Lippi Will Replace Ranieri - Moggi
Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi claimed he already knows who will be the team's coach next season, and it isn't Claudio Ranieri...
Ahead of Juventus' delicate home match against Napoli tomorrow night, Luciano Moggi has decided to speak out and make some 'shocking' declarations again. According to the disgraced former general manager of the Bianconeri, the team's next coach will be World Cup winner Marcello Lippi, who has already been at the club in two separate, and very successful, stints before.
"I don't think [Claudio] Ranieri will still be Juve's coach next year," he said, "independently from where they end up in the table. His successor will be Marcello Lippi, but the management can't make the same requests they did with Ranieri and then change things along the road, everything would fall apart."
Moggi believes the Juve management asked Ranieri to reach the Uefa Cup at the start of the season, but later they decided that Champions League qualification was the minimum objective.
"I think the current management shows a lack of experience. [Jean-Claude] Blanc and [Giovanni] Cobolli Gigli both knew what the initial objective was, but when the results were better than they expected, they weren't happy, they started getting over excited, which is typical of people who don't know what they're doing," he blasted.
"After that they said the third place was the minimum target and that the Champions League objective could not be failed, and that led to a tense environment which was unnecessary, causing the team to get just one point in three matches."
Danilo Pochini
goal.com
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i hope it is true, but wth boards want to get rid of us from CL while every1 was talking and focusing on CL from the beginning....?