In my last post on this thread I said that I have nothing to do about us signing Ranieri bar supporting him and giving him a chance before my judgment. Yet, there are two essential points that I can't fathom to be honest and need to be clarified. People say that we should give him a chance and they forget or they're trying to ignore two important factors; the age factor and the time factor.
Didier Deschamps is a young coach whose experience is limited, even though he did a great job with Monaco especially in Europe as well as with Juventus. But Ranieri isn't a young coach to say that we should just give him blindly a chance to prove himself. The man has been given dozens of chances in Italy, Spain and England. I'm blatantly not saying that he'll fail with us, but the man has limits, his age and his past experience can't be ignored. On another note, people keep on saying that Lippi is done with Juve, despite the latter is just three years older than Ranieri. And even if he won everything with Juventus, how can we know that he is no longer motivated, how? Comparing Lippi to Alex Ferguson, we'll realise that Alex Ferguson is six years older than Lippi, Ferguson is still motivated though. In my opinion, the motivation point is groundless, and some of us here use it as an advantage to Ranieri just to feel secure about our very near future. Definitely at that old age he's gained a lot of experience. But, in order not to over-hype him, just check his CV.
Another thing; the time factor. The majority of fans who have faith in Ranieri praise him for building good squads to Chelsea and Valencia, a thing which I can't deny. But in how many years? And most importantly what did he achieve with them? I know that we're living a very critical period in the history of Juventus and we should re-build the squad, I've always said that even before Capello's era. But everything has been turned upside down after our demotion. Our primary mission was earning promotion to Serie A as soon as possible and it was accomplished perfectly. Now, we're back to our rightful place and new missions have become a must, otherwise we'd face a crisis which may last years like the period between 1986 and 1994. The first mission should be earning a champions league spot and this is the most important one. Hence, we can restore some of our reputation, but obviously not all of it. What is more, we should convince our opponents before our friends. And don't tell me that you'll be satisfied if we beat Torino 3-0 and get thrashed by Inter 4-0. Our direct clashes with our big opponents should be taken strongly into account. Furthermore, re-building our team shall be our second mission but not the first. In fact, I believe we're capable of doing it.
To sum it up, I'm not against Ranieri, but I don't want the momentum and enthusiasm of the moment to take us too far. Yes, he is capable of re-forming the squad, but this shan't be his primary mission. Quite frankly, earning a champions league spot with convincing and classy performance would be quite perfect.