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AS Roma Appoint Claudio Ranieri: Saviour Of Rome Or End Of The Empire? (Clip From Q & A Pod)
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After AS Roma decided to appoint Claudio Ranieri as manager of the club for a third time, Nima Tavallaey and Carlo Garganese debate, analyze and discuss what the appointment will entail for the Giallorossi this season and beyond.
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Juna Skovbý's Question on Player Selection
00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome to the Italian Football Podcast. Here we have an interesting question um about ah Roma ah from Juna Skovbý. He writes, um how do you guys think Humels, or how often do you think Humels is effing your rich wife and making your rich watch like a
Speculation on Christante over Hummels
00:00:24
Speaker
cuck? I ask because I can think of no other reason for effing Christante starting as a centre-back head of Humels.
00:00:31
Speaker
Yurich has either the world's biggest beef with Humils, or is certifiably brain dead, or maybe he secretly wants to destroy Roma from within.
Ranieri's Return and Roma's Ambition
00:00:42
Speaker
And his second question is, what do you guys think of Claudio Ranieri to Roma? Personally, while I obviously love Claudio like a non-no,
00:00:50
Speaker
I think it shows a huge lack of ambition and is a clear sign that the season has already been forfeited. At least it will be entertaining when the fraudkins decide to fire him and treat another fan favourite like crap. I can't wait for that. I love the slander names on this pod. like The slander names that people can come up with is just brilliant.
00:01:13
Speaker
Broadkins, Binsaghi. Would you make of that? Binsaghi, Artetanyahu. Yeah, I know. It's fantastic. The slander names that our patrons come up with are just fantastic. Yeah. um Well, first of all, like Djuric, I mean, he's he's been sacked, so there's nothing more to to say on that.
Roma's League Position and Season Outlook
00:01:31
Speaker
and But with Ranieri, it's an interesting way. It depends depends how you look at this. I think if you look at it purely from a footballing point of view for the present,
00:01:43
Speaker
It's not the worst choice in the sense that, like Gianna says himself, this season is already a write-off. It is. is you know If you look at them in the table, they're only four points off the relegation zone.
00:01:55
Speaker
and um they're not going to get relegated, but they're clearly, if you look at the way the squad is constructed, as I've said, if you look at the the what the the ingredients that are lacking, there's no pace, there's no whip in the team, the players, some players can play in one system, some players can only play in another system. Di Barla is pretty much incompatible these days with anybody. um you know is so is This season, that there's no way that Roma are going to going to get in the top four. And you know even getting into Europe won't be easy. um they They should still do that. They should. But I wouldn't say i wouldn't say it's going to i wouldn't say that's a guarantee at all. um So this season is pretty much a write-off. You could argue that there's no point in going out there and trying to hire
00:02:46
Speaker
kind of a long-term coach when the season's already right off. You might as well just see out the season and then try and start the planning now for next season and and get it right. and So that's that's the way of looking at things from a footballing point of view.
Critique of Roma's Management Strategy
00:03:01
Speaker
the The bigger issue, though, and that where this this doesn't look good is the from a management point of view, because Roma have been going on and on about how you know this is a long-term project.
00:03:17
Speaker
how all the decisions they make are for the future, you know especially now that they've come out of all the FFP problems that they had, that they were trying to reduce the the reduce the risk, the the age of the team, and start buying plays that they can build a project around. And then that includes the you know the coach as well. um And Gizolfi,
00:03:40
Speaker
Then you have Gisolfi, the transfer chief, the direct sporting director, basically the guy that's supposed to be in charge of building this future. Not only is he completely completely and sidelined when it came to the choice of Rani area, the new coach wasn't even involved in in the in the process at all.
00:04:00
Speaker
and they they hired an agency to leave it, which is laughable. and But also, we had Gisolfi talking to the media after the after the this the defeat and the sacking of Jurich, saying that that so the next manager would would be, you know, it wouldn't be ah a short fix, it would be a long term manager and he's been completely, in my mind, he's been completely humiliated ah there. He's been made to look like he's, he just made it look like complete shambles and disorganised and no one, you know,
00:04:36
Speaker
there's There's no plan there, and that's the problem. So I think from ah from a bigger point of view, is it it doesn't look good, but from a purely from a footballing point of view, you know I don't think it's the worst, the worst hire for the what road we're on now on the pitch.
Ranieri's Influence on Roma
00:04:53
Speaker
um I agree with everything you said in terms of positive negative in the in the sense of looking at this from this season and beyond and what it tells about um
00:05:12
Speaker
and what it tells tells about how frid how the Friedkin's, how clueless the fraudkin's, as you must call them, are in terms of what how things work at a football club and a football project. um I think you really, really adenbrated a great length there and I've got nothing more to add. But what I will say, Ranieri returning to Roma has also another implication and that is This is a Romani stuff through and through. This is someone who loves that club. He's a gentleman. He is he bleeds Jaloroso.
00:05:53
Speaker
he I can guarantee you the same way that De Rossi after Mourinho, he will make sure that everyone understands what it means to be at Roma, understands what it means to wear that shirt. They will turn up to the Derby fired up. They will turn up to that Derby, which is very important in Rome.
00:06:15
Speaker
um They will bleed, burn for that shirt. And I think they will that he will create he will instill a sense of responsibility um among and at Roma and the Roma players towards the fans.
00:06:38
Speaker
one other aspect of this on a flip side, and I think it's unbelievably romantic.
Ranieri's Return: Romance or Cover-up?
00:06:44
Speaker
ah It's very, very, it's so Italian in a way, you know, it's it's like, you know, you you're in trouble and so you call granddad, you know, it's it's got that feeling over it.
00:06:59
Speaker
um He is non-Roma. There's no doubt about that. He's 73 years old. It's a nice romantic story on the on the the weak. Well, but but that I gotta to say. Yeah, I just gotta say this is the second time the Friedkins tried to hide for their failures by appointing a Roma legend. If they sack Ranieri, I'm afraid there will be violence on the streets.
00:07:28
Speaker
in Rome in an Arantrigoria. I'm not condoning it. I'm saying they need to tread very, very carefully here. If the Ranieri appointment doesn't work out, they can't get rid of him after four or five games like with Yuri Cenderosi into the season. That won't fly. And And I think they're a bit of a coward, the Freakians. They hide behind Roma heroes every single time now to hide for their own. I really like that. That was exactly my point as well. It's the second time they've done it this year that they're kind of, you know, they're, they're placating the mob.
00:08:09
Speaker
the Roman mob, you know, and and they're they're doing it in such a disrespectful way. Like De Rossi is a demigod, Ranieri is his grandad, like you do not touch these things. If they mess with that,
00:08:24
Speaker
you can't do that and i think they're also they've also appointed both of them first dorasi in january from marina and now ranieri because they know they're in summer there's so much anger and the mob are coming for them that it's like well let's appoint dorasi let's appoint ranieri and that'll get them off our back you know that'll protect us but only for a while and then they're going to run here ranieri's there till the end of the season and like i said you know it's there It's a nice romantic story, and but in terms of what it tells us about Roma's long-term prospects, it again tells us that this is an ownership that really has lost it lost the plot a bit and and ah don't know really know what they're doing and they're and they're desperate now.
Criticism of the Friedkins' Ownership
00:09:10
Speaker
Quite interesting that I think poetic that on the week almost to the day that gladiator two comes out you have ah this quite a similar story of a Roman savior or the end of the Roman Empire which one is it? You know it's one or the other isn't it?
00:09:27
Speaker
and uh or maybe both for now i don't know it's uh um yeah right the rome is uh definitely um or the freedkins it definitely feels like it's the uh the end days or the freedkins doesn't it yeah it does and and you know to get all my roman analogies there into what sense i was um it's like yeah but at the same time i just I genuinely hope they leave Rome. I've never disliked an ownership. I can't remember the last time I disliked an ownership as much as I do the Friedkins at Roma. For the way of handling a club as poorly, as disrespectfully, as amateurishly as they have. And Laceria needs a competitive Roma.
00:10:28
Speaker
And as long as these clueless people are there, or or at least until they appoint someone, they give they give the keys like Suning did to Marotta, like Yuva used to have done to Giuntoli, or De Laurentiis to a certain extent, as much as De Laurentiis can give the keys to someone to Giuntoli. They need to do that. Here's the budget. Here are the keys. You run it.
00:10:51
Speaker
and they just run the business side because they are just utterly clueless. And what what's worst is what adds insult to injury is how they have no sense of respect, no sense of understanding, no sense of where they are and what club they've got, which city they're in. They do not understand and they do not care. And that to me is, is worse. So,
00:11:19
Speaker
I just hope one of the two things happens.
Warnings About Treatment of Ranieri
00:11:22
Speaker
Either they appoint someone who takes care of it and they stay the hell away, or they sell the club and good riddance. Because this is just unacceptable. If they, I'm just saying it now, if they treat Ranieri poorly and Sakim after four days or five matches, six matches, ah you're gonna see riots.
00:11:49
Speaker
This is the equivalent of going into someone's home and insulting their family for Ramanisti. This is how they view it. I'm not condoning it. I'm telling you just how it is. This is how it is. You do not do that. You cannot touch certain things in Italian football. And here they are two twice in one year, hiding behind institutions in in in in in in Rama. And for their sake, you better for everyone's sake, I hope it it works out.
00:12:18
Speaker
and because this is just unacceptable. This is totally clueless behaviour by them and and I can't wait until they leave.