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Ranieri to replace Gasperini as Inter coach

Comment: 0 September 23rd, 2011 by: admin

Claudio Ranieri, former manager of teams like Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Parma and Chelsea, has been instated with a two-year contract to replace Gian Piero Gasperini as Internazionale Milano coach.

The announcement was confirmed Thursday afternoon, giving Ranieri a two-day window to prepare the team for its next match.

Armed with management experience tracing back to 1987, Ranieri’s takeover as Inter coach leaves him with a club with 7 winless games since July this year.  Of these games, the club raked in three losses and 1 draw under Gasperini’s management.

His entry into the club came immediately after Gasperini’s exit after merely 5 games as Inter coach.

Reports stated that according to the new coach, the primary task would be to understand the reason behind their horrifying form.

Along with this, he explained, was to bring back the enthusiasm that could reenergize the squad and extract the potential from what has proven to be an incredibly dormant performance.

Following suit to a man whose Inter Milan coaching period lasted three months, Ranieri insisted that he had great respect for Gasperini.

He furthered, saying that the former manager’s failings were not in his vision, but merely in his attempt to execute his ideas and integrate them into the squad.  As such, the manager stated that his process of reinvigorating Inter Milan would involve ‘[making] this team play as it knows how, with all of its strength.’

Another challenge would be the possible comparisons Ranieri will experience with Jose Mourinho, whose time as Inter manager was remembered as a shining and successful period.  Further reports suggest that the new coach will also be facing Inter player who are said to be unhappy with his appointment as manager.

Experts however are dismissing these dangers for Ranieri, with him having had significant experience in similar situations.

‘At Roma he overcame a difficult relationship with Francesco Totti to take his team to teh verge of the title in 2010, famously replacing both the striker and Daniele De Rossi at half-time of a Rome derby in April and prompting his team to recover from a goal down to win 2-1,’ wrote Paolo Bandini for The Guardian.

‘The club had collected zero points from their first two games before he took over, and yet eventually finished just two points behind the champions, Inter.’

Reports indicate that Ranieri’s immediate instalment as Inter coach brings about the immediate need for the club to arrange a visa for the manager’s trip with the team next week for the Champions League match in Moscow.

Ranieri becomes Inter’s 17^th manager in 15 years; furthermore, he become the fourth coach since Mourinho, who left the club for Real Madrid 16 months ago.

This will also herald Ranieri’s return to activity since his resignation from Roma last February.

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