Ranieri will lead Juve this season after the club won promotion at the first time of asking under his predecessor, Didier Deschamps.

He told www.juventus.it: "When you are preparing for the season you can not compare yourselves with your opponents.

"We know we are still a long way away even if we are thinking of it more and more.

"Big teams at this stage think only of getting back in habits and we must not do too much working, preparing and oiling the mechanisms yet.

"But I am pleased with what I have seen so far."