The fans have been calling for him to get sacked for a while.
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Yep, broke their record like 4 times.
13m on mendy ... flop
15m on ndidi ..... flop
16.5m for musa ..... flop
29m for slimani .... good signing but not for that kind of money....
But was Ranieri in charge of transfers? I thought they had a DOF structure?
This is a Torres-size nail in the coffin for my childhood love of football. A little bit of me actually died. Sad!
Yeah I know. We should write about this. Fancy a joint project? I'm not joking.
Yeah you can't say they didn't back him with money though. They made the mistake of buying "unknown" players, much like with West Ham and they paid for it. That's the Suarez money right there.
Lost Walsh to Everton. Stopped finding good buys. No coincidence.
Why did we ever expect football to stay the same forever? Nothing else does.
I'm as disillusioned with it all as everyone else about the sorry state of the game, but it follows the trend of everything else in the modern world -
Less charm, more political correctness, more commercialisation, more broadcast sensationalism, less intellectualism, instant gratification culture, money taking control of everything.
You could argue that all of these things have happened to the world in general AND football in the last 15 years.
I'm as disillusioned with it all as everyone else about the sorry state of the game, but it follows the trend of everything else in the modern world -
Less charm, more political correctness, more commercialisation, more broadcast sensationalism, less intellectualism, instant gratification culture, money taking control of everything.
You could argue that all of these things have happened to the world in general AND football in the last 15 years.
No idea but questions are always going to be asked after spending that kinda money.
I don't really get the outrage over his sacking. He's a journeyman manager who along with everyone else at Leicester was fortunate enough to enjoy a freak success. Two years at a club is what he averages pretty much. Is there any rational argument for keeping him?
Ranieri will always be remember for last year - what he helped lead happens once in a fucking lifetime (if that) ... I guess that gives him nothing in today's game - and I hope we fucking pulverize them and help send them to the championship.
Their transfer record this summer was pretty poor regardless. Have Walsh found any good buys for Everton? His record is looking a bit hit and miss in all honesty.
I'm with you on this one. I don't really get the outrage either.
Maybe I've just come to expect shit like this.
Yes, it has certainly has got less intellectual. Why, I can remember standing on The Kop as recently as 1987, discussing the Baudelaire essay that had been handed out by a Gitane-smoking scally poet to everyone who passed him at The Shankly Gates
I agree with some of this. He's a mediocrity and last season was a total anomaly for Leicester and also him.
But I still think what he did last season should have been enough to give some leeway, even if that may be more about rewarding an unlikely success and displaying some loyalty and decency, as opposed to any rational belief that he would be able to save them from being relegated. Whatever his influence, and however "the stars aligned" he actually WON the title as manager of Leicester City. That should be enough to let him manage there for life, because it doesn't fucking matter who comes in after him, they'll never get near it again.
There's lots of reports flying around that some senior players complained to the owners about him, which is weird if true, given how much responsibility lies with them in the first place, but there was plenty of rumblings about his selection of Musa over Gray in the Seville game, apparently, emanating from the dressing room. Perhaps that was the final straw for the owners.
It will be interesting to see who comes in, and if indeed they have had conversations with Mancini.
I hope they go down.
Me too.
I'm in dude @BarbaRoja drop me a PM
I raised the question if he should have stepped down after last season. He would have left a decent squad and would forever been a legend. Reproducing success is incredible hard and to do so with Leicester is Impossible.
Resigning straight after winning a title in a story that resonated around the football world? That would have been an odd decision.
Not really, considering his age and how many teams he has managed. Winning the title for the first time in his first season with Leicester, it'd have been a perfect 'mic drop' movement.
He's managed in the Champions League before and he obviously knew that Leicester wouldn't be able to replicate that success again.
Yes, in your head.
Now, list me some managers who have won a trophy for the first time and then resigned, because this was a the perfect moment, the pinnacle, and thus could never be repeated; furthermore, any attempt to do so would sully their magnificent achievement and so leaving at this point would make perfect sense.
As for Ranieri "knowing from his experience" that Leicester would not replicate that success by winning the Champions League, well fuck me. How perspicacious of him! Nobody else thought that!
Mind you, Ranieri has been a manager for four decades and had never won fucking anything before last season, so if anyone is an expert on an inability to replicate success, it's him.
Innit
He didn't say who the 4 players are so I don't know what you want me to say to you? He said "4 senior players".
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