FOOTBALL I want to be just like Conte... a top manager in the Premier League
Get ready for another big Italian’s job here
We are good friends and very close. “I went recently to a game and also saw them prepare for a 4-0 win at Stoke. I like English football, it’s my target. “Conte did brilliantly at Juventus, he did a great job with Italy and then he goes and wins the Premier League in his first season at Chelsea. “If you talk about him in England, people will say what a brilliant manager he is. I want people to talk about me like that one day.
Nightmare
“He is s t r ong tactically, a great manmanager and personality. “Conte is up there with Pep Guardiola for me as one of the best in the world. I want to be like him.”
After hanging up his boots in 2005, Ravanelli returned to Juve – where he famously won the Champions League in 1996 – to coach the youth team, and in 2013 got his big managerial break with French side AC Ajaccio.
But that quickly turned into a nightmare and he was sacked after just five months in charge.
Now he’s ready for another crack of the whip – providing the club match his ambition and drive.
Ravanelli, 49, who has already rejected two approaches in England, is desperate to find the right fit and said: “I will look to work hard like I did with the Juve youth teams.
“I have a good personality, experience and will do everything to prepare my teams in the best way possible.
“It was fantastic to play in England but as a manager I will go anywhere.
“League One? League Two? It doesn’t matter.
“Working under such great managers in the past like Arrigo Sacchi, Giovanni Trapattoni, Marcello Lippi a n d Bryan Robson will help me.
“Believe me, I am ready.”