Can Leicester be relegated?
Discussion
From the start, let me say I hope not. I don't want any team to be relegated (except Utd obviously 
.
After last seasons amazing success everything seems to be going wrong.
Living in Leicester now, I've been amazed to hear some to talk of sacking Ranieri. They feel that he couldn't repeat last season so they should have got someone who could!
They're 2 points above the relegation zone, teams below them seem to be coming into form, there's disharmony in the ranks and they're setting all sorts of records for poor results as defending champions, especially away from home.
I think last season was the result of a "perfect storm" and I didn't expect it to be repeated but I didn't expect them to be where they are now either.
What's going to happen?
.After last seasons amazing success everything seems to be going wrong.
Living in Leicester now, I've been amazed to hear some to talk of sacking Ranieri. They feel that he couldn't repeat last season so they should have got someone who could!
They're 2 points above the relegation zone, teams below them seem to be coming into form, there's disharmony in the ranks and they're setting all sorts of records for poor results as defending champions, especially away from home.
I think last season was the result of a "perfect storm" and I didn't expect it to be repeated but I didn't expect them to be where they are now either.
What's going to happen?
TwigtheWonderkid said:
As long as they finish 11th or lower, thus taking Chelsea's unwanted record that we achieved last season of the worst ever PL title defence! 
Of course it's the worst ever PL title defence! We won the league with a first 11 that cost less the most top six clubs spend on 1 fecking player.Can we be relegated. Yes of course, but we've been relegated before.
Still won the league.
Don't worry though lads - everything looks to be back to normal £££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££
stuartmmcfc said:
"perfect storm"
This is by far the best justification for their championship win that I have heard.I have a soft spot for Leicester having been to uni there and have many happy memories of standing on the kop at Filbert Street watching Brian Littles side play attractive football.
Their fans sung their hearts out at WHL this season although they only had one song ('we know who we are...champions of England that's who we are') as they clearly realised even back then that the wheels had well and truly come off their title defence.
I think Hull and Sunderland are already down, and Swansea will pull themselves out of it, so it will be between Leicester and Palace for the third relegation spot.
I am a Leicester supporter and will admit to being worried after the transfer window closed with little business done and we then lost as everyone below us gained points.
If we need 18 points to be safe then it will be very tight indeed, and looking at the run in I'm struggling to see more than 15.
I think Sunderland and Hull will go down, then it's between Leics, Boro and Palace. Unless we can start to turn things around and find some confidence and form it's going to be a very close run thing.
Lots of people keep likening it to the year before when we were routed to the bottom of the table then went on a fantastic 10 game run. But... we were playing better football then than we are now imo and we weren't getting spanked 3-0.
I have no idea what's going on, there's lots of theories thrown around like Ranieri's lost the dressing room, his tactics are s
t, the players are confused, aren't as motivated, all turned into billy big bks, owners shouldn't have given a fleet of BMW's and big pay rises, etc etc and beyond.
God knows, it's probably a bit of all of them, but the most worrying thing is that nobody appears to know how to turn it around. The players are all clearly massively lacking in confidence which just becomes a vicious circle and we've lost the team spirit that was so evident last year.
Next 2 games could see us in the bottom 3, the Swansea game is crucial but this weekend is a freebie really. Everybody expects us to lose so anything more is a bonus, perhaps takes the pressure off??
I said to my son before the Man City game, "at some point we'll see the real Leicester City, the one from last year". It was the only way to get him to come to the game, and my faith was rewarded. But what I really believe is we are seeing the real Leicester City, it's always been the same, last year was merely the perfect storm of us performing unbelievably and the expected title contenders faltering badly.
Can't take it away though even if we do go down
Oh and to the question regarding Ranieri out? No. I can't really see a decent alternative, and think he deserves the rest of the season to turn it around. If he can't then fair enough make the change in the summer, but if we were going to do it mid-season it should have been in December.
What I would like to see is a more ruthless side to him, and bench the poor performers, Vardy, Drinkwater, Fuchs, Okazaki. We have options in those positions now players are back from Afcon, I'd also like to see Amartey in for Morgan, he's been playing at CB throughout the tournament and Wes needs a rest.
If we need 18 points to be safe then it will be very tight indeed, and looking at the run in I'm struggling to see more than 15.
I think Sunderland and Hull will go down, then it's between Leics, Boro and Palace. Unless we can start to turn things around and find some confidence and form it's going to be a very close run thing.
Lots of people keep likening it to the year before when we were routed to the bottom of the table then went on a fantastic 10 game run. But... we were playing better football then than we are now imo and we weren't getting spanked 3-0.
I have no idea what's going on, there's lots of theories thrown around like Ranieri's lost the dressing room, his tactics are s
t, the players are confused, aren't as motivated, all turned into billy big bks, owners shouldn't have given a fleet of BMW's and big pay rises, etc etc and beyond. God knows, it's probably a bit of all of them, but the most worrying thing is that nobody appears to know how to turn it around. The players are all clearly massively lacking in confidence which just becomes a vicious circle and we've lost the team spirit that was so evident last year.
Next 2 games could see us in the bottom 3, the Swansea game is crucial but this weekend is a freebie really. Everybody expects us to lose so anything more is a bonus, perhaps takes the pressure off??
I said to my son before the Man City game, "at some point we'll see the real Leicester City, the one from last year". It was the only way to get him to come to the game, and my faith was rewarded. But what I really believe is we are seeing the real Leicester City, it's always been the same, last year was merely the perfect storm of us performing unbelievably and the expected title contenders faltering badly.
Can't take it away though even if we do go down
Oh and to the question regarding Ranieri out? No. I can't really see a decent alternative, and think he deserves the rest of the season to turn it around. If he can't then fair enough make the change in the summer, but if we were going to do it mid-season it should have been in December.
What I would like to see is a more ruthless side to him, and bench the poor performers, Vardy, Drinkwater, Fuchs, Okazaki. We have options in those positions now players are back from Afcon, I'd also like to see Amartey in for Morgan, he's been playing at CB throughout the tournament and Wes needs a rest.
Antony Moxey said:
antspants said:
I think Sunderland and Hull will go down, then it's between Leics, Boro and Palace. Unless we can start to turn things around and find some confidence and form it's going to be a very close run thing.
You don't think Swansea are in a relegation fight?Jonnny said:
Has a team ever won the PL and been relegated the next season?
Only side was Man City in 1937-38.A part of me is still unsure whether last season was some sort of fever dream as it still feels so bizarre to talk about them as champions. I'm not taking away from the magnitude of their achievement, but perfect storm is right. If even one of the big six had performed to the level they were capable of they would have walked the league, but they all had their own struggles. Add in a lack of injuries, cup distractions and a fair share of favourable decisions then you have the ingredients for success. They've done very well to get to the knockout stages of the CL, but from the easiest group you could have asked for. Kante was a massive loss, but Mahrez looks like he couldn't care and Vardy has been shown up as the ultimate one season wonder.
Still, the thought that Leicester have more Premier League trophies than Liverpool and Spurs combined never fails to make me smile
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