Best manager ever,major trophy winners only.

[Phil Bowman]

36 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.

Brian Little isn’t included either even though he won the play-offs.

 

The title clearly says major trophy winners.

[Phil Bowman]

Why isn’t Frank O’Farrell included? Some people reckon the Charity/Community Shield is a major trophy…

[Unabomber]

Voted for Pearson via the like option 

[Foxhateram]

11 hours ago, Finnegan said:

The Trimurti. Pearson, Shakespeare, Ranieri. Ultimately the three wise men that won us the league (assist: S Walsh.)

 

Rodgers doing a good job but he needs to break the top four to to top Don Claudio really. 

Nah, Ranieri could easily have taken us on to continue being a top 6 side, but instead messed with formations and our style of play. Dug his own grave at the end of the day. The signings we made that summer after we won the league were damn poor as well! 

 

Rodgers for me, consistent in the top 6, competed in Europa and have now bought home several domestic trophies. Built a squad capable of coping with injuries, and the demands of competing on several fronts. 

 

Pearson would be top of course! Built the squad that took us back to the holy land! And of course gave us the momentum for which Ranieri steered to victory. 

 

 

 

 

[Foxhateram]

If you'd asked me a decade a go, it would of been our Martin of course! Hands down. But despite several League cup wins and a decent list of top 10 finishes, I just don't think his achievements are quite on the level that we're at now. 

[Nick]

Dilly ding.

[whoareyaaa]

is the League cup a major trophy? winning the Championship would be more of an achievement over 46 games. 

 

In my lifetime, I would say MON, Pearson, Claudio and Rodgers are the greatest managers we have had at the club all having some great period's I don't think there is a single 'best' manager

Edited 30 August 2021 by whoareyaaa

[Freeman's Wharfer]

Threads like this are where a distinction needs to be made between ‘best’ and ‘greatest’.

 

Ranieri achieved greatness. He achieved something in a one-off season that nobody could ever have expected or predicted.

 

But is he the best when you look across many of the other attributes of a ‘best’ manager?

 

For me, Rodgers, in terms of style of play, man management, recruitment and consistent success, is our best ever manager.

 

This is also how I settle in my mind the Vardy/Mahrez comparison. Vardy has achieved greatness and is our GOAT. Mahrez could do things with a ball Vardy could only dream of and is the best to ever wear the shirt.

Edited 30 August 2021 by Freeman's Wharfer

[Guest Kopfkino]

If Ranieri hadn’t been sacked I’m not sure he’d have as many vote right now. We’d probably pissing around the Championship, potentially in all sorts of a mess had he not been sacked

 

Granted Brendan’s reign might end in dire circumstances still but it has to be him. Hopefully he can win us something else and keep us competitive

[Corky]

2 hours ago, ttfn said:

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.

The doing down of Ranieri by our own fans is incredible. Yes the second season was shit but the first was just astonishing and he managed it all brilliantly. He took the pressure off in the press, he set us up to nullify weaknesses and maximise strengths, he ground it out when he needed to, played exciting football when required and we basically had a nerveless run-in (taking out our own emotions).

 

Such a shame he gets credit reduced or taken away.

[Heathrow fox]

2 hours ago, Nalis said:

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

Yes, but out of the choices we have in this poll,he was the only one sacked.Within one season of greatness.Two of the others left for better things.The other one is currently not out.

[The People's Hero]

This thread is the only evidence required that some of you need to disappear and found 'pearsontalk.co.uk' - the website which selectively remembers 10% of a career!

 

 

[Phil Bowman]

1 hour ago, whoareyaaa said:

is the League cup a major trophy? winning the Championship would be more of an achievement over 46 games.

Both these things are true. Yes, the League Cup is a major trophy (not as major as the League or the FA Cup though); and yes, winning the Championship is probably more of an achievement. But that doesn’t make it a major trophy.

[Phil Bowman]

I’m at a loss to understand people’s problems with this poll! It’s simply asking which of the four Leicester managers to have won a major trophy do you think is the best. Of course managers who didn’t win a major trophy aren’t on the list. That would be a different poll.

[matty98]

4 minutes ago, The People's Hero said:

This thread is the only evidence required that some of you need to disappear and found 'pearsontalk.co.uk' - the website which selectively remembers 10% of a career!

 

 

10% of his Leicester career?  the man improved our league position every single season

[Phil Bowman]

43 minutes ago, Corky said:

The doing down of Ranieri by our own fans is incredible. Yes the second season was shit but the first was just astonishing and he managed it all brilliantly. He took the pressure off in the press, he set us up to nullify weaknesses and maximise strengths, he ground it out when he needed to, played exciting football when required and we basically had a nerveless run-in (taking out our own emotions).

 

Such a shame he gets credit reduced or taken away.

If I was asked who’s my favourite Leicester manager ever, I’d say Ranieri. No question, no doubt. And I don’t believe we’d have won the league with anyone else. But all that doesn’t mean I think he was a ‘better’ manager than anyone else we’ve had.

[Raj]

1 hour ago, Foxhateram said:

If you'd asked me a decade a go, it would of been our Martin of course! Hands down. But despite several League cup wins and a decent list of top 10 finishes, I just don't think his achievements are quite on the level that we're at now. 

That's because we never had the resources  we have now.

Simples

[Raj]

1 hour ago, whoareyaaa said:

is the League cup a major trophy? winning the Championship would be more of an achievement over 46 games. 

 

In my lifetime, I would say MON, Pearson, Claudio and Rodgers are the greatest managers we have had at the club all having some great period's I don't think there is a single 'best' manager

If you were there when we achie6 this in the MoN era you wouldn't  even ask.

No disrespect  but our fans now just thi k weve always been an established Premier league  club who think winning trophies is just standard. Its not

[Webbo]

25 minutes ago, Phil Bowman said:

I’m at a loss to understand people’s problems with this poll! It’s simply asking which of the four Leicester managers to have won a major trophy do you think is the best. Of course managers who didn’t win a major trophy aren’t on the list. That would be a different poll.

Tbh I half expected it. I'm sure a lot of it is tongue in cheek. It's no biggy. 

[SuperMike]

No Puel?

Some on here will be devastated.

[Phil Bowman]

2 minutes ago, SuperMike said:

No Puel?

Some on here will be devastated.

Puel? What about Levein? McLintock?

[davieG]

Perhaps a Best Manager to never win a Major Trophy would help.

 

Oh wait that is bound to end up as a Pearson love in.

 

PS I think Pearson was great and kicked off this fantastic era for LCFC but not the Best Manager ever!

[Phil Bowman]

Also I’m genuinely disappointed that with all the ‘but x is our best manager ever’ posts there’s a distinct lack of Jimmy Bloomfield.

[Webbo]

1 minute ago, Phil Bowman said:

Also I’m genuinely disappointed that with all the ‘but x is our best manager ever’ posts there’s a distinct lack of Jimmy Bloomfield.

I loved Jock Wallace, had a similar appeal to Pearson. It all depends on which generation you're from. 

[ozleicester]

2 hours ago, whoareyaaa said:

Why is there no option for Cambiasso?

pretty sure somone will start a thread for "Best manager who wasnt ever our manager."