CLAUDIO RANIERI returns to football today with Nantes in Ligue 1.
And the former Leicester boss, sacked in February while defending the Premier League title, will have to rise to the occasion as he is working for an eccentric chairman.
Ranieri takes his team to Lille today for his first match as boss of Nantes, who are owned by a Polish-French businessman.
An optician by trade, Waldemar Kita, 63, co-founded a company called Corneal in 1987 and it became one of the leading European suppliers of contact lenses specifically designed to combat cataract.
Yet lab wizard Kita, who has also created anti-wrinkle creams, has launched a plastic surgery company which helps increase the size of a penis.
It is based around injecting tissue-enhanching hyaluronic acid, to aid with enlargement, while also fighting against premature ejaculation.
Kita said: “I know that sportsmen have already tried it. That’s not surprising in such a macho environment.
“The Chinese are very keen on it, but within ten years this practice will become customary, even here.”
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Hot-tempered Kita, who was also cited in the Panama Papers affair, was owner of Swiss club FC Lausanne-Sport, which went bankrupt one year after he left in 2001.
He bought Nantes in 2007 and stunned his own fans by persuading Ranieri to join – although Kita has a reputation for hiring and firing.
But Ranieri’s predecessor, Sergio Conceicao, took the club from the relegation zone to seventh and has joined Porto.
Kita said: “We have lost a good coach, but we have also appointed another exceptional one. You only have to see what he did at Leicester.”
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