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Are there any more examples like Leicester on the modern football era?
Manchester City
A true rags to riches story
Based 1. FCK.
http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=ger/news/newsid=2249508.html
Greece in Euro 2004
Kaiserslautern won the season after promotion.
>>66748017
>A true ragheads to riches story
deportivo 2000
wolfsburg 2008
montpellier 2012
>>66748045
Hello Melbourne City fan
Kaiserslautern invented meme magic.
Rehhagel carried the meme magic to Greece.
Ranieri stole the meme magic and gave it to Leicester.
>>66748029
It says there that they finished fourth a year before they got relegated in 1996. And FCK has tradition.
PEC Zwolle
>>66748034
still makes me mad
fuck those hairy bus parking fucks
São Caetano almost won everything back in the early 2000s
they had money though, heavy sponsorship by a home appliance company
>>66748053
Deportivo was a decent clube in the turn of the century.
>>66748065
>'meme' magic
>not king power
Boavista, Kaiserslauten, Blackburn
In Serie A it's been since Hellas Verona in 1985 that a massive underdog won the league
>>66748034
That was huge, but winning a tournment with one month duration... It can happen. A league on the other hand...
Will Leicester's tactics work in Europe?
Marcel Koller with St. Gallen. Narrowly escaped relegation in 98/99, mostly signed players from the second division in the summer. Won the league in 99/00, only team other than Basel or one of the Zurich teams to win it this millennium, and it was their first league title in almost a century. They also knocked Chelsea out of the CL the next season.
>>66748097
Boavista was a top tier team in that time. Not a huge surprise. Braga could have done the same a few years back, it wouldn't be that much of a surprise.
>>66748010
we (real sociedad) nearly won the league against the galacticos
sadly meme magic abandoned us
>>66748108
Tactics - yes.
What won't work is their reliance on opponents missing sitters every game and only using 14 players.
>>66748108
no, everybody knows lester tactics by then and only gegenpressing could help us.
>>66748415
>everybody knows lester tactics by then
Everybody has known their tactics for months. How has that worked out for Leicester's opponents?
>>66748097
That Blackburn team was one of the first to buy the league tbf
There's been Montpelier in France
>>66748017
Mester
>>66748118
Idk m8, breaking the top three in Portugal seems like a once in a century thing
>>66748069
If they'd won a title it'd be pretty based, now they have just become Twente's replacement
There's the reverse Leciester by Chelsea this season. Spend 15 trillion over the last 10 years, be favourites, crumble, sack manager
>>66748010
Rostov
>>66748428
Leicester have been making gradual, subtle changes throughout the season as their circumstances have changed
>>66748080
>spic league
No thanks
>>66748010
Paris st germain
>>66748428
this
Fatto was moaning yesterday that the drilled the Sunderland centre backs all week to not let Vardy go. But they did eventually.
Teams get tired and it only takes one mistake if Leicester can stay solid at the back.
>>66749014
Like what? They barely ever change their starting XI, they always sit deep and narrow in a standard 4-4-2 and launch counter attacks by having Drinkwater pass it long into outside channels or Kante/Mahrez run with the ball forward.
They played that way 90% of the time. Knowing what tactics the other team will use doesn't make it that much easier to stop them.
Gretna
>>66748010
I would say Blackburn but they bought their way to success when Leicester didn't
Nottingham Forest
>>66749168
Yeah that's a good shout
San Lorenzo when (somehow) they won Libertadores
>>66749159
I've always loved Blackburn Rovers crest. Reminds me of an old school Armored Core crest.
>>66748045
Good ol Australia
>>66748017
>yfw lester wins the premier League right after stevie g leaves
Real Club Deportivo La Coruna* from A Corunha (The name is too much fun to say.)
F.C. Kaiserslautern in 1997
*Deport wasn't exactly a shit club though.
What Exactly Is A Leicester ??? A Plastic Club ? A Club That Relies on PEDs, Longballs And Luck ? Imm Struggling Here Boys. Leicester Is Not Saving Football Its Killing It
Considering where they are now
>>66749343
>schteve
Alaves in 2001 in the best football match ever.
Fuck you forever Liverpool, die in a fire.
>>66749159
>implying every player on Leicester was not bought and paid for as opposed to developed from semen and eggs in the local academy.
>>66748117
Koller is literally GOAT
>>66749188
wasn't the president of San Lorenzo some billionaire owner of a TV company and in bends with Kirchner?
>>66749796
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, don't bring up facts to San Lolrenzo fans
>>66749546
King and Schlupp were.
The rest are misfits that nobody wanted and Leicester got on the cheap.
When Twente won the Eriversidie or however you spell the Dutch league
>>66749832
define cheap. I doubt anyone at glorious clubs like Leeds would call what the Foxes have spent on players "cheap."
>>66748108
It'll be enough to get to the knockout stages but Kante and Mahrez (if they stay) wont be enough to stop a big club from running all over them nonstop. They also need a second striker to replace Okazaki who's decent but not CL ready. Vardy is CL ready but he only has a few seasons left in him
>>66749579
>>66749188
That was the worst libertadores final I've ever seen
I still miss those 4 hours or so
>>66749832
Last Five Seasons Transfer spending by Club in the EPL:
# Net Spend last 5 Years Purchased Gross Sold Nett Per Season
1 Manchester City £472,800,000 £159,300,000 £313,500,000 £62,700,000
2 Manchester United £432,700,000 £144,400,000 £288,300,000 £57,660,000
4 Chelsea £475,959,000 £277,250,000 £198,709,000 £39,741,800
3 Liverpool £354,100,000 £190,770,000 £163,330,000 £32,666,000
5 Arsenal £258,625,000 £154,600,000 £104,025,000 £20,805,000
6 West Ham £120,600,000 £22,000,000 £98,600,000 £19,720,000
7 Newcastle £164,500,000 £68,150,000 £96,350,000 £19,270,000
8 Stoke City £88,550,000 £24,100,000 £64,450,000 £12,890,000
9 Sunderland £121,430,000 £59,550,000 £61,880,000 £12,376,000
14 Leicester £64,000,000 £8,650,000 £55,350,000 £11,070,000
10 Norwich City £88,425,000 £35,650,000 £52,775,000 £10,555,000
11 West Bromwich Albion £74,750,000 £24,509,000 £50,241,000 £10,048,200
15 Crystal Palace £74,635,000 £25,900,000 £48,735,000 £9,747,000
12 Bournemouth £47,750,000 £3,700,000 £44,050,000 £8,810,000
15 Southampton £179,100,000 £142,850,000 £36,250,000 £7,250,000
16 Aston Villa £123,850,000 £90,200,000 £33,650,000 £6,730,000
17 Everton £122,700,000 £89,316,000 £33,384,000 £6,676,800
18 Watford £40,650,000 £16,800,000 £23,850,000 £4,770,000
19 Swansea £87,675,000 £78,160,000 £9,515,000 £1,903,000
20 Tottenham £254,650,000 £308,350,000 -£53,700,000 -£10,740,000
>muh Leicester doesn't spend money
>>66748017
Man City was always one of the biggest teams in England. They were just spectacularly shit for a long time in the 90s/00s
Leicester is a minnow team relative to Man City. Apart from winning the League Cup a few times they've done precisely fuck all. Man City have won all the domestic competitions and a European trophy back in the 60s.
Herfolge BK, a club from a town of 7,000 souls, won the Danish championship in the 99/00 season. Their head coach was Arsenal legend and Euro '92 final goalscorer John Jensen.
The following season, Herfolge finished second to last and were relegated.
Today, the club doesn't exist at the professional level, having merged with Koge BK. Herfolge Boldklub Koge are currently mid-table in the Danish second tier.
I guess there's a meme or two there.
>>66749939
>net spend
t. spurs 'fan' who forgot about Bale
>>66749859
Kasper - 1m
Fuchs - Free
Morgan - 1m
Huth - 3m
Simpson - 2m
Mahrez - 350k
Kante - 5m
Drinkwater - 1m
Albrighton - Free
Vardy - 1m
Okazaki - 6m
>>66749859
I'd call the third or fourth lowest wage bill in the division cheap.
>>66749975
>Man City were spectacularly shit in the time when Leicester were playing in europe
Chile
>>66749939
>14
>10
>11
>15
>12
>15
>>66749939
> Last 5 years
> Including Sven Goran Eriksons' shit show
Literally all of Sven's signings are gone except Kasper.
>>66749939
>bottom of the table english teams spend more than our top clubs, still can't do shit in europe
lel
>>66750099
Because they overpay for shitters who only look good in the Portuguese and Dutch league whereas poorer clubs have to use scouts to buy cheaper.
>>66749859
they mostly spend on youngsters their main squad is cheap as fuck
>demarai gray 3.5m
>kramaric 7m
>amartey 5m
>>66750099
They get about 100 million every year in TV rights money. That's more than the biggest clubs in my country are worth.
Swansea could literally just buy half of the Eredivisie if they wanted to, every year
>>66749806
Sos amargo quemero boludo
>>66748097
Verona has a team? everyone I knew around the area were AC Milan fanboys
>>66750214
>not knowing Hellas and Chievo
What do you watch on a sunday?
>>66748010
Montpellier in french Ligue 1 in 2012
Even if it was before P$G, there was way bigger teams than them
>>66749939
>poocastle
>>66750282
When I was a kid in Italy I watched the 10 govt. channels the us govt. provided. Now I'm back in the US I just watch mls, premier league, or the national team, but this month it's going to be hockey since the hometown team is doing well.
>>66750355
How about Lens...they won sometime in the 1990s didn't they?
>>66750355
wasn't it the first season of P$G?
iirc this is what made it even better
>>66748017
I dont know if you intentionally meant it but you made a funny about ragheads.
>>66750043
that was just pure Suda americana corruption on the refs part. South American soccer is WWE tier.
