Ranieri Sacked

Robbo · 23 Feb 2017 at 21:58

Last season was so weird, the Leicester players were playing very well, but teams made no effort to stop their style.

I thought they'd give Ranieri another game at least, the players showed some fight vs Sevilla.

Ultimately though (in the league), the players clearly weren't playing for him, so I do understand the owners, as they'd likely have gone down (and still might). It does seem a shame.

Shamikebab · 23 Feb 2017 at 22:03

You disagree with what? They haven't even scored this year.

FrankJH · 23 Feb 2017 at 22:21

It was simply a matter of time - Im just slightly suprirsed they actually waited this long

Sack him in Dec, give the new guy a little bit of money for transfers to get a bit of belief back in the squad and they could have held on

Surely its more likely now that they will get relegated whoever comes in to manage

Trusty · 23 Feb 2017 at 22:27

I obviously echo everyones comments, it really irks me some of the behaviour because of the cash cow in the PL. Proper ***** me off!!!

Janesy B · 23 Feb 2017 at 22:43

It's going to be the same lot of underperforming players with a new manager. Hope they go down, especially with the board backing him only 2 weeks ago.

Combat Fighter · 23 Feb 2017 at 23:18

Poor decision.

I really hope Leicester get relegated now.

nemtizz · 24 Feb 2017 at 00:12

Deserved. Hope they stay up now.

McBain · 24 Feb 2017 at 06:56

It's not overly surprising, the way they're playing at the moment they're heading for the drop.

Gimpymoo · 24 Feb 2017 at 08:17

Leicester have became the worlds most hated club overnight.

Lots of none football folk chiming in saying how **** it is.

mysticsniper · 24 Feb 2017 at 08:18

I'm a Leicester fan, and I'm not surprised, clearly there is a problem within the club, players are just not performing anymore for Ranieri, I'm sure player power has contributed to the departure of Ranieri.

The owners don't want the club to be relegated, results have been really poor. The last time we won a league game was back in December and we've been in free fall ever since.

Rannoch · 24 Feb 2017 at 08:19

I wouldn't feel too bad for him. He'll walk away with a tidy sum.

Manners14 · 24 Feb 2017 at 08:27

Its a shame he hasn't been given time to turn it all around.
losing one player and seeing a couple fall out of form has destroyed any sort of form they could have found after Christmas.

MooMoo444 · 24 Feb 2017 at 08:40

Absolutely shocking. He took a relegation side and won the bloody league with them. He deserves to remain a legend, not be made a villain by the board.

They obviously have far too high expectations. Did they really think they would win the league again??

mysticsniper · 24 Feb 2017 at 08:49

MooMoo444 said:
Absolutely shocking. He took a relegation side and won the bloody league with them. He deserves to remain a legend, not be made a villain by the board.

They obviously have far too high expectations. Did they really think they would win the league again??

We weren't a relegation side, the previous season before Ranieri took over we finished 14th, and without a certain player called Kante.

I don't know what they were thinking, but I bet they didn't expect to be in a relegation battle this season.

Uriel · 24 Feb 2017 at 09:22

Well, that's every PL opponent's team talk done for the rest of the season. Just wave a photo of Ranieri at them and unleash the fury.

Leicester have just painted an even bigger, redder target on themselves than being Champions did.

Now who's the best man for the vacant job? Nigel Pearson?

mmj_uk · 24 Feb 2017 at 09:54

It just goes to show how important staying in the Premier League has become. I bet if you gave the Leicester owners the choice between winning the Champions League and being relegated or staying up, they'd choose staying up because like many team that have gone down they might not come back for many years, if at all.

If Ranieri had managed to get them safely mid table they wouldn't have had to sack him. I think what Leicester need now is a manager who will give the players a good kick up the **** because they seem to have been on holiday most of this season.

MooMoo444 · 24 Feb 2017 at 09:58

It's likely they would be mid table if they didn't put any effort into the CL. It's just not the same team that's turning up on weekends compared to midweek.

ScottyJKB · 24 Feb 2017 at 10:07

Pigeon_Killer said:
They just said on BT Sport that 4 of the last 5 Premiership winning managers have been sacked so if Arsenal supporters want rid of Wenger he's going to have to win you the league first

Brilliant

MooMoo444 · 24 Feb 2017 at 10:18

I saw this one doing the rounds

Shamikebab · 24 Feb 2017 at 10:27

It's not like the club haven't backed him, sure he lost Kante but he also brought in over £50m worth of players.