Ranieri is not as bad as you guys are making him out to be.
and Lampard isn't either.
He defends, can hold on to the ball and can score goals. Sure he may not be worth his price but that is what it takes to get big players especially when trying to bring them to another country and without CL.
Lampard would fit well into our team seeing how he is not a traditional attacking mid we would have the best of both worlds. With Nedved, Lampard, Camo and DP we would have alot of creativity in the team and he would really help out in scoring goals and making space for our strikers by drawing out opposition defenses to try to close him down.
I think it is ok to spend big on some players because 1. we have the transfer budget and 2. we need to send signs that we are trying to be competitive and go back to the top.
also Lampard is not as expensive as ppl make him out to be. sure his salary is high but he can buy out his deal with the Fifa rule so we would infact just us the money we would be saving on his transfer towards his salary.
Ok sure Ranieri did not win anything big in chelsea but they were only a top team for one of they years he coached them (when roman bought them) and sure he did spend alot of money in his last year and did not win anything but it is hard to bring in so many players and automatically expect to win the first year. HE came second in the league to a rediculous Arsenal squad that was built by Wenger for so long and refined. The team went undefeated. Ranieri also made it ot the semifinal of the CL and just missed out on the final.
That is not bad. And his work before Roman bought the team is even more impressive. He was a mentor for Lampard, Terry, Gallas etc. He is the reason Roman bought the team cuz if he did not take them to 4th spot he would have bought another team who were in the CL.
I think if Claudio stay at Chelsea for one more season he would have won the EPL. The season where they came second he had injuries to alot of key players i remeber. Crespo only played 19 games and Veron was having alot of problems with his back. He was playing very poor.
The important thing is with Ranieri we would be competitive, be able to sign big players, develop our young ones and keep pur stars. I think that is in the end what we all want.
He is a good option for us at this time. Not the best but still good.

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