Will Leicester City win the premier league?

[east-coast-wolves]

I just voted yes. I have a feeling...

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Leicester City are still being investigated by the Football League about their finances when they were promoted to the Premier League. If those concerns turn about to be true they will have cheated their way to the title. Although that doesn't make this year's success any less remarkable, if they were only in a position to do it by foul means it should take some of the kudos away. Cheating is cheating.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ball-league-financial-fair-play-investigation

 

[Deleted Cyber]

Understandably so though really, presided over a home defeat to the Faroe Islands with Greece, managed a lot of big clubs after Chelsea but realistically failed at all of them, other than a little spell at Parma hadn't been involved in a relegation battle (which Leicester were expected to be in) for a very long time, the last one was Atletico Madrid when it was pretty much his fault they went down and that was back in the late 90s. Of course a lot of people have been proven wrong, I don't think anyone dislikes the bloke because he's evidently one of the good guys and always has been, but on the face of it, it wasn't an appointment that made a lot of sense.

If Wolves sacked Kenny Jackett this summer and appointed say, Steve Coppell, no-one would really consider that to be a good appointment, yesterday's man, not done a lot for many years. He might then go on to take us up but that wouldn't mean the concerns at the time of his hiring were wrong.

Ranieri has done brilliantly this season but the vast majority of that squad was out together by Nigel Pearson including the back room team.Pearson is nuts but he saved them last season having got them promoted . In my eyes he laid good foundations. Would have hired him before Xmas here but hey ho

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Pearson without that back room team you refer to is nowhere near as good. They scouted that squad, not him.

 

[Johnny75]

Pearson without that back room team you refer to is nowhere near as good. They scouted that squad, not him.

Indeed Pearson has been very lucky to work with Steve Walsh who recruited his entire squad and Craig Shakespear is an accomplished coach in his own right.

Pearson did not recruit Walsh.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Leicester City are still being investigated by the Football League about their finances when they were promoted to the Premier League. If those concerns turn about to be true they will have cheated their way to the title. Although that doesn't make this year's success any less remarkable, if they were only in a position to do it by foul means it should take some of the kudos away. Cheating is cheating.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ball-league-financial-fair-play-investigation

Reminds me of when they went into adminstration a while back, didn't face any points deductions and ended up promoted back to the Premier League at the end of the season.

 

[Lord Knows]

Ranieri has done brilliantly this season but the vast majority of that squad was out together by Nigel Pearson including the back room team.Pearson is nuts but he saved them last season having got them promoted . In my eyes he laid good foundations. Would have hired him before Xmas here but hey ho

Pearson had Kenny Jackett syndrome, he badly managed many of his players and used weird systems of play. His non use of Danny Drinkwater was a disgrace.
Enter new coach who adds a solid system of play allied to consistent team selection who understand transition play and hey presto a winning formula.

 

[Penk Wolf]

Sky Bet have taken 880 bets from people backing Burnley to win the Premier League. Words fail me.

 

[Donegal Wolf]

Sky Bet have taken 880 bets from people backing Burnley to win the Premier League. Words fail me.

Leicester winning the league is a bookmakers dream scenario

 

[darlowolf64]

Leicester winning the league is a bookmakers dream scenario

Not according to the liar, oops I mean bloke from Ladbrokes on Radio 2 this morning who said that they made a loss on Leicester winning the title as the payout was more than the money they took on all the other teams to win.(The likes of City, United, Chelsea et al)... What absolute bollocks. He also said a decision had been made that the highest odds on offer next season would be 1000/1 as they don't want to lose more money next year :facepalm:

 

[Kenny]

Not according to the liar, oops I mean bloke from Ladbrokes on Radio 2 this morning who said that they made a loss on Leicester winning the title as the payout was more than the money they took on all the other teams to win.(The likes of City, United, Chelsea et al)... What absolute bollocks. He also said a decision had been made that the highest odds on offer next season would be 1000/1 as they don't want to lose more money next year :facepalm:

They will take a hit this season but they will have an increase in people betting on their team for next season.

I think Ladbrookes said a few weeks back they will lose £3m when Leicester win the league and a couple of other bookies said the loses on this win will be huge for them.

 

[babylon]

Leicester City are still being investigated by the Football League about their finances when they were promoted to the Premier League. If those concerns turn about to be true they will have cheated their way to the title. Although that doesn't make this year's success any less remarkable, if they were only in a position to do it by foul means it should take some of the kudos away. Cheating is cheating.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ball-league-financial-fair-play-investigation

Sorry, but I'm not having that. The rules state, if you break FFP you get fined. Effectively letting any team take the risk if they want to. Bournemouth did it, QPR did it, Forest, Blackburn, Leeds and so on. What it looks like they have done is tried to avoid the fine, take away the creative accounting and there is nothing in the rules that stops you getting promoted for breaking FFP. So it's not cheating.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

There won't be that many people who've won at 5,000/1 - the market for season long bets is tiny really. Not many people stick a small stakes bet on and wait nearly a year for it to come in.

They'll lose the bulk from bets in Jan/Feb when Leicester were still about fifth favourites.

 

[Kenny]

It looks like Everton are going to have the easiest game of the Season on Saturday.

Leicester players are seemingly going for a week long bender (also known as doing a Flintoff)

 

[Jolemai]

 

[leedswolf]

I was surprised that odds like 5 000:1 still existed. Especially after the infamous Headingley Ashes Test when Lillee and Marsh backed England to win at some ridiculous long odds.

 

[Kenny]

apparently you could get odds of 4000-1 for the Pope to sign for Rangers last season.

Burnley set at 2000-1 to win the Prem League.

 

[Derby Wolf]

The bookies have been smashed this season, there weren't many bets on 5000-1 agreed but they got arrogant and their odds were crazy throughout the season. It was 1000-1 in October, December 150-1 and even the start of Feb before they beat Man City 3-1 they still had odds at 33-1 which plummeted overnight. The bookies like a lot of people thought they'd eventually fall away and they've been hammered for it.

 

[Donegal Wolf]

You can guarantee one thing this summer, every manager from the Euros to Wolverhampton Sunday League Division 8 in charge of a team of no-hopers will include in their pre-season speech

"if we have the right attitude,we can do a Leicester"

 

[Tony Towner]

Leicester City are still being investigated by the Football League about their finances when they were promoted to the Premier League. If those concerns turn about to be true they will have cheated their way to the title. Although that doesn't make this year's success any less remarkable, if they were only in a position to do it by foul means it should take some of the kudos away. Cheating is cheating.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ball-league-financial-fair-play-investigation

Seems very similar to the Man City Emirates deal with the Sheikhs Uncle. FFP is unfair in my view to teams who's owners put money straight into the club and write it off, for me that should be their prerogative. It has merit to stop charlatans such as those who bankrupted Pompey, but I have no issue with what Leicester, Man City, QPR, Bournemouth etc have done. If it existed twenty years ago we would have failed FFP without even getting any success from doing so.