Ranieri - would you take him back tomorrow?

[STUHILL]

5 minutes ago, foxinsocks said:

can we just stop mentioning rogers - he is crap and he is desperate to get back to the pl from the div 1 club (==SPL) that he is at.   This just makes me feel very queasy...  the more he gets mentioned the more attractive i find puel.

I thought he did a good job at Liverpool and obviously had Swansea playing some great stuff. 

 

Celtic is an easy job to be honest but I understand why he went there, being his boyhood club etc. 

 

I think he would fit us well, and would be able to match our ambitions. 

 

There really isn't a lot of realistic choices tbh at the level him and Howe are at, with proven success in the League

[foxinsocks]

4 minutes ago, STUHILL said:

I thought he did a good job at Liverpool and obviously had Swansea playing some great stuff. 

 

Celtic is an easy job to be honest but I understand why he went there, being his boyhood club etc. 

 

I think he would fit us well, and would be able to match our ambitions. 

 

There really isn't a lot of realistic choices tbh at the level him and Howe are at, with proven success in the League

Thank you for those words or encouragement - but I still feel queasy

Edited 17 September 2018 by foxinsocks

[weller54]

31 minutes ago, StanSP said:

no. what did he ever do for us?

Nothing! 

Splitter!! 

[Corky]

No. Still enough players from when he was here who as a collective stopped playing and pushed us towards relegation to make it unworkable.

 

The way it ended still rankles with me and he doesn't deserve that again.

[st albans fox]

Ah .... another ‘sack the manager but pretend to be something else’ thread .....

[BenTheFox]

20 minutes ago, lgfualol said:

No. What is our fanbase's obsession with the past?

This.

I don't want Drinkwater back

I don't want Wood back

I don't want Knockaert back

I don't want Pearson back

I don't want Ranieri back

I don't want O'Neill back

[Sharpe's Fox]

I’d take literally anyone over Puel.

[Charl91]

I'd say no, but it's a difficult one.

 

I wouldn't want him to tarnish his reputation even more, and people would be expecting 'magical' and unrealistic things. Even if we finished 7th (which would be a great achievement), it would still probably be seen as a failure by the footballing world.  The football we played was awful in his second season, but I don't know how much of that was just a 'title hangover'.

 

I would absolutely love him to come back and for us to do brilliantly with us, but I just don't think it would ever be worth the risk. 

[promised land]

1 hour ago, gurru991 said:

Managers are like girlfriends in that you remember the good times and forget all of the shite.

Girlfriends are like fireworks, once lit never return to one.

[Footballwipe]

41 minutes ago, lgfualol said:

No. What is our fanbase's obsession with the past?

I absolutely do not want to make this political in any way, shape or form, but you're right. Some fans are almost mimicking certain elements of society, who seem to think harking back to the past will bring success...

[BenTheFox]

9 minutes ago, Charl91 said:

I'd say no, but it's a difficult one.

 

I wouldn't want him to tarnish his reputation even more, and people would be expecting 'magical' and unrealistic things. Even if we finished 7th (which would be a great achievement), it would still probably be seen as a failure by the footballing world.  The football we played was awful in his second season, but I don't know how much of that was just a 'title hangover'.

 

I would absolutely love him to come back and for us to do brilliantly with us, but I just don't think it would ever be worth the risk. 

He often gets sacked in his second season so that leads me to believe that was more than just a 'title hangover'. 

[Stadt]

I'd rather lose 4-2 looking dangerous but naive then go to a dogshit Middlesbrough team playing a diamond that consisted of Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan, Huth, Fuchs, Mendy, Amartey, King, Okazaki, Ulloa and Mahrez  

 

We were horrific and we deserved to lose some games by 5 or 6 goals under Ranieri but somehow never did despite being much more defensive

Edited 17 September 2018 by Stadt

[Bryn]

Is it weird I'd sooner have Pearson?

[coolhandfox]

No, wouldn't take him, Pearson, Adams, O'Neill or Little back.

 

[Strokes]

1 hour ago, BenTheFox said:

This.

I don't want Drinkwater back

I don't want Wood back

I don't want Knockaert back

I don't want Pearson back

I don't want Ranieri back

I don't want O'Neill back

Brian Little?

[Vacamion]

 

Ranieri will richly deserve the warm reception he receives when he comes back to unveil his statue.

 

But as manager, no, that time has passed.

[Mark_w]

No. I'd take Nige back. But not Claudio, it was never a long term project, it was one wonderful season of everything falling into place.

[Lester.14]

44 minutes ago, Bryn said:

Is it weird I'd sooner have Pearson?

Yes, but..

 

It's borderline delusional to want any past manager back. Irrelevant of what they have bought to the club, there becomes a time when you must move on. 

 

IMO it takes more than a season to build a football team and integrate younger places into the first team, stick with Puel, give him time.

 

[Dr The Singh]

No

[lanefox]

No

[Voll Blau]

People actually go insane any time we lose these days don't they. What an erratic bunch of weirdos we are.

[Wymsey]

13 minutes ago, Vacamion said:

 

Ranieri will richly deserve the warm reception he receives when he comes back to unveil his statue.

 

But as manager, no, that time has passed.

Probably an if. Judging from his interview with Sky recently mentioning he hasn't heard from the owners side his sacking and would live to come back to sat a final farewell to everyone.

[dannythefox]

Why the hell would you want him back? 100% No

[Guest Mickyblueeyes]

No. He can’t build a team. Would be a disaster.

[Tuna]

No, absolutely not.