Head and heart, innit? Head says they looked doomed (or at least fucking close to it) under Ranieri. If you accept that, then changing manager is a no-brainer as they won’t do any worse under the new one. Do it on the basis of a massive bonus for keeping them up and it makes perfect sense. Stay up and the bonus to the manager looks like peanuts, go down and you’ve lost relatively little. Additionally, twelve games (which is the maximum a new man will have) should be enough for a decent new manager to turn things round, at least enough to keep the club in the Premier League. After all, think how things might have ended had Benitez been given a bit more time at Newcastle last season, and their position was worse then than Leicester’s is now.
Heart says it just seems fucking awful. Wrong and awful.
If I’m honest, I’m going with heart here, for all that head has all the arguments.
Yes amazing times for sure. I am not a fickle fan though. I care about Saints, love and hate them all at the same time, but I am never knee jerk, but sometimes realistic in the football world.
Reports in The Times and others that Ranieri was sacked after a group of players went to the clubs owners complaining about him. I bet that little rat Vardy was one of them. Horrible little bastard.
It would be ironic if Vardy was one of them. Ranieri dragged him from journeyman to Premier League and England star in one season. Vardy’s inability to score this season shows self-motivation isn’t his thing.
Absolutely raving nuts decision. Seriously fuck off whoever instigated this, whether it was the players or owners, or both. Rapidly gone from everyone’s second favourite team to one that can now slide back to obscurity as quick as possible thanks, hopefuly being relegated along the way you total shitbags.
Yeah as long us you’re turning up and performing your job getting bad results isn’t really grounds to sack someone in the legal sense, it will be more of a ‘we’d like to terminate your remaining contract, here is the settlement package’. Getting ‘sacked’ is more a media term to ramp up the drama IMO, and rarely accurate unless there has been some naughty shenanigans going on, although that doesn’t seem to apply either in some cases *cough* *Allardyce* *cough* *Redknapp* *cunts* *cough*
The window cleaner knocked the door yesterday. A staunch Red, the last time I saw him was a couple of months ago, in which he proudly proclaimed “There’s no way you’re beating us over the two legs, lad”. He impressed me on two fronts. First, he gave us credit for our win, and complained that Hull did the same to them the next week.
We get onto the subject of Ranieri, and he’s spitting feathers over it. I repeat my opinion that I understand the timing, and that the job will attract a better quality of manager with a CL spot in the balance.
“I thought that was them out!”, he said.
“Nah, they’ve just got to beat Sevilla at 1-0”, I replied.
His objections completely vanished. “Oh, fair play then”, he says, and tootles off.
I can’t believe people are so up in arms about this. Leicester are sleepwalking towards relegation, he’s done an awful job thus season, and apparently behind the scenes he’s an arrogant, obnoxious, prick.
Probably describes are fair proportion of Premiership managers to be fair. It doesnt take away from the amazing job he did last year. Perhaps the players should have a look at themselves? Vardy mostly looks like the player he was before last season and according to the stats they are running a mile less per match. Sounds like the Fonte Syndrome to me!