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===Valencia=== On 8 June 2004, Ranieri returned for a second stint as coach of Valencia on a three-year contract.<ref name="valencia-return">{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/football/06/08/spain.ranieri/index.html |title=Ranieri excited by Valencia return |publisher=CNN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040815002931/http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/football/06/08/spain.ranieri/index.html |archive-date=15 August 2004 |access-date=15 July 2015}}</ref> Ranieri took over after [[Rafael Benítez]], who had led Valencia to the UEFA Cup and La Liga double the previous season, resigned and then promptly joined Liverpool. Ranieri made a series of signings from Serie A, including [[Marco Di Vaio]], [[Stefano Fiore]], [[Bernardo Corradi]] and [[Emiliano Moretti]]. After a bright start, in which the Mestalla outfit picked up 14 out of a possible 18 points and beat Porto to lift the [[UEFA Super Cup]],<ref name="can Claudio Ranieri finally win a major title"/> Valencia went into a slump starting in October. They won only once in seven matches and were eliminated from the Champions League, partly thanks to a 5–1 defeat to [[Inter Milan]] in which midfielder Miguel Ángel Angulo was sent off for spitting. After a brief revival, Valencia went another six matches without a win beginning mid-January. Apart from the unpopularity of his four Italian signings, Ranieri was criticised for not playing Argentine playmaker [[Pablo Aimar]] and for persistent changes to formations and tactics, something resembling his Chelsea days.<ref name=wrong>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jul/14/claudio-ranieri-leicester-city-nigel-pearson |title=Claudio Ranieri: the anti-Pearson ... and the wrong man for Leicester City? |newspaper=The Guardian |author1=Marcus Christenson |date=14 July 2015 |access-date=3 May 2016}}</ref> He was dismissed on 25 February 2005 after Valencia were eliminated from the [[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup]] by [[FC Steaua București|Steaua București]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/4298283.stm |work=BBC Sport |title=Coach Ranieri sacked by Valencia |date=25 February 2005 |access-date=30 April 2010}}</ref> Valencia were sixth in [[La Liga]] at the time of Ranieri's dismissal.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2005/feb/26/europeanfootball.sport |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |title=Ranieri sacked by Valencia |first=Simon |last=Talbot |date=26 February 2005 |access-date=30 April 2010}}</ref> [[Quique Sánchez Flores]] was announced by Valencia in June 2005 to be Ranieri's long-term successor. Prior to that, Ranieri received £3 million in compensation from Valencia for the early termination of his contract.
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