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Everyone banging on about this being "disgraceful", a "betrayal", etc. No one said that about Chelsea sacking Mourinho last season, and they weren't doing nearly as badly as we are. The only difference is that Ranieri's a nice guy, for whom everyone has a soft spot.
He inherited a squad (Pearson's) on the best run of form in the Premier League from the season before and worked a proverbial miracle with them last season. That put Leicester in the best position in their history to cement their position as a top flight team - good owners, money, profile, a good squad to build on. And he fucked it up...
He spunked money - Musa £16m, Mendy £13m, Slimani £29m - none of whom look remotely good enough. Yet players with great potential, who are already delivering when they get a chance - Gray, Kaputska - are regularly ignored. It was obvious in the January window that Huth and Morgan are shot, yet he doesn't bring in cover and has only played the far more competent Benalouane in cup games against lower league teams, and sticks Amartey at right back now and again. Ndidi looks like the only decent decision he's made in 9 months.
Yes we lost Kante, the best player in the league last year by a mile (not so much this year), and that's been the excuse offered up week after week. Walsh to Everton was a bigger loss and we might have operated better in the transfer market if we still had him. Ranieri "lost the dressing room" apparently, because the players saw through him. That's the way it works, it seems.
We're one point above the bottom three and we're supposed to keep a manager who's shown week after week that he has no idea how to turn things around? Why? Out of sentimentality and loyalty?
Always a ride with Leicester, in the last ten years my son and I have seen relegation to league one, winning league one at a stroll, a couple of championship play offs (including the most dramatic exit against Watford), completely dominating the championship the following year, the greatest "escape" in premier league history, the most remarkable premier league win, champions league football... It's more than most on here will experience in their lifetime. I wouldn't mind a season of mid-table mediocrity once in a while, though - but that would make us Everton, or West Brom...