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Ranieri coy on Roma
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Former AS Roma coach Claudio Ranieri remained tight-lipped yesterday amid talk that he could be in line to replace under-fire Eusebio Di Francesco in the Stadio Olimpico hotseat.
The club’s billionaire American owner James Pallotta said he was “disgusted” after the Serie A giant plunged to 14th with a 0-2 loss at Bologna.
The 66-year-old Ranieri led Leicester City to the English Premier League title in 2016, but has been without a club since leaving French Ligue 1 club Nantes last May.
“I am a fan, Roma is in my heart, but I hope that Di Francesco can move forward,” Ranieri told Radio Anch’Io Sport when asked if he would be interested in a move back to his hometown club.
Former defender Ranieri started his senior football career in Rome in 1973 and later coached the club for two years from 2009, just missing out on the Serie A title in 2010.
“That Scudetto we lost in the last half-hour of the final day still burns. I think about it often, although I partly redeemed myself at Leicester,” recalled the former Chelsea, Napoli and Inter Milan boss who has said he is keen to continue in management.
Ranieri believes Roma is paying the price for selling key players, rather than blaming Di Francesco, 49, who took over in 2017 and led the team to third last season.
Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson moved to Liverpool during the summer with Belgian midfielder Radja Nainggolan going to Inter and Dutch midfielder Kevin Strootman to Marseille.
“Di Francesco is one of the best young coaches we have in Italy, for reasons of financial fair play the team has been changed, three players who were the backbone of Rome have been sold,” he said.
According to press reports, Di Francesco has been given two games to save his job, starting against promoted Frosinone midweek, before the city derby against Lazio at the weekend.
Former Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has also been touted as a possible replacement, along with Portuguese coach Paulo Sousa, currently in charge of Chinese Super League side Tianjin Quanjian.
Sousa coached Serie A side Fiorentina from 2015 to 2017.
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