ROME (ITALPRESS) – “You can rule out all the names that have been said so far. Gasperini? Him, too. It will be someone else.” Roma coach Claudio Ranieri said this in a press conference ahead of Saturday’s match with Lecce, denying the possibility that the Atalanta coach could take his place on the Giallorossi bench next season. “On the new coach you have brought up many names. But the names of those I have really talked about have not come out yet. That lets me know that we are on the right track. The deadline? When the president wants to say so,” the coach added. “Ghisolfi and I will give a list of papabili to the president and he will choose the coach,” Ranieri explained. “The piazza is important, but the piazza loves those who do well at Roma. It may be that at the beginning the name is not appreciated, although I think it is, but in the end it is the facts that count: whoever comes, knows that he has to do well and that Roma has to get to the top and that for the first two markets we will not be able to make crazy expenses. If I stayed, we would lose a year. I am not the future of Roma, whoever comes will have to be. And the sooner he comes, the better,” added Ranieri, who will have to end the season without Paulo Dybala.
“I talked to him, he is very well, he just has to wait. The staff will do everything to put him in the best condition and make him recover in the right way without rushing the time or delaying it. For the ACL you wait six months, in this case the ACL has nothing to do with it, so it should take less time to recover, but we cannot define a timeline. We are confident, the boy is happy with the way he has been treated.” A heavy absence but one that cannot stop Roma’s run-up. “All the players are central, it will be the field that will tell me who is more ready than another. Those who have been pulling the cart maybe have to rest 3-4 games. But they are all central, I have never made preferences and I believe in what we are doing. We have to start again, the Lecce game will be the beginning of the final sprint,” the words of the Giallorossi coach who on the lack of communication from the ownership says, “Friedkin? Only in Italy do we want presidents to talk, in other countries it doesn’t work like that. He wants to make Roma great and has already spent a billion. We are pushing to do the stadium and hopefully we can put the first stone as soon as possible. I prefer a president who talks little and does a lot. If he appears or doesn’t appear, it doesn’t change anything for me and I speak as a fan.”
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