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[Dan]

10 minutes ago, StanSP said:

this is the thing for me. No guarantee that the next manager gets it right as well. Even if it's Benitez as well. What if the players don't take kindly to him? 

 

Why not give Puel more of a chance to get through this rough patch and get his own players in?

Then get them gone.

 

If it was to happen AGAIN after Puel then there's no possible defence for them.

[davieG]

Merc

 

Leicester City staying calm amid Claude Puel speculation

Problems are mounting for Puel as Wlfred Ndidi injury and Marc Albrighton suspension adds to his woes, but he remains in charge for West Ham United game

 

By

Rob TannerFootball Writer

18:00, 30 APR 2018

 

It was business as usual at Leicester City today, despite the increasing speculation over manager Claude Puel’s future.

Even before Saturday’s game at Crystal Palace there were reports Puel was facing an uncertain future at the club, despite only being in the position for six months and five days.

 

Puel has led City away from the relegation zone to ninth in the table, but Saturday’s dreadful 5-0 defeat at Palace fuelled further speculation that he will be sacked, and might not even make it to the end of this season.

 

However, all appears calm at City with the focus on preparing for Saturday’s visit of West Ham United to the King Power Stadium, rather than a search for a new manager.

Puel is expected to be in charge as usual for the visit of the Hammers, but he cannot afford another dismal display from his side.

 

City have not won on home soil for five league games and they have won only four of their last 18 games.

There is also growing unrest among some sections of the supporters and Puel needs a good result and, even more importantly, a convincing display.

He will not be helped by a mounting injury crisis, which was added to by key midfielder Wilfried Ndidi, who limped off at Selhurst Park with a hamstring injury.

[Bunyip]

48 minutes ago, the fox said:

I'm Puel out but this circus needs to stop! We can't keep juggling away managers like a Sunday league team! The ones who are responsible need to take responsibility, including the players.

So do you mean we have to stop after this one?

[Ian S]

1 hour ago, FoxinNotts said:

? here we go again. Shameless shambolic club. I include our deluded fickle fans in that statement too.

I do wonder what some people have been watching.The biggest shambles was giving him the job.He has made a total balls up .

[StanSP]

2 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

Then get them gone.

 

If it was to happen AGAIN after Puel then there's no possible defence for them.

happening far too often already. 

[StanSP]

2 minutes ago, davieG said:

Merc

 

Leicester City staying calm amid Claude Puel speculation

Problems are mounting for Puel as Wlfred Ndidi injury and Marc Albrighton suspension adds to his woes, but he remains in charge for West Ham United game

 

By

Rob TannerFootball Writer

18:00, 30 APR 2018

 

It was business as usual at Leicester City today, despite the increasing speculation over manager Claude Puel’s future.

Even before Saturday’s game at Crystal Palace there were reports Puel was facing an uncertain future at the club, despite only being in the position for six months and five days.

 

Puel has led City away from the relegation zone to ninth in the table, but Saturday’s dreadful 5-0 defeat at Palace fuelled further speculation that he will be sacked, and might not even make it to the end of this season.

 

However, all appears calm at City with the focus on preparing for Saturday’s visit of West Ham United to the King Power Stadium, rather than a search for a new manager.

Puel is expected to be in charge as usual for the visit of the Hammers, but he cannot afford another dismal display from his side.

 

City have not won on home soil for five league games and they have won only four of their last 18 games.

There is also growing unrest among some sections of the supporters and Puel needs a good result and, even more importantly, a convincing display.

He will not be helped by a mounting injury crisis, which was added to by key midfielder Wilfried Ndidi, who limped off at Selhurst Park with a hamstring injury.

totally pointless article by Rob there  

 

Adds absolutely nothing to the situation. A club is going about it's business as it normally would. Shock. Breaking news.

[Stadt]

I don't care who the manager is anymore as long as it isn't some clown like Pardew or Allardyce

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

totally pointless article by Rob there  

 

Adds absolutely nothing to the situation. A club is going about it's business as it normally would. Shock. Breaking news.

many are waiting for an announcement  - tanner has indicated that there wont be one this side of the weekend. i'd say that says plenty for quite a few.

 

 

[mod hero]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

totally pointless article by Rob there  

 

Adds absolutely nothing to the situation. A club is going about it's business as it normally would. Shock. Breaking news.

Was just gonna day the same thing. Absolutely nothing in this piece whatsoever, just like the article he did on Pereira:

“RB thought to be just a number of possible targets for Claude Puel”

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

3 minutes ago, StanSP said:

totally pointless article by Rob there  

 

Adds absolutely nothing to the situation. A club is going about it's business as it normally would. Shock. Breaking news.

Players day off is now Monday anyway (moved from wednesday) so not much would have happened!

[ramaiya2]

Should have sacked Peul at halftime. Peul could have got the Euro Star back to France. Come on Benitez

[VLC86]

4 minutes ago, Wookie said:

I don't care who the manager is anymore as long as it isn't some clown like Pardew or Allardyce

Or Claude.

[Kitchandro]

27 minutes ago, cityfanlee23 said:

I'm on the Puel out side of the camp, but it's only on the basis that I know our players don't want to play for him, and as much as I want a clear out of 8+ players I can't see it happening. 

 

Claude would be decent long term with his own team. But with the current team he will never get them on side and offloading them all is probably not going to happen. 

 

It's a shame because I like his philosophy. Every week I watch the dross we deliver and want him out then sit back and watch his extended interviews post match and can't help but get a bit of hope back that he does want to take us in the right direction.

 

But we know the reality. The players call the shots now and so far puel has failed to reign them in. 

I think he needs to go into the boardroom and basically say "It's toxic as shit in there and I want a clear out. I want x y and z players and I will deliver." 

 

Something tells me he's the opposite and will work with whatever he's given without complaining. 

 

17 minutes ago, ZeGuy said:

Since Palace I also want him out for the same reasons. I didn't give a flying one about how high or low we'd land this season as long as we're not relegated. I saw it more like a season where we evolve from lump it Vardy to actually play football. A bit like a "friendly" season. In Germany we used the friendlies for that what they are, friendlies. Experiment stuff, see what happens and eventually fix or correct it so you can be ready when it counts.

 

But whatever he wanted to do will be impossible to achieve with these players. There is just too much resistance and too much pressure for results. However he really didn't help himself by persisting with Morgan (for whatever reason) and freezing Silva even when we were in a dire shortage of midfielders, as well as underestimating the importance of communication and showing enough pashun. 

 

You're both totally off the mark. There is no evidence or reasoned argument to suggest he would do better with 'his own' players. The way we play is just wrong. Wrong for the English game, wrong for a club of our size, and to be honest, the way he has implemented it wouldn't work anywhere. It's a bad version of a bad way of playing football.

 

His 'philosophy', i.e. the imaginary one people have come up with, is absolutely pants. It revolves around keeping the ball for the sake of it, slowing the game down to a painful level, then lumping high crosses into short-arses. There is no philosophy about that, it's as clueless as the way Shakespeare had us playing, The only difference is Puel is a foreigner, so people just assume he plays some sort of attractive 'continental' style, when in fact he doesn't, not at all.

 

Yes, it is impossible to play tiki-taka with these players. But there are no players Leicester could buy to play that way and even if there were, it is not worth bankrupting ourselves and having a massive squad overhaul to achieve it. We won the league playing a much more exciting style of play than passing it sideways in your own half, without having to spend a load of money to make it work. And it's managers, not players, that are to blame for it regressing into clueless hoofball.

 

We are still playing that clueless hoofball because 3 successive managers have seen us, in patches, play brilliant, good to watch football like we did when we won the league. Then all 3 of them have decided this worked too well, and have preferred to try and pass the ball very slowly, until we are pressured by the opposition to the extent where we have to get rid of it to avoid giving the ball away in dangerous positions.

 

Now, if Puel had a brain cell, and people like you didn't encourage his nonsense like you're doing now, he'd realise that playing with a quick tempo is the be all and end all of successful football teams, especially in this country.

 

Your lack of tactical understanding is somewhat acceptable as you aren't being paid millions to implement it week after week. But he has no such defence. He can do one.

[KFS]

2 minutes ago, Abrasive fox said:

Players day off is now Monday anyway (moved from wednesday) so not much would have happened!

Any dirt on the situation sir? 

[Grebfromgrebland]

Unfortunately our squad had been decimated through injury and suspension so we can't even see if there's any reaction from the players. I'd be amazed if we score another goal this season let alone get any points.

[urban.spaceman]

10 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

 

 

You're both totally off the mark. There is no evidence or reasoned argument to suggest he would do better with 'his own' players. The way we play is just wrong. Wrong for the English game, wrong for a club of our size, and to be honest, the way he has implemented it wouldn't work anywhere. It's a bad version of a bad way of playing football.

 

His 'philosophy', i.e. the imaginary one people have come up with, is absolutely pants. It revolves around keeping the ball for the sake of it, slowing the game down to a painful level, then lumping high crosses into short-arses. There is no philosophy about that, it's as clueless as the way Shakespeare had us playing, The only difference is Puel is a foreigner, so people just assume he plays some sort of attractive 'continental' style, when in fact he doesn't, not at all.

 

Yes, it is impossible to play tiki-taka with these players. But there are no players Leicester could buy to play that way and even if there were, it is not worth bankrupting ourselves and having a massive squad overhaul to achieve it. We won the league playing a much more exciting style of play than passing it sideways in your own half, without having to spend a load of money to make it work. And it's managers, not players, that are to blame for it regressing into clueless hoofball.

 

We are still playing that clueless hoofball because 3 successive managers have seen us, in patches, play brilliant, good to watch football like we did when we won the league. Then all 3 of them have decided this worked too well, and have preferred to try and pass the ball very slowly, until we are pressured by the opposition to the extent where we have to get rid of it to avoid giving the ball away in dangerous positions.

 

Now, if Puel had a brain cell, and people like you didn't encourage his nonsense like you're doing now, he'd realise that playing with a quick tempo is the be all and end all of successful football teams, especially in this country.

 

Your lack of tactical understanding is somewhat acceptable as you aren't being paid millions to implement it week after week. But he has no such defence. He can do one.

Quit the foreplay do you want him in or out?!?!?!?

[VLC86]

4 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Quit the foreplay do you want him in or out?!?!?!?

How do you know his penis isn’t a her?

[Tielemans63]

19 minutes ago, Abrasive fox said:

Players day off is now Monday anyway (moved from wednesday) so not much would have happened!

Yeah they deserve a day off after that terrific effort on Saturday.

[Mike Oxlong]

4 minutes ago, Paddy. said:

Yeah they deserve a day off after that terrific effort on Saturday.

Too right

 

if they didn’t come in Sunday that’s three days off on the trot 

[the fox]

45 minutes ago, Bunyip said:

So do you mean we have to stop after this one?

And what good does that do? if you buy a car from a manufacturer and it breaks down, then you buy a 2nd from the same guy and it does the same. and a 3rd, 4th and a 5th time and it's the same problem. Does that make you give up on cars? It's not just the manager's fault, it's far, far deeper than that.

Edited 30 April 2018 by the fox

[Happy Fox]

Just now, the fox said:

And what good does that do? if you buy a car from a manufacturer and it breaks down, then you buy a 2nd from the same guy and it does the same. and a 3rd, 4th and a 5th time and it's the same problem. Does that make you give on cars? It's not just the managers fault, it's far, far deeper than that.

 

With that kind of logic you wonder why we appointed our 4th choice manager.

[Bunyip]

11 minutes ago, the fox said:

And what good does that do? if you buy a car from a manufacturer and it breaks down, then you buy a 2nd from the same guy and it does the same. and a 3rd, 4th and a 5th time and it's the same problem. Does that make you give up on cars? It's not just the manager's fault, it's far, far deeper than that.

It's just that you said " I'm Puel out " that's why I said after he's gone then that we should stop the circus? Or do you mean to stick with him?

Edited 30 April 2018 by Bunyip

[MC Prussian]

14 minutes ago, the fox said:

And what good does that do? if you buy a car from a manufacturer and it breaks down, then you buy a 2nd from the same guy and it does the same. and a 3rd, 4th and a 5th time and it's the same problem. Does that make you give up on cars? It's not just the manager's fault, it's far, far deeper than that.

If you buy five cars from the same "guy" and they all break down, then you obviously have a big, big problem yourself.

 

Ever heard of other options?

 

In any case, your analogy makes little to no sense in the current context.

Edited 30 April 2018 by MC Prussian

[The_77]

25 minutes ago, the fox said:

And what good does that do? if you buy a car from a manufacturer and it breaks down, then you buy a 2nd from the same guy and it does the same. and a 3rd, 4th and a 5th time and it's the same problem. Does that make you give up on cars? It's not just the manager's fault, it's far, far deeper than that.

I don't think we're buying any more players from Sporting for a little while...

[Bayfox]

1 hour ago, Abrasive fox said:

Players day off is now Monday anyway (moved from wednesday) so not much would have happened!

Players get different day off. Players go to shit.

 

Who's idea was this. Then we have the answer to who needs the sack.