Vardy breaks silence on Ranieri

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/feb/25/claudio-ranieris-leicester-exit-a-tale-of-deceit-and-discourtesy?CMP=share_btn_tw

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comment by Nevsaysagoal2city (U5194)
posted 4 hours, 29 minutes ago
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/feb/25/claudio-ranieris-leicester-exit-a-tale-of-deceit-and-discourtesy?CMP=share_btn_tw

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I take far more notice of actual words and expressions and having listened to and watched interviews with Schmeichel, Vardy and Shakey, I'm happy that it's the media trying to stir stuff up. Shakey is an excellent liar if he wasn't telling the truth because he displayed no signs of lying whatsoever.

This sad and embarrassing affair has quickly turned into a lose lose sequence of events.

We have and in my opinion sadly correctly, found ourselves in the position wherein tough men have had to make a tough decision and effect a change at the helm of our club.

Anyone who has seen the total collapse of confidence and the abysmal displays of late from players who are capable of so much better, knows with every match it just gets worse leaving our fate a self fulfilling prophecy of submission of our Premier League status without so much as glimmer of a fight.

I cannot, indeed very few can state with any degree of certainty, claim to know what has happened, but it would not surprise me if the owners made the decision after the appalling Swansea performance, seeing Vichai shaking his head and the look on his face after the final whistle gave the appearance of a man who had had enough. the loss to a team with 10 men, two leagues lower than us in the F A cup won't have helped. I also believe the owners were expecting a heavy defeat to Seville and lets face it the score was a big surprise given Seville's dominance, so set up to do it then which would explain the poor timing of the decision. When we fluked a decent score the owners called the senior players to a meeting and used the answers to justify going through with the plan, quite what was said none of us will know, but I can imagine they didn't stab Claudio, but gave answers to questions that were already evident. This has been misconstrued as stabbing Claudio in the back, which they haven't.

Now here's the 2nd lose, the statement from Vardy, as with all the other statements smacks of an anxious man wondering what sort of reception he is going to receive on Monday, after all there has been much talk of a gang of four stabbing the manager in the back, with the media whipping it up in a frenzy and turning the whole world against the club and this anxiety will manifest in his and the rest of the teams play causing us to lose any shred of confidence that might have been left - No player will dare make a mistake in fear of a crowd/social media backlash, clearly the performance will suffer further causing a heavy defeat and an angry reaction from the crowd against the players and owners, the players will suffer further and the owners could come to another decision that this isn't for them and cause them to reign back their investment or pull out of the club altogether

I really fear for the club in the short/medium term

'....quite what was said none of us will know, but I can imagine they didn't stab Claudio, but gave answers to questions that were already evident. This has been misconstrued as stabbing Claudio in the back, which they haven't.'

This. Absolutely

comment by thorneyfox (U5061)
posted 13 hours, 16 minutes ago
Surely if it was a statement direct from Vardy then it would not be as eloquent as it appears!
Perfect grammar and punctuation.
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If it was written by a PR "expert", then they should be shot for overuse of exclamation marks. It winds me right up does that!

Vardy I don't care if u were sucking his d every night. You didn't perform at all all season while he has been in charge.

No player is going to admit to anything otherwise no manager going to hire them again.
They know what they did and did not do and will have to live with it.
What will be more embarrassing for them if they suddenly become the players again they where last season under CR this will show they wanted the bloke out.
It a bit of lose lose situation as someone said for them.

comment by Champions of England (U21032)
posted 23 hours, 49 minutes ago
It's rumoured the three four players were Schmeichel, Vardy, Albrighton and Morgan.

I can believe the owners may have held a meeting with them and they may well have been honest about what is going on but that's very different to them forcing a meeting and backstabbing him. The former doesn't sell though so it would be no surprise if that was closer to the truth.
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If this is true, Kasper is one fantastic liar. His BBC interview seemed sincere, except for how he said "I have no problem with Claudio".The way he phrased that was a bit odd. It's so sad, because many of us loved Claudio, and were happy seeing him win the PL, what a breath of fresh air and a real dream come true.

Think it's more Kasper steering away from the question than being some engenius liar. Questions have been posed about meetings, criticisms and Kasper has steered it towards having no problem with Ranieri on a personal level. Standard diversion after prepping for any interviews.

Unfortunately it was mentioned to be me (again, irrelevant of this being from a coach at Leicester, I stress it is still technically gossip as I didn't hear it directly) that the owners gathered together the 'experienced' players from the existing regime and basically said 'what's the problem?' - responses basically saying 'we have stopped doing a,b,c which worked and started doing d,e,f which aren't'

Although not directly having a go at Ranieri, not exactly casting him in a good light. I would imagine the press have had similar 'sources' and exaggerated it completely (God forbid!) and thrown in a few 'anonymous sources' (and therefore non-libel) to back up any scandal and create devide.

There was an article today that literally was giving two diverse opinions and asking readers to pick one to side with.

Slightly off-topic, after slating Leiceater and saying we deserve to get relegated for letting Claudio go after he 'delivered' the premier league title to us, just 48 hours after these comments, Paul Merson is going on about us getting Pearson back; his mourning for Ranieri didn't last long!

comment by Keep_the_faith1 (U8129)
posted 7 hours, 26 minutes ago
Think it's more Kasper steering away from the question than being some engenius liar. Questions have been posed about meetings, criticisms and Kasper has steered it towards having no problem with Ranieri on a personal level. Standard diversion after prepping for any interviews.

Unfortunately it was mentioned to be me (again, irrelevant of this being from a coach at Leicester, I stress it is still technically gossip as I didn't hear it directly) that the owners gathered together the 'experienced' players from the existing regime and basically said 'what's the problem?' - responses basically saying 'we have stopped doing a,b,c which worked and started doing d,e,f which aren't'

Although not directly having a go at Ranieri, not exactly casting him in a good light. I would imagine the press have had similar 'sources' and exaggerated it completely (God forbid!) and thrown in a few 'anonymous sources' (and therefore non-libel) to back up any scandal and create devide.

There was an article today that literally was giving two diverse opinions and asking readers to pick one to side with.

Slightly off-topic, after slating Leiceater and saying we deserve to get relegated for letting Claudio go after he 'delivered' the premier league title to us, just 48 hours after these comments, Paul Merson is going on about us getting Pearson back; his mourning for Ranieri didn't last long!
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This is what I've been alluding to. I have no doubt the owners would have asked the players what's going on because it's their club and they want to know. I'd also expect the players to answer honestly and the reality is things aren't working so what were they supposed to say, everything is all good? Of course not.

If telling the truth caused him to lose his job then fair enough, that's very different to the players forcing a meeting and backstabbing him but as I've said before the truth doesn't sell.