Tensions boiled over at Roma over the last couple of weeks, as consultant Claudio Ranieri and Gian Piero Gasperini traded verbal jabs, while the coach has complained about director Frederic Massara for months. Despite that, their owner Dan Friedkin is hoping everybody will take a step back and find a way to work together, Corriere dello Sport relays.
If push comes to shove, the governor will likely pick the boss, but he’ll try to broker a truce first. The tactician has demanded a front-office overhaul and a new medical staff to stay. On the other hand, the officials are executing the tycoon’s vision on the transfer market. They invested in young players and progressively phased out veterans with bloated wages.
Ranieri didn’t resign from his Roma role after needling Gasperini. Instead, Massara is under contract until 2028. The Giallorossi have often been under the yoke of the Financial Fair Play, but they have shelled out about €200M to acquire starlets over the last two years.
All in all, the Friedkin family is satisfied with the management’s work. The outcome of the ongoing rift isn’t a decided already.
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The gaffer has won a power struggle with a very influential official at Atalanta, Giovanni Sartori, who went on to be the mastermind behind Bologna’s recent success. He’s not faultless, and it’s nothing new for him if he doesn’t feel like his advice is followed. However, he has to be careful not to take things too far, or he might draw the short end of the stick. The Giallorossi have always been a complicated machine that has chewed up even bigger personalities.
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