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Honey Trap: How will Claudio Ranieri's extra affair with the Premier League end?

About two weeks before his 70th birthday and more than five years since winning the championship that was defined as sensational in the history of football, the Italian has returned to the Premier League only because he is unable to stop coaching.

Michael Yochin doubts the possibility that his bell will continue to ring at the Pozzo family's Watford

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Michael Yochin

Tuesday, October 05, 2021, 6:30 p.m.

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Leeds' 0-1 win over Watford (Sport 1)

Claudio Ranieri returns to the Premier League.

who would believe?

Watford is now betting on the veteran fox to celebrate his 70th birthday in two weeks, and here are two key questions.

It's not really clear why Watford needs Ranieri, but even less clear why Ranieri needs Watford.

By common sense, the Italian coach was due to retire after the insane win with Leicester in the 2016 championship.

According to many, it was the biggest sensation in the history of football, and this success can in no way be replicated.

You can't even get close to her.

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Returned to the best league in the world.

Ranieri (Photo: Reuters)

This is a one-time and amazing legend, in which Ranieri played the lead role - the magician who came out of nowhere, took a bottom team with very low expectations, and took it to the top with a style that fit like a glove next to his players. No other coach in the world has done that, and at 65 it could have been the perfect ending chord to a fickle and fascinating career - easy and material when Leicester fired Ranieri back in February 2017, in a very controversial move.

But Ranieri, it turns out, is unable to stop.

He got used to working, and a pension was out of the question for him.

The man who passed before Leicester in Cagliari, Napoli, Fiorentina, Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, again Valencia, Parma, Juventus, Rome, Inter, Monaco and even the Greek team with which he experiences the greatest embarrassment with a loss to the Faroe Islands, longs to continue to travel across Europe And work.

This is his psychological need, and it is impossible to argue with that - everyone has to choose the way that suits him.

But when done, Lester's story becomes conscious over time into one sparkling point in a sequence of mediocrity, and is therefore perceived as accidental.

One sparkle in a sequence of mediocrity.

Ranieri celebrates Blaster Championship (Photo: Reuters)

Ranieri's first two choices after leaving the Foxes have been particularly problematic if one considers the chances of success. He first migrated to Nantes, a former French luxury club that has been abused by owner Valdemar Kita since 2007, which most fans hate abysmal hatred. The Italian's cautious style is not acceptable on the stands in any way, and it was a surprise that he managed to end an entire season in which Nantes avoided bottom struggles thanks to a positive start - and was ranked in the center of the table.

Then came a return to London, where Fulham gave him the reins of a long-term contract, as Slavisha Yukanovich's replacement in November 2018. The club issued a binding statement saying it was a "risk-free appointment", and sincerely believed Ranieri could work a Lester-style miracle.

In practice, football was boring, the results only got worse, and already in late February it was decided to part ways with the Italian when the danger of relegation was very tangible.

Fulham even relegated to the Premier League that season, and Ranieri's short tenure had failed in part because the squad did not fit his worldview - he was built for a completely different coach.

Staff that does not fit Ranieri's style.

Sar and Watford players (Photo: GettyImages, Stephen Pond)

So why does Watford think its fate will be different from that of the 2018/19 Fulham model? For starters, the management speaks Italian - the Pozzo family also controls Udinese, and they follow very closely what is happening in the boot country. There Ranieri had two rather positive terms. As a ardent fan of Rome, he agreed to sign in its ranks for a short time in order to stabilize the ship, and wept along with the crowd that sang his name. In October 2019, he joined Sampdoria who sank below the red line, saved it from relegation, and marched it to ninth place last season. Disagreements with owner Massimo Ferrero prevented the contract from being renewed - and in any case Ranieri likes to roam. He became addicted to new experiences and new thrills.

In the summer, his name was linked to a number of Italian teams, but according to journalist Fabrizio Romano, Ranieri was waiting for a different kind of challenge, and he has now arrived in the form of Watford.

Unfortunately, this could quickly degenerate into a Fulham precedent - not only because the unbalanced squad would not fit Ranieri like at Craven Cottage, but also because the club as a whole is constantly suffering from instability.

A bit odd, but alongside a very reasonable management of Udinese, Watford is behaving disgracefully, changing coaches with dizzying frequency, and no strategy is noticeable even in the medium term.

He too experienced a fate similar to that of his predecessors in Wasps.

Ivica (Photo: GettyImages, George Wood)

Since taking over the Wasps in 2012, the Pozzo family has replaced 13 coaches, three of whom were Italians - Zen Franco Zola, Giuseppe Sanino and Walter Mazzari. Oscar Garcia and Vladan Ivic arrived there after the adventures at Maccabi Tel Aviv, while Yukanovich worked there before reaching the Yellows, and was surprisingly fired after promising to be promoted to the Premier League. Now the Spanish coach Cisco is experiencing a similar fate, and developments over the past year show how sharp the changes in direction at Watford are.

Ivica, the tough boss who succeeded at PAOK Thessaloniki and Maccabi Tel Aviv thanks to discipline, was brought in at the beginning of last season with the aim of advancing to the league. The Pozzo family was supposed to know its pros and cons, but its suitability for the locker room proved to be extremely problematic from the first moment, and the relationship with the big star Troy Dini ran aground. Instead of backing the Serb, the club chose to fire him as early as December in order to please the striker, and in his place the young and anonymous Cisco was signed.

How anonymous?

Watford located him in Georgia, where he only started working at Dynamo Tbilisi, and his most important virtue was that he was on paper the complete opposite of Ivica - much more freedom on and off the field, much less discipline.

And it worked last year in the sub-league.

The group quickly connected, and Cisco became a crowd-pleaser with an eye-catching style.

The team went out for a fantastic sequence of results in the spring months, and secured it relatively easily from second place.

In the summer, the squad will be held at the request of the Spaniard, but now - after only 7 games - he has been thrown out as well.

He has not been given a chance to adapt to the Premier League, and the team is not even ranked below the red line.

With two wins and a draw, this is a perfectly tolerable start, but the momentum was not good enough for the Pozzo family.

She got used to making changes.

The first eight games are very challenging ahead of him.

Ranieri (Photo: GettyImages, Michael Regan)

So the management addicted to changing direction appointed a coach who moved from place to place.

It's hard to be optimistic, but for the neutral fans there are mostly positive aspects here.

Ranieri may fail, but the British media will get its dose of nostalgia for the Dili-Ding Dili-Dong Blaster season, and his pleasant personality will make press conferences attractive - at least for the first few weeks.

The schedule will be particularly challenging - in the next eight rounds the Wasps will face Liverpool, Everton, Southampton, Arsenal, Manchester United, Leicester, Chelsea and Manchester City.

Will Ranieri's bell continue to ring even after this sequence?

Feel free to try and gamble.

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