O’Neill rules out taking Leicester job and questions players’ attitude

It was a shock decision taken by the underperforming Foxes on Thursday, with many football personalities appalled that he was not allowed more time at the club.

“Yesterday my dream died”, he said Friday in a statement posted to Twitter. “I hope it will happen again, but it will be very hard”.

“I have to talk to my players, we have to fight in every game”, said Ranieri after the 3-1 humiliation against Millwall’s London club in the English Cup last weekend.

From relegation favourites in the summer of 2015, to Premier League champions last season, they’re now in the relegation zone and in the bad books of most football fans after sacking Claudio Ranieri.

Liverpool manager says sacking of Claudio Ranieri the latest in a series of odd decisions.

Leicester vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha said ditching Ranieri had been the hardest decision the owners had made but one they had to take when, with 13 games left to play, there was still a chance of Premier League survival.

Lineker, who famously questioned the hiring of Ranieri in 2015, told the BBC: “I suppose you can explain it in terms of a panic decision and for me a wrong decision”.

Mancini has also taken charge of Fiorentina, Lazio and Galatasaray.

Caretaker manager Shakespeare – assistant under Ranieri – reportedly fell out with the Italian this season, but insists their relationship was always fine. Now I realise it was peanuts compared with what happened to Claudio.

Leicester, with a team of journeymen, cast-offs and previously unheralded players, won the Premier League by 10 points, a feat widely viewed as one of the greatest in all sports.

“But why should players go to the owner, even in this day and age?”

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“You know, I think it is Claudio’s fault because if last season instead of being champion, he finished 12th it would be unbelievable and this season he would be still in the job because Leicester play not to be relegated”. The Foxes need to get some wins, as their next three matches are against top-four contender Liverpool, relegation rival Hull, and top-four contender Arsenal.

“Whereas Leicester were hugely popular with everyone right around the world, to do something like this now I think loses a lot of that popularity”.

“If things are not going well, you sort it out in the dressing room”.