Claudio Ranieri set to make SHOCKING retirement U-turn with reports linking Italian to AS Roma

Claudio Ranieri returns from retirement to lead AS Roma after roller-coaster start to season with just three wins from 12 games.


Claudio Ranieri set to make SHOCKING retirement U-turn with reports linking Italian to AS Roma

Claudio Ranieri, image courtesy: X

Football can be a funny sport, and at times, the twists and turns it provides, they would leave anyone baffled. In one such shocking turn of events, Claudio Ranieri, the former Premier League winning manager with Leicester City, has made a startling U-Turn on his retirement and has joined Serie A stalwarts, AS Roma.

The proceedings were shaken up big time at AS Roma after they had a shaky start to the Serie A campaign. With 12 games in, they find themselves in the 12th position with just three wins and four draws.

Their shocking start to the season has already forced them to let go of two of their managers, one of them being club legend, Daniele de Rossi, while the other was Ivan Juric. Despite speculations of the club reconciliating with de Rossi, Claudio Ranieri was announced as the latest manager.

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Ranieri brings with him an immense wealth of knowledge and experience from Serie A, the Premier League, La Liga, and Ligue 1, having managed top European clubs and winning historic titles, such as his legendary 2016 triumph with Leicester. The Club extends its best wishes to him for this exciting new chapter in his career, confident that he will be an invaluable asset to the team and to all of AS Roma. Forza Roma and welcome home, Mister!

AS Roma said in an official statement

Roma was linked with quite a few big names featuring the likes of Chelsea icon, Frank Lampard and European championship winning coach, Roberto Mancini. However, his former pedigree with the Foxes, followed by his brilliant reign at Cagliari that saw them waddling to safer waters in the 2023-24 season, made AS Roma take a call which involved Ranieri coming out of his earlier announced retirement.

The statement by AS Roma also paid tribute to the fact that Ranieri has formerly donned the club’s jersey in the 1973-74 season and has formerly coached the side twice once from 2009 to 2011 and in 2019. Consequently, he knows the club’s values and is also one of the most revered club personalities across the globe.

Claudio Ranieri has to uplift things at AS Roma

After being appointed as the manager of AS Roma, Claudio Ranieri took to the press and said that if there are two clubs in the world that he would have come out of retirement for, they would have been Cagliari or Roma.

He was startled by how much love the Friedkins (Roma’s American owners) had for the club, and he was all set to do what has to be done in order to uplift the club from the current ordeal.

Claudio Ranieri
AS Roma, image courtesy: X

The ongoing season has seen AS Roma hit a descending stride and there has been barely any momentum whatsoever for the team. Their last two games in the Serie A have seen them slump in both, with defeats against a numerically depleted Verona and Bologna. A double strike from Stephan El Shaarawy saw Roma fighting, but it wasn’t enough to topple Bologna.