The technician will become Senior Advisor of Rome: “Congratulations to Juve for fourth place. Happy to have shocked the boys. The new coach? When he wants, Friedkin will announce him”
Claudio Ranieri’s last one is not worth the Champions League, but it is still applause. The technician, who will be Senior Advisor of the club tomorrow, leaves the bench with another victory that brings Roma to the Europa League to a hair from that fourth place savored for several minutes on a crazy evening. Sir Claudio at the end of the game greets everyone and wants to thank the team: “We fought to the last second of the last day, I’m sorry for the fans and for the faded Champions League but we have given everything and we can only be satisfied. Congratulations to Juve”. Then the farewell after 501 benches in Serie A and many businesses: “I thank everyone for the compliments, I take them because they are pleased. Now I am still loaded, in a few months or year I will think back to my career and I will pull the sums, for now I am still a coach (laughs). On vacation? I think I will now work even more, but I like football and I will do it with pleasure”.
The future
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For the future he warms the Fabregas track, but Ranieri says nothing: “I can only say that the qualification in the Champions League or Europe does not change the choice on the coach. I know that in Rome they are going crazy everyone, when Friedkin will mean the name will tell him. He has to do it”. In fact, since Ranieri is on the bench, the Giallorossi team would be first in the standings. “But it cannot be said the same if we had gone to the Champions League – admits Ranieri -. Certainly the shock was there, the boys were with moral under the feet and for this I had played easy. I gave him back the credibility they deserved but I was lucky because the fans know me and they know that I don’t sell smoke. For this reason there were close ones and they helped us. The boys have given everything. The 4-3-3 because I saw that we had done well in the second half with Milan. “