Where does it start from? «I put the victory in Bari behind me, among my memories. That's another story. We have to write another story ». Claudio Ranieri therefore starts again from the future. Same charge, same enthusiasm. However, the stage and the scenarios change, and consequently the difficulties. "We are the last to arrive. The calendar, among other things, hasn't been very kind to us », the Cagliari coach is keen to point out in view of his fifth season with the rossoblù.

«We must all be compact because we want to keep Isola in Serie A ». Salvation is already a fixed nail. "I will never stop repeating it." And to obtain it, he needs preparatory players, both from a technical and experience point of view. «We have to be good at not making mistakes in the purchases we are going to make».

Ranieri doesn't hide: « I want an expert defender and two forwards . I have valid players up front, but they are 33 and 35 years old and have various aches and pains. I need to have more arrows in my bow. In B you can close one eye, in A sometimes it's not enough to keep both of them open».

Finally, on the possibility of an ordinary citizenship that has been winding its way through the benches of the City Council for weeks, the coach from Testaccio admits: «I already feel like an honorary citizen because people made me. If the Administration were to do it too, I would be even more proud of it, of course ».

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