Good enough to win the Premier League…but not ready as a squad to compete for another title AND The Champions League. We’ve seen how difficult it can be to fight a season on two fronts without a squad with a uniform quality throughout.
Win or lose on Sunday, how many times have you as a saints fan been to Wembly and an iconic European stadium (San Siro ) in the same season? Just epic.
Head and heart, innit? Head says they looked doomed (or at least fucking close to it) under Ranieri. If you accept that, then changing manager is a no-brainer as they won’t do any worse under the new one. Do it on the basis of a massive bonus for keeping them up and it makes perfect sense. Stay up and the bonus to the manager looks like peanuts, go down and you’ve lost relatively little. Additionally, twelve games (which is the maximum a new man will have) should be enough for a decent new manager to turn things round, at least enough to keep the club in the Premier League. After all, think how things might have ended had Benitez been given a bit more time at Newcastle last season, and their position was worse then than Leicester’s is now.
Heart says it just seems fucking awful. Wrong and awful.
If I’m honest, I’m going with heart here, for all that head has all the arguments.
Yes amazing times for sure. I am not a fickle fan though. I care about Saints, love and hate them all at the same time, but I am never knee jerk, but sometimes realistic in the football world.
Reports in The Times and others that Ranieri was sacked after a group of players went to the clubs owners complaining about him. I bet that little rat Vardy was one of them. Horrible little bastard.
It would be ironic if Vardy was one of them. Ranieri dragged him from journeyman to Premier League and England star in one season. Vardy’s inability to score this season shows self-motivation isn’t his thing.
Absolutely raving nuts decision. Seriously fuck off whoever instigated this, whether it was the players or owners, or both. Rapidly gone from everyone’s second favourite team to one that can now slide back to obscurity as quick as possible thanks, hopefuly being relegated along the way you total shitbags.
Yeah as long us you’re turning up and performing your job getting bad results isn’t really grounds to sack someone in the legal sense, it will be more of a ‘we’d like to terminate your remaining contract, here is the settlement package’. Getting ‘sacked’ is more a media term to ramp up the drama IMO, and rarely accurate unless there has been some naughty shenanigans going on, although that doesn’t seem to apply either in some cases *cough* *Allardyce* *cough* *Redknapp* *cunts* *cough*