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24 minutes ago, BoyBlue96 said:

Will Leicester bottle it? If they do I hope they'll relegate. 

They've got some tough games ahead of them. But wouldnt it be great if there was some sort of points they needed to stay up and one of those from North London or Mancs stay out of top 4. devilish-grin_zpstvjjqigc.gif

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The Murderers aint happy

''Same shit, different season.

Lucas has been a loyal servant to this club for a long time and for that he has earned our gratitude, and rightly so. But I sincerely hope he never plays for this club again. ''

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15 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

The Murderers aint happy

''Same shit, different season.

Lucas has been a loyal servant to this club for a long time and for that he has earned our gratitude, and rightly so. But I sincerely hope he never plays for this club again. ''

:cig:

He's their Mikel. :ph34r:

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1 minute ago, BoyBlue96 said:

If I was Ranieri I would feel very, very betrayed after this performance from the Leicester players. 

Definitely!!! Can't pick and choose who play for and it's a bad bad attitude that players seem to have these days. Sod everyone else and the fact under performing could mean going down and all..

Oh Liverpool dear oh dear..beat us..beat City and were tipped to be going with us for the title..beat Spurs and yet can't beat sides who can be so costly..and good!!

 

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Like most football fans I feel sorry for Ranieri but I won't miss that dilly ding dilly dong bollocks. Just watched Harry Kane's interview was tempted to put the subtitles on he sounds like a pissed Jamie Oliver.

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EXCLUSIVE: Premier League clubs set to get sponsors on their sleeves from next season


Top flight sides could make £10m more a season from the advertising

 

BY : JAMES NURSEY
22:30, 27 FEB 2017

 

Premier League clubs are in talks to share a lucrative sponsor on their shirt sleeves next season.

Top-flight clubs will rake in up to £10million more per season from next term from selling advertising space on their shirt sleeves.

Sporting Group International have negotiated with eight clubs to sell an aggregated shirt sleeve sponsorship deal.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/exclusive-premier-league-clubs-set-9928659

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2 hours ago, BoyBlue96 said:

If I was Ranieri I would feel very, very betrayed after this performance from the Leicester players. 

Same happen to us. 

And now we love our players and a lot dislike Mourinho. 

Meh, I still take Mahrez even though he did a Costa. 

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Not surprised with the result. It usually happens when you change manager, Leciester need a jolt and they got it. The first goal especially is typical leciester goal. Vardy made the run even before the pass, not sure what Lucas can do against a much faster player like Vardy 

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7 hours ago, Fernando said:

Same happen to us. 

And now we love our players and a lot dislike Mourinho. 

Meh, I still take Mahrez even though he did a Costa. 

Indeed. I don't know what happened between our squad and Mourinho but my only guess is that Mourinho lost the dressing room and the players dropped him. It's ridiculous in this football world where a manager is under big pressure and the players simply refuse to play well, resulting in the manager to lose his job.

People shouldn't dislike Mourinho. I only dislike him as the ManUtd manager. I liked Louis van Gaal because he always acted like a cunt in press conferences which was pure comedy and that he did great things for Dutch teams like Ajax and AZ and for our national team, but I disliked him as the ManUtd manager simply because I don't grant Manchester United any succes whatsoever. 

The Chelsea fans now hating Mourinho are as childish as the ManUtd fans acting like they've always loved him.

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Liverpool were disgraceful last night, Leicester weren't even that good, they just grafted hard and that's all you have to do against a very poor Liverpool side.

Klopp and that daft stupid grin after the game.....so many deficiencies and so much spending needed on that team.

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10 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Liverpool were disgraceful last night, Leicester weren't even that good, they just grafted hard and that's all you have to do against a very poor Liverpool side.

Klopp and that daft stupid grin after the game.....so many deficiencies and so much spending needed on that team.

Even tho they did start the season well and have to admit had some good spells over the year so far we did expect them to choke in the latter part of season.

We did think Spuds will to tho so we shall see. I hope they stay strong so theyve got no excuses at the end of year!

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On 2/25/2017 at 0:43 PM, DYC. said:

You don't get rid of the manager who 'won' the league with bloody Leicester. Leicester. Last season he could do no wrong and now those same methods aren't good enough for Leicester.

That terrible bunch of players didn't even fight for his stay. Leicester fighting against relegation or simply relegating is perfectly normal. What manager is going to come in and turn things around for them?

As they relegate, I hope Chels snatch up Vardy if Conte is looking for a back-up striker. English, HG, quick, mobile, hard-working. Questionable reputation. He would fit right in.

In my opinion no past success should guarantee a manager's stay, aside from Leicester our CL win was probably the most miraculous thing by a English club since the turn of the millennium (I know we spent a lot of money but we let the team get in an awful state) yet Di Matteo did bad next season and was deservedly sacked.

Is it perfectly normal now? Winning the league and spending £70m should have them in a better position than 17th, no one expected them to retain it but Ranieri had the easiest expectations of a manager defending his crown, don't fuck up too badly and he did.

A couple of post's here by a Leicester City fan on the 606 forum basically explains why Claudio's position became untenable, by the sound of it was almost as bad as the Jose freefall last season without the public lashing out.

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As someone who was really angry when he was sacked and vehemently blamed the players, I'm not pisssed off at all anymore. Even before the game I'd decided it was the correct decision. After learning about what's been going on behind the scenes there was no choice and it was absolutely 100% the correct decision. He dismantled our sports science team, which was the best in the country with the most advanced technology and got rid of the sports psychologist who helped the players keep calm and focus during the Great Escape and also keep our bottle to win the league. Two really very important areas which were integral to our success over the last few years and he gets rid of them. That was enough for me before I heard about everything else. Why do that? 

Ranieri got the tactics badly wrong this season, as Pearson did until our final nine games until he changed the tactics and we started to attack teams. Tactics can make a huge difference as it showed during the Great Escape. How we played last season was how we kept ourselves in the league. 

This season we have struggled to play like that because of losing Kante, the year before we had Cambiasso. We now have Ndidi so it means we can go back to how we used to play but we've had him for two months yet we've been messing around with stupid formations with players out of position and not knowing what they're doing, very questionable line ups, substitutions and tactics. 

He's tried to evolve our style but we're not good enough to play any other way. He's stopped us from pressing and we go out to contain teams rather than win and it's just been awful. We're dangerous when we play with high energy and intensity, defend from the front, put teams under pressure, force mistakes and get the ball forward earlier to Vardy. This style suits us and at the back end of last season teams had sussed us out but it didn't make any difference, we kept on winning regardless. Ok I don't expect us to win as many as we did last season but we'd still do alright playing our style. 

Opposition fans are more pisssed off than we are because we understand our club and well you don't.

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Did you see a lack of effort when you (Man.United) came to the KP? I didn't even though you smashed us again. 

We were in it until you scored and were even the beter team for what the first 20 mins maybe until you switched things around in midfield. Wr fell apart for 15 mins and it was all over but there was nothing wrong with the level of commitment, we tried but we just made really poor mistakes and the tactics were all wrong.

 

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No tactics mate simple as that. The players have been instructed not to press, you can see it in the players, some press some don't, some go to press and then change their mind and it's because they don't know what to do. It's like they feel like they should press but don't because they're trying to play to instruction. We didnt attack either, we just tried to contain teams and not concede but by not pressing we left too many gaps, our defence had been playing higher up the pitch, full backs pushing on getting caught out of position which all meant we've been badly exposed. 

Last night we were on the front foot from the start, putting them under pressure, forcing mistakes, defending from the front. The defence sat deeper and stayed in line and when the full backs went forward players dropped in to again make sure we kept our shape. 

None of this has anything to do with more effort or commitment, though some performances have definitely lacked both, it's not been the case all season. Even in Seville we played with commitment and effort but we were still crap because we weren't doing what we're good at.

 

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He changed everything and no the players didn't take to his new ideas because they're not good enough. We don't have a team of footballers, we know that but Ranieri seemed to lose sight of that and expected us to keep the ball and play like Champions. The problem is we became Champions doing what we're good at so if he wanted us to play like Champions then he should have let them get on with it.
 

His comment about the United game is a good point, also when we went to the KP they matched us in the first half, it was when Alonso scored again they mentally collapsed.

By the sounds of it Ranieri ripped apart the entire blueprint that made Leicester Champions and for that alone he deserved to go.

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