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Fecking disgraceful! Hope they get relegated and I will laugh my **** off. Asking for the manager to be sacked or your not happy if he stays. Cnuts!
 
This Leicester situation beggars belief it really does, really hope they go down now. Ranieri is one of the classiest nicest guys in football and after last season didn't deserve this at all I mean truth be told they're about where they should be especially without Kante
 
Theatre of dreams said:
Fecking disgraceful! Hope they get relegated and I will laugh my **** off. Asking for the manager to be sacked or your not happy if he stays. Cnuts!
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The balance of power in the modern game has gone WAY too far the other way to the players.

I honestly wonder, if Abramovich had stayed with Mourinho, just how much of a cull would of happened at Chelsea this past summer? Now granted he created a lot of his own problems there last year with his own **** poor attitude toward them the worse things got, but it was an equal absolute disgrace how Chelsea's players just stopped playing for him and subsequently the the club and fans. COMPLETELY inexcusable from a professional player. I VERY much doubt he'd of forgotten that if he'd of been there and those that completely challenged his authority within the dressing room and the structure he runs.

All hypothetical but I bet from Hazard on down, there'd of been a BIG clear out this past summer of the major agitators who turned against him if he'd of stayed. And Abromovich would of known that was a distinct probability. Much easier to sack one man than a load of them.
 
I'll be cheering for Hull, Palace and Sunderland for the rest of the season ;)
 
Dcik move by Leicester. Liked them last season, perfect underdog story you see in movies, played out in front of all of us. Never thought i would see something like that in football of today. As much as i still dislike Ranieri for his time at my beloved Valencia and Inter, still felt bad for poor fella after backstabbing from his players, who would be nowhere near where they are today if it wasn't for him.
And if they hire that fraud of a manager called Mancini, whom i hate from the bottom of my heart, i truly hope they get relegated.
 
Tyton said:
Trophy cabinets may be similar, but Liverpool will always be the more prestigious club. They've had Rush and Grobbelaar, and there's nothing more prestigious than men with moustaches.
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I beg to differ what says prestige more than charltons combover
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
The balance of power in the modern game has gone WAY too far the other way to the players.

I honestly wonder, if Abramovich had stayed with Mourinho, just how much of a cull would of happened at Chelsea this past summer? Now granted he created a lot of his own problems there last year with his own **** poor attitude toward them the worse things got, but it was an equal absolute disgrace how Chelsea's players just stopped playing for him and subsequently the the club and fans. COMPLETELY inexcusable from a professional player. I VERY much doubt he'd of forgotten that if he'd of been there and those that completely challenged his authority within the dressing room and the structure he runs.

All hypothetical but I bet from Hazard on down, there'd of been a BIG clear out this past summer of the major agitators who turned against him if he'd of stayed. And Abromovich would of known that was a distinct probability. Much easier to sack one man than a load of them.
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I have to agree with you here. The Chelsea players set a very nasty precedent with what they did to Mourinho. Now every other ******** who thinks he is the second best thing since the coming of Jesus, is gonna do the exact same thing, because hey, it works. I was furious with the players last year. I was behind Mourinho like most of the fans, but first of all I support the club, so that's that.
It's a despicable act, no excuses for it.
 
Lets be honest here, Ranieri will still only benefit by this, has stock has gone up for what he achieved at Leicester and will ultimately end up getting a better job anyway. With Leicester he was only going to ever be fighting bottom half of table and a losing battle from here on in. In a way, him getting out now is probably the right time.
 
Sacked Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has responded to his dismissal, saying: "Yesterday my dream died."

He released a statement a day after being fired with 13 games of the current season to go. Leicester are one point off the relegation zone. But last season Ranieri guided the Foxes to the Premier League title - undoubtedly one of the greatest football achievements ever.
Leicester had been 5,000-1 to win. Reacting to his dismissal, he said: "After the euphoria of last season and being crowned Premier League champions all I dreamt of was staying with Leicester City, the club I love, for always. Sadly, this was not to be."

Ranieri said he wanted to thank his wife Rosanna and his family "for their never-ending support during my time at Leicester". He continued: "Mostly, I have to thank Leicester City Football Club. The adventure was amazing and will live with me forever. Thank you to all the journalists and the media who came with us and enjoyed reporting on the greatest story in football. My heartfelt thanks to everybody at the club, all the players, the staff, everybody who was there and was part of what we achieved. But mostly to the supporters. You took me into your hearts from day one and loved me. I love you too. No one can ever take away what we together have achieved, and I hope you think about it and smile every day the way I always will. It was a time of wonderfulness and happiness that I will never forget. It's been a pleasure and an honour to be a champion with all of you."

Ranieri has reportedly told those close to him that he was genuinely shocked to be sacked. Many pundits and fellow managers have expressed their disappointment at the decision.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said: "I thought last season, when I was sacked as a champion, I thought it was a giant negative thing. Now I realise that it was peanuts compared with what happened to Claudio."
Meanwhile, League Managers Association boss Richard Bevan said the sacking "undermines the profession of coaching".

Sky Sports News Claudio Ranieri: Sacked Leicester City boss says his 'dream has died'


Classy as **** :(
 
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ajt09 said:
Sacked Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has responded to his dismissal, saying: "Yesterday my dream died."

He released a statement a day after being fired with 13 games of the current season to go. Leicester are one point off the relegation zone. But last season Ranieri guided the Foxes to the Premier League title - undoubtedly one of the greatest football achievements ever.
Leicester had been 5,000-1 to win. Reacting to his dismissal, he said: "After the euphoria of last season and being crowned Premier League champions all I dreamt of was staying with Leicester City, the club I love, for always. Sadly, this was not to be."

Ranieri said he wanted to thank his wife Rosanna and his family "for their never-ending support during my time at Leicester". He continued: "Mostly, I have to thank Leicester City Football Club. The adventure was amazing and will live with me forever. Thank you to all the journalists and the media who came with us and enjoyed reporting on the greatest story in football. My heartfelt thanks to everybody at the club, all the players, the staff, everybody who was there and was part of what we achieved. But mostly to the supporters. You took me into your hearts from day one and loved me. I love you too. No one can ever take away what we together have achieved, and I hope you think about it and smile every day the way I always will. It was a time of wonderfulness and happiness that I will never forget. It's been a pleasure and an honour to be a champion with all of you."

Ranieri has reportedly told those close to him that he was genuinely shocked to be sacked. Many pundits and fellow managers have expressed their disappointment at the decision.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said: "I thought last season, when I was sacked as a champion, I thought it was a giant negative thing. Now I realise that it was peanuts compared with what happened to Claudio."
Meanwhile, League Managers Association boss Richard Bevan said the sacking "undermines the profession of coaching".

Sky Sports News Claudio Ranieri: Sacked Leicester City boss says his 'dream has died'


Classy as **** :(
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He is such a nice and classy guy I would say he is pretty close to being universally liked by all fans and that doesnt happen too often. Would like to say I can't believe but sadly I can given the state of the game these days
 
Sacking is shocking, but in all fairness, Ranieri did a ****** job this year. Losing Kante is not an excuse, he had like 100m euro to invest in the squad.

It's easy to say club and players should stay loyal no matter what, but can you imagine if they go down with the champions, whole lot of them on fancy new contracts? That could put the whole club into the deepest pits of ****, as they'd have huge problem balancing the finances.

They were always going to struggle this season, but Ranieri should've done better.
 
Klopp on Ranieri's exit: "There have been a few strange decisions in 16/17 - Brexit, Trump and Ranieri."

 
Tyton said:
Sacking is shocking, but in all fairness, Ranieri did a ****** job this year. Losing Kante is not an excuse, he had like 100m euro to invest in the squad.

It's easy to say club and players should stay loyal no matter what, but can you imagine if they go down with the champions, whole lot of them on fancy new contracts? That could put the whole club into the deepest pits of ****, as they'd have huge problem balancing the finances.

They were always going to struggle this season, but Ranieri should've done better.
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How could he have predicted or prevented Huth and Morgan, who played like an in prime partnership of Vidic & Ferdinand last season, turn into a partnership of something like Titus Bramble pairing up with that Cygan dud that used to play for Arsenal?
What could he have done about how absolutely shocking Jamie Vardy has been this season? Drop him? Mahrez too?

Always easy to blame the manager, and sometimes he is at fault, but in my opinion, he takes very little if any fault at all in this situation. Maybe he could've been a little bit shrewder in recruiting, but that still doesn't explain how all of their performance levels have consistently dropped by like 70% man for man (which was clear in their body language and mannerism, Vardy doesn't chase half the things down as he used to, lacks the grit he had, they were literally our easiest league games this season), he trusted his championship winning side, and boy that was misplaced.
 
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They lost their hunger once they won the league title in my opinion.
I've seen it happen in day to day life. A person works their *** off, gets promoted, throws on a suit and does as little as possible until they end up getting demoted or sacked.
 
Its terrible yes but i 100% agree with the decision to sack Ranieri. Last season what he helped them do was out of this world just something un-real but sentiment aside for one second they are in a real bad way right now. The Leicester board will run the club purely the way they should and that is as a business and if Leicester were to go down it could cripple them. They spent heavily in the summer on player purchases and increasing multiple player wages going down could hurt them hugely. Yes people may say "Ranieri deserved a chance to change it" well for me he was a manager out of ideas. How many times had he openly changed formation in the past 10-15 matches with no good result? Look the players deserve a massive amount of slack here too, they rested on what they achieved last season and that with so many other sides improving significantly they got caught out. As i Chelsea fan i'd love to say its purely because they lost Kante but its not as simple as just that, they need a change and it had to happen.
 
Love the way Chelsea fans are the only ones siding with Leicester, because of the Jose situation last season XD
 
RhQQ said:
Love the way Chelsea fans are the only ones siding with Leicester, because of the Jose situation last season XD
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????

So whats your grand solution? Raineri has clearly lost the trust of his players and backroom staff. Results have been on a constant downward trend with no hope in sight. Raineri also partly assumes responsibility for the poor summer recruitment.

Yes players and managers are also at fault whenever results are bad. But its unfeasible to sack an entire playing squad and I doubt sacking the executives will do much. Only solution is to sack the manager even if he only is partly to blame. I see all this sanctimonious outrage from everyone at Raineri's sacking yet no one can provide a better solution.
 
RhQQ said:
Love the way Chelsea fans are the only ones siding with Leicester, because of the Jose situation last season XD
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Not at all, at the time i wanted Chelsea to sack players instead of Jose however seeing what we have now it was 100% the correct decision. As much as it may be players fault its far easier to sack 1 man than 5-10 players isn't it. Both would have made mistakes and he's clearly lost the dressing room and theirs no going back from that.
 
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