King of Gipsy Lane Posted 30 August 2021 Posted 30 August 2021 8 hours ago, bovril said: Didn't he once play Harry Kane on the left wing? And left him on bench mostly 🤦♂️
SouthStandUpperTier Posted 30 August 2021 Posted 30 August 2021 The biggest difference between 2014/15 and 2015/16 (and for that matter 2015/16 and 2016/17) was Ngolo Kante. He really did set us free to attack. It took Ranieri a while to see it, and by all accounts he wanted Mendy over Kante in the first place, but he found the right formula in the end. Whether that makes Ranieri our greatest ever manager, I'm not too sure.
smudger63 Posted 30 August 2021 Posted 30 August 2021 6 hours ago, peach0000 said: He had Kane and Vardy both in the championship and played them on the wings. He's so tactically advanced in his thinking that us mortals can't comprehend the genius of it. It's funny isn't it. As you rightly say, he played Vardy on the wing, something that we as Leicester fans slaughtered Roy Hodgson for when he played for England.
peach0000 Posted 30 August 2021 Posted 30 August 2021 1 minute ago, smudger63 said: It's funny isn't it. As you rightly say, he played Vardy on the wing, something that we as Leicester fans slaughtered Roy Hodgson for when he played for England. He did do it at a time when Vardy hadn't been as successful as he is now as a main striker. Same with Kane, people criticise Pearson for not playing him but in reality he was an unknown youngster who had been a bit rubbish in his career up to that stage.
Corky Posted 30 August 2021 Posted 30 August 2021 55 minutes ago, Col city fan said: Martin O’Neil easily the best City manager in my lifetime. Pearson did great to get us up, but the great escape season was basically a shambles Ranieri took Pearson’s squad at exactly the right time, made a few tweaks and it worked. He also had Kante, Okazaki and Fuchs added to the squad who made a massive difference. These endless debates never get anywhere, why is there a desperation to crown who was the best? Everyone will use stats to suit their own arguments, we should be glad we've got enough to talk about.
Mark_w Posted 30 August 2021 Posted 30 August 2021 38 minutes ago, Happy Fox said: Ranieri made a few tweaks? Is a huge disservice to the Don You do realise we finished 14th the previous season… What we achieved was simply out of this world, Ranieri produced a miracle which makes him the best manager in our history hands down. You know we'd recruited N'Golo f'n Kante that summer right? Not to mention Okazaki, Fuchs, Huth for the full season. Our form at the end of the season with Huth in the side was incredible and we were improving on that with our recruitment, Vardy & Mahrez had had a year to adapt to the Premier League and started firing under Pearson during the great escape. We were moving in the right direction. Would we have won it without Ranieri? I highly doubt it. But he did just make small tweaks. And I don't mean that as a critcisim, he deserves all the credit in the world for it. He didn't try to rip up what we had and put his stamp on it in that first season, he watched and let them do what they were doing and we were incredibly successful with it, and then as the season went on he tweaked it slightly to make us better defensively and took the pressure off the players really well. But in terms of our best manager? I think the fact that when he did try to put his own stamp on things he undid so much of the good that was there, and quite rightly didn't even last another season, should probably rule him out.
smudger63 Posted 30 August 2021 Posted 30 August 2021 22 minutes ago, peach0000 said: He did do it at a time when Vardy hadn't been as successful as he is now as a main striker. Same with Kane, people criticise Pearson for not playing him but in reality he was an unknown youngster who had been a bit rubbish in his career up to that stage. Well Vardy came to us as a successful lower league main striker, so i presume that was the his planned position when we bought him. Same with Kane, his other loans he had played as the striker, but hadnt really pulled up any trees at that point. To be fair to Pearson, Vardy did struggle in his first season with us, and playing him out wide was probably seen as a chance to take some of the pressure off of him, while still giving him playing time and hoping to build his confidence.
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