English Premier League: Fulham brings in Claudio Ranieri to save their Cottage

When I say it’s about time, I am putting it mildly. Long overdue was the dismissal of Slavisa Jokanovic and the appointment of a new man at the helm in, Claudio Ranieri.

What  an announcement for the Cottages during the third international break. One can go on in saying – it’s the perfect timing with December approaching, Ranieri has a January transfer window to look forward to because of this impeccable timing.

This gives him the whole of December to decide on who stays and who goes. The current state Fulham’s in, nobody should stay. Everybody needs to be shipped out. But hey, the English Premier League could have been a giant to big for Slavisa Jokanovic to conquer.

It was the best idea to bring him in knowing a new comer couldn’t deal with the English pressures. They went after somebody who is more than familiar to the league and is more than equipped to stop the hurt and bring some positive results back to Craven Cottage.

The season is far from over

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Fulham first 12 fixtures has seen them only manage one victory out of the lot. That victory happened all the way back in August. Since then, they’ve only managed two draws, and a run of seven straight losses.

Cause for concern is a nice way of putting it. Thankfully, the concern was taken serious enough by the hierarchy and a change was made with enough time to save the season, and even push on to levels Fulham was to mooted to reach afore the season kicked off.

Ranieri has a knack for stealing points and as we know from recent times, make the impossible, possible. In the remaining seven games of the first round of Premier League fixtures, Ranieri takes charge before they take on two of the EPL’s top-six and then face teams they can likely take a point or more from.

A fun fact for us…

It was no secret that Fulham was the first club to get promoted and spend over £100 million on transfers. This was a sign for great things to come. Little did we know, they were no match for any of the teams they faced, besides three of them.

Now with the Italian at the helm, he will and should get the best out of the top-quality players they brought in and had at the club already. Gladly for all, we will get to see the best of players like Andre Schurrle, Jean Michael Seri, and Ryan Sessegnon.

I am most excited to see this squad reach its full potential before plunging down to the Championship again. That’s if they do, which could be unlikely now with the new manager installed in, Claudio Ranieri.