Why would Benitez go to Leicester when he is all most certain to get promoted with Newcastle?
Why would Benitez go to Leicester when he is all most certain to get promoted with Newcastle?
He does love a good Champions League run though. If he wins it, they get to defend it next season.
yep, fascinated to see who they have lined up.
I hope they get relegated.
A shame. He's a good man in a ruthless business. Good luck to him
I rarely say this about clubs but I hope they go down now after that. Disgraceful way of treating Ranieri after all he achieved for them, those players are a joke.
Definitely, but the higher ups within the club need to do something right now. They can purge these nasty bastards at the end of the season if they're still shit, but at this point, with relegation potentially looming, it's easier to bin Ranieri and hope the squad respond well enough to a new manager, than to give him more time with a side that wants nothing to do with him.
I had the misfortune of reading about this on Goal.com. The story about Ranieri was immediately followed by 'What Honey Boo Boo looks like today is jaw dropping'. Twats.
You might be onto something...
It doesn't mean Leicester should go down with the ship. Last season was as much of a freak for Claudio as it was for Leicester.
Would Ranieri even stay if they got relegated? He has to take his fair share of the blame for this mess
How has the next manager for them any hope of staying for long?
He might be a good man but he really isn't a good manager. Last season very much an exception and not the rule.
Disgusting. I hope they win their next game then lose the rest.
No doubt the self entitled cnuts. Now they'll figure out how shit they are
So baffling. These rumours have gone on a while too.
For arguments sake, whats better?
1. Leicester get relegated with Ranieri. Build a new team in the Championship and come back up the following season with renewed spirit and some new players.
2. Leicester sack Ranieri. Hire a new manager at a difficult time of year when only managers without a job are available or stick an interim manager in to see out the season. Stay in the Premier League and spend the next few seasons sacking a manager every year and doing a Sunderland year in year out.
Relegation isn't the worst thing that could happen to Leicester. Not being relevant any more is far worse.
1. Leicester get relegated with Ranieri. Build a new team in the Championship and come back up the following season with renewed spirit and some new players.
2. Leicester sack Ranieri. Hire a new manager at a difficult time of year when only managers without a job are available or stick an interim manager in to see out the season. Stay in the Premier League and spend the next few seasons sacking a manager every year and doing a Sunderland year in year out.
Relegation isn't the worst thing that could happen to Leicester. Not being relevant any more is far worse.
It's probably the right decision, even if the timing is odd, and he arguably could have gone sooner.
It's absolutely brutal though.
It's absolutely brutal though.
This!
Hope they get relegated and never come back.
Point one turns Leicester into point 2 anyway?
People said the same thing of Villa yet there's a real danger they could fall down the divisions themselves.
Victim of his own success? If this season had happened last year we'd all have been surprised about him keeping them out of the bottom 3 for so long imo. Have to remember what people's expectations were in summer 2015
Utterly disgraceful and will certainly take something away from what was an absolutely fantastic achievement and the nostalgia in years to come.
It's still fecking well fecking Dick
So, that's it, after the first title in 120 years, so long, good luck?
The thing is, the team is made of dross and they are exactly where they are supposed to be. The title made them forget that.
they must have an immediate replacement lined up to sack him at this stage. I guess they have looked at Swansea and Hull and seen the difference changing the manager has had. I haven't a clue who they'd go for though. The premier league survival is in their own hands, they've a punchers chance still in the CL.Job could be a good cv boost for someone
One plus is that Jamey Vardy won't be throwing won't be throwing a party
This. It looks like they've seen what the rivals are doing and hit the panic button.
Did you hear the Burnley fans the other week?
"So feck of Jamey Vardy, you've had your fecking party, you're going down, down, down"
I've seen Spanish clubs keeping their manager even until they got relegated just because he got them up from segunda to primera. And we aren't know as a patient country for coaches. The English case is just maddening and this very instance just appalling
Yup, exactly.
They might do better to look at Crystal Palace and see how hard it is to get a bunch of overpaid egos playing well when they can't be bothered.
"They are a company with no respect for their employees acting fickle in making decisions. An example of this was the shocking dismissal of Leicester City Football Club manager Claudio Ranieri who after helping gain the club's first league title was then sacked less than a year later by the owners. [4]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Power
Ranieri's biggest mistake at Leicester was over achieving...
The board must really think they are a top 6 club.
Last season was a freak, and he's now paid the price for it.
I hope they go down
The board must really think they are a top 6 club.
Last season was a freak, and he's now paid the price for it.
I hope they go down
Like I say, the stakes are too high - you can't simply cross your fingers and hope for the best.
The players aren't working for Ranieri. They haven't been for a while. They're sinking like a stone.
The result against Sevilla was more encouraging, but there is nothing to suggest there will be an upturn in form in the league.
That's assuming Ranieri could build a new team and make them competitive again. He didn't buy well in the summer.
To be honest, this might actually be a blessing in disguise for Ranieri.
They looked a big possibility going down, but the reaction on here and in most places is the decision was a bad one.
If they go down now, it will be viewed as not Ranieri's fault.
They looked a big possibility going down, but the reaction on here and in most places is the decision was a bad one.
If they go down now, it will be viewed as not Ranieri's fault.
What type of upturn do you expect? Look at their roster, they lost the only good player they had and also think about the expectations in August 2015. If anything Ranieri should have left the club because he is far better than that lot.