CLAUDIO RANIERI is set to leave his role as Roma’s senior advisor after falling out with manager Gian Piero Gasperini.
Ranieri, 74, returned to his beloved Giallorossi for the third time in 2024 as head coach and helped them finish in fifth place, just one point behind Champions League qualification.
The Italian tactician stepped aside at the end of the season and undertook his new role with reports suggesting he turned down the opportunity to become Italy boss in order to advise owner Daniel Friedkin.
The ex-Leicester boss’ counsel was so important that he played a key role behind the appointment of Gasperini, 68.
According to The Mail, however, a rift has emerged between the two experienced Italian coaches that led to them ignoring each other at the Serie A giants’ training ground.
That’s after Ranieri gave a controversial interview earlier this month and suggested the ex-Atalanta boss had been the club’s fourth-choice candidate for the role.
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The ex-Inter Milan boss then defended the team’s transfer business after Gasperini appeared to agree with suggestions the team had not been sufficiently strengthened.
Ranieri told DAZN: “Not one player came in without his [Gasperini] approval.
“[Jan] Ziolkowski, [Lorenzo] Venturino, [Bryan] Zaragoza, we tried to give the manager a team who came within a point of Champions League qualification last year, with some players he could help to mature.
“If I am consulted again, I will continue. Otherwise I can also leave.
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“I love Roma and I am ready to step aside as senior advisor, just as I had already done before as coach.”
There is now strong expectation that Ranieri will soon leave the club.
This takes place on the same week that the Roman coach’s beloved Leicester got relegated to League One.
Ranieri masterminded the Foxes’ stunning 5,000-1 Premier League triumph ten years ago.
But Leicester have now dropped to the third division after back-to-back relegations.