Gasperini reacts to Ranieri’s Giallorossi departure: ‘Roma comes before everything’ | OneFootball

Gian Piero Gasperini has given his verdict on the recent departure of  Roma’s senior advisor Claudio Ranieri, who officially left his role on Friday after a public falling-out with the head coach: ‘Roma comes before everything’.

Gasperini has his say on Ranieri’s Roma departure

Roma officially confirmed on Friday that Ranieri has left his position as the club’s senior advisor after a turbulent few weeks in the Giallorossi camp.

Two weeks ago, Ranieri gave a particularly critical pre-match interview, claiming that Gasperini was not among the club’s top three candidates to come in as head coach last summer, and also hit back at the coach’s previous comments on player recruitment and the club’s medical department.

That led to a major rift in the Roma camp, with reports that Ranieri and Gasperini had been avoiding and ignoring each other for the best part of the last two weeks. The situation swiftly became untenable and the club has now taken the decision to part company with Ranieri rather than Gasperini.

New Roma coach Gian Piero Gasperini with Claudio Raneri and Florent Ghisolfi

“The press release highlights two things: The trust, which since day one has never been lacking, and that Roma comes before everything,” said Gasperini during his pre-match press conference ahead of Saturday’s Serie A match against Bologna.

Gasperini was asked what he regrets most about the comments that Ranieri made about him, to which he replied: “That I never had the feeling of what he said, it surprised me a lot.”

Gasperini was later asked how the situation came to this, when the relationship between him and Ranieri looked so promising less than a year ago.

“I don’t know, you’ve seen all the events. I don’t know how to comment on it, I’ve been out of it. I don’t participate in this mud machine that goes on every day. I continue to work on the team, and we’re trying to do well tomorrow.”

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