Claudio Ranieri has spoken candidly about his position at Roma, the appointment of Gian Piero Gasperini as head coach, and his personal future on the membership, making clear he has no intention of overstaying his welcome in any capability.
The Roma senior advisor spoke to DAZN forward of the membership’s Serie A conflict with Pisa, drawing a transparent distinction between his present advisory position and the hands-on nature of his earlier spell as head coach.
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“My steadiness sheet I’ll draw up on the finish,” he mentioned, with .
“Now my work may be very totally different from that of a coach. I give my opinion when consulted by the possession, not the coach, and I solely marginally contain myself in issues on the pitch.”
ROME, ITALY – MARCH 19: Gian Piero Gasperini, Head Coach of AS Roma, appears to be like on previous to the UEFA Europa League 2025/26 Spherical of 16 Second Leg match between AS Roma and Bologna FC 1909 at Stadio Olimpico on March 19, 2026 in Rome, Italy. (Picture by Paolo Bruno/Getty Photographs)
Ranieri: ‘We selected Gasperini for Roma as a result of…’
On the appointment of Gasperini, Ranieri supplied a uncommon and revealing perception into the method.
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He had proposed a shortlist of 5 or 6 names, three of whom finally declined, earlier than the membership settled on the Atalanta man.
“I spoke with him as a result of I knew him,” Ranieri mentioned. “We selected him for what he had executed at Atalanta, beginning with younger gamers and progressively bringing them onto the largest phases. We anticipated what is occurring now. We introduced in younger gamers, all chosen collectively, not one arrived with out his approval. Ziolkowski, Ghilardi, Venturino and Zaragoza all got here on his particular request, to provide the coach a squad able to constructing on a marketing campaign that had completed one level from the Champions League.”
Maybe most placing have been Ranieri’s phrases about his personal place.
The veteran, who returned to Roma as a caretaker coach earlier than transitioning into his present senior advisory position, made clear he has no ego funding in remaining on the membership.
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“If I’m consulted once more, I’ll proceed,” he mentioned. “In any other case I may also go away. I like Roma and I’m able to step apart as senior advisor, simply as I had already executed earlier than as coach.”
It’s a characteristically selfless assertion from a person who has all the time positioned the membership’s pursuits above his personal, and a reminder that Ranieri’s involvement at Roma, nevertheless lengthy it lasts, will all the time be outlined by quiet devotion fairly than private ambition.