Four conditions for Gasperini to stay at Roma following Ranieri rift

Reports in Italy indicate that Gian Piero Gasperini is keen to stay on as Roma head coach despite a troubling last week and a public war of words with senior advisor Claudio Ranieri, but there are four key conditions that the coach wants in order to remain at the Stadio Olimpico for 2026-27. 

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There has been plenty of speculation over Gasperini’s future in charge of Roma recently, despite the fact that the former Atalanta tactician was appointed less than a year ago. 

Roma currently find themselves in sixth place in the Serie A table, now highly unlikely to qualify for next season’s Champions League after Juventus moved five points clear in fourth place on Sunday evening. Gasperini has also been involved in a public back-and-forth with senior advisor Ranieri, who claimed that the coach was not even in the club’s top three candidates to fill the role at the end of last season. 

Some reports claimed that Gasperini and Ranieri were effectively ignoring each other at the club’s training ground at the beginning of last week, and multiple outlets in Italy claim that the situation has already become untenable. 

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What needs to happen for Gasperini to stay on with Roma?

According to Monday’s reports from La Gazzetta dello Sport, Ranieri leaving the Giallorossi set-up is one of the key conditions for Gasperini to stay on as Roma head coach next season. 

Additionally, Gasperini is not particularly keen to continue working with sporting director Ricky Massara either. La Gazzetta dello Sport claims that the relationship between the two members of the Roma management never really kicked off and that they continue to disagree over decisions on the transfer market. 

Gasperini is also said to want more ‘control’ over Roma as a whole. La Gazzetta dello Sport writes that Gasperini would excel in an old-school style ‘English manager’, with more of a say in transfers and other decisions within the club, such as the appointment of new medical staff, an issue that the coach has regularly brought up throughout the 2025-26 season. 

Lastly, Gasperini wants guarantees on the transfer market and reassurances that there will be a significant budget to invest on new players after what he feels were two transfer windows of disappointment.