Quote Originally Posted by Divine Wright View Post
This. I previously saw this as a four team scrap for 17th place between City, Huddersfield, Southampton and Fulham.

Depending on how he hits the ground, that might well be reduced to a 3 team non-scrap.

I think it's fair to say that Fulham have a team that under the right manager could be perform better. And I think that Ranieri will have the chops to get this team performing well enough to avoid the drop. They now have a team with some great players and a very good manager. You'd have to say their chances have improved.
It could also be added that in Ranieri's second season at Leicester, they looked absolutely awful and he was bereft of ideas on how to fix things. Something went wrong there, almost as quickly as things had clicked beautifully the season before. Some blame the players, but whatever went wrong, Ranieri didn't sort it out and he paid for it with his job.

He used to like tinkering around with the team when things weren't working. That's not what Fulham need at the moment.

There's the potential for this to go quite badly.