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Originally Posted by Rob Ban Fan
apparently Wolves are after Duberry. 
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You had better be fucking joking
On a different note, Claudio
(who I can see going back to Valencia now). Since they've already done it, here half-inched from football365, some of Ranieri's finest quotes
"If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?"
"Football managers are like a parachutist. At times it doesn't open. Here, it is an umbrella. You understand, Mary Poppins?"
"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"
"My only technical adviser is my mother. When I told her that Damien had injured his shoulder again, she said 'oh no!' Who should replace him? I will call her before the game to ask."
"He's a crazy man" - Ranieri on Ranieri.
"They showed good stamina and good vitamins" - The Arsenal win explained.
"Before you kill me, you call me the 'dead man walking'. I must buy you an espresso. But only a little one - I am Scottish!"
"Two years ago I watched Carlton play for the reserves and I saw two animals in him - one was a rabbit and the other a lion. I want to see that lion come out in him more often" - Ranieri on Carlton Cole.
"He is my new little lion. And I like lions" - Ranieri on Hernan Crespo.
"He is like a shark, like Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink" - Ranieri on Mutu. But then...
"I once said Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is like a shark and Carlton Cole like a lion. Well, Adrian Mutu is another born predator. In fact, Mutu is like a snake" - Ranieri changes his mind and completes his zoo.
"I am happy when our fans are happy, when our players are happy and our chairman is on the moon"
"One coach was training a player's hair, and another was training another part of his body"
"One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together"
"When I talk to the players I speak first of all in English, then I say 'sorry, now I will speak in Spanish, or Italian. Then on the touchline I speak another language so the other manager doesn't understand what I am saying!"
"When are you coming, Sven?" - Ranieri's words of greeting to Sven when the two met at Highbury last season.
"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!"
"I think Veron is the best midfielder in the world"