Claudio Ranieri discussed the Premier League's line-up of Coaches: Chelsea's Antonio Conte, Manchester United's Jose Mourinho, and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola.
The English championship will be followed closely among other reasons this year for its remarkable abundance of powerful tacticians.
“Antonio [Conte] and Chelsea are bound to like each other,” Ranieri told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “They must get to know each other well and prevent the inevitable culture clashes from confusing them.
Claudio Ranieri discussed the Premier League's line-up of Coaches: Chelsea's Antonio Conte, Manchester United's Jose Mourinho, and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola.
The English championship will be followed closely among other reasons this year for its remarkable abundance of powerful tacticians.
“Antonio [Conte] and Chelsea are bound to like each other,” Ranieri told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “They must get to know each other well and prevent the inevitable culture clashes from confusing them.
“But if they follow his lead in Cobham, then they'll get an Italian Chelsea. And they'll have some fun in London.
“Mourinho could become the new Ferguson. He won't stay in Manchester for 26 years, but he'll leave his mark. His rematch against me on August 7? That's the beauty of football. Our sport is a magnificent container of stories.
“Guardiola seems to me like the right man in the right place. He's coming to a club that pursued beautiful football, starting from [Roberto] Mancini and on with [Manuel] Pellegrini.”
The Tinkerman then considered other prominent tacticians in his championship, including Tottenham Hotspur's Mauricio Pochettino and Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp.
“Pochettino was an exemplary rival in the race between Leicester and Tottenham. He's working wonderfully.
“Klopp will start again from the advantage of having broken the ice with his environment. He knows the Premier League better and he too seems like the right man for Liverpool.”
There appears to be a considerable number of Italian Coaches in the Premier League this year, considering that Ranieri and Conte will be flanked by Swansea City's Francesco Guidolin and Watford's Walter Mazzarri.
“Our [tactical] school must be proud of this international acknowledgement. Myself, [Giovanni] Trapattoni, [Roberto] Mancini, [Roberto] Di Matteo and [Gianluca] Vialli have blazed open a path in the world.
“Our limit was the difficulty in stepping outside of our borders, but we broke a taboo.
“For Conte, the availability of the environment is going to be really important. They must follow his lead faithfully and I'm convinced that's what's going to happen.
“For Guidolin, it's the same as with Klopp. His advantage is that he has already broken the ice, and in Wales they're euphoric after the splendid Euro 2016.
“Mazzarri's strength is that he's backed by an Italian structure. Watford are a consolidated club and the Pozzo family have been governing them since 2013.
“My secret? Passion, that's the most important spring.”