🎥 Dilly-ding, dilly-dong! Claudio Ranieri's best quotes | OneFootball

From his time as Chelsea manager to his Premier League heroics with Leicester City, Claudio ‘Tinkerman’ Ranieri has always been a bit of a quote machine.

Now the new Fulham boss, we can’t wait to hear what he has to say during the season ahead.

The owner of some classic lines, here are Ranieri’s best quotes.

On his Leicester team that went on to win the Premier League title…

“My team is like an orchestra. To play the symphony correctly I need some of the boom boom boom, but I also need some tweet and sometimes the tweet and boom go well together. Sometimes all you can hear is the boom, sometimes only the tweet. That is not good music.”

On the headache of leaving Damien Duff out of his Chelsea starting XI…

“Damien is Damien. When I don’t put him in the squad my mother, who’s 84, asks ‘why isn’t Damien playing?’ She kills me about it and that’s true.”

On enticing his Foxes players to stop conceding goals…

“I told them, if you keep a clean sheet, I’ll buy pizza for everybody. I think they’re waiting for me to offer a hot dog too.”

On hearing a local Leicester butcher had created a sausage in his honour…

“I pay for pizza, you pay for the sausage. I am the sausageman.”

On Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich’s takeover…

“One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together.”

On giving his Leicester players bells as Christmas presents…

“From the beginning when something was wrong I’ve been saying: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong, wake up, wake up!’ So on Christmas Day I bought for all the players and all the staff a little bell. It was just a joke.”

On wanting his players to be warriors…

“I told my players ‘when you go on the pitch and you hear the song from Kasabian, that means they want warriors’. I want to see them as warriors for the fans. Kasabian are a fantastic rock band from Leicester and I think the guitar man, Serge, is Italian.”

On Chelsea’s Champions League semi-final heartache against Monaco…

“I can’t change now. I’m like Frank Sinatra – I always do it my way. I told the players everything I did in the Monaco game was wrong. I changed things to win the match – but we lost and I was thinking “Oh f***, Claudio, why, why? Bad Tinkerman!”