Leicester City: Another FFP Victim

[razörist]

Hmmm, too bad, shock therapy might work for Leicester, I was and still am really hoping they go down. Ranieri deserves to run the club into the ground based on heading them into their most glorious period in their history. Thats not how it works though, when you're so close to relegation, change is needed. Mourinho was the closest thing Chelsea will ever have to a legend manager, Abramovic still kicked him out.

Please get relegated, foxes!

 

[turkish gooner]

Hope not. They can go down to the Championship where they belong.

but they still have a chance to win champions league

 

[Ewarwoowar]

Oh how the mighty have fallen,, last season was bull****, they are no longer getting away with the diving and brutal challenges of that season, all a big PR stunt, the most damning evidence was the media hoodwinkery such as having some thai monks blessing and signing Fox shirts,

because apparently the path to enlightenment for these monks is via the Kingpower stadia, Filbert street, Leicester LE2 7FL, such ******* cringeworthy stuff really!


There is Talk of Roberto Mancini, hope He knows the **** He'd have to work with.

 

[Makingtrax]

Oh how the mighty have fallen,, last season was bull****, they are no longer getting away with the diving and brutal challenges of that season, all a big PR stunt, the most damning evidence was the media hoodwinkery such as having some thai monks blessing and signing Fox shirts,

because apparently the path to enlightenment for these monks is via the Kingpower stadia, Filbert street, Leicester LE2 7FL, such ******* cringeworthy stuff really!


There is Talk of Roberto Mancini, hope He knows the **** He'd have to work with.

Spot on mate. People saying Ranieri was brilliant but couldn't adapt this season give the managerial role far too much credit. People can't get past this.

Ranieri had exactly the same team team bar 1, his main strikers were still in place, same league, same teams against him, same country, same weather, same owners, same pitch, same supporters. He didn't need to adapt. Get a good replacement for Kante and play the same. Drop a couple of places at the most.

But no, it went belly up. Why, because the manager is not the f***ing be all and end all. They had loads of luck last season, 10 times the number of goals from penalties as Arsenal, no injuries, refs buying into the dream and not punishing them for rough challenges or even hand ball in the box like Wes Morgan's at Norwich, a streak of lucky 1-0s. Last season was bullshit.

All that was never going to happen again, they in fact have sunk this season to where they were the season before with a different manager.

 

[Jury]

Wengers just been unlucky to be an average of 14 points off the top for 13 years in succession.

 

[OG J0E]

Shocked to see Makingtrax turning this whole thing into a defence of Wenger

 

[Makingtrax]

Wenger should just been unlucky for 13 years.

How's he unlucky. He's finished near the top for 20 years, above his squad cost every single one of them

 

[Jury]

Shocked to see Makingtrax turning this whole thing into a defence of Wenger

Clear as day. It doesn't even make sense. He'd try and turn the desecration of a fox on a motorway into a defence of Wenger ffs!

 

[carlito'sway]

Oh how the mighty have fallen,, last season was bull****, they are no longer getting away with the diving and brutal challenges of that season, all a big PR stunt, the most damning evidence was the media hoodwinkery such as having some thai monks blessing and signing Fox shirts,

because apparently the path to enlightenment for these monks is via the Kingpower stadia, Filbert street, Leicester LE2 7FL, such ******* cringeworthy stuff really!


There is Talk of Roberto Mancini, hope He knows the **** He'd have to work with.

Apparently the players went to the club's chairman behind Ranieri's back to push for his firing.
I guess they will need a lot more monks and prayers to stay up now.

 

[Rimaal]

I'll never forgive Wenger for the 15/16 transfer window that led to us conceding the league to Leicester. 10 Million was the spend. 10 points behind Leicester is how we finished the season.

 

[Ewarwoowar]

Apparently the players went to the club's chairman behind Ranieri's back to push for his firing.
I guess they will need a lot more monks and prayers to stay up now.

Ungrateful ****** who will pay for the Pizzas and Pastas now?

 

[Jury]

How's he unlucky. He's finished near the top for 20 years, above his squad cost every single one of them

Obviously very very lucky.

 

[Kobi]

Clear as day. It doesn't even make sense. He'd try and turn the desecration of a fox on a motorway into a defence of Wenger ffs!

tbf that's unlikely to be have been Wenger's fault, he would be driving with a leetle bit the handbrake on.

 

[Makingtrax]

Clear as day. It doesn't even make sense. He'd try and turn the desecration of a fox on a motorway into a defence of Wenger ffs!

It's you who turned this thread into Wenger, I was actually discussing yesterday's desecration of a fox

Oh the irony.

 

[DanDare]

To sack in between home and away CL legs where they got an away goal is bizarre. I understand the rationale in avoiding relegation but very weird timing.

 

[Makingtrax]

I'll never forgive Wenger for the 15/16 transfer window that led to us conceding the league to Leicester. 10 Million was the spend. 10 points behind Leicester is how we finished the season.

Careful @Rimaal, you'll be telling us next that it's money spent that correlates well with finishing position.

Hope things are getting better for you btw, after a rough few days.

 

[CurryFlavoured]

Spot on mate. People saying Ranieri was brilliant but couldn't adapt this season give the managerial role far too much credit. People can't get past this.

Ranieri had exactly the same team team bar 1, his main strikers were still in place, same league, same teams against him, same country, same weather, same owners, same pitch, same supporters. He didn't need to adapt. Get a good replacement for Kante and play the same. Drop a couple of places at the most.

But no, it went belly up. Why, because the manager is not the f***ing be all and end all. They had loads of luck last season, 10 times the number of goals from penalties as Arsenal, no injuries, refs buying into the dream and not punishing them for rough challenges or even hand ball in the box like Wes Morgan's at Norwich, a streak of lucky 1-0s. Last season was bullshit.

All that was never going to happen again, they in fact have sunk this season to where they were the season before with a different manager.

You sound bitter as **** Probably because last season was a massive opportunity lost for Arsenal and Wenger.

Just because they've gone tits up this season doesn't mean that last season wasn't an incredible achievement by Leicester and Ranieri. That you think it was all down to luck really shows how bitter you are - it was mainly a combination of a team and manager playing way above themselves and major rivals underperforming. Every side (especially one's near the top) will get a decision here and there, but off the top of my head I can't remember many clearly wrong calls in their favour. I'd put money on you keeping quiet about Gibbs clear red card, Sanchez handball goal or Koscielny's last minute handball/offside winner when we achieve our magic #4 spot. The only reason last season was bullshit was because it doesn't fit in with your graph.

 

[Makingtrax]

You sound bitter as **** Probably because last season was a massive opportunity lost for Arsenal and Wenger.

Just because they've gone tits up this season doesn't mean that last season wasn't an incredible achievement by Leicester and Ranieri. That you think it was all down to luck really shows how bitter you are - it was mainly a combination of a team and manager playing way above themselves and major rivals underperforming. Every side (especially one's near the top) will get a decision here and there, but off the top of my head I can't remember many clearly wrong calls in their favour. I'd put money on you keeping quiet about Gibbs clear red card, Sanchez handball goal or Koscielny's last minute handball/offside winner when we achieve our magic #4 spot. The only reason last season was bullshit was because it doesn't fit in with your graph.

Never bitter, always striving for a bit of humour in here

When an outsider wins a horse race you can describe it how you like, 'an incredible achievement' if you want. But we all know it's because the horse get's lucky. Otherwise it wouldn't be an outsider ffs

And do you know what, the next race it loses and why is that, because it's an outsider.

And non of that has anything to do with the trainer Jesus wept give me strength.

 

[CurryFlavoured]

Never bitter, always striving for a bit of humour in here

When an outsider wins a horse race you can describe it how you like, 'an incredible achievement' if you want. But we all know it's because the horse get's lucky. Otherwise it wouldn't be an outsider ffs

And do you know what, the next race it loses and why is that, because it's an outsider.

And non of that has anything to do with the trainer Jesus wept give me strength.

Did this horse accumulate enough points over a 38 race season to finish above 19 other horses? Did the horse win by a 10 point margin, having beaten top quality horses multiple times along the way? If so, I'd say he was a pretty justified winner, regardless of his odds at the start of the season!

 

[Makingtrax]

Did this horse accumulate enough points over a 38 race season to finish above 19 other horses? Did the horse win by a 10 point margin, having beaten top quality horses multiple times along the way? If so, I'd say he was a pretty justified winner, regardless of his odds at the start of the season!

You're missing the point. Leicester's odds were long for winning the league, not for an individual game.

38 games is not a large statistical sample. Particularly if the ref gives you a chance for a free goal in 13 of them. Think Arsenal scored one penalty last season.

Football is a lot more complex than horse racing that's for sure. The principle of odds, and how they work, is the same though, whether it's football, racing, stock market or in the casino.

Long odds rarely occur and short odds do so more frequently. Ranieri was never going to change that basic law of mathematics. He fluked a win one year. He was always going to fail this year and revert to where they were the year before. It's simple,

Ranieri was on a roller coaster he couldn't control ffs. Just like Wenger whose on a different roller coaster.