I Really Wasn’t Shocked With Claudio Ranieri Sacking – Liverpool Legend Analyses Situation

Today Claudio Ranieri bid farewell to the players and staff of Leicester City after being sacked by the club on Thursday morning.

Liverpool then got a goal from Philippe Coutinho, but the game was already out of reach, as Leicester nabbed just its sixth win of the season.

Football is very much a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business, and the club’s decision to relieve Ranieri of his post just nine months after completing the most improbable title run in Premier League history illustrates that point.

The Italian’s exit was widely suggested to have been linked to him losing the support of senior Leicester players including Vardy.

He has struggled to replicate that form this season, however, and Leicester have fallen to 18th in the table and are in serious danger of suffering relegation as defending champions.

Klopp’s side are now plummeting down the Premier League table, but the German can not understand why the same problems keeping cropping up in games.

Cape Town – Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp had little good to say about his side after the Reds crashed to a disappointing 3-1 defeat at Leicester City on Monday.

In contrast to events elsewhere, the warmth between Klopp and his players is evident, his on-field hugs noticeable following every encouraging performance.

“Sometimes players don’t dig in and work hard when they know they’ll be picked each week and there may have been an element of that”, he added.

“Maybe they need an old school type like an a Sam Allardyce or a Neil Warnock to come in and give them a bit of a reality check”.

“It was definitely a case of (being damned if we did and damned if we didn’t) tonight”.

“Sometimes you can get carried away with the warm-up, but there was an intensity about them following the criticism”.

“We base our game on basics; talking, moving, high pressure, high intensity, and it was about going back to basics and causing mistakes”. However, they did gain three points last time out with a 2-0 win over top-four rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

Leicester are now in the relegation zone but a win would take them level on 24 points with 15th placed Swansea.

Asked about his claim that he feels like a villain, Shakespeare said: “I can do nothing about that”.

“Could I do the job?”

I hadn’t even thought about it. Does it faze me? No.

“I’ve not had one problem with the players”.

“I want to be myself because I think people read into that and I think you have to do that in football”. A lot of questions have got to be asked of the owners and of the players.