Leicester City 2016/17

[Tubes26]

The Mapei research centre link something I mentioned on here a few months ago. The link only became public knowledge because of an interview in an Italian newspaper. There are rumours that Ranieri also employed the services of Mapei when he was at Chelsea.

I believe they own Sassoulo who, like Leicester, have been performing well above expectations. Mapei have also worked with Juve as did Monaco. The latter when Ranieri was manager.

Here's an example of Mapei's history re doping:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/proof-of-systematic-doping-at-mapei/


Lots of cyclists, who cheated, moved to the Tuscany area or would often travel over from France to get a top-up. It was the doping capital of Europe, as touched upon in David Millar's book, Racing Through the Dark. Rumours (NB mentioned in Millar's book) are that a certain research centre were involved.

Rob Brinded, a 'high performance specialist' worked in strength and conditioning at Chelsea from 2001-07. He suggested at one time that Chelsea were doping during those 6 years. Brinded's lawyer later claimed there was a 'misunderstanding'. Worth noting that Ranieri was at Chelsea at around that time.

It stinks but at least Chelsea stopped United winning the league and Leicester prevented Arsenal being champions.

Thanks for that, I haven't actually read Racing through the dark, but I'm definitely going to asap.

The Chelsea link isn't a rumour. Squinzi has again confirmed that they worked with Chelsea, I'll try and find a link for you. If you follow cycling then you may know the name Aldo Sassi, now deceased head of the centre. He has a brother who is in football, Roberto Sassi, who was at Chelsea at the time. The relationship with the centre was conducted through him, just as Leicester's is conducted through Azzalin.

Ranieri IS Mapei. He had R.Sassi in his backroom team at Fiorentina, Valencia, Atletico, Chelsea and Valencia again. Sassi would have remained Ranieri's link to the centre but by the time Ranieri became Monaco manager Sassi was already employed by Juventus (as part of their affiliation with the centre, and subsequent unbeaten season, record points tally, and multiple titles in a row.) Hence he had to ask them for a replacement partner, and they sent him Azzalin. This is confirmed by an Italian interview with Azzalin who says that he was recommended to Ranieri by the staff at the centre because Ranieri wanted to rekindle his relationship with them. Again I'll try and find a link for you.

I was really hoping for an answer from Linker's Boxers before he leaves about why there has been no mention of any of this in the press? Why is beetroot shots and thai monks given more credit that an advanced sports research centre? Why is Matt Reeves the hero when Azzalin is the real wizard?

 

[Jazzman]

Thanks for that, I haven't actually read Racing through the dark, but I'm definitely going to asap.

The Chelsea link isn't a rumour. Squinzi has again confirmed that they worked with Chelsea, I'll try and find a link for you. If you follow cycling then you may know the name Aldo Sassi, now deceased head of the centre. He has a brother who is in football, Roberto Sassi, who was at Chelsea at the time. The relationship with the centre was conducted through him, just as Leicester's is conducted through Azzalin.

Ranieri IS Mapei. He had R.Sassi in his backroom team at Fiorentina, Valencia, Atletico, Chelsea and Valencia again. Sassi would have remained Ranieri's link to the centre but by the time Ranieri became Monaco manager Sassi was already employed by Juventus (as part of their affiliation with the centre, and subsequent unbeaten season, record points tally, and multiple titles in a row.) Hence he had to ask them for a replacement partner, and they sent him Azzalin. This is confirmed by an Italian interview with Azzalin who says that he was recommended to Ranieri by the staff at the centre because Ranieri wanted to rekindle his relationship with them. Again I'll try and find a link for you.

I was really hoping for an answer from Linker's Boxers before he leaves about why there has been no mention of any of this in the press? Why is beetroot shots and thai monks given more credit that an advanced sports research centre? Why is Matt Reeves the hero when Azzalin is the real wizard?

This is really interesting information, in a really interesting thread full of really interesting information. Thank you for this to everyone contributing. As many have said already Leicesters improvement never was believable. In sports you rarely go from being 2nd class to being champs in such a short space of time.

 

[BooksReject]

This is really interesting information, in a really interesting thread full of really interesting information. Thank you for this to everyone contributing. As many have said already Leicesters improvement never was believable. In sports you rarely go from being 2nd class to being champs in such a short space of time.

Yeah I agree mate. I would love dennis and tubes to put some links in for more detailed reading tbh, but appreciate it may cost Ric thousands and thousands if a bit dodgy!

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Yeah I agree mate. I would love dennis and tubes to put some links in for more detailed reading tbh, but appreciate it may cost Ric thousands and thousands if a bit dodgy!

Tubes knows a lot more than me about the cycling links.
my research has principlly centered upon more easily available info..ie looking very closely at the trail of events since April 2015.It does not add up.at all.from the sacking of Pearson close season, the pre season trip to Austria with no effing manager,the late arrival of canny claudio who had to fly out Austria to join his potential champions,the unbelievably ordianry pre season games v rotherham lincon etc,speaking to folk who were at those games, and the incredible win of the league by ten points with a manger who has never won a tilte beofre in his long career in many diff countries.
In addition, the dramatic turnaround in jamie foxes fortunes. the incrdeible re birth of several other players careers,players who couldn,t get in lower division teams in both this country and others.
A billionaire chairman who stated a couple of years ago we will win the premier league in 5 years( he missed the by ten points bit tho) .
The discovery that leicesters injury total halved just after April 205 and was by far the best in the prem league all last season. incredivle when you think how many of their players game was based on speed. jamie fox is no spring chicken but he had no issues with injury at all, sorry once when he was " out for two weeks" but returned after one,others in the team were also injured but returned remarkably quickly.The bbc did an article on how leicesters injuries were down to an ice machine and beetroot shoots, like these two items were exclusive to the area of Leicester!! Beetroot is said to help all form of sportsmen train and perform better before pyhsical activity, the shoots are even better than the fruits, but these are items available the world over ffs.

The incredible betting odds. Tom Hanks, the us actor claiming he won money on leicester for the title, even tho he was a villa fan. the starlting ref decisions , non stop running of so many players in the leicester team..i mean loserpool have a mnger who makes his players run till they get injured..they didn,t win the league, and were so far behind leicester it makes you wonder..
Loads more thing which just do not add up.
The crazy scenario was for me best summed up by the ffact that the fortunte foxes went on an end of season tour to thailand in may 2015 to celebrate staying in the prem league.
exactly 12 months later they went on nother tour to thailand...to celeberate winnig the league by 10 points.
with no significant new players,no manger all pre season..and no injuries.incredible.

Folk point to Brian cloughs nottm forest and say fairtales do happen.Absolute rubbish.Clough had prev won the league with Derby. he and Taylor took forest up from the old second div and won the league cup and anglo scottish cup after a pre season of being coached by clough and taylor and therefore building up that winning mentality which gave them confidence to take nthe league by storm.signing the wordls best, and most expensive goal keepr also helped them along their way.Cloughs pedigree was such that in December 1978 he almost got the england job(he was turned down the same day forest went to old tafford and smashed them 4-0) canny claudio ,s pedigree was losing to the faroe islands at home .enough said.
We all pay our season ticket money, we all rightly or wrongly judged pellegrini to be a failure last season, we just crept into the champs league spots..we should all be very interested in any suggestion of foul play. I was totally taken in by leicester up until the expose by the times on the doctor and his his revelations..thats when i started to look.

put the above alongside the investigative work of Tubes and you have slightly diff diff scenario before your eyes,IMO.

 

[Manc in London]

Thanks for that, I haven't actually read Racing through the dark, but I'm definitely going to asap.

The Chelsea link isn't a rumour. Squinzi has again confirmed that they worked with Chelsea, I'll try and find a link for you. If you follow cycling then you may know the name Aldo Sassi, now deceased head of the centre. He has a brother who is in football, Roberto Sassi, who was at Chelsea at the time. The relationship with the centre was conducted through him, just as Leicester's is conducted through Azzalin.

Ranieri IS Mapei. He had R.Sassi in his backroom team at Fiorentina, Valencia, Atletico, Chelsea and Valencia again. Sassi would have remained Ranieri's link to the centre but by the time Ranieri became Monaco manager Sassi was already employed by Juventus (as part of their affiliation with the centre, and subsequent unbeaten season, record points tally, and multiple titles in a row.) Hence he had to ask them for a replacement partner, and they sent him Azzalin. This is confirmed by an Italian interview with Azzalin who says that he was recommended to Ranieri by the staff at the centre because Ranieri wanted to rekindle his relationship with them. Again I'll try and find a link for you.

I was really hoping for an answer from Linker's Boxers before he leaves about why there has been no mention of any of this in the press? Why is beetroot shots and thai monks given more credit that an advanced sports research centre? Why is Matt Reeves the hero when Azzalin is the real wizard?

An interesting read. Makes sense to me.

Perceptive that you note Leicester highlighting the beetroot juice nonesense and Matt Reeves but not the real names behind the operation. That BBC article referencing the beetroot juice was clearly a LCFC PR piece in response to the expose in the Sunday Times involving Dr Bonar. The former followed the latter within a week or two.

Going back to Juve, at around the 70th minute of a match against Bayern this year, they had ran, as a team, around 6k more than Bayern. It's not as if one team dominated so you would expect it to be much closer. You have to remember that Bayern are a high energy team. To ran so much more than them, is no mean feat.

I'd recommend David Millar's book. A very good read.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

An interesting read. Makes sense to me.

Perceptive that you note Leicester highlighting the beetroot juice nonesense and Matt Reeves but not the real names behind the operation. That BBC article referencing the beetroot juice was clearly a LCFC PR piece in response to the expose in the Sunday Times involving Dr Bonar. The former followed the latter within a week or two.

Going back to Juve, at around the 70th minute of a match against Bayern this year, they had ran, as a team, around 6k more than Bayern. It's not as if one team dominated so you would expect it to be much closer. You have to remember that Bayern are a high energy team. To ran so much more than them, is no mean feat.

I'd recommend David Millar's book. A very good read.

I thought the BBC article was clearly a PR peice too.rushed out to silence the commotion.
Do you , or any other poster know who was Juventus manager when they had this unbeaten season...

 

[Tubes26]

I thought the BBC article was clearly a PR peice too.rushed out to silence the commotion.
Do you , or any other poster know who was Juventus manager when they had this unbeaten season...

One of the most honest men in football, Antonio Conte.

11/12 was his first season, and Sassi's first with Juventus. They won the title and went unbeaten.
12/13 won the supercup and league
13/14 won the league again, record Serie A points tally of 102

14/15 Allegri took over, won the league again
15/16 5th league in a row, two doubles in a row

 

[BooksReject]

...fucking hell this looks more than a bit dodgy! Why has no investigative journalist dug this out, highlighted it? Has there been a media cover up? Makes you wonder just how deep this goes really.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

One of the most honest men in football, Antonio Conte.

11/12 was his first season, and Sassi's first with Juventus. They won the title and went unbeaten.
12/13 won the supercup and league
13/14 won the league again, record Serie A points tally of 102

14/15 Allegri took over, won the league again
15/16 5th league in a row, two doubles in a row

Wow. Mr Conte.who of course has a shed load of match fixing allegations back in Italy to answer to. The designer boss has escaped any sort of investigative journalism whatsoever.
no one can touch him.
The beautiful game.

 

[T_C]

Lance Armstrong got away with doping for years and he was tested more than anyone. Does anyone know if PL players are even tested?