Claudio Ranieri (part 2)

If Leicester win the league, it is the best single achievement in the history of the Prem. Also, Ranieri comes across as a likeable guy.

However, he needs to sustain his achievements to be considered an all-time great. 38 games is no fluke, but he has not had to battle fixture congestion from competing for European glory as well as the Prem. Also, he's been lucky with injuries, suspensions etc. (although to an extent you make your own luck with training methods).

Someone said that Ranieri built the team Mourinho won with during his first term at Chelsea, but Pearson built the Leicester team. Furthermore, some posters have been saying would Fergie, Mourinho, Wenger etc. win the Prem with this Leicester team; flip it around, would Ranieri win the Prem with the current Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea teams? I don't think so. There's a togetherness at Leicester which Ranieri inherited having beaten the drop last season, and one which Ranieri has astutely nurtured.

I like Ranieri & think he is not only a very good manager, but also a very decent person as well.

I also think that Leicester & Spurs have two of the best managers who are genuinely nice people.

Ranieri is a top top bloke & it was a shrewd move appointing him.

By the way I also like the attitude of your owner

It's not just Ranieri that deserves the top credit, the entire club do.

The team, coaches, managers and board have to be credited.

I still can't quite get my head round the fact they're top

Greaves - well said mate - takes a true gentleman to be so gracious, especially when their own team have had such a good season, and could have easily won the League too - Both Leicester and Spurs this year have been a credit to English football

It's just as well we don't have the Spurs manager in charge of us, what with our assortment we'd have been known as the Hotchpo(t)ch team.

FBB - brilliant OP, mate take 5

Ranieri is a class act - a really nice guy and a top coach

It always makes me chuckle when the "....... not had to cope with fixture congestion line is trotted out." The top teams have spent years investing 100s of millions of pounds to cope with that eventually. I would say that's some advantage. We had to play a much weakened team in the FA cup.

And Spurs could quite easily still win the league.

Good article though. I think Ranieri has brought a lot of positive publicity to our club during our run that is unlikely to have occurred if Pearson were still in charge.

comment by Firkin (U19526)
posted 5 hours, 57 minutes ago
If Leicester win the league, it is the best single achievement in the history of the Prem. Also, Ranieri comes across as a likeable guy.

However, he needs to sustain his achievements to be considered an all-time great. 38 games is no fluke, but he has not had to battle fixture congestion from competing for European glory as well as the Prem. Also, he's been lucky with injuries, suspensions etc. (although to an extent you make your own luck with training methods).

Someone said that Ranieri built the team Mourinho won with during his first term at Chelsea, but Pearson built the Leicester team. Furthermore, some posters have been saying would Fergie, Mourinho, Wenger etc. win the Prem with this Leicester team; flip it around, would Ranieri win the Prem with the current Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea teams? I don't think so. There's a togetherness at Leicester which Ranieri inherited having beaten the drop last season, and one which Ranieri has astutely nurtured.
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He's always walking around the city and stops to talk to people and for them to take photos etc, he really is a nice bloke.

We have invested heavily in our sports science and our players get two days off to recover so it's no luck that we don't get many injuries, it's a combination of state of the art technology to aide player recovery and a training regime that works. Suspensions are down to discipline and we are very disciplined and also fitness because we don't need to lunge into tackles. Again nothing to do with luck.

I think Ranieri could have won it with Chelsea because they are still the same team but they stopped playing for Mourinho. Ranieri has our players playing for him and I think the Chelsea players would too. United haven't got the right balance in their team to win it so no I don't think he could have there. Arsenal players just don't have the right mentality and they suffer too many injuries so no I don't think so.

Pearson takes a lot of credit as far as I'm concerned but the whole club deserves credit, it's a lot more than just one man and the players themselves deserve an awful lot of credit for having the right attitude 👍

Interesting to hear about the training methods/rest given to the players at Leicester; they really seem to be working, and 'bigger' clubs should take a leaf out of Leicester's book here.

I agree with you, Arro, that Ranieri might have stood a chance at Chelsea given that his approach is so different from Mourinho's (and the more I read about Conte, the more it seems as though it'll be more of the same). I wonder whether the squad were too tired after Mourinho worked them so hard last year.

Claudio Ranieri-too polite to make a meal out of that disgraceful incident whereby Jamie Vardy was wrestled to the ground when he otherwise would have been clean through on Southampton's goal. On the other hand, there was a great deal of air time and press reporting singling out their penalty claims.