There is something incredibly wrong at our club at present.After that amazing season we all knew it would be hard,but no one could have predicted how bad we have become so quickly.
We seem to have lost all team spirit and most the players look totally disinterested.Yes we did play a reserve team last night,but it was an embarrassing display,one of several this season,and sadly I cannot see where this will end.
Have heard that there is bad atmosphere at the club amongst players, and find that easy to believe.We are actually worse as a team than when we were at this stage of the season 2 years ago.
The players just don't seem motivated, and sadly this must be down to the manager.I would hate to see him go after all he has achieved, but really cannot see where our next points are coming from.
The Christmas fixtures look difficult,and there are 2 months until our next Champs league matches.If we are in bottom 3 by then,as am sad to say I think we will be, but don't believe our owners will wait,and fear that Ranieri will be gone before that.
Hope I am wrong, but we are quite simply hopeless at present, think he won't be here for next champs league matches.
Will he be here for next round?
posted on 8/12/16
comment by thorneyfox (U5061)
posted 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
Lubo , thats what i said , he will have at least january, champs league not till Feb.
Realise that your team have been far worse than ours for many years, so your experience of this sort of situation must be far greater than ours.
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I can't tell if this is a subtle dig or not
Not so long that we were playing Leicester in League One.
Even if you looked like you were goig down I would try and keep Ranieri. Benitez is showing how much a top coah can do in the Championship at the moment.
posted on 8/12/16
Fully agree with JG.
However, whilst I believe the owners and Ranieri deserve our support, the team looks so bad I do think it's valid to ask the question - is something seriously wrong with the players/attitude.
It is certainly worrying.
posted on 8/12/16
No doubt there is a big attitude problem, Vardy being one of many.
Last years team spirit has gone, too many players think they are better than they are.
Half of the first team should go.
posted on 8/12/16
If you look at the goals we have been conceding, last season the players would have worked much harder on their positioning and then thrown themselves in the way of shots (despite the resultant pain) or at least done enough to put the opposition player off. They simply don't seem to be prepared to work that hard this season, and I was particularly gutted that based on last night our 'reserves' also appear to be afflicted by the same apathy. As long-term Leicester supporters we are used to our team being beaten and on occasions roundly thrashed. We are not used to having a team in which many of the players don't give it their all. We will be bottom by Christmas, just as we were in 2014......but at least then we were full of fight and managed the 'great escape'. UTF.
posted on 8/12/16
I don't think the players have an attitude at all, Vardy was still trying to the last minute against Sunderland.
To me they just have no confidence in the way the Manager is adkinb them to play!
I mean, Schlupp down the right is a p!ss take, you'd think Ranieri was throwing the game.
I know for the Man City game I'll be waiting to see the team Before I post my predictions, that will decide by how many we'll lose by as you can now read the outcome almost before kick off.
I do hope he stays but if they get rid I still believe it will be almost totally his own fault, go back to his initial employment and this is what the pundits expected to happen.
posted on 8/12/16
Talk about TB blinkers.....It is blatantly obvious that the players have an attitude problem. Irrelevant of tactics, formation etc if they didn't have an attitude problem we would be seeing much better performances from them.
It isn't all down to CR as you are quite obviously trying to imply. The players have to take their share of the blame and responsibility too.
Last season the players reaped the praise and adulation when it went right so this season they should expect the opposite based on the performances we have seen so far.
posted on 8/12/16
"I do hope he stays but if they get rid I still believe it will be almost totally his own fault, go back to his initial employment and this is what the pundits expected to happen."
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If only that Premier League victory last season hadn't papered over the cracks.
posted on 8/12/16
comment by The_Dungeon_Master (U4830)
posted 35 minutes ago
"I do hope he stays but if they get rid I still believe it will be almost totally his own fault, go back to his initial employment and this is what the pundits expected to happen."
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If only that Premier League victory last season hadn't papered over the cracks.
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Worryingly it seems he might be a bit of a form Manager, great when it's good but really struggles when it's not so good.
Let's hope the Players help save him, if only Cambiasso was here to tell him what to do.
posted on 8/12/16
I laugh, but frankly I'm struggling to see a scenario that doesn't involve a new manager right now. That's not what I want to happen, but when the players aren't trying on the pitch, what are the owners to do? Would they sit back and accept relegation if and when it came? As many have found out, including ourselves, once you go down there you may not come back for a very long time. If ever.
I spent a while of last night's match watching the Leicester players off the ball as compared to the Porto players. It was just chalk and cheese. The Porto players were alert, looking for space when a teammate had possession, closing down fast when not. Our players took a second to react, didn't get close and didn't give the player on the ball any pass other than sideways or backwards - and sometimes not even that. I find it very hard to believe that what I saw last night constitutes genuinely trying your hardest, i.e. going the extra mile, rather than just going through the motions and abdicating responsibility elsewhere. And most of the team is culpable.
The whole squad needs a new target, a fresh aim. It's more than just firefighting, or continuing as is and waiting for form to return. And I'm at a loss right now as to what Ranieri can say to them without burning a few bridges in the process.
posted on 8/12/16
Ranieri deserves support but is not exempt from criticism which is absolutely merited. We achieved the impossible which will be treasured forever by all of us - but that doesn't mean we should stand around applauding Ranieri as he plays the same formation and out of form players every single week to achieve the same result.
He's currently resembling a world war 1 general, sending men over the top time and again and gaining no ground.
I don't want to see him sacked but let's not kid ourselves that his hands are completely tied. If there is an issue in the dressing room, he needs to get to the bottom of it. If the players aren't performing, he needs to sort it out - these are largely the same players that won the league.
Finally - as JG himself points out, Ranieri is the one who informs the recruitment team what he needs to strengthen the squad. Mendy is a player Ranieri specifically wanted - it's a known fact, he worked with him at Monaco. So if Ranieri doesn't have enough options, it's partly his own fault.