To tell you the truth I do agree with alot of what you have to say. I never said he is excellent or that he is JUVE level of a coach. But getting him the boat in the middle of the season is the worst call we could even do. Let him finish the season then if you want replace him. I am not a fan of replacing coaches in the middle of the season especially if there is no crisis happening. That is my whole argument.
About buying and selling players, in my opinion 70% of the decision is from the management no Ranieri. I do agree that I didn't like the purchase of Sissoko that much since we need an OM. I also did not fancy the loan of Criscito while we are having a defensive crisis. How much of that was a "Ranieri decision" is somewhat beyond our knowledge.
If indeed he is the main decider in our transfer campaign I would say thank you for your effort but please leave us at the end of the season.
What I respect ALOT about Ranieri is that he is keeping a really positive mentality in the squad, something a sucessful coach like Capello failed to do. He is a coach that is respected by all our players, and this is alone is something good. I am sure that a good deal of keeping a positive mentality in the squad is due to players like Del Piero, Buffon and Nedved, never the less the coach holds a big share himself.
I remember during the Capello periods, there were times when Trezeguet and Del Piero did not celebrate together when scoring a goal, now its back to normal.
I might be wrong, but this is what I think.
I know Ranieri is not the transfer manager, or he is not controlling it, that's the problem exactly. He doesn't have the character to insist on building the squad he want to build, this is why I admired Deschamps for his decision and his action and refusal to not work with idiots like these (the board). Probably everyone knows me here how I stand with the managers until they run out of solutions, but this man doesn't have any solution, he seems everything is going just great, he will sign another defensive midfielder and that way he thinks he built his dream squad already. Come on man can't you see how he is destroying this team? We won't have Nedved next year, and maybe Del Piero won't be on fire like he is now the next season, and he still refuses to sign Van der vaart or Diego, he said Palladino is the one who will take Nedved's role, I don't mind if we rotate Palladino with someone better in that position, but do you seriously think he can fulfill Nedved's roll? Don't you think Van Der Vaart fills that role much better than him?
The problem is not firing him now or at the end of the season, my biggest concern is when we end up in top 4, the board will keep him for another year for that. And this will be huge waste of time, and we will waste loads of money for wrong players, just like we did this year. Not to forget, we will be a big joke in Europe. We should have fired him in January, so the new manager could bring the players he wanted, but sadly these things are all related to results, so firing him at that time or now would seem non-sense, while we will pay for this in the near future heavily..
I say hire one of the best managers out there (I am not talking about the likes of Mourinho who keeps demanding and demanding) that has a character to build and manage a squad he want to, If you asked me last year I wouldn't want Lippi to manage Juve again, but not anymore, I will cut my arm to see him back again, or as a general or transfer manager. WE NEED MEN THAT KNOWS A THING OR TWO ABOUT FOOTBALL..
Fire Secco, Ranieri and Blanc already..