The Managers: Claudio Ranieri, 2015-2017

[Tuna]

Dilly ding, dilly dong

[enmac]

Statue is a must. 

[Sooper Steve's shin]

Still don’t think he gets enough credit for his management and tactics. Yes, we came out of the Great Escape season and from the outside you might assume that we carried momentum from there, but there were actually quite a lot of changes. 
 

Pearson finished up the season with three centre-halves (Morgan, Huth and Wasilewski), Ranieri took us back to four at the back. We lost our player of the season in Cambiasso and second top scorer David Nugent. He swapped the attacking focus from our 2014/15 top scorer Ulloa to Jamie Vardy and played Okazaki in behind. At the time, it was fairly bold to drop Ulloa to an impact sub role. 
 

In the early part of the season, he changed both full backs, introduced Kante (initially coming on as a sub on the wing!) and relied much more on Albrighton (who’d only played 20 games the previous season). James and King had the most appearances of our midfielders in 14/15 after Cambiasso, but Ranieri developed the Drinkwater-Kante combination. 
 

One thing I remember about the early weeks is that we suddenly seemed much better at seeing out games to the end. I recall Pearson’s time as quite chaotic and nervy at the end of games, but Ranieri instilled something that made us much less nervous. We had the run of (very Italian) 1-0 games at one point in the middle of the season that he managed to perfection. 
 

I don’t think the 40 point target started off as a particular tactic, it was a fairly legitimate target for a team that had just come mighty close to relegation. As our good start developed into a great one, it became a bit more of a focal point for relieving pressure - of course we weren’t thinking about the title or Europe after two or three months - but Claudio started to say it with a little glint in his eye as he began to think we might be well capable of surpassing it. 
 

We had everything go for us that season - the spirit, the amount of players peaking at the same time, nobody else really taking the fight to us etc. But there was a special touch from Claudio as he used his experience and tactical knowledge in exactly the right way. 

[Danizen]

 

I thought he was retiring but here he is rocking up at Fenerbahce

[Mendi]

On 02/06/2024 at 18:25, enmac said:

Statue is a must. 

[StanSP]

Enjoy! 

 

https://playfootball.games/football-tenable/?game=282

 

Name the 10 players that played 6hr most under Ranieri

 

3 lives. 

[Libertine]

5 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Enjoy! 

 

https://playfootball.games/football-tenable/?game=282

 

Name the 10 players that played 6hr most under Ranieri

 

3 lives. 

10/10. Pretty easy seeing as the team barely changed his entire time here. 

[davieG]

 

Football.aug  ·

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Claudio Ranieri: "I remember my first meeting with the chairman when I arrived at Leicester City. He sat down with me and said, “Claudio, this is a very important year for the club. It is very important for us to stay in the Premier League. We have to stay safe.”

My reply was, “Okay, sure. We’ll work hard on the training ground and try to achieve this.”

Forty points. That was the goal. That was the total we needed to stay in the first division, to give our fans another season of Premier League football.

Perhaps you have heard their names now. Players who were considered too small or too slow for other big clubs. N’Golo Kanté. Jamie Vardy. Wes Morgan. Danny Drink water. Riyad Mahrez. When I arrived my first day of training and I saw the quality of these players, I knew how good they could be.

Well, I knew we had a chance to survive in the Premier League.

This player Kanté, he was running so hard that I thought he must have a pack full of batteries hidden in his shorts. He never stopped running in training.

I had to tell him, “Hey, N’Golo, slow down. Slow down. Don’t run after the ball every time, okay?”

He says to me, “Yes, boss. Yes. Okay.”

Ten seconds later, I look over and he’s running again.

I tell him, “One day, I’m going to see you cross the ball, and then finish the cross with a header yourself.”

He’s unbelievable, but he is not the only key. There are too many keys to name in this incredible season.

Jamie Vardy, for example. This is not a footballer. This is a fantastic horse. He has a need to be free out there on the pitch. I say to him, “You are free to move however you want, but you must help us when we lose the ball. That’s all I ask of you. If you start to press the opposition, all of your teammates will follow you.”

Before we played our first match of the season, I told the players, “I want you to play for your teammates. We are a little team, so we have to fight with all our heart, with all our soul. I don’t care the name of the opponent. All I want is for you to fight. If they are better than us, Okay, congratulations. But they have to show us they are better.”"

#football

 

[Fox92]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

 

 

Jamie Vardy, for example. This is not a footballer. This is a fantastic horse. He has a need to be free out there on the pitch. I say to him, “You are free to move however you want, but you must help us when we lose the ball. That’s all I ask of you. If you start to press the opposition, all of your teammates will follow you.”

 

Simple yet so true. Should be in the dressing room so the players now understand it.

[Clever Fox]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

 

Football.aug  ·

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Claudio Ranieri: "I remember my first meeting with the chairman when I arrived at Leicester City. He sat down with me and said, “Claudio, this is a very important year for the club. It is very important for us to stay in the Premier League. We have to stay safe.”

My reply was, “Okay, sure. We’ll work hard on the training ground and try to achieve this.”

Forty points. That was the goal. That was the total we needed to stay in the first division, to give our fans another season of Premier League football.

Perhaps you have heard their names now. Players who were considered too small or too slow for other big clubs. N’Golo Kanté. Jamie Vardy. Wes Morgan. Danny Drink water. Riyad Mahrez. When I arrived my first day of training and I saw the quality of these players, I knew how good they could be.

Well, I knew we had a chance to survive in the Premier League.

This player Kanté, he was running so hard that I thought he must have a pack full of batteries hidden in his shorts. He never stopped running in training.

I had to tell him, “Hey, N’Golo, slow down. Slow down. Don’t run after the ball every time, okay?”

He says to me, “Yes, boss. Yes. Okay.”

Ten seconds later, I look over and he’s running again.

I tell him, “One day, I’m going to see you cross the ball, and then finish the cross with a header yourself.”

He’s unbelievable, but he is not the only key. There are too many keys to name in this incredible season.

Jamie Vardy, for example. This is not a footballer. This is a fantastic horse. He has a need to be free out there on the pitch. I say to him, “You are free to move however you want, but you must help us when we lose the ball. That’s all I ask of you. If you start to press the opposition, all of your teammates will follow you.”

Before we played our first match of the season, I told the players, “I want you to play for your teammates. We are a little team, so we have to fight with all our heart, with all our soul. I don’t care the name of the opponent. All I want is for you to fight. If they are better than us, Okay, congratulations. But they have to show us they are better.”"

#football

 

 

So much wisdom in how he created the atmosphere within the group to give everything for each other in every game.

 

If only we had a little of that in the current squad.

[Likely Fox]

[Old Fox]

Everything that was right about the leadership and way this team was led - tactically and culturally is what is wrong with our dressing room today. He was such an inspiration and so wise - this topic being bumped has more than anything made me very sad - what a sad state of affairs it is now!!

[sm1]

Still brings a tear thinking about that season.

[purpleronnie]

34 minutes ago, sm1 said:

Still brings a tear thinking about that season.

For me I don't think it ever sunk in, and given our present circumstances it seems more like it was a dream than it did at the time.

[Lambert09]

I hate when people pretend our club was amazingly run before our recent falls. The club let Claudio down massively that summer.

 

a horrific pre-season plan, trying to be too big and wasting prep time on silly tournaments with a small squad.

 

then the transfer window that simply was the worst we’ve ever had. That was the real fumble. We didn’t give Claudio a strong enough squad to compete on multiple fronts. I believe our incompetence cost Claudio a second magical season. We wouldn’t have win something but he deserved to last the champions league campaign and that wasn’t possible because of woefully shoddy recruitment. 
 

That was our biggest opportunity to close the gap and we missed it. We may have come back and done well with Rodger’s but imagine if we’d actually had a good window? We could have set up the club for a long long time 

[Gamble92]

1 hour ago, Lambert09 said:

I hate when people pretend our club was amazingly run before our recent falls. The club let Claudio down massively that summer.

 

a horrific pre-season plan, trying to be too big and wasting prep time on silly tournaments with a small squad.

 

then the transfer window that simply was the worst we’ve ever had. That was the real fumble. We didn’t give Claudio a strong enough squad to compete on multiple fronts. I believe our incompetence cost Claudio a second magical season. We wouldn’t have win something but he deserved to last the champions league campaign and that wasn’t possible because of woefully shoddy recruitment. 
 

That was our biggest opportunity to close the gap and we missed it. We may have come back and done well with Rodger’s but imagine if we’d actually had a good window? We could have set up the club for a long long time 

I've been banging this drum for years. It wasn't great under Vichai either. We just did great things. When you look at how those great things where achieved, absolutely none of it was great ownership at the forefront of it. None. 

[David Hankey]

6 hours ago, davieG said:

 

Football.aug  ·

Follow

 

Claudio Ranieri: "I remember my first meeting with the chairman when I arrived at Leicester City. He sat down with me and said, “Claudio, this is a very important year for the club. It is very important for us to stay in the Premier League. We have to stay safe.”

My reply was, “Okay, sure. We’ll work hard on the training ground and try to achieve this.”

Forty points. That was the goal. That was the total we needed to stay in the first division, to give our fans another season of Premier League football.

Perhaps you have heard their names now. Players who were considered too small or too slow for other big clubs. N’Golo Kanté. Jamie Vardy. Wes Morgan. Danny Drink water. Riyad Mahrez. When I arrived my first day of training and I saw the quality of these players, I knew how good they could be.

Well, I knew we had a chance to survive in the Premier League.

This player Kanté, he was running so hard that I thought he must have a pack full of batteries hidden in his shorts. He never stopped running in training.

I had to tell him, “Hey, N’Golo, slow down. Slow down. Don’t run after the ball every time, okay?”

He says to me, “Yes, boss. Yes. Okay.”

Ten seconds later, I look over and he’s running again.

I tell him, “One day, I’m going to see you cross the ball, and then finish the cross with a header yourself.”

He’s unbelievable, but he is not the only key. There are too many keys to name in this incredible season.

Jamie Vardy, for example. This is not a footballer. This is a fantastic horse. He has a need to be free out there on the pitch. I say to him, “You are free to move however you want, but you must help us when we lose the ball. That’s all I ask of you. If you start to press the opposition, all of your teammates will follow you.”

Before we played our first match of the season, I told the players, “I want you to play for your teammates. We are a little team, so we have to fight with all our heart, with all our soul. I don’t care the name of the opponent. All I want is for you to fight. If they are better than us, Okay, congratulations. But they have to show us they are better.”"

#football

 

Claudio, without doubt, will be the only manager ever in the world to bring this trophy to us. Thanks a million.