Bookmaker stops taking bets on Ranieri

Will Hill have stopped taking bets on Ranieri taking over at Man City. The Italian refused to confirm or deny reports he is set to become the new boss, saying he is currently in charge of Parma but he would one day like to manage once again in England.

Interesting. IMO he'd be a good appointment. He ain't a top class manager but he's in the class just below that

He was evens the other day.

It will be great to have him back in England.

A classy, classy guy - just didn't have the ultimate killer instinct.

Won't have much of a squad to tinker with, though .

Bad news, I really like Ranieri.

With £50m in his pocket it would be interesting ot see who he buys ! He spent twice that amount at Chelsea but i think on the whole he spent it very well on the likes of Gallas, Cech, Gudjohnson and Robben. Plus he spent time working to bring through youngsters, not afraid to give them a place in the first team....like he did with Zola at Napoli, Mendieta, Albelda, Angulo and Canizares at Valencia.

Would be a terrible appointment, even with plenty of spending money. Yeah, he's a nice guy, you can't begrudge him any success, but, in truth, he's pretty hapless. Especially disappointing, considering the talk of van Gaal, who could have revolutionized the club from top to bottom in my view.

waft the hapless youthr wrote:Would be a terrible appointment, even with plenty of spending money. Yeah, he's a nice guy, you can't begrudge him any success, but, in truth, he's pretty hapless. Especially disappointing, considering the talk of van Gaal, who could have revolutionized the club from top to bottom in my view.

Have you not seen the job he has done with Parma without spending any cash ?

Yeah, and fair play to him, like I say, you can only wish the man well. I just think he is a largely incompetent coach, which is why more than 1 club has been willing to pay him millions of pounds to relieve him of difficult positions.

waft the hapless youthr wrote:Yeah, and fair play to him, like I say, you can only wish the man well. I just think he is a largely incompetent coach, which is why more than 1 club has been willing to pay him millions of pounds to relieve him of difficult positions.

He didnt win the league with Chelsea bu the did very well with them, alway improving on league positions season after season, he lay the foundations for Mourinho to build on. He built a good team at Fiorentina, taking them up and then doing wll in Serie A. His first time at Valenica as very good building a great team and guiding them to the CHamps league. The only time he didnt do that well was his last spell at Valenica when he got sacked and they were still 6th when he left which is hardly awful, losing 9 out of 36 games. He was a bit unlucky cos Di Vaio, Fiore and Corradi were decent players when he brought them in it was just a case of Italian players not really suiting La Liga and due to their cost it didnt look good.

I do think he can be a bit indicisive but i do think he is a very good manager and would be a good appointment.

Very good Premiership level manager. Not the next class up unfortunately (which is a shame because he seems a nice man).

better then the naive Pearce

poiuy1 wrote:better then the naive Pearce

Lets be fair, Pearce will probably be the first to admit he doesn't know it all.

He would have made the judgements he felt were correct, hes an honest guy.

He had some positives, he bled through good young players and gave them opportunities, its of no surprise to me that he created a solid defence but lacked the guile to create a effective attack.

Perhaps he should have recruited somebody whether be coach or even assistant who had natural attacking instincts.

According to the papers and other news sources its looking like Ranieri will take over at City. With £50m in his pocket how well do you think he will do ?

I wonder who is assistant would be ? id love him to talk Zola back into english football.

Who's giving him £50m?

Kimbo wrote:Who's giving him £50m?

Thaksin Shinawatra when he buys us next week !

Ranieri's record of buying at Chelsea was actually pretty good. Just how he uses them.

Still don't think £50 million would be good enough to break into the top 4, maybe UEFA cup places though.

ranieri should get pearce back as his no. 2 good defensive coach, and an excellent coach but poss not a manager

Parks lives wrote:Ranieri's record of buying at Chelsea was actually pretty good. Just how he uses them.

Still don't think £50 million would be good enough to break into the top 4, maybe UEFA cup places though.

Yeah i agree, it would take something special by Ranieri to get us in the top 4 and to be honest im not even looking for that. I think £50m would create a decent squad that would be pushing for a top 6 place and two good cup runs.

Still it all depends on things like what kind of players can he can attract to the club and how wisely he spends the money. I think there will be a lot of decent players about this summer for decent prices (Mido, Cisse, Ljunberg, N'zogbia etc) and if he can attract the players then we could bild a very good team.

Sgoater1 wrote:

Kimbo wrote:Who's giving him £50m?

Thaksin Shinawatra when he buys us next week !

Bah, sugar daddy team.

You really want the likes of Mido, Cisse and Ljunberg?

Mido and Cisse seem like problem players and Ljunberg is virtually finished.

You have a good base in Issaksson, Richards, Dunne, Distin, Ireland & Vassell you just need 2-3 players who will add to that and maybe one star name.

Parks lives wrote:You really want the likes of Mido, Cisse and Ljunberg?

Mido and Cisse seem like problem players and Ljunberg is virtually finished.

You have a good base in Issaksson, Richards, Dunne, Distin, Ireland & Vassell you just need 2-3 players who will add to that and maybe one star name.

They were more examples off the top of my head but id really like to sign Mido and Cisse, yes they have had a few probs but they also have bags of ability and lots to prove.

Id be looking at bringing in 6 or 7 (possibly the likes of SWP, Yakubu N'Zogbia, Mido or Cisse etc ) to add more depth to the squad, whilst id ship out Danny Mills, Corradi, Dickov, Barton and Dabo.

Yakubu would be a good start.

Djibril Cisse?

I think he is exactly the sort of player City need.

Parks lives wrote:Yakubu would be a good start.

I bet he'd cost a lot....£12m ? but he scores loads and is only 24. With say Yakubu (£12m) and Cisse (£5m) alongside Mpenza and Samaras we would have a great strikeforce and we would still have £33m to spend on the rest of the squad. This just gives you the scale of how much we can improve with £50m to spend, it really would be a massive amount to have.

Yeah, Boro paid £7.5 million, so I'm guessing there'd want a profit. Around £10 - 12 million, especially as Gibson has a fair bit himself.

The thing is he's not been amazing for Boro but he's still scoring between 15 - 20 every season, the same as at Pompey.

Goat, what do you make of the situation now? Claudio seems none the wiser (although that isn't a great indicator), and has distanced himself from the post, and now there's talk of Magath. He, I feel, would be a great appointment, with the ability to restructure the club in the same fashion I'd expect van Gaal to do. If either of the two is appointed, I'd expect big things from City over the next 3 seasons.

In order, I'd want;

van Gaal
Magath
Co
Claudio.

waft the hapless youthr wrote:In order, I'd want;

van Gaal
Magath
Co
Claudio.

Van Gaal is going nowhere tbh.

"Ben ik nou zo slim of zijn jullie nou zo dom?"

Be great to see him on MOTD each week.