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Leicester-The Worst Reigning Champions Ever?

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Steve Wood said:
In retrospect Claudio had a once in a lifetime opportunity and did not really have to do much .... out of the domestic cups early, the perfect platform from Pearson with the late run of the previous season, all of the big boys in transition added to no serious injuries and a favourable
refereeing decisions ... it worked , even for a historically mediocre manager like Ranieri.... it will never again.

Clubs like Leicester , Southampton and Everton are basically just feeder clubs for the bigger boys in the premiership.
We couldn't keep our best player when Chelsea came knocking just like you won't when someone shows some interest in Lukaku.
However when the real big boys come knocking from abroad then the so called top six don't have much say in the matter , think Bale
and Suarez. Sanchez and Ozil were basically reserve players in Spain..... depressing but true.
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Head has fallen clean off here

Embrace the rage and the chill of supporting a club of such insignificance as Leicester
 
Isn't part of a manager's job to keep the players happy and playing?

You can be a fantastic tactician, but if you just irritate the hell out of your players, it's worthless. For whatever reason, Ranieri clearly lost the dressing room. That may well be the players fault and they should all go get fired out of a cannon, but to the Leicester fans and ownership, you have to protect the business.

It seems clear that something happened to make the players lose faith in Ranieri. Isn't it possible that he was Leicester's (wildly successful) Martinez?
 
Steve Wood said:
In retrospect Claudio had a once in a lifetime opportunity and did not really have to do much .... out of the domestic cups early, the perfect platform from Pearson with the late run of the previous season, all of the big boys in transition added to no serious injuries and a favourable
refereeing decisions ... it worked , even for a historically mediocre manager like Ranieri.... it will never again.

Clubs like Leicester , Southampton and Everton are basically just feeder clubs for the bigger boys in the premiership.
We couldn't keep our best player when Chelsea came knocking just like you won't when someone shows some interest in Lukaku.
However when the real big boys come knocking from abroad then the so called top six don't have much say in the matter , think Bale
and Suarez. Sanchez and Ozil were basically reserve players in Spain..... depressing but true.
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One of these thing is not like the others.

Think it's the one with a vast history of success.
 
When we had a manager like Ranieri, Mike Walker, we let him finish the season off, and he hadn't won the league with us the previous season. Admittedly we missed relegation by a nat's chuff, but Everton has always acted with dignity and respect for managers.
 

Steve Wood said:
Well if we are a nothing no mark club ... in the last 20 odd years we have also won the league cup twice ... in that period Everton have won nothing so what does that make you ?
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We'll always be a thousand times bigger then your tin pot nothing little club even if we never won another trophy.
 
Steve Wood said:
In retrospect Claudio had a once in a lifetime opportunity and did not really have to do much .... out of the domestic cups early, the perfect platform from Pearson with the late run of the previous season, all of the big boys in transition added to no serious injuries and a favourable
refereeing decisions ... it worked , even for a historically mediocre manager like Ranieri.... it will never again.

Clubs like Leicester , Southampton and Everton are basically just feeder clubs for the bigger boys in the premiership.
We couldn't keep our best player when Chelsea came knocking just like you won't when someone shows some interest in Lukaku.
However when the real big boys come knocking from abroad then the so called top six don't have much say in the matter , think Bale
and Suarez. Sanchez and Ozil were basically reserve players in Spain..... depressing but true.
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Ah, it's all coming out now. Happy to be that pally-wally fan of another club lording it up when it's going well, but resorting to 'you're as bad as us' jibes when the chips are down.
 
Steve Wood said:
In retrospect Claudio had a once in a lifetime opportunity and did not really have to do much .... out of the domestic cups early, the perfect platform from Pearson with the late run of the previous season, all of the big boys in transition added to no serious injuries and a favourable
refereeing decisions ... it worked , even for a historically mediocre manager like Ranieri.... it will never again.
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Pure luck mate, was it? You utter scrote
 

Tubey said:
Literally akin to me going on a Leicester forum and saying Howard Kendall wasn't all that.
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It's demented. One of the nicest men in football comes in, oversees one of the greatest miracles in the history of sport and gives their utter non-entity team the only joy they will ever have, and here they are trying to take that away from him. I bet Steve Wood was one of the lads cryarsing about Ranieri's appointment and sees this as some sort of perverse vindication. I hope they go down and keep going
 
Khalekan said:
Blimey.

It says on the BBC website that Leicester are holding "talks" with Uncle Woy o_O
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If the players won't turn up for Ranieri, I doubt they would turn up for Hodgson. He is a cracking organiser, and makes teams function better, but he needs buy in from the players, and he won't get that at Leicester. They'd be better sticking with Shakespeare. The players have made their bed, so it's up to them to get Leicester out of trouble.
 
LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Why didn't those players put in performances like they did last night for Ranieri (if they had you wouldn't be in relegation trouble) and more to the point, you fans?

I hope you go down and fade into oblivion.
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They did put those performances in for him though, you not see the Man City game, Seville second half, Stoke away, Swansea home Bruge away, Porto Home and a few more? There have been several issues that I'll touch on below, but far too often we've gone into games with one arm tied behind our backs.

There are several issues that have caused this season. The first thing I would say was that the club was still on its lap of honour at the start of the season, they embraced it all too much including the manager (who was showing up for the opening of an envelope). As a fan I came into this season so flat, I've never felt like it before at all. It sort of felt like, what's the point of it all... that's the greatest moment we're ever going to see. I know it's wrong, but if as a lifelong fan I'm feeling like that then I can only think the players probably found it hard to get motivated also. it's not right, but it's understandable

The preseason was a shambles, being carted around the world for parades and exhibition matches went against everything we're used to. The club dropped the ball there and we should have put the trophy away at the end of the season and never seen it again.... Christ Ranieri was still parading around with it only a month ago at one event or another. They DOF and Ranieri didn't see the motivation issues coming when really they should have, it had been predicted by enough fans. So they need to take the blame... especially as CR got rid of the club phycologist, whose job it was to help deal with that side of it.

The second issue, was that on top of lacking motivation we had a few injuries. That meant we went into the start of the season having to play both of what should have been our 4th and 5th choice CM's. We were screaming for the formation to be changed to cover them, because we knew what was coming. The cb's need protection and those two just don't give it... we went into some huge games with them in there and got absolutely battered by everyone. You can almost forgive it once, but CR refused to change it and we just kept getting mullered. People were just walking though our CM's like they weren't there.

On top of that CR from the start of the season had abandoned the high pressing game that we'd always done. He was trying to protect the centre backs, but all it meant was that when we did win the ball back, we were so deep that the counter attacks were useless. The opposition would come onto us more and more and we were just under pressure non stop.

By the time the motivation for the new season is back, the players were absolutely drained of any confidence. The effort was there, but you could see they didn't know what to do and there were was nothing coming from the bench to help them. It was the same tactics over and over again, just swapping one player for another.

Finally Claudio made some changes tactically that we'd all been screaming for... all he did though was play 5 totally difference formations in the space of 5 games. It was at that moment I think he lost the fans. He certainly lost me. You could see that he was just throwing darts at a board and hoping one stuck. I think it was at that point he lost the players, I can't remember the exact game, but you could see the total confusion in what they were being asked to do.

I don't think they downed tools, what I witnessed was a bunch of players totally devoid of confidence and utterly confused in what's being asked of them. It was so obvious that we were going down to all involved if nothing changed that everyone was just at absolute rock bottom.

I'm gutted it ended this way, he played his part in an incredible story. One of those things that's so rare because it takes thousands of elements to come together perfectly to make it happen. But, the reality is the club will always come first. It was a cast iron certainty that if nothing changed we would go down and I was massively worried about us long term as well as short.

So I'm afraid I believe it was the correct decision. The reaction against liverpool was in part being allowed to go back to last seasons tactics of a high energy pressing game. But also a reaction of anger against the critisism, that those involved with the club know it totally unfair and unjust.

Only those who have watched us all year will know the truth, just like last seasons success, this seasons failure was lots of elements coming together to make it a failure. From the DOF, to recruitment, to the board, to the players and to Ranieri... people not being willing to lay any blame at his door is laughable.

True insight of last season and this is out their, by the few journos who know us well. Particualy John Percy of the Telegraph and Jonathon Norcroft of the times. If you wish to get a balanced perspective I'd suggest reading there article and ignoring most of the rest who have no idea of our club and what's gone on.

Apologies for the spelling mistakes, not got time to proof it... home time!
 
Steve Wood said:
In retrospect Claudio had a once in a lifetime opportunity and did not really have to do much .... out of the domestic cups early, the perfect platform from Pearson with the late run of the previous season, all of the big boys in transition added to no serious injuries and a favourable
refereeing decisions ... it worked , even for a historically mediocre manager like Ranieri.... it will never again.

Clubs like Leicester , Southampton and Everton are basically just feeder clubs for the bigger boys in the premiership.
We couldn't keep our best player when Chelsea came knocking just like you won't when someone shows some interest in Lukaku.
However when the real big boys come knocking from abroad then the so called top six don't have much say in the matter , think Bale
and Suarez. Sanchez and Ozil were basically reserve players in Spain..... depressing but true.
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Didn't Everton tell Chelsea where to go with Stones ? Then got near £20m more for him 12mth later ?
 

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