Seemed worthy of its own thread.
He's stubbornly stuck to the guys that won him the title. He lost one of the most important players in the league. Do you fire a guy that did what he did less than a year removed from his triumph?
It's easy to MMQB, but if they had been able to pull off signing Adrien Silva from Sporting they would have had an adequate replacement for Kante, but that deal (Along with the completed signing of Slimani) went right to the wire. They also should have let Vardy walk over to Arsenal. They are now overpaying him to be their 2005 Kevin Millar. Slimani was a freight train last year, but his season has never gotten going because of injuries.Add to that the loss of Kante and it seems they got solved.
I would argue this is already true. A team needs more to compete both in UCL and domestically. Either just flame out in UCL, but compete domestically like Tottenham. Or you end up in LCFC's relegation battle.Eh, Leicester's always going to punish teams that play the high-line defense like Liverpool did yesterday; the Foxes did the same to Man City earlier this season. I'd give it more than a game before deciding if the players just gave up on Claudio.
One thing I did read is that Claudio got them away from the pressing style they played last year because he was worried about the lack of speed from Huth and Morgan in back. They couldn't figure a way to win without that pressing style and they certainly did press yesterday. We'll see.
One dilemma they're not going to escape is that whatever their results through the end of the season, someone in the club is going to look awful. If they play better going forward, then the players will be ripped for not playing well for Claudio. If they don't and end up getting relegated, then the club's going to be ripped for dismissing Claudio when clearly the talent wasn't there after the loss of Kante and the aging of the back line.