Ranieri 'Ready to return to management'

[UPinCarolina]

Let Claudio be. I'm not inclined to rail against somebody whose not done anything to harm the club, to the best of our knowledge. We will probably never know the real story, if it's indeed anything more than tactical misfires.

[Pentatonic]

Yes, PL form under Claudio this season was atrocious, and he had to go. But give him credit for two things in 2017: 1) a good run in the CL; 2) bringing Ndidi aboard.

[Sionnach gorm]

5 hours ago, Finnegan said:

Wow, there's some total c unts in here.

The usual suspects too, who wouldn't know football if it was living in their arse

[K1FOX]

6 hours ago, Sionnach gorm said:

The usual suspects too, who wouldn't know football if it was living in their arse

 

Nobody is saying Ranieri wasn't a part of our miraculous and best ever season however now that he is gone he is coming accross as bitter and arrogant and keeps praising himself and is still taking the credit for our performances now even when he isn't the manager. 

 

The worst thing is he is he thinks he made them turn the corner at Sevilla (A) and he still hasn't recognised let alone acknowledged the mistakes he made this season.

 

There is one thing respecting a manager who won the league for you and yes he was great but don't be like the media and think that anything that comes after that is not even worth considering 

[WigstonWanderer]

I wish him all the best but am a bit surprised with some of his comments. He must be a sucker for punishment. Surely at 65 better to go out after achieving the high point of his career. He can't need the money, and football management is bound to end in failure if pursued long enough.

[bovril]

11 hours ago, K1FOX said:

He was with us for one season, how are they his players playing 'his' system ? Seriously losing respect for him. The media love in has got him believing he won the league himself 

I agree his latest comments have been a bit silly but when we won the league one thing he never did was make it about himself. He always made it about the players and fans, which is one thing I respect him for.

[MrSpaM]

It'd be interesting seeing him manage a club in the premiership that didn't have the solid foundation we already had when he came that's for sure

 

Pearson wasn't sacked because we were playing poorly like most teams that get rid of their managers

[hackneyfox]

13 hours ago, Finnegan said:

Wow, there's some total c unts in here.

Agree

13 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

He'll be shown up elsewhere.

Prime example

13 hours ago, cambridgefox said:

I would rather they supported someone else.

Yes it was the right decision but wow.Respect should be made to anyone connected to the team for last year.

Never blocked anyone before but I'm close.

Agree

[Footballwipe]

History will be very kind to Claudio, I know that sounds obvious, but there's so much swirling around even now.

 

I genuinely think there's something in the reaction of other fans and the media that makes us shine a spotlight on his eventual failures. Usually a manager is sacked and everyone brushes it off; "well they were terrible, no surprise." This time we've had to continually highlight and defend this decision. Explicitly pointing people in the direction of how badly and how disastrous the last few months were. Surely, the more you highlight something the more it resonates with people.

 

The media appearances won't help fans opinions, even if it is a small comment or inference, and especially as it comes around the time we have been knocked out of Europe and are still looking for those final few points to fully confirm survival.

 

In 3-5 years time when it's all blown over I think rash comments in this thread, on social media, in the media will be ancient history and his time will be looked back on as misty-eyed and the triumphant, amazing and incredible success it was. Hopefully we'll also have the context of the preceding years which helped 16-16. But for now, with the way it ended and as above, there's always going to be bite, bitterness and some comments I suspect people, deep down, don't really mean?

[Guest Danny Clender]

I'd put all the negativity down to actually GAF about him and not wanting to see him further blemished at another club.

Watford would at least be for only one season, but they would not stand for any time spent in the relegation places.

 

Uncle Claudio, please retire and if that's too scary, go and help the street kids in Rome get into football. 

[Dan]

2 hours ago, hackneyfox said:

Agree

Prime example

Agree

Not you like to read selectively and have a snipe at me is it  clown.

[hackneyfox]

55 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

Not you like to read selectively and have a snipe at me is it  clown.

We won the title with him, not something that will be repeated in the near future and for that he deserves more respect.

 

It is possible to love NFP and have respect for the man that took his team to a higher level.

[Lovejoy]

Might annoy a few given what he did for us, but isn't it about time random Ranieri threads go in the "General Football & Sport" forum?

[Thracian]

Ranieri got immense praise for leading us to the Premiership title and why not? He got muted criticism for an appalling campaign for most of this season under his watch and more time than I'd have given him to try and put it right, courtesy of the slack he was given for his title season.

 

Now, I wish him health, happiness and success wherever his future takes him. But let no-one kid me he shouldn't have lost his job or that he'll necessarily be a good manager wherever he goes next.

 

And  the truth is I don't really care much anyway. There'll be a certain curiousity I admit and doubtless a view to be expressed about anything related to our own club/players/matches etc.

 

But otherwise he's become a celebrated part of our history and yesterday's man to me. Welcome as a guest, no question but remembered rather than revered by some of us.

 

Overall I'll remember the players more whereas, with MON and Matt Gillies, it was both and probably the same with Nigel Pearson too because, for all his annoying self-destructive eccentricities, he essentially built something here with his backroom colleagues.

 

Ranieri brought it to fruition, no question, but I'm not necessarily convinced it was he who inspired or altogether approved the method. Had he continued to be successful I might have been convinced but instead, he just seemed to go his own way for whatever reasons and it all but fell apart.                 

[MPH]

I think if Ranieri wants his legacy to remain intact he should retire with his head held high as the manager who brought Leicester City the title.

 

 

I'd hate to see him remembered  as the one who got <insert club name here> relegated..

[Thracian]

22 hours ago, Ted Maul said:

An inevitable first successful year, and the endless 'told you Leicester made the wrong decision, snakes!'

 

Followed by an equally inevitable collapse and sacking. Wonder if Watford will get the snake treatment? 

We certainly didn't make the wrong decision. A Premiership title leading to the adventure of the Champions League, exceptional individual honours for players like Vardy and Mahrez , books, a film, worldwide exposure, trips to Spain, Bruges, Porto and Denmark, invitation to play Barcelona and PSV in the USA  ...no we didn't make the wrong decision, any more than when we regrettably decided we had to wave him goodbye. .   

[Milo]

Don't really see the need for the negative Ranieri comments on here, tbh.

 

I think he steered us well, but didn't revolutionise us. I think he dealt with the title pressure extraordinarily well...and I think he started to believe his own hype towards the end.

 

He can do/say what he wants now - shouldn't really get people on here quite so angry 

[Dan]

6 hours ago, hackneyfox said:

We won the title with him, not something that will be repeated in the near future and for that he deserves more respect.

 

It is possible to love NFP and have respect for the man that took his team to a higher level.

Who mentioned a word about Pearson?

[Ted Maul]

56 minutes ago, Thracian said:

We certainly didn't make the wrong decision. A Premiership title leading to the adventure of the Champions League, exceptional individual honours for players like Vardy and Mahrez , books, a film, worldwide exposure, trips to Spain, Bruges, Porto and Denmark, invitation to play Barcelona and PSV in the USA  ...no we didn't make the wrong decision, any more than when we regrettably decided we had to wave him goodbye. .   

It's been a while since the owners made a bad decision, to be honest! Appointing Ranieri, sacking him when there was no other option left, getting Nige back and keeping him when things looked bleak at the bottom, getting rid when the club's image was at risk despite a the great escape. Even Sven- as infuriatingly inconsistent and wasteful financially as we were, he pulled us away from the bottom of the league and raised the profile of the club. They got rid of him at the right time as well.

 

They've held their nerve at times when I would have got it wrong- we're bloody lucky when you consider that Coventry were bought by Sisu at around the same time.

 

 

[AyewJoking]

he's ready already? snake!!

 

seriously, would love to see him back in the premier league but i think he's spent.

[sylofox]

On ‎19‎/‎04‎/‎2017 at 22:25, bovril said:

And that's Ranieri's fault?

Some people just like acting like twelve year old girls on the internet. There seem to be a few in this thread.

Except your comment makes you sound like a 14yr old boy. But I do get your point.

 

It is foxestalk and some of our best players have been slagged off over the years. So I'm not shocked at how CR is being treated in here.

[MC Prussian]

People having a go at Ranieri now are as bad as the thick individuals on Social Media with the "snakesss" comments aimed at our club.

 

Yes, it was bad timing for him to come out with the comments just before our match against Atlético and he could've handled himself better there, but I hold no grudges against the man.

He was part of our club's biggest league success ever and for that he should be adored and left alone.

 

But I guess as much as opposing fans are now having a field day with subhuman input at present, there will certainly parts of our fanbase rejoicing should Ranieri fail again in the (near) future.

 

Let it be. And show some decency.

[Lionator]

He's entitled to be a little bitter. It's like being dumped by your girlfriend for a worse looking lad, however seeing that they work better together than you did at the end.

 

Still a legend, always will be.

[Mease]

On 19/04/2017 at 21:29, Dirkster the Fox said:

The more I hear from about Ranieri and the way he's playing the hard luck story to all the media,

the more I see/hear the trolls saying they all hate us now as we are a little horrible club,

the more I see of what Shakespeare has achieved in such a short space of time and the players are playing with freedom again,

......the more I'm glad CR is gone.

Media the Shepards the masses the sheep. Football is moving away from a Sport and is becoming mainly Showbiz.

 

I thought I had moved past this whole episode and a thread pops up like this and it seems I have not yet.

[HybridFox]

Came across this. Bit of hysteria. Neither really have a clue.

The host generally knowing nothing about football and the guy saying he's tailor-made for international football!