Best Tweets after Ranieri's shock appointment: 'Fulham are 5,000-1 to win the league!'

ByLe Buzz

Updated 14/11/2018 at 10:26 GMT

English football was stunned on Wednesday morning when Fulham announced, completely out of the blue, that they had sacked Slavisa Jokanovic and replaced him with Claudio Ranieri.

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri lifts the trophy with Kasper Schmeichel and Christian Fuchs as they celebrate winning the Barclays Premier League

Image credit: Reuters

The former Chelsea and Leicester City boss faces the unenviable challenge of lifting Fulham off the bottom of the Premier League table having taken five points from 12 games.

Mind you, Ranieri has performed bigger miracles than that in his time - as many were keen to point out...

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The efficiency with which Fulham disposed of Jokanovic and unveiled Ranieri all in the same announcement took many by surprise.

Others felt sad for Jose Mourinho that he could no longer roll out one of his favourite stats:

And there was a strange coincidence which was noted...

Finally, let's all spare a thought for Tim Sherwood at this difficult time:

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