1.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 20:27:45
Never felt more sorry for a sacked manager.

2.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 20:50:04
It is Liverpool related because for the next game, they will all be up for it. Hate to say it, but struggling teams love changing their managers before games against Liverpool.

3.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 20:51:01
Always felt sorry for most but not all.

But in the interests of the club, it is the correct choice.

The stakes are too high and you can't go down.

Cheers.

{Ed001's Note - then they should have changed the players, not the manager. It is them not bothering to try and causing the problems. The board should have made it clear from the start that they backed the manager over the players and this would never have happened. The players are a disgrace.}

4.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 20:54:09
I know they've not been doing that well this year, but did they really expect to be smashing the league again? Ranieri even said himself that survival was priority at the start of the season.

I think this is a bad decision based, but I probably don't know many of the details.

5.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 21:07:36
We'll said Ed1.

6.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 21:14:47
Fantastic post Ed, could not agree more. Best post I've read on this site by a country mile.

7.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 22:29:26
It seems that Premier League winning managers have been very transient employees lately:

Mancini won the league with Man City in 2011-2012. Sacked May 2013.
Mr. Ferguson won the league with Man U in 2012-2013. Retired immediately afterwards.
Pellegrini won the league with Man City in 2013-2014. Left the club in June 2016.
Mourinho won the league with Chelsea in 2014-2015. Sacked December 2015.
Ranieri won the league with Leicester in 2015-2016. Sacked Feb 2017.

Only Pellegrini will still in charge a year after winning the league.

Fancy a punt on Conte to leave Chelsea next season?

8.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 22:46:51
It is absolutely sickening. I can't believe they've done this, it's clear that the players were the ones not turning up. Some of the Leicester players, if not most, should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for their effort in the PL this season. It's clearly not a tactical issue seem to be working fine in the Champions League, they got a good result yesterday.

9.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 22:51:34
He got transfers badly wrong but still crazy how he got sacked.

10.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 23:02:32
I've just posted on the Leicester page how I feel (I'm sure they appreciate it! )
Most people could predict that they would lose their best players after winning the Premier League (Vardy excepted) and losing Kante has been massive to them. We all knew they wouldn't win the League again but they're still in the Champions League going into March and they are still the Champions of England!
Claudio Ranieri is one of the best football managers around and should never have been sacked from Chelsea when he was.
Leicester City are a Championship Club at best and have just proved that they have a Division 2 mentality!
Their next manager will be in the mould of Warnock, Allardyce or Holloway so I expect them to spend the rest of the season scrapping for survival and the TV money but, without Ranieri, they'll be travelling to Walsall and Rochdale on a cold night before long instead of the European nights out their fans relish.

11.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 23:04:58
I feel very very sorry for Ranieri. It's absolutely disgusting the way that man has been treated and as Ed001 has said it's the player's that are at fault. Damien Duff was speaking on Irish TV last night and could not say a bad word against his former boss.

12.) 23 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 23:38:45
I think Walsh was mainly the reason they did what they did last year but its still a shame, unfortunately it was inevitable, yes its the players not performing but that has to be managed and obviously Ranieri cant.

13.) 24 Feb 2017
23 Feb 2017 23:04:58
I feel very very sorry for Ranieri. It's absolutely disgusting the way that man has been treated and as Ed001 has said it's the player's that are at fault. Damien Duff was speaking on Irish TV last night and could not say a bad word against his former boss.

14.) 24 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 00:05:04
It must have been a hard decision for their board tho. Leicester are in massive danger going down this season, Ranieri just couldn't stop the rot and the board had to do something atleast to give themselves a chance to stay in EPL

Now on payers last year ED2 said after Chelsea fiasco. U just can't change the whole team/ players. Its better to bring a manager who can motivate/ get best out of his players that's what his job is.

Now if Leicester stay up in EPL that will be a great decision by their board. If they go down will look bad decision by their board.

{Ed001's Note - it is irrelevant if they stay up or go down, it was a bad decision. About time players were treated like adults and not pampered all the time. Clubs could change the whole team/players and then it would never happen again. It is because they always end up taking the players side that this keeps happening.}

15.) 24 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 00:29:01
Feel sorry for the guy but hardly surprised. Too late in the season to make significant changes to the squad and clearly, a change needed to happen. They were only going in one direction and if they stay up the decision, in business terms at least, is vindicated.

16.) 24 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 08:38:46
Fortunately Ranieri is a great guy and will just shrug it off as "football".
It is a poor decision though.

17.) 24 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 09:08:23
At this point in the season what are they truly able to do? I know that is a multi-layered question but I really think the board have held themselves hostage to the moment and forced themselves to be seen to ne doing something. They should have stuck with him relegation or not. I don't think this is the kind of situation where the players will spark up after the manager has been sacked. They're turning up for CL, but simply haven't been up to it for the prem since week 1. I think they continue their free fall but still have a chance to do something in CL.

18.) 24 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 09:13:36
Surely the reason that the clubs side with the players is due to the players being assets.

You can sell almost any player for a few million, the best players for tens of millions. The best managers in the world can be hired for a tenth of what you get in for selling players.

It's a horribly warped system but as clubs are almost exclusively businesses now I can understand why it makes sense financially to remove the manager over removing a load of players. And unfortunately the bottom line is key for most owners.

{Ed001's Note - short term it makes sense, but long term it just sets the clubs up for more trouble later.}