Ranieri sacked

[IanMcL]

Ranieri was a lucky chap. Nice man who came into a ready made team who had discovered the art of winning. What did he do to change that? Nothing....he did not tinker. Success.

New season, time for Ranieri to impose himself....much tinkering....oops.

Our Board would have given him more time (that's BFC Board not UptheClarets, who turn at every fickle moment. Leicester don't.

Up the Clarets!

[ClaretEngineer]

The only winner here is Claudio Ranieri.

He's the miracle worker who won the league with a team probably incapable of avoiding relegation without Kante. It was a miracle. Incredible. Kante apart, Leicester players were average at best before 2016 and are average again. Vardy has always been a nasty, irksome striker with a low goal to game ratio, with the exception of last year when everything he hit, from anywhere, somehow hit the net. And the seven top teams in the league had a shocker. If they did the same this season West Brom would be champions. But you get the impression the players actually believe they're as good as City, Chelsea, Arsenal et al when they're not as good as us or Watford, and slightly better than Sunderland.

Ranieri worked a miracle to be sacked less than a year later by a sleazy club. If they stay up he might have kept them up anyway. If they go down he'll be the man who won the league, and was sacked, and then they went down. Ha!

He walks away with a deserved four year pay-off - neutrals are all fond of him, and neutrals see Leicester as a nasty, tacky, dishonest club.

I really hope the vastly overpaid, severely limited, dishonest and rather stupid bunch of journeymen go down.

Slightly off topic Guich,

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I've never cheered another teams goal as much as this.

Cannot stand them.

[hampsteadclaret]

Mourinho to Ranieri on Instagram today..

'“Champion of England and FIFA Manager of the Year. Sacked.

That’s the new football Claudio. Keep smiling Amico.. Nobody can delete the history you wrote.”

Well said JM.

[KRBFC]

I think the fact everyone but Leicester are gutted he's gone says an awful lot, his sacking is bad news for all relegation candidates and that speaks for itself

[Guich]

What makes you think it's bad news for the other relegation candidates?

The Leicester players aren't very good. And who do you think will want the job? To be the man who took Leicester down after Ranieri made them champions would be embarrassing to say the least.

[Steve1956]

Ranieri has just said "yesterday my dream died" nice guys can win,such a sad state of affairs when a genuine guy loses his job.

[Claretdan]

Sadly, I think that it shows how much power the players have, and how easy it is to sack a manger nowadays

[Commy]

He was disappointed about them not paying what Burnley wanted for Keane.

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[Steve1956]

He was disappointed about them not paying what Burnley wanted for Keane.

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He Knew,Leicester gave struggled this season for one reason,well two really Morgan & Huth.

[KefkaClaret]

The argument that Ranieri carried over there title winning form from the season before is the biggest load of BS ever. Countless times managers in the relegation zone have spawned incredible runs towards the end of the season. Wigan in 11-12 won 8 of their last 10 games, did they go on to win the title the next year? Did they balls. Ranieri accomplished the greatest sporting achievement of all time. He turned Vardy from a dirty cheating rat to a dirty cheating rat who scores goals. Mahrez turned from an inconsistent winger to a genuinely world class talent. The loss of Kante was huge and in years to come people will look at Kante and see his unbelieveable and greatest accomplishment.

He managed to get Danny Drinkwater three England caps.

[cricketfieldclarets]

What manager worth his salt will go there?

Mancini has (apparently) said he isn't interested. An out of work, manager already on the downward. And I can see why. Because the board have jeopordised the reputation of themselves and the club. Sacking a legend who won them the league means that any manager is on borrowed time there.

Maybe a job for Coyle!

[KRBFC]

What manager worth his salt will go there?

Mancini has (apparently) said he isn't interested. An out of work, manager already on the downward. And I can see why. Because the board have jeopordised the reputation of themselves and the club. Sacking a legend who won them the league means that any manager is on borrowed time there.

Maybe a job for Coyle!

You have to look at it from a financial point though. They signed players like Slimani, Musa, Mendy all for big fees and no doubt massive wages. Vardy, Mahrez and Drinkwater signed new deals worth over £100k p/w. Could Leicester afford to get relegated? No. Were they going to get relegated under Ranieri? Most probably, they never looked like turning it around. The Leicester board have been left with a decision, upset the players by sticking with Ranieri and ultimately accepting relegation or sack him ultimately lifting spirits and TRY to fight for survival.

I said above and will say again, once a manager has lost the dressing room, there is absolutely no way back. Just like Jose at Chelsea, caused by the way he treat that female doctor (imo), disgraceful. Ranieri has lost the dressing room, broken promises etc and I think it's quite clear the players have led the campaign to get him removed from his job and left the chairman with absolutely no option. I don't understand the thinking from some that Leicester fans/board should just accept relegation because they won a league title last year. They probably can't afford to be relegated after splashing a fortune on fees and wages.

[kentonclaret]

Leicester spent £60m on new recruits last summer and sold Kante for £32.5m. Winning the Premier League title and a European campaign with the additional TV revenue will have recouped far more than the amount spent on signing new players and agreeing new wage structures. Football is a multi million pounds business today and the owners of these clubs often panic and make rash judgements when they feel that they may be about to fall off the gravy train. Retaining their PL status was seen as the only priority. Leicester City would not have been facing financial meltdown or administration unless there has been financial mismanagement taking place on a massive scale.

[Sidney1st]

I don't think our players would be brave enough to suggest to the board that they sack Dyche.

[KefkaClaret]

I don't think our players would be brave enough to suggest to the board that they sack Dyche.

We don't have many egos in the squad to be fair. Leicester have Vardy, Schmeichel etc.

[BabylonClaret]

Anyone who's paid more than simply a passing interest in Leicester's form this season isn't surprised by this. They've been abject now for months. Easily in the worst 3 sides I've seen at the Turf. The media has kept fawning over them as they stuttered along and it's only in the last couple of games that MotD has actually realised they're a complete and utter pile of cat arse. Now they're all "oph - what's gone wrong? and the analysis of h"this is what they did last season" "this is what they did this season".

They had a good year last year. But everything feel for them. Clearly, you don;t win a league by being lucky but the fact (as others have said) that the key big hitters last season failed to get going (Utd, City and Chelsea) meant the only other contenders were Arsenal *cough* perennial bottlers, Spurs *cough* team of losers, and Liverpool (enough said) and effectively didn;t put any pressure on a leicester side already starting to wobble in Feb. Similar to our first promotion - we deserved the playoff win but by heck some things fell into place for us - reading's spectacular end season collapse in form and belief and bizarre Bikey gifting us a 1-0 lead in the playoffs, cardiff dropping out of the playoffs (they'd have bounced us over 2 legs) and Dean deciding Kyle Walker going down twice weren't pens int he final (one certainly could easily have been given).

They've been awful - started oki but chose to prioritise the Champions League in the knowledge that they'd easily avoid relegation no probs - hmm lost again? no matter - plenty of time yet. he didn;t get even a half decent Kante replacement, or look at his defenders - not even in January when it's been clear Huth and morgan have been bobbins. That's management, not players making those decisions and for that reason alone he'd need a strong looking at.

It's hard on Ranieri but what else could the Club do? Just accept relegation? It's the only possible thing they could do if they want to avoid relegation because with Ranieri in control they were finishing bottom. Leicester look a set of arses for doing this but we knew they were anyway so I'm more surprised people are surprised they've behaved like arses!!

[Yearofthefox]

Jamie Vardy is one of the biggest snakes there, overrated arrogant asshole

[Shore claret]

I've been told by someone who knows one of the Leicester players dad's, last year ranierei told Shakespeare you run the team I will take a back seat. This year apparently he said I will run the team. The players didn't take to well to it.

[KRBFC]

I've been told by someone who knows one of the Leicester players dad's, last year ranierei told Shakespeare you run the team I will take a back seat. This year apparently he said I will run the team. The players didn't take to well to it.

He made promises with players too and didn't stick to them. That's one way to ''lose a dressing room'' and eventually your job when the players you have p*ssed off refuse to pull their finger out for you.

[Rileybobs]

Bump. Doe anyone still think that this wasn't the correct decision?

[Sidney1st]

Luckily it has been for them.

Part of me feels its a bit of a shame that it has worked out as the performances since proved the players weren't performing for him.

[Rileybobs]

Yeah, would have been nice for them to have dropped. Goes to show though that sometimes you've got to look beyond sentiment.

[Wile E Coyote]

clearly the right decision, seems odd on the back of a momentous winning campaign that they would plummet, but the dismissal has turned their fortunes.

[Lord Beamish]

They'll win the League again next year.

[Sidney1st]

They'll win the League again next year.

Part of me wants to see them win the champions league, just for the reactions of the fanboys of the so called elite clubs.