Ranieri Sacked

Kelt · 24 Feb 2017 at 10:28

Not surprised at all, Football lost its soul a long time ago.

I rooted for Leicester to win the premiership last year, now I'm rooting for them to go down.

What a miserable way to repay someone who helped them achieve an impossible dream.

placeholder · 24 Feb 2017 at 11:33

The anger over this is hilarious. The players had literally stopped playing for him this season. He demonstrated all season that he seemingly had no way of turning it around. He also brought in underwhelming signings in the summer.

Are the club just supposed to sleepwalk into relegation and do nothing?

The players need to take a long look at themselves but equally Ranieri should have anticipated a certain amount of downing of tools following winning the league. No one expected another title challenge but to go from Champions to the brink of relegation is totally unacceptable.

Pigeon_Killer · 24 Feb 2017 at 11:53

There are some weird stories going around this morning including losing the players because he changed their after match chicken burgers to pasta. WTF?

dannyjo22 · 24 Feb 2017 at 11:54

placeholder said:
The anger over this is hilarious. The players had literally stopped playing for him this season. He demonstrated all season that he seemingly had no way of turning it around. He also brought in underwhelming signings in the summer.

Are the club just supposed to sleepwalk into relegation and do nothing?

The players need to take a long look at themselves but equally Ranieri should have anticipated a certain amount of downing of tools following winning the league. No one expected another title challenge but to go from Champions to the brink of relegation is totally unacceptable.

And that is what's wrong with football, that players have such a stranglehold at clubs that they can do next to nothing wrong. They cannot take any criticism and just stop playing for a manager even if he's regarded as a god. The players won't take a hard look at themselves, they will release a few press statements about how they feel they have let down the manager and so on, like we see time and time again. Even if a player is being a complete and utter disruptive ***** the clubs hush that up as he's a saleable asset, the manager mostly isn't.

Now the players have the attitude that they can stop playing and get a new manager the rot has set in anyway. If they don't go down this season they soon will.

Steedie · 24 Feb 2017 at 12:31

Hope they get relegated and then spectacularly collapse and drop down the Football League. To remind the owners of where they were not long ago

placeholder · 24 Feb 2017 at 12:53

dannyjo22 said:
And that is what's wrong with football, that players have such a stranglehold at clubs that they can do next to nothing wrong. They cannot take any criticism and just stop playing for a manager even if he's regarded as a god. The players won't take a hard look at themselves, they will release a few press statements about how they feel they have let down the manager and so on, like we see time and time again. Even if a player is being a complete and utter disruptive ***** the clubs hush that up as he's a saleable asset, the manager mostly isn't.

Now the players have the attitude that they can stop playing and get a new manager the rot has set in anyway. If they don't go down this season they soon will.

That's what happens when you hand out massive bonuses and contracts and remove their incentive to work. Ranieri should have been aware that when teams overachieve there is usually a drop off.

Its the nature of football now and its a two way street. Ranieiri will get his huge contract paid up and like it or not had Barca come in for him had he repeated the feat this season his contract wouldn't have been worth the paper it was written on from his side either. Clubs have no loyalty to their players and managers but equally players and managers have no loyalty to the clubs. As long as all parties are aware that a contract is nothing more than an insurance policy then I think its fine.

Robzere31 · 24 Feb 2017 at 13:21

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cm1179 said:
oh dear

wonder what odds one would've got on them winning the pl last season and being relegated this season

50/1 for them to be religated this season, at least that's what I got back in August.

stuie · 24 Feb 2017 at 13:36

Hoping forest are having a quiet word with his team right now

Mark1989 · 24 Feb 2017 at 13:44

Not fair on him at all however players always get away with it so I hope they get relegated all leave and start again with players who will least be more loyal. That itself is pipe dream these days.

grimm · 24 Feb 2017 at 13:46

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

That's nothing though. Premier league contenders often spend more than that on one player. How is Ranieri realistically going to make a title defence with a mid table at best side. Last season was a complete freak of a result for them to win it.

daman2k · 24 Feb 2017 at 13:57

Leicester are unbelievably ungrateful.

mysticsniper · 24 Feb 2017 at 14:21

This is just the same as Chelsea the season before last. They won the league and then Sacked Mourinho when results went bad.

dannyjo22 · 24 Feb 2017 at 14:28

mysticsniper said:
This is just the same as Chelsea the season before last. They won the league and then Sacked Mourinho when results went bad.

They are nothing like the same scenarios. Although both clubs are about as popular as each other right now.

adam cool dude · 24 Feb 2017 at 14:34

Look at SAF took him 4 years to win a trophy. Bearing in mind he took over a FA cup winning side (When it actually meant something). He would have been sacked already. Gone are the days of a Manager making a club his home. Now it is merely a secondment which is a shame.

Shamikebab · 24 Feb 2017 at 15:27

grimm said:
That's nothing though. Premier league contenders often spend more than that on one player. How is Ranieri realistically going to make a title defence with a mid table at best side. Last season was a complete freak of a result for them to win it.

Nobody was expecting them to, but to go to relegation form is a huge failure. They've been in complete freefall, anyone else would have been sacked at christmas. They gave him extra time but they've got even worse this year.

mmj_uk · 24 Feb 2017 at 16:30

It's probably more kind to sack him so that they can increase their chances of staying up than it is to persevere with him out of a sense of loyalty and let him damage his reputation by getting them relegated. Obviously there's no certainty he'd get them relegated or a new manager will keep them up but clubs seem to put a lot of weight in new manager bounce, change of ideas and players are suddenly on their toes etc.

Trusty · 24 Feb 2017 at 16:32

Shamikebab said:
Nobody was expecting them to, but to go to relegation form is a huge failure. They've been in complete freefall, anyone else would have been sacked at christmas. They gave him extra time but they've got even worse this year.

Perhaps the players should look at themselves?

G-MAN2004 · 24 Feb 2017 at 17:17

"Yesterday, my dream died"

Shamikebab · 24 Feb 2017 at 17:22

Trusty said:
Perhaps the players should look at themselves?

Absolutely but ultimately as with anyone in charge, the buck stops with the manager and he's the one they can replace at this point.

mmj_uk · 24 Feb 2017 at 17:27

Trusty said:
Perhaps the players should look at themselves?

I agree it's probably fairer to say the players have let him down rather than the club/owners, like I've said I think they need to appoint a manager who will give the players a good kick up the ****.