Ranieri - would you take him back tomorrow?

[splinterdream]

No thanks

[UniFox21]

These threads are getting pathetic now. We'll see a "Craig Levein - would you give him another chance?" next week ffs

[cropstonfox]

Yes over puel.In any other circumstances no !

[RumbleFox]

 

[Foxhateram]

God no! He's the one that started this never ending and awful idea of possesion based football. 

[lcfc sheff]

What a stupid thread

[elvisfmcfly]

4 hours ago, sylofox said:

Just another Puel out thread in disguise Ffs. 

In that case I’m having a slice! Puel out! Aahhhhh.

[Dan]

5 hours ago, lcfcsnow said:

First season he did an amazing job but he got lucky with Kante signing. If it was upto him we'd have had Mendy a year earlier and finished bottom half.

This shouldn't be overlooked. That's the luckiest bit of management possibly ever. Thank **** he caved in.

[STUHILL]

2 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

These threads are getting pathetic now. We'll see a "Craig Levein - would you give him another chance?" next week ffs

Oh god, those were the days, when we got excited over the 100k signing of Stephen Hughes and gutted we lost out on the prolific striker Steve Lovell 

 

Lets just take a moment to realise how far we have come since those days! 

[Gamble92]

Its hard to explain this to anyone who is outside the club and didnt watch us in the season after, but i honestly would go as far as to say the football played in that following season was every bit as bad as the season before was good.

 

I've never been more disgusted with individual displays then i was in that following season (and yes ive sat through Levein, Megson etc).

 

I dont put all the blame at Ranieri. But he completely lost the plot. He did not know how to sort it out. Combine that with the fact he didn't want to sign Kante and walked in to a squad already built, then its very easy to say he got lucky.

 

I do however think his calm manner and consistent approach was vital in the title win. As much as Pearson built it all, he was his own worst enemy at times and he probably would have ****ed something up. 

 

Ranieri will always be a club legend. But lets not get too wrappped up in the fairytale.

[Dan]

5 hours ago, Bryn said:

Is it weird I'd sooner have Pearson?

Nope. Pearson was a builder. Ranieri didn't really build. Granted I don't think this scenario is the right time for Pearson at all either.

 

I don't quite get this 'never go back' attitude. If they're good enough it's irrelevant. If we'd never gone back to Pearson in the first place we certainly wouldn't have won the Premier League. Complete myth theory.

[Jattdogg]

Legend always but no we need to stick it out with puel and show our support. We are 3 points off of man united/Tottenham, its early days yet lets not panic here.

[That_Dude]

[UPinCarolina]

5 hours ago, Foxhateram said:

God no! He's the one that started this never ending and awful idea of possesion based football. 

God forbid we don’t kick the ball haphazardly down the pitch and call it a tactic. 

 

That said, no to a Claudio return.

Edited 18 September 2018 by UPinCarolina

[Hanan96]

He bring us to win priemer league yes. 

You need to see the whole context. When we won, the Big 6 are somehow disappear together, except Tottenham who are yet to win epl

The team also majority from Pearson sides, player and staff. 

Our key player, kante, need Steve Walsh to convince him badly to sign over mendy

 

Then take a look at the season after. He start to really take charge of the team. He got many of important staff left. The modern sport science are gone. He dismiss the need of sport psychology, he didn't convince the board to renew kante contact, only vardy did. He fool ulloa repeatedly until he's lost his temper. 

Kante gone, he replace him with mendy. And the worse part is he drop okazaki for slimani. What kind of tactics is this? Increasing the gap between midfield and attacker while bring less energetic midfielder? We end up with outnumbered in midfield almost in every match. 

He somehow prefer extra striker rather midfield we need. 

 

No disrespect but given the simmilar team and environment we have in title winning season, Ranieri is not the only one who can win the epl for us. We just need decent coach who can keep the spirit going. 

 

As soon as ranieri really take charge, lot of bizarre things happen. He's not that great 

[Guest Col city fan]

Rather have Pearson back (with Walsh and Shakey) any day

[Foxhateram]

3 hours ago, UPinCarolina said:

God forbid we don’t kick the ball haphazardly down the pitch and call it a tactic. 

 

That said, no to a Claudio return.

Oh not this again!! At what point in the great escape and the title winning season did we haphazardly boot the ball up the pitch? We played direct yes, but it was effective passing and quick movement. 

 

Tippy tappy football and trying to pass the ball in the net does not work anymore, it is dated and teams just sit back and let you play it around their half before killing you on the counter. Ask Arsenal fans about it. 

 

Bournemouth played the exact same game that we used to play. High press, force the errors and counter quickly. 

Edited 18 September 2018 by Foxhateram

[dmayne7]

No wayyyyyyyy. I'm still said that his ineptitude in the second season has tarnished the glorious memories of him from the first season.

[Dickov22]

6 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Its hard to explain this to anyone who is outside the club and didnt watch us in the season after, but i honestly would go as far as to say the football played in that following season was every bit as bad as the season before was good.

 

I've never been more disgusted with individual displays then i was in that following season (and yes ive sat through Levein, Megson etc).

 

I dont put all the blame at Ranieri. But he completely lost the plot. He did not know how to sort it out. Combine that with the fact he didn't want to sign Kante and walked in to a squad already built, then its very easy to say he got lucky.

 

I do however think his calm manner and consistent approach was vital in the title win. As much as Pearson built it all, he was his own worst enemy at times and he probably would have ****ed something up. 

 

Ranieri will always be a club legend. But lets not get too wrappped up in the fairytale.

Great post 

[foxfanazer]

As others have said, I love the guy but that period after the title win was as bad as I’ve seen us for a very long time. We were heading down that season for sure 

[CosbehFox]

57 minutes ago, Foxhateram said:

Oh not this again!! At what point in the great escape and the title winning season did we haphazardly boot the ball up the pitch?

We certainly did in Ranieri’s second season. 

 

Teams play fifteen yards deeper now on us than they ever did before. Worried by Vardy’s pace on most occasions.

[UniFox21]

8 hours ago, STUHILL said:

Oh god, those were the days, when we got excited over the 100k signing of Stephen Hughes and gutted we lost out on the prolific striker Steve Lovell 

 

Lets just take a moment to realise how far we have come since those days! 

It's scary looking back to when I first started going and the change that have happened over the past 10/15 years! 

[Ted Maul]

Nah. We're currently 100x better than we were domestically in 2016/17.

[NeilLCFC]

Definitely not. He didn’t build anything here but made good use of what he inherited. It all went to shit when he started doing things his way.

Edited 18 September 2018 by NeilLCFC

[Woodsey1727]

Why do people want Pearson back, yes he built something in the championship but in the premiership until the last couple of games towards the end of the season he looked like he didn't know how to win games, it was only when apparently cambiasso made the decisions that we started to win. So he is a big no for me for a Premier league manager, just look what he is doing with the Belgian side at the moment