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[Beagle]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39070927
Ranieri sacked. Wonder if he's interested in the huns gig?

 

[Doc Shrink]

Inevitable I suppose.

The guy worked a miracle, but couldn't get near to repeating it.

I didn't expect them to collapse so spectacularly, but I expected the axe to fall this season anyway.

I like the guy. He seems a decent bloke.

Quite a lot of 'football managers' are total arseholes lucky enough to be in a profession where talent is scarce but money is at a premium.
Must be great to be rewarded with millions of pounds of a salary to do a job that frankly doesn't require that much talent. Just contacts, PR, and a bit of showbiz. He seemed to be one of the more decent gadgies.

 

[Beagle]

Inevitable I suppose.

The guy worked a miracle, but couldn't get near to repeating it.

I didn't expect them to collapse so spectacularly, but I expected the axe to fall this season anyway.

I like the guy. He seems a decent bloke.

Quite a lot of 'football managers' are total arseholes lucky enough to be in a profession where talent is scarce but money is at a premium.
Must be great to be rewarded with millions of pounds of a salary to do a job that frankly doesn't require that much talent. Just contacts, PR, and a bit of showbiz. He seemed to be one of the more decent gadgies.

Aye. Comes across as a respectable guy. Never seemed to get carried away with the wankfest and looked like he enjoys the game. Always reminds me of a younger Antonio Carluccio.

 

[AG1337]

Like others have said, it is sad but I can't see how he could have kept his job, Leicester were going down if they didn't change something, they might still do but the manager always takes the fall, never under achieving players.

I sincerely hope they stay up and I am sure Ranieri won't be on the dole too long.

 

[Hibee Kev]

They were well in the relegation zone under Pearson but never sacked him?! Ridiculous expectations now, all because CR performed a miracle.

 

[Greenmachine]

The financial implications for a club like Leicester City of relegation from the Premiership are so massive that their board have panicked and given Ranieri....a modern day football miracle worker if ever there was one...his jotters in the hope that a new face and voice in the dressing room can somehow inspire his badly underperforming players to lift their game and start getting results. The reality is that only one thing matters in professional football, especially at that level...results. You win lots of games you stay in a job, you lose lots of games, you are out of a job. All things achieved in the past are quickly forgotten about when the threat of relegation and all that that entails is so real.

I like Ranieri as well and I'm sure it won't be long before he gets another managers job at another club. He won't exactly be destitute though.