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How did it go so wrong for Leicester?

Rodgers should have been sacked a lot sooner tbh.

In general though, they just over achieved. Although they deserved to win the league, they were helped by all the big clubs being shite and Spurs f***ing it up
 

You could argue that after massively overachieving they've gone back to their 'natural' place

Still find it odd that they appear to have no money, taking out loans etc. I though they were sorted financially with the owner bankrolling them, and even after his tragic and untimely death, his son inheriting the family fortune and taking over?

Maybe the Leicester fans on here know the details @Burlesque @Squirrel ? If it's not too painful to talk about right now?
 
Poor recruitment. Too much trust in Brendan Rodgers. Too many players with their eyes on the exit door instead of playing for their PL future. Got what they deserved.
 
InsomniacAttack said:
They sleepwalked their way into relegation imo. Didn't realise they were in a battle til it was too late.
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This.
Previous 3 seasons were 5th, 5th, 8th.
They weren't doing too badly before the world cup iirc.

Lost their opening 4 games, then turned it round a bit. The next 8 games before the world cup they won 5 drew 1 lost 2.

World cup probably stopped their momentum.
After the world cup they lost 4 in a row.
Then drew one and won 2. They were still probably looking ok at that point, just waiting for things to come good. After all they'd been decent enough in previous years. Board showed too much faith in Rodgers imo and held on too long, because after that brief revival they went 9 games without a win, losing 8 of those 9.
By then they're knee deep in shit and it's the middle of April. Losing mentality and every game high pressure
 
Was it 2 or 3 season going into the final run in they were top 4 only to fall away each time, I imagine they were paying biig wages then not bringing in European money and last summer it looked a mess, still I'd definitely swap our last 10 years for theirs,
 
Should’ve sold the likes of Tielemans a year or so ago and freshened up the team. Now they’re on the verge of breaking FFP and they’ve got 6 or 7 out of contract who they will lose for nowt.

I’d also be staggered if the likes of Vardy have relegation wage reduction clauses in their contracts.
 
Kenna said:
From winning the league to relegated in under 10 years.

It seemed like with the right transfers they could have established themselves in the top 6 after winning the league yet it's all just gone tits up for them somehow.
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Evans Vardy say no more
U gotta grow
 
As a Sunderland fan living in Leicestershire I'm thrilled to bits - their fans had become cocky, expecting them to kick on and become established, their management/owners expected they had done already, now they're back with the reality of a number of clubs (like ourselves, West Brom, Leeds (haha), Norwich etc.) fighting it out between the leagues. Not wanting to sound cocky myself, I would now like to think our management has a plan, a set up and a philosophy that has half a chance of getting us out of that fu**ing spiral, though time will tell.

Leicester will lose Maddison, Barnes, Tielemans plus they have something like 6 or 7 other players out of contract, with no manager and I'm not sure their owners (who reportedly are willing to write of nearly £200m of their debt) are now firmly behind the club as they were under the previous chairman.

Seven years after winning the league, a couple of years after winning the cup, finished 5th two seasons ago and the season before that, 8th last season - this game doesn't half bite you in the arse.
 
That Premier League win was amazing, it tilted the expectations, and unsettled the PL status quo.
For me, I think they expected that to be the rule, rather than the exception and the sacking of Raneri (even though many of us chuckled when he was appointed) was the beginning of the end of a club who grew too big for their boots
 
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