10) Leicester sticking with a manager they didn’t want It might sound harsh on Craig Shakespeare, but he was never meant to be a Premier League manager. His temporary appointment following the sacking of Claudio Ranieri was supposed to be exactly that, and yet Shakespeare’s impact in his first four games left Leicester’s owners with little choice. You can’t replace a guy who has won every match without piling enormous pressure on his replacement. The mistake was keeping Shakespeare beyond the summer, despite universal misgivings about his suitability for leading Leicester into the new season. Rather than giving a new manager the summer to build a squad and establish plans for the...
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