Without a massive injection of Funds to buy players, this team will not win the Scudetto for quite awhile, even with a tip top new coach.
Untrue.
AZ managed to win the Eredivisie with van Gaal. Just look at what Guus Hiddink did with some smaller clubs and countries (dont count Chelsea with it).
A coach is the very foundation of a squad. He needs to be involved with every aspect of the game. He needs to have the guts to change his tactics during games when it doesn't work.
Ranieri just doesn't know how to handle that. He has some sort of 'perfect' tactic in his mind and he always plays the same (very predictable). So when we're losing or drawing at HOME, he sometimes opts for the 4-3-3. The funny thing is that it seems like he actually doesn't know what he's doing, because we are not getting more dangerous at all.
He hopes for the best and for a goal, so he can cry in the media of how he changed his tactics and it worked out all very well.
He is one of the strangest coaches I've ever seen... he's so predictable and his starting 11 and substitutions don't make sense to anyone.
edit:
We would have asked for his sacking a LOT earlier, if it wasn't for some Del Piero magic that got us through the CL group phase.