Ranieri - A risk worth taking?
Article by Tom Tolton
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Claudio Ranieri's appointment at Leicester city has sparked mixed reactions with some Leicester fans despite managing top clubs like Napoli, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Juventus, Inter Milan and Monaco. However Ranieri did have a disappointing spell managing Greece and losing to the Faroe Islands.
Ranieri will bring his priceless experience to the club and could possibly help develop Leicester city from a bottom of the league side to pushing for top 10. Ranieri was a big part of helping Chelsea develop into a big club and got the best out of young players like John Terry, Joe Cole and Frank Lampard.
Claudio Ranieri picked up the name “the Tinkerman” from British media because he was accused of over-rotating his squad. When Sven-Göran Eriksson was in charge at Leicester he changed and rotated the squad every different game, he never sent out the same team more than once which affected the team's results and subsequently lead to his sacking. For the last part of last season the team rarely was changed which lead to a string of results that helped them survive and pull of ‘the Great Escape’. Keeping the same team every game and not swapping and changing teams helps gain momentum which helps gather better results.
Ranieri is not a long term replacement and at an age of 63 he may not be around as long as most fans would want and doesn’t fit into Leicester's long term plan. Leicester will need to go through the whole process again to look for another manager when his contract runs out if he is still there when it expires.Ranieri’s objectives will to be to build on last season and finish further up in the league. After that i’m sure the club will move on and look for a manager that will fit into the long term plan and will add stability to the club.
Ranieri is a risk since he has no experience at a lower club level, managing a smaller team is a different type of ballgame altogether so he will need to pick his backroom staff wisely by appointing someone with experience in the Premier league e.g. Steve Clark or the current staff at Leicester like Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh.
In my opinion this appointment is the best the club could have made at this moment in time because he is a big name manager and will attract big names to the club, if he is joined by a good backroom staff then this appointment will be a very good one. He will need time to get use to managing in the Premier league again and will need the full backing from all Leicester city fans, if so i believe he can take this club to the next level which he has shown at other clubs in his long and successful career. But the question is does he still have the passion and desire to manage a team which isn't going to win every game and going to be there and about the relegation spots.
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Claudio Ranieri's appointment at Leicester city has sparked mixed reactions with some Leicester fans despite managing top clubs like Napoli, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Juventus, Inter Milan and Monaco. However Ranieri did have a disappointing spell managing Greece and losing to the Faroe Islands.
Ranieri will bring his priceless experience to the club and could possibly help develop Leicester city from a bottom of the league side to pushing for top 10. Ranieri was a big part of helping Chelsea develop into a big club and got the best out of young players like John Terry, Joe Cole and Frank Lampard.
Claudio Ranieri picked up the name “the Tinkerman” from British media because he was accused of over-rotating his squad. When Sven-Göran Eriksson was in charge at Leicester he changed and rotated the squad every different game, he never sent out the same team more than once which affected the team's results and subsequently lead to his sacking. For the last part of last season the team rarely was changed which lead to a string of results that helped them survive and pull of ‘the Great Escape’. Keeping the same team every game and not swapping and changing teams helps gain momentum which helps gather better results.
Ranieri is not a long term replacement and at an age of 63 he may not be around as long as most fans would want and doesn’t fit into Leicester's long term plan. Leicester will need to go through the whole process again to look for another manager when his contract runs out if he is still there when it expires.Ranieri’s objectives will to be to build on last season and finish further up in the league. After that i’m sure the club will move on and look for a manager that will fit into the long term plan and will add stability to the club.
Ranieri is a risk since he has no experience at a lower club level, managing a smaller team is a different type of ballgame altogether so he will need to pick his backroom staff wisely by appointing someone with experience in the Premier league e.g. Steve Clark or the current staff at Leicester like Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh.
In my opinion this appointment is the best the club could have made at this moment in time because he is a big name manager and will attract big names to the club, if he is joined by a good backroom staff then this appointment will be a very good one. He will need time to get use to managing in the Premier league again and will need the full backing from all Leicester city fans, if so i believe he can take this club to the next level which he has shown at other clubs in his long and successful career. But the question is does he still have the passion and desire to manage a team which isn't going to win every game and going to be there and about the relegation spots.
"Ranieri is a risk since he has no experience at a lower club level"? Three years ago he was managing AS Monaco (a team with a stadium that holds less than 19,000 people) in France's second tier whom he achieved promotion with and then went on to finish runners-up in the top flight. He also managed Napoli who - apart from a brief period at the end of the 1980s - have never been more than a mid-table Italian team (and who, as recently as 2006 were in Italy's third tier). Similarly, Cagliari aren't exactly high fliers.
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