Ranieri should have job for life

It doesn’t make for good reading.

No league win in 2017, 17th in the Premier League, five wins all season and looking every bit a side who will get relegated.

If you look solely at these facts then you would imagine the manager of said club is under pressure.

And that’s the reality for Claudio Ranieri at Leicester City right now.

The Italian is being scrutinised following his team’s dismal display against Swansea and he even had the dreaded ‘vote of confidence’from the board.

Usually, what follows that statement is a swift sacking.

However, the fact Ranieri is even in the running for the sack race is a complete disgrace.

Whilst everyone analyses the Premier League table from top to bottom and goes through Leicester’s results with a fine tooth comb they neglect to mention the upcoming Champions League last 16 fixture.

Leicester City will play Sevilla next week for a place in the last eight of Europe’s premier competition.

You might need to read that sentence twice for it to truly sink in.

The fact Leicester City are in the Champions League is the second biggest reason why Ranieri shouldn’t even have to defend his position as manager.

The biggest reason is how they made it to the Champions League.

The last 16 in Europe is an achievement Leicester fans could only dream of pre-Ranieri.

Bear in mind this was a team who miraculously survived in the 2015-16 season.

Leicester are a team who should be looking just to survive every year.

Ranieri lifted this team to a Premier League title.

A team who had no right to even think about finishing in the top four.

A squad full of players plucked from obscurity or told they weren’t good enough elsewhere.

For that achievement alone, the man deserves a statue outside the King Power Stadium.

Any discussion of this sacking should be quashed under the aforementioned statue and never be seen again.

If you offered any Foxes fan in the world the chance to win the league, get to the last 16 of the Champions League but get relegated the next year they would take it in a heartbeat.

Ranieri deserves a statue outside the stadium