Despite all the mounting pressure and increasing disappointment of this season, the owners of Leicester City have decided not to fire Claudio Ranieri — not yet at least.
Claudio Ranieri is still Leicester City’s manager — for now
Despite Leicester falling from title winners to relegation battlers, they’re keeping their manager for the time being.
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Even though their team is teetering on the edge of the relegation zone, club ownership has decided that stability is the key right now rather than change, especially with a Champions League round of 16 tie looming. They feel that the season can still be salvaged, and that Ranieri is the man to salvage it.
Whether or not that’s true is a matter of some debate, but Ranieri was certainly a massive part of why Leicester shocked the world and won the Premier League a year ago. It’s understandable why they wouldn’t want to walk away from him just yet, but his margin for error has to be all but gone at this point.
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What to watch on Tuesday (click for listings, all times ET)
DFB Pokal: Bayern Munich vs. Wolfsburg (2:45 p.m.): Wolfsburg need something, anything, to break in their direction right now, and bloodying Bayern’s nose in the DFB Pokal again sounds like just the thing to get their spirits up.
Serie A: Roma vs. Fiorentina (2:45 p.m.): Roma have won six of their last seven, but with a few flat performances recently despite the results and with Napoli surging, there’s a sense that they need a big, emphatic win over Fiorentina to stay in the Serie A title race.
Copa del Rey: Barcelona vs. Atlético Madrid (3 p.m.): Barcelona have probably already won this tie thanks to holding a 2-1 aggregate lead and two away goals after the first leg, but if Atléti have proved anything over the last few years it’s that you can never count Diego Simeone’s side out.
Ligue 1: Paris Saint-Germain vs. Lille (3 p.m.): PSG find themselves in the unfamiliar and uncomfortable position of having to chase for the Ligue 1 title, and they really, really need a win over Lille so that Monaco don’t get a chance to pull away.
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