Puel In or Out - A simple Poll

[WestLothianFox]

3 hours ago, chicagofox said:

It’s no longer about this season. We won’t go down so it doesn’t really matter where we finish. But looking to the long term; does anybody really think he is the manager to move us forward and push for the European place the owners so obviously want? I certainly don’t. And therefore I see no point in persisting with him. Sack him now or sack him after the last game of the season, but we need to move forward with someone else in charge.

I agree its time for him to go, but financially it does make a difference where we finish the season

[Monsell1976]

13 minutes ago, Blue Ed said:

This...rubbish. We Leicester are not a passing team. We've tried with managers in the past and it's always failed. We have to accept it's not the Leicester way and get back a proper manager who understands the players. 

I would agree to a certain extent, in the past we have always been direct.

 Where I disagree is we should be more ambitious now, and adapt to the change in the game.

 We have always had to buy players in our price range ( cheap), and when they became valuable sell, we are not that poor club anymore, or having to sell club, so we should be setting our standards in regards of player standard higher.

 We have a squad with a lot of lower premier league, top end championship players in it, some of whom had a one season wonder, and people now think are good enough to come with us as we aim to improve our league position.

 We are not going attract better players with a team of hoofers, and good players can play direct, or like puel is trying to, which would make us something we are definitely not at the minute, dangerous and unpredictable in attack 

[somebum]

P45 for Puel

[LCCFox96]

I was never keen on Puel when he was appointed. I warmed to him after a couple of games and I'm still very much Puel in. I'm not bothered that Burnley look likely to beat us this season or that we won't be in the Europa League next season. Europa League in the short-term would've been good fun but in the long-term I do think we'll benefit from not making it. We would have had to bulk our squad up again which would have either meant recalling/reintegrating the loaned/fringe players (e.g. Slimani, Musa, Mendy, Benalouane etc.) to the main squad or recruiting further to our current plans and adding more change/new faces to the squad in the summer window. If we did neither, our league form could have been risked. I don't think that scenario is best suited to us at this crucial time. 

 

I guess my point is - we look likely to finish around 8th/9th in the Premier League this season. Yes, the early sparks under Puel have fizzled out a little bit. Yes, Burnley now look relatively uncatchable. Giving Puel, who is a good manager and proven to be a steady hand leading teams to success in two countries, the time to trim players out and make his own additions, as well as benefit from a full pre-season to further implement his own ideas into a fresh squad will do us good. He's done enough to earn that opportunity. More change, in my opinion unnecessary change, could well lead us round to this point again or worse. We have a good manager in place, our form and performances are steady. We have a good squad. Puel clearly has a direction he wants to take us in which he has achieved successfully at other clubs. I say let the man do it. 

[foxinsocks]

23 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

Puel looked really forlorn in the post match interview I know his demeanour is like that but he looked a bit depressed probably knows the writing is on the wall. I feel sorry for him, but at the same time not really if you pick shite players defensively you are going to get punished.

I hope you are right

[Donut]

Its about the long term for me.

 

At some point, the club has to change direction. Its that simple. The more direct style we know was becoming less and less effective. Shakespeare was playing this style, and he was hounded out here. Puel is looking to make changes, and its not going smoothly at the moment.

 

It would be highly dangerous to assume that if we just went back to the "Leicester Way" all our problems would disappear. In fact, we know thats not the case. We know we have players who simply have to go, and we know its not a sustainable basis for the next 5 years.

 

The club has become a microcosm of clubs like Forest that we laugh at. Always looking backwards at a golden era and comparing everything subsequently to that. Fans thinking if we went 4-4-2 again and started lumping it, we would win a league title with ease.

 

They are the same fans who will make the most noise if it didnt go right for the next manager, lets not kid ourselves.

 

I want the club to sign good, technical young players with quality. To compliment those with quality we already have. I dont want like for like replacements for the likes of Morgan and Simpson in order to play a one dimensional and ineffectual style at the detriment of the quality we DO have.

 

When you finally get your head around the idea that SOME manager, at SOME point, has got to make proper long term building decisions, and not keep appeasing an older, tired, lacking in ability squad, and stop thinking that its NORMAL to achieve title wins with this style, we can start to move forwards.

 

But this takes patience.

 

It taking the blind squirrel approach is more youre thing, If chopping and changing the manager every 6 months in the hope of finding a nut is appealing then great.

 

But i think one man with a vision and being allowed the time to build the squad is better.

 

So in my eyes theres absolutely no reason to change Puel.

 

In fact i think changing Puel would be even more detrimental to the start of next season. At least he has had a chance to work with the players and evaluate them for a few months and work out what areas he wants to strengthen. A new manager will not have done that, have to work out who and who cant play HIS style, and have to do a lot of business very quickly.

 

Obviously there are loads of people that want Puel out. Obviously the football isnt good at the moment, and obviously it hurts. Its going to hurt for absolutely anyone until they can mould the club away from the sorry state of flux its in now, pining for the past at every opportunity, and move towards a new vision.

[Tuna]

 

[NorthfieldsFox]

Here we go again 

[NorthfieldsFox]

Just now, Tuna said:

 

As good as sacked 

[GavParket]

Wow. Gone are the days of looking forwards to going down the match with the people I love to enjoy watching this magnificent football club.

Instead, all we hear is constant debates over whether the manager should be sacked after 5 minutes. 

I think we are all victims of modern culture with social media but rather than jumping on the bandwagon of short term ness, I think people should get behind Puel and back him. He's blooded the youth and seems to have a longer term vision which surely needs more time to see if this comes to fruition. Also, didn't do the Saints any good by bombing him out.

[Steve_Walsh5]

44 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

Puel looked really forlorn in the post match interview I know his demeanour is like that but he looked a bit depressed probably knows the writing is on the wall. I feel sorry for him, but at the same time not really if you pick shite players defensively you are going to get punished.

He was 33/1 last week to be the next manager to be sacked. I wish I put some money on it now.

[Steve_Walsh5]

1 minute ago, NorthfieldsFox said:

Here we go again 

You heard anything paddy?

[NorthfieldsFox]

7 minutes ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

You heard anything paddy?

Portly Spanish waiter opening a new paella store in Leicester 

[l444ry]

34 minutes ago, NorthfieldsFox said:

Portly Spanish waiter opening a new paella store in Leicester 

Probably in a minority on here but I wouldn't want Benitez anywhere near the club. As a Napoli fan I can assure you he underachieved and failed to build on Mazzari's work and  wrecked Napoli's attacking style.. The football was mega boring like Puel's. Taking a club like Newcastle to Premiership safety is no great shakes in the greater scheme of things, so beware of idolising him because of his name and Liverpool legacy.

[dnewty]

42 minutes ago, NorthfieldsFox said:

Portly Spanish waiter opening a new paella store in Leicester 

We can only hope

[Matt]

1 minute ago, l444ry said:

Probably in a minority on here but I wouldn't want Benitez anywhere near the club. As a Napoli fan I can assure you he underachieved and failed to build on Mazzari's work and  wrecked Napoli's attacking style.. The football was mega boring like Puel's. Taking a club like Newcastle to Premiership safety is no great shakes in the greater scheme of things, so beware of idolising him because of his name and Liverpool legacy.

There isn't currently any attacking style to wreck here at the moment.

Edited 14 April 2018 by Matt

[AS78UK]

Out for me at the end of the season. Thought he had us playing some good stuff at the start of the season. But that has slowly disappeared. The strengths he inherited are fading away and the urgency from our play only appears once we have slip back. 

[Sharpe's Fox]

Bin him never seen us so lacking in the first half.

[NorthfieldsFox]

20 minutes ago, Matt said:

There isn't currently any attacking style to wreck here at the moment.

Genius as always matt 

[HankMarvin]

1 hour ago, Tuna said:

 

8th is like a smokescreen for how poo we have been

[DennisNedry]

Strangely I don't really care. He was a poor appointment that disappointed the majority of us from Day 1. It's inevitable he'll be sacked at some point this year or next, doesn't matter to me when. Maybe give him a proper transfer window and see how he does next season. If the performances are as dull and boring next season as they are this then yeah, sack him off.

[dnewty]

11 minutes ago, DennisNedry said:

Strangely I don't really care. He was a poor appointment that disappointed the majority of us from Day 1. It's inevitable he'll be sacked at some point this year or next, doesn't matter to me when. Maybe give him a proper transfer window and see how he does next season. If the performances are as dull and boring next season as they are this then yeah, sack him off.

Agree with the first part the players can' have been very inspired  by the appointment  either.

[MC Prussian]

1 hour ago, GavParket said:

Wow. Gone are the days of looking forwards to going down the match with the people I love to enjoy watching this magnificent football club.

Instead, all we hear is constant debates over whether the manager should be sacked after 5 minutes. 

I think we are all victims of modern culture with social media but rather than jumping on the bandwagon of short term ness, I think people should get behind Puel and back him. He's blooded the youth and seems to have a longer term vision which surely needs more time to see if this comes to fruition. Also, didn't do the Saints any good by bombing him out.

Players are to blame, the manager is to blame.

 

Players for putting in half-hearted shifts for 45 minutes only.

The manager for trying to change our system during an ongoing season.

[BlueSi13]

100% bin.

 

Never a popular appointment and apart from the new manager bump, he's been a downgrade on Shakespeare IMO (the stats back that up before anybody jumps on me).

 

Watching us is both a chore and a bore at the moment.  Nothing in Puel's CV suggests that's likely to change. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

43 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

never seen us so lacking in the first half.

Come on.