cheers for that.

I've emailed the club my master plan for next season. I don't want to reveal the full plan on here for fear of another club poaching the idea but in brief, if we accumulate more points than everyone else, we should in theory, win the league. I don't know why it hasn't been thought of sooner, it's quite literally fool proof.

[Babylon]

59 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

The Cambiasso insight is interesting as it's something that's been mentioned in both a positive and negative light before by several players. In Jamie Vardy's book, he is pretty forthright about Cambiasso and implies that several of the senior players did not like him and didn't miss him when he left. They felt that the team formation and style was configured to cater for him, despite him being old and unproven in the Premier League. They thought he was a liability and not a positive for the team. I think he also mentions that Cambiasso did indeed arrange a team meeting when they were bottom of the table to discuss how to stay up and that he and others felt it was disrespectful because it was Wes Morgan's job to arrange team talks and he had undermined him.

 

However, at the same time other players and staff like Ulloa have spoken very positively about him. Yes, you could say that the idea of winning lots of games in order to stay up is hardly tactical insight of the year, but put yourself in Nigel Pearson's situation. Your marquee signing who is on big wages and who could easily find another pay day has got the players together and says he believes the team can stay up and this is how to do it. Morale and confidence at the club would have been at a real low, but having the most senior figure there show a willingness to fight would been a huge positive and is testament to the man. He was brought in to do one job - make sure Leicester did not get relegated and he was going to achieve that no matter what it took! And fair play to Esteban, he was immense during the last 10 games of the great escape season and played his part. I personally remember seeing him in many games shouting and berating Jeff Schlup throughout a match to ensure he was always standing in the right position and not getting caught out. And it worked, Jeff went on to win the players player of the season that year thanks to a notable improvement in those games.

 

Definitely a divisive figure both in the dressing room and on these forums, but he played his part. Personally I am a big fan and feel he showed that had he been playing in the Premier League at his physical peak, he would have been one of the best players in the division. The 35 year old version was immense when he had to be and deservedly won fans player of the season that year. In the end his departure was a blessing as it paved the way for a certain N'golo Kante and the rest as they say, is history.

Got no issue with his trying to be positive and raise moral, you'd expect that from your senior pros. I just have a problem with the weirdos who made out us staying up was all his doing and he was somehow choosing the team and the formation.

 

It was pretty obvious what had happened when we first heard about all this, thankfully Leo has spelt it out and it can now remove all the nonsense people were grasping at to discredit Pearson.

[surrifox]

8 minutes ago, Strokes said:

I've emailed the club my master plan for next season. I don't want to reveal the full plan on here for fear of another club poaching the idea but in brief, if we accumulate more points than everyone else, we should in theory, win the league. I don't know why it hasn't been thought of sooner, it's quite literally fool proof.

As if that's going to work - get in the real world 

[Babylon]

9 minutes ago, Strokes said:

I've emailed the club my master plan for next season. I don't want to reveal the full plan on here for fear of another club poaching the idea but in brief, if we accumulate more points than everyone else, we should in theory, win the league. I don't know why it hasn't been thought of sooner, it's quite literally fool proof.