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Best manager ever,major trophy winners only.

By Webbo, in Leicester City Forum

Best manager  

190 members have voted

  1. 1. Best manager

    • Matt Gillies
      6
    • Martin O'Neill
      35
    • Claudio Ranieri
      98
    • Brendan Rodgers
      51

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Raj

Raj

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12 minutes ago, Duquesne Whistle said:

Yeah. I probably want to change my vote now lol

I immediately thought O'Neill when I first read the title, then talked myself out of it because Ranieri won the league and that is just insane.

You make a good plea on behalf of MON though and I agree with the points you've made.

To be fair, it shouldnt even be close for fans who were there during MONs times.

If you remember  wed lost about 12 games in a row and it was only against(I think!) Sheff Utd were our fate changed.

In fact MoN still remembers this game as he received a whole load of abuse leading upto it to get out.

The story after that, well...Premier league play off win with THAT chin, league cup win after a replay, European football and we some how became a solid  premier league club!!!

It was literally magical transformation.

AND he had the persona of no one prior- when he spoke you listened.

 

Claudio, obviously won us the greatest prize of all, but NP built the foundations and all the galaxies aligned to enable that win, but it was a one off season- Claudio didnt build from the bottom.

 

BR has won us 2 trophies  but with a good solid inherited squad and money from great owners. The FA victory will ALWAYS  have him in our history books.

Only in the next 2 seasons can he be classified, in my humble opinion, on par with MON if he continues to improve- that's the test!

 

NP is and will always be a legend,partly due to his shenanigans and personality.

His no nonsense  approach and how he kept us up,leading to the momentum yo give CR the Premier league will never be forgotten.

I'd say he was the builder of the foundations to where we are now.

 

But....MON changed our club, akin to Fergie and Wenger in a lesser level.

 

VOTE MON!!!

 

 

 

 

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davieG

davieG

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For me Gillies played the most exciting and innovative football but when I think back football seemed to be more fun, sure you wanted to win games but style, quality and entertainment was what I enjoyed.

 

Football is now so much more intense with winning at any cost being boring, cheating and defending more often than not more important than goals and all round entertainment.

 

iI still enjoy it but in an entirely different way,, now it’s what you achieve. It’s really difficult to equate Champions via 1 season verses 2 League Cups and several top 10 finishes v 1 FA Cup and 2 fifth place finishes.

 

I need to think about it some more.

 

 

Raj

Raj

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Just now, davieG said:

For me Gillies played the most exciting and innovative football but when I think back football seemed to be more fun, sure you wanted to win games but style, quality and entertainment was what I enjoyed.

 

Football is now so much more intense with winning at any cost being boring, cheating and defending more often than not more important than goals and all round entertainment.

 

iI still enjoy it but in an entirely different way,, now it’s what you achieve. It’s really difficult to equate Champions via 1 season verses 2 League Cups and several top 10 finishes v 1 FA Cup and 2 fifth place finishes.

 

I need to think about it some more.

 

 

C'mon DavieG...you know deep down its MON...just press the button brother!!!

Chrysalis

Chrysalis

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1 hour ago, Webbo said:

Because then it's based on achievement rather than popularity.

Getting promoted is an achievement is it not?

 

Out of the list its got to be either MON or Claudio for me, they achieved what they did with lower quality squads relative to the competition. Too young to remember Gilles.

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Duquesne Whistle

Duquesne Whistle

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1 hour ago, Raj said:

To be fair, it shouldnt even be close for fans who were there during MONs times.

If you remember  wed lost about 12 games in a row and it was only against(I think!) Sheff Utd were our fate changed.

In fact MoN still remembers this game as he received a whole load of abuse leading upto it to get out.

The story after that, well...Premier league play off win with THAT chin, league cup win after a replay, European football and we some how became a solid  premier league club!!!

It was literally magical transformation.

AND he had the persona of no one prior- when he spoke you listened.

 

Claudio, obviously won us the greatest prize of all, but NP built the foundations and all the galaxies aligned to enable that win, but it was a one off season- Claudio didnt build from the bottom.

 

BR has won us 2 trophies  but with a good solid inherited squad and money from great owners. The FA victory will ALWAYS  have him in our history books.

Only in the next 2 seasons can he be classified, in my humble opinion, on par with MON if he continues to improve- that's the test!

 

NP is and will always be a legend,partly due to his shenanigans and personality.

His no nonsense  approach and how he kept us up,leading to the momentum yo give CR the Premier league will never be forgotten.

I'd say he was the builder of the foundations to where we are now.

 

But....MON changed our club, akin to Fergie and Wenger in a lesser level.

 

VOTE MON!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I already said I agree with you @Raj, you're preaching to the converted lol

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Carl the Llama

Carl the Llama

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43 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Well, BR isn't done yet. I cannot vote for Gillies because I don't know enough about him. Claudio - how could I not love him? MO'N - the first time in my lifetime it felt like LCFC could become big, one day.

 

I cannot vote.

Also because no NP, right?

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Sharpe's Fox

Sharpe's Fox

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The Ranieri thing was fun but let's be honest it got boring fast. By the end of the first season the guy had resorted to calling himself a bellend in press conferences just to get a laugh. Within 18 months we were all sick of him.

 

We all look at him fondly but none of us take him seriously and to be fair he doesn't hang about us often and go on about it to the cameras. He knows what he did and didn't do.

 

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shailen

shailen

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Ranieri doesn't get the credit he deserves ironically from our own fans, as a lot think he just carried on from where NP left off, but there are a couple of key changes he implemented. 

 

He turned Vardy into an out and out number 9, before he spent more time out on the wing or in a two up front. 

 

He also realised Mahrez was our best player and gave him a free role to drift where he wanted and others covered his defensive work. Under NP, he played more as an out and out winger. 

 

The signings of Fuchs and Kante also helped us to get where we did, but the key changes above were also pivotal. 

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Guest ttfn

Guest ttfn

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6 hours ago, shailen said:

Ranieri doesn't get the credit he deserves ironically from our own fans, as a lot think he just carried on from where NP left off, but there are a couple of key changes he implemented. 

 

He turned Vardy into an out and out number 9, before he spent more time out on the wing or in a two up front. 

 

He also realised Mahrez was our best player and gave him a free role to drift where he wanted and others covered his defensive work. Under NP, he played more as an out and out winger. 

 

The signings of Fuchs and Kante also helped us to get where we did, but the key changes above were also pivotal. 

Absolutely incredible reading this thread.

 

The man won the league title in his first season in charge with a team that had finished 14th the season before.

 

Put to one side the sheer impossibility of breaching the top 4 (still the only side to have done it other than the usual six for more than 15 years), the sheer fact that he turned a side that had just avoided relegation into title winners is almost literally unbelievable.

 

By contrast Rodgers has turned an under-performing mid-table side into a side which has fulfilled its potential. Not a single person at the start of the 15/16 season would have thought we could finish in the top 4 let alone win the league.

 

Yes things went badly in the second season, but the absolute impossibility of the first season is so far outside the realm of any other achievement in our (or any other club’s) history that it clearly stands Ranieri apart from his peers.

 

People will say that he inherited a perfect storm, that he had good players, that his predecessor had left things in a good place and that he lucked into some new signings that his predecessor didn’t get the benefit of. That he benefited from a simultaneous  brain fart from the big 6. All of which can equally unfairly be used to play down Rodgers’ achievements.

 

Perhaps if Ranieri could have dropped the Italian accent, got himself a nicer set of teeth and a permatan he might have got the respect he deserved.

 

That man should have a statue outside the King Power.

Nalis

Nalis

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5 hours ago, Heathrow fox said:

Ran got sacked,so for that reason I can’t call him the greatest.

I think that logic is flawed as a lot of teams greatest ever managers were either sacked or left by 'mutual consent' - see Alf Ramsey, Wenger, Mourinho at Chelsea, etc as examples

Koke

Koke

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9 hours ago, Duquesne Whistle said:

 

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*IF he wins the Europa League 

 

1 FÅ Cup 

1 Europa League

2x 5th finishes 

+ has produced some of the best football I've ever seen City play. 

davieG

davieG

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28 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

At the time they was in charge they was the best manager for the club and Pearson isn't included even though he won League 1 and the Championship.. the poll is void.

If you're including Championship winners then you need to include

Peter Hodge

Frank Womack

Norman Bullock

David Halliday

Frank O Farrell ( also got an FA Cup runners up)

Jock Wallace

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Motty

Motty

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The question is what did they achieve after the left.

We were the pinnacle of their careers in English football.

There's just something about LCFC that allows managers to attain their best.

Certainly in the current owners reign

I know that plenty failed but that can be said for all clubs.

Maintaining a club at the top of the Premier division  has proven cyclic for all the current "top 4 and big 6"

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